Rakesh Kalra

Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India17 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16+ years of experience in software engineering.
Expert in building and optimizing complex applications.
Proficient in CI/CD processes and automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong backend development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesJavaContinuous IntegrationDevops

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularApache KafkaAppDynamicsAzure DevOpsBootstrapCoherence CacheCore JavaData StructuresDesign PatternsDynatraceGitGitlabHibernate

About

Technology enthusiast with 16+ years of hands-on experience, who have worked on a number of high volume complex applications with overall responsibility ranging from requirement gathering, system designing, coding, code reviews, mentoring team technically, and ensuring project is delivered with the right amount of monitoring, alerting, and automation. Experience of working on requirements and designs which need changes across projects and leading virtual teams. Experience of supervising and mentoring programmers to improve technically and finish projects on time, with quality delivery. Proficient at building services, troubleshooting code, streamlining CICD process, setting up automation testing, monitoring & alerting, and improving the performance of existing programs. Technologies worked on: Java, Scala, Spring Boot, Microservices, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Tibco Messaging Bus, Angular, Ionic, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Dynatrace, Graylog, Kibana, Teamcity, Gitlab

Experience

17 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Agoda

Lead Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Natwest corporates and institutions

Principal Software Engineer

Sep 2017 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Gurugram, HR, India

Worked as Engineering Manager and Technical Architect where I was responsible for changing the design of Risk Calculation Workflow System which was failing to scale, had latency issues, database connection issues, and out of memory issues on daily basis.
Designed and coded trade reconciliation system which gets millions of trades from different sources across the bank throughout the day and compares it with trades being stored in General ledger and risk systems.
Worked as Individual Contributor with Engineering Team to create CICD pipeline with easy onboarding system for 200+ services.
Created Service Dashboard for managing all our UAT and Prod environments, which showcases how much capacity we had on which box, which services are running where, comparing configs and deployments between environments.
Streamlined environments, release processes, automation testing, build pipelines with Sonar integration & quality checks.
Leading Technical Designs for requirements, which require changes across multiple projects.
Environment: Spring Boot, Java, JUnit, Microservices, Angular, Oracle, MySQL, Tibco Messaging Bus, Gitlab, Teamcity, Splunk, Kibana, Dynatrace

Spring BootJavaJUnitMicroservicesAngularOracle+7

Expedia, inc.

Individual Contributor

May 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, Microservices, Mongo DB, MSSQL, Splunk, AppDynamics
Worked On: Expedia Coupon system and Loyalty Points System.

JavaSpring BootJUnitMicroservicesMongo DBMSSQL+2

Royal bank of scotland business

Lead Software Designer

Jun 2009 – May 2015 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

Technologies: Java, Spring, JUnit, Microservices, Coherence Cache, Oracle, Tibco Messaging Bus
Worked on multiple projects during my tenure related to Market Data Query, Trade Booking/Querying/Snapshotting, and Event-based trade transformations spread across London, Manhattan and, Hong Kong.

JavaSpringJUnitMicroservicesCoherence CacheOracle+1