Gana Dayananda
Lead Software Developer
Berlin,BE
Summary
Professional software developer with comprehensive experience in designing and implementing scalable software solutions. Proven ability to drive project success and adapt to changing requirements through agile methodologies. Known for effective team collaboration and delivering high-quality results. Expertise in coding, problem-solving, and project management.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HMI Lead
Alstom Transport Limited
04.2022 - 01.2025
- Defined and prioritized the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and stakeholders, to deliver high-value product increments
- Planned, monitored and controlled customer projects from initiation/prototype demo phase to complete development of Human Machine Interface system, serving as the primary point of contact for customers, other stakeholders and development team
- Led all project management activities, including scope definition, scheduling, project charter creation, daily tracking of activities, resource planning and customer requirement analysis
- Introduced agile way of working to the team and made team comfortably adapt to new process
- Partnered with product owner's to delivery MVPs by gaining maximum domain knowledge on Automatic Train Supervision system
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting project progress to Sub-system leader, senior management
- Conducted Scrum reviews with stakeholders and scrum team, Resolving impediments quickly to increase team performance
- Delivered an Interactive UI system for Turin(Italy), SGP L18(Paris) as Human machine interface Lead
- Interacted with Hamburg(Germany) customer to understand the requirement for the new metro line in development
HMI Engineer
Alstom Transport Limited
04.2020 - 03.2022
- Onsite travel to France to execute and expedite project; supported offshore team in steering the project to closure
- Conducted design review meetings with solution architects and development teams
- Supported project scheduling and milestone management for new product development projects
- Supported product team for parallel running projects by prioritizing the features and early feedback
- Performed manufacturing and integration testing file document for each delivery to check the quality and bugs, using the CQ tool for bug raising; acting as the quality control point for pre-set deliverables
- Drove efforts towards maintaining software development practices; adhered to company standards for unit/functional test coverage
- Maintained and updated project-related documents, ensuring accuracy and completeness
Software Designer
Alstom Transport Limited
07.2017 - 03.2020
- Developed different UI views for support and ease of customers usage
- Supported senior developers and designers in creating comprehensive user personas and scenarios
- Contributed to team brainstorming sessions that lead to innovative solutions for customer needs
- Conducted comprehensive user testing which reviewed design revision cycles
- Effective project and product integration with minimal to zero errors at first build
- Successful migration of project from .net framework 3.5 to 4.8
Graduate Engineer Trainee
Alstom Transport Limited
07.2017 - 06.2018
- Acquired training to adapt for industrial standards and etiquettes; acquired railway domain knowledge from all the subsystems
- Understanding of processes and tools
Education
Master of Science - Software Systems
Bits Pilani
Pilani12-2024
Bachelor of Engineering - Information science and Engineering
RV college of Engineering
08.2013 - 7 2017
Skills
Scrum certification holder
C# application design
Proficient in WPF design
Skilled in building applications with AngularJS
SQL proficiency
Proficient in Power BI
Advanced Excel skills
PowerPoint
SharePoint
Outlook
Git repository management
Team Foundation Server expertise
Skilled in utilizing change management platforms
Certification
Certified scrum master
Timeline
HMI Lead
Alstom Transport Limited
04.2022 - 01.2025
HMI Engineer
Alstom Transport Limited
04.2020 - 03.2022
Software Designer
Alstom Transport Limited
07.2017 - 03.2020
Graduate Engineer Trainee
Alstom Transport Limited
07.2017 - 06.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Information science and Engineering
RV college of Engineering
08.2013 - 7 2017
Master of Science - Software Systems
Bits Pilani