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Meenakshi Kangra

Vancouver,Canada

Summary

Results-driven leader with a strong background in strategic management and organizational growth. Experienced in developing and implementing effective business strategies, optimizing processes, and driving team performance. Recognized for adaptability, effective collaboration, and delivering measurable outcomes in dynamic environments. Possesses strong communication and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on fostering a productive and positive team culture.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Director/Entrepreneur

1371289 B.C.LTD
01.2024 - Current
  • Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
  • Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
  • Established a culture of continuous improvement by fostering open communication channels and empowering employees to voice their ideas.
  • Cultivated a positive work environment that fostered employee engagement, increased retention rates, and boosted overall team morale.

Python Developer/Consultant

BMO
01.2023 - 07.2024
  • Involved in building database Models, APIs, and Views utilizing Python, to build an interactive web-based solution
  • Automate different workflows, which are initiated manually with Python scripts and UNIX shell scripting
  • Create, activate and program in Anaconda environment
  • Design, develop, and deploy web applications using Python, React, and Ruby on Rails
  • Use Python unit and functional testing modules such as unit test, unittest2, mock, and custom frameworks in-line with Agile Software Development methodologies
  • Develop Sqoop scripts to handle change data capture for processing incremental records between new arrived and existing data in RDBMS tables
  • Integrated Node.js with a Python Django application to implement real-time notifications using WebSockets
  • The solution involved using Django channels and Node.js
  • Installed Hadoop, Map Reduce, HDFS, AWS and developed multiple MapReduce jobs in PIG and Hive for data cleaning and pre-processing
  • Manage datasets using Panda data frames and MySQL, queried MYSQL database queries from python using Python-MySQL connector and MySQL db package to retrieve information
  • Involved in the Web/Application development using Python , HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JSON and Jquery
  • Develop and tested many features for dashboard using Python, Java, Bootstrap, CSS, JavaScript and Jquery
  • Generated Python Django forms to record data of online users and used PyTest for writing test cases
  • Implemented and modified various SQL queries and Functions, Cursors and Triggers as per the client requirements
  • Develop and maintain cloud-based infrastructure on AWS using EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation
  • Clean data and processed third party spending data into maneuverable deliverables within specific format with Excel macros and python libraries such as NumPy, SQLAlchemy and matplotlib
  • Used Pandas as API to put the data as time series and tabular format for manipulation and retrieval of data
  • Helped with the migration from the old server to Jira database (Matching Fields) with Python scripts for transferring and verifying the information
  • Analyze Format data using Machine Learning algorithm by Python Scikit-Learn
  • Experience in python, Jupyter, Scientific computing stack (numpy, scipy, pandasand matplotlib)
  • Perform troubleshooting, fixed and deployed many Python bug fixes of the two main applications that were a main source of data for both customers and internal customer service team
  • Write Python scripts to parse JSON documents and load the data in database
  • Generating various capacity planning reports (graphical) using Python packages like Numpy, matplotlib
  • Analyzing various logs that are been generating and predicting/forecasting next occurrence of event with various Python libraries
  • Build and maintain data pipelines using PySpark, Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive
  • Developed single page application by using Angular JS backed by MongoDB and NodeJS
  • Design and maintain databases using Python and developed Python based API (RESTful Web Service) using Flask, SQL Alchemy and PostgreSQL
  • Environment: Python, flask, AWS, RDS, Cloud Watch, Pandas, CI/CD, AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, SNS, MySQL, SQL Alchemy, React

Python Developer

Sentaca
11.2021 - 01.2023
  • Involved in building database Models, APIs, and Views utilizing Python, in order to build an interactive web-based solution
  • Built application logic using Python3.7
  • Developed backend of the application using the Flask framework
  • Responsible to Setup hosting on AWS EC2 instance and used Amazon SES for email delivery and hands-on experience on SCM tools like GIT, containers like Docker
  • Using Chef deployed and configured Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and Cloud Watch
  • Worked on Cloud Computing AWS - EC2, RDS, S3, Glacier, SQS, SNS, Cloud Formation, VPC, IAM, Route53, EBS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Redshift
  • Upload code and unit tests to GitHub repository for Jenkins pipeline
  • Experience in working with Python ORM Libraries including Django ORM, SQLAlchemy
  • Implemented SQL queries for performing various CRUD operations like create, update, read and delete
  • Managed large datasets using Panda data frames and MySQL
  • Created EC2 instances and implemented large multi node Hadoop clusters in AWS cloud from scratch using automated scripts such as terraform
  • Associated with various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of the application like Requirement gathering, Design, Analysis, and Code development
  • Worked on AWS SQS to consume the data from S3 buckets
  • Imported the data from different sources like AWS S3, Local file system into Spark RDD
  • Fixed bugs as in when raised by QA Team
  • Worked on pytest framework to implement Integration tests
  • Environment: Python, flask, AWS, Linux, RDS, Cloud Watch, Pandas, CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, SNS, MySQL, SQL Alchemy, React

Python Developer

BNP Paribas
02.2020 - 10.2021
  • Associated with various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of the application like requirement gathering, Design, Analysis and Code development
  • Worked with team of developers on Python applications for RISK management
  • Used Python and Django creating graphics, XML processing, data exchange and business logic implementation
  • Experienced in ORM programming in converting data between incompatible type systems in OOP languages
  • Developed flask Restful API endpoints for accessing through UI and uploading ETL data
  • Contribute to major development initiatives with codebases utilizing Python, Django, R, MySQL, MongoDB, jQuery and React
  • Work with multiple teams to develop services and coordinate releases
  • Used PHP as an HTML embedded scripting language, in front end web development
  • Performed Compatibility testing of applications for dynamic and static content of browsers using HTML Ids and XPath in Selenium
  • Developed ETL (Extract Transform Load) software for DB2 columnar database fact and dimension tables
  • Develop data models for applications, metadata tables, views or related database structures
  • Developed entire frontend and backend modules using Python on Django Web Framework with GIT
  • Designed and managed API system deployment using fast http server and Amazon AWS architecture
  • Wrote and executed various MYSQL database queries from Python using Python-MySQL connector and MySQL db package
  • Wrote Python scripts to parse XML documents and load the data in database
  • Utilized Python libraries wxPython, numpy, Twisted and Mat PlotLib
  • Developed views and templates with Python and Django's view controller and templating language to create a user-friendly website interface
  • Involved in development of Web Services using SOAP for sending and getting data from the external interface in the XML format
  • Developed and tested many features for dashboard using Python, Java, Bootstrap, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery
  • Carried out various mathematical operations for calculation purpose using python libraries
  • Developed tools using Python, Shell scripting, XML to automate some of the menial tasks
  • Designed and developed the UI of the website using HTML, XHTML, AJAX, CSS and JavaScript
  • Performed research to explore and identify new technological platforms
  • Environment: Python, Django, MongoDB, Selenium, Amazon Aws, Pandas, Java, JQuery, Bootstrap, MySQL, Linux, Ajax, Java Script, Apache, Cassandra, HTML5 and CSS

Application Developer/ Python Developer

Best Buy
01.2019 - 02.2020
  • Responsible for gathering requirements, system analysis, design, development, testing and deployment
  • Worked on Django API's for accessing the database
  • Used Python and Django to interface with the jQuery UI and manage the storage and deletion of content
  • Developed views and templates with Python and Django's view controller and templating language to create a user-friendly interface using MVC architecture
  • Developed a Python/Django based web application using Python scripting for data processing, MySQL for the database, and HTML/CSS/jQuery and High Charts for data visualization of the served pages
  • Developed API for using AWS Lambda to manage the servers and run the code in the AWS
  • Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Python and worked on AWS lambda with Amazon kinesis
  • Responsible to Setup hosting on AWS EC2 instance and used Amazon SES for email delivery and hands-on experience on SCM tools like GIT, containers like Docker etc
  • Using Chef deployed and configured Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring in integration with AWS Lambda and Cloud Watch
  • Managed, developed, and designed a dashboard control panel for customers and Administrators using Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery and RESTAPI calls
  • Query and set up employee registration and login using Python PostgreSQL
  • Used Pandas API to put the data as time series and tabular format for fast timestamp data manipulation and retrieval
  • Used Python library Beautiful Soup for web scrapping to extract data for building graphs
  • Performed troubleshooting, fixed and deployed many Python bug fixes for Learning Management System
  • Worked on AWS cloud services such as EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, Route53, Cloud Watch, Security Groups, Cloud Trail, IAM, Cloud Front, Snowball, RDS and Glacier
  • Use of Python Frameworks for data analysis including SQL Alchemy
  • Wrote Python OO Design code for manufacturing quality, monitoring, logging, and debugging code optimization
  • Used Python OS module on UNIX environment, made job cloning and forking
  • Involved in writing SQL queries implementing functions, triggers, cursors, object types, sequences, indexes etc
  • Wrote and executed various MYSQL database queries from Python using Python-MySQL connector and MySQL db package
  • Environment: Python, .NET, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, HTML, XHTML, Angular JS, CSS, AJAX, SOAP, JQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Python libraries, UNIX

Education

Master’s - Cyber Security

NYIT
Vancouver, BC
12.2018

Master’s - Computer science and Applications

Kurukshetra University
07.2012

Skills

  • Relationship building
  • Strategic planning
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Decision-making
  • People management
  • Operations management
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Strategies and goals
  • Project coordination

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Native or Bilingual

Interests

  • Participating in cultural exchange programs and homestays
  • Tech enthusiast, passionate about exploring the latest advancements and innovations

Timeline

Director/Entrepreneur

1371289 B.C.LTD
01.2024 - Current

Python Developer/Consultant

BMO
01.2023 - 07.2024

Python Developer

Sentaca
11.2021 - 01.2023

Python Developer

BNP Paribas
02.2020 - 10.2021

Application Developer/ Python Developer

Best Buy
01.2019 - 02.2020

Master’s - Computer science and Applications

Kurukshetra University

Master’s - Cyber Security

NYIT

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