Software Engineering Project Management

Nilesh Thakkar

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Summary

18+ years of experience in architecture, design, development, and support of mission-critical business applications using Software engineering and project management methodologies

Experience as Application/Technical Lead with designing and implementing reusable assets/prototypes/ solutions in the cloud and modern architectures, domain-driven design, integration patterns connecting varied technology and vendor platforms

Delivered business architecture needs with new or different technologies to enhance current business processes and support overall business goals and responsible for the overall system solution design, development, and delivery

Ability to learn quickly, apply new knowledge in a fast-paced ever-changing technical environment, motivate, empower, and lead onshore/offshore teams in engaging, solutioning, and delivering complex projects with a diverse complexity including but not limited to web/windows, product implementation, digital transformation, and cloud migration

Proficient in SOAP, REST API, Web Services, XML, Enterprise application, Single page application, Microservices architecture, Containerization, Packaging, Caching, Cloud, etc.

Demonstrable knowledge of security technologies, including physical security, user authentication, access control, encryption, working knowledge of data protection and encryption, a secure application, and other best security practices

Experience with DevSecOps practices including but not limited to CI/CD concepts and tools, familiarity with automation testing, and code analysis tools

Requirements gathering, architectural specification, database, and business layer design, user interface development, testing, optimization, and deployment

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Languages: React JS,AngularKs, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, VC++, C++, VB.NET, SQL, XML, XSLT, Node JS

Database: SQL Server, Mongo DB Atlas, DB2

Platform: Windows, Linux, Cloud Foundry (PAAS), AWS

Technologies: .NET Core and Framework, Node JS, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SiteMinder, CA Access Gateway, Cryptography, MVC, WCF, SOAP, Web API and RESTful, Entity Framework

Tools: Rally, VS Code, VS 2019, GitHub, CI/CD pipeline, SVN, VSS 6.0, Nexus, NPM, SharePoint, IIS, Jenkins, UCD, AJAX Tool Kit, Ready-API, Fiddler, Re-Sharper, SailPoint, Remedy, Dynatrace, Gray Log, Robo 3T, Mongo Compass, Slack, MS Teams, Beyond Compare, JMeter, Black duck

Work Experience

Employer: Infosys Ltd., Hartford, CT

2022 – Till date

Lead Consultant

Responsible for Leading and Guiding the team for various initiatives such a server migration, piloting notification feature to help business

Design and document the architectural specs

Ensure all critical and relevant services are monitored using Dynatrace, alerts, etc.

Architect, Design, and develop application enhancements and new capabilities

Migrate application from one server to another

Employer: LTI, Hartford, CT

2005 - 2022

Technical Lead

2013 – 2022

Digital transformation greenfield development to modernize, optimize the user workflow and automation of business workflows and integration with mainstream enterprise application

Responsible for Software Engineering Practices, Source code management including versioning, branches, and issue tracking, code quality rules and governance, automated testing, and use of testing frameworks

Design POCs, evaluate open-source libraries, prepare design documents, create reusable libraries, services, that can be leveraged by agile teams

Ensure all critical and relevant services are monitored using Dynatrace, alerts, etc.

Design reusable shared components libraries in React and package them to use across multiple agile teams

Architect, Design, and develop single-page applications/micro-views with React JS, Axios, Node JS, NPM

Develop APIs using .NET core, Node JS, Entity Framework, etc.

Migrate data from SQL to Mongo atlas with Gitlab CI/CD and setup SQL DDL

Automate customer journey emailing with salesforce marketing cloud

Mentor Team to become high deliverable team with T shaped engineers

Worked as onshore dev lead for developing and supporting 3 new web applications viz. MyTRC Self-Assessment, Search, Recommendations created using MERN stack

Technical Lead

2009 – 2013

App modernization and Cloud Migration migrate business-critical applications to Cloud Foundry. Enhanced the usage of Entity framework for fast development.

Assess, plan, remediate, develop, and migrate enterprise application to Cloud Foundry with modern browser compatibility

Develop CI/CD pipeline to accelerate delivery to the market using Jenkins and UCD

Conduct working sessions and participate in PI planning, iteration grooming, backlog refinement, etc.

Formulate technical POCs, prepare technical specification document and materialize them to functional applications

Develop, test, and implement enterprise survey application with the active user base of 5000+ using C#, ASP.NET MVC, WCF REST Services, JavaScript, SQL Server 2012, Mongo DB

Develop new APIs using NGINX, .NET core and framework, enable SiteMinder and CA Access gateway for authentication and deploy them to Cloud Foundry

Serve as a key liaison between the architecture and 5 agile teams to influence the technical strategy for the organization, understand impacts, integration across the organization, and architecture rationalization

Contribute to the code base, manage source code versions and branches, manage releases, monitor performance metrics, review, and track deliverables to ensure best practices are followed throughout the PIs

Technical point of contact to plan, debug and navigate the operational challenges of cloud computing

AS-IS migration of legacy vb applications to .Net

Worked as an onshore dev lead to develop and support application migrations to PCF

Worked as an onshore dev lead to develop and support critical enhancements in Risk Control Workstation

Senior Developer

2006-2009 Hartford CT/Pune, India

Senior/lead developer for the development of a rate quote application

Mentor and lead a team size of 15 for a reverse engineering work

Assist BA to accomplish the development of the rate quote application with enhanced quality

Introduced dynamo DB to faster configure the rate quote application

Design, develop and test web app and API with C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript and SQL

Developer

2005-2006 Pune, India

Key contributor as part of Center of Excellence team

Explore new technologies

Assist Teams for solutioning and troubleshooting

Employer: Saband Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

2004 – 2005

Software Engineer

Responsible for coding, Unit Testing and deploying of Software Applications

Employer: Dolphin Systems Pune, India

2003 – 2004

Trainee Engineer

Responsible for coding, Unit Testing of Software Applications

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