Surojit Das
Erie
Summary
Principal Software Engineer with 18+ years of experience and 7+ years in technical leadership. Expertise in designing scalable software solutions and guiding technical teams through complex challenges. Proven success in managing risk, ensuring customer-focused design, and driving critical projects across payments, health-tech, and insurance sectors. Skilled in modern methodologies, technical documentation, and code review to advance business initiatives.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Solution Lead
Innova/ACS Solutions
Erie
05.2024 - Current
- Enhanced and maintained existing applications for the Life insurance stream, ensuring robust performance and adherence to modern development methodologies.
- Managed full development activities related to .Net and Mendix, guiding teams in technical design and solution implementation.
- Implemented and maintained Java actions within Mendix, aligning with design patterns and quality coding standards.
- Developed and maintained React components to be used in UX through Mendix applications.
- Coordinated with business architects to extract clear technical requirements and develop tailored software solutions.
- Created epics and features from technical requirements, providing accurate estimates and managing associated risks.
- Identified areas for improvement and executed precise action plans to elevate application performance and customer satisfaction.
- Conducted technical research to prepare comprehensive roadmaps for stakeholders, incorporating risk management and modern principles.
- Maintained clear and client-focused communication regarding technical requirements and solution guidance.
- Directed multiple off-shore and on-shore technical teams, providing ongoing code review and architectural guidance.
- Innova/ACS Solutions provides technical solutions and services in various sectors including insurance.
Project Manager/ Architect
Innova/ACS Solutions
Missouri
02.2024 - 04.2024
- Migrated Greenplum/Hadoop systems to Snowflake applications within fixed timeline constraints, ensuring a seamless transition and effective risk management.
- Led all stages of project management, balancing technical and business needs for customized solutions.
- Participated in hiring decisions to build a capable project team, aligning technical skills with project requirements.
- Developed and presented detailed status decks to upper management, incorporating technical documentation and progress metrics.
- Managed project schedules and timelines effectively, demonstrating strong application of risk management and customer-focused practices.
- Innova/ACS Solutions provides technical solutions and services in various sectors including healthcare.
Principal Software Engineer/Architect
Innova/ACS Solutions
Missouri
09.2022 - 12.2023
- Project Description: Design and develop TX835 File generation system from scratch. Various stages of the system were developed as individual processes so that it can be orchestrated by Control-M.
- Used Oracle and SQL Server as backend database and design was highly optimized for storing and retrieving millions of records on daily basis.
- Architected custom DAL for this specific purpose with focused on containerization and cloud deployment in future.
- Project was completed on-time and deployed in Prod successfully.
- Work directly with business and product owners to translate the requirements into a design plan identifying the Microservices needed to develop.
- Implemented CQRS pattern to improve efficiency of the read/write process.
- Responsible for communication system architecture between team and management.
- Architected the base framework of the solution in .Net Core modules with documentation so that developers can continue towards implementing the requirements.
- Lead the system development team to implement, test and deploy the system.
- Supervise code reviews and provide guidance to other developers along with planning and participating in UAT execution.
- Assist and guide the Project Lead/PM/BA in project coordination.
- Conducting scrum calls in Ad hoc situations and creating stories and enhancing stories in Jira board.
- Set up and manage Azure Build and Release Pipelines for the project.
- Innova/ACS Solutions provides technical solutions and services in various sectors including healthcare.
Sr. Software Engineer/ Lead
Global Payments
Missouri
11.2021 - 09.2022
- Project Description: Worked on maintaining and developing existing TSYS payment modules.
- All updates and new development needed test coverage for automated testing.
- Also worked on internal tools for developers.
- Focus was on delivering high performance code acceptable by code analysis tools to adhere requirements of OWASP, PCI-DSS etc.
- Design, development, and support of existing and new products between business stakeholders.
- Assist domain and technical teams with problem-solving complex use cases and systems, while collaborating technical change and transformation in parallel.
- Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
- Provide third-level support to business users.
- Research and evaluate a variety of software products.
- Scripted automated UI and web service testing.
- Global Payments is a leading provider of payment technology services.
Sr. Software Engineer
INNOVA Solutions
Missouri
10.2017 - 11.2021
- Project description: FoxPro to Oracle migration task needed changes in existing legacy code in C++, Delphi and VB.net support the database switch.
- Preference was given to re-engineer the codebase to .Net using C# as programming language.
- Matching and exceeding the performance of FoxPro DB system was challenging and was overcome using smart design, stored procedures, pre-caching of data and parallel processing.
- Launched provider enrollment for VCC payments for new and existing providers.
- Also developed and deployed REST API products developed in NodeJS, deployed in Linux server in AWS, and published in APIGEE API management platform.
- Developed and implemented provider enrollment towards VCC payments for existing and new providers.
- Designing and building scalable multi-threaded business applications.
- Creating and maintaining COM objects using C#, C++ and Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and MS SQL Server Database.
- Converting existing codebase to support Oracle database from FoxPro Database.
- Help to define and assess deliveries of healthcare claims data from our clients.
- Supervise code reviews and provide guidance to other developers.
- Maintain and Enhance Client Web Application.
- Worked as developer to enhance Payment related products in B2B domain.
- Developing restful Web API using NodeJS/TypeScript.
- Performing supplemental DevOps role by application deployment to Linux servers in AWS EC2 instances in Development, Stage and Production.
- Developed multiple POCs using implementing AWS EKS, AWS ECS, S3 buckets, AWS KMS, Identity services.
- INNOVA Solutions provides software engineering services in the healthcare sector.
Sr. Software Engineer
Populus Group
Minnesota
03.2016 - 09.2017
- Project: Aerotek@sageGlass.
- Project Description: Worked on developing controller system for electronically tintable façade glass for buildings branded as Sage Glass owned by Saint-Gobain.
- Later, converted the controller as IOT product and created Rest API interfaces for iOS and Android apps for 3rd party app developers and integrators.
- To design and implement software in line with a client facing application related to the glass tinting software.
- Interfacing with the embedded hardware to understand and contribute to other areas such as new products that may include wireless control solutions, electro chromic control systems for OEM integration, touch-screen user interfaces, and optical sensing systems.
- Applying a diverse skill set to a variety of projects within a small team in a dynamic environment.
- Implementing pilot IOT project using Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Web API calls.
- Develop Web UI using Angular and Mobile UI using Xamarin.
- Used Bootstrap to customize web pages.
- Generate and update reports in PowerBI
- Populus Group provides staffing and consulting services.
Software Engineer/ Application Developer
Oracle Hospitality
Maryland
07.2013 - 02.2016
- Project: Simphony2 (multiple versions).
- Oracle Hospitality's, SIMPHONY, a COTS product, is the premier cloud and mobile hospitality management platform, providing enterprise point-of-sale (POS) and back-office functionality to support a wide range of food and beverage operations.
- Worked in R&D team new development for hand-held iOS/Android and Windows tablets so that the clients can enjoy the benefits of off-the-shelf hardware.
- Maintaining and adding new features to existing POS System written mostly in C#.
- Maintaining legacy code written in C/C++.
- Played an instrumental role in making the product secure and PA-DSS compliant.
- Used MVC 3 and MVC 5 for Web Applications and Services.
- Designed and documented REST/HTTP APIs, including JSON data formats.
- Developed module consuming TCP/IP and UDP sockets for communication between applications.
- Manage and maintain different hardware platforms including embedded windows devices and android devices.
- Created reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
- Using Wireshark for extensive debugging.
- Since the product requires different hardware devices like fingerprint scanner, coin dispenser, weighing machines, card readers etc., configuring and integrating them with the POS product is a mandate for my current role.
- Used LINQ and LAMBDA expressions, also used SVN for source code control.
- Oracle Hospitality provides cloud and mobile hospitality management solutions.
Education
Masters - computer science
MIU (Formerly MUM)
Iowa, USADiploma - Information Technology
NIIT
IndiaBachelor - Financial Accounting and Commerce
Calcutta University
IndiaBachelors - business administration
Pondicherry University
IndiaSkills
- C#
- Visual Basic
- Java
- C
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- MVVM
- MVC
- WPF
- WCF
- ASPNET
- JQuery
- NodeJS
- Entity
- ADONET
- Webservices
- Microservices
- Angular
- React
- Bootstrap
- MAUI
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Visual Studio
- VS Code
- Xamarin Studio
- XCODE
- Eclipse
- Crystal Reports
- PowerBI
- SQL Developer
- MS SQL Server Management Studio
- Toad
- Splunk
- Foxpro
- Control-M
- Mendix
- Accounting
- Finance
- POS
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Hospitality
- Payroll
- Education
- Media and Marketing
- CRM
- CMS
- HealthCare
- Payments Solutions
- Insurance
Certification
Mendix Intermediate Developer Certification
Timeline
Technical Solution Lead
Innova/ACS Solutions
05.2024 - Current
Project Manager/ Architect
Innova/ACS Solutions
02.2024 - 04.2024
Principal Software Engineer/Architect
Innova/ACS Solutions
09.2022 - 12.2023
Sr. Software Engineer/ Lead
Global Payments
11.2021 - 09.2022
Sr. Software Engineer
INNOVA Solutions
10.2017 - 11.2021
Sr. Software Engineer
Populus Group
03.2016 - 09.2017
Software Engineer/ Application Developer
Oracle Hospitality
07.2013 - 02.2016
Masters - computer science
MIU (Formerly MUM)
Diploma - Information Technology
NIIT
Bachelor - Financial Accounting and Commerce
Calcutta University
Bachelors - business administration
Pondicherry University