Shyama Menon

• Github link : https://github.com/shyama12
• My portfolio: Shyama Menon
• Projects :
  • Helping hands - Build a stronger community! Find help or volunteer your time to the community. Click here to watch the demo on YouTube.
  • Books galore - Lend or borrow books near you.

Student (Web Development with Ruby on Rails) at Le Wagon remote bootcamp (Jul 2022 - Jan 2023).
Full-time Mom (Oct 2019 - Jun 2022).
Online trascriptionist at transcribeme.com (2016 - 2019).
Bank exam preparation (2015).
Software Engineer (2011 - 2014) at Infosys Ltd, Hyderabad - Web development for e-banking websites.

Student, Web Development, Le Wagon

Bergen, Norway | July 2022 - Jan 2023

About the course : Web development course that covers fullstack web development with Ruby on Rails.
Syllabus (in brief) is as follows:

1. Ruby - iterators and blocks, hash and symbols, regex.
2. OOP - classes and instances, inheritance and self, building apps with MVC architecture.
3. Databases - SQLite and PostgreSQL, CRUD with SQL, Active Record basics, associations and validations.
4. Frontend - HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript basics, DOM & events, HTTP and AJAX, JavaScript packages.
5. Rails - routing, controllers and views, rails frontend with SASS, hosting on Heroku, Image upload with Cloudinary, geocoding, AJAX in rails.
6. Projects :

• Books Galore - An Airbnb clone. The goal of this project was to create an MVP with books instead of flats. Users can post books that they wish to lend to earn some income. They can also borrow books at a nominal amount per day from people near by.
• Helping Hands (Final project) - App aimed at building a stronger community. Users can post tasks they need help with to find volunteers near by. They can also post a listing as a volunteer to offer help to the community.

• Finacle GEM Award (2015), which is a team award for “Excellence, speed and innovation” at Infosys Ltd. (for the Standard Bank project).
• Received Merit Certificate from Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, India for being the top 0.1% of scorers in English and Science & Technology in Grade X.

Software Engineer, Infosys Ltd

Hyderabad, India | July 2011 - September 2014

Projects:

Created and customized web pages using JSPs, HTML, CSS. Developed frontend functionalities with JavaScript. Implemented backend functionalities such as validations, formation and formatting of request/response (XML, JSON and delimited file) to and from third party. Worked on modules such as Payments, Funds Transfer, Service Requests, Administrator Site etc. Debugged issues in the application on SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) platforms.

Developed modules such as Payments and Transfer, Account Statements, Linked Policies, Service Requests etc. Developed UI for the bank's website using JSPs.

• Team Leader, Hospitality, for annual Techfest (February 2011), Amrita University, Coimbatore, India : Took care of accommodation and food for guests who participated in the annual Techfest at our university. Addressed complaints that the guests had.


• Community Service, Amrita University, Kollam, India (September 2009, September 2010) : Helped with the preparation and serving of food for those who needed help. Helped with the distribution of stationery to families with children who were in need.


• Community Service, Amala Bharatam Campaign (2011), Amrita University, Coimbatore, India : Helped with cleaning of bus stations in Coimbatore, India as a part of this campaign.

Malayalam: Native Language