Ravi S. Iyer - Detailed Software Development Experience

Last Updated On: 27 Mar. 2024

Full Stack (MERN) Web Developer (part time, work from home);
Former Software Consultant; Former Visiting Faculty (Software)

Email: riyer02@gmail.com

Objective

Exploring opportunities for web application development (MERN stack) as well as suitable technical consultant work, in part time, work from home mode.

Software Development Field Experience Overview

18 years (1984 to 2002) in software development industry (in U.S., Europe, Far East Asia and India): Played roles right from programmer, designer, project manager, software development manager to finally a software consultant role.
9 years (2003 to 2012) in a Deemed University in India: Taught programming (lab) courses and was technical consultant for projects at M.Tech. (CS) and M.Sc. (Maths & CS) level.
3 years part time (2011 to 2014): Blogged about improving software development practice in academia, shared my lab. courses material online, and explored open source IT development for rural society which did not really take off.
10 months part time (June 2023 to March 2024): Returned to software development work after gap of around ten years, developed an open source Blogger blog backup to book software, learned MERN (MongoDB, Express, React.js and Node) full stack web development and published roadmap and notes on it to help others.

Full Stack (MERN) Web Development

Upgraded my knowledge in or learned following technologies of this area:

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Node.js and Express.js
MongoDB and Mongoose
ReactJS

Created a free resource (set of blog posts) which may be of help to some poor students who are determined and dedicated to self-learn full stack (MERN) web development beginner level using a roadmap, free video and text tutorials, and extensive notes. Note that the free tutorials are published by others (not me) but I have prepared the roadmap and finished two rounds of it. In the course of these two rounds, I have prepared extensive and well organized notes. These notes may be a very helpful aid to the student as he/she goes through the course. The associated main blog posts are:

Technical Areas worked on while in Software Industry from 1984 to 2002

Architecture, Design, Coding and/or teaching/mentoring roles in/using:

Web technologies using C#/ASP.Net and Java 2 Enterprise Ed.
OOAD incl. Design Patterns and UML
GUI Design
TCP/IP socket prog, VoIP MS API
SMTP gateway, X.400, X.500, Sendmail
Banyan Vines Network OS, RPC
Videotex
IIS & Netscape web server API
Web Services (SOAP)
Document Imaging Indexing systems
C/C++, STL, Visual C++/MFC, Visual Basic, Oracle, Sql Server, Informix, PowerBuilder, SQLWindows, X-Windows API, Wang VS Assembler, COBOL
Microsoft Windows, Unix/Linux/Solaris and Wang VS operating systems.
Misc: ATL/COM, Multi-threading, XML, Windows Hooks

Details

Academic Teaching Experience Details

Have taught (and introduced most of) the following (lab.) courses at M.Tech., M.Sc. & B.Sc. levels in a Mathematics & Computer Science department of a deemed university in Andhra Pradesh, India:

Open Source Web Technology (As applied to a free school educational web portal)
Advanced Unix Programming
Network Programming (TCP/IP Sockets)
Multi-Threaded Programming
Minix/Linux Kernal Internals
C++ Programming
C Programming
Java Web Programming
C# & ASP.Net Web Programming
VC++/MFC/Windows Programming

For more, see: Ravi S. Iyer's Software Lab. Courses

Technical & Programming Consultancy in Academia

Was technical and programming consultant for M.Tech. (CS) projects in the following technical areas:

Ontology for Indian school education
Re-engineering & Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD)
Web Services Security & Security of Coalition of Web Services
File systems in Linux/Minix
VC++ programming, detecting & debugging memory leaks

Was technical and programming consultant for M.Sc. (Maths & CS) Dissertation computer projects involving the following technical & functional areas:

Technical areas

ASP.Net Web programming
Database design and programming
Graphical User Interface (GUI) design

Functional areas

E-learning of conversational English from Telugu & vice-versa.
Agricultural Portal
Department research publications database
Hostel Railway Reservation

Academic Publication Record

Have published the following academic papers as a co-author:

A.Sateesh, R.Iyer, G.V.Prabhakar Rao, S.Kapoor and R.Mukkamala, "SPN: A Web Services Security Policy Negotiator", International Conference on Web Engineering and Applications (ICWA), Bhubaneswar, pp 137-148, December 2007.
S.Sampath, R.Iyer, K.S.Sridharan, R.Mukkamala and S.Kapoor, "Secure Web-based Sharing of Health Information Services Using Ad-hoc Dynamic Coalitions", International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG), Las Vegas, pp 297-302, April 2008.
S.Sampath, R.Iyer, K.S.Sridharan, R.Mukkamala, S.Kapoor, "Coalition Service Registry for Ad-hoc Dynamic Coalitions", Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies, pp 41-46, 2008.

Following is my single-author paper, a preprint, on arxiv.org:

Ravi S. Iyer, "Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia", arxiv.org preprint, last revised 21 Dec 2012. Preprint Abstract, Preprint Pdf

My Software Related Blogs

Mainly from 2011 to 2014, have worked on three software related blogs:

Peaceful and amicable, Indian Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) academic reform activism
Ravi S. Iyer's Software Lab. Courses It has the content of software lab. courses taught by me while offering free service with designation of Honorary Staff/Honorary Faculty/Visiting Faculty to a Mathematics & Computer Science department in a deemed university in Andhra Pradesh, India, from 2003 to 2011.
[Old] Free and Open Source IT software development especially aimed at rural Indian society. This work did not really take off due to lack of volunteers. However, it has some free software licensing (FOSS Licensing) related posts which may be useful to some readers. From 2013, I use the blog mainly to record user-level tech. matters (e.g. Mobile Internet speeds in Puttaparthi where I now live).

Open Source Blogger Blog Backup to Book Software

From June 2023 to Nov 2023, I worked on software to create blogbook(s) from blogs, either full blog or selection based on content matching strings, date range etc. I changed the software development platform over time, starting initially with Google Apps Script (GAS), then moving to Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and finally to Microsoft VB.NET. Published the last version done in VB.NET, which works only for Blogger blogs and not WordPress blogs, as an open source Blogger blog backup to book software on github.

From the above github link description for the software, “BlogBackupToBook software creates HTML blogbook(s) from Blogger blog XML Backup/Export files. It also allows for filtering the output HTML blogbook(s) by content matching strings, by published and/or updated date range and by an index(es) list where the index(es) are positions of posts and pages entries in the Blogger XML Backup/Export file.”

Some of the earlier versions of the software in GAS and VBA work for WordPress blogs. Blog posts about these earlier versions are put up on my blog: and can be located from the archive on the blog for months from June 2023 to September 2023. The associated source code is put up on a public Google Drive folder.

Academic Qualification

B.Sc. (Physics) in 1983.

Dropped out of M.Sc. (Physics) due to financial problems. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise as I was able to enter the software industry at a younger age😊.

Age

61 years

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