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Pittsburgh, PA, US

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Developed highly responsive, reusable components using custom Hooks to enhance efficiency and user experience.
• Transitioned from Class components in JavaScript to Functional components in TypeScript within the project for enhancing code reliability, type safety, and developer productivity through robust static typing and.
• Migrated from the global stylesheet approach with Bootstrap to a modular, LESS-based CSS module system to improve style encapsulation and project scalability.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Collaborated with Prof. Hakan Erdogmus in “Full Stack Skills for Engineers” to regularly review and update course materials, ensuring that they reflect current full-stack development practices and align with student.
• Conduct weekly two-hour office hours and actively monitored and responded to student queries on Piazza, providing students with assistance on both front-end and back-end development challenges, clarifying course.
• Demonstrated real-world applications of full-stack development techniques during class and recitation sessions, enabling students to understand the practical use of tools like TypeScript and NoSQL databases.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Assisted in the development of a chat application using TypeScript and a lightweight back-end, applying best practices in client-server architecture, MVC patterns, and RESTful services with real-time communication.
• Demonstrated proficiency authentication mechanisms via JWT, authorization via OAuth2.0, and NoSQL database integration using MongoDB, significantly enhancing the project's security, scalability & performance.
• Enhanced code quality and maintainability by integrating Prettier and ESLint, and implemented a GitHub Actions pipeline for automated Jest testing and deployment to Render.com.

• Drove the full software development lifecycle using the Agile (Scrum) framework to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.
• Designed a three-tier architecture, utilizing React JS and TypeScript for a dynamic frontend, Spring Boot and Java for robust backend services, and AWS S3 for efficient blob storage.
• Documenting API contracts and architectural decisions with tools like Swagger UI and through Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), ensuring transparency and consistency across the development team.

Carlsbad, CA, US

• Collaborated in the Mobility Manager (MM) team, analyzed business requirements, and worked on the system design, managed task progress and documentation managed using JIRA and Confluence, ensuring an organized and.
• Designed and implemented a REST Service in Java and Spring Boot, creating an automated weather alerting service for our team leveraging OpenWeatherAPI and Apache Kafka Consumer to seamlessly integrate real-time data.
• Automated the deployment of the application across multiple environments (dev, non-prod, prod) using AWS EC2 instances and an automated cloud formation script and reduced deployment time by 40% compared to manual.
• Integrated Grafana to read Graphite metrics via Ansible, enabling real-time visualization and monitoring of API responses. Configured cron jobs to post aggregated data at one-minute intervals, providing immediate.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Collaborated with Prof. Eric Nyberg in the "11-634 Capstone Planning Seminar," to organize and lead weekly meetings, where you will discuss course progress, address any concerns, and provide valuable feedback to.
• Graded, mentored, and enriched the course content by infusing software documentation, quality assurance, testing, requirements gathering, and architecture design expertise, thereby empowering students to excel in the.
• Held office hours, hands-on demo sessions, and interacted with students at the course discussion forum, Piazza

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Worked with an agile team in 2-week sprints on the API development for the mobile application - Verizon My Fios using the Spring Boot framework, where new features such as VoiceBiometric, Wifi-Sensing, Disney Bundle.
• Collaborated with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience based on the above offers.
• Implemented CRUD REST API using POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE methods to provide JSON Data while meeting the needs of the applications.
• Used Spring Core Annotations for Dependency Injection Spring DI, Spring MVC for REST APIs, and Spring Boot for micro-services.
• Configured POJOs with backend tables in PostgreSQL to achieve the associations and deployed applications to support the backend integrations through microservices. Designed database and workflow to modify APIs based on.
• Eliminated bugs and tracked problems using GIT version control and JIRA and participated in peer-to-peer code review to improve the quality and maintenance of the code base.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Contributed to the backend redesign and transition from C# to a microservices architecture using Java, enhancing system scalability and maintainability.
• Adopted J2EE best practices and utilized Core J2EE patterns in a Test-Driven Development (TDD) environment, resulting in an optimized backend infrastructure.
• Conducted exhaustive unit testing using Junit5, Mockito, and Jacoco, achieving a coverage of 75%, ensuring robustness and creating a significant impact on the system's reliability.

Master'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology, Information Technology

High School, Pcm

Matriculation, Computer Science