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Kamal Ahamed

Plymouth,MN

Summary

Tech Savvy Full stack developer familiar with wide range of programming utilities and languages with industry standard experience in developing both front end and backend applications with cutting edge technologies

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Sonos
07.2021 - Current
  • Designed and developed scalable distributed systems using a full-stack technology stack for both Front end and back end applications
  • Responsible for analyzing, design and develop applications and services based on business needs
  • Automate Unit Integration E2E tests using Jest framework
  • Peer review the code and provide constructive feedbacks for best practices and improvements
  • Created dashboards for monitoring and set alerts in slack for threshold limits
  • Collaborated with multiple teams to get the data required and participate actively in all design level meetings

Senior Engineer

Lowes Home Improvment
06.2020 - 07.2021
  • Worked in Agile Scrum team environment with high-tempo production cadence as fulls stack engineer.
  • Built flexible, reusable code and libraries for future use.
  • Wrote unit tests to evaluate high code coverage.
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Monitor using Grafana Kibana

Senior Engineer

Target Corporation
03.2016 - 06.2020

Key Participant in a big migration project from old monolithic to microservices platform.

  • Contributed as full stack engineer for Mobile Point of Sale application
  • Developed and implemented proactive maintenance practices
  • Maintained microservices for printers and receipt generation
  • Collaborated with internal checkout platform team for api contracts which consolidates data from different teams across corporate like item, price and created stories for grooming
  • Worked with product owners for features and converted them into stories and implemented
  • Proud to be member in team where we developed Mobile POS expands checkout capacity for any peak period and can allow team members to check guests out where it makes sense (ex. Black Friday electronics) or even become the primary checkout solution for tiny format stores.
  • Spring and Rest Framework with Postgres DB Database, Deployed in Kubernetics (K8) Cloud, using Drone as Deployment Agent, Ionic 1.2 framework for App development.
  • Worked in Transportation Last Mile and built microservices to get data from USPS UPS and other vendors

Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2009 - 03.2016

Developed test automation, defect triaging mechanisms, status reports for all projects worked across the company. Involved in organization level initiatives like core-automation team, mentoring juniors.

  • Managed in-house offshore testing team for project timelines and estimations including assigning tasks to juniors and getting the status ready for the clients before the scrum meetings as needed
  • Developed test case upload tool to upload test cases to TFS which was used by QA team for test case management.
  • Developed an automation tool which ran over 200 business rules in a matter of 45 minutes by creating a batch file which saved hours of testing efforts and resources.
  • Developed SQL scripts for creating data for test environment and clearing out once testing is done without impacting the application for claims processing application.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications Engineering

Anna University
Chennai
05.2008

Skills

  • Java
  • RESTful APIs
  • SpringBoot Framework
  • Maven and Gradle
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Git Version Control
  • JUnit and Mockito
  • AngularJS and ReactJS
  • Grafana / Kibana
  • Drone / Jenkins
  • PostgresSql
  • Selenium / Protractor
  • Rest Assured / NewMan for Automation Tests
  • Playwright
  • Axe-Core
  • Appium
  • HTML / CSS

Accomplishments

  • Key role in developing Mobile point of sale for Target Corporation and set up microservices culture in the organization which enables customer to checkout faster during black friday or peak hours.
  • Lead core-automation team in Tata Consultancy services and saved many manual efforts by developing tools and marketing it to clients
  • Created Unit test framework and mentored Quality team to shift left and start writing Unit / Integration tests which increased productiveness
  • Achieved unit tests coverage of >75%
  • Actively part of hiring team to bring talented resources to company
  • Architected Accessibility Test framework and automated all the A and AA compliance's for Professional web Application at Sonos

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Sonos
07.2021 - Current

Senior Engineer

Lowes Home Improvment
06.2020 - 07.2021

Senior Engineer

Target Corporation
03.2016 - 06.2020

Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2009 - 03.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications Engineering

Anna University
Kamal Ahamed