OBJECTIVE:

• To utilize my extensive experience and knowledge of distributed software engineering, exceptional talent and skill, and passion for robust architecture for the benefit and in service of the client.

SUMMARY:

• Gifted Architect and Designer - - Deep knowledge of and experience with distributed computing: Java EE, Peer-to-peer (P2P), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture (EDA), CORBA, and Client/Server. Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA 5). Master of Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD). Solid modeling experience with UML 2.0 and XmlSchema (XSD).
• Exceptional Quality Programmer -- Extremely productive in creating robust, framework-quality, maintainable, and well-documented code. Advocate and practitioner of Design by Contract (DbC).
• Effective Communicator -- Solid experience in creating Architecture and Design documents. Expert user of MS Word, MS Visio, and MS PowerPoint. Experienced in giving formal presentations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Agile Leader -- Experienced and natural technical lead. Fan of SCRUM. Experience with MS Project and Project Server.
• Team Player -- Friendly, cooperative, and positive "can-do" personality.
• Driven -- Passionate about the craft, committed to excellence, and driven to create maximum value for the client. Actively engaged in learning new techniques and technologies.
• Highly regarded by peers and managers -- "Rupi is outstanding in his ability to design and implement working solutions to tough, real world problems" (Manager Confidential JPL).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Architecture: J2EE, N-tier, P2P, EDA, SOA, CORBA.

Analysis and Design: OOAD, Design Patterns, UML 2.0.

Programming: Java, XML, XmlSchema, multi-threading, ANTLR, SQL, C++, yacc/lex, Sockets.

Environment: UNIX, Windows, Eclipse, CVS.

Misc: MS Visio, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project.

Programming: Servlets, JSP, EJB 3, JMS, JPA, JAX-WS, JDBC, Jython, JavaScript, Lisp.

Environment: Ant, Subversion, JUnit, JBoss, IBM Websphere, MySQL, IBM DB2, Bugzilla.

Misc: SCRUM, MS Project Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Independent Consultant

Confidential (Dallas, TX)

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Guidelines for System Integration: MedSyergies Inc., a leading provider of healthcare revenue cycle services and technology, hired Confidential to create a system that needed to integrate with their existing closed-and-proprietary system from GE. In an urgent engagement as on-site consultant, I investigated and documented the EIS processes and integration points to close the analysis gap and guide the Confidential team.

Architect, Programmer, Team Lead

Confidential(Walnut Creek, CA)

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, Inc., a money transfer company, needed to make its POS web-application available to dialup agents. Designed a solution that allowed maximum reuse of the existing J2EE stack; coded the multi-threaded and distributed database-sync component; and led the Confidential development team. Tools/Technologies used: OOAD, J2EE, Struts, Apache AXIS, IBM RAD, Eclipse, IBM WASCE, IBM Cloudscape, IBM DB2.
• Mavent, a provider of automated regulatory compliance solutions for the mortgage industry, hired Confidential to create the 2nd generation of its compliance system. Architected and designed the server-side (business and data) layers; led the iterative development; implemented the core business and framework classes; implemented an embeddable interpretive engine and the new standalone compiled engine. Tools/Technologies used: OOAD, Java, XML, XmlSchema (XSD), JAXB, ANTLR, Hibernate, Eclipse.

Architect, Programmer

Confidential (Pasadena, CA)

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a very successful p2p architecture for SharedNet, making it a network of Node groups comprising peer Nodes. This architecture allowed for a much cleaner design and code, more featureful and robust clients, and configurations not previously possible.
• Designed and developed SharedNet's internal representation for the user-defined object-model (XMI).
• Designed and developed a persistence layer with support for pluggable stores (e.g. JDBC, File, RAM).
• Wrote a query parser (in ANTLR) that validated against the user-defined object-model. Wrote an interpreter to execute queries against a memory-store, and an SQL-convertor for use with the JDBC-store.

Programmer

Confidential (Sunnyvale, CA)

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, a Content Management solution provider, needed a C++/C expert to help adapt its C-sourcebase to Java.

Architect, Programmer, Team Lead

Confidential (Concord, CA)

Responsibilities:

• Re-architected DOM to be distribution-technology neutral and better componentized. Coded the component framework, the core component, and the CICS/ECI component.
• Helped design a generic logging facility with a pluggable architecture.
• Initiated the company-wide coding-standards effort. Applied Design by Contract concept to C++.
• Wrote a lisp package for Emacs to support C++ coding-standards and enhance productivity.

Consultant

Confidential (Memphis, TN)

Responsibilities:

• Setup TCCS under HPUX, AIX and SunOS to allow a code change to be compiled and tested on each platform prior to check-in.
• Ported the C++ sources from AIX to SunOS.
• Wrote set of tools (shell- and awk-scripts) to resolve build problems with C++ templates.
• Adapted the C++ libraries to TCL (using SWIG) to facilitate testing.
• Created User Guides for the new environment and the tools mentioned above.

Programmer, Team Lead

Confidential (Hoffman Estates, IL)

Responsibilities:

• Co-designed and developed a configurable workflow system to route the input records (a telecom standard format) through various processing components.
• Led the development team for the bill-generating component.
• Proactively designed and implemented a system (called XCVS) that extended CVS with work-areas, shared build-areas, release management, etc. XCVS became an integral part of development Confidential Genesis.

Programmer

Confidential (Dallas, TX)

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented an Electronic Suggestion Form, which allowed an employee to submit a suggestion to a committee. The routing workflow was email driven and easily configurable.
• Wrote a windowing-library (on top of 'curses') for dumb terminals. It provided for Edit-, Check-, Radio-, List-, and Memo-fields; Menus; Dialog Boxes; and Forms (connected to an RDBMS).
• Developed, using yacc and lex, a C++-like scripting language to customize a Form (of which Electronic Suggestion Form was one instance).
• Wrote a database-access library to provide a more flexible and higher-level interface to Informix than ESQL. It utilized POSIX IPC (Shared Memory and Message Queues) to support concurrent connections to more than one database (which was not possible via ESQL).
• Adapted concepts such as Inheritance, Polymorphism and Exceptions into the C code. The code had to be in C because there was no C++ compiler available for AIX Confidential the time.
• Utilized POSIX IPC (Shared Memory) to boost performance of Informix reports, making some reports over 20-times faster