Adarshan Nagara Anthal

Business Solution Developer with 3 years of experience building enterprise applications and workflow automation solutions across the higher education and healthcare industries.

Lazaridis School of Business & Economics | Waterloo, Canada

Business Solutions Developer | May 2025 – Present

• Partner with HR, Payroll, and Finance to analyze business processes, identify opportunities, and deliver busines technology solutions aligned with institutional strategy.
• Architect end-to-end digital systems integrating Smartsheet Automations, conditional logic, and smartsheet dashboards to improve visibility, operational efficiency, and compliance.
• Implement intelligent workflow automations that replaced manual tracking, reducing effort by 70% while improving accuracy by 35%.
• Design automations for data manipulation and reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance with audit standards.
• Apply Agile and rapid prototyping methods to iterate designs based on feedback and deliver solutions within short sprints.
• Deliver comprehensive documentation and change management support to increase adoption and promote continuous improvement.

Key Projects:

• Student Hiring Automation: Automated multi-department approvals via low-code workflows, replacing manual routing and improving process transparency.
• Midterm Compliance Tracking: Built analytics dashboards and automated alerts to enhance oversight and accountability, cutting non-compliance by 50%.

HCL Tech | Chennai, India

Software Engineer | August 2021 to June 2024

• Developed data-driven PowerBI dashboards and web applications for global clients in the clinical research and pharmaceutical domains.
• Delivered solutions using Excel VBA, PowerBI, and custom scripting for advanced data manipulation.
• Collaborated with business analysts to define user requirements, perform gap analysis, and transform them into functional specifications.
• Conducted UAT and quality assurance testing, improving usability and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Enhanced performance by integrating REST APIs and applying basic programming principles to streamline workflows, achieving 30% faster load times.
• Supported AI and automation initiatives within client projects to optimize reporting and insight generation.

Key Projects (Client: Covance):

• Clinical Trial Data Management Platform: Built React.js dashboards integrated with REST APIs, cutting analyst data retrieval time by 45% and scaling to 500+ concurrent users in clinical trial oversight.
• Pharmaceutical Research Collaboration Portal: Delivered a centralized compliance portal using React.js + PowerBI, reducing reporting cycles by 30% and streamlining collaboration for 100+ global research teams.

Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

Master of Applied Computing (Co-op Program) | 2024 - present | CGPA: 3.93

Loyola ICAM College Of Engineering And Technology, Chennai, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science | 2017 - 2021 | CGPA: 8.04