Feb 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

•  Build a highly scalable API orchestration product, working as a back-end for front-end and supporting a daily peak load of about 3000TPS and Xmas peak of about 8000 TPS, using graphql and nodejs for TESCO’s online business serving internally 20 different clients including integration with Google Voice, pay as you Go, IFTTT devices and Hand-Held Devices in Stores
•  Responsible for building a high-performance team and managing multiple scrum teams to create scalable development process.
•  Responsible for planning, execution, and delivery for very complex program initiatives within TESCO that involves multiple microservice teams and span across various domains
•  Manage expectations for various stakeholders like Product Managers, Head of Engineering, Head of Products, Program Managers and Directors while driving a very complex initiative
•  Responsible for hiring, coaching, mentoring, grooming and evaluating a team of software engineers. Provide guidance through 1:1 coaching, identifying skill gaps and arranging training or sessions for them. Provide technical or process guidance through review of code and design. Setting the yearly objectives and quality goals that align with Tesco’s yearly initiatives and monitoring those throughout the year.
•  Working closely with Head of Engineering and Director to derive the next stage of product architecture and strategy roadmap to make the product align with Tesco’s next vision and strategy roadmap
•  Drive innovation in the team through forums like Kaizan day and dev roundtables where team discuss the improvement in product or work on topics on their choice
•  Led hiring initiative through technical and leadership interviews to grow the size of Tesco’s global workforce by 50% over the past couple of years

May 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Worked on a team that build the foundation product that powered Tesco's online business (web and app)
• Help to migrate mobile business in the retail platform with a direct revenue saving of 6 million pounds a year by delivering the project in a record 4 months’ time.

Sep 2015 – May 2016 · 8 mos · Bangalore

•  contributed towards building financial application for one of the major investment clients for Sapient using Java, RESTful APIs, IBATIs.
•  Key contribution towards Sapient was to design a workshop program for Java Learning which helped upskilling fellow colleagues in Java technologies through sessions and hands-on labs, myself taking several sessions in the process.

Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 · 11 mos · Sydney Area, Australia

•  Contributed towards building a business-critical application for Westpac Relationship Managers which aims to reduce the lending process times for Westpac from several days to instantly by automating the credit rules, business rules and writing back the credit request to various range of internal systems.
•  My major contribution was towards designing the API layers using JAVA, Spring, JPA and MySql where I worked with architects to lay the contracts of the APIs and then worked with the development team and product managers to steer through the time-critical application successfully.
•  Championed the Test first approach during development while parallelly helping the team to establish the Continuous Integration process using Jenkin to reduce the development lifecycle and helped the team to reach the quality goal by integrating sonar and Junit through Jenkins.

Aug 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

•  Contributed to a team that was responsible for building first templates for managing virtualized hardware for IBM power series servers in a cloud environment through a REST based model which serves the steppingstone for IBM’s cloud provider initiatives.
•  Design and develop a critical module which enable to install multiple OS through templating engine using of Producer-Consumer pattern to co-ordinate between different installation thread and provide a unified response to UI.
•  Identification, design and implementation of Event Mechanism to read the output of a long running command executed from Java layer.
•  Identified core classes and relationships, created UML class and sequence diagrams for the component designed, Identified the REST URIs and build the initial framework for implementing the business logic
•  Created proof of concepts and demonstrated to the team for the feasibility of a solution and helped architect teams to provide decision points for the product implementation
•  Help establishing the code quality tools and measures within the team which later on adapted by the other scrum teams as well

Dec 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

•  Was a key member of a team that implemented technical architecture and capabilities to build John Deer’s web presence using Teamsite, Livesite, WebSphere portal, Java, J2EE and spring, Hibernate.
•  Provided Key Performance Analysis and turning of the Java application by analyzing Memory dump and thread dumps and consequently build caching layers to store product information.
•  Wrote multi-threaded code to enhance performance improvement in the website response time.
•  Build RESTful webservices for the UI layer to consume

Jun 2004 – Dec 2010 · 6 yrs 6 mos · India , USA

• Worked for various clients for Wipro Building software using Java/J2EE technology and moved from software engineer to Technical Lead roles