Manish Chakravarty

Current

Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks
Member at Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group
Member of KDE India at KDE

Member at Ubuntu India

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Past

Freelance Software Consultant (Sole Proprietorship)
Associate Software Developer at SpikeSource
Consultant Software Developer at VCreateLogic

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Education

Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University

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Manish Chakravarty’s Summary

* Currently working on Twist as a dev - http://studios.thoughtworks.com/twist-agile-test-automation

* Worked on Mingle Integrations - http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/98033.html

* Selenium development ( http://seleniumhq.org/ )

* Selenium Trainings ( http://tinyurl.com/nlkkmg , amongst others )

* Ruby on Rails web application development

* Two independent projects for a UK based company on web services. Involved application design and programming , including GUI programming using Qt.

* Wrote a automation/testing tool using the kdelibs: KWebTest
http://code.google.com/p/kwebtest

* Worked on on developing certified application stacks, on which open source solutions are deployed. The stacks themselves are made up of Open Source components. These stacks include
- Alfresco SpikeIgnited 1.4 ( Linux)
- Alfresco SpikeIgnited 2.0 (ECM & WCM ) (Windows)
- Drupal SpikeIgnited 5.1 ( Windows)

Manish Chakravarty’s Specialties:

OO Design , Fairly language-agnostic.Expertise in KDE, Qt, C++, Python, Java , JavaScript, Ruby/RoR. Have also done significant systems-level work (during stack development) Open Source contributor. Excellent communication skills. Good developer with problem solving ability and aptitude

Manish Chakravarty’s Experience

Senior Consultant

ThoughtWorks

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

- Work on Twist - A revolutionary collaborative testing platform which greatly helps in Agile test automation - http://studios.thoughtworks.com/agile-test-automation

- Specializing in writing web testing tools

- Own, manage and conduct selenium trainings - http://groups.google.com/group/indian-selenium-users-group ( including for other organizations )

- Work on Selenium: http://selenium.openqa.org/

- Focus on Selenium development going on for Twist - http://studios.thoughtworks.com/twist

- Also worked on making Mingle work with JIRA - http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/98033.html
Member

Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Member of the Bangalore OpenSolaris User group. Also moderator of #bosug on FreeNode

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/bosug/
Member of KDE India

KDE

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Been a member of KDE India.
Developed KWebTest. Working on porting KWebTest to KDE4 and releasing it.

My first mail to KDE-India
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-india&m=115909711602945&w=2
Member

Ubuntu India

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — Present (4 years 1 month)

Member of Ubuntu India Team
https://launchpad.net/~manishchakravarty
Freelance Software Consultant
Sole Proprietorship

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

April 2008 — May 2008 (2 months)

Working on the Linux/OpenSoalris platform with a US-based client for delivering Ruby on Rails applications.
Associate Software Developer

SpikeSource

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)

* Develop sandboxed and certified application stacks on using Open technologies in windows and linux.

* Developing in-house testing tools using C++ , Qt and KDE

* Developed the following open source application stacks
- Alfresco SpikeIgnited 1.4
- Drupal SpikeIgnited 5.1 ( Windows )
- Alfresco SpikeIgnited 2.0 ( Windows )

* OpenSource BlackBerry alternative - Funambol

* AJAX based large file uploaders using PHP on the server side
Consultant Software Developer

VCreateLogic

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — December 2006 (6 months)

* Worked as a consultant for offshore and Indian clients
* Designed and developed a WSDL and SOAP module from scratch (written in Qt/C++) and an Apache module to connect to the same.
* Contributed to VTK Designer - An opensource visualization tool ( http://www.vcreatelogic.com/oss/vtkdesigner/ )