Nirav Godhani

A technologist with 5 years of application development experience who likes to build software that streamlines business processes, automates tasks, utilizes data for diagnosis and trend analysis. I have built databases for storing business data and applications that interfaces with databases for streamlining business processes. Passionate results driven person with friendly personality. 

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Software Engineer May 2020 - June 2023 | Manulife, Waterloo, ON 
Technologies: C#, MS SQL, XML, SSRS, PowerShell, MS Excel, GitHub

• Understood business processes, identified opportunities for increasing efficiency and reducing risk thereby designed and built applications using C#, XML, MS SQL, PowerShell
• Debugged production applications for issues, Utilized postman for Web API responses and health
• Built complex SQL queries to analyze data for diagnosing data irregularities and complex reporting,
  Debugged Stored Procedures to ensure data processing, Built Reports using SSRS with specified template
• Utilized monitoring tools Dynatrace, New Relic, Foglight for application reliability, Participated in disaster
  recovery exercise of database and applications, Used Jenkins pipelines to deploy and restart applications

Accomplishments:

• Built automated applications that saved around 106 human days/year by eliminating monotonous tasks
• Built applications that reduced risk by validating financial data and business process adherence

IT Developer (Co-op) Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 |County of Wellington, Guelph, ON
Technologies: C#, Asp.Net, JavaScript, MS SQL, Azure DevOps Server, PowerShell, Postman

• Designed and Built HTTP RESTful Web Services to interact with on-premise applications using Asp.Net, MS SQL

Accomplishments:

• Improved computing overhead in compressing pdf by building a separate Asp.Net Web Service capable to
  compress pdf size by 10 times and increased processing speed by running it as an asynchronous process
• Configured applications to skip storing packages in Microsoft TFS which increased storage utilization
   

Software Engineer May 2014 - Mar 2018 | L&T Technology Services Limited, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Technologies: C#, HTML, XML, CSS, MS SQL, PowerShell, Visual Studio

• Understood business requirements and developed Desktop, Standalone and Web applications using C#,
  HTML, XML, Powershell, MS SQL that Streamlined business processes and Automated tasks
• Designed MS SQL databases and built T-SQL queries to perform data operations
• Followed SDLC process from requirement elicitation and development to testing and deployment
• Participated in daily standup meeting to discuss daily tasks, roadblocks and task progress
• Created technical design documents of user requirements to guide development and prepared user manuals
• Supported customers and software applications by troubleshooting issues and integrating new functionalities

Accomplishments:

• Designed and Built SQL database and Desktop application utilizing C#, MS SQL which streamlined
  managing categories and documents, ensured proper access controls and a great user experience
• Streamlined Quality Checking process by application built using C#, MS Excel with 3 stage review process
  that increased engineering team's efficiency, resulted in 100% quality assurance, got extended to 10 teams and eliminated paper use

Computer Applications Development, Post Grad Certificate Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 | Conestoga College, Waterloo, ON

• Building MVC Web and Desktop Applications, Mobile compatible website as well as interfacing with SQL and NoSQL database through complex queries

Academic Project: Restaurant Operations Management System

• Built Backend REST Web API Service for routing HTTP requests using Flask in Python
• Designed DynamoDB tables and built queries for interfacing with data