SUMMARY:

• Two decades of hands - on software development experience in FMCG, Insurance, and Telecommunication domain. Extensive SDLC and ALM experience for product and project inception, development, delivery, and support.
• Partnered with engineering team for successful transformation of On-Premise infrastructure to Cloud platforms like AWS, Pivotal, and architected automation suite for build and delivery pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, Gitlab, SonarQube, Dependency Tracker.
• Championed infrastructure automation and build DevOps culture. Led the initiative and created cross-functional teams and delivered a fully testable platform for product teams where VM/AWS services provision time was reduced by 70%.
• Architected and delivered AWS cloud-based solutions utilizing various AWS services including but not limited to S3, Gateway APIs, Lamdba, SNS, SQS, RDS, Redis, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud formation, and BeanStalk reducing overall Cloud OPEX cost by 40%.
• A seasoned product owner and scrum master for distributed teams delivering releases with high-quality business value and low defect and rework rate contributing toward enhancing customer s experience and confidence and build team morale and enthusiasm
• Strength lies in talent recognition, development and nurturing, mentoring, providing, and receiving constructive feedback for maintaining team balance and overall homogeneity, and improve productivity. Extensive experience in setting up geographically distributed teams and team management.
• Extensive experience in database architecture, debugging, and analyzing slow query explain plans and AWRs. Versatile in both Oracle and MySQL database technologies. Spearheaded team for analyzing slow queries in the system and fixing them either via code or database level changes.
• Currently heading product development for turn-key LI solution for cloud-based and on-premise LTE/5G service providers using cloud-native and big data technologies and infrastructure
• Expertise in defining enterprise-wide system architecture, planning, developing state-of-the-art solutions integrated with in-house systems with extension for future-proofing
• Perform business-critical POCs through technology evaluations and enhancing product solutions to ensure adaptability towards technological advancements and keep a market edge

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Technical Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Championed DevOps and cross-functional team culture with the focus on Infrastructure automation, cloud native development, continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Mentored teams on Agile methodologies, Cloud Native development, Jenkins Pipelines, AWS services, Docker, VoIP/VoLTE and Team management.
• Spearheaded design and development of unique LI solution for 5G, LTE, VoIP/VoLTE environment on the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid deployment.
• Created design solutions incorporating standard telecom use cases like Mobile Number Portability (MNP), Session Border Controllers (SBC), and Telephony Application Servers (TAS).
• Spearheaded the use of weekly meetings with clients and stakeholders on the project and product updates and risks.
• Partnered with the pre-sales team for conducting product introductions and demos.
• Engaged with client's business and technical teams on phase-vise solutions for both user and technology adoption and roll-out plans and milestones.
• Communicated and actively worked with OEM partners on the client's behalf to understand and mitigate any technical gaps to ensure smooth product roll-out.
• Mentored and nurtured people to grow in roles like scrum master, technical architects, team leads, dev-ops, and dev-ops lead.
• Instituted a cadence of monthly release cycle ensuring timely feedback maintaining client's engagement and team's focus.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed development of LTE based polyglot LI solution interfacing with various LTE components including SGW, PGW, MME, HSS, DRA.
• I practiced both my technical and managerial skills in this project.
• On one hand, I was involved with customers for requirements and creating project milestones and plans.
• On the other hand, I had designed/implemented GTP tunnel management required for control plane and user plane establishment, Redis replication strategy across multiple nodes for faster lookups, mediation components for HI2 and HI3 LEA delivery, implemented target propagation system, DRA for updating in-flight AVPs between MME and HSS via DRA.
• Worked with the QA team to ensure all test scenarios are automated using LTE simulator and test results are captured and available on Jenkins.
• Organized and practiced continuous integration to ensure stable tagging and releases for regular and hotfixes builds to customers.
• Performed various POC around Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, Prometheus, Docker, Docker Swarm and Docker compose.

Confidential

Technology Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Primary engagement around product development, deployment and support for business-critical applications.
• Spearheaded "Canary" based deployments to minimize production downtime and smoother rollbacks if required.
• Developed Splunk/AspectJ based monitoring solution for overall production health checks.
• Designed Oracle TimesTen replication strategy to data availability on edge nodes.
• Developed application on Blackberry mobile platform and web services for Weblogic middleware applications.
• Championed use of maven release artifacts for regular and production deployments and hotfixes.
• Responsible for requirement management and prioritization.
• Worked on Oracle Fusion Middleware - SOA and ESB.

Confidential

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Oracle Fusion Middleware - SOA, BPEL and ESB. Developed web services for Weblogic middleware applications.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the development environment (task involving installation of Oracle SOA Suite on Linux, Oracle 10g Database installation on Linux, patching Oracle 10g database for creating dehydration store).
• Responsible for internal training of team on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Primary architect and designer of various applications.
• Designed strategic plan for component development practices to support future projects.
• Responsible for requirement management and prioritization.
• Worked on Oracle Fusion Middleware - SOA and ESB.