Manoj Ramesh Panchal
Mechanicsburg,PA
Summary
Over 20 years of extensive experience in IT industry, committed to leveraging expertise across diverse technologies while demonstrating leadership in delivering secure and stable solutions.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Project technical lead and architect
Pennsylvania Department of State
Harrisburg, PA
06.2025 - Current
- Led technical projects for state initiatives and ensured compliance with regulations.
- Designed and implemented software solutions to enhance departmental operations.
- Provided a solution for optimizing transaction processing and improving the database performance by 25%.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and define project scopes.
- Designed, developed, and led the implementation of the election night returns website using REACT to improve user experience.
- Design and lead the implementation of REST APIs, using microservices architecture, to be consumed by various organizations.
- Design and lead the implementation of a modernization initiative, using AngularJS and the MVC framework, for public-facing web applications.
- Involved in migrating existing, on-premises, client-facing web applications to Microsoft Azure and Azure SQL.
- Involved in designing, developing, and deploying business-critical microservices using CI/CD pipelines, Azure App Service, and Azure Service Bus.
Systems Engineer III
RiteAid
Etters, PA
05.2023 - 06.2025
- Designed applications using effective design patterns and developed REST APIs with microservices architecture in .NET Core 6.0 and C#.
- Spearheaded modernization of intranet applications as SPAs with React, TypeScript, and Redux for state management.
- Developed web applications with Angular and JavaScript to enhance user experience.
- Created proof of concepts for critical services leveraging .NET Core 8, Azure SQL, and Azure Service Bus.
- Monitored application performance through Dynatrace to identify potential enhancements.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to streamline development, review, and deployment processes.
- Developed and maintained SSIS packages for key business processes enhancing operational efficiency.
- Conducted system performance assessments to pinpoint improvement areas.
Project technical lead and architect
Pennsylvania Department of State
Harrisburg, PA
01.2015 - 04.2023
- Design, document, implement solutions based on user stories related to customer requirements, designing unit test cases for those solutions and create architectural diagrams.
- Review the production support incidents reported by the client or end users, analyze them and assign to developers.
- Developed and maintained various SSIS packages for various business critical processes.
- Design and lead implementation of Rest-APIs, using microservices architecture, to be consumed by various organizations.
- Responsible for design and implementation of document and image processing using MVP and WCF along with multithreading, to process multiple documents, using various Accusoft components.
- Responsible for designing and lead implementation of SOA architecture, using WCF services, into legacy applications.
- Design and leading implementation of modernization initiative, using Angular-JS and MVC framework, for public facing web applications.
- Involved in migrating existing, on-premises client facing web applications to Microsoft Azure and Azure-SQL.
- Involved in designing, developing and deploying business critical micro-services, using CI/CD pipelines, Azure App service and Azure Service Bus.
- Leading development team, assist them for any technology related challenges or roadblocks, during the sprint.
- Review development efforts regularly, along with development team and report progress to superiors.
- Responsible for monitoring and implementing database performance optimization, up to 40% for critical business processes, with help of SQL execution plans.
- Implementing CI/CD pipeline to increase development, review and deployment efficiency, using Azure Dev-ops.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Nirma Institute of Technology
Gujarat, India03-2004
Skills
- Leadership and team mentoring
- Problem solving and troubleshooting
- Effective communication skills
- Project leadership
- Team mentoring
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Software architecture and design
- REST API and microservices development
- System design and performance optimization
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Risk assessment and management
- Technology advocacy
- Issue investigation
- Functional requirements analysis
- Documentation and reporting
- Code review expertise
- Software architecture design
- Testing oversight
- CI/CD implementation
- Agile methodology
Languages
- C#.Net
- SQL
- HTML/ CSS
- JQuery/ JavaScript/ NodeJS
- VB.NET
- Classic ASP
- VB6
Timeline
Project technical lead and architect
Pennsylvania Department of State
06.2025 - Current
Systems Engineer III
RiteAid
05.2023 - 06.2025
Project technical lead and architect
Pennsylvania Department of State
01.2015 - 04.2023
Master of Computer Applications -
Nirma Institute of Technology