Bread and Butter: Profession

Rule Financial, City of London

[January 2010 - present]

At present, I work as a Consultant at Rule Financial. The kind of work I do constitutes all the phases of the Software Engineering cycle and I work on highly critical trading systems.

Room 101 Limited, Putney, London

[April 2008 - November 2009]

I worked as a PERL Programmer; developed retail websites and content management systems. Apart from this, I worked on a highly complex software system (e-Mentor Pro), which is designed to provide confidential and safe online mentoring to young people in over 400 schools throughout the country. I used obfuscated coding for e-Mentor Pro as a security measure.

Hughes Software Systems, India

[July 2003 - April 2003]

I worked as a Web Developer Intern at the Web Technologies Group within the Corporate Communications department at Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon, India. The work I did centred around developing web applications for the company’s internal client, Hughes BPO Services. The applications were being developed to help the client company manage and track their quality procedures.

Hughes Software Systems, then an American company owned by Rupert Murdoch, is now known as Aricent, since it was taken over by some other company. A Telecom Software giant, with presence in different continents, and it then had high profile clients like Nokia, NEC Japan, Alcatel, etc. More up to date information can be found at: www.aricent.com (opens in a new window).