I find something Interesting and I make it part of my passions. Relevant Experience : ~4 years Programming Languages : Javascript, PHP, Java, Groovy Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, XML, JSON, JQuery, jQuery UI, Ajax, Angular, LESS, Bootstrap, CodeIgniter Web Servers/Environment: Apache/MySQL on CentOS 6, WAMP, CMS, GIT Mobile Applications: Android SDK DBMS: MySQL IDE/EDITORS: Sublime Text, Aptana Studio, Eclipse Whitehat SEO Operating Systems: Linux, Windows Experienced Application Developer in an IC role. Strong in Problem Solving, OOPs & Computer Science Fundamentals Single handedly designed ( front-end ) and developed 'Reporter Radio'​ Android App in JAVA and published the same on Google Play Store ( 40,000+ downloads as of now ). The App makes use of concepts such as XML Layouts, Activity, Intents, Broadcast Receivers, Service, MediaPlayer, AsynTask etc Worked on development of an Internal tool for converting data from excel to tata sky proprietary format, using PHP and PHPExcel Library. UI design/development and theming ( in PHP, Ajax ) to Centos 6 based dedicated server management - backup, web server optimization & security Successfully Implemented audio streaming through installation from source, it's configuration - audio streaming (mp3) through HTTP using open source Icecast 2 server application, deployed on Centos 6 server single-handedly.a Worked on performance scaling of the site using various web performance standard practices like minimizing http requests, configuring apache ( compiling apache with the optimized modules and fine tuning apache and mysql values ), compression, reducing DNS lookups, minification, css sprites, caching, CDN etc. Worked on web server log analysis, backtracking errors / warnings and debugging issues. Ad Operations handling digital advertisement inventory Website Traffic Analysis, WebSite Traffic Generation with SEO optimizations. Experience using Google Analytics / Adsense / DoubleClick tools.

Software Developer, R&D @ - Product development in Common Apps team, part of Platform team - Product Research & Development for Ellucian Extensible Ecosystem, or XE - Full Stack Development - Building reusable components using HTML5/CSS3, Javascript & AngularJs - Groovy on Grails ( Java ) for backend development - Writing Integration Tests with Junit From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaSr.Web Developer @ I'm responsible for building & managing the news portal reporterlive.com, online wing of REPORTER TELEVISION. Currently working on AngularJS based mobile application integrating with REST API based on Mobile Angular UI Framework Independently ( demo @ reporterlive.com/alpha ) My work revolves around more on UI de@velopment, but not limit to. I love programming and is a constant learner. I'm learning :-) Single-handedly developed Internal tool in PHP ( CodeIgniter MVC ) independently, which outputs tata sky's proprietary SGI file as input for the 'next change'​ feature in tata sky's platform for our news channel, REPORTER. Proposed & single-handedly developed In-house android application ( REPORTER RADIO ), first of it's kind among Malayalam television news channels, which streams live audio from our studio. The complete end to end setup, it's development was done Independently. Actively Involved in the design with In-house designers. This was developed as an alternative solution to buffering issues in 2G networks in Kerala. Have ~50,000 downloads on GooglePlay. reporterlive.com is a high traffic news portal with more than 1.4M+ likes on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/reporterlive ) REPORTER Live is the online news portal of REPORTER TV, a leading News Channel in South India lead by popular media person M V Nikesh Kumar, recipient of prestigious "Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism" by the President of India From April 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Web Developer @ HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Server Support. -> started my career in a startup ecommerce firm -> Managed the CMS in OSCommerce -> Involved in Server Management, Cpanel, WHM -> written custom code for product sliders, forms, pages for our ecommerce site vfmgifts.com. Involved in site modifications at code level from time to time. -> extended the website with additional pages writing XHTML,CSS -> bug fixing -> SEO From August 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 1 month)

BTech, Computer Science & Engineering, First Class @ University of Calicut From 2005 to 2009 Higher Secondary Examination, PCM & Computer Science, First Class with Distinction ( 83% ) @ New Indian Model School, Sharjah From 2004 to 2005 Secondary Examination, PCM with 70%, First Class @ New Indian Model School, Sharjah From 2002 to 2003 Vimal Madhavan is skilled in: PHP, MYSQL, WORDPRESS, HTML5, CSS3, Apache Web Server, CENTOS 6 Server, Javacript, JQuery, Server Administration, Bootstrap 3, Linux, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML