SUMMARY:

• Lead projects from concept through successful marketplace delivery
• Develop sophisticated automated tool using LAMP or other free software
• Software development & testing using Software Development Life Cycle, Project Management and Agile Software Development and Test methodologies
• Data center, Infrastructure, Virtualized environments, Network, System administration
• Well verse with Database, network, multi - threaded application development
• Manage consulting engagements, client projects and technology roadmap
• Seamlessly integrate efforts across multi discipline, cross-departmental teams
• Though leadership and strategy for Performance Engineering & Capacity Management
• Evaluate, enhance and deliver software architecture for improved performance, scalability, quality, serviceability and maintainability
• Energetic and self motivated with a strong work ethics - Collaborative by nature - Excels at mentoring and encouraging teams - Determined to succeed, able to work through obstacles and challenges - Detail oriented - Thrive in a demanding and growth oriented business culture

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, Python, Java, JPA, Hibernate, EJB, C++, C#, Shell, JavaScript, Perl, JSON, XML, HTML, DTD, EDI X12, IDL, SQL, Tcl, Groovy Script, Ruby and Assembly

Security: CISSP, Netegrity, TripWire, Cisco NetRanger IDS, Checkpoint & Pix Firewall log audit, Security & Application Architecture Review, Secure Application Coding Guidelines, Kerberos, RSA BSAFE, ACLs

Client/Server: Distributed Systems, Middleware, J2EE, BEA/Oracle Web Logic, IBM Web Sphere, Apache TomCat, Apache Solr/Lucene, SOA, Openwave Messaging (Email Mx, Voice Mail, Rich Mail, Directory, MMS, WebEdge, Index/Search Server), OSF/DCE, RPC, Security, Naming, LDAP, DFS, Sockets, Web & App Servers, Autonomy Search Engine (IDOL, FSF, SDK, Topics, Knowledge Organizer), AJAX, Vignette StoryServer, REST APIs

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DBA, OCI, Pro*C, SleepyCat, NOSQL

Big Data & Analytics: Hadoop, HDFS, Pig Latin, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, Mahout

Tools: Grinder, HP Load Runner 12.01, Jmeter, SoapUI Pro, JUnit, Visual Studio, XCode, Eclipse, Coded UI, Lab Management, Test Manager, Version One, Clear Case, Git

Systems/Solutions: UNIX, Windows, VM, POSIX, Motif/X11, System & Network Administration, Storage (EMC, NetApp, Veritas VM/FS, mirroring/striping), Siebel CRM, VAADIN, Record Keeping System (ALIS), Spring Framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Medfield, MA

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Manage the software development and consulting engagements.
• Prototype innovative software solutions in variety of business disciplines.
• Responsible for Budget, Finance, Recruiting, Payroll, Accounting and Taxation

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Establish strategy for Performance Engineering and Capacity Management for RoadScholar.org that is engaged in Educational Tours worldwide
• Review and analyze Enterprise wide application architecture, model workload based on site volumetric, interview SME’s and devise a plan of execution for performance benchmark
• Strategy to establish performance monitors, tuning across local and cloud based hybrid solution for present technology stack to accurately establish system behavior under various usage pattern
• Develop, using public technologies, highly automated performance benchmarking tool to dynamically create workload that can be integrated with the volumetric data from the past period to load and evaluate performance characteristics of the web site

Relevant Technologies: Siebel CRM, Dell’s Platform/Data Integration iPaaS Framework Boomi, REST API, EPiServer, WS2012, SQL Server 2012, Auth0 IdM, Chase Paymentech, IBM CoreMetrics, Google Analytics, JIRA, Grinder, etc

Confidential, Enfield, CT

Senior Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Establish vision, strategy and execution of Performance and Scalability of digital information delivery and services platform that enable custodianship of 401K and other retirement plans
• Evaluate and analyze application design and system architecture, logical & physical, for seamless execution of batch and interactive business use cases for end-to-end transactions
• Characterize and develop workload based on historical and predicted volumetric; develop KPI using Service Management Architecture and its integration into SDLC process to develop state of the art performance engineering and capacity management strategy as an ITIL discipline
• Lead architecture and development of a repeatable and reproducible framework to execute the performance strategy across core stack of services and solutions

Relevant Technologies: ITIL, VAADIN based Portals, Record Keeping System (ALIS), Siebel CRM, Teradata, IBM WebSphere MQ, HP Load Runner, AIX, RHEL, WS2012, SQL Server 2012, Oracle, etc

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and test drive the data and application architecture, RESTful Web Services API and functionality of Personalized Search and Recommendation framework for Movie, TV Series, Music and Artists; develop use cases to drive the effort; ideate strategy to mitigate the gaps
• Product requirement analysis, comprehensive story development in agile process, efforts estimate for stories, prioritization and allocation of tasks, completion demo and sprint wrap up
• Lead team of QA engineers and Content specialists in various locations for automating tasks
• TDD of user profile framework in Cassandra; PIG Map Reduce analytics of user events and personalized search and recommendations of Movie, TV and Celebrity using collaborative filtering based on user ratings and item correlation using Mahout
• Develop tool to transform JSON response to MS Excel; simulate user events to trigger various conditions in analytics and framework to auto generate Pig Latin scripts
• Operational support for ongoing releases of old product and content updates

Relevant Technologies: J2EE, Python, Apache Server, Solr, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Cassandra, HBase, JSON, RESTful Web Services, API, SOAP, RabbitMQ, Analytics, Mahout, SoapUI Pro, Jmeter, JUnit, Hudson, Jenkins, Ginder, Eclipse, RedHat Linux, WS2012, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, New Relic, Product feature/story development, Agile, CI, Automation, Nagios, Eclipse, etc

Confidential, Lexington, MA

Consulting Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead teams across geographically distributed locations for several releases of the Improvement Portal for Hospitals, Clinics and Medical Practitioners
• Drive product requirements, its compliance, QA, performance, automation
• Actively participate in new feature thought leadership, product requirements and vision
• Extensive and thorough Quality Assurance and Performance Benchmarking

Relevant Technologies: Python, TSQL, C#, ASP.Net, JavaScript, JQuery 1.1, KnockoutJS, gRaphaël, WS2012, Visual Studio, TMS, Lab Management, Coded UI, Fitness, Specflow, CI, memcached, IBM DB2, Product feature and story development, Agile, Sprint, Automation, etc

Confidential, Middleboro, MA

Consulting Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage performance-engineering efforts for a fast paced Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) company pursuing Smart Grid Technologies
• Architect, design and develop in agile environment using free software, a fully automated performance engineering and capacity planning tool for a complex AMI infrastructure. Simulate meters and gateways for data load transactions using proprietary protocol in a complex, multi-threaded, multi-process, multi-tenant private virtual cloud environment
• Plan, architect and evaluate deployment of the AMI infrastructure using combination of physical and virtual environment for optimal performance
• Configure virtualized servers to support multi-hosting, multi-user architecture with Hyper V, Virtual Box and VMWare

Relevant Technologies: Python, TSQL, WS2008, Grinder, Virtual machines on Hyper V, VMWare and VirtualBox, Eclipse, Performance Counter, Performance Data Analysis and Reporting, amCharts, Multi-threaded, Custom Protocol Simulator, Capacity Planning and Sizing, IT System and Network Admin, Setup and Configuration, DBA and SQL Query Analysis

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Consulting Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, lead and execute performance engineering and capacity planning efforts for EMC’s Cloud Storage solution Atmos. Analyze results from REST, SOAP, IFS, NFS and CIFS API access of various host-to-disk ratio configurations in different network environments
• Manage a geographically distributed team of five in various functional roles
• Architectural review, investigate of performance issues, collaborative work with dev team
• Architect, configure and build performance lab using Cisco Catalyst 6509 VE with 192-port non-blocking Gigabit network backbone to 80 Dell and Verari blade servers with vCenter, ESX and RedHat Enterprise Servers

Relevant Technologies: Python, RHEL, VMWare VSphere, System & Network Admin, Performance Engineering, Analysis & Troubleshooting for Cloud Storage, Grinder, io meter, Jmeter, Big Brother, Nagios, REST & SOAP Web Service API for storage

Confidential, Framingham, MA

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Characterize Wiley’s APM tool, Introscope on SOA, REST and .Net applications. Measure, analyze and track the overhead on application performance
• Direct and manage performance efforts on five different products. Guide geographically distributed cross-functional teams of several senior engineers working on various projects
• Analyze the results and provide feedback to engineering and product management teams about the key area of performance improvements

Relevant Technologies: C#, .Net, SOA, REST, ESB, BEA WebLogic, IBM Web Sphere, APM, Introscope, Python, WS2008, Java, Reflection, Ant, Automation, Visual Studio, Performance Monitoring, etc

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise to Performance and Capacity planning efforts at the Juniper’s security group responsible for RADIUS/AAA SBR Server
• Characterize and analyze performance of SBR and recommend improvements
• Evaluated tools for use in SBR benchmark in a field-like scenario

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Lead Principal Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Manage product based cross-functional performance and sizing team to evaluate performance and scalability. Participate in technology improvement efforts. Produce reference deployment architecture that would meet customer SLA
• Lead, design, plan, execute and analyze performance benchmarks for various messaging products in different phase of SDLC. Produce technical reports for external use
• Build and maintain cross-organizational and cross-functional relationships with engineers and managers. Investigate performance issues, create debug information, and work with Engineering for bug analysis and resolution. Configure and manage performance lab and disk storages
• Produce and manage requirements for process and tool for accurate and agile benchmarks that closely match the industry trends
• Determine and negotiate future performance requirements for future enhancement to products, identify and mange tool enhancements, design benchmarks, plan and execute efforts. Evaluate competing 3rd-party products for inclusion in existing products

Relevant Technologies: Solaris, C/C++, PHP, Perl, Java, Oracle, DB2, SleepyCat, JVM/Garbage Collector Tuning, Highly Scalable Multi-Media Messaging Architecture, DTrace, gdb, System, Network & Storage Admin, EMC/IBM/Sun/NetApp, SAN, Analysis & Troubleshooting

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Architect/Master Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop security operations center for United Health Care for integrity of their systems, detect intrusion and audit firewall log. Automation, secure coding guidelines
• Support sales engineering for security and hosting services
• Audit security and application architecture of a Citi & StateStreet affiliate
• Evaluate and advocate emerging technologies for hosted enterprise clients
• Establish business relationships with external companies. Bring leadership to penetrate strategic technologies that are critical for the company success
• Automate hosting of customer sites through DNS registration; and system, email and ftp account creation for a premier web site for doctors’ personal and business data
• Integrate B2B exchange for returned goods from e-retailers and its resale on Auction sites
• Manage and run interactive client workshops to develop a Palm enabled portal for AV project scheduling and time-expense tracking. Design auction, bulletin board, sales and marketing portal and customer order tracking system
• Design and develop SpeedTest, a web based tool to measure Internet connection speed from customer’s computer to the edge of Fidelity’s network. Proposed design for single sign on across a retirement portal and a messaging (Microsoft Exchange) backend
• Develop, test and deploy a B2B fulfillment and supply chain management for Amazon like e-retailer with three external suppliers using EDI X12. Integrate portal with Open Market’s Transact Fulfillment engine
• Integrate a Web based gift portal with an affiliate advertisement aggregator to deliver targeted advertisements

Confidential, Medfield, MA

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Manage the software development and consulting engagements
• Prototype innovative software solutions in variety of business disciplines
• Manage IT, budget, personnel, finance and accounting responsibilities

Confidential, MA/RI

Consulting Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design and develop a classification, categorization, summarization, text mining and analysis portal POC for Confidential to navigate and search research notes life science industry
• Develop Java based parser to auto login, fetch and scrape web pages for information extraction for WebHire
• Data warehousing of Boston Gas customer requests, work orders and incident reports organized by geographical locations. Prepare statistics for State regulatory body and enable report generation via conventional menu as well as Web/Intranet
• Web enabled ERP applications for Employee yearly review, Project & resource scheduling and Vendor search & approval for CVS using Windows platform
• Architect, capacity plan and deploy a highly modular, scalable, available and manageable Monster.com site with optimal performance and response time. Automate routine operations and maintenance task
• Develop a dashboard to manage, monitor and troubleshoot issues. Manage and monitor Web/App Servers, Oracle, System, and Network resources
• Configure and tune OS, Web server, network and application for better user experience and response time. Remove bottlenecks and double traffic to the portal while leaving plenty of capacity on existing hardware
• Architect and develop failsafe user tracking and single sign-on solution. Extended this solution to implemented marketing survey engine with database backend
• Code for OSF/Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) internals. Port, debug and automate functional/system tests of DCE. Well verse with DCE Threads, RPC, IDL, Security, CDS, DTS, Client/Server applications and thread-safe re-entrant system libraries
• Key technical leadership and project management role, review design and functional specs. Write RFPs and submit bids for consulting projects

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead, architect, design and develop Validation Test Suite (VTS) for RPC, IDL protocol and Motif 1.1 Widgets. Technical reviews of specifications
• Consult Microsoft in testing interoperability of Window’s RPC using VTS
• Design and develop test strategies and assertions. Setup tools for source control, build and development. Provide technical leadership in VTS projects