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
2022.01 - 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
2015.06 - 2022.10
- 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
2014.12 - 2015.05
- 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
2014.01 - 2014.10
- 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
2011.07 - 2013.10
- 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
2007.09 - 2011.01
- 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 2003.06 - 2007.05
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)
2022.01 - Current
Technical Specialist (SME)
Lloyds Banking Group
2015.06 - 2022.10
Software Configuration Manager - DevOps
Capital One
2014.12 - 2015.05
Environment Delivery Manager
Cognizant
2014.01 - 2014.10
Build and Deployment Lead
Capita
2011.07 - 2013.10
Release and Configuration Manager
Cognizant
2007.09 - 2011.01
Engineer's degree - Information Technology
Rungta College of Engineering and Technology
2003.06 - 2007.05