Jithya N.

Full-stack developer Melbourne, Australia
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About

I've been a software developer for around 6 years, with the last 5 of them working primarily on React SPAs in the financial services space at companies like NAB, IAG and ANZ.

I'm interested in any coding heavy roles in both the backend and frontend, that require deep knowledge of React or Typescript. I'm also keen on any roles involving Rust, as I'm learning that in my spare time.

Education

Master of Information Technology
Monash University, 2015 - 2017
Bachelor of Science (Software Systems)
University of Melbourne, 2009 - 2013

Technical skills

Highly experienced in

  • React
  • NodeJS
  • Typescript

Some experience with

  • Java 8
  • Python
  • Docker

Looking to upskill in

  • CSS
  • Cloud
  • DevOps

Work experience

National Australia Bank (NAB) [Contractor]

Senior React Developer (July 2022 - June 30, 2023)

Project
Outbound Campaign
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Integrated Outbound Call Campaign management into NAB's customized Amazon Connect Softphone.
  • Migrated part of the codebase from Javascript to Typescript, and introduced React Testing Library to replace Enzyme for unit testing.
  • Introduced the finite state machine pattern for managing the complexity of call interactions. A key achievement was no defects being raised with regard to the Outbound feature in the Softphone since deployment to production.

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) [Perm]

Specialist II, Developer (June 2021 - June 2022)

Project
Mid-term Amendments
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React
  • NodeJS
  • Redux
  • Express
  • Worked with Pivotal Labs to build a SPA that allowed customers to amend their home and motor insurance policies.
  • This was an XP team that worked strictly in pairs, using TDD, continuous integration and trunk based development practices.
Project
Broker Removal Automation
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • NodeJS
  • MongoDB
  • Docker
  • A lot of production support time was spent on removing expired brokers from IAG's database. Was given responsibility to develop a script that interacted with ServiceNow APIs to extract broker IDs from raised tickets, and then purge them from our database, before finally closing those tickets.
  • Resulted in significant cost savings, as team members no longer needed to service those tickets.
Project
Customer Complaints Form
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React
  • React Hook Form
  • React Query

Maintained a form for staff to submit customer complaints.

Project
Nova Service Quotes
Tech stack
  • Javascript
  • NodeJS

Maintained a legacy NodeJS application for building insurance quotes for the construction industry.

National Australia Bank (NAB) [Perm]

Analyst, Engineer (Jan 2020 - May 2021)

Project
Business Transaction Accounts
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React
  • NodeJS
  • Redux + Saga
  • Apollo GraphQL
  • Built several forms as micro-frontends that allowed customers to signup for NAB's Business Transaction Accounts.
  • Built and maintained a React Storybook component library, so that our team and others could share common form components
  • Won two consecutive quarterly NAB Recognize awards in my first year.
Project
Self Service Tool (SST)
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React
  • SST was a tool to help internal NAB users to build their own forms.
  • Our team developed a SPA to search, edit and manage these user forms.
  • My contribution was to refactor the existing SST code base to take better advantage of Typescript, as well as added features and fixed defects.

CGI [Perm]

Associate Developer (Oct 2017 - Dec 2019)

CGI is a global IT consultancy that delivers a broad range of services.

Project
Trade Platform
Client
ANZ Bank
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Redux + Saga
  • Java 8
  • Spring Boot

Greenfield project, where I helped build a React SPA and a Java Spring Boot BFF for ANZ's Trade Platform.

Project
Credit Assessment Microservice
Client
Telstra
Tech stack
  • Java 8
  • Jetty Web Server

Built a Java Microservice to expose credit assessments from CGI's proprietary credit decision engine system, to be used for identifying fraud.

Project
NAPLAN Student Reports
Client
Department for Education, South Australia
Tech stack
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SSRS)
  • T-SQL

Built SSRS reports that required complex T-SQL queries (outer joins, window functions and pivots), to analyze student performance on NAPLAN tests.

Project
Working With Children Data Ingestion
Client
Department of Education, Tasmania
Tech stack
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (SSIS)
  • T-SQL

Developed SSIS ETL packages that extracted data from an external SOAP web service and image files on disk. The data was cleaned and mapped according to customer requirements.

Personal projects

Crypto trading bots

ponzibots.com GitHub
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • NodeJS
  • React
  • MariaDB
  • Google Cloud

Built bots for trading crypto on Binance. This project consisted of 4 major pieces: a UI manager to view the performance of the bots and to start/stop them; the bot itself and 2 microservices - one to manage the bots, the other to log their trades.

Software development blog

jithyan.github.io/blog GitHub
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • NextJS
  • React

A place to document my learning on using React and Typescript for web development.

Michael West Reader for Android

GitHub
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React Native
  • Expo

A mobile specific reader for the Michael West news website. Didn't go through the process of publishing it due to the number of hoops a news app has to go through to publish in Google's Play Store.

Git Branch Manager

GitHub
Tech stack
  • Typescript
  • React
  • NodeJS
  • Ink

A very simple CLI utility for being able to select branches for checkout/removal, as I couldn't be bothered typing out full branch names.

Resume

jithyan.github.io/resume/ GitHub
Tech stack
  • Astro
  • HTML
  • Tailwind CSS
  • React PDF

My resume as a (mostly) static website using Astro's Islands architecture. The PDF version is generated client side using React PDF.