Shehal Joseph Email & Phone Number

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Served as a C-Suite member at KeenEye, a bespoke software services company specializing in mobile & web applications company. Responsible for driving the company's technology policies and delivering quality software to help improve business. • Introduced industry best practices in Engineering, DevOps & Solutions Architecture• Spear-headed the company's Agile Transformation, drafted a KB and conducted training on Agile topics• Closed several long-term contracts and assisted Sales Teams in contract negotiation • Established the Office of the CTO, mentoring and coaching Product and Engineering teams• Improved Features-to-Bugs from 1:2 to 3:1 by managing Tech Debt and Backlog Grooming practices• Improved Product Delivery by introducing Continuous Monitoring, Value Stream Analysis, Jira and JQL, SPIDR, CI / CD practices and Release Planning practices• Improved Availability of Cloud Services by introducing Full-Stack Observability • Facilitated agile ceremonies and artifact production, identification, and mitigation of risks

Sri Lanka

• Provided Consultancy on Digital Transformation & IT Support• Provided Drupal 8.x / 9.x solutions consultancy to engineering teams on contract basis• Provided Module / Theme migration consultancy from Drupal • Provided Consultancy on Software Engineering Processes and Practices

Sri Lanka

Served as a Solutions Architect / Agile Program Manager, responsible for Product Management and Technology Management.• Contributed to more than 50% of the company's revenue by managing technically complex projects • Improved Product Quality by formulating Architectural Solutions and by negotiating with Stakeholders• Introduced Scrum and Kanban based processes in Project Management and Agile Project Estimation

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Responsible for design, delivery, and performance for marketing campaign web sites for several Singaporean public relations agencies (http://www.redhill.asia and http://www.insurgence.sg)• Introduced Agile based Kanban processes and Agile based Project Estimation• Improved Performance of web sites by introducing Enterprise-WordPress / Drupal Best Practices• Improved Internal Product Quality by introducing Best Practices in Engineering and Feature Delivery• Improved Application Uptime by introducing Full-Stack Observability tools and practices

Sri Lanka

Responsible for delivering features, managing incidents, and maintaining up-time of high-traffic websites of a leading international adventure travel company, with e-commerce.* Improved Feature delivery by leading Engineering Teams and contributing to Solutions discussions* Improved Team Productivity by standardizing application stack and establish IoC (Puppet) DevOps tools* Improved App Performance by identifying pain-points and implementing solutions* Improved Conversion Ratios by integrating the company's ERP (legacy SOAP APIs) using Message Queues, and maintaining up-to-date information on tours* Servant-lead Engineering Teams as a Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Sri Lanka

Softcodeit is a local web application development company providing services to US based clients. Presently serving as a web application and user interface developer building and managing web applications on Drupal Framework.

Sri Lanka

Developed web applications on Drupal Content Management System (CMS) framework. Served as a Webmaster for several government, private enterprise and NGO websites, managing DNS, Google Apps (Analytics, Ad Words, Mail, etc.) and providing SEO consultancy.

Sri Lanka

Served as a web application and user interface developer building and managing web applications on Drupal Framework for a Danish web application development company providing services to clients in Denmak.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Served as a PHP developer building and managing web applications on Drupal Framework. Served as a UI engineer for in-house web applications and related products using ‘Web 2.0 Technologies’ such as jQuery and jQuery UI. Silk is a services outsourcing company having competencies in mobile application development.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Served as IT consultant and developed a Drupal CMS based project management and information web application (WebApp) for the Urban Settlements Development Authority (USDA) of the Ministry of Urban Development and Sacred Area Development of Sri Lanka. The WebApp is designed to offer transparency to a national housing initiative where the urban poor are able to apply for building funds. The WebApp allows USDA staff to enter project data and manage over 10,000 housing projects in local languages (Sinhala and Tamil).

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Designed and developed a GIS based enterprise-level fleet management software. FleetSoft.net is based on MapServer - an open source map server. It utilizes a mobile operators GSM / 3G based Location Based Service (LBS) for obtaining geographic locations of personnel and vehicles. FleetSoft.net is presently managed by Kayjay Electronics (Pvt) Ltd.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Served as a monitoring and evaluation agent in assessing and capacity building of 65 knowledge centers called Nenasala knowledge centers in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, Conducting Focus Group Discussions, drafting of Needs Assessment Report, training of Nenasala Operators and resolving technical issues at Nenasala knowledge centers. This project was conducted by the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka.

Served as Information Technology Specialist for Special Information Infrastructure Reconstruction and Monitoring (SIIRM) Project. Managing the technical infrastructure for an enterprise level GIS application based on ESRI ArcGIS 9.x server architecture. SIIRM was a project by FIT - a French GIS consortium, in associated with GreenTech Consultants to develop maps and a web-based GIS application for the Urban Development Authority.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Served as a freelance web applications developer on Drupal CMS framework. Conducted code-cleaning of Drupal Core modules to meet architectural requirements of the Client, bug-fixing of Drupal modules and providing technical input on feature addition in context of the Drupal development framework.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Co-founded UITier (Pvt.) Ltd. - A software consulting company focusing on user interface technologies and usability studies to support web sites, web applications and multimedia projects.

Performed Web Authoring and Integration work for several Web Application projects as a freelancer. Served as a freelance Web Author and Software Consultant.

Served as a User Interface (UI) Systems Architect. Drafted XML data standards for Enterprise Level Groupware & Messaging, Portal and E-Commerce software products. Researched and published papers on XML technologies - mainly on Web Services and XML Transformation. Researched and published papers on ASP .Net and XSLT Implementations on other server models, as a Web-based UI Technology.

Served as Team Leader, User Interface (UI) Development. Handled Web-based UI development for five Enterprise Level products, including J2EE, Windows and PHP and XML based products and projects. Handled UI development for Web based browsers in Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms of content types HTML and XHTML. Handled UI development for Wireless browsers of content types WML, iMode CHTML and XHTML for PocketPC. Transformed a Multimedia Oriented Team to handle Enterprise Level software production. Introduced technical standards and practices for Web-based User Interface development.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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