Pradeep Kumar
Summary
Dynamic IT leader specializing in full-stack development and microservices architecture. Led cross-regional teams to deliver high-quality event-driven solutions, significantly improving system performance and user satisfaction. Expertise in Java and AWS technologies supports continuous innovation and strategic product development.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Vice President
Barclays
10.2021 - Current
- Led event-driven project initiative with Solace and Kafka, improving system integration efficiency.
- Managed team of 8 developers across regions to deliver high-quality event-based solutions on time.
- Designed, developed and maintained java based microservices leveraging Spring boot framework.
- Design and developed enterprise-grade java application, optimizing performance and reliability through code refactoring and performance tuning.
- Executed resource optimization strategies in Java, reducing memory leak occurrences and enhancing application performance.
- Established security measures, including authentication, authorization, and encryption protocols to protect data integrity.
- Integrating different systems using REST, JSON and APIs.
- Design and development experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Caching, JUnit and front-end development experience including HTML5, AngularJS, React, Redux, jQuery and Bootstrap
- Working on multiple project deliverables and ensuring timely completion while maintaining high quality standards.
- Software: Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlet, Spring Boot, AngularJS, JPA, Gitlab, Mongo, Spark, Scala, Python
Full Stack Team Lead
UBS
04.2020 - 10.2021
- Design and development experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Caching, JUnit and front-end development experience including HTML5, AngularJS, React, Redux, jQuery and Bootstrap
- Microservices architecture design and development
- Integrated various systems through RESTful services, JSON data formats, and APIs, enhancing interoperability.
- Implemented java design patterns to enhance application robustness, flexibility, and extendability.
- Established authentication and authorization mechanisms, encryption protocols, and security measures to safeguard data integrity and access.
- Troubleshot production issues through root cause analyses, resolving critical problems and minimizing downtime.
- Performing Java resource optimization and reducing memory leak issue
- Software: Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlet, Spring Boot, ReactJS, JPA, AWS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Angular, ReactJS, Redux, jQuery, Oracle, Sybase, Maven, Hibernate, Gitlab
Full Stack Developer
Cognizant Technology
02.2016 - 04.2020
- Designed, developed, tested, and enhanced software architecture and programs.
- Software: Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlet, Spring Framework, Maven, Bamboo, Jenkins, RESTful Webservices, Hibernate, Apache 7.0, SVN, GIT, ReactJS, Spring Boot, GitLab, Tomcat 8, Junit, Team city
- Analyzed functional/nonfunctional requirements, clarifying with subject matter experts to enhance understanding and align project objectives.
- Analyze the key issues and risks in the program and assess business impact. Provide inputs on technical feasibility of requirements.
- Convert project specifications using flowcharts and diagrams, into sequences of detailed instructions and logical steps
- Fine-tuned the computer program to optimize performance, availability, and resource utilization.
- Estimated, planned, and executed timelines for tasks based on requirements and resources. Provided inputs for project plan creation.
- End to end UAT (User Acceptance Testing) execution - Defect tracking, defect assignment, and consolation the defects fix under various build plans
- Provided periodic status updates to supervisor, recommending design changes based on identified challenges.
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis and/or provide business consulting services related to operational processes and best practices.
- Troubleshooting issues in production including root cause analysis.
Assistant Consultant
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
04.2010 - 01.2016
- Implemented loyalty programs like wellness+ and Plenti for riteaid.com.
- Coding, developing and testing of Java module using portlet, JAVA, J2EE, CSS, Stored Procedures, JBOSS 4.2, Spring MVC, Liferay, SOAP and RESTful Web services
- End to end UAT execution - Coordinating with different stake holders, defect tracking, defect assignment, and consolation the defects fix under various build plans.
- Communicated daily with business users during UAT phase to facilitate defect tracking.
- Led high-level design, conducted code reviews, coordinated onsite and offshore teams, and prepared technical design documents.
- Handled a team of 5-10 people, assigned daily tasks, and provided technical expertise.
- Acquired understanding of business requirements and content management features for multiple websites to inform development.
- Gap analysis between the existing processes / applications and to -be process.
- Managing and review of the key deliverables with clients - Responsible for liaising with the other agencies working with the clients to ensure that a holistic solution is developed.
- Software: J2EE, JSP, Servlet, Spring Framework, Portlets, JavaScript, CSS, JBoss 4.2, JWebUnit, SAML 2.0, Liferay, SOAP and RESTful web services, JSON, SOAP UI, DB2 Stored Procedure, Junit, C#, .NET
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys
11.2006 - 04.2010
- Developed project estimations, deliverables, and staffing plans to ensure resource alignment.
- Managed daily tasks, gathered feedback, and reported progress to on-site team member to facilitate project transparency.
- Requirement understanding and preparing technical design documents, sequence diagrams, flow charts for easy interpretation of the workflow.
- Created detailed use case documents to outline system functionality and user interactions.
- Gap analysis between the existing processes / applications and to -be process.
- Analyzed key issues and risks in the program to inform stakeholders on potential business impacts.
- Managing and review of the key deliverables with clients - design documents, taxonomy - during the design phase
- Coding, developing of assigned modules using JAVA, J2EE, Java Script, Spring MVC, JSP, CSS, Stored Procedures
- Unit testing and integration testing of the developed module before handing over to QA.
- Production deployment of the Release code and providing support for the warranty period.
- Software: J2EE, JSP, JSPX, XML, JavaScript, Oracle 10g, WebLogic 9.2, Spring, CSS, SOAP UI, WSDL, Spring MVC Framework, Hibernate 3.0
Education
BE - Electronics and Telecommunication
India01-2005
Skills
- Solution architecture
- Microservices architecture
- Event-driven architecture
- Springboot
- Java 8 and Java 21
- AWS cloud computing
- EC2 / ECS / Cloud Watch / S3
- Oracle 19g / MongoDB / ElasticSearch
- SOAP / RESTful Web service
- JUnit / Karate
- JPA / Hibernate
- Spark / Scala
- ReactJS / Angular (with Redux)
- Performance optimization
- SSO/ SAML 20
- Caching (In-memory / Grid Gain)
- Collections / Multithreading / Concurrency
- Kibana / Grafana
- Content management (Liferay)
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, SKQ554823BFQ10W1
- Microsoft Certified - Azure Fundamentals, H753-9430
Timeline
Vice President
Barclays
10.2021 - Current
Full Stack Team Lead
UBS
04.2020 - 10.2021
Full Stack Developer
Cognizant Technology
02.2016 - 04.2020
Assistant Consultant
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
04.2010 - 01.2016
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys
11.2006 - 04.2010