Ankitkumar Patel
Meriden,CT
Summary
Over 10+ years of expertise in solution architect and software developer with a commitment to and experience of developing innovative and creative software applications. Able to perform full lifecycle application development, design and deployment for various platforms including iOS, Android, and windows. Ensure corporate-wide security and compliance requirements are met across all systems and data for the enterprise. Specifies the components and their interactions that comprise the End-to-End integrated architecture including work with customers, stakeholder, Enterprise Architects, and development team to define high level solutions.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead-Cybersecurity/ Solution Architect
AT&T, Services Inc.
11.2017 - Current
- As the Lead Solution Architect responsible for the specific solution related to Access Management for Consumer and First-Net Native/Web Apps, developed by AT&T, third party developers, and Federal, State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement agencies and other First Responder agencies
- This includes maintain AT&T security standards and applying Federally mandated (NIST) security standards to all solutions and ensuring they are implemented per design
- Oversee cyber security areas across products, services, infrastructure, networks, and/or applications while providing protection for AT&T, our customers, and our vendors/partners
- Identify interfaces and collaborations between them, define higher-level functional Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs)
- Work with senior team members on various projects relating to the protection of devices, customers, assets, data, information technology, and networks
- Support innovation, strategic planning, technical proof of concepts, testing, lab work, and various other technical program management related tasks associated with the cyber security programs
- Produce ideation, testing, proof of concept, and support for various cyber related projects
- Assess complex security issues and the development and engineering activities to help mitigate risk
- Analyze various hardware and software solutions recommending purchases and identifying modifications to fit AT&T’s cyber security needs and that of our managed services teams
- Develop policies and procedures to minimize network intrusion, malware events and vulnerability issues for internal and external customers
- Apply measures to block malicious code and applications
- Implement forward looking research, planning, and strategy to strengthen our stance against future cyber security threats and enhance our mitigation techniques and technology solutions
- Assist with the follow areas of work: cyber incident response, cyber product testing, cyber risk and strategic analysis, cyber research, cyber awareness and training, cyber vulnerability detection and assessment, cyber intelligence and investigation, cyber networks and systems engineering, cyber security application testing, cyber digital forensics and forensics analysis, cyber software assurance, cyber business operations and support, cyber application development & testing, cyber operational support, cyber IoT planning & testing, cyber policy & requirements & standards.
Mobile Application Developer
United Airlines
06.2015 - 11.2017
- Developed the application using MVC framework, Java, Swift and Objective C
- Developed UI Interface as per requirements
- Worked on Unit Testing using Quick/Nimble framework
- SAFe Agile Methodology is used to develop entire application
- Used Cocoa Touch framework with Swift and Objective C to implement UI View Controllers, UI Views, and UI Buttons through UI Tab Bar, UI Navigation Controller, UI Table View and Storyboards
- Worked with dependencies using Cocoa Pods for necessary 3rd party libraries
- Map View implementation using the MapKit and Core Location Frameworks
- Web Services consumption on the iPhone to communicate with the MediaWiki API using the NSURLRequest and NSURLConnection objects
- Data scrolling is achieved using UIScrollPane and UITextView
- Implemented Core Data for persistent storage of user data
- Worked with Swift 2.0.Lead the technical analysis and evaluation of new technologies, vendors, products, and product enhancements with a strong point of view on end-user functionality and an eye for highly usable user interface design
- Followed a work data flow principle for design and development
- Responsible for defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in coherent systems design
- Pre-fetching data for different views for smooth screen transition
- Worked with Backend team to display the correct data format in devices
- Used RESTful API (commonly JSON) to communicate with the server
- Web Services consumption on the iPhone and iPad to communicate with the MediaWiki API using the NSURLRequest and NSURLConnection objects XML Response parsing using the NSXMLParser and NSXMLParserDelegate
- JSON Response parsing using the SBJSON Framework
- Parsed JSON objects obtained from the server side and show contents on the app
- Used GIT and SVN as remote repository and conducted branch merging through pull requests
- Responsible for Crash fixes and monitoring on production App
- Interacted with QA on deliverables on every iteration and customer feedback implementation
- Participated in daily Scrums and monthly Sprint planning
- This application was designed and implemented using iPhone SDK, XCode, interface builder, Swift, objective C and instruments
- Environment: iOS 8.0/9.0, Swift 2.0, Objective C, Cocoa, XCode, iPad, iPhone, Interface Builder
- Libraries used were Foundation Framework, MapKit, XML parsing, JSON parsing, and UIKit Framework.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CABachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Shri Sad Vidya Mandal Institute of Technology (SVMIT), Bharuch, India
Skills
- React native, C,C, Objective-C, Kotlin, Swift, Java, HTML, CSS,Javascript
- Authorization, Authentication, and Accounting
- SAML, OpenID, OAuth, AppAuth OWASP, Quick/ Nimble, Tealeaf, New Relic, ReactiveCocoa, UIKit, Web Kit
- Safe-Agile Certified, UML, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, TDD
- Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server
- XCode, Eclipse, Android Studio
- MS Windows, Mac OS, Unix
- Security Attach Pathologies
- Security Vulnerability Assessment
Timeline
Lead-Cybersecurity/ Solution Architect
AT&T, Services Inc.
11.2017 - Current
Mobile Application Developer
United Airlines
06.2015 - 11.2017
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Shri Sad Vidya Mandal Institute of Technology (SVMIT), Bharuch, India