~* Siva's Web Corner *~ | Skills & Experience

Character Stats

DEVELOPER CLASS

Class Full-Stack (Backend Main)

Level Sr. (Senior Developer)

EXP 9+ (Years Active)

Guild KRDS (Chennai India)

Primary PHP (Main Weapon)

Secondary Node.js (Off-hand)

New Skill DevOps NEW! (Training...)

Commits 14k+ (Lines Written)

Skill Tree

Expert Advanced Intermediate Learning

PHP 9+ yr

95%

Main weapon. Laravel, Symfony, raw PHP — you name it.

Node.js 6+ yr

90%

Express, Fastify, real-time apps with Socket.io.

REST API Design 8+ yr

92%

Designing, building, and documenting APIs at scale.

GraphQL 2+ yr

65%

Apollo Server, schema design, resolvers.

Python 1+ yr

40%

Scripting, automation, learning Django.

JavaScript 8+ yr

88%

ES6+, async/await, DOM manipulation, browser APIs.

HTML / CSS 9+ yr

85%

Semantic HTML, Flexbox, Grid, animations, responsive design.

React 3+ yr

70%

Hooks, Context, functional components, Next.js basics.

Vue.js 2+ yr

60%

Composition API, Vuex, single-file components.

Tailwind CSS 2+ yr

72%

Utility-first styling, custom configs, responsive patterns.

Linux Administration 4+ yr

65%

Ubuntu/CentOS, systemd, shell scripting, server management.

AWS NEW! 2+ yr

55%

EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, IAM basics.

Docker 3+ yr

68%

Containerization, docker-compose, multi-stage builds.

Nginx 6+ yr

78%

Reverse proxy, SSL, load balancing, config tuning.

Ansible NEW! <1 yr

40%

Playbooks, roles, server provisioning automation.

CI/CD Pipelines 2+ yr

58%

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, automated testing & deploys.

MySQL 9+ yr

92%

Query optimization, indexing, replication, stored procedures.

PostgreSQL 4+ yr

75%

JSONB, CTEs, window functions, extensions.

MongoDB 3+ yr

65%

Aggregation pipeline, indexing, Mongoose ODM.

Redis 4+ yr

72%

Caching, pub/sub, sessions, rate limiting.

Git 8+ yr

90%

Branching strategies, rebasing, bisect, hooks.

Webpack / Vite 4+ yr

68%

Build configs, code splitting, HMR, plugin authoring.

Composer / NPM 8+ yr

88%

Package management, semver, private registries, monorepos.

VS Code / Vim 6+ yr

80%

Extensions, keybindings, vim motions, terminal integration.

Experience Timeline

2020 — Present

Senior Software Developer

@ KRDS Chennai

Lead backend architecture, mentor junior devs, manage AWS infrastructure. Built high-traffic APIs serving 50k+ requests/day. Introduced CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based deployments.

⚡ CURRENT

2018 — 2020

Software Developer

@ KRDS Chennai

Developed full-stack web applications with PHP and Node.js. Managed MySQL databases, wrote REST APIs, integrated third-party services.

2016 — 2018

Junior Developer

@ Previous Company Chennai

First professional role. Built websites with PHP, learned MySQL, cut my teeth on JavaScript and jQuery. Lots of late nights and Stack Overflow.

2015 — 2016

Intern / Freelancer

@ Freelance

Built small websites for local businesses. Learned HTML, CSS, PHP basics. The era of table-based layouts and inline styles. Good times.

My Toolbox

🐘PHP

🎮Node.js

⚡JavaScript

🚀Laravel

⚙️Express

💬GraphQL

📡REST API

🐳MySQL

🐘PostgreSQL

🔥Redis

📋MongoDB

🐧Linux

📦Docker

☁️AWS

🔄Nginx

🛠️Ansible

📂Git

💻VS Code

Coding Activity

📈 GitHub-style contribution heatmap (simulated)

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Certifications & Training

☁️

AWS Cloud Practitioner IN PROGRESS

🛠️

Ansible for DevOps COMPLETE

📦

Docker Mastery COMPLETE

🐧

Linux System Administration IN PROGRESS

☸️

Kubernetes (CKA) PLANNED

// Always learning. The grind never stops.