Sr Lead Developer
Resume:
Prathap Paluru /in/prathappaluru
ac0anc@r.postjobfree.com Ph: 914-***-****
Professional Profile
Fourteen years~ of experience in IT working with Java/J2EE, Open source Frameworks, SOA, RDBMS and Integration tools.
Having experience in various domains like Hospitality, Retail, Banking & Finance with different sectors Ecommerce, B2C, B2B and B2E.
Extensive technical experience in Application Architecture, Design, Development, Maintenance, Analytics, Support and Enhancements.
Having in-depth knowledge in J2EE technologies, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, RESTful
& SOAP webservices, Websphere, Weblogic Application Servers, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Weblogic Integration, Documentum, Reporting tools and Web Frontend.
Called/played as TL (Team and Tower Lead), SoK (Source of Knowledge), SME
(Subject Matter Expert), PoC (Point of Contact), Merge Expert on various projects.
Experienced on Scrum as member/scrum master and various roles (Project Lead, Senior Developer and Architect) on SDLC.
Active participant in critical states of application development like Security standards, Performance Tuning, Code reuse/standards, Web Analytics, Infrastructure optimization, Search optimization and solving production issues.
Having day to day communication with various teams like application, infrastructure, third party apps, Engines, Maintenance team and Application Run.
Excellent team player with problem solving & trouble shooting capabilities. Awards
Certificate of Appreciation from Group VP, IT Application Services in 2008.
Certificate of Appreciation from Sr. IT Director for an outstanding contribution to B2C National Launch in 2009.
Feather in my Cap awards for contribution in various Albertsons projects in 2007/05.
Certificate of Appreciation on Completion of Reports using tool Xcelsius in 2010. Certification
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) Part – I
Completed Certified Scrum Master program in 2014.
Completed MongoDB for Java (M101J) in 2016.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (18 years) from Sri Venkateswara University, IN Professional Experience
1. Starwood Hotels & Resorts, CT Domain: Hospitality www.starwoodhotels.com Role: Sr Lead Developer ~5 years (July 11 - now) Starwood Hotels & Resorts is one of world’s largest group of Hotel Company. It offers a unique range of 11 brands with luxury, life style, Design brands having +1200 hotels in approximately 100 Page 2/4
countries. It offers a best in industry loyalty program called SPG with many benefits to members. www.starwoodhotels.com site supports 13 brands in 17 languages for Desktop and Mobile web. Branded Web (www.starwoodhotels.com site) team has 5 agile product teams in onshore and another product team in offshore. Having approximately 15-20 releases yearly including monthly releases from product teams and urgent patch releases. Technologies:
Frameworks/Servers : JSP, Java Script, AJAX, XML, Maven, Jenkin/Hudson, Apache-Ivy, Apache-Tiles, Documentum, Dom, SAX,
Stax, XSLT, Angular JS,Maven, JSON, SOA, Apache
web server, Data Power, EDB, Web sphere App Server. Platforms : WINDOWS XP, LINUX
Software methodologies/tools : Eclipse, IntelliJ, XML-SPY, JRebel, Subclipes, SoapUi, File Sync Plugin, HP QC, IBM CQ, Agile Center (Rally), EDB, UML, Akamai tools, Splunk.
Web services : SPG, ACE, Shopping, Availability, Booking, API Third Party Applications : Bazar Voice, Tricept, Social Media (Instagram, youtube, FB etc)
Code Version Tools : SVN, Tortoise
Major Contribution:
Involved in the Agile, SDLC process and Transformation of SDLC to Agile
Leading reviews with business on requirements, QA on test coverage, Solution Review Board on design, Third parties on integration.
Owned to produce High level and Low level solutions and design of applications.
Responsible for design phase & approval process from Enterprise Solution Review Board
Application development using Struts MVC Framework with Presentation, Business and Integration tier design patterns
Responsible to produce quality code & reuse of code by Code review/Peer review processes
Peer to Peer coding with other teams and solution/trouble shooting problems
Providing valuable suggestions in Sprint Retro and Grooming sessions.
Champion in various team problem solutions and helping run team on productions problems.
Giving Demos to the business for each Sprint/Major release/Senior Leadership Team.
Writing style sheet (XSLT) to publish content into different formats (XML, HTML, etc)
Writing xml parsers using DOM, SAX and STaX
Designed the templates, rules and style sheets using web publisher 5 to create and publish company's content at periodic interval
Responsible for Sprint Planning, Release planning and hand over to Run team & shadow them during warranty period.
Other Information:
Appreciation for the contribution to RLM Project
Source of Knowledge for RLM, Loyalty
Point of Contact SVN Merge issues
2. Client: Rail Europe, NY Domain: Travel
Data Entry Tools (DET) Role: Senior Consultant 7 months (Dec 10 to June 11) Rail Europe sells Rail products to all over world (America, Europe, Asia and Australia). Data Entry Tools is an integrated application having multiple modules to create products, routes, availability, price, exchange rate, user creation and their maintenance. This is a one stop application for all needs to create products, users, price and their availability and accessibility through the regular flow and through search in the web site. All these modules are heterogeneous modules with some dependencies on other modules. Technologies:
Database : ORACLE 11g
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Frameworks/Servers : JSP, Java Script, Springs, AJAX, PL/SQL, Identity management, XML, HTML, CSS, Java Script, Apache
web server and IBM Web sphere Application Server.
Platforms : WINDOWS XP, LINUX
Software methodologies/tools : RAD, Pl/SQL Developer, Borland Caliber, UML, Aspose, POI, HP Quality Center, HP Service Manager
Web services : DB, Eurostar
Third Party Applications : Euronet, Webservices (WEB) Code Version Tools : Borland Startem
Contribution:
Part of application support team to make it available to user all time
Enhance the existing module by using new technologies (Springs, Design Patterns etc)
Writing Spring controller to implement logic using annotations
Completion of Development and procedures on time for new tools development
Writing sql queries to fetch data from oracle database
Understand the legacy java code and modify as per company technology road map
Closing all assigning tickets with in given SLA
Co-ordination with in Development, QA Team during testing time
Active participant in Performance tuning and code optimization 3. Client: Pepsi, Valhalla, NY Role: Project/Tower Lead (Retail ~1.5 years)
Innovation management System (IMS) 9 months (Dec 09 to Nov 10): IMS automates new innovation launch process and responses, feedback. It automates all feedback and responses and generates report for sales team and product inventory teams. It has a great capability to show the responses based on geographical location in US Maps. It uses open source tools to generate reports as MS Office documents.
Pepsi Bottler Directory (PBD): PBD is a Directory of Bottlers and Pepsi Cola North America employees. It stores personal information including shipping, mailing address, designation etc. It also stores Franchise information, Legal Franchise information, Concentrate locations, contacts and employee/bottler hierarchy etc. Important module in this is Search. Users can find information with multiple ways from bottler hierarchy, locations, responsibilities, designation, activity and raw information.
PepsiBiz – Bottler Portal 8 months (Apr 09 to Dec 09): PepsiBiz is an interactive communication vehicle between PepsiCo and its Bottlers. There was one-way communication in which E-News is generated and emailed to the Bottlers manually. This Portal application is to automate the process of E-News generation and mailing with a single-sign-on feature. The Bottler Portal will have the Content Posting Interface, a WDK-based Documentum application and the Bottler Portal. The Content Posting Interface will enable users to quickly and easily create content and attach any pertinent documents, links, and images. Once the content is submitted, an HTML rendition of the content will be created and pushed to the portal. Technologies:
Frameworks/Servers : JSP, Java Script, Struts, Spring, AJAX, Hibernate, PL/SQL, Identity management, Autonomy Search, Control – M Job scheduling, XML, HTML, CSS, Java Script, JQuery, Apache web server and BEA Weblogic Application Server, Oracle. Platforms : WINDOWS XP, LINUX
Software methodologies/tools : Toad, Apache ANT, Eclipse, Borland Caliber, UML, JProfiler, Aspose, POI, MAP Info, WebTrends, HP Quality Center, HP Service Manager, Documentum Publisher, Vignette Portal Web services : Innovation Matrix, User Info.
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Third Party Applications : PepsiBiz, PCMF (Pepsi Cola Master Files), DMS (Decision Management System)
Code Version Tools : Borland Starteam
Contribution:
Responsible for Application Design & Development
Application Design and solution of various other projects in Java Tower
Primary contact to two applications and responsible for understanding, developing, defect fixing for new enhancements
Develop plan for Production deployment & Co-ordinate teams
Handling other applications when primary contact is not available
Estimation, Application Design, Development, Testing and Implementation
Implementing business logic using design patterns in java
Writing data base queries and views, sequences and procedures
Streamline the interactions between different systems
Involve into Code review and Design review with client leads
Part of Requirements gathering, getting clarifications from responsible parties
Weekly status updates to client
Active participant in Performance tuning and code optimization
Developing on demand reports using WebTrends
Merging and dividing geographical maps using Map Info
CVS Management: CVS Merge & Branch creations
Resolving production issues within given SLA
Other Information:
Awarded by client and Wipro Delivery Manager on contribution to Wipro Day Further more details on any project, contribution, role etc. can provided on interest basis. 4. Client: Supervalu Inc, Boise, ID Domain: Retail (~5 years)
Albertsons Ecommerce Application (B2C Portal Project) Role: Team Lead Duration: 30months (Sep 07 to Feb 09)
Certificate of Appreciation from Sheila Close, Group VP, for outstanding contributions
Albertsons Data Synchronization Application
Role: Project Lead Duration: 6 months (Mar 07 to Aug 07)
Awarded by Feather in my Cap.
Albertsons Support Application
Role: Java J2ee Lead Duration: 9 months (Aug 06 to Apr 07)
Successfully executed and appreciated by Business for our extensive reports and issue handling.
Ecommerce Report Generation
Role: Tech Lead Duration: 9 months (Apr 05 to Jan 06) 5. Client: Supervalu Inc, Bangalore, INDIA
Ecommerce Content Management Application
Role: Module Lead Duration: 5 months (Nov 04 to Mar 05) Project Client Role Duration Domain
11. GFS US Web Services PWC Module Lead 22 Months
(1/03–10/04)
Finance
12. DISTRIBUTION OF
BEVERAGES
Dallas Beverages Developer 6 Months
(6/02 – 12/02)
Retail
13. CDR Processing Trident Systems Developer 6 Months
(1/02-6/02)
Telecom
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