I am a UI Developer with extensive full stack development experience across a myriad of MVC style frameworks and RESTful microservices. My passion is front-end and I am keen on exploring JS frameworks to help build web applications with a seamless UI and amazing user experience.
Web Developer @ • Addressed front end and backend performance issues across QuinStreet's portfolio of organic sites (SEO driven). Recommended and implemented solutions that have seen our client side rendering improve by 70% and has seen a jump in our Google PageSpeed score from 65-75 to 85-90 range.
• Developed build tools that allowed us to automate the majority our JS/CSS minification process by incorporating the step in the build process vs previously forcing it to run on the fly.
• Built a web assets management solution to streamline the delivery of web resources (CSS/JS) that are set arbitrarily across multiple ports of entry in the code, thereby improving performance and forcing coding standards. From January 2014 to August 2014 (8 months) Foster CitySoftware Engineer @ - Developed Balluun's landing pages (http://www.balluun.com)
- Built membership payment/upgrade modules using Paypal's REST API (since deprecated)
- Implemented login & registration modules for 'ShopTheFloor' web app.
- Developed a 'Social share bar', that allows users to broadcast status updates, share media and product images within their own network.
- Implemented a data import module that imports external legacy data from registered trade shows and normalizes it to be entered into Balluun's database (ask me more) From January 2013 to December 2013 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ -Implemented a search function that utilizes Sharepoint's web service API to search for documents across sharepoint websites is utilized by both the tablet and desktop product
- Implemented a module that allows administrators to relay messages across the system and on multiple applications
Technologies: Java, Hibernate, MySQL, Flex, Actionscript From August 2012 to October 2012 (3 months) Menlo ParkSoftware Engineer @ - Architected two PHP web applications from the ground up using Symfony 1.4 MVC & Drupal 7 CMS
- Symfony powered app is utilized by students as a preparation tool for SATexaminations, presenting them with learning content and practice quizzes. Additionally, the site has features allowing admins to perform CRUD operations on the content and quiz material.
- The Drupal powered site has a CRM component that powers administrators to manage the student roster and create static content. From November 2011 to April 2012 (6 months) Los AngelesFrontend engineer (Drupal) @ Part of a team responsible for developing the student portal for San Francisco State University, my work included the following:
- Integrate Drupal modules into the website
- Theming and UI development From January 2010 to April 2010 (4 months) San FranciscoSoftware Engineer Intern @ - Learnt the MVC paradigm using the Symfony PHP framework and developed new features in a Linux environment From June 2009 to August 2009 (3 months) Mountain View
Masters in Computer science, Computer science @ San Francisco State University From 2008 to 2010 Bachelor of Computer engineering, Computer engineering and Information technology @ University of Mumbai (Thakur College of engineering) From 2002 to 2007 Parijat Kalia is skilled in: Drupal, PHP, CSS, LAMP, Symfony 1.4, OOP, Symfony, Doctrine, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, Java, Web Services, MVC