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Ramalakshmi Vaidhiyanathan
(she/her)
BSc MSc PGCE FHEA MS
Teams and roles for Ramalakshmi Vaidhiyanathan
Lecturer
Lecturer
Director of Academic Teaching Support
Overview
Just call me Rama (easier that way for everyone).
Passionate about teaching (with around 7 years of experience), practitioner and teacher of yoga, sufficient experience (18+ years) in the software industry (with a patent in my name), belong to Hufflepuff house (if you don't know what that is please look up Wizarding Houses from the Harry Potter series), and proud parent of a tri-pawed dog called Rithu.
More details can be found in https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramalakshmiv/
Teaching
Some of the modules I have taught in the Universities are:
a) Database Systems
b) Web Services
c) Computer Networks
d) Object Oriented System development
e) Mobile application development using Flutter
f) HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
g) Data structures and algorithms
I am passionate about Assessments and its role in education.
Biography
I started my career as a software engineer with Baan Info Systems (now called Infor) working in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software. I then moved to Philips Software Systems as a senior software engineer to work on MHP standards (on set top boxes, universal remote controllers etc.), I then moved to Oracle as a senior software engineer where I stayed on for 13 years to become a consulting member of technical staff working on exciting projects like the first Cloud based Database provisioning for which our team won a patent.
When I was given an opportunity to change my career from software engineering to teaching, I took my chances and became a Teacher of Computing in a private school in London and devised a computing curriculum for the secondary school sinking my teeth into all things academia. I then moved to Wales to become a Teaching Fellow in Swansea University, where I taught various modules for Degree Apprenticeship programme for three years and do STEM outreach programmes with schools (you can still see me do workshops with Technocamps). I moved back to India for a couple of years where I was doing freelance technical training for various clients, which included Morgan Stanley and various colleges. I moved back to Wales when I was offered this exciting position with Cardiff University as a Lecturer.
I am also a trained and certified yoga teacher.
Professional memberships
I am a member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), IEEE Educational Society, CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association), AHEP, and a Fellow of Advance HEA.