# Shivani S. > Software Engineer Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shivanis Software application developer with two and a half years of work experience in application development and enhancement, service delivery and client relationship management. At present, pursuing Masters in Management Information Systems from University of Nebraska at Omaha. During my tenure as an application developer I gained experience in developing features for C++ applications using OOPS principles, and open source third party libraries. Experienced in working on projects following Agile methodologies for the entire product lifecycle. Excellent written and verbal Communication skills gained by interaction with clients from diverse culture to obtain requirements collectively formulate solutions. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Fundrise Jan 2021 – Present | Washington, District of Columbia, United States ### UX Developer @ Mutual of Omaha Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Omaha, Nebraska • Optimize and build new features for the insurance markets to increase revenue through an optimal user experience and best SEO practices and ADA standards. • Re-architect and develop promotional landing pages by identifying architectural improvements resulting in reusable and responsive block components to reduce development time, with dynamic content, by 80%. • Developed architecture and implemented front-end and back-end for a life insurance quoter built with Vue.js/PHP, tied through efficient APIs, to help customers identify their needs. • Develop and architect standalone Vue.js applications as node modules to be reused across the website and interact with web APIs. • Develop and maintain efficient APIs, microservices and middleware with caching using Redis cache, which are reusable with front-end applications. Coded modular, small size, reusable composer packages with high efficiency and performance in PHP. • Collaborate with designers and develop reusable components using Vue.js/JavaScript to maintain a standardized design system used throughout the company. • Improve user experience with focus on responsive web design using CSS Flexbox and Grid layouts. • Actively promoting and sharing new technologies to our team and IS partners to maintain high quality codebase and standards by participating in code reviews and sharing ideas on coding standards. ### Software Engineer @ Douglas Omaha Technology Commission (DOTComm) Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Omaha, Nebraska ### Software Engineer @ BHMI Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Omaha Area ### Mobile Developer @ University of Nebraska at Omaha Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Omaha Area • Developed hybrid app for the Dept. of Pediatrics at UNMC to manage and configure learning modules for students and instructors • Involved in designing user experience interface and developing UI/UX strategy • Created services/provider in Angular using HTTP service calls to REST API endpoints on the backend • Built interactive components to provide features such as drag & drop, autocomplete, tap to zoom ### Web and Database Developer @ University of Nebraska at Omaha Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Omaha Area - Responsible for stages from initial design and architecture to development(PHP), deployment(Heroku), and management/maintenance of Web Applications - Designed and deployed data table structures, forms, reports and queries - Identified inefficiencies in current databases and investigate solutions - Diagnosed and resolved database access and performance issues - Designed and implemented the front-end components using the Angular.JS framework - Improved front-end CSS design and code for one of the project by using Bourbon/Neat - Created reports(.RDL files) to be deployed in an application environment - Produced ad-hoc queries and develop reports to support business needs - Written Bash (shell) script to format and perform operations on raw log data - Configured a Laravel project to run/host with docker containers ### Web Developer @ University of Nebraska at Omaha Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Omaha Area • Built the stack, using PHP, PostgreSQL, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS3, and Bootstrap for front-end • Used AJAX to provide better user experience to end users preventing page reload • Used SASS and Gulp to compile front-end CSS and JavaScript code. • Setup Docker containers to configure Laradock for Laravel projects to help developers fix code dependency issues. ### Research Assistant @ University of Nebraska at Omaha Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Omaha Area - Developed features for a Web Application to provide interactive Data visualization comparing several universities and reveal insights about their structure and academic performance by using Big Data Technology in PHP Laravel framework using MVC architecture - Created data visualization using JavaScript, jQuery and D3.js for in-depth analysis of universities of the USA. - Part of the IS&T Reasearch and Development team working on a "Web application", which provides interactive data-visualization comparing several universities and reveals insights about their structure and academic performance by using Big-Data technologies for the Office of Insitutional Effectiveness, University of Nebraska. - Designed and implemented relational data models from raw data sources by understanding the structure Hands-on experience in MVC architecture, OOP principles and database design and manipulation - Created data visualization using D3JS (Sankey Diagram) for in depth analysis of big data using PHP and JavaScript ### Systems Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Technical Role : - Worked on design, development, testing and maintenance of the product. As part of design, the task was to have an initial understanding of the requirement and decide upon the feasibility and effort needed to complete. Made use of scrum boards for this purpose - During development, the requirement was broken into various tasks and one or more tasks was taken up by me and worked upon. The development of the module was to be done by me. Used revision control system such as git for development of code. - As part of testing, my role was to test a part/module developed by another team member, and write test cases for all possible scenarios and automate them. Used JCAT, Jenkins for testing purpose -In Maintenance, I had to take up Trouble reports(TR) raised on already released product versions and provide a solution for them within a specified time frame based on the priority of the TR raised. This required frequent interaction with the customer for clarification and verification. Further, I had to make sure, that this solution was reviewed by another team member and tested. I had to communicate the customer on when the solution will be delivered to them. Used web tools for tracking of TRs for maintenance purpose. Processes Followed : - Plan Team's activities with other team members for 3 weeks in advance (Known as Sprint Plan in Agile Methodology) - Take up one or more tasks from the team backlog - Attend daily meetings within the team to update progress on the task handled by me - Provide help/support in other team member activities when ever needed. - Do a retrospective with the team after end of each sprint, in order to improve overall team efficiency ### Scrum Master @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad Area, India Worked with Product Owners, coordinated product backlog grooming, story estimation in Agile projects Managed agile teams and removed obstacle for the team every sprint, resulting in early delivery of solution to customer. Customer provided positive feedback ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Management Information Systems in Data Analytics University of Nebraska at Omaha ### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya ### PCM krishna public school, Bhilai ### krishna public school bhilai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shivani-parihar --- Source: https://flows.cv/shivanis JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shivanis/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13