Arul Valan Anto S
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Arul Valan Anto S

Senior Software Engineer in India, He/his

building the crawler man project

A year ago

About

Hey there, I'm Arul Valan Anto, a Full Stack(MERN Stack) developer with over 4 years of coding.

Throughout my journey, I've dipped my toes into various fields, including AI, marketing, and environment. From environmental to AI, I've donned many hats and solved countless puzzles, each experience shaping me into the versatile developer I am today.

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Work Experience

2022 — Now
Coimbatore, TN, India - Remote
  • Participated in sprint planning sessions, collaborated with UI/UX designers to refine design flows, and conducted code reviews to ensure quality.

  • Conducted code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure best practices are followed.

  • Involved in various projects, addressing a range of issues such as bugs and performance-related challenges while also assisting colleagues who encountered difficulties.

  • Discussed with architects or team leads to determine the appropriate packages and technologies to use for specific tasks.

  • Developed a proof of concept(POC), received approval from clients, and proceeded to implement the POC for actual use.

2020 — 2022
Chennai, TN, India - Remote
  • Provided training and guidance to interns and assigned tasks within the context of actual projects.

  • Chosen a suitable technology stack that aligned with the requirements of individual projects.

  • Translated wireframes into UI design using front-end technologies, wrote business logic to support functionality using back-end technologies, and eventually deployed it on the production server.

2018 — 2018
Chennai, TN, India

I was involved in exploring the process and workflow in the SAP domain. I was also trained on how to conduct a conference call. I also visited the L'Oréal ODC and learned about how clients and employees communicate with each other.

Projects

2023

The Raven application integrates ERP and CRM functionalities into a unified system, managing core business processes such as inventory, finance, sales, and customer interactions. It enhances operational efficiency by making data flow and improving inter-departmental communication, while also improving customer satisfaction and business performance through real-time data insights and automated workflows.

Achievements:

  • Successfully integrated subscriber management, financial management, HRM(Human Resource Management), SCM(Supply Chain Management), CRM functionalities into application.

  • Enabled secure and seamless access through Windows Authentication and Single Sign-On (AWS Cognito), ensuring efficient user authentication and data access controls.

  • Enhanced customer service operations through centralized subscriber management, reducing redundancy and improving response times and automated financial transactions and reporting processes, leading to quicker decision-making and financial visibility.

  • Implemented Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to enforce precise user permissions, dynamically allowing or restricting actions and features based on user roles. Enhanced UI flexibility with RBAC-driven capabilities to display relevant features and actions dynamically according to permissions.

  • Integrated Chargebee payment portal seamlessly into business processes, enhancing financial management capabilities.

  • Designed and implemented a logging mechanism for the Raven application, significantly enhancing tracking and debugging capabilities.

  • Led the development of Raven, integrating ERP and CRM functionalities to enhance subscriber management, financial transactions, and customer service operations.

2023

Vidable makes video libraries better for organizations by improving search, providing useful insights, saving time and money, and ensuring quality standards. This helps users maximize the value of their videos and achieve their goals faster.

Achievements:

  • Integrated Vidable with over 10 third-party applications, facilitating seamless video uploads for insights.

  • Developed and deployed an AI assistant which is providing users with specific video-related queries and instant responses.

  • Engineered a feature that delivers comprehensive insights for video, including brand analysis, sentiment analysis, topics, labels, people, and content summarization.

2023

A platform for creating promotions, games, contests, sweepstakes, loyalty programs, coupons, and codes via the Internet, social media, and mobile devices.

Achievements:

  • Implemented a ranking algorithm within the platform, prioritizing business placements based on sponsorship contributions and user-entered ballot submission times.

  • Developed and integrated a real-time analytics dashboard, providing stakeholders with actionable insights into campaign performance and user engagement.

2022

ACAT is a tool designed to assist custodial departments in managing various aspects of their operations. It offers features such as operational support, quality control, resource management, and report generation.

Achievements:

  • Developed a flexible and modular system to allow different facilities (such as hospitals, offices, and educational institutions) to customize the ACAT software according to their specific needs.

  • Designed and implemented complex scheduling algorithms to optimize labor distribution and ensure equitable workloads. Created efficient backend processes to handle both daily and project-based work requirements, ensuring timely task assignment and completion.

  • Developed a user-friendly dashboard that provides comprehensive performance metrics and visualizations. Incorporated key performance indicators (KPIs) such as task completion rates, average task completion time, inspection pass rates, and efficiency metrics.

  • Developed role-based access control to cater to different user roles (e.g., facility managers, custodians, inspectors), ensuring secure and appropriate access to features.

  • Created dynamic report generation features for detailed insights, summaries, and automated reports on tasks, inspections, and resource usage. Developed customizable templates for user-specific reports, exportable in multiple formats for easy sharing and compliance.

2022

AirDeck is a platform that lets you add voice or video to your presentations, track engagement with unique links, record and upload videos, embed existing videos, and view comprehensive analytics, all in one place.

Achievements:

  • Implemented the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol using Auth0, which enabled third-party applications such as Outlook plugin to securely access resources on behalf of their users.

  • Codeveloped an Outlook plugin, which simplified the process of sharing decks in AirDeck from seven steps to just two, resulting in increased user engagement.

  • Developed video and audio recording features using WebRTC and Ziggeo, enabling users to add multimedia commentary to slides.

  • Implemented real-time collaboration features, integrating user activity tracking, slide locking, and user presence indicators to allow multiple users to work on the same deck simultaneously.

2022

LandGenius is a remote sensing application provides quick and comprehensive details about land cover types, wetlands, streams, ponds, flood zones, and endangered species in your project area, which benefits real estate agents, land buyers, developers, and city planners.

Achievements:

  • Successfully integrated Mapbox with React to create an interactive mapping interface, enhancing user experience for real estate agents, land buyers, developers, and city planners.

  • Utilized TurfJS to enable precise area calculations based on user-drawn polygons, ensuring accurate land assessment.

  • Implemented a feature allowing users to upload shapefiles, automatically extracting and displaying polygons on the Mapbox map for seamless data visualization.

  • Developed a Django-based backend that processes spatial data using GDAL, ensuring efficient and accurate retrieval of geographic information.

  • Facilitated the generation and download of detailed reports for submission to the US government, including comprehensive data on land cover types, wetlands, streams, ponds, flood zones, and endangered specie.

  • Integrated Stripe for secure payment processing.

2021

JoJoPay is your all-in-one payment solution for seamless financial transactions. Additionally, you can easily book flight, bus, and local bus tickets.

Achievements:

  • Developed and integrated a seamless “Split-Share” feature within JoJoPay, enabling users to effortlessly split bills among friends when dining out by automatically dividing the total bill among selected friends, allowing quick friend addition, providing flexible payment options, implementing automatic reminder notifications, and delivering a user-friendly interface for a smooth and intuitive user experience.

  • Successfully bootstrapped the entire JoJoPay application with all necessary setup and configuration, laying a solid foundation for further development and deployment.

Side Projects

2024
SynthUp

SynthUp turns long videos into short and easy-to-listen summaries. Get to the point quickly and enjoy your content effortlessly, wherever you are.

2024
The Crawler Man

The Crawler Man offers a comprehensive collection of pre-defined APIs explicitly designed for scraping. With The Crawler Man, you can easily extract data from various websites without the hassle.

2023

A Chrome browser extension that allows you to save articles to read later and sends you pop-up notifications as reminders when you come across related content while browsing the internet.

2023

Highlight is the revolutionary web application that empowers developers, bloggers, and designers to create visually stunning, attention-grabbing code snippets like never before!

2023

FrameWise is your gateway to a world of limitless possibilities, where videos become a wellspring of insights and inspiration. Seamlessly upload your videos and embark on a transformative journey that unlocks the hidden potential within each frame

2022

A scaffold generator that can assist you in creating a basic structure for your upcoming React and Node application. It can automatically generate the files and folders required to start a project and includes boilerplate code you can build upon.

2022
Dressed To Kill

A Dummy Online E-commerce platform

2021

Comprehensive solution for all your digital storage needs. With Annals, you can store and organize your journals, to-do lists, ideas, and passwords in one convenient location.

2023

The blog gained significant traction, reaching the top spot on the HackerRank website during the week.

Certifications

2014 — 2015
HSC at Carmel Higher Secondary School
Nagercoil, TN, India

Contact

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