Neelam Bhandari is a Scrum Master and experienced software leader with 10 years in delivery and development across UK higher education and enterprise IT. Currently at Fujitsu, she combines agile coaching with hands-on technical insight developed as a lead developer and full-stack contributor to open-source projects like Sakai, where she improved UX by adding multi-file uploads, resource integration, and calendar refactoring. Her background in electrical and electronic engineering (MSc) and early roles in research and product development give her a strong systems-thinking approach to complex applications. She excels at building high-performing teams, translating academic and research needs into production software, and driving iterative improvements. Notably, she has shifted between hands-on coding and leadership roles, making her equally comfortable refactoring code or facilitating cross-functional delivery. Based in England, she brings a pragmatic blend of technical craft and agile facilitation to large, collaborative projects.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at The University of Birmingham
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:39 commits, 52 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Neelam primarily contributed to the Sakai project by enhancing the Lessons tool. Their work involved adding multiple file upload capabilities, integrating resource selection from the Resources tool, and creating a component for displaying announcements. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to rename the Schedule tool to Calendar within the application and updated the site info section with user search functionality. These changes demonstrate a broad understanding of the project's architecture and a focus on improving user experience.
Contributions:4 PRs, 106 pushes, 53 branches in 1 year 1 month
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