Career Highlights
Methodologies & Frameworks, BI & Modeling Tools, Development Environments & Protocols, Documentation & Collaboration Tools, Web Technologies,Programming Tools & Languages, Project Management Tools, Testing Tools
Jira
Involved in Agile Centre of Excellence Initiative that focused on mentoring new scrum masters, setting up an agile playbook, conducting training sessions for teams and management and improving workflows in Jira for better visibility
Used JIRA to keep track of the User Stories, tracked the progress of the sprint by tracking the Velocity and Capacity of the team using Sprint burndown chart
Confluence
Documentation and Reporting: Maintained detailed documentation of security policies, procedures, and incident reports to support continuous improvement and regulatory audits.
Led the comprehensive documentation efforts for the ITAAP product, encompassing a range of crucial information including project objectives, problem statements, architecture diagrams, project workflows, API sequence flows, third-party vendor interactions, microservices overview, and security compliance management.
Spearheaded the seamless migration of these diverse elements under the unified banner of ITAAP Approval, streamlining the management and accessibility of critical project documentation.
Postman/Swagger
API Documentation & Testing Swagger: Developed comprehensive API documentation detailing endpoints, request/response structures, and authentication methods to ensure clear communication with development teams and stakeholders.
Postman: Utilized Postman to perform thorough testing of RESTful APIs, validating responses, status codes, and data integrity, ensuring APIs meet business requirements and function as intended.
API Integration Support: Collaborated with development teams to integrate third-party APIs,Open API, Closed API, ensuring seamless data flow and functionality within existing systems.
Apigee Jenkins Pipeline
Responsibilities: API Management & Deployment: Engineered and maintained robust Jenkins pipelines for seamless deployment of Apigee API proxies across multiple environments, enhancing deployment efficiency and consistency.
CI/CD Pipeline Development: Utilized Jenkins to automate the deployment of Apigee API proxies, integrating with version control systems and ensuring streamlined transitions from development to production.
Infrastructure Automation: Collaborated with DevOps teams to automate infrastructure provisioning and configurations using tools like Terraform and Ansible, ensuring scalable and reliable environments for Apigee deployments.
Monitoring and Optimization: Implemented monitoring solutions to track the performance and health of deployed APIs, proactively identifying and addressing issues to maintain optimal service levels.
Documentation and Best Practices: Authored comprehensive documentation detailing the CI/CD processes, deployment strategies, and troubleshooting steps, promoting best practices and knowledge sharing within the team.
Agile Methodology
Trained, Coached, and mentored teams in Agile Scrum Methodologies, and continued to mature the existing agile teams
Managed product lifecycle, from ideation through deployment, utilizing Agile methodologies to deliver features on time and within scope.
Responsible for instituting agile processes for the Investment Portfolio and creating strategic and tactical checkpoints to monitor and control the process across multiple projects.
Bridged agile-waterfall gap in projects that were transitioning by creating mutually acceptable tracking and monitoring tools like Milestones, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource Breakdown Structure, Earned Value Management (EVM), Critical Path Analysis (CPA), Gantt Charts, and PERT Charts.
Partnered with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and responsible for ensuring the agile release train and tracking the agile team’s velocity well together and following the process for pushing MVP to CICD pipeline.
Payments - Wire/ACH
Responsible for identifying and analysis various wires and ACH payment initiation APIs that sent payment transactions to the Payment processing system, such as ACI money transfer system and PEP+. The analysis Included all outbound and inbound payment flows for domestic and international payments.
Participated in capturing and analyzing the payment channels, payment types, message types, and APIs between payment initiation channels and payment processing systems by interviewing the stakeholders of Payment channels in the North American IRB territories.
The deliverable included detailed documentation on Payment data flows for outbound and inbound transactions for Wires and ACH payments. The transaction flows included Actimize Fraud Analytics and Fraud Detection API for monitoring transactions in real time, allowing for targeted interdiction to minimize losses to improve customer experience.
The transaction processing was Compliance control focused related to IRIS - fraud detection, BSA/AML check and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) which is Federal intelligence.
Confidential compliances with audit requirements for KYPS (Know Your Payment System).
Microsoft
Spearheaded the development of an Excel-based financial reporting tool that reduced reporting time by 40%.
Led the migration of legacy systems to SharePoint, improving data accessibility and collaboration across departments.
Collaborated with IT teams to integrate Excel and SharePoint solutions with other enterprise systems, enhancing data flow and system interoperability
Development FrontEnd/Backend
Encouraged team to adopt pair programming, peer review and best development practices.
Experience in creating SQL queries for data analysis including triggers procedures and expertise in generating DDL, DML, DRL queries in SQL.
Experienced in Business Intelligence reporting using SQL Server services like SSRS, SSIS, SSAS.
Collaborated with Cross-Functional Teams: Worked closely with IT, development, and compliance teams to ensure all aspects of the migration adhered to security best practices and regulatory requirements.
UAT Testing
Worked on Web driver 2.0 Selenium Testing tool which follows their own architecture style through HTTP Server.
Assisted with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in each sprint, to ensure that the product increment is devoid of technical debt, satisfying criteria of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and Definition of Done, as per business need
Collaborated with the development team, actively participating in the creation of unit test scripts utilizing MS Test.
Azure Cloud
Successfully integrated cloud-based applications into on-premises systems using Informatica Cloud Data Integration.
Worked with Cloud Based ERP which sprovides an integrated and continuously updated view of core business processes using common databases maintained by a database management system.
Cloud Requirements Gathering & Analysis: Collaborated with business stakeholders, cloud architects, and DevOps teams to gather and analyze business requirements for Azure-based solutions. Translated business needs into functional specifications for cloud-native and hybrid applications.
Azure Service Integration: Worked closely with development teams to integrate key Azure services such as Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Storage. Helped map business processes to appropriate cloud services, ensuring optimal architecture for performance and cost.
Migration & Modernization Projects: Supported cloud migration initiatives by conducting impact analysis, defining transition requirements, and documenting as-is/to-be process flows. Facilitated application modernization using Azure App Services and Azure SQL Database.
Security & Compliance: Collaborated with IT security teams to ensure that Azure-based solutions met organizational compliance, governance, and data privacy requirements. Participated in risk assessments related to Azure resource provisioning and access control (Azure AD, RBAC).
Data Analytics & Reporting: Supported data-driven decision-making by integrating Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI. Helped define KPIs and dashboards for tracking cloud adoption and operational performance.
Agile & DevOps Alignment: Participated in agile ceremonies and worked within CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps. Helped maintain backlogs, user stories, and test cases aligned with sprint goals and release cycles.
Reporting - Splunk/PowerBi/Tableau
Spearheaded the development of a Splunk-based analytics platform that improved data visualization and reporting capabilities, resulting in a 30% increase in user adoption
Collaborated with engineering teams to integrate machine learning algorithms into Splunk, enhancing predictive analytics features and providing clients with deeper insights.
Streamlined the product development lifecycle by implementing Agile methodologies, reducing time-to-market for new features by 25%.
Involvement in Data Migration, Data Mining, Dimensional Modeling, Database Debugging, ETL process and Business Intelligence Reporting using Tableau Desktop 8.2, IBM Cognos, and Informatica Power Center.
Designed, developed, and maintained interactive Power BI dashboards to visualize KPIs, operational metrics, and financial data, improving business decision-making across departments.
Partnered with cross-functional teams to gather reporting requirements and translated them into scalable Power BI reports, reducing manual reporting effort by 40%.
Utilized Power Query and DAX to perform data modeling, complex calculations, and custom measures for accurate and meaningful insights.
Integrated Power BI with SQL Server and cloud data sources (Azure, SharePoint, Excel) to create real-time, automated reporting systems.
Led training sessions for stakeholders on Power BI usage and self-service analytics, enhancing data literacy within the organization.
Implemented row-level security and governance practices in Power BI service to ensure data integrity and access control.
Data Catalyst
Involvement in Data Migration, Data Mining, Dimensional Modeling, Database Debugging, ETL process and Business Intelligence Reporting using Tableau Desktop 8.2, IBM Cognos, and Informatica Power Center.
Designed and implemented complex ETL workflows using Informatica PowerCenter to extract, transform, and load data from various source systems into a centralized data warehouse.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather data requirements and develop mapping documents for ETL processes.
Led the migration of legacy ETL processes to Informatica, resulting in a 30% reduction in data processing time.
Worked in the data transformation, Processing in the form of SQL operations as part of the jobs as an extension to the standard ABAC Capabilities.
Managing with Error Handling and Logging in the event of failure of Application.
Restartability which will provide the ability to restart a filed process.
ETL Framework, a part of Data Reconciliation, which is standalone framework, to reconcile the data between 3 different databases.