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SoftwareDeveloper

Sumera Shaikh

McKinney,TX

Summary

Accomplished Senior Software Developer with 7+ years of experience leading projects by acting as architect, developer and programmer analyst. Proficient in supporting project deliverables and maintaining releases. Team player with a “go above and beyond” attitude and one who takes deadlines seriously. Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Work best in an agile environment. Enthusiastic professional ready to contribute to company success.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Senior Software Developer

Elevate Credit Inc
Addison, TX
07.2020 - 08.2022
  • Implemented and maintained Azure based payment flexibility tool for customers where payments can be deferred and due dates as well as payment frequencies be easily updated. Frontend was built in Angular 5 and was configuration driven. Worked with team on enhancing backend API by suggesting to change few design parameters, adding memory caching and parallelism for dependent microservice calls. Was able to improve performance by 46% on average per request.
  • Created near real time update layer between collections vendor application and our loan system. Utilized Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Logic App and Storage Tables. This feature helped increase data integrity, consistency and reduced labor by avoiding manual fixes that needed to be done previously due to data lag.
  • Discussed potential areas of improvements and issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices. Created related user stories for team to work on.
  • Monitored ongoing operation of assigned programs and responded to problems by diagnosing and correcting logic, coding errors and creating SQL scripts to fix data.
  • Provided on-call support during production releases and addressing urgent production bugs/issues.
  • Trained new developers and programmers by hosting brown bag sessions for design, review and code walkthroughs.
  • Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.

Software Developer II

Black Box Intelligence Inc
Dallas, Texas
12.2018 - 07.2020
  • Designed, architected and implemented data ingestion process for Workforce Intelligence product while collaborating with data analysts to gather requirements and creating user stories and mockups. Created blob triggered Azure Function to parse submission data, sanitize it, map it to internal standard codes and save it in Azure SQL database. Built .NET Core Web API for client configuration and data submission. Application is intended to save 90 man hours per month by reducing manual effort spent in cleaning data.
  • Architected and implemented .Net Core Web API for user administration operations for new unified product platform. All endpoints secured by JWT tokens while integrating with Auth 0 for identity and access management.
  • Developed timer based Azure Function to handle data ingestion from third party survey platform called LimeSurvey to Guest Intelligence product.
  • Integrated Azure App Insights for logging and monitoring.
  • Setup CI/CD processes in Azure Devops to better manage code and automated deployments.
  • Setup secure policies on code branches, build validation and release approvals to have well defined process in place.

Software Developer

Optimal Blue Inc
Plano, Texas
02.2016 - 11.2018
  • Part of product team, involved in design, development, enhancement and maintenance of company's software solutions.
  • Worked on migrating users from on prem database to Azure Active Directory B2C as part of overhauling authentication and authorization across all platforms. This helped increase security around storing user passwords in cloud in encrypted format.
  • Created responsive web pages in Angular 4 for user administration and configuration features.
  • Implemented Web APIs to replace legacy WCF service that blends prices from two or more loan products. This resulted in performance gain of 4 times on average on every request with better logging and monitoring capabilities.
  • Built Azure App Service that accurately calculates APR on mortgage loans. Data accuracy and consistency increased on APR calculations that drove ALL loans in system.
  • Setup integration test suit to run as part of release pipeline to help ensure connectivity and functionality of services.

Software Engineer Intern

SK Engineering And Construction Inc
Houston, Texas
05.2014 - 08.2014
  • Developed Intergraph SmartPlant P&ID round-trip report utilities in VB.Net. This eliminated tedious process which required updating 3 main component types in plant design. It resulted in a more efficient process and reduced errors as well as manual time spent in turn reducing cost and increasing productivity.
  • Worked on enhancing SK E&C USA's recruiting website to better communicate and provide information.

Software Engineer Intern

Sterlite Tech
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
01.2013 - 07.2013
  • Studied customer requirements and analyzed them by translating in UML diagrams.
  • Worked on automation testing on QTP tool.
  • Documented processes, created call flows of gateways, protocols and product engine to aid knowledge sharing sessions between teams.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

The University of Texas
Arlington, TX
12.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

L.D College of Engineering
Ahmedabad, GJ India
07.2013

Skills

  • ASPNET, NET Core, C#
  • Angular 4, React, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap
  • SQL Server
  • Azure (Functions, AppInsights, Service Bus, APIM, App services, Storage, Logic Apps, Azure SQL, App Configuration)
  • RESTful API design and implementation knowledge
  • Agile methodology
  • Team player
  • Code validation

Certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Timeline

Senior Software Developer

Elevate Credit Inc
07.2020 - 08.2022

Software Developer II

Black Box Intelligence Inc
12.2018 - 07.2020

Software Developer

Optimal Blue Inc
02.2016 - 11.2018

Software Engineer Intern

SK Engineering And Construction Inc
05.2014 - 08.2014

Software Engineer Intern

Sterlite Tech
01.2013 - 07.2013

Master of Science - Computer Science

The University of Texas

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

L.D College of Engineering
Sumera Shaikh