Darshan Chipade
San Jose,CA
Summary
14 Years of experience with involvement in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), system development including interaction with client for estimation and requirements, implementation and support in agile software development approach. Design and implement various CMS and DAM solutions leveraging Adobe AEM Sites (cloud and on-premises), Assets, AEM Franklin, Contentful and TeamSite. Demonstrated experience with Frontend technologies. Work in agile, rapid development, end to end solutions and prototyping environments. Experience in managing and supporting multiple projects simultaneously with different process & methodologies. Good communication, Interpersonal, Client interaction skills, Ability to handle multitasking. Energetic Lead/Manager enthusiastic about developing deeper understanding of engineering design and leadership. Natural leader and networker with hardworking, resourceful and competitive nature. Energetic and enthusiastic about developing deeper understanding of engineering design and leadership. Natural leader and networker with hardworking, resourceful and competitive nature. Seasoned Engineering Manager adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel. Experienced leader and Architect with 6+ years history in field. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
AEM Architect/Delivery Lead
GSPANN Technologies
01.2018 - Current
- Writing technical proposals on Adobe marketing cloud solution projects
- Leading Application solutions, Technical architecture (Application / Infrastructure), Integrations with eCommerce patterns
- Auditing an existing AEM implementations and providing optimized solutions and recommendations
- Defining content migration strategies from existing CMS platforms to AEM
- Inception, define and implement AEM infrastructure solutions
- Code reviews for ongoing projects to ensure optimal code quality and appropriate design patterns are used.
Architect/Manager
PALL Corporation
04.2024 - 07.2024
- Define the content migration strategies from existing CMS platforms to AEM
- Auditing an existing AEM implementations and providing optimized solutions and recommendations
- Inception, define and implement the AEM infrastructure solutions
- Directed in setting up a cloud program
- Facilitated a migration of the PALL website from AEM 6.5.X to cloud platform
- Carried out the configuration of Cloud Manager
- Oversaw the re-factoring and developing strategy for the exiting components
- Code reviews for migration project to ensure optimal code quality
- Participated in UAT and post-Go-live support
- Technologies: AEM 6.5.x, AEM cloud, Git.
Tech Lead/ Architect
TDAmeritrade Inc.
02.2018 - 03.2024
- Define the architecture CMS approach for various web-properties, where AEM serves as a content repository accessible via APIs for front-end applications developed in various frameworks
- Define the infrastructure requirements for the various AEM environments
- Structure content models in AEM to be flexible and reusable across different front-end applications and channels
- Led the design and implementation of digital transformation of different opcos using AEM
- Facilitated the overall Retail marketing project delivery for the Retail site, Microsites and various web properties
- Orchestrated Experience Fragments feature for the re-use of the content across the multiple pages
- Carried out the creation of the Content Fragment involving the creation of the custom content fragment model
- Experienced in execution of the Editable templates, Page templates
- Acquired proficiency in Sling Models, servlets, OSGi Configurations and Sling model exporter
- AEM Language copy was executed from creating and instrumenting multilingual content structure in Retail sites
- ACS-Commons Redirect Maps and Vanity URL implemented for the Retail and Microsites
- Oversaw the design and development of the Enterprise Content Management services
- Oversaw SSO integration with AEM using SAML
- Jenkins server setup and configurations along with Jenkins deployment jobs
- AEM dispatcher setup and configuration
- Directed the AEM upgrade project from 6.3 to 6.5
- Use AEM's security features to set permissions on content nodes, templates, components, and services
- This includes configuring read, write, modify, and delete permissions based on roles Performing AEM maintenance activities including the heap dump analyses
- Code reviews for every multiple projects and migration to ensure optimal code quality and appropriate design patterns are used
- Technologies: AEM 6.5.x, AEM 6.4.x Jenkins, Artifactory, GIT, Akamai, TeamSite, OpenDeploy, Open JDK Zulu.
Tech Lead/Developer
Riverbed Technologies
07.2016 - 06.2017
- Solution designing and providing technical oversight to team in implementation
- Analyzed the custom implementation, Services involved, web configurations at Riverbed
- Blogs implementation on Authoring side with customized code
- Workflow customization involved the Page Move, Deleted to be routed through Custom Riverbed Workflow
- MSM roll out custom configuration setup
- Migration of the User, Groups and Permissions using ACL’s package manager
- Third party integration implementation REST API for the form Submissions (Eloqua)
- Oversaw Dispatcher configuration, re-write rules, Http to Https redirect etc
- Worked on Global Link Adaptor (GLA) team for the translation of the content
- Refactored the Custom index at Riverbed
- Worked closely with Riverbed Akamai to add cloudlets rules, update origin etc
- Executed jQuery to provide services to different components
- Leveraged HTML and CSS implementing custom CQ components
- Jenkins Infra and Artifactory for the respective environments
- Technologies: AEM 6.0, AEM 6.2, Eclipse, SVN, Apache Maven, JIRA, Jenkins, Artifactory.
Sr. Developer
Columbia Sports
11.2015 - 05.2016
- Directed in the implementation of basic/complex Components, Templates and Pages
- Upgrade AEM environment from AEM 6.2 to 6.3 and 6.4 version
- Orchestrated in the design phase for the Home and Category pages
- Facilitated in setting up Git repository
- Leveraged the setup of Authoring and Publishing environments
- Extensive use of Sightly and CQ Tag Libraries in the components
- Experience in designing rich Internet applications (RIAs)
- Strong knowledge and experience with Java and Java Server Pages (JSP)
- Technologies: AEM 6.1, Eclipse, Git, Apache Maven, JIRA, Servlets, JSP, HTML.
Sr. Developer
Apple Inc.
04.2015 - 09.2015
- Accomplished in publishing assets, static pages and dynamic components pages to multiple publishing instance
- Accomplished in implementing the concepts like Live Copy, Language Copy and Blueprints
- Experienced using ToughDay tool for the creation of assets
- Created custom REST services using AEM OSGI bundle
- Developed GET/POST sling servlets to provide various services in the CQ system
- Implemented the internationalization (I18N) for all the components
- Technologies: AEM 6.0, Eclipse, Apache Maven.
Developer
Macys
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Involved in designing of Dynamic Email Data Model
- Developed and enhanced DataCapture templates (DCT) for the Email using TeamSite templating and FormPublisher
- Developed Presentation Templates to preview the contents
- Customizing the Workflows to facilitate the Dynamic emails functionality
- Created and customized components, page templates and site templates using SitePublisher
- Worked extensively on TeamSite FormAPI with Java Script
- Technologies: TeamSite 7.x, OpenDeploy, DataDeploy, Perl, JSP, XML, XSL, Oracle 11.g.
Developer
Ebay Motors
- NASCAR-Join the eBay nation involved the placing of the eBay User id on the No.5 Chevrolet, driven by racing car legend Mark Martin
- The project involved the signing of user on eBay and then redirecting to the success page
- User could browse the garage page after logging in successfully.
Education
Masters of Computer Information system - undefined
University of Houston
Clear Lake, TX01.2009
Bachelor of Electronics and Telecom. - Electronic And Telecom
Pune University
Pune01.2006
Skills
- Java
- J2EE
- SQL
- Perl
- Junit
- Mockito
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ
- Visual Studio
- CRXDE Lite
- ReactJs
- HTML
- CSS
- JSON
- XML
Timeline
Architect/Manager
PALL Corporation
04.2024 - 07.2024
Tech Lead/ Architect
TDAmeritrade Inc.
02.2018 - 03.2024
AEM Architect/Delivery Lead
GSPANN Technologies
01.2018 - Current
Tech Lead/Developer
Riverbed Technologies
07.2016 - 06.2017
Sr. Developer
Columbia Sports
11.2015 - 05.2016
Sr. Developer
Apple Inc.
04.2015 - 09.2015
Developer
Macys
01.2011 - 01.2015
Developer
Ebay Motors
Masters of Computer Information system - undefined
University of Houston
Bachelor of Electronics and Telecom. - Electronic And Telecom
Pune University
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