1. 12/10/2014 Star Contributor of the Month for February ­SunGard
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Star Contributor of the Month for
February – SunGard
March 22, 2010 / 0 Comments / in Star Contributor / by Gleb
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Each month we’re going to honor one of our top volunteer
contributors from around the world. Volunteers commit
countless hours of their time, energy, and knowledge into
building and extending the Mifos platform to make it
accessible to microfinance institutions serving the poor. For
the month of Feburary, we’re showcasing the entire team at
SunGard Technology Services in Bangalore, India who have
been working closely with the Mifos team for the past year
helping to strengthen the core Mifos platform, dramatically
increase the performance of Mifos for our customers, and
providing direct implementation services to our community.
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2. 12/10/2014 Star Contributor of the Month for February ­SunGard
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SunGard Technology Services –
Bangalore, India
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services
companies, serving more than 25,000 customers in more than
70 countries. Their SunGard Technology Services unit provides
full software development lifecycle support for SunGard’s
products across the financial systems, higher education and
public sector businesses. Over the past year, we’ve worked
closely with SunGard on a number of key technology projects.
Over the next year we look forward to a deeper engagement
with a dedicated full-time team at SunGard to help extend
scalability in Mifos to support millions of clients.
Contributions:
Scalability improvements for Grameen Koota including
database schema enhancements and improvements to
collection sheet entry module to improve speed of
processing for thousands of transactions.
Performance Testing for Mifos 1.4 Release which provided a
controlled lab environment where Mifos could be stressed
to simulate heavy production load scenarios. This testing
led to measurable improvements to collection sheet entry,
loan creation, and client creation.
Reproducing a long standing Collection Sheet issue in the
performance testing lab and providing a means for testing
and validating those fixes.
Enhancements including client age validation and additional
client family details to better support delivery of
microinsurance services at Grameen Koota
Technical consulting work supporting Mifos community
customers including data migration and building reports for
Adhikar in Orissa, India.
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3. 12/10/2014 Star Contributor of the Month for February ­SunGard
Here’s a bit more on the entire team including Parthasarathy,
Aravind, Chandan, Rajesh, Raghavendra, Rajesh, Maheswari
and Lakshmi, Sreevani, Prabaharanand Prachi:
Parthasarathy T
Educated to be a mechanical engineer, but chose to be a
software engineer. 8+ years of coding most of them in one or
other of the languages that compiles inside MS Visual Studio.
Current passions: content management, workflows and RIA.
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: J2EE, Hibernate, MySQL,
Performance Engineering
Parthasarathy’s Impact: “I believe our performance fixes for
GK and our work at Adhikar helped them scale faster and serve
more poor. I believe our impact/role is kind of indirect (we
enable MFIs to run efficiently and they in turn help more) –
hoping to identify the MFIs that will have the maximum impact
on the society and channel SunGard’s efforts/energy towards
helping them succeed.”
What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “The
satisfaction of being able to do something useful to the society
with whatever skill set we have.”
Advice for others in the Community: “The technologies we
use, the processes we follow are just the means to solve client
problems, not the end. We should focus on the latter.”
Fun Facts about Parthasarathy
Favorite Food: Dosa
Favorite Open Source Project: Mifos
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be: I would
prefer travelling back to the past – can set certain things right
Interesting fact/tidbit: “An incurable cricket-addict. Formed a
team in ’92 to compete in a local tournament only to get
thrashed (our team scored 34 chasing 200 odd) – realized that
the best place for me in cricket is in front of the TV box or in
the stands.”
Aravind Deivendran - Software Engineer
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4. 12/10/2014 Star Contributor of the Month for February ­SunGard
and Project Lead at SunGard with 7 years
experience.
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: Project management, Java/J2EE
development, testing, release management
What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “Self
satisfaction, new learning and interaction with diversified kinds
of people.
Fun Facts about Aravind:
Favorite Food: Continental
Favorite Open Source Project: Mifos
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be:
Istanbul, where east and west meet.
You can catch Aravind on almost every social network: Twitter
[http://twitter.com/aravindd] | Facebook
[http://www.facebook.com/aravind.d] | Google
[http://www.google.com/profiles/aravind.d] | LinkedIn
[http://in.linkedin.com/in/aravindd]
Chandan Rao – Software Engineer for past 8
months, previously undergraduate student
at National Institute of Technology,
Surathkal
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: Java, C++, Windows, Unix
Chandan’s Impact: “Through mifos I understood microfinance.
I can see why it is required and how it is helping everybody. I
hope to utilize my skills in making Mifos more customizable,
more efficient and more useful.
What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “This is one of
the few projects that is free and that reaches the grassroots of
our society and that makes a difference in the lives of millions
of people.”
Advice for others in the Community: “Keep up the good
work.”
Fun Facts about Chandan:
Favorite Food: Indian
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5. 12/10/2014 Star Contributor of the Month for February ­SunGard
Favorite Open Source Project: Firefox
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be: Ladakh
Interesting fact/tidbit : Chandan has read every book written
by Terry Pratchett
Visit Chandan’s LinkedIn profile
[http://in.linkedin.com/in/chandanrao] to learn more about
him.
Raghavendra Bhandari – Software Engineer
at SunGard with Masters Degree in
Computer Science
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: Java, Jsp, Servlets, Struts,
Hibernate, Mysql, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Raghavendra’s Impact: Worked on finding Collection sheet
entry bugs, and found the open source testing tool for doing
the performance test.
What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “It’s very nice
to work with mifos, because it’s an open source project and
especially built for social work.”
Advice for others in the Community: “Best is to prepare the
proper documents of Mifos work, so that the new mifosian’s
can easily understand.”
Fun Facts about Raghavendra
Favorite Food: Lemon Rice
Favorite Open Source Project: Java
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be:
Kanyakumari
Rajesh Kollam – Senior Software Engineer at
SunGard with a Masters Degree in
Computer Science
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: Java, Struts, Hibernate,
JavaScript, Maven, SVN, Portlets
Rajesh’s Impact: “Worked on finding Collection sheet entry
bug, and also worked on collecting family details of the client.”
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What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “Satisfaction,
my work is going to be used by many people and this is my
first chance to contribute to an open source project.”
Advice for others in the Community: “Try to have a proper
documentation on whatever we develop.”
Fun Facts about Rajesh
Favorite Food: South India dishes
Favorite Open Source Project: All Apache Projects
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be: To
Mauritius, maybe
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be:
Kanyakumari
Sreevani Nagendran – Technical Architect at
SunGard
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: Design and development in
Application software; Programming languages proficiency in
Java/J2EE, Python, ExtJs, C++, VC++/COM, C; Good Knowledge in
UML,OOPS and Design Patterns, SQL and DICOM; Agile-
SCRUM methodology
Sreevani’s Impact: “Effectively guided the design for Jasper
reports, Database Archival, solved showstoppers for the
insurance enhancement(s).”
What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “It gives a
good feeling when one can give back to the society.”
Fun Facts about Sreevani
Favorite Food: Vegetarian food
Favorite Open Source Project: Python
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be:
Switzerland
Interest fact/tidbit: “Not many would have just a day
difference between one’s wedding anniversary and birthday!”
Prabaharan Gopalan – Software Engineer at
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7. 12/10/2014 Star Contributor of the Month for February ­SunGard
SunGard with 3 years IT experience
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: Java, JPA and Flex
Prabaharan’s Impact: “Worked on performance enhancement
for the Meeting Schedule Batch Job. Improved performance by
a factor of 36 times.”
What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “Challenging.”
Fun Facts about Prabaharan
Favorite Food: “Anything edible!”
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be: “My
native place.”
Interesting fact/tidbit: Prabaharan is an industrial
biotechonologist by education who had known only a single
programming language till he joined SunGard.
Lakshmi Simha – Technical Lead at SunGard
with 9 years experience
Relevant Skills/OS Experience: Database expertise
Lakshmi’s Impact: “Worked on SQL tuning, Index creations for
improvement in performance making it so that the MFI clients’
requests are processed quickly.”
Currently Working On: Omni Core Development
What’s rewarding about working on the Mifos: “You can see
your work impacting somebody.”
Fun Facts about Lakshmi
Favorite Food: Chinese
Favorite Open Source Project: Mifos
If I could travel to one place in the world, it would be: Peru
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