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Professional Career Summary & Strengths
Technical Skills
Jitender Rawal Mail: *************@*****.*** Mobile: +1-908-***-**** Senior Engineering Manager (Full Stack Developer & Tech Lead) Professional Summary Strengths
14+ years of professional experience in
Software Industry
Winner of Microsoft .Net Conclave
technical competition organized by
technical giant Microsoft Global
Technology Office
Ranked #1 .Net Trainer by Cognizant
Academy
Inaugurated and Chaired Annual
International Conference on Emerging
Research Areas on Computers
Cognizant Level Technical Innovator of
the Year.
Microsoft Certified Application Developer
Oracle Certified Associate
Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance
Design Patterns
Service Oriented
Architecture and
Microservices Architecture
with kubernetes
Single Page Applications
(SPA) and Responsive Web
Design
MVC pattern and frameworks
Managing Technical Team
and Designing complex
containerized applications
using Docker
Certified Scrum Master
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Operating Systems Windows, Linux, Microsoft Azure and AWS Cloud Languages
ASP.Net MVC, Bootstrap, Foundation, SCSS, TypeScript, Jade/ Pug, Express Node JS framework, C#, Restful Web Services, HTML, .Net, ASP.NET, JSON, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, SCSS, AngularJS, Angular 9, PHP, Laravel, Amazon Web Services, Node.js, Gulp, MEAN Stack, BC++, VC++, VB, PHP, Laravel, YII, Typescript, RxJS, React JS, Kafka, Elastic Search, Kibana, RabbitMQ, OAuth, OpenId Connect, Auth0, Angular Material,Python
Tools
Vagrant, Gassetic, Webpack, Ninject, Redis Distributed Caching, Endeca & SOLR Search Engine, Log4Net, DTS, SSIS, Visual Studio, Visio, Photoshop, Light Switch, IIS, IIS Express, Architecture & UML Designer, PHPStorm, WebStorm, Jenkins, Data grip, Akamai CDN, Apache, JIRA, Confluence, Sitecore CMS, Nugget, PGAdmin, Docker, Kubernetes
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Educational Qualification
*First class with distinction;
Debugging Tools Fiddler Web Debugger, Firebug, IE/Chrome Developer Tools, Redgate Performance Profiler, Postman
Database Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB and DynamoDB
Source
Configuration TFS, Git
Testing Frameworks Cypress, xUnit, Microsoft Unit Testing Framework Qualification
Specialisation Institution Year Marks Bachelor of
Engineering
Electronics
&
Communication
Sona College of
Technology
(Anna University)
2006 79*
H.S.C Science Holy Cross 2002 91
S.S.L.C NA Holy Mother 2000 74
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Awards and Recognitions
Professional Certifications
Awards and Recognitions
Cognizant Technical Innovator (Global Level Award across Cognizant)
IME Level Innovator of the Year (Vertical Level)
Cognizant Coimbatore Center Level Innovator of the year (Center Level)
Won first prize in Microsoft .Net Conclave Event a Global .Net technical competition organized by Microsoft Global Technology Office
Won Cognizant Trainer Par Excellence (Organizational Level) and Star Faculty Award for hosting exceptional Microsoft platform trainings across organization
Chaired “Annual International Conference on Emerging Research Areas on Computers” as Chief Guest sponsored by IEEE at Amal Jyothi College of Engineering
Chaired & Inaugurated “Department of Computer Association” as Chief Guest at Kongu Engineering College
Awarded Active Grey award for the most innovative idea which lead to significant cost savings across IME India
Awarded Whale Done Award for exceptional technical and leadership skills
Awarded Stellar Champion for Excellent Technical and Leadership skills across IME Vertical
Won D&B Star award for developing one of the best user experience product for Dun & Bradstreet
Received “Exceeding all Expectation” highest possible rating in all performance appraisals at Cognizant
Filed two Intellectual Property rights for cutting edge technical innovations
Awarded Top Trainer (Rank #1) across Cognizant Coimbatore for.Net by Cognizant Academy
No Name of the Course/ Certification Diploma or
Certificate
1.
Designing and Implementing Databases
with Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Enterprise Edition
Microsoft
Certification
2. Developing and Implementing Web
Applications with Microsoft®
Visual C#™ .NET and Microsoft® Visual
Studio® .NET
Microsoft
Certification
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Professional Experience
Oct 2019 - Till Date
Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Employer: Internet Brands (HQ: California)
Project: Universal Message Bus
Universal Message Bus is a strategic project which is based on event driven design built primarily on Confluent Kafka, Avro Schema and numerous micro services built using micro framework called Lumen to facilitate real time communication across all Business Units / Advertising Agencies and call centers spread across North America. Using Universal Message Bus entire organization can communicate in real time between all the business units spread across several data centers and handle events in the scale of millions across the organization to process and synch events and data coming from all micro services across the enterprise running on whole host of infrastructure from kubernetes, private cloud, third party data centers. It also delivers real time events to enable real time analytics and stats collection for business intelligence and reporting purposes.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• As Senior Engineering Manager, I am responsible for building and managing team of highly skilled software engineers, tech leads in USA, India and Argentina to work on this Greenfield project 3. Developing XML Web Services and
Server Components with
Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the
Microsoft .NET Framework
Microsoft
Certification
4. Microsoft Certified Application
Developer (MCAD)
Microsoft
Certified
Application
Developer (MCAD)
5. Business Communication Brain bench
6. ASP.Net Brain bench
7. ADO.Net Brain bench
8. Presentation Skills Brain bench
9. Project Management Brain bench
10. UML Brain bench
11. Oracle Certified Associate Oracle
12. ADM Module Lead .Net KELEMENTS
13. Certified Scrum Master Scrum Alliance
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• Come up with detailed design and architecture options and work directly with CTO and SVP to brainstorm and finalize the architecture of the product
• As full stack hands on developer responsible for building application from scratch and setup foundation based on approved architecture using cutting edge technologies like Lumen Micro Framework powered micro- services running on Linux, Docker, Docker-compose, Angular 9,Kafka, Zookeeper, Elastic Search, Kibana and lead the team of senior developers spread across the world.
• Implement coding best practices and lead the team by setting an example to follow
• Review Merge Request and manage all branches and several parallel test environments
• Constantly innovate and come up with coding process efficiencies to improve developer experience and better product
• Design and Implement Cypress testing framework for 100% automated API and UI testing right from start.
• Optimize the performance of the product and investigate and mitigate any sophisticated bugs and performance bottlenecks using profiling tools like New Relic, Xdebug, Blackfire
• Mentor and train team members to become future tech leads Technologies used: Angular 9, Angular Material, Lumen, Laravel, Avro Schema, Confluent Schema Registry, Confluent Kafka, Zookeeper, Elastic Search, Kibana, Cypress testing framework, Jasmine/Karma, PostgresSQL, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Typescript, NodeJS, Kafdrop, Confluent Control Center, git, SystemD Service, Akamai, Sendgrid, Javascript, SCSS, OAuth2 + Open ID Connect, Jenkins, JWT, Eloquent ORM, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis Sep 2018 – Oct 2019
Title: Engineering Manager
Employer: GEP (Global e Procure)
Location: Clark, NJ
Project: GEP Source to Pay & Supplier Intelligence Platform SMART by GEP is #1 product in end to end procurement software category used by Fortune 500 companies. GEP was named a leader in strategic sourcing needs in Gartner Magic Quadrant. Smart by GEP product provides complete source to contract and procure to pay solution.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• As Engineering Manager at GEP, I was responsible for building and managing team of highly skilled software engineers onsite and offshore and as Engineering lead and full stack developer responsible for end to end delivery of entire product built completely using cutting edge
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technologies like .Net core, Web API’s, Angular 6 and hosted completely on Azure Cloud
• Actively participate in requirement gathering workshop with fortune 500 clients and present scalable technical solutions
• Designed and developed new Data access layer 2.0 library for enterprise and exposed as nuget package using Dapper ORM and Polly framework.
• Designed and developed innovative application called “GEP Promptly” to drive process efficiency and enable teams to exceed the goals and SLA’s set by execute leadership.
• Design highly distributed and complex application using Azure Service Fabric and Micro-services.
• Designed highly scalable and flexible solution by integrating with third party supplier verification framework GRMS which could dynamically have more information.
• Design highly customizable dynamic reporting widget using GEP’s proprietary reporting framework
• Optimize the performance of the product and investigate and mitigate any sophisticated bugs and performance bottlenecks
• Take proactive and reactive measures to ensure zero defects in product and produce high quality product
• Train junior members in team to become future technology leaders in company
• Improved code coverage and code quality metric above enterprise goal of 80%
• Review Merge Request and review the code and provide feedback to improve code quality and ensure best practices are followed.
• Build highly scalable applications to meet heavy demand from our customers using cutting edge technologies with high accuracy and self healing capabilities using Polly framework
Technologies used: Angular 5, Rxjs, Bootstrap, .Net Core, SCSS, NodeJS, NPM, Bower, OAuth2, JWT, JSON, HTML5, .Net Core, JavaScript, CSS3, Git, New Relic,Azure Analysis Service, Azure Data Factory, Polly Framework, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Functions (Serverless), Azure Service Fabric, Swagger, APIM, Azure SQL,WCF, Github.
July 2015 – Sep 2018
Title: Technical Manager / Senior Technical Lead
Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Client: Lexis Nexis / Martindale Hubbell
Location: New Providence, NJ
Project: CSC Portal / SMB Portal
CSC Portal / SMB Portal is homegrown generic web platform developed using client side MVC framework using AngularJS and Restful Web Services. Using generic smb portal platform various business units within the client organization can develop independent apps on this platform.
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Roles & Responsibilities:
• As a Full Stack Developer and Technical Lead, design and architect the software implementation for Martindale and Ngage business unit on SMB Platform in most efficient manner and at the same time fulfilling all the business requirements from product team
• Constantly innovate technically to make the application more futuristic and efficient
• Directly report to Technical Leadership on development status of critical roadmap projects and ensure coverage to technical risks
• As overall Technical Account Manager for cognizant at Martindale ensure smooth deliveries of critical flagship products and deliverables and manage entire cognizant onsite and offshore team members
• Train team members on cutting edge technologies to coach them as future tech leaders in the team
• Resolve any technical impediments by finding solutions/debugging problems blocking project progress by using IDE’s and Debuggers
• Review code committed by team to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Work closely with client architects and prepare technical approach documents for sophisticated projects spanning/impacting multiple teams and applications
• Debug sophisticated technical issues including slowness, sporadic bugs using performance profilers and log analysis
• Design, Develop and Present Innovations and Product Demo’s to senior executive Leadership team
• Ensure the webpages are responsive and provide great UX on all types of devices and screen sizes using Foundation/Bootstrap
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend them to client organization for adoption
Technologies used: AngularJS, Bootstrap, Composer, Restful Services, SCSS, Node, NPM, Bower, Laravel, YII, Gassetic, OAuth2, Open ID Connect, JWT, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Git, Vagrant, New Relic, Apache, RabbitMQ, SupervisorD, Akamai CDN, Zeplin, InVision, SOCI, SendGrid, WebStorm, JIRA, Confluence, PostgreSQL, ASP.Net MVC
September 2011 - July 2015
Title: Senior Associate / Senior Web and Services Developer Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Client: Lexis Nexis
Location: New Providence, NJ
Project: www.lawyers.com Development
www.lawyers.com and www.martindale.com are #1 websites in USA for finding attorneys and are great resources for legal research. These websites get about 15 million visitors each month.
Roles & Responsibilities:
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• As a Tech Lead responsible for developing and managing these major websites with high traffic
• Responsible for implementing Search Engine Optimizations strategies to attract high traffic and leads
• Design and implement Content Management Systems for managing content that support these websites
• Design and implement A/B Testing on websites
• Identify and resolve any performance issue with these sites using profilers like Redgate, New Relic.
• Design Restful services to support functionalities of these websites
• Constantly innovate technically to make the application more futuristic and efficient
• Resolve any technical impediments by finding solutions/debugging problems blocking project progress
• Review code committed by team to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Work closely with client architects and prepare technical approach documents
• Ensure the webpages are responsive and works well with all types of devices and provide best user experience to consumers Technologies used: AngularJS, Foundation, Composer, Restful Services, SCSS, Node, NPM, Bower, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, TFS, Vagrant, New Relic, Apache, Supervisor, Akamai CDN, Sitecore CMS, IIS, Visual Studio, WebStorm, C#, ASP.Net MVC, BoldChat, Telemetrics, SQL Server, Oracle, Telligent Community Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB
October 2009 – September 2011
Title: Senior Associate / Senior Developer
Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Client: Dun & Bradstreet
Location: India
Worked on several successful projects at Dun and Bradstreet which is a largest information and credit report provider for business across the globe. D&B database contain 285 million records of commercial entities and 100 million associated contacts around the world.
Projects: eRecheck, Global Linkage Repository, Global Data Repository Technologies:
Java, Asp.Net, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C#, Linux, Oracle, IIS, SQL Server, BC++, VC++, InstallShield, SOAP, XML, Visual Studio
Responsibilities:
• As an offshore lead, manage team of developers and deliver critical technical deliverables for client organization
• Design and Architect solutions to satisfy business needs of product team
• Debug and find issues in products and provide permanent fix
• Manage priorities for the team members to ensure optimal results for client organization
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• Report status to onsite counter parts and client on critical roadmap projects
• Responsible for all technical deliveries to client organization June 2006 – September 2009
Title: Programmer Analyst / Developer
Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Client: Dun & Bradstreet
Location: India
Project: Risk Assessment Manager (RAM)
Technologies:
BC++, VC++, Asp.Net, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C#, Linux, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, SQL, Visual Studio
Responsibilities:
• As a Developer, responsible of coding and unit testing
• Design and Architect solutions to satisfy business needs of product team
• Debug and find issues in products and provide permanent fix
• Report status to onsite counter parts and client on critical roadmap projects
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