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Gurugram, Haryana, India

Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, SpringBoot, Microservices, Angular, Java, Spring framework, Tigergraph, MySQL, GitHub.Technical Leadership:• Conceived and implemented a vision for creating a strategy platform as a product within the organization.• Proposed the concepts and ideas that spanned across software architecture, cloud computing and modern engineering.• A principal voice in guiding engineering best practices to stay ahead of the growth curve. Achieved Elite level of Engineering maturity as per DORA metrics.• Worked directly with senior management, enterprise forums and team members to architect and implement scalable enterprise platforms and applications.Technical Versatility:• Single Handedly built a microsite page on Federated development concept to achieve BYOST Culture to be leveraged by engineering teams across all LOBs/Domains within the organization• Influenced site design and features via active participation in design and architecture discussions.• Architect and engineering of major critical features of the platform.• Led the automation of the entire CI/CD pipeline including build, deployment, testing and monitoring. • Worked with various departments to reuse the frameworks and deliver the technology piece of the solution to meet business initiatives.Driving Project Success:• Continuous focus on driving project success and finding efficient solutions by tracking KPIs, analyzing customer/user needs, and drawing from experience.• Promoted best practices for development and deployment to be adhered to within the department. • Supervised the team that reduced feature cycle time from 6 weeks to 10 days by automation and engineering maturity.Resource Management:• Managed a diverse group of software engineers through semi-annual reviews, conflict resolution, and participation in hiring and termination decisions.• Continuous focus on having strong and trusted team connections and giving career paths to the team members.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, SpringBoot, Microservices, Angular, Java, Spring framework, MySQL, GitHub. Technical Expertise:• Designed and developed various critical features in the front-end and back-end layers of the application. Also, involved in troubleshooting critical issues.• Led the engineering efforts in the design, development and delivery of the web applications.• Facilitated the team efforts by creating detailed requirements, design, architecture, code, peer reviews, and test approaches.• Introduced the agile methodologies within the team that increased the productivity of the team by educating them on scrum techniques with Kanban boards. Also, helped them by providing training programs on Scrum and Safe Agile.Engineering Management:• Accountable for overall process improvements, conducting security audits, scans and reviews.• Supervised a team of 10+ software engineers via technical mentoring and resource management.• Served as a member of the Women's Leadership Committee (United Women Leadership in Technology).Cloud Architect :• Played a significant role as a cloud architect to accelerate cloud adoption and modernization across all applications within different LOBs under the UHC segment.• Re-architected 5+ major applications as part of cloud migration.• Closely worked in tracking and data governance of all UHC Tech applications with different cloud statuses and discussions with the stakeholders• Led the architecture team by helping in reviews, architectural discussions, and CBAs and financials.• Collaborated with Enterprise Architects team with active involvement in creating Architecture Best Practices at Optum level.• Contributed to creating the Modernization Maturity scoring model and HAD questions.• Created the CBA templates and financial model and collaborated with finance leads.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Technologies: Eclipse, Java, J2EE, Hive, PIG, BDPaaS, HDFS, HBase, Angular JS, Elastic Search, RESTful Webservices, SVN, AHP, GIT Repository, OSE Docker, Spectrum server.• Designed, developed, tested, and supported the web applications (including backend services, front-end, database and architecture).• Directly managed a team of 5+ members and always focused on talent transformation.• Created PIG scripts using Hbase for MapReduce (BDPaaS environment) and also created UI pages using Angular JS.• Developed a major software upgrade by identifying hazards associated with releases before they impacted 1000+ users.• Developed the application in Big Data tech stack - Hadoop, Pig, Hive, HBase. Led the engineering efforts and also played a scrum master role.• Led the team efforts in release management and completing CI/CD engineering including Jenkins & Docker configurations.• SME of SonarQube Implementation and imparted many sessions on SonarQube across different portfolios at the organization level.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Technologies: RAD 7.0, JBoss 6.0, Apache Tomcat 6.0, Java, J2EE, Oracle, JSF, Springs, Hibernate, UNIX, SQL, Apache CXF web services (SOAP), SVN, AHP, ITG.• Development of many UI pages in the JSF framework.• Development of API layer with SOAP-based web services.• Managing some resources working on Java and tracking all their work.• Ownership of configuring all projects in AHP.• Complete ownership of Production deployment using the ITG tool.• Extensively involved in all webservers setup.• Leading team in all technical/complex issues.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Worked as a WebSphere Portal Developer