Ravana A
Vice President Data Engineer II
United States
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Top SchoolRavana A is a pragmatic data engineering leader and former SDET with 12 years of experience building reliable test automation and data solutions for banking, healthcare, and Salesforce domains. Currently a Vice President Data Engineer II at Bank of America, he evolved from hands-on Selenium/Tosca automation and BDD frameworks into data engineering leadership, bringing a deep appreciation for testability and production-quality pipelines. He pairs strong Java and SQL skills with CI/CD, API testing, and cloud-aware practices, and has driven process improvements across SDLC/Agile teams. Ravana also contributes to open-source back-end work on the well-known Wesnoth strategy game, improving server logic and resilient command handling—an indicator of his practical systems thinking beyond enterprise software. With a Master of Public Administration and a background in law, he combines technical rigor with policy-minded attention to risk and user perspective. Colleagues describe him as results-driven, quality-oriented, and skilled at surfacing critical issues early to reduce downstream incidents.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Administration - MPA, Master of Public Administration - MPA at Long Island UniversityBachelor's degree Law, Bachelor's degree Law at Baku State University
Russian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, English
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Github Skills (11)
lua10
markup10
c-language10
wml10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
strategy-pattern9
server-side9
server9
st9
python6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wesnoth/wesnoth
May 2017 - Dec 2022
An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 reviews, 24 commits, 50 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ravana primarily contributes to the game's back-end logic, focusing on improving and expanding features. They implemented observer chat functionality, allowing messages to be displayed to observers. The user also addressed bugs by modifying existing code, such as fixing an issue with the `modify_unit` split_to_array function and also adding validations to avoid issues within the game logic. They enhanced server functionality, including case-insensitive command handling and adding new weapon special features.
2d-gameturn-based-strategygamec-plus-plusstrategy
ProditorMagnus/XP_Modification
Jul 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
wesnoth
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