Balaji D Loganathan
Director and Agile Java Architect, 32, Indian, Software and Product development specialist
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.spritle.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | AJAX, Architecture, Business, Design, Django, Embedded systems, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Facebook platform, Flash, French, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, PHP, Product design, Public speaking, Rails, Software Engineering, SQL, Web design, Web Development, Windows applications |
| Location: | Chennai, India |
| Visas: | India |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback |
| Tags: | agile, distributed agile, IT, java, products, rails, ror, ruby, scrum, software |
FEATURED STARTUP
Spritle Software (P) Limited
Spritle Software (P) Limited
Spritle is a specialist in Distributed Agile 'software' and 'product' development company.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Xebia IT Architects India Private Limited, India |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | July 2007 - Present |
| Description: | May08-Pre E-commerce web application Client: Vergelijk, Netherlands
- Working on edge technologies using JBoss SEAM, EJB3, TestNG, Glassfish server with Maven 2.0 - As a project coordinator & developer responsible for implementing user stories of the application - Involved in designing the protocol for interacting with enterprise search engine – Fredhopper- using REST architecture and XML binding technologies. - Working as a key contact between distributed team making use distributed agile offshore model. Nov07-Apr08 UNeDocs.IN and Duty Calculator Implementation Client: ICON Institute, Germany - As a project coordinator interacted with Indian government to get the project support - As a project manager designed and developed UNeDocs.IN documents. - As a Scrum Master, handled a team of 4 people and external experts for broader project support and development Mar07-Jul07 Timesheet Integration with AFAS ERP Client: Xebia - Developed a JEE Spring application web application for integrating AFAS ERP system for employees time sheet. - Used SCRUM over AGILE methodologies. This product is being successfully sold now. Aug7-Oct07 Content Management System Client: Xebia - As a Scrum Master, managed a team of 3 people to design and develop a CMS solution based Magnolia CMS. - Handled team of varying experience and successfully delivered the project |
| Employer: | UNECE, Switzerland |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 2001 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Sep06 Global registry and repository server Client: Public & private sectors
- As a technical architect I have performed feasibility and high level business analysis of the system. Gathered user and business requirements. Currently developing the design and implementation specifications based on Agile modeling framework. - This is a highly complex project which involves middleware layer integration to SOA, web services, ebXML RS 3.0 and Rim 3.0 deployed on JBoss Application server. Team size : 3 Jun06-Jul06 CMS for UN/CEFACT projects Client: Private sectors - As a lead analyst, prepared strategic document explaining the aspects of the system requirements, project plan, metrics and estimation. - This project will be based on spring framework and final source code will be published in source-forge repository. Team size: 2-4 May06 ASEAN-UNeDocs Trade document modeling Client: Thailand and Philippines - Designed and proposed the ASEAN cross-border trade document exchange framework - The project was demonstrated to ASEAN Directors General’s meeting in Cambodia, the DG has unanimously agreed for the pilot implementation of the project. - Providing expert advice for the software implementation part of this project in Dagangnet, Malaysia Team size: 4 2004 Digital trade document and code list web services Client: Public & private sectors - As a software analyst and engineer designed and created artifacts and specification for publishing trade document and code list web services - Wrote technical documents explaining the integration of digital signature with xml trade document web services. - Supervised a consultant - Developed the complete application (8 distinct web services) using Enterprise Java software and deployed the service on JBoss app server running on Red hat Linux. Team size: 2 Bi-Annual UN/LOCODE and UN/EDIFACT maintainance Client: UNECE - Involved in the database design and normalization of UN/LOCODE and UN/EDIFACT codes - Involved in writing form queries, reports, modules and SQL scripts for generating 15000 html / year. - Handles 14 modules, 15 forms generating 340 dynamic html files accessing over 50MB of database - One of the developer in maintaining the software module of UN / EDIFACT and UN / LOCODE publication engine - Helped in upgrading and migration of data’s from MS Access to SQL Server 2000. Team size : 3 Mar04-Aug04 XML document editing tool Client: Govt Agencies & Private - Designed and developed 12 set of XML based electronic trade documents using MS InfoPath & Visual studio 2003. - Wrote web services plug-in to access Java web services from C# - Built smart client to access compressed XML database and SQL server database - Wrote C# modules to export data in XML and PDF formats. Team size: 2 |
| Employer: | Emerio Corporation, Singapore |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 2000 - January 2001 |
| Description: | Jan01-Feb01 Web-based warehouse management Client: Bax global logistics
- As a programmer, developed Servlets/JSP based warehouse management modules accessing SYBASE database using stored procedure and views - Integrated interfaces developed with PowerBuilder to Java Servlets - Involved in the migration of data from Sybase DB to SQL Server 7.0 Jan01-Feb01 Employee time sheet management application Client: Emerio Corporation - As a programmer and developer, completely designed and developed JSP/JavaBeans based employee’s time’s sheet management application - Have introduced the concept of JavaBeans for my team members |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Blog: http://radio.javaranch.com/balajidl; Web Services and XML Moderator at Java ranch Community; Published online technical articles. |
| Papers: | During 1995-99, published 1 international and 3 national level technical paper. Frequent IT books reviewer. |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Professional Alps mountains skier. Level 1 salsa dancer. Plays cricket and badminton. |
Balaji's Startups (1)
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Spritle Software (P) Limited
Spritle is a specialist in Distributed Agile 'software' and 'product' development company.
Balaji's Contacts (2)
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Sanjee Singla
Stanford Masters in Management Science and Engineering, specialty in Entrepreneurship. I'm building a jobs website that will change how we search and apply for jobs. Looking for gifted startup web engineers who want to work on a big change.
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Paul Joseph
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