Channa Mydur
Entrepreneur, Software developer, Learner, Technology enthusiast, Cook, Father

About

Have been writing code for over 20 years, the
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1999 : The beginnings

Soon after college took a course on Java and started my career as a trainer in Arena Multimedia teaching Java to non-programmers. Picked quite a bit of design skills and a mastered a lot of multimedia tools, including Photoshop, Flash, Audio and Video editing, Web design & development

1999 - 2004 : Startup adventure

With 3 other people cofounded an IT company specializing in web development, multimedia, eLearning. Handled everything from small to big, including pre-sales, customer interactions and relationships, design, development, delivery. Managed and mentored a lot of team members.

Nov 2004 : Transition

Starting a company brought in a lot of bragging right, but was difficult to sustain financially,had to call it a quits. So transitioned to being an employee and started working for other companies, took a role as business analyst at Iridium Interactive and later as Project Manager at Hurix


2006 - Big leap

Moved to the US and worked briefly with Advantys and have been with Comcast since 2007. Been mostly involved in the transformative projects and driving the organization to become more effective and efficient in what we deliver

Areas of expertise

Some of areas of expertise/interest include

Technology partner & leadership

Organize, lead, provide oversight and technolgoy direction for projects, expand core capabilities of the team. Work with the business/clients to bridge the gap with the technology, act as a go to person for all the technological needs. Guidance for better and more technically viable solutions. Translate complex requirements to technical specifications.

Architecture and solution design

Technical analysis, design of system architecture, data models, process. Develop solution architecture, prepare mockups & prototypes. Design standards and best practices, perform code review, performance analysis, set technology directions and mentor the team, owning the solutions end to end.

Development and delivery

I'm a developer for life, I cannot stay away from writing code or learning a new language or tool. Hands on development experience in web, desktop, APIs, server applications, cross platform mobile applications.

Interests

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Photography

Have a keen interest in photography, often my children are my models.

Food and cooking

I'm a vegetarian, love food, keep trying out new cuisines. Most often than not will research the recipe and try to replicate at home and come up with my own version

Project portfolio & Achievements

Over past 2 decades completed a numerous projects, mostly successful and some not so successful projects. Here are some of the major ones involved with

Products and framework

  • A web content management system (CMS) built completely ground up using all open source technologies, which is powering 12 different sites across Comcast. Built on node.js, mongodb, jquery, bootstrap
  • Multiple cross platform mobile apps using Cordova, Xamarin C#, .net core and nodejs backends
  • Microservice API framework built using Netflix ZUUL open source framework, Java Spring boot, Spring Cloud, Cloud foundry, supporting over 500 MM transactions annually
  • A enterprise notification framework to support delivery of notifications to mobile devices, windows 10 devices, slack, email and various other channels

Web and mobile

  • As an architect recently oversaw the launch of Comcast corporte site, the news and information site of Comcast corporation. Worked closely with business to define roadmap, built a development and testing team, worked with external agency on the design.
  • Managing the Labs , Diversity and design , lots of intranet and internal sites and web applications that span various technologies Mobile
  • Architected, managed the build of an enterprise mobile application to provide a visitor experience for all the campuses in the Comcast footprint, with advanced features like computer vision to recognize the artwork within the Campus, deployed through airwatch.
  • Designed, developed and deployed http://ezcarrot.com and cross platform mobile app using Xamarin, .net core, cognitive services API technologies.

Enterprise applications

  • Business process automation: Implemented, developed on and supported this platform, helping the procurement team to implement the Capital Authorization request across the company to handle billion of dollars of capital every year.
  • NRSA: Helped with the re-architecture and the implementation of the support model for the franchise and MDU fee payments system for the Finance team. This included working with evaluating the current architecture and vendor product (Lavastorm) and
  • Capitalized labor: Built, implemented and still supporting to process the CPE deployment activity, which capitalizes the new device deployments across the company.
  • CPE Forecasting: Designed, built a system to forecast the CPE needs to the company based on the past trends and finance goals of the company