About Me

MY BACKGROUND

7.5+ years of Software development experience in developing and deploying C# .NET & RESTful API projects, leading teams, and collaborating across SCRUM teams and external clients & and partners.

3+ years of System Design and architecture experience designing, RESTful applications & and Windows services and driving roadmap strategy with a strong bias for architecting for performance, scalability, security, and reliability.

A well-organized, detail-oriented, versatile professional and ethical team player with a high standard for quality & and passion for learning, exploring technologies, and growing within an organization with a strong Computer Science background and solid C# development and debugging skills.

Work Experience

WHERE HAVE I WORKED

  • Diagnostic Collection Suite
    • Took ownership of analysis & articulation of complex issues & technologies in DCS project which collects diagnostics from various servers and sources in large scale distributed Mainframe OS systems environment, greatly reducing manual efforts and improving the ease of debugging.

    • Architected and led the development automated error detection RESTful API for DCS, thereby triggering a smart and fully automated diagnostic collection resulting in early detection & diagnosis and reduction in average issue/bug turnaround time by 25% thereby improving customer experience.

    • Refactored UI/UX design by optimizing & making improvements in JavaScript resulting in a smoother, responsive and better customer/user experience, & fixing UI bugs and issues in the process.

  • Firmware Version Service
    • Responsible for Architecture & System Design for enhancing existing FVS Application, a monolith .NET MVC (REST API) based monitoring/reporting product primarily used to query system firmware details.

    • Increased the reporting output by 10X and performance by 15% by re-architecting core - monitoring & reporting API system design and leveraging algorithmic improvements & design patterns across the product.

    • Fostered a team culture of doing it right the first time by emphasizing on careful analysis, design and architecture discussions before code, and setting high coding standards by stringent code reviews & high coverage Unit Tests.

    • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance, and customers to resolve technical issues.

    • Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in .NET Design Patterns, Virtualization & DevOps and working to improve overall team performance, involving them in architectural and high-level bug discussions to incorporate open, honest, and inclusive approaches to problem-solving

  • AWS, Azure & VMware Cloud Adoption
    • Drove roadmap strategy and definition with guidance from senior leadership for AWS and Azure Cloud Platform adoption & support for Unisys CPF Solutions, leading collaboration across parnter organization to pool expertise in Cloud to provide best possible customer experience. This was key-criteria in acquisition of $144 million client contract for hybrid cloud.

    • Led multiple teams of 3-4 members to evaluate mainframe solution's deployment on native cloud, exploring possibilities & challenges in architecting & migrating OS stack on AWS, Azure & VMware Cloud.

    • Improved processes and customer experience by increasing availability to 99.99% and documenting best practices learnt by leading teams to evaluate platform's BCDR capabilities & inducing complex fault-injections.

  • Unisys Mainframe - Inter Server Communication
    • Improved the architecture & security of inter-platform communication leveraging use of Schannel (TLS/SSL), IO Socket SSL for Perl, CIFS, SMB and EFS encryption.

  • Soft Tape Manager
    • Worked on SDLC for a new product STM 2.0, offered as enterprise-level tape storage management suite for Unisys Mainframe environment, enhancing experience and reducing additional expenses for client businesses.

    • Communicate effectively and partner with other SCRUM teams and disciplines of the overall product team including Platform Test, System Test and ID teams to deliver high quality solution from initial product design to production.

    • Lead architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using C#, JUnit Unit Testing framework, Unity Dependency Injection leveraging MVC, Repository, Factory & Strategy Design Patterns.

    • Team Leader for complete software development life cycle development - SPA UI/UX Design, .NET backend with SQL Database, improving Suite revenue by 15% YoY, bringing in $12.6 million contract.

    • Improved DevOps process reducing build time 25% by strategically restructuring pipelines, leveraging 7 years of full software development life cycle experience in source control management, build processes, code analysis, testing and staging.

  • Soft Tape Manager
    • Worked on initial release of STM 1.0 offered as dev-test only product, enabling the client business to evaluate and provide early feedback, enabling us to improve our product roadmap and features, along with enhancing customer experience.

    • Drafted initial coding standards and practices, leveraging community and industry peer's experience while improving the draft with the learnings during the software development lifecycle.

    • Led core tape emulation mechanism architecture and development, leveraging CIFS, Windows APIs, Linux Shell Scripts for data-plane, along with RESTful API for control plane. [Patent - US 15/933,662]

Hobbyist Projects

WHAT I DO FOR FUN & TO LEARN

My Education

WHERE I WENT TO STUDY

SVNIT-Surat

National Institute of Technology, Surat | India

Bachelor of Technology | 2012 - 2016

Computer Engineering

CGPA: 7.3/10 | Percentage: 78%

KV-1 Jamnagar

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Jamnagar | India

All India Senior School Certificate Examination | Class XII Board - 2011

Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths) with Computer Science

Percentage: 77%

Technologies & Skills

WHAT I BRING TO TABLE

  • Web App Architecture
  • System Design
  • OOP Design Patterns
  • C# | .NET
  • MVC
  • Razor Pages
  • Blazor SPA
  • RESTful APIs
  • Identity OAuth 2.0
  • Cloud IaaS | PaaS Planning
  • Cloud WebApp Migration
  • Cloud HA | DR
  • SQL Server
  • Azure App Service | Database
  • GitLab | Azure DevOps
  • JavaScript | REACT.js
  • Python
  • Leadership | Team Leader
  • Mentoring
  • Agile | SCRUM

Achievements

WHERE I SHINE

  • Silver Recognition Award for exceeding performance expectations
  • Patent for Inter-Server Control & Communication Mechanism
  • One of the fastest promotions for a fresher associate engineer
  • National Science Talent Search Examination State Topper

Interests

OUT OF OFFICE

  • Travelling | Road Trips
  • Photography
  • PC Games
  • Basketball
  • Swimming
  • Table-Tennis

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