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Clifton,NJ

Summary

Adaptable Senior Software Engineer with expertise in designing and developing complex software solutions, leading successful projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Proficient in backend development, cloud computing, and agile methodologies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Pearson Education
Hoboken, NJ
1 2022 - Current
  • Led a team to design and develop highly available, reliable and scalable company-wide enterprise messaging system.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions that drive business growth and enhance user experiences.
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Mentored junior developers, fostering professional growth and enhancing team productivity.
  • Designed microservices architecture using AWS managed services such as Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, Elasticsearch, S3, RDS and DynamoDB.
  • Developed APIs and Java SDKs for publishing and consuming messages.
  • Implemented DevOps processes using GitLab and Docker, reducing deployment and testing time by 50%.
  • Setup Observability dashboards using New Relic agent for application performance metrics web transactions time, throughput, and error rate.

Software Engineer

Pearson Education
Hoboken, NJ
09.2016 - 12.2021
  • Designed application to capture 360 data view of users, resulting in a 25% increase in efficiency for user lookup.
  • Collaborated with product managers and data governance teams to define requirement and user stories for new features.
  • Developed scalable and maintainable code, ensuring long-term stability of software.
  • Developed GraphQL API based on Java Spring Boot.
  • Implemented Amazon managed Redis cache for storing data of users from Pearson products.
  • Implemented Continuous Delivery pipeline with GitLab and Docker.
  • Created logging and monitoring in AWS Cloudwatch.
  • Developed functional testing framework for QE team to write their functional tests on API (Rest Assured), reducing testing time by 40%.

Associate Software Quality Engineer

Pearson Education
Denver, CO
07.2014 - 09.2016
  • Designed robust, scalable test framework, reducing testing cycle time by 50%.
  • Collaborated with development and product teams to identify and resolve defects early in development cycle, improving overall product stability.
  • Documented test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on business requirements and functional specifications documents.
  • Developed and maintained test scripts using tools such as Java, Selenium, Rest Assured and TestNG.
  • Led adoption of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices, accelerating delivery pipeline and improving software reliability.
  • Streamlined testing processes by developing and maintaining automated test scripts.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to define quality metrics and report on status of quality initiatives.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

State University of New York, Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
12-2014

Skills

  • Java, Python, C, C
  • MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis Cache, Snowflake
  • AWS Kinesis, SQS, S3, Lambda, EC2, Cloudwatch
  • Apache Spark, Apache Flink
  • GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Groovy, Ansible
  • NewRelic, Grafana

Timeline

Software Engineer

Pearson Education
09.2016 - 12.2021

Associate Software Quality Engineer

Pearson Education
07.2014 - 09.2016

Senior Software Engineer

Pearson Education
1 2022 - Current

Master of Science - Computer Science

State University of New York, Binghamton

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