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Hemanth Hebbur Shekar

Gilbert,AZ

Summary

Senior Engineer I with over 18 years of experience in Information technology Industry. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements. Consistently saved costs while increasing profits. Managing Diverse programs under Agile work environments. Driven by new challenges and adept at adapting to cultural and business environments.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Engineer I

American Express
09.2015 - Current
  • American express developer portal - Lead American express developer portal teams to launch next gen portal capable of Next Gen OAuth product integrations, Migration from SSO SITEMINDER to One identity for session management and OTP generation , Integration with CertaaS for auto certificate uploads and deployment and Uplift of portal to have consistent and enhanced Next Gen experience for all API products hosted on Developer portal.
  • Cornerstone Streams platform - Worked on architecting real-time streams platform for data ingestion into big data ecosystem / low latency databases from several real-time queues SOR. Tech stack - Java, spark streaming, XLR , hive, and other low latency tables
  • Amex Kaggle - Participated in American express Kaggle, machine learning competition and secured within top 5 positions on two separate occasions.
  • Cornerstone real Time - Cornerstone is Big-data platform in American express. Worked on creating real-time data platform that Enabled real-time Data access of any big data attributes in terms of JSON documents that provided Automated API-based access hosted on Enterprise cloud platform . Technologies used - Vert x Micro-service , Couchbase , Jenkins , XL release , Hive . Also worked on enabling UI for self service. This Automation decreased manual efforts for Use case teams increasing their productivity by 50%. Platform supports API traffic of over 20000 Transactions per second.
  • Jungle project -Jungle project involves pulling billed and Unbilled transaction data from Triumph and matching it with Amazon line item details. Matched data is stored in H BASE tables and exposed to external system via Rest API. Technologies used - Apache spark with Java , Spring Boot API , HBASE Java API . This provided capability where customers could see line items along with transaction information for Amazon small business purchases on the Mica portal which lead to better customer satisfaction and increased year on year spending

Engineering Manager

Cognizant Technologies
06.2014 - 09.2015
  • Projects Credit risk reporting Description- Managed team of fifteen members for development Of highly normalized BDW structure to capture Enterprise data from multiple sources called as SFD
  • Development of Risk mart on Top of SFD that enables Risk reporting at loan level as its lowest grain
  • Reconcile enterprise loan level information against General ledger
  • Project implementation provided comprehensive view of organizational spending at asset level against existing cost center level leading to improved efficiencies and resulted savings of nearly 25 Million dollars per year
  • Core Technologies used - Hadoop Hive , IBM Tivoli , Java , Ab initio , Unix, Hadoop, Shell script

Senior Engineer

Wipro technologies
11.2013 - 06.2014
  • Projects- Digital Messaging systems(Capital One banks ) Introduction of new Alerts and extended delivery history capability.
  • Migration of customers from different banks Acquired by capital one like HSBC / 360 and OLBR customers.
  • This migration meant that customers of acquired banks could seamlessly log into capital one portals enhancing user experience and subsequently leading to increased card spending.

Technology Analyst

Infosys Technologies
06.2008 - 11.2013
  • Managed team of 16 members that developed data flows and and built Data Mart for integrated credit risk reporting.
  • This project provided integrated view of exposures from commercial, retail and other areas of organization with reconciliation with general ledger.
  • Project implementation provided comprehensive view of organizational spending at asset level against existing cost center level leading to improved efficiencies and resulted savings of nearly 30 Million dollars per year.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Bangalore

Skills

  • Project management
  • Java / Python
  • Big Data
  • Apache Spark
  • SQL and No SQL database
  • Micro services with Spring Boot / Vertx and GraphQL
  • Kafka / Spark streaming
  • Machine Learning
  • ETL (Ab Initio)
  • UI - React JS, Redux, Node

Responsibilities

  • Mentored junior engineers and new hires to better improve the competency and efficiency of all staff.
  • Created high-level product specifications and design documents.
  • Confirmed product performance by performing tests and troubleshooting difficulties.
  • Maintained project schedule by monitoring employee performance.
  • Collaborated successfully with cross-functional development teams to design new products.
  • Provided the development teams with architectural blueprints to follow.
  • Help the team baseline the requirements and implementation strategy Managing project pipe lines.
  • Experienced in leading teams of 20 -30 members on projects.

Timeline

Senior Engineer I

American Express
09.2015 - Current

Engineering Manager

Cognizant Technologies
06.2014 - 09.2015

Senior Engineer

Wipro technologies
11.2013 - 06.2014

Technology Analyst

Infosys Technologies
06.2008 - 11.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Hemanth Hebbur Shekar