Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Projects
Accomplishments
Training
Timeline
Nikhil Balachandran

Nikhil Balachandran

Summary

Results-driven Software Engineer with a strong technical background in both front-end and back-end development. Proven ability to maintain existing codebases while effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement new components. Recognized for exceptional engineering skills and contributions to deployment and QA processes in fast-paced environments. Aiming to leverage expertise to drive innovation and efficiency within a dynamic organization.

Overview

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Years of professional experience at Fidelity investments, Canada

Work History

Full-stack Developer

Fidelity Investments Canada
04.2023 - Current
  • Optimized front-end and backend functionalities using advanced engineering techniques.
  • Resolved maintenance and enhancement tickets for production systems efficiently.
  • Designs and implements custom queries to meet specific needs within the production environment.
  • Facilitated teamwork in initiatives like HST Automation and FPP Tier maintenance.
  • Ensured clarity in requirement reviews with BA and QA teams.
  • Offered detailed onboarding instructions to incoming staff.
  • Applied security measures into systems development, supporting final products' resistance to intrusion and exploitation.
  • Conferred with project managers and other stakeholders to fully understand software design specifications and plan optimal development approaches.

Software Development

FDM Academy
11.2022 - 03.2023
  • Participated in professional development courses for software engineering.

Machine Operator

London Hospital Linen Service.INC
05.2019 - 11.2022
  • Monitoring, maintaining and safely operating equipment and carefully inspecting linen before feeding it into the machine
  • Takes direction from supervisor and asks thoughtful, clarifying questions
  • Works cohesively as part of a team to achieve targets
  • Experience working in a fast-paced and collaborative team environment for long hours

Education

Computer Programmer Analyst - 3-year Advanced Diploma majoring in Computer Programming and Analysis

Fanshawe College
12.2021
  • Experienced working in Android Studio using Java and Kotlin and deployed apps on mobile devices
  • Experienced building .NET Core console applications
  • Experienced working in Unity and building shaders, adding custom animations and lighting to objects
  • Experienced building custom data structures such as doubly linked lists and binary trees using C++ in Visual studio
  • 3.5 GPA

Skills

  • SQL
  • UNIX
  • Java Core Fundamentals and Key Tools
  • Web application development
  • Data access
  • Full stack development
  • Spring/Spring Boot
  • Rest/Microservices
  • Angular framework
  • Agile project management
  • Mobile development
  • C# component-based programming
  • C Graphics Programming
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Progress 4gl

Projects

FPP Tier maintenance, Fidelity, Progress 4gl and Angular, 2024,

Enhanced existing Preferred Pricing at fidelity to include 2 new tiers (accounts over 25 million CAD to 150 million CAD). Enhanced front end screens to accommodate the new logic change. Provided QA support during testing.

HST Look through Automation, Fidelity, Progress 4gl and Angular, 2023, 

Developed a new customed scheduled control-m job that collects the account assets with HST Look Through information. Populated the front-end screen by leveraging the existing API and created a new excel spreadsheet that is dropped into specific network folders with custom email notifications. Provided QA support during testing (custom environment and database setup) and provided production support after implementation to production.  

Built a Natural Language Processing N-gram Extractor, C#, 2021, 

Used command line interface to read in a file and store it in a memory data structure. Handled 2, 3 and 4 level n-gram and produced an output in an external file. 

Developed a JDBC application using Sakila Database, JAVA, 2020, 

Registered and initialized a driver to open a communication channel with the Sakila database. Extracted data from result set and closed all database resources using JVM’s garbage collection. 

Developed flappy bird and 3d golf game using unity, C++, 2020, 

Created a bird/Golf ball object and added respective object scripts. Added moving objects and background world with custom animations. 

Built Ceaser shift cipher program, C++, 2019, 

Took user entered key to perform the cipher. Printed out the ciphered text which could be deciphered with the correct key.

Accomplishments

  • Nominated multiple times and won ‘On the Spot’ award twice at Fidelity
  • Took part in testing the First Time User Experience for the game Arena Stars by Tiny Titan Studio (London, ON.)
  • Volunteered in several open house events and other opportunities at Fanshawe College

Training

Java Development, FDM Academy, 11/2022, 03/2023

Timeline

Full-stack Developer - Fidelity Investments Canada
04.2023 - Current
Software Development - FDM Academy
11.2022 - 03.2023
Machine Operator - London Hospital Linen Service.INC
05.2019 - 11.2022
Fanshawe College - Computer Programmer Analyst, 3-year Advanced Diploma majoring in Computer Programming and Analysis
Nikhil Balachandran