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Leverkusen, Germany

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

• Provide capabilities to implement data provisioning functionality for Bayer Enabling functions Data Assets to ensure efficient and reusable accessibility of data across all Bayer divisions.• Currently a key solutions architect within Bayer GDA team where we are building Azure Databricks, Azure APIM and Snowflake based Datalake platform with an objective to streamline data engineering, data science, machine learning and BI reporting across Bayer enabling functions. • Deliver mainly cloud native (Azure, AWS) solution concepts, DevOps working environments, estimations, conduct PoCs regarding new Azure, AWS functionality to determine viability for cloud offering for Bayer Enabling functions Global Data Asset teams. • Ensure strong alignment and collaboration with Bayer EA, Strategy, Cloud Digital Foundation and Data Enabler teams.• Work side by side with the Data Asset leads, Data Architects, Data Engineers, Data Stewards, other divisional Data Asset and Product Development and Engineering teams to ensure the proper technical delivery of data which is fit for purpose.• Control/Facilitate implementation tasks by external partners.Tools & Technologies used:Azure Databricks (Apache Spark 3.x.x, Python 3, Scala 2.x), Azure Datalake Storage, Azure DevOps and a number of other Azure Services, Snowflake (cloud-based data-warehousing), DevOps using Gitlab/GutHub (Actions), Infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab/GitHub Runner, Docker Hub, AWS Compute (EC2, ECR, EKS, Lambda, Glue, Elastic Beanstalk), AWS Database (RDS, Neptune, ElastiCache, DynamoDB), AWS Network & Content Delivery (VPC, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudFront), AWS Security & Identity (IAM, Cognito, Certificate Manager) AWS Analytics (ELK stack), AWS Management & Governance (CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, CloudTrail), AWS Storage (S3), Logging & Monitoring (FluentD, Prometheus, Grafana), Nginx, Python, Node.js, Angular, Draw.io, Putty(gen), WinSCP.

Hannover, Lower Saxony , De

• System Analysis & Design• Technical Management• Support of Large-Scale Dispatch Applications• Trade & Asset Nomination System Development• Liaise with Business Stakeholders, Vendors and L2/L3 teams• Research and Evaluate Technology Solutions and Present Recommendations for Improved System Operations• Responsible for Maintaining Security Concept and Operational Readiness Documents• Engagement with Technical and Non-Technical AudiencesTools & Technologies used:Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (VMs, VNet, Azure Service Bus - Cloud Messaging Service, Azure SDK and more), Java EE 7, Oracle 11g, Tomcat AS 7, SOAP/RESTful Webservices GWT 2.7.0, SFTP, JUnit 4, JMeter(Google code plugins), XSLT 1/2 (Xalan/Saxon 9), XPath, Apache Maven 3.0.5, SVN, Enterprise Architect, JIRA Agile, Win 7, Unix/Linux.

PROJECT: INTTEGRA MIDDLEWARE [0409 > 0614]• Involvement in the development and maintenance of InTTegra middleware platform (package/flight/hotel/transport/carrental/ insurance connectivity engine)• Development of tour operator adapters and their integration• Demand negotiation, availability and SLA monitoring of enterprise services• Collaboration with cross functional teams and solution providers to secure dependencies• Integration, security design review, acceptance and delivery management of complex enterprise services.• Development of service support models for projects spread across multiple countries• Support to technical provider integration / product / project / security management and L3 teams• Team Management/Coordination/Operating of ongoing projects.• Responsible for Scrum process maintenance• Responsible for career road-map development model for junior team membersTECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:JBossESB 4.4/4.8, JBoss AS 4.2.3/5.1/6.1, Java EE 6 (EJB 3.1, JPA 2), JUnit 4, Arquillian, SonarQube, JMeter(Google code plugins), XSLT 1/2 (Xalan/Saxon), XPath, MqSQL 5.1, Hudson/Maven, SVN, Enterprise Architect, Arc42, SCRUM, Redmine, Blueprint and UML.

Haarlem, ., Nl

1. PROJECT: TRAVEL SEARCH [0406 > 0507]• Contributed in doing a detailed analysis of the market and business trends and needs, in context with the existing set of travel-search applications both in the US and EU markets.• Contributed in the technical feasibility of the project• Contributed in the total time estimation of the project• Participated in necessary resources and planning of the project• Major involvement in the design and development tasks on the Back-End business logic layer• Developed XML Adapters and WS Clients for several travel service providers e.g. (Air-Berlin, Vivacanses, Opodo, Wegolo) and a number of others.• Developed Radius Search module for flight search, using longitude/latitude information• Developed a Multithreaded Query Automation utility for search engine optimization (SEO)• Developed a utility that generates GoogleSitemaps• Developed and maintained Admin website for the product• Managed and coordinated with geographically dispersed team of 5 developers• Responsible for periodic Release Management of the productTECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT: Java EE, Servlets, XML APIs (SAX, DOM), Multithreading, Java Scheduling, WSDL2Java for developing SOAP Webservice clients, PHP-5, AJAX, mcURL, MySQL, UML, HTML/Pet Templating Engine and SCRUM.2. PROJECT: SEARCH RELOADED [0607 > 0309]• Participated in the design and development of the Back-End of Lycos Search without disrupting other Lycos products, namely Lycos IQ, Shopping, Email and Neopod.• Involved in the implementation of a web-based admin tool that protects Lycos SERP from botnets/scripts that illegitimately generate heavy traffic on Lycos search engine plus the tool is also responsible for managing/blocking unwanted URLs to appear on Lycos SERP.TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT: PHP-4/5, Java SE, Hibernate, JMeter, JUnit, C/C++, SimpleTest, Multi-Curl, MySQL, UML, HTML/Pet Templating Engine and SCRUM.

Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, De

1. PROJECT: VIRTUAL HUMAN [1003 > 0205]• Part of the Intelligent User Interfaces team, contributed in the development of a natural dialogue processing scheme for the Conversational Dialogue Engine (CDE).• Designed and implemented the dialogue behavior of virtual characters, which can be planned completely and autonomously in real time.• Employed statistical machine learning techniques and natural language models to generate a DialogueCompiler engine, whose responsibility was to parse natural speech into a machine understandable form.• Developed a multithreaded framework for assembling system modules. This module was used in configuring system behavior by monitoring the system performance in real time.TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:Java SE, Swing, Multithreading, Java Scheduling, Charamel (adialogue scripting language) and UML.2. PROJECT: SCALLOPS [0205 > 0306]• Worked on the project as a Research Assistant in the Deduction and Multiagent group. In this research project, my responsibilities as a team member were associated in the design and development of a coherent methodological workflow based framework for secure agent-based pervasive computing applications.• Implemented a QoS Driven Semantic Web Service Execution Planning Engine platform (OWLS-XPlan), which addresses the concern of how to interleave a service composition plan with an optimal service execution plan, in a way that maximizes the user defined utility functions over QoS attributes, while keeping the subjected constraints intact.• Problem was devised in the form a mixed integer linear program and algorithm (Simplex) was used to calculate an optimal solution.TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:Java SE, Linear Programming, OWLS API, a wrapper for MILP solving, Swing, LP_Solve and UML, Protégé.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

1. PROJECT: RMS – RESULT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM [0602 > 0603]• Involved in the development of a web based RMS (Result Management System), a SAF (South Asian Federation) Secretariat project for 9th SAF Games 2003-04. The goal of the project was to develop a complete results management solution for all the 14 sporting events. Main features of the project included live scoring, event setups, event scheduling and report generation. It was also a design goal of the project to carefully plan fail-safe scenarios and to thoroughly implement the intricacies of individual sporting regulations.TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:ASP. Net, C#, VB .Net, SQL Server 2000 and UML.2. PROJECT: PMS – PROPOSAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM [0703 > 1003]• PMS (Proposal Management System), a workflow application, for a Singaporean based company UMF. PMS provides Finance / Leasing Companies with the ability to quickly assess the worthiness of an applicant applying for a loan or a lease. The System is equipped with strong workflow management, integrated link to Credit Rating Agencies, automated point scoring strategy for automatic approval / rejection / referral, can be customized to link to any Point of Sale Systems, ability to integrate any vehicle data provider such as Glasses Guide in Europe and Australia, Integrated security with workflow. PMS was built keeping in view the growing vehicle-leasing industry, but the software can be customized to meet any other leasing industry requirements such as home, ship etc.TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT:Power Builder, SQL Server 2000 and UML.

Msc., Computer Science

Bsc., Computer Science