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Daman Bajwa

Business Analyst
Edinburgh,UK

Summary

Expert software development professional with proven skills in project management, coding and testing. Brings 16 years of experience in building robust, well-performing applications matching specifications and exceeding expectations. Seeks out opportunities to expand skills and improve designs.


Strong experience in SWIFT payments and Microservices and cloud technologies

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certification

Work history

Technical Lead - SME

WIPRO (Lloyds Banking Group)
Chennai, India
01.2022 - Current
  • The project is a mandatory yearly application upgrade for GTX
  • Responsible for deploying the upgrade across all environments every year.
  • Directed delivery of transition plans and technical due diligence.
  • Built knowledge base to improve access to technical information for DevOps team.
  • Determined technical requirements to guide development and delivery of project work.

Technical Specialist (SME)

Lloyds Banking Group
Edinburgh
06.2015 - 10.2022
  • The project is a huge step for Lloyd's Banking Group, transforming the bank's existing infrastructure of the GTX App data to the Cloud (Oracle)
  • As a Technical Specialist, I worked from the initial phase of migration from POC to actual migration in all the environments
  • Researched emerging technologies and DevOps tools to capitalise on industry advancements and optimise daily workflow.
  • Trained team members on DevOps procedures, company policies and industry best practices to promote continuous quality.
  • Worked closely with the Oracle product team and implemented the new cloud infrastructure in various environments.
  • Developed DevOps pipeline and facilitated agile application development and deployment.
  • Documented DevOps processes and enforced adherence to SOPs, significantly reducing errors and inefficiencies.
  • Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate software bugs.

Software Configuration Manager - DevOps

Capital One
Nottingham, United Kingdom
12.2014 - 05.2015
  • Worked as an SCM Champion, closely with all the projects to make sure the code standards are followed and adhered
  • As an SVN administrator, was responsible for the project user access and privilege management
  • Worked on Code merge and Code Retrofit using tools like Maven and Hudson.
  • Improved efficiency and productivity by acquiring new skills.
  • Collaborated with scrum team throughout development process to foster milestone achievement.
  • Developed plans and strategies to promote continuous improvement.

Environment Delivery Manager

Cognizant
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
01.2014 - 10.2014
  • Handled environment requests from various projects and ensured the environments are fit for the requested purpose during the entire life cycle of the project
  • Responsible for timely reporting to the key stakeholders on the environment status.
  • Developed and updated internal guidelines.

Build and Deployment Lead

Capita
Cheltenham and Pune, United Kingdom and India
07.2011 - 10.2013
  • Responsible for Build and Deployment for all JISA and Zurich releases
  • Worked on environment management, which included development, test and build servers
  • Worked as a part of build and deployment team of JISA product for RBS, TCM and HBOS.
  • Promoted continuous improvement by problem-solving and sharing suggestions to optimise team operations.

Release and Configuration Manager

Cognizant
Pune, India
09.2007 - 01.2011
  • Started as a part of Build and Deployment team for multiple clients of Cognizant like HBOS and Lloyd's Banking Group for 4 years
  • Worked on challenging projects on build and deployment during major client acquisition which involved enterprise integrations
  • Worked on IBM ClearCase as a Unix Administrator.
  • Partnered cross-functionally to identify and resolve code issues.

Education

Engineer's degree - Information Technology

Rungta College of Engineering and Technology
Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
06.2003 - 05.2007

Skills

  • DevOps and CI/CD Pipeline
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • LINUX
  • Microservices
  • Jenkins
  • Kubernetes
  • IBM UrbanCode
  • Docker
  • Agile delivery and Sprint planning
  • ServiceNow
  • Change and Release management
  • Infrastructure Migration
  • Swift Payments
  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Stakeholder Management
  • JIRA and Confluence
  • Oracle Cloud @Customer
  • Google Cloud Principles
  • Python and UNIX Shell Scripting
  • SVN
  • IBM ClearCase LINUX
  • Monitoring Tool - Tivoli, Dynatrace and Splunk

Certification

  • Google Cloud L2
  • Generative AI
  • IBM ClearCase Unix Administrator
  • Prince 2 Foundation
  • Cognizant Certified Expert in Banking and Cards
  • Professional - ITIL V3.0
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure foundation Associate
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure foundation Architect

Accomplishments

  • Certificate of Excellence for the contribution in SWIFT Team - WIPRO
  • Employee of the month (Cognizant Technology Solutions)
  • Best employee / team of the quarter (Capita-Elixir)
  • Lloyd's ICC (Implementation Change Committee) Award for Outstanding behaviour in the field of implementation/change management.

References

References available on request

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Native

Timeline

Technical Lead - SME

WIPRO (Lloyds Banking Group)
01.2022 - Current

Technical Specialist (SME)

Lloyds Banking Group
06.2015 - 10.2022

Software Configuration Manager - DevOps

Capital One
12.2014 - 05.2015

Environment Delivery Manager

Cognizant
01.2014 - 10.2014

Build and Deployment Lead

Capita
07.2011 - 10.2013

Release and Configuration Manager

Cognizant
09.2007 - 01.2011

Engineer's degree - Information Technology

Rungta College of Engineering and Technology
06.2003 - 05.2007

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