SHAZIA AKHATAR
Parker,CO
Summary
Lead Java Developer with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions at the Department of Workforce Services, State of Wyoming, achieving a 60% reduction in fraud overpayments. Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Agile methodologies drives the development of robust and scalable applications. Strong problem-solving skills and team leadership enhance operational efficiency and project success. Committed to leveraging technical proficiencies to implement advanced system functionalities.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Java Developer | Associate Consultant
Department of Workforce Services, State of Wyoming
, USA
03.2018 - Current
- Company Overview: WYUI is the modernization of the State of Wyoming’s 35 years old mainframe-based Unemployment Insurance solution which is hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Wyoming became the very first state in the US to develop, test, and implement the entire Unemployment Insurance solution on the Cloud Platform in a record time of fewer than 31 months (about 2 and a half years)
- WYUI is also the first Unemployment Insurance solution to clear all the required regulatory audits, and certifications on the cloud such as IRS SSR, SSA, TOP, SAVE, and ICON
- Led a team in the design and development of new user interface and backend processing capabilities to deliver the payments successfully and timely to thousands of claimants within a very tight SLA
- Working and guiding a team to convert the existing monolithic Application to microservices architecture using Spring Boot, Spring security and JPA
- Created a distributed system of rest microservices to decouple the different modules of the project and ensure seamless and secure connectivity
- Deployed using docker and AWS-EKS
- Part of core team for all technical architectural discussions to migrate the existing monolithic application into Angular, Spring boot, micro services and JPA thereby improving the application responsiveness and performance
- Created new RESTful Webservices using JSON data format to communicate with all external systems using Spring MVC framework
- Developed OAuth2.0 integration with ID.me (Identity management website) to verify the identity of applicants resulting in 60% reductions in fraud overpayments
- Developed caching mechanism with Redis cache resulting in the reduction of load on primary database
- Resolved the critical customer issues by properly analyzing the root cause for the problems
- Worked with the customers directly and acted as a primary source of contact to understand the requirements and issues and provide solutions
- Created Requirement specification, Approach, Design and Effort estimation documents
- Prepared Class diagrams, Database design, ER Diagrams
- Followed Test Driven Development (TDD), Scrum
- Review code developed by other developers and provided feedback to ensure best practices
- Worked as initiative lead developer and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the most critical modules in the project like Payments, Overpayments, Claims and Cashiering
- Worked on Agile Methodology for Application Development and Production Support
- Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies
- Maintained and enhanced several critical batches
- Wrote new batch programs for the business requirement to perform frequent operations to run in backend
- Developed MIS Dashboard and Report through BIRT Reporting Framework across the Application
- Developed service classes to implement business logic, BO classes and Hibernate DAO & data mapping classes for DB2 database operations
- Developed JSP, JavaScript, Struts Action class, Struts Form beans and Struts Validations
- WYUI is the modernization of the State of Wyoming’s 35 years old mainframe-based Unemployment Insurance solution which is hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Wyoming became the very first state in the US to develop, test, and implement the entire Unemployment Insurance solution on the Cloud Platform in a record time of fewer than 31 months (about 2 and a half years)
- WYUI is also the first Unemployment Insurance solution to clear all the required regulatory audits, and certifications on the cloud such as IRS SSR, SSA, TOP, SAVE, and ICON
- Environment: Java 8/11/17, J2EE, Spring MVC, SOA, Angular 14/16/17, Angular CLI, Hibernate, JSP, HTML, XML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, Rabbit MQ, Tomcat, WSDL, Azure, RESTful web services, JMS, JUnit, Log4j, Git
Senior Java Developer | Assistant Consultant
Passport Seva Project | Ministry of External Affairs, India
, India
01.2011 - 02.2018
- Company Overview: PSP is the project to deliver passport and related services to the citizens of India in a timely and transparent manner
- This project is highly secure having multi-tier and very complex architecture
- Ideated and developed a new appointment opening and scheduling system to improve and automate the appointment booking process of the project
- Led a small team to Revamp the Passport portal resulted in improved user experience
- Worked on the integration of Passport portal with SBI bank to achieve online payment and streamline the Passport Fees process
- Understand client requirements and transform functional requirements to technical requirements
- Developed multiple batches to automate several processing like automated deletion of temporary documents from SAN storage, deleting uncompleted applications after a certain period etc
- Implemented multi-factor authentication using email to protect citizen’s accounts from unauthorized access
- Write highly quality, efficient, maintainable & scalable code based on the specification
- Validate end to end functionality testing and implementation of large-scale application
- Co-ordinated with various other teams for system integration, security, performance and production deployment of the application
- PSP is the project to deliver passport and related services to the citizens of India in a timely and transparent manner
- This project is highly secure having multi-tier and very complex architecture
Education
Master of Computer Application -
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
India01.2010
Bachelors in Information Technology -
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
India01.2007
Skills
- Core Java
- J2EE
- Angular
- JSON
- JSP
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- AJAX
- XML
- Java Micro services
- Web Services
- Apache Tomcat
- JBoss
- Web Sphere Application Server
- IntelliJ
- Eclipse
- Visual Studio Code
- Maven
- Docker
- Azure DevOps
- BIRT Reporting
- HPExtreme
- Ready Api
- SOAPUI
- Automated API Testing
- Sonar
- Log4J
- Junit
- PMD
- Find bugs
- Azure Cloud
- AWS Cloud
- Windows
- Linux
- IBM DB2
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Spring cloud
- Struts
- Hibernate
- JPA
- Tiles
- Selenium
- Mockito
- SVN
- Git
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) certified
- Microsoft Certified – Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) certified
Awards
- Customer appreciation for developing and delivering the critical new programs on time resulting in timely payments to the citizens.
- TCS Executive Development Program Award
- Star of the Month Award
- Contextual Master Award for deep domain and business knowledge
- Best Team Award
Coursework
Data Structures and Algorithms
Timeline
Lead Java Developer | Associate Consultant
Department of Workforce Services, State of Wyoming
03.2018 - Current
Senior Java Developer | Assistant Consultant
Passport Seva Project | Ministry of External Affairs, India
01.2011 - 02.2018
Master of Computer Application -
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
Bachelors in Information Technology -
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
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