Rakesh Raj Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Allstate Inc.

> Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, Software Demonstrations.> Work closely with Product Owner in Backlog grooming and continuous delivery of features. > Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.> Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.> Prepare Scrum artifacts. > Guide and co-ordinate with team members to accomplish the task in timely manner> Provide necessary guidance to team members. > Work with the business area to understand requirements and present the solution and estimates.> Ensure 100% client deliverables are met within timelines, with a high level of quality.> Drive agile practice adoption by acting as an Agile Champion for associated projects to drive focus on continuous improvements and value additions.> Managing team velocity, burndown charts

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

> Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings. > Coordinated product backlog grooming and user story estimations. > Removed impediments that affect the team. > Drove story board discussions with Product Owner> As a part of Allstate Product Operational Intelligence team, enabled Critical Monitoring Capabilities for around 40 different In-House applications. > Provided Critical Analytical and Operational Intelligence for Business Teams like Claims, Underwriting, Payment to make data driven decisions. > Understanding the Business Requirements from the team to develop customized reports alerts, dashboards on Splunk. > Working on In-house Python based solution to extract data from different application RDBMs. > Leverage Machine Learning /Regression Analysis for benchmarking the application performance index. > Worked on Splunk IT Service Intelligence and Splunk Mint for Mobile Application Performance Monitoring. > Designed Critical Splunk Alerts for Fraud and Anomaly Detections. > State of Art Dashboards and Data Visualization using Splunk Enterprise. > REST Framework for App Development. > Worked with Infrastructure team for designing the scalable architecture of indexers and search heads. > Splunk Power User Certified and Splunk Admin Certified

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

> Worked in QBE North America Account in Production Support area of .net applications.> Involved in requirement gathering and analysis. Developed web services and WCF based services for the IVR. Verasy (front-bend) team consumed the web services.> Provided test data support to Versay. Involved in Unit testing.> Involved in defect fixing and issues resolution. Provided technical support to junior team members. > Supported legacy applications (AgriNet and LCMIS) by defect fixing and application enhancements. > Involved in defect fixing and enhancements.> Involved in coding, and releasing the build as per the schedule. As in production environment, I was involved in triaging and resolving various complex production issues by analyzing data from various monitoring tools from Sys logs and application logs.> Served technical lead contributing to and directing the e-orts of development teams, including internal and external team members. > Contributed to the ongoing evolution of the existing content supply portfolio of applications and services. > Designed, developed, modified, implemented, and supported software components anywhere in the software stack. > Determined root cause for the most complex software issues and develop practical, ecient, and permanent technical solutions. > Remained current on new technologies and available vendor packages, evaluate and make recommendations as necessary. > Assisted in task planning, estimation, scheduling, and stang. > Mentored Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

> Developed and directed software system validation and testing methods.> Involved in Requirement gathering and use case analysis, Technical Design and coding. Analyzed the issues and bug fixing. Unit Testing. > Provided support to the testing team in testing the changes and to fix any issues that arise. >Coordinated with the O-shore and Onshore teams for Production Releases. Troubleshooted application related issues by log verification. > Verified deployments logs to check for successful deployments. Good Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) well versed in AGILE Methodologies. > Determined operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. >Developed software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studyingsystems flow, data usage, and work processes.> Investigated problem areas. Follows the software development lifecycle. Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.