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    <title>Kunal Parikh</title>
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          <a class='brand' href='#'>Kunal Parikh</a>
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                <a href='mailto:kunal@techthumb.in'>kunal@techthumb.in</a>
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          <h2>Summary</h2>
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            <p>
              I am a software developer passionate about agile methodologies and object oriented software construction.
              I have a growing interest and expertise in dynamic languages and collaborative techniques.
              I strongly believe in the Agile manifesto and the eXtreme Programming values, principles & practices.
              I take great pride in delivering business focused solutions with tangible commercial outcomes.
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          <h2>
            Senior Consultant, MYOB
            <small>Oct 2013 - Present</small>
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            <h3>Cashbook</h3>
            <p>Modelled a double entry accounting system for cash based businesses</p>
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              Technologies used
              <ul>
                <li>Single page webapp using backbone.js</li>
                <li>API using Ruby on Rails</li>
                <li>PostgreSQL as the data store</li>
                <li>Ansible for server configuration</li>
                <li>AWS CloudFormation to create production and pre-production end to end environments</li>
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          <h2>
            Senior Consultant, Sensis
            <small>Apr 2013 - Sep 2013 (6 months)</small>
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            <h3>whitepages.com.au Digital Displays</h3>
            <p>Built a WYSIWYG editor using angularjs to allow data entry operators to create microsites for advertisers on the site</p>
            <p>Built an angularjs webapp to display these microsites</p>
            <p>
              Sample microsite:
              <ul>
                <li>
                  <a href='http://www.whitepages.com.au/business-listing/white-pages-1051632'>whitepages.com.au/business-listing/white-pages-1051632</a>
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          <h2>
            Consultant, hooroo.com.au
            <small>Dec 2011 - Mar 2013</small>
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            <p>Built a hotel search and booking engine using Rails 3</p>
            <p>Integrated with external inventory proivders</p>
            <p>Briefly worked on javascript front-end built first using ember.js and later re-written using backbone.js</p>
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              Single codebase powers multiple websites:
              <ul>
                <li>
                  <a href='http://hooroo.com'>hooroo.com</a>
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                <li>
                  <a href='http://hotel.qantas.com.au/search'>hotel.qantas.com.au/search</a>
                </li>
                <li>
                  <a href='http://hotels.jetstar.com/search'>hotels.jetstar.com/search</a>
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              </ul>
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          <h2>
            Consultant, Cogent Consulting
            <small>Sep 2009 - Nov 2011 (2 years)</small>
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            <h3>
              DevOps Engineer, REA Group (realestate.com.au)
              <small>
                Jan 2011 - Nov 2011 (11 months)
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            <p>Automated server provisioning using Amazon EC2, VMware & Opscode Chef to provide IaaS</p>
            <p>Automate deployment of in-house software components using build pipelines to create end-to-end environments</p>
            <p>Build Ubuntu/Debian packages for internal software</p>
            <p>Researched Linux Containers (LXC) to unit test Chef recipes</p>
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            <h3>
              Senior Developer, Sensis
              <small>
                Jul 2010 - Dec 2010 (6 months)
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            <h4>Online Reporting Platform (ORP)</h4>
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              The goal of this project was to record all interactions associated with listings on yellowpages.com.au & partner sites.
              <br>
              Later, ROI reports were produced for advertisers.
              <br>
              The interesting challenges on this project were around the volume & quality of data to process.
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            <ul>
              <li>Involved in planning system architecture at the start of project</li>
              <li>Automated deployment & orchestration of multiple software components using vlad (Vlad the Deployer)</li>
              <li>Wrote a database migration tool with support for baselining migrations on a per release basis</li>
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            <h3>
              Senior Developer, Lonely Planet
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                Sep 2009 - Jun 2010 (10 months)
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            <h4>Guidebook Feedback System</h4>
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              Lonely Planet users provide feedback about information provided in guidebooks.
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              Feedback very often contained detailed information such changes in trading hours of recommended business, or new contact information for the business.
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              The goal was to collect this information in organised fashion, such that the updated information would immediately be made available on their website.
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              <li>Rails app to build a multi-step feedback form</li>
              <li>Heavy use of JavaScript to provide a simplified user experience</li>
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          <h2>
            Consultant, Sensis
            <small>Apr 2007 - Aug 2009 (2 years)</small>
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            <h3>whitepages.com.au</h3>
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            <p>Developed solutions to stabilize & enhance reliability of legacy systems</p>
            <p>Deliver new business requirements with a focus on testing</p>
            <p>Introduce tools & technologies to enhance understanding of systems</p>
            <p>Mentor graduates and developers new to agile methodologies.</p>
            <p>Played a key role in introducing:</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Ruby - to enhance understanding and readability of software systems</li>
              <li>RSpec - to facilitate & enhance communication between business analysts & developers</li>
            </ul>
            <p>Iteratively stabilised legacy systems while improving reliability and also guaranteeing accuracy of existing functionality</p>
            <p>Transitioned to a short, iterative and regular deployment cycle</p>
            <p>Assisted testing effort by automating existing regression suites to allow testers more time for exploratory testing</p>
            <p>Screening applicants for permanent positions to build a stable team for the long term</p>
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      </section>
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          <h2>
            Developer, Internet Business Systems
            <small>Mar 2005 - Mar 2007 (2 years)</small>
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            <p>Developed an asset backed finance origination & management system</p>
            <p>Learned & applied extreme programming while developing mission critical software in the finance domain</p>
            <p>Actively practiced and learnt the values, principles & practices of Extreme Programming</p>
            <p>Led the production incident management team</p>
            <p>Regularly deployed to staging environments each iteration and production environments on sign off</p>
            <p>Gained substantial understanding of asset-backed financing. Learnt about loan amortisation, present & future value calculations, and, interest calculations</p>
            <p>Simulated interactions with third-party banking systems to facilitate testing and enhance confidence in system functionality</p>
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          <h2>
            Developer, carsales.com
            <small>Mar 2003 - Mar 2005 (2 years)</small>
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            <p>Architected a J2EE web application for bikesales.com.au using the following tools & technologies:</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Test driven development</li>
              <li>Spring for dependency injection & transaction management,</li>
              <li>Struts & Tiles for controller &view tier,</li>
              <li>Tomcat as the servlet container,</li>
              <li>Hibernate as the persistence engine,</li>
              <li>Oracle as the database,</li>
              <li>JUnit, JMock & HTTPUnit for unit, mock & integration testing,</li>
              <li>Anthill for continuous integration.</li>
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          <h2>Education</h2>
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              2000 - 2002	Bachelor of Computing
              <small>Monash University</small>
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