SUMMARY:

• Multifaceted technology professional with over a decade of experience in the development of large Web site portals, working with teams of Content Producers, System Administrators, Software Developers, and Designers.
• Delivery-focused hands-on team lead/manager, skilled in full lifecycle agile software development in web, desktop, and mobile channels.
• Has expertise in creating technical designs, implementing stories, spikes, agile iterations, Level of Effort estimations.
• Managed requirements gathering/analysis, gap analysis, workshops, and coordination with various groups. Deeply involved in all aspects of the SDLC, delivering large projects and/or significant segments of large complex projects as senior developer and technical architect. Hands on experience providing solutions across all layers of Enterprise Architecture such as frontend, backend and middle-tier. Skilled at analyzing complex problems and creating innovative solutions involving schedule, technology, tools, solution components, and delivering within budget. Hands-on experience with setting up on premise and Cloud based (AWS) environments with continuous integration tools.
• Expertise with leveraging Open Source software for Enterprise needs. Familiar with TOGAF and TMForum.org models for Tele-Communications industry.
• Cultivates business-critical relationships with customers, executive management, and technical team members that effectively increase productivity, reduce waste, and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Roadmap Strategy • Platform Evaluation • Vendor Selection • Solutions Architect • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) • Content Management • e-Commerce • Web, Desktop & Mobile Application Development • Scrum Master • Project Management • QA/Testing • Deployment/Migrations • Web Design • Team Leadership/Motivation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

JEE: Spring framework, Struts, Apache RichFaces (JSF 2.0), AJAX, jQuery, Confidential Web Toolkit, EJB, ORM using Hibernate, Mybatis, Oracle SOA suite (Using Design Patterns as appropriate)

JSE: Multi-Threaded Swing and AWT applications and Applets

Web Services: Axis2, JAX-WS and RESTful Web Services (Jersey)

Web APIs: Confidential APIs, Yahoo APIs, Facebook APIs, Confidential App Engine for Java, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Identity Management and Access Management: Oracle Identity Management, Custom development of Identity Management Solution including OpenID + OAuth implementation with providers including Confidential and Yahoo

Single Sign-On: Netegrity Siteminder, OpenSSO

Databases: Oracle - PL/SQL, Oracle SQL Loader, MySQL, Apache Derby

Big Data: Apache Spark 1.1, DataStax Cassandra 2.0

e-Commerce: Oracle ATG, Confidential Checkout

Content Management (CMS): Interwoven Teamsite 6.5, Apache Jackrabbit 2.0, OpenText Vignette 7.6, Adobe CRX

Document Management: Confidential TRIM 7.3

Search Engines: Apache Solr 5.4, ZooKeeper 3.5, Confidential Search Appliance 6.4 with Custom Connector development

Portlet Development: Confidential WebSphere Portal Server 8, Vignette Portal 7.2.2, Apache Pluto

Middleware: WebSphere MQ / MQ Series, OpenJMS

Agile Development with Continuous Integration Tools: Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Apache Ivy, Apache Archiva

Automated Testing: WinRunner, TestDirector, Selenium

Performance Testing: LoadRunner, Apache JMeter

Configuration Management: CVS, Subversion, Synergy, PVCS, ClearCase/ClearQuest

Design Tools: Rational Rose

ETL Tools: Cast Iron (certified), Jitterbit, Pentaho

Server Administration:

Application Servers: Confidential WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat servlet container

Web Servers: Confidential HTTP Server, iPlanet, Apache

LDAP: iPlanet, OpenLDAP, Sun Directory Server 6.0

EMail Servers: Setup and maintenance of Qmail, VPopMail, SqWebMail and related Linux / UNIX email packages including developing custom code using MySQL C API

UNIX/Linux Servers: Package installations, shell scripting, server setup and configurations

IaaS: Amazon Web Services (AWS) IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ELB, Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Works as Senior Java Developer supporting Confidential applications that help oversee the implementation of the provisions related to private health insurance including providing oversight for the issuer-based data exchanges that populate
• Works with the Business Analysts and Testing Teams for new development, Security and Section 508 Accessibility compliance issues.
• Works with the Operations Team to bring in DevOps best practices.

Technologies used: Spring Framework, JBoss, MS-SQL Server, Jenkins, Apache Ivy, Apache Archiva

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Technology Lead and Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Technology Lead and Senior Developer in an agile environment, building web applications for Trade Marks (eFile) and Patent Search (EST).
• Interacted with other Tech Leads to design and develop layers of ReSTful APIs and other applications, forming part of one large enterprise solution.
• Worked with Business Analysts, Product Owners, to help collect and clarify requirements, identify inter-team dependencies.
• Created stories, and tasks in Rally and tracked daily design and development activities.
• Worked on building Enterprise scale data Ingestion & Indexing product on Big Data technology stack for Patent Searching which involved parsing large amounts of US and international patents data and persisted into Cassandra database cluster which is then indexed into Solr Search Engine collections.
• Java based ReSTful services query Solr collections and return data to JQuery UI based application, based on user input. Configured projects for Continuous Integration on RedHat Cloudforms infrastructure. Used AWS EC2 instances as per project requirements.
• Configured Solr and ZooKeeper clusters and wrote Linux scripts to manage them.

Technologies used: Oracle 11g Database, Spring framework, Angular JS, Mybatis, DataStax Cassandra 2.0, Apache Spark 1.1, MySQL, ZooKeeper 3.5, Solr 5.4, JBoss, Jenkins, Maven

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with leadership within Practice Centers to develop best in class products for the healthcare industry on Web, mobile, and cloud platforms.
• Consistently works to develop and evangelize SOA best practices for adoption across various QSSI teams.
• Contributes to RFP and new business development efforts as a Technical Lead and SME.

Confidential, Washington D.C

• Worked as Development Lead supporting new development and maintenance activities of grants management system that is built on Confidential WebSphere Portal Server platform, Confidential TRIM document records management system among others.
• The functionality included processing of applications for financial grants from US and international universities and institutions, reviewing the applications, distributing grants and monitoring the grants utilizations and managing documents digitally signed by users’ personal identity verification (PIV) card via the application.

Technologies used: Oracle 11g Database, WebSphere App Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Spring framework, JSF Struts, JQuery, Hibernate, PL/SQL, JAX WS, Confidential TRIM, Confidential TRIM Web Services, RAD, ClearCase, ClearQuest, RequisitePro.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to RFP and New Business Development efforts, Enterprise Mobile Development with iOS (iPad, iPhone) and Android, JEE & Salesforce.com Development and prototyping.
• Worked closely with Executive Leadership team. Contributed to Pro-Bono projects. Actively participated in hiring events.

Technologies used: Weblogic App Server, Spring framework, Hibernate, JAX-WS, JBoss RichFaces JSF (JSF 2.0), Oracle Database.

Confidential , Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Architected applications end-to-end namely, design and development of frontend applications, middle-tier applications and backend database designs.
• Developed cutting-edge, efficient processes for Confidential .com user registration and self-service, dramatically reducing number of incoming customer requests to call center, significantly reducing customer support costs. Provided various services by implementing Service-oriented architecture (SOA) based solutions.
• Spearheaded utilization of mature, cost-effective Open Source solutions, Web APIs and cloud storage.
• Used AWS for setting up Development server with continuous integration tools, setup testing and Production environments with EC2 instances (running JBOSS application server) in multiple Availability Zones under Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). Created Auto-scaling Group for the EC2 instances with high-load and low-load policies. Created Cloud Watch alarms to fire the up the Auto-scaling policies based on ELB latencies. Used Cloud Front for content distribution, used S3 storage for storing digital
• Structured enterprise application development process for easy adaptation for mobile (Android) application development.
• Worked on multiple RFPs which were successful contract wins for the company.

Confidential

Architect, Onshore and Offshore Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Established and directed offshore development team of four professionals. Architected and delivered portal solutions.
• Spearheaded development best practices. Led Configuration Management, with Tele- Confidential and Subversion.
• Redesigned Vignette Portlets. Transitioned from Ultraseek Search engine to Confidential Search Appliance.
• Improved infrastructure efficiency and performance through creation of AJAX framework for Vignette Portlets and implementation of AJAX portlets.
• Migrated to Confidential Search Appliance providing search functionality by implementing custom Interwoven Teamsite connector that has increased productivity and internal customer satisfaction.
• Contributed to migration from Tele- Confidential for code versioning to leading industry standard, developer friendly Subversion.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led team of three on-site Senior Developers and up to ten team members at offshore which was among several teams in large multi-phased implementation.
• Coached one of several geographically dispersed teams.
• Worked in fast paced Agile Test Driven Development methodology consisting of two or three week iterations.
• Created user stories with Level of Effort information and assigned them to team members based on their declared preferences.
• Participated and led daily team meetings, played the role of Scrum Master in absence of Project Manager and captured status in meetings, updated remaining LoE daily using Sapient’s ResultSpace.com tracking tool to re-generate project burn chart.
• Published project statuses with burn chart, issues, risks and mitigation strategy to upper management and stakeholders.
• Designed ATG based Identity Management System (IDM) that consolidated user repositories for all applications and connected resulting new IDM repository to applications via RESTful web services.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed multiple registration modules
• Generated seamless online user experience. Transitioned maintenance to offshore, dramatically reducing costs.
• Delivered new application for Confidential ’s Wireless Number Portability

Technologies used: WebSphere Application server, AMDOCS Billing, EJB 2.1, WebSphere MQ Series Messaging, Struts

Confidential

Team Member

• Created new user experience for Confidential .com, introducing business customers to new applications to enhance businesses, dramatically growing Confidential business.
• Maintained Confidential IT teams’ EJB 2.1 framework libraries that contained Session Beans, Entity Beans and Message Driven Beans.

Technologies used: WebSphere Application server, AMDOCS Billing, EJB 2.1, Struts

Team Lead / Team Member

Developed and supported the application, implemented change requests, and managed client expectations.

Technologies used: Sun Solaris, Oracle Database 8.0, Confidential App Server, Vignette CMS

Confidential

Research Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created Java based input methods for Indic scripts, implementing intuitive keyboard layout for Indic scripts utilizing only keys 0-9, A-Z, and a-z.
• Created Unicode based OpenType fonts and released to public domain.
• Launched open source project providing first ever open sourced OpenType font in Indian script, Kannada.
• OpenType fonts are now shipped with most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu.

Confidential

Team Member & Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained Qmail based email servers on Linux systems, and configured Qmail for Virtual Domains using VPopMail, and QmailAdmin.
• Implemented WebMail access to Qmail based Virtual Domains using customized SqWebMail application.
• Wrote CGI modules using C on Linux to customize SqWebMail.
• Implemented RFC standards for email and IRC to adapt to Indian market