Rajat Pandit

Current

• Senior Engineer at IPC Media

Past

• Engineer, Search at Yahoo!
• Project Lead at HCL Great Britain
• Systems Analyst at Manchitra Services Pvt Ltd

• IT Contractor at Viraj Solutions

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Education

• IGNOU
• Magadh University

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Industry

Internet

Rajat Pandit’s Summary

An experienced web developer with extensive back-end and front-end skills, with special focus towards building websites which are web standards compliant, semantically rich, accessible , have support for i18n and l10n and above all scalable.

I also have extensive experience in coordinating with co-located teams and also working with design and product teams to get the deliverable which is of the highest value to the customer in the shortest time to market.

I am a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Scrum Certified Product Owner (CPO) via the Scrum Alliance.

Rajat Pandit’s Specialties:

* (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
* Frontend performance & web application security issues.
* PHP, MySql, Symfony, Web Standards, Accessibility, SEO.
* Version control including CVS, SVN and GIT.
* Good UNIX skills. Work on a mixture of systems including Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux.
* Prior work experience with other scripting languages and databases including Perl, ASP and Sql Server as well as other company specific technologies.
* SCRUM / Agile Methodology.
* Management of technical teams.

Rajat Pandit’s Experience

• Senior Engineer

  IPC Media

  (Public Company; TWX; Publishing industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

• Engineer, Search

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  Developer for the Yahoo! Search Monkey team in Europe where I worked on the search monkey developer tool, search monkey gallery and internal tools to manage the project. This included developing and launching the latest version. Whilst in the role:
  
  * Revamped an internal tool with usability as prime focus for managing the developer submitted content for all international regions.
  
  * Met tight time scales for delivery in Europe and worked extensively with the US team to co-ordinate development activities.
  
  * Designed applications with internationalization features, the current website http://gallery.search.yahoo.com now runs in more than 13 languages at the moment and increasing.
  
  * Defined, implemented and co-ordinate the release process for all search monkey related development that happens out of the UK.
  
  * Member of Yahoo!'s Paranoid (security) team where I provided input and advise on frontend security issues such as XSS and CSRF.

• Project Lead

  HCL Great Britain

  (Public Company; HCLTECH.NS; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 4 months)

  This role was more like an interface between the team members and the project manager. Along with dealing with the technical aspects like design and implementation I was also actively involved in project management activities as part of assisting my manager.
  Interaction with the product owners/managers for business requirements and also taking a lead role in paving a roadmap for the products that I worked with were some of the interesting aspects of the role.

• Systems Analyst

  Manchitra Services Pvt Ltd

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2004 — June 2004 (5 months)

  Worked as a System Analyst (GIS) at Manchitra Services. I was involved in the design of web based solutions in the GIS domain. We built many intersting products like Decision Support Systems, Thematic Map renderers and Spatial/Attribute Query Builders.
  Designed open source based black box deployement solutions for these products which provided scalability, stability at low costs.

• IT Contractor

  Viraj Solutions

  (Internet industry)

  January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  Worked as a contractor / freelancer for various small – middle sized companies and start-ups.
  
  Specialties:
  • Web-based solutions using open source technologies
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Unique User Experience with unique solutions to common problems.

Additional Information

Rajat Pandit’s Honors:

Yahoo! Quality Award - Q1 2008
Yahoo! Super Star Award - Q4 2008
HCL Excellence Award - HCL GB - 2007
Instant Recognition Award - Elsevier - 2006/07
Nominated For Star Performer - HCL Technologies - 2004/05/06