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Ramalakshmi Vaidhiyanathan
(she/her)
BSc MSc PGCE FHEA MS
Lecturer
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.