Manu S Ajith

I consider myself fortunate to have associated with different work cultures ­ from brewing start ups to MNC’s. I have been associated with works that demands rich delicacy and passion, naming few areas here ­ Financial, Health care, Education, Analytics, Security Enhancements.

I architect, engineer, and code awesome web applications with rich interactive features, and visually appealing user interfaces.

Ruby on Rails has become my go to technology stack these days.It clearly has a thick advantage over other technology stacks when it comes to rapid web application development and web prototyping. Along with the elegance and awsomeness of Ruby to write clean and beatiful code makes it stand apart.

When it comes to front-end development, jQuery becomes my default, and I am a fan of Coffeescript. I also use build tools like brunch, gult, grunt, yoeman etc. I also write code using MVC frameworks like Angular.js and Backbone.js when it comes to building Single Page Applications or web applications which needs a higher level of interaction.

Concurrency, Real-time messaging, high reliable systems are becoming a niche technology these days. Having experience working with Golang, Elixir have helped me build apps that are highly performant, at the same time maintains a high level of reliability.

My experience with working on legacy code base(Rails 1.1.2, 2.3.x), has helped me understand the importance of testing in software development. I use behavior-driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) tools like Rspec Cucumber, and Capybara etc.

I embrace Agile software development methodology that emphasizes teamwork, pair programming, communication, anticipating and embracing change, and the frequent and fast delivery of working software. I use source code repositories like Git.

Every web application I build will be technically solid, in sync with your business aspects, would reflect your vision, and amazingly effective in attracting and engaging your customers or end users.

• Prototype, MVP, SaaS.
• Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SDLC
• TDD, BDD, Git.
• Design, Architect, Engineer.
• Full Stack, UI, UX
• MicroServices, Concurrency, Real-time, High Traffic apps.
• Deadlines, Budget, Client Satisfaction.

Started as a LAMP Stack web developer, building simple websites, gained exposure and experience to enterprise level web applications, frameworks and portals that included complex business logic, analytics, and financial merchant payment gateways. I found my niche in my programming career when I started developing MVPs using Ruby on Rails. Converting ideas from paper to prototype and then to MVP and scaling it up was always challenging and interesting. I enjoyed the way of transformation whether its bootstraping an application using Rails 3.2, with mongoDB as choice of database for flexibility in development, front-end using Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery, and Active admin for adminitration and then porting the entire application to Rails 4, using websockets for real time communication, using Angular JS to communicate over the APIs, using Delayed Jobs/Resque/Sidekiq for scheduling long running tasks and sharding the database across multiple instance of EC2. These days my focus is on microservices, real-time messaging systems, highly concurrent and reliable systems. Nano second response times are now becomging the new standards. With Erlangs fault tolerance, and concurrency, Elixirs syntax, and golangs routines and channels, the web is fast evolving and the applications also tend to be moving towards the newer standards.