Product Development Software Engineer

Pawanjit Singh

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawanjit

Email: acz8x0@r.postjobfree.com, Cell: 310-***-****

Summary

Accomplished technology leader with hands-on experience in building high transaction consumer facing applications.

4 years’ experience in leadership and management role. Responsible for managing multiple large distributed development teams, engineering roadmap, budgeting, hiring, planning, vendor management, performance review and managing internal and external customer expectations.

15 years of experience developing applications using J2EE frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Micro services, caching and messaging frameworks.

Experienced with Agile and water fall software development methodologies.

Extensive experience in working with offshore teams and making offshore engagement successful.

Expertise in product architecture, product development, deployment, production support and monitoring.

Strong domain and technical expertise in lead gen space, online media and entertainment, online marketing, financial and education domains.

Exceptional ability to understand and translate product strategies into technical solutions and speed up time to market for new products.

Strong success in establishing monitoring for consumer facing applications to minimize revenue loss due to production issues.

Sun certified in Java programming and Web component development.

Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills

Areas of Expertise

Software Development Life Cycle

Leadership and Team Development

Product Development

Resource Management

Vendor Management

Mobile Optimization

Project Planning and Management

Application Architecture

Technical Proficiencies

Application Servers:

Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat

Technologies:

Java, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Kafka, REST

CMS:

Hippo, Drupal

Database:

Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, MySQL, MongoDB

Version Control:

Perforce, GIT

IDE/Tools:

Eclipse, Intellij, Toad, JMeter, Visual VM, JIRA, Jenkins, Confluence

Build Tools:

Ant, Make, Maven, Gradle

Monitoring Tools:

Splunk, AppDynamic, DynaTrace, Nagios, Pager duty, Keynote, Gomez

Professional Experience:

Jan 2015 – Current Senior Engineering Manager, Core Digital Media (LowerMyBills.com), USA

Push for engineering invocation by introducing data streaming using Kafka, micro services architecture, rewriting legacy applications using latest frameworks, tools to track code quality etc.

Introduced Agile SDLC process to improve time to market for business critical work.

Leading efforts to improve page load time on mobile devices.

Managing multiple globally distributed developments teams.

Manage licenses and cost for development tools and evaluate tools to improve efficiencies of development teams.

Collaborate with business and CTO on driving strategy for new product ideas and enhancing existing products.

Define the technology strategy, roadmap and vision for engineering teams under my organization.

Oversee budget & resource allocation, project delivery and manage customer expectations

Established reliable monitoring for consumer facing applications to minimize revenue loss due to production issues.

Partner with marketing team on launching cost effective transaction email solution and web-service to synching revenue from partner system in real time

Established metrics to track code quality and build dashboards in Sonarqube to provide visibility to on code quality to CTO.

Collaborated with tech leaders on building disaster recovery environment for applications under my organization.

Took initiatives to reduce technical debt by rewriting old legacy applications with modern J2EE frameworks.

May 2013 – Dec 2015 Engineering Manager, Core Digital Media (LowerMyBills.com), USA

Managed deliverables for product contributing $70M revenue/year.

Was responsible for resource allocation, project delivery and manage customer expectations.

Partner with senior executives and product team on building next generation lead gen solution for education space to bring additional $2M revenue/year.

Dramatically reduce cost through extensive collaboration with various teams to migrate applications from Akamai CDN to Instart.

Introduced shared services architecture and established rollout processes, successfully producing business-critical services.

Define the vision for click listings platform and implement flexible solution to on-board new partners quickly with ability to sync revenue in real time to BI systems for better visibility to marketing team.

Partner with Ops and build engineering team on upgrading infrastructure for all my application. As part of infrastructure upgrades, all applications migrated to latest version of JBOSS, Java, 64 bit operating system and virtualization.

May 2008 – May 2013 Senior Software Engineer, Disney Interactive, USA

Designed and implemented Spoonful.com, Video platform, Contest platform, trip planner, and building community platform for online moms.

Partner with various department on migrating data center to Las Vegas.

Partner with legal department on building robust moderation system for moderating assets uploaded by users on Disney sites in real time.

Involved in performance tweaking for various Disney applications.

Introduce shared services architecture and successfully integrated shared services to Disney sites.

Collaborate with Akamai on improving page performance on mobile devices.

Established best practices for working with GIT repositories.

Production support and deployment

Nov 2006 – March 2008 Principal Product Engineer, CoreObjects, India

Executed designing, architecting and development functions for next generation online sports platform (Jacked.com).

Implemented automated nightly build jobs using Hudson.

Coordinate development effort with offshore and onsite teams.

Partner with business executives in the planning and prioritizing efforts, developing new features for next generation sports platform

Setup pre-production and production servers.

Improved application performance using caching solution.

Offshore lead involved in hiring process and evaluating their performance.

Build and deployed shared services/components.

Production support and deployment.

Persistent Systems, India

Senior Member of Technical Staff 2004 - 2006

Extenprise eSolutions, India

Software Engineer, 2001 – 2004

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Pune University

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