Jyothika Sahajanandan

- Founded and scaled the engineering team, creating a robust Learning Management System from scratch using Ruby on Rails. - Led the development of a gamified mobile app, reducing customer acquisition costs and incorporating engaging educational games. - Innovated with Sparky AI, a chat-driven learning platform utilizing LLMs, enhancing interactivity with AI-generated content. - Enhanced system infrastructure, including CRM integrations and payment systems, facilitating smooth operational workflows.

- Led the backend engineering efforts on a 0->1 project, guiding developers while being hands-on on the project. - Architected and implemented a content ingestion tool that allows script writers to design conversations for a chatbot.

Backend developer (RoR) on Byjus, The Learning App. Designed and developed a custom push notification framework using AWS Lambda and AWS SQS. (Python and NodeJs) Designed and developed Byju’s App for Google Home using Dialogflow and Firebase Function (NodeJs) Worked on various features such as mentor scheduling for students, guided learning, state machine based doubt clearing system etc (RoR) Redesigned traditional API (RoR) to make it RESTful and worked on its implementation.

Backend developer on a 0->1 project. Developed a Rails engine that could be integrated with different microservices to facilitate role based authorisation and dynamic updation of permissions to access any action in the host microservice. Developed microservice for user management. Worked on inventory management to support online booking of plot listings.

Full-stack developer (C++, Ruby on Rails) on a pictionary game named Draw Something. Worked on many features, major ones being matchmaking, leaderboards and in-game chat. Reverse engineered sparsely documented and newly transitioned games to make them COPPA compliant.

Full-stack developer (ActionScript and PHP) on games Empires and Allies, and Castleville. Developed new features for these games. Performance improvement by implementing transaction batch resizing based on execution time. Worked on templatization of features to facilitate automation of their development.