May 2018 – Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Excited to solve next generation (driverless automobiles) challenges, collaborate with great minds in the industry, contribute to future!

Apr 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Define & govern enterprise wide processes and specifications to be adopted by Zycus products to stream-line interoperability of Zycus products with internal and external systems – ERPs, B2B, A2A • Defined technology architectures for 5+ Zycus products and ensured smooth implementation & delivery
• Build products keeping in mind that they are distributed, scalable, reliable, recoverable, deployable to varied PaaS environments
• Evaluate cloud application development platforms – heroku, nanobox, etc. for enterprise use cases
• Design & deliver Integration Platform (distributed, message oriented, based on SEDA architecture, J2EE+NodeJS+AMQ, etc.) for Zycus bringing the highest ROI (implementation time reduced from 12+ months to 1 month)
• Performed market (competition, interacting with prospects, customers, etc.) analysis feedback to define the product priorities
• Demonstrated to senior management - the objectives, product road map, selling the idea to sales & customer teams
• Formed, Lead, mentor and inspire product development teams
• Initiated & participated fun learning sessions to keep the team highly motivated & productive
• Hands on expertise on technologies, technology enabler in organization, introduce technology subjects via sessions across teams.
• Lead: Define product architectures, solutions and roadmap for new line of integration businesses - ERP integrations
• Designed & developed SAP connector to directly integrate with SAP in turn bringing down the integration efforts.
• Built robust and flexible data transformation microservice layer to perform any-to-any data structure mappings

Feb 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Define the tactical and strategic road-map for integrating Zycus SaaS solutions with external/customer systems
• Provide hands-on leadership to multiple project teams involving Java, REST API, ESB, SSO, File based, messaging integration solutions
• Lead and mentor group of software engineers
• Responsible for integration solutions design, execution and delivery
• Responsibilities include from project management to provide technical leadership in the organization
• Negotiation, setting expectations with various stake holders (presales, sales, marketing, engineering) and customers.
• Support sales & pre-sales cycles
• Author & review SOW, contracts, HLD, LLD, solution designs, etc.
• Introduce, Define & implement software development processes & practices.
• Evaluate tools & technologies

Sep 2014 – Feb 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Design & implement solutions around Salesforce & various IT systems used by Currencies Direct with a focus on application integrations.
• Introduce & implement enterprise software development practices & processes.
• Mentor SFDC & middleware (Jitterbit) teams
• Manage projects from inception to successful delivery
• Incorporate tools & practices to enhance code quality standards
• TODO*

Jul 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Guide teams in implementing agile processes & practices
• Architect & design distributed software solutions
• Lead & mentor BPM & SOA development teams
• Perform technology & product evaluations
• Perform code reviews & layout the project framework
• Hold daily scrum & development catch-up meetings for BPM & SOA projects
• Document & Maintain SDLC artifacts - architecture/solution/topology
• Interview candidates for SOA & Force.com teams
• Enhanced quality standards with Test Automation (Mockito, Hsqldb, JBehave) and code quality (SonarQube) as part of software release process with Jenkins
• Speaker for IT Lunch n Learn initiative: Code Quality, Agile practices
• Currently working on designing & implementing Contract Management solution on Force.com that integrates with various PRA systems –Siebel CTMS, eTMF (NextDocs – Sharepoint, Documentum). Solution utilizes Apttus (Appexchange app) for front end, Mule ESB with ActiveMQ & various usage of Force.com API’s. Document integration with Force.com content delivery is a key aspect of the solution. Refer my blog to know more about the initiative on implementing an integration framework within Salesforce.

Oct 2011 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Automated RPSM process with IBM BPM. RPSM touches several PRA systems - on-premises & cloud.Performed integrations with Sfdc(Streaming),implemented web services to access on-premises systems
• The solution is implemented with Mule,Active MQ,IBM BPM & ODM,LDAP
• Installed & configured IBM BPM & ODM environments at PRA
• Implemented safety gateway integrations between Medidata Rave & Sponsor systems using EDI-AS2, Mule & WS integrations & lots of xml processing. Solution desgned to be reusable for different customers
• Participated in IBM BPM Advanced Suite(8.01) evaluation for PRA.Some of the factors evaluated were - ease of development,learning curve,comparison with Savvion BPM, the suitability of IBM BPM to overcome PRA’s BPM & integration challenges
• Integrated PRA’s learning management system with Salesforce platform via Mule ESB. Defined the system interfaces (XSD, WSDL, etc.) for SOA components and implemented two-way SSL authentication for SOAP based web services from Salesforce to Mule with Apex callouts. Utilized partner WSDL for ESB to Salesforce integration, proxied SABA web services in ESB using CXF and performed JMS integration between SABA and ESB.
• Integrated PRA’s Core Clinical systems - CTMS, eTMF & EDC systems. This involved defining the system interfaces, ESB flows, payload transformation, developing DFC wrapper, SOAP WS client, JMS consumer, defining the schema for master data management repository (MDM).
• Evaluated the ESB platform for PRA - Progress Sonic, JBoss & Mule. Some of the factors evaluated were - OOB components, ease of development, support, consulting options, learning curve, installation & configuration, skillset availability, training options, cost. A POC with the three ESB platforms was developed to evaluate some of these factors.
• Automated the Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA) business process (using Progress Savvion BPM). This involved SOA integration with Siebel CRM, Sonic ESB, Documentum and Outlook 2007 via SOAP and JMS

Nov 2009 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Performed business process & data migration for Capital One Auto Finance's Common Loan Origination system. Set up the system test environment - a two node weblogic cluster on Redhat Linux.
• Implemented Customer Experience Management system with Satmetrix's Perl based framework.
• Enhanced Savvion BPM product with two new features - exposing user delegation functionality as Axis web service & developing an eclipse plugin for the web service adapter to support business objects.
• Provided production support for Bell Canada's customer order processing & management BPM solution that collaborated with CRM, service management, provisioning and billing systems integrated with web service, JMS, XML & FTP technologies.
• Worked with customer on requirements of a photo portal used for picture centric social interactions. Designed the DB schema & performed JUnit driven development utilizing component based framework - Apache Wicket, Spring, JPA & Hibernate.

Jul 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Designed & developed a large workflow based web application with J2EE technology stack. Performed UML modeling of use case; class; sequence & activity diagrams and contributed to the SRS & technical specification. Followed a layered design approach [Controller-Service-Manager-DAO] along with Service Factory, Session Façade & Singleton design patterns. Implemented role based UI (page, menu & field level) rendering. Utilized Struts2 MVC, Spring's dependency injection, AOP & hibernate.
• Implemented meta data based image search portal with Jahia CMS
• Evaluation of open source learning management system - Moodle
• Developed a content rich portal for restaurant industry. Utilized Struts MVC & worked on all the layers of the application - DAO, business & services in a team of 50 members. Responsible as a DP coordinator & for releasing builds.