Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Remote · Remote

• Independent consulting firm delivering cloud engineering, AI adoption, and career mentorship for mid-career professionals.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · Hybrid

• As Founder of The Workplace Genie, I help mid-career technology professionals design freedom through systems - applying the same principles that drive high-performance engineering to the process of building sustainable, portable income.
• The Workplace Genie provides structured, data-driven coaching for software engineers, architects, and technology leaders earning $150K+ who want to build side income and long-term financial independence without sacrificing their primary careers. Our methods focus on clarity, repeatability, and automation — not risky leaps or motivational hype.
• Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
• Developed a proprietary 4-stage framework (Assess → Design → Systemize → Compound) used by 200+ professionals to generate $30K–$75K+ in annual side income.
• Created The Monday Liberation Newsletter, a weekly publication teaching systematic career and income design to an audience of 2,000+ readers.
• Designed one-to-one and group coaching programs integrating career strategy, business design, and financial systems thinking.
• Mentored senior engineers through the transition from corporate roles to independent consulting and micro-business ownership.
• Built content and curriculum focused on operational efficiency, automation, and value-based service creation for technical professionals.
• Partnered with industry experts to deliver workshops on cloud consulting, career reinvention, and work-life systems design.
• Established brand identity and messaging that bridges technical credibility with human coaching insight.
• The Workplace Genie continues to grow as a trusted resource for technologists seeking structure, freedom, and meaningful control over their professional futures.
• We don’t grant wishes. We build systems that deliver them.

Apr 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · Hybrid

• Project 1: SSA Integration(eCBSV), Fuzzy logic, Rules engine
• The project aims to establish secure communication with the SSA and retrieve specific attributes. Additionally, we will aggregate attributes and responses from multiple sources, including LexisNexis InstantId, FraudPoint, RiskView, BEST, IDNA, and more. Upon consolidating this data, we will apply fuzzy logic and rule engines to generate an accurate applicant score.
• The anticipated outcome of this initiative is a significant annual cost savings of approximately 60 million dollars in fraud prevention. This estimate considers the cumulative impact, as fraudsters who obtain a credit card tend to engage in various other fraudulent activities.
• Project 2: LexisNexis Third Party Data Services (Credit Card – Application Fraud)
• Role and Responsibilities
•  Come up with POCs/Demos as and when required
•  Deciding the technology stack and architecture
•  Designing reusable components and unit testing and also preparing design documents
•  100%-unit test coverage with no bugs or vulnerabilities
•  Code migration and deployment into AWS using IaaC, Terraform, and Par Artemis enabled CI/CD pipelines

Mar 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Remote · Remote

• Client: Capital One – Fraud Detection Systems
• Senior Java/Spring Boot Engineer
• 2019 – 2020
• Delivered a real-time fraud detection platform projected to save $60M annually.
• Built event-driven microservices leveraging Spring Boot and Kafka, integrating with Capital One’s compliance and transaction monitoring ecosystem.
• Designed high-throughput, fault-tolerant pipelines to process millions of daily transactions.
• Collaborated with product and data science teams to productionize fraud models, ensuring compliance and auditability.
• Client: Broadridge (via Vertical Relevance)
• AWS App Dev Architect – Cloud Migration & Performance Engineering
• Apr 2021 – Aug 2021
• Partnered with AWS Professional Services to migrate pricing & risk applications to AWS native architecture.
• Diagnosed system bottlenecks and delivered performance-focused proof-of-concepts with AWS SA teams.
• Implemented Terraform-based S3 multi-region replication, previously considered “not feasible,” to achieve cross-region resilience and disaster recovery.
• Client: Capital One – Collections Platform (via BCG Platinion)
• Senior Java/Spring Boot Engineer
• Oct 2021 – Nov 2021
• Contributed to a cloud-native collections web portal replacing legacy systems.
• Developed backend microservices in Java/Spring Boot deployed to AWS containerized pipelines.
• Worked in partnership with BCG Platinion consultants to accelerate delivery of secure, scalable backend APIs supporting Angular-based UI.
• Enhanced CI/CD DevOps pipelines and improved resiliency and system availability in AWS environments.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · On-site

• Project 1: Trade Services (Capital Markets)
• The primary goal of this project is to establish a streamlined data flow from Fannie Mae's upstream systems to BlackRock Aladdin (Aladdin), facilitated through the Trade Service - BRS Services. The Trade Service will be responsible for conducting data validations, extracting information such as security and loan data, and ultimately generating trade and allocation request files sourced from the upstream systems, which will then be transmitted to Aladdin.
• This undertaking comes with its set of challenges, particularly in terms of configuring external message queues (MQ) with robust SSL security measures as we transition to AWS. Additionally, the process involves containerizing the application, a relatively novel concept within the Fannie Mae ecosystem, presenting its own unique complexities and learning curve.
• Project 2: Treasury Accounting Data Services (Capital Markets)
• The project's core objective is the implementation of a data service platform for a recently integrated Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product, specifically Simcorp Dimension (SCD), to support accounting functions. Data will be seamlessly transmitted from upstream sources to SCD, where it will undergo necessary validations. Simultaneously, outbound data will be distributed to various departments with rigorous control checks in place.
• To realize this objective, we leverage Tibco interfaces and internal web interfaces for monitoring and data validation, ensuring a seamless and controlled flow of data within the organization.

Mar 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States · On-site

• In my role as a Senior Consultant within the Corporate Security Department, I assumed a multifaceted responsibility encompassing Information Technology security consulting, risk management, and business consulting for various projects. A significant aspect of my role involved reviewing and responding to security reviews from business owners. This process entailed the strategic placement of tags and pixels, primarily for marketing and analytics purposes, with a keen focus on safeguarding sensitive information and ensuring its uncompromised security.
• Perform penetration testing, secure code review, and approval, and reverse engineering on the web, mobile, and embedded applications for my client
• Provide secure development training to application developers
• Assist client with the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (Secure SDLC)

Sep 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · On-site

• I worked in the Cards & Payments domain and Securities & Fund Services.
• Domain: Banking(Cards & Payments) & Banking(Funds & Securities Services)
• Tools Used
• Tortoise SVN, SQL Developer, Eclipse, PuTTy, WinSCP, SVN, SQL Server 2005, Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, Harvest, CA SCM
• Scripting: Javascript, AJAX, JQuery

Jul 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · On-site

• Worked in Banking & Financial Services to enhance Virtual Merchant applications.
• Domain: Banking(Payment Gateway)
• Scripting: Javascript, AJAX, JQuery
• Programming: Java, Servlet, JSP, HTML, Struts
• Server Operating System: Windows XP & Unix
• Database: Oracle

Dec 2009 – Jun 2010 · 6 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• It was a US based debt consolidation firm with own secure data centers across globes. I worked in an R&D team in diversified areas of work from Server Administrations to Web Application Security & Optimizations.
• Worked on:
• CentOS, SunSolaris Server Administration
• MySQL Replication(Master-Master & Master-Slave topology)
• SAN Administration
• Java/PHP based web application maintenance
• Shell/Perl Scripting
• Automation
• Ubuntu Desktop Administration
• IP-PBX Administration for Call recording and converting to MP3 for space utilizations.
• Asset Management(GRMTECH Asset Management System) specially Offline HTML backup of the application for ease of access
• SugarCRM module customization for email to fax feature
• Networking: IP-KVM, USB-KVM, Remote reboot, Network camera recording through ZoneMinder

Jan 2009 – Nov 2009 · 10 mos · Kolkata area, india

• It was a Sydney, Australia based web development company.
• Project 1: ScoopTV
• The project was to build a youtube like the social platform for Video, Audio, and Image sharing website both for the individual as well as business perspective in it.
• Video upload, conversion to FLV from any format, Streaming, Original version download with paid timely-expired download link, Advanced custom playlist creations, video and text ads with full customizations, reporting of every single user interactions.
• Role and Responsibilities
• Leading Module development and website development
• Generating architectural workflow for new features and functionalities.
• Coding on the required module and basic unit testing.
• Reviewing codes and peer testing.
• Integration testing.
• Technology Used
• Java 5 (JSP & Servlet), Ajax, JavaScript, Jquery and Apache Tomcat 5.5, JW Player with lots of plugin options, FMS 3.5.

Jun 2008 – Dec 2008 · 6 mos · Durgapur Area, India

• It was a US based social start-up company.
• Project 1:
• It was to make a social gadget to pull friends of a particular city from Facebook and Orkut using OpenSocial API.
• Technology Used
• Orkut OpenSocial API, Javascript, XML
• Project 2:
• It was an application for authenticating and record user messages over the phone via VoIP. It was basically required a lot of asterisks(world leader in IP- PBX server) customizations. The recorded media file converted to mp3 format using sox and lame and uploaded to Amazon s3(Simple Storage Service) service. Each action has been recorded in Amazon SimpleDB(Cloud Data 2.0 standard) data service with file URL. The whole project was running on ec2ubuntu(Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud) instance.
• Technology Used
• Asterisk, Ubuntu, Perl, Java, AGI, Asterisk-Java and Amazon AWS, PuTTy, Amazon EC2Ubuntu, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Sipp(Open source tool for SIP traffic generator), G729 codec, Sox, Lame, Jets3t, and Typica
• Project 3:
• Recording of Audio from a website using simplistic UI for audio blogging.
• Technology Used
• Ec2Ubuntu, Apache Tomcat, JSP, Flash, Red5 Streaming Server, ActionScript, MySQL
• Role and Responsibilities
• Application development, Module development, and website development
• Gathering requirements and analyzing the impact.
• Coding and unit testing.
• Integration testing.

Jun 2007 – Apr 2008 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Project 1: Mow Product Review (Sub-domain of Maps of World)
• It was a project of making a very much modern web based product review portal where users can give their reviews for particular products mainly different mapping solutions. The application has an innovative rating system and a ranking algorithm implemented. It was a simple website comprising of Admin as well as user module.
• Role:
• Module development as per described by team leads
• Analyzing impact and time estimation.
• Coding and unit testing.
• Technology Used:
• HTML, JSP, Servlet, Apache Tomcat, Javascript, Ajax