Sep 2022 – Jul 2023 · 10 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Leadership
• ● Creating technical specification documentation from software components, HLD, LLD, and
• implementation plan.
• ● Holding final responsibility for architecture and implementation of platforms and applications.
• ● Mentoring engineers to achieve product goals and deadlines.
• ● Containerization of applications using Docker to run reliably on Gitlab.
• Server-Side Programming
• ● Developing and architect REST APIs, database schemas, and infrastructure for products.
• ● Developing model managers, middleware, and API modules in Javascript.
• ● Fixing and improving unit testing and integration testing in Mocha.
• ● Creating and maintaining smart contracts for NFT implementation.
• ● Supporting and improving existing architecture for scale and performance.
• ● Monitoring application performance and logging using Sentry.
• ● Creating APIs as per technical specifications in NestJS and Restify and caching using Redis.
• ● API testing, benchmarking and CI/CD setup for Backend projects.
• ● Optimize Node packages by making NPM changes and experimented with Yarn as well.
• ● Generating offline PDFs using FabricJS.
• ● Migrated Self Hosted Vault to HCP Vault to optimize performance for scaling.
• Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, MongoDB, Hashicorp Vault, NodeJS, NestJS, FabricJS,
• Mocha, Restify, OpenAPI 3.0, Docker, NFT, Ganache, Solidity, Redis
• Cloud Technologies: MongoDB Atlas, EC2, Gitlab, Codebuild, KMS, Prometheus, S3, ECS, EKS,
• HCP Vault, Sentry
• Client-Side Programming
• ● Create and maintain existing UI built with ReactJS using functional components with hooks and
• provide improvements.
• ● Generating offline PDFs using FabricJS.
• ● Understand and improve Monorepo structure built in Nx using functional components using hooks.
• Technologies: Javascript, NodeJS, ReactJS, Redux, FabricJS, Jest

Dec 2021 – Jun 2022 · 6 mos

• Organized system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls, and
• enhancing overall performance.
• Integrated automation into monitoring and security measures to reduce required employee attention.
• Held final responsibility for architecture, design and implementation of company-wide platforms and
• applications.
• Supervised team of developers and business analysts engaged in project for creation of new Data
• Platform.
• Reviewed project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to
• accomplish projects.

Dec 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Server-Side Programming
• ● Developing platform services to manage the entire lifecycle from External Data Sources to Product
• Data.
• ● Creating RESTful API Spec and documentation using Postman Collections and performance testing
• using Jmeter on APIs.
• ● Increasing test coverage using JUnit and SpringBootTest for unit and integration testing
• Technologies: Spring Boot, Java 8, Postgres, Liquibase, Swagger
• Cloud Technologies (AWS): SNS, SQS, RDS, EC2, Codecommit, Codebuild, KMS, Lambda,
• CloudWatch, S3, AWS API Gateway
• Client-Side Programming
• ● Creating user forms for various vendors as per Figma Templates in React. Storing event and Form
• data using Redux.
• ● Setting up events on various events using Google Tag Manager for click/scroll tracking, conversion
• tracking, and A/B Testing.
• ● Setting up GDPR compliance for websites hosted in EU Regions to improve overall conversion tracking.
• ● Achieved more than 60% conversion rate per click for ad spends using offline conversion reports
• ● Use NextJS to host forms and pages to support server-side rendering.
• Technologies: React, Redux, Javascript, HTML, CSS, NextJS, PM2, Jest
• Cloud Technologies (AWS): S3, CloudFront
• Platforms and Tools: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Taboola, Facebook,
• Outbrain, TrustArc
• Data Engineering
• ● Designing compliance frameworks for multi-site data warehousing efforts to verify conformity with
• state and federal data security guidelines.
• ● Creating Serverless, event-driven architecture to sync data from various sources API, Gmail,
• Webhook and store in a fault-tolerant way in BigQuery.
• ● Developing and architecting database strategies at the modelling, design and implementation stages
• to address business requirements.
• ● Using Google OAuth2 authenticate and authorize Google Products to pull data.
• Technologies: NodeJS, GCP SDKs, Java, ES6
• Cloud Technologies (GCP): Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (Event Queues), Cloud
• Scheduler, Stackdriver, BigQuery, Google Data Studio

May 2019 – Nov 2019 · 6 mos

• Technical Consultant from Wissen Technology to build scalable financial systems (Full Stack role).
• Server-Side Programming
• ● Designing and implementing microservices to de-couple existing monolithic systems using 12-factor
• app principles.
• ● Creating two new microservices in the current project, Order Search Service and File Attachment,
• using Cloud Native principles.
• ● Applying the best DevOps practices to reduce turnaround time and automate deployments, reducing
• deployment time by 30%.
• ● Using Elasticsearch reduced ad-hoc searches on the database, by flattening some contents of the
• database as JSON Documents.
• ● Recommending technology upgrades and complementary products to improve security.
• Technologies: NodeJS, Spring, Sybase, Jenkins, Shell
• Cloud Technologies (Internal): Treadmill, Linux, Distributed Logging, ZooKeeper
• Client-Side Programming
• ● Designing the front end for the current project in Angular with Jasmine unit tests and Protractor
• end-to-end tests.
• ● Create reusable component libraries across teams on top of libraries like PrimeNG following design
• guidelines as per the design team.
• ● Maintain state using NgRX for application
• ● Create robust services using RxJS for augmenting different effects and functionalities.
• ● Integrate AppDynamics to understand performance and usage.
• ● Integrate SonarLint, ESLint and Husky to maintain high-quality standards for projects.
• ● Experiment with Angular Universal to support server-side rendering.
• Technologies: Angular, HTML, CSS, RxJs, NgRX

Aug 2018 – Apr 2019 · 8 mos

• Created reusable Angular Components for internal applications. Challenges involved supporting various CSS scenarios for different screen sizes and standardizing data flow within components.

Jun 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• NotifyMe (Training Project)
• A price notifier application that notifies the user when the set criteria are met like a price drop on Amazon.
• Used Spring-Boot to implement services for databases and schedule events.
• Built an XPath extractor functionality for any given URL using JavaScript.
• Built components for Admin and Product module using Angular. Technologies used: Angular, Spring Boot, Java 8, ES6, MySQL.
• Github : https://github.com/smitthakkar/NotifyMe

Jun 2016 – Jun 2016 · 0 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• iOS App Developer

Jul 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Managed Council throughout the session.
• Had a lot of fun with team mates, organized workshops and competitions.
• Raised the bar of college for competitive programming.