Kinshuk Makkad

• Collaborate with CTO and Technology directors advising them and designing technology roadmap, tech stack and application security roadmap for new applications and legacy application modernization.
• Managed team of 15 and budget of $100 million and oversaw development of internal assets as well as client deliveries across account.
• Worked with State of Texas "Application Architecture Review Board" to understand needs and provide excellent service in designing and advising on application modernization blueprint.
• Develop POC and concepts for handling eligibility cases, individuals and relationship models using CystoscapeJS network graphs, ElasticSearch, Apache NiFi, graphQL with integration with several federal and state data sources.
• Performed architectural assessments for state applications and evaluate and provide solutions for scalability and high availability.
• Lead architect and advisory board member for Texas Department of State and Health services HIV/STD program
• On advisory board for several projects under Deloitte providing assessment and advice on technology project management, technical architecture design, high availability, cost optimization and distributed architecture.
• Oversaw daily operations to ensure high levels of productivity
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions

As technical architect and innovation leader, responsible for application modernization, pilot applications and build roadmap and strategy for client (Health and Human Service – Texas). In current role, was able to lay foundation for and delivery multiple success stories for firm and client. Key Highlights:

• Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across practice on priorities, functions and common goals.
• Raised performance in areas of development and operations by identifying and targeting areas in need of improvement.
• Established and updated work schedules to project for changing staff levels and expected workloads.
• Architected API governance and technical architecture for migrating monolith J2EE based application to container based lightweight microservices architecture keeping things minimal and simple using Spring Boot, Circuit Breakers, Security Integration, AOP based instrumentation, OpenAPI 3.0 spec based auto code generator and linter.
• Migrating existing JSP based user experience to Single Page application using React with federated modules using jamstack principles and complying to WCAG 2.0 AA guidelines for strict accessibility compliance.
• Wrote custom babel transpilers, babel plugins, webpack loaders, webpack plugins and VSCode extension, CLI to improve development efficiency and enforce code standardization.
• Architect, team lead and developer for serverless application with distributed architecture to support massive scale usage for Center of Disease Control (CDC) vaccine scheduler.
• Architect, team lead and developer for unemployment application for Texas Workforce Commission with high availability using serverless architecture under 2 weeks when clients mainframe based legacy systems were under stress due to high unemployment due to COVID-19.
• Designed and developed New York COVID-19 pre-screener for state of New York on serverless architecture on Google Cloud Platform.

• Determined areas for improvement and implemented processes to alleviate problems
• Boosted success of client's organization by improving performance, motivation, job satisfaction, hiring practices, training programs and management systems
• Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates
• Monitored and managed staff performance to attain target metrics both individually and team unit
• Directed work completed by team of 10 consultants
• Architect, Owner, and major contributor of Deloitte internal firm asset “LIFT”. This framework is used across multiple projects for designing consistent and accessible PWA applications using React
• Architect, team lead and developer household composition graph with multiple individuals and relationships in understandable simplistic node graph to increase productivity of call center staff
• Architect, team lead and developer for resilient and event driven electronic verification system for verifying data from various sources including employment data, SSN, IRS, HL7 CDC, Alien verification system (SAVE), Birth vital system (BVS)
• Played key role in advising and designing systems for client to quickly disburse FEMA payments for Hurricane Harvey victims
• Developed face detection and face matching application for Texas Department of Public Safety (Intelligence and counter terrorism division) using python, OpenCV and TensorFlow
• Designed and developed intelligent AI chatbots for several states using RASA, Kore.AI, Google DialogFlow and AWS Lex

• Evaluated and improved development work of other developers on team, working to provide training, constructive criticism and knowledge transfer.
• Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments.
• Automated quality assurance testing of software by developing test cases and scripts.
• Worked with users to gather requirements and evaluate ease of use.
• Developed and architected key migration projects for State of Texas to transition several applications created by multiple vendors into one unified system. Went live from conception to production in 6 months with stringent tests by client for scalability and accessibility. Application has per day average load of 8 million users, 9 million document uploads with virus scanning and 74% goal conversion. It was awarded by NASCIO for best digital transformation.
• Developer for implementation of Affordable Health Care Act integration with Medicaid and Medicare programs by creating bi-directional hub which interacts with internal State of Texas systems and Federal systems.
• Developed auditing framework to track all transactions, their history and timeline.

• Developed subscription-based applications for investment banks to access key insight into companies, their stocks and in-house financial analysis
• Developed mobile application framework which was used to develop 6+ mobile apps using Appcelerator (Titanium – Javascript based mobile application platform).
• Developed high performance applications using PHP – Zend Framework, Doctrine ORM and MySQL database with on premise datacenter
• Developed unit testing framework and integration with CI/CD pipelines
• Transitioned existing manual database version tracking to automated database schema changes and versioning using Liquibase
• Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate software errors and inefficiencies

• Supported research and development efforts for NSF sponsored project VLAB (Virtual lab where infrastructure can be requested on demand in custom configuration)
• Used Xen Virtualization on Linux distribution with configuration stored in MySQL and authentication via NYU's SSO platform (Microsoft Active Directory)
• Prepared NYU Online e-learning platform and strategy for evaluating learning management system to deliver better online experience
• Planned, modified and executed research techniques, procedures and tests
• Got full scholarship and salary stipend for Masters Program from NYU

• Engineered software components for automation hardware such as microcontrollers and sensors
• Collaborated with software, firmware and hardware engineers to develop complete embedded solutions
• Performed high-level coding in various programming languages
• Designed embedded hardware, firmware and interfaces used in Bio Technology industry for growing organic algae