SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of experienced, high performing, result oriented Senior product development leader, with expertise in project & people management, technology and Healthcare Insurance Industry. Progressive leadership experience delivering E2E software and managing large sized engineering teams. Extensive experience in using Agile methodologies & tools in an onsite offshore delivery model and pivotal in adoption of agile in the organization. Strong decision - making capabilities. Passion to develop/invent tools which accelerates development & improves customer experience. Committed and highly organized professional, able to perceive the big picture while paying attention to minute details. Exhibits excellent communication skills.
• Proven ability to multitask and manage competing priorities. flexible, fast learner and ability to adapt.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, problem solving skills, written and verbal communication skills, lead from front, fast learner and a team player.
• Manages multiple work streams/portfolio and communicate effectively with different stakeholders. Manages technical problem solving efforts by guided decision-making, exploring alternatives, pursuing root cause, and coordinating experiments.
• Led multifaceted teams across multiple locations within and outside US. Built teams from scratch and provided strategic direction, end vision, broader views to team members.
• Manages and mentors project teams. Responsible for Performance Review, Career Growth, and KRA of project teams.
• Proven ability to drive abstract business need to a concrete software product. Extensive experience in full s/w lifecycle using traditional waterfall and Agile methods.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Language/Technologies: Java/J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, XML/XSLT, JAXB, JAX-RS, SOAP, SAML2, PL/SQL, JUnit, Groovy, Ant

Operating System: Windows, Linux (working knowledge)

Database: SQL Server, Oracle

Tools: Eclipse, Builder, Power Designer, Visio, JMeter, Git Hub, JIRA, Confluence, Ansible, Vagrant, VSS, SVN/CVS, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SOAP UI

Application Server: JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere

Others: Hands on learning experience of Big Data technologies (Map reduce, Yarn, HDFC, Solr, Spark etc), No SQL DBs, Expert in Data Structures and Algorithm.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Managing product development & delivery of various implementations for client’s flagship software. The product is multi-tier Health Insurance Quoting, Enrollment, Renewal automation suite. I am responsible for estimation, planning and managing the development of the software product. These implementations are for different Health Insurance carrier (such as BCBSMA, BCBSTN, BCBSNE, UHC, etc.)
• Managing the team of 15+ engineers - technical & Quality lead, senior developers.
• Working with Cross-functional teams to define overall program & release plan, and tracking against the plan. Instrumental in creation SOW, Change Orders.
• Organizing and facilitating daily stand-ups, retrospectives and other scrum cadences. Managing and tracking the scrum team velocity. Ensuring teams blockers are resolved on day to day basis.
• Engaging with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders, and development team to understand client needs and identify appropriate solutions, customization, integration points.
• Keeping Engineering & Business higher management apprised of the software product development status and matrices. Managing the escalation and escalate as needed.
• Mentoring the development & QA leads and assessing the performance, providing regular feedback, identifying needs. One of them is being promoted to Manager.
• Actively working with Sr. Director and architects for building next generation SAAS enabled software platform.
• Identified the need for re-platforming the software, in order to build high configurable product and upgradable with minimal cost. My team introduced No Code Approach, where single product code can be expended for different product implementation.
• Communicates with insurance carrier’s technical and business team in order to understand complex business requirement, the integration points and data flows across the systems. Few integrations are SSO (SAML, WebSeal and custom approaches), User Administration Services, 834, Sales Force, Inbound and Outbound data files in different formats.
• Ensures the timely & quality delivery of the software to UAT and smooth rollout to Production. Coordinates with internal support group, integration teams and other stake holders to roll out the software across UAT, Stage and Production.

Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple implementations of product for the different clients (BCBSMN, BCBSTN, NHP, WPS, Dean, HealthPlus). Complete ownership for the entire implementation from inception to delivery. Discussing and understanding business & technical requirement with BA, end client.
• Led the team of 7-9 engineers in an onsite offshore model and at offshore. I was responsible for the day to day work tracking of the team members. Resolving their technical and functional road block. I was communicating with Business as well as project management teams, and providing regular status to management.
• Was responsible for incremental module delivery to end users and controlling the quality of the development. Was responsible for triaging and assigning the defects to development team. I was also coding complex business requirement or integration points throughout the development of software.
• Worked on performance improvement (using JMeter) of different modules of software. Also analysis and resolution of critical production issues related to performance of the application.
• Designed and led the implementation of PDF generation service using XML/XSLT, iText, Velocity engine. Headed the creation of rest end points throughout the application, in order to establish communication of different modules in product suite.
• Trained the group of engineers in Java coding standards and optimization techniques. Was also instrumental in hiring and onboarding the team member in the organization.

Developer & Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a senior developer I was mentoring junior developers and mentoring them through the day to day work. Also reviewed the code for quality, helped develop the complex functionality. I also helped the peer team members time to time.
• Created 834 EDI generation platform in Java, wrote Quartz Jobs for sending and consuming data in XML format. Implemented SSO solution using various standard and custom approaches.
• Designed and developed Re-quoting module single handedly, leverage the existing functionalities in the system. This was to accommodate the business need. Created UML design diagrams.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed multithreaded Server for supporting hundreds of requests concurrently. Server supported creation of reports at runtime, zipping and sending them to client as data packets. Also created custom sockets that were capable of compressing and decompressing data send and received over the network.
• Created custom TextField in swing with search feature, and capable of Adding, Updating and Deleting Rows in the database.