Nishchal Arora

IBM Intelligent Operations Center was a product offering as part of the IBM Smarter Cities initiative. It’s main objective was to visualize near real-time geospatial data on a map, list and calendar to provide deep insights and perform historical data analytics. It’s applications are quite widespread and it is used across several industries such as city planning and management, sentiment analysis, emergency response and video analytics. Some notable customers include the Miami-Dade Police Department, New Jersey Turnpike and the City of Chennai. My contribution: - Worked as a full stack developer for 3 years before being promoted to technical lead. - Owned several components in the application – geospatial maps, address search, extension points, named areas. - As technical lead, responsible for product delivery, mentoring team members and coordinating tasks. - Developed proofs of concept for several prospects including Thales and Priority5. - Conducted “train the trainer” sessions showcasing and demonstrating new functionality after each release. - Set up automated build for source code security scanning and integrated it with product build. This was quite a large scale project and spanned several years. My role evolved from being a junior developer learning the ropes to being a senior developer and tech lead in a span of almost 5 years. I owned several components within the application and was also responsible for product build, delivery, planning, scoping and coordination as the project as my role evolved.

SON Visualization was a web application used to visualize the Ericsson SON network on a map (and grid) and provide insights into the health of the network. SON refers to Self Organizing Networks (for mobile telecommunications). My Contribution - Responsible for developing the feature vector layer on the geospatial map for visualizing individual nodes in the network. - Developed the grid UI that helped to make map data accessible. - Responsible for developing and maintaining the layer that imported data from the network into the product database. - Wrote unit tests and helped with feature testing and test automation where possible. - Wrote the product user guide and developed videos for product demos.