Ashish Darji

Ashish Darji

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    Senior Full Stack Engineer
    Harled Inc
    Dec 2022 - Apr 2023 (5 months)
    • Senior team lead for 5 - 7 developers • Mentor junior developers through activities like 1:1s and pair programming • Evaluate and implement changes to improve development workflow (developer experience) • Work with Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) & Department of National Defence (DND) • Evaluate timelines and scope for team - wide projects (Hotwired / Turbo implementation) • Interface directly with the Product Owner, Lead Developer and client stakeholders on a regular basis • Drive code quality through code reviews, pair programming, architecture and best coding practices • Technology: Ruby on Rails, Turbo / Stimulus, Docker, RuboCop, Azure DevOps, HTML, JS, CSS, ViewComponents
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    Ruby Full Stack Developer
    EmpowerHealth
    May 2021 - Oct 2021 (6 months)
    • Built upon a scheduling & booking platform for doctors, pharmacists, & patients. • Attended daily stand - ups and twice a week weekly meetings • Interacted with the development team, as well as, project managers and president • Managed issues / tickets that came in and assigned to appropriate developers • Able to switch between multiple tasks / tickets • Scheduled calls with clients to get to the root of technical issues • Fast - paced environment and provided timely fixes for clients • Interviewed and hired developers • Remote workplace Technical: • Ruby / Rails • HTML / ERB / SCSS / JavaScript • Amazon RDS, S3 • JavaScript DOM element manipulations • Model architecture creation & update • Docker & docker compose • Git version contr
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    Technical Services Software Developer
    Numerator
    Jun 2018 - May 2021 (3 years)
    Omnichannel merchandising, marketing, and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple. • Built, shipped, maintained, tested a large scale application • Participated in a company hackathon • Intelligent web scraping - Machine Learning & AI • Reverse engineering website requests • Zone scraping (based on location) • Blocking Issue • Login sessions / authentication / security • Technologies: Python, Ansible, MongoDB, DataDog, SumoLogic, AWS, Microsoft Office 360, Celery, Cron, GitHub, Jira / Confluence, Slack
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    Founder & Lead Software Developer
    Saanskara Studios
    Jun 2016 - Current (9 years 1 month)
    Saanskara Studios Inc. is a Collective of Creatives from across the world all uniting together to make original pieces of art, websites, apps, music, movies, films, clothing, products, and much more! Creation of modern, mobile responsive websites for your passion, business or company, or your portfolio. • Creative design artist making music and apps • Acquiring funding • Project planning and management from ideation through to implementation and marketing. • Ideation, design, implementing & deploying professional websites and applications • Ruby on Rails 7 / HTML / CSS / JS / ERB • Editor X for Enterprise & Agencies • Ableton Live 10+ • Released many musical compositions & albums • Marketed & promoted the lab and vision by handing out f
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    Technical Services Software Developer
    360pi acquired by Market Track
    Nov 2015 - Jun 2016 (8 months)
    Software developer, however, was in constant communication with all the departments. Medium sized startup surpassing revenues on the upside of $4M. Eventually got acquired by Ad Dynamics, MarketTrack, & Numerator. • Created and ran web scrapers in Python • Participated in a team and had daily morning stand-ups to assess team goals and priorities for the day • Went through entire development lifecycle • Documentation of features added Has since been acquired by MarketTrack in the summer of 2017.
  • micrometrics
    Full Stack Developer
    micrometrics
    May 2015 - Nov 2015 (7 months)
    Implemented various features for a survey analytics Web App. Features such as creation of advanced question types and response reporting on the front end (AngularJS), among many others. Worked with both the front-end and back-end team to design and implement these features Project was managed by gathering and organizing client requirements, updating the team during morning stand-ups and bi-weekly sprint retrospectives. Github for VC. Agile development. Codecov and Circle used to verify and test code. • Ruby on Rails • AngularJS • Unit Testing
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    Technology and Product Architecture Lead (Remote)
    Milieu Technologies Ltd
    Mar 2015 - May 2016 (1 year 3 months)
    CTO and architectural lead at Milieu. Won various competitions over the few years, including the prestigious Cities of Tomorrow award where we came 1st place and won $10k. Signed our first single dwelling contracting of $5k. The company continued once I had left to start my own venture, went on to various cities & countries such as Guelph & Australia. Responsibilities: • Engagement stakeholders • Build out technology platform from self-made requirements, as well as, from the stakeholders involved. • Presentations and Public Speaking • Grant applications • Connect and network with other experts in the city planning domain and the tech domain • Managed a team of developers and lead development Technology: • Ruby on Rails backend • React
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    Software Developer
    Cistel Technology
    May 2013 - Oct 2013 (6 months)
    Re-designed native android application to look more like the Windows Tiles UI. Android NDK used - native code was used to grab various cell phone metrics to be displayed on a web user interface (such as signal quality and strength, audio & video buffer rates, etc.) Wrote documentation - how to properly set up the environment and how to run the various web, video and transfer tests • UI Design of Android application • Android development using Java + C (JNI) • Dynamic creation of standardized XML documents - using specific schemas (JAXB) • Rigorous software/hardware testing before deployment • Debugging • SVN • Documentation
  • University of Ottawa
    Science Student Mentor
    University of Ottawa
    Aug 2011 - Aug 2012 (1 year 1 month)
    • Mentorship workshop that aimed to ease 1st year students into university life • Giving personal advice to new students based on past experiences • Participating in various academic activities • Leading campus-wide tours
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    Student Molecular Biology Researcher
    Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
    May 2011 - Sep 2011 (5 months)
    • Application of various techniques in molecular biology (PCR, Western, etc.) • Ability to devise and execute elaborate protocols • Analysis of experimental data and outputting it into an understandable argument • Deduce conclusions from reading and analyzing other research papers and journals
  • Shoppers Drug Mart
    Pharmacy Technician
    Shoppers Drug Mart
    Jan 2010 - Feb 2013 (3 years 2 months)
    • Taking in prescriptions from patients • Counting and preparing prescribed medication • Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests • Gold, Silver, Bronze Shoppers pharmacy technician certificate
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    Sales Personnel
    The Source
    Apr 2009 - Feb 2010 (11 months)
    • Actively engaged customers, offering various products as well as knowledge and services • Very knowledgeable; was able to help customers with an assortment of questions and demands • Worked with computers and helped customers with repairs • Trusted to work with cash and high cost products on a daily basis
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    Floor Assistant & Cashier
    Winners
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 (2 years)
    - Responsible for getting new products out on the floor - Required to greet customers in a friendly manner - Dealt with and managed cash on a daily basis
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    Store Cashier
    REAL CANADIAN SUPERSTORE
    Jan 2006 - Dec 2007 (2 years)
    - Responsible for accepting and organizing cash, answering phone calls and setup and clean up of workplace - Constantly greeted customers with proper etiquette - Responsible for memorizing many codes for items without barcodes - Organized overstock, and placed overstock in its original place
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    Customer Service / Data Entry Clerk / Computer Technician
    West Ottawa Hyundai
    Jan 2004 - Dec 2007 (4 years)
    - Responsible for answering phone calls - Helped customers with various demands - Responsible for data input - Scanned and fixed computers and loaded certain software onto desktops with the help of Monique, the manager.
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    Made A Business Website With My Brother
    Accounting 4 Bizness
    Jan 2002 - Jan 2006 (4 years 1 month)
    Created The Accounting 4 Bizness Website For My Dad's accounting firm.
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  • General Assembly
    Intensive 9-week Web Development Course, Computer Science
    General Assembly
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2014 (1 year)
    - Ruby on Rails - SCSS - Javascript - Various gems and frameworks - Devise, RSpec, Rails 6 - Webpacker
  • University of Ottawa
    Double Major Honours BSc in Biochemistry & Computer Science, Computer Science, Biochemistry
    University of Ottawa
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2015 (7 years)
    - Led The Vision club, along with my co-founder. - Science Mentor for 1st Year students - Maintained great academic standing - Participated in Intramural sports - Worked at David Park's Research lab in the Biochemistry Department - Entrance scholarship: $3000 - UROP Scholarship: $1000 (Machine Learning research and development with scientific papers.)
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    Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Mathematics & Biological Scienc
    AY Jackson Secondary School
    Jan 2005 - Dec 2009 (5 years)
    - President of Break Dancing Club (C - Walk & Pop-Lock) - Member of various clubs and sports teams - Won OFSAA honours in Basketball (Provincials) - Blue Jays - Honour Role and Silver Award student (overall 90%+ average)
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    • Founder Institute
      Founder Institute Global Top 25% Candidate
      Founder Institute
      Aug 2016
      Ranked in the top 25% of global entrepreneurs from Founder Institute.
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      Cities of Tomorrow
      City of Barrie
      Jul 2016
      Won 1st place ($10,000) at the Cities of Tomorrow competition in Barrie, Ontario. https://carleton.ca/architecture/2016/cities-of-tomorrow-contest-winners/ https://vimeo.com/135305277