Neil Basu

Jersey City, United States

Summary

Languages:

English, Japanese

Favorite Python Packages:

dateutil.parser.parse will give you a datetime object for almost any date format under the planet. No need for datetime string standards

Experience

Neil D. Basu

201-925-7712 | www.neilbasu.com | nbasu02@gmail.com

Work Experience

Software Engineer, Advance Digital April 2017-Present

• Migration of infrastructure across AWS accounts, working deeply with AWS services and security
• Maintenance of many legacy codebases, including unit tests and infrastructure

Contractor, Opsline May 2017-Present

• Engineered Lambda microservices to read log data in email, store in elasticsearch, and report to Slack
• Offer infrastructure recommendations based on client’s requirements

Software Engineer Triller, New York, NY March 2016-March 2017

• Responsibilities include developing API collaborating with a cross-platform development team for a music video making app with ~3 million users

• Created Linux development environment and maintained production servers for multiple applications
• Set up all database automation and optimized slower queries, collected and analyzed on community growth

• Worked with business team to develop a feature which game-ified the serving of user-generated videos to increase consumption, resulting in doubling community likes and follows
• Technologies used include Python, Flask, Postgresql, SQLAlchemy, ReactJS, Git, AWS’s EC2 and S3, Elasticsearch, and Redis

Software Engineer Granular (formerly Solum), San Francisco, CA April 2013-March 2015

• Major contributor toward design of application’s backend, including decision to switch to Pyramid framework
• Built mobile API, including authentication, ajax calls to receive/save data, large portion of database schema
• Worked with external crop protection catalogs to gather data for our database and services
• Actively worked on existing frontend AngularJS code to integrate ajax calls and display data
• Wrote data migrations and trigger functions in Postgresql to manage large and changing schema
• Technologies used: Python, Pyramid, Postgresql, SQLAlchemy, AngularJS, Django

Projects

Software Engineer Feeding Forward, San Francisco, CA December 2012-February 2013

• Back End Rails developer, built user workflow, notification system, database, and back-end logic
• Assisted business development by connecting with potential customers and investors

Technical Skills

• Programming Skills: Python, Postgresql, Javascript, Pyramid, Django, SQLAlchemy, AngularJS
• Technological knowledge: Linux, Git, Elasticsearch, Redis
• Familiar with AWS services including EC2, S3, CloudFormation, Lambda, load balancing

Education

The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics May 2011

Minors: Japanese, Computer Science

Language Skills

• Intermediate knowledge of Japanese

Achievements

• Best User Experience for solar prediction algorithm and SMS system, Oakland Cleanweb Hackathon
• Finalist for project Feeding Forward, Angelhack San Francisco

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Backend Development, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Flask, Git, JavaScript, Linux, PostgreSQL, Pyramid, ReactJS, SQLAlchemy, Test-Driven Development, Web Development