SUMMARY:

• I provide technical leadership for software development teams to both design and implementation of the solutions, which adds value to customers and adds profit to company's bottom line. I focus on understanding business objectives, how solution would be used, who would use it and how frequently it would be used to come up with scalable and working solution with available talent and budget at disposal. I focus on building a right solution by applying right software methodologies, disciplines, technologies and techniques to build quality solutions.
• I possess excellent technical, analytical, leadership, consulting and communication skills and am a creative, rigorous problem solver with a diverse skill set that spans from backend systems to client - side technologies, with special emphasis on scalable enterprise technologies. During the past several years my focus has been on solutions design for business critical, distributed, highly concurrent, high volume messaging platforms, which utilize technologies such as: SOA, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Distributed Storage, Distributed Caching, Big Data, Clustered Web technologies, J2EE & Ecosystems, and Streaming/Broadcasting. Such versatility and experience enables me to perform and understand many different job functions, while contributing to future state vision, technology, architecture, development plans and team management.
• I am a team player who is able to perform many technical and functional job roles. Most of my experience is with building enterprise solutions and scalable architecture in senior roles such as Senior Architect, R&D Architect or Principal Consultant. I have a drive to learn and expand as a technologist and work best in collaborative, disciplined, inclusive and forward-looking environments, where excellence is driven by relentless perseverance and the term "lead by example" is well accepted norms.
• True passion for technology, programming, architecture and solution delivery.
• Experienced leadership role as a Director, Manager and Team Lead.
• Skilled with major RDBMS platforms ( Oracle, MySql, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Sybase ), 4 types of NoSQL technologies ( Key-Value Store ( Redis ), Column Based ( Cassandra ), Document Based ( MongoDB ), Graph Based ( Titan ) ) and elastic data grids ( Oracle Coherence, EhCache )
• Big Data experience in building highly responsive grid technologies by using Cassandra, Zookeeper & Coherence and Business Intelligence & AI solutions using ( Cassandra, Storm, Kafka, Zookeeper, Elastic Search, Gremlin, NLP, Rabbit MQ, Amazon SQS, LogiXML, and Titan ). Novice experience with Hadoop and ecosystems.
• SOA experience ( Tibco, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, WebMethod, Apache Camel, Soap/Rest )
• Web Development experience ( J2EE & related ecosystem. Apache Http, Tomcat, Websphere, Weblogic, Jboss )
• Cloud Computing (VMWare Product Suites (private and public), Microsoft Hyper-V (private), AWS (public))
• Mobile Development experience ( iOS )
• Able to quickly and independently assimilate new technologies into architectures and development.
• Research emerging technologies and PoCs for Senior Management. Assisted with future state planning and technology selection.
• Use of software design patterns and software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum).
• Ability to jump start software development department from scratch. Setup necessary tools and architecture needed (Atlassian product suites, infrastructure in cloud, development tools, build automation, code management ( source code management and release management ) and bare bone software architecture). Ability to recruit right people for team.
• Written dozens of functional, technical, non-technical, and operational documents, e.g. project requirements, architecture specification, user manual, etc.
• Ability to lead a team to deliver outstanding performance. Ability to create magnetic and mutually respectful culture.
• Ability and desire to coach others. Shows desire to learn from others.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Relentless work ethic and team player.
• A reasonable, easy going person.
• Good listener with a desire to learn.
• Strong commitment to quality and doing the job “right”, from day one.
• Excellent organization & leadership skills.
• Fast Learner, Can-Do-Attitude, Willing to learn any technology to build correct solution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Enterprise Development: J2EE, EJB, Annotations, Generics, Multithreading/Concurrency, high volume messaging, JNDI, JavaBeans, Junit, Mockito, Objective-C, C, C++

Distributed Computing: Coherence, Zookeeper, EhCache, Elastic Search, Solar

Messaging: JMS, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Tibco, WebMethod, Soap/Rest, Kafka, SOA

Web Development: AJAX, Servlets, JSP (custom tags), Web Services (JAX-WS, JAX-RPC), XML/XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, Struts, JSTL, Oracle XDK, JSF, JAXB, Tapestry, JDOM, JQuery and CSS, Action Scripting, Flex, Tapestry, Novice experience with AngularJS

Application Servers: WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Websphere, Red5 (live video/audio streaming)

Scripting: Perl, JavaScript, Bash/Korn

O/S: HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, various Windows, OSX, Virtual Machines

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Hadoop/Cloudera, Cassandra, Mongo, Postgres, Redis, Titan

DB Programming: Big Data, PL/SQL, TSQL, Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Views, UDTs, JDBC, Performance Optimization, ETL

DB Tools: TOAD, SQL Navigator, ERWIN, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Server Management Studio, MySQL Workbench, Faunus, Gremlin

Methodologies / Design: OOA/OOD, Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming, RUP, Design Patterns, UML, familiar with TOGAF, familiar with ITIL

Release Management: Gradle, Git, SVN, OSGI, Ant, Maven, Hudson, Confluence/JIRA, Nexus, Artifactory, Sonar, PMD, Emma

Cloud Computing: Cloud based applications, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, VMWare product suite, EC2 and product suite, Hyper-V

Tools: Eclipse, Flash Builder, IntelliJ, JDeveloper, RAD, Jmeter, etc.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Consultant / Architect / Software Development, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, is IT consulting organization, which provides Consulting services to Startups and Mid Size clients in Houston.
• Responsible for delivering technical solutions for consulting based opportunities.
• Playing role as a President of company and IT Consultant for many clients.
• R&D, POC, building BI and AI solutions for one of my client using Big Data technologies (Cassandra, Storm, Kafka, Python, Java, J2EE, Cassandra, Titan, Elastic Search, Redis, Flume, Scoop, Coherence, Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Gremlin, ZooKeeper, Solar, EhCache, Vagrant) . Delivered predictive model to detect threat to VIP by digesting social media information and storing in big data engine. BI dashboard by help of PyPi + Data warehouse built using big data engine.
• Setup continuous development and deployment environment for one of my client. Convert older build technology to new technology and setup auto builds with releases (dev, qa and prod) (Maven, Git, Bamboo, Jenkins, Sonar, PMD, Emma, Jfrog Artifactory). Delivered continuous development and release environment for true agile team.
• R&D, POC and building live streaming solution for one of my client. Currently playing a role as a R&D architect. Delivered many game changing solutions (HD live streaming, rtmp streaming on iOS, stream adjustment on slow networks, scalable load balancer for streaming servers, HD video uploading and transcoding) (Java, J2EE, Red5, ffmpeg, objective-c, ios realtimelib, encoder/decoder, Xuggler, Flash, Action Scripting, Flex, CSS, Jquery, HTML, Hyper-V, MS Sql)

Confidential

Architect (Consultant), Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• It's services includes mobile network, land line phone, internet, cable television, etc.
• Their dependency on RDBMs technology such as Oracle cost them billions of dollar every year.
• My role was building Grid Technology, which allows many. There was also a requirement to close gaps between many application to store many different form of data in Grid and preserve them for predefined time frame. High availability, No Data Loss, Data backup and ease to use api was primary goal of this framework.
• Built Grid Technology using Java/J2EE, Cassandra, Oracle Coherence, Zookeeper
• Built generic client api using java/j2ee for Grid by eliminating underlying complexity of many technologies.
• Built continuous development environment using maven, git, jenkins, sonar and nexus repository
• Built automated stress testing framework using maven jmeter maven plugin and jmeter.

Confidential

Solution Architect / Director, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provides IaaS cloud solutions to many of their clients all over the world. Their data center architecture is built on top of VMWare product suites.
• They had a need to start software development department and I was hired to jump start that process.
• Built software development team from ground zero.
• Built Software development environment and architecture from ground zero.
• Built BI customer portal by integrating many systems (VMWare Product (Vcloud, Vcenter, Vshield) api and Microsoft CRM api )
• Built data warehouse solution using NoSql technologies ( mongodb, cassandra ) and db ( PostgreSQL )
• Built BI customer web portal using Java, J2EE, tapestry, Jquery, HTML, CSS, highchart, jqplot
• Built many internal customer usage and billing reports using VMWare apis.

Confidential

Teal Lead / SOA Architect (Consultant), Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is publicly traded No.1 Company in trash pickup, trash disposal and trash recycling business.
• They had a need to build a price engine, which can take real time market data such as fuel cost, weather conditions, cost of service, equipment usage, frequency of trash pickup, vehicle type used it trash pickup transaction, etc., to determine accurate quote to customers. Their existing quote system was using outdated data, which was causing business to not capitalize accurately for providing trash pickup services to clients.
• Built a PiNG engine ( Pricing Next Generation ) by help of Java, J2EE, OSGI, LogiXML, SOA ( web method ) to integrate with many critical systems ( weather pattern, geolocation services, MDM ( for different units and it's cost ), market data application ( fuel cost, other costs ), etc. )
• Built many api fronts for PiNG such that other sales systems (salesforce, siebel) can submit quote request without truly knowing underlying complexity of price engine.
• Build BI reporting by help of LogiXML to provide visibility to PiNG users to see how their quotes were performing in terms of profit and loss. BI Dashboard was utilizing Data Warehouse built for PiNG by help of many data sources (multiple source of RDBMs, GIS, webservices, ETL, etc)
• Built learning algorithms for PiNG based on BI warehouse profit/loss data. Built a realtime deployable framework by help of OSGI to eliminate need to restart Websphere server.
• Built a cloud based portal by utilizing EC2 and it's components.
• Built POCs on PaaS to prove that it can scale and there is no need to have System Admin team to manage this.
• Managed two teams (onshore in houston and offshore in india) as a team lead.

Confidential

Teal Lead / Architect, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is world's largest online library and research tool. Confidential aggressively added new books and many different kind of articles in library.
• They had a need to come up with innovative way to sell content in affordable manner as their major customer base was students and education industry.
• Built a Segmentation tool, which allowed librarian to query correct media types from vast pool of content by help of Keywords and allowed them to glow those media in specific group such as Education, Science, History, etc. Technology used for this was Fast Search, Oracle database, Java, J2EE, GWT .
• Built many eCommerce solutions for Confidential .com by help of Java, J2EE, Jquery, CSS, HTML and Tapestry .
• Built B2B sister product questiaschool.com from scratch by reutilizing tapestry components.
• Built iOS application for Confidential and questiashool using Objective-C
• Built in-house billing system by using Java/J2EE and integrating it to merchant solution Click-And-Buy.
• Played huge role in Confidential 's acquisition by media giant company Cengage Learning . Helped both companies to achieve their integration goals to create robust architecture by bringing in best of both worlds. Helped Cengage team to understand Confidential 's architecture and helped them to lay out path for smooth integration strategy.
• Built many BI reports by digesting web usability, customer purchasing patterns, customer's cancellation rate, revenue projection, etc .