Guddu Rajak
Technical Project Manager
Noida,UP
Summary
Results-driven Agile Technical Manager with 17 years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), client interactions, stakeholder management, team leadership, and project delivery aligned with business objectives. Proven expertise in Java/J2EE, web services, and enterprise application development with 12+ years of hands-on development experience. Successfully led projects as an Agile Project Manager over the past 5 years, ensuring seamless execution through Agile methodologies, sprint planning, and continuous improvement practices. Proactive leader with a strong technical foundation and Agile mindset, dedicated to delivering scalable, high-quality solutions while ensuring continuous business value through strategic execution.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consultant
GlobalLogic
08.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: A Hitachi Group Of Company. Client Experience – Animal Healthcare Domain (Portland, Maine, USA). The client provides comprehensive care services for pets through a network of integrated veterinary clinics, pharmacies, healthcare facilities, and shipping agencies.
- Worked for a USA-based client in Portland, Maine, specializing in the animal healthcare domain.
- Supported the development and enhancement of various platforms and applications that enable veterinarians and pet owners to access and utilize a wide range of products and services.
- Contributed to streamlining business operations, improving service efficiency, and enhancing customer engagement through technology-driven solutions.
- Assisted in maintaining and optimizing applications supporting pet care services, ensuring seamless integration, availability, and operational excellence.
- Managed the end-to-end project lifecycle, from requirement gathering to deployment and post-production support.
- Facilitated seamless communication and collaboration with clients, vendors, and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Extensive expertise in Java/J2EE, RESTful web services, microservices architecture, and cloud-based solutions.
- Led high-performing teams, fostered innovation, and guided team members in skill development and career growth.
- Focused on on-time, high-quality project delivery, proactive risk mitigation, and adherence to Agile best practices.
- Successfully implemented Scrum and Kanban frameworks to optimize team efficiency and productivity.
- Earned multiple client appreciations and team recognitions for exceptional contributions and project impact.
- Twice honored with DA recognition for delivery excellence.
- Mentored and coached team members, supporting them in progressing to next-level roles.
- Established application-specific SME knowledge, regularly updating skill matrices to enhance expertise.
- Designed and implemented an effective functional and technical KT framework for Noida-based teams.
- Ensured consistent, high-standard project execution aligned with client expectations.
- Actively participated in hiring and onboarding new team members to manage attrition and project ramp-ups.
- Focused on resource allocation and rotation, aligning with individual career paths and project needs.
- Led an 8-week POC to develop a conversational chatbot using the GenAI AWS Bedrock framework.
- Spearheaded an ideathon campaign in collaboration with leadership at the account level, generating innovative ideas that resulted in client business savings of approximately $70K annually.
- Led an initiative to build a Google read-only site for internal stakeholders, enhancing accessibility and information management.
- A Hitachi Group Of Company. Client Experience – Animal Healthcare Domain (Portland, Maine, USA). The client provides comprehensive care services for pets through a network of integrated veterinary clinics, pharmacies, healthcare facilities, and shipping agencies.
- Technologies: AGILE SCRUM, KANBAN, JIRA, JAVA, SPRING, SPRING BOOT, MICROSERVICES, HIBERNATE, AWS SQS, AWS LAMBDA, PYTHON, REACTJS, EXTJS, MYSQL, REST WEBSERVICES, GENAI, AWS BEDROCK etc.
Technical Lead
GlobalLogic Private Limited
12.2019 - 08.2023
- Company Overview: An American company providing animal health products and related services.
- Worked for American company providing animal health products and related services.
- The client provided solutions to bring together the essential tools and solutions to balance the business demands of providing quality care for client's pet patients with the provided Platform.
- The Client Platform helps to improve workflows and productivity, increase profit margins through strategic supplier partnerships, compete effectively in-clinic and online, and build client loyalty.
- Led a team of 8 members, guiding them through the functional and technical aspects of the project.
- Actively participated in knowledge transition (KT) from the USA to India via Zoom meetings.
- Documented KT artifacts, including recordings, functional overviews, and technical documentation.
- Provided cross-KT sessions to the client after completing the knowledge transfer.
- Engaged in the project kickoff meeting during the client’s visit to India.
- Took over client production support processes and operations.
- Documented production support workflows and SDLC processes.
- Led the team in successfully transitioning production support from the USA to GL India (Noida).
- Worked as a Technical Lead while also managing Agile Scrum ceremonies.
- Led the production support team in resolving L2/L3/L4 support tickets efficiently.
- Released multiple application enhancements for pharmacies and clinics, optimizing client business operations.
- Actively involved in client interactions for day-to-day activities.
- An American company providing animal health products and related services.
- Technologies: JAVA, SPRING, HIBERNATE, REST API, AWS Cloud, AWS SQS, AWS, MYSQL, VAADIN, SPRING BOOT, EXTJS.
Consultant
GlobalLogic Private Limited
09.2019 - 11.2019
- Client domain is related to influence shopper behavior by delivering personalized ads – at precisely the right moment.
- Led a team of 20 peoples to drive KT transition from clients.
- Proactively involved in KT transitions from USA to India.
- Documented the KT and created plan to be used by the other team members.
- KT and Cross KT were planned for new joiners for effective KT transition from client.
- Technologies: JAVA, Spring, Hibernate, REST/SOAP Webservices, Business Analytics, MySQL DB etc.
Consultant
Globallogic
02.2019 - 09.2019
- One of the investment management and wealth management client based out of USA.
- It hosts a virtual dataroom which is a secure online repository of documents used for hosting and the distribution of information.
- Involved in microservices API development related to new story and enhancement of existing features.
- Resolving production issues with analysis of splunk logs.
- Worked as an individual role and also coordinated with team in discussion, presentation and demo.
- Proposed solutions to some architectural decisions in project.
- Technologies: Spring boot, java 8, Micorservice, Mongo DB, RabbitMQ, Splunk, Intellij, gradle.
Consultant
Globallogic
06.2016 - 12.2018
- Worked for a Canadian Information company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software.
- Project was an enhancement and support project based on popular ECM called Alfresco.
- I was leading the project with responsibility, such as new story requirement clarification with client, technical design and implementation.
- Developed REST API to automate some manual updation of document metadata.
- Did enhancements and performance improvements for multiple updates and load testing of document updation process.
- Support and enhancement of existing features on production.
- Technologies: Alfresco, JAVA, ORM, CMIS, REST, SPRING, JSON, SOLR, SPRING ASPECT.
Consultant Engineering
GlobalLogic
09.2015 - 01.2016
- Marketing Automation: It was meant for developing Service base Forum and subscription management.
- Was involved in Rest based service development of forum and subscriptions management.
- Was involved in developing code for services based on Rest (Apache CFX provider), writing Junit and end to end testing of the flow.
- Technologies: JAVA, Spring, JPA, Apache CFX, Maven, Mockito, Apache Kafka for Messaging queue.
Technical Consultant
NIIT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD.
08.2011 - 09.2015
- Has worked on Airline Domain project such as migration of main frame system to SOA based architecture.
- The project is a loyalty scheme which rewards customers for making purchases through their partners.
- Involved in requirement analysis, and scope analysis of the assigned story.
- Involved in task break down and task allocation among the team members.
- Holding meeting of functionality clarification with BA.
- Raising issues related to discrepancy in artifacts.
- Holding daily stand-up meeting for tracking purpose.
- Keeping track of story on daily basis.
- Assisting team in technical as well as functional issue.
- Involved in Code Review and integration of sub modules.
- Review test cases and tracking testing of the assigned story.
- Monitoring unit testing and integration testing on local environment.
- Debugging issues by finding logs on integrated server.
- Technologies: JAVA, J2EE, SPRING, HIBERNATE, SOA, WEBSERVICES, REST, MICROSERVICES, OXM, WSDL, XSD, HYBRIS, OSB, JUNITS, JSON, jQuery, Ajax. Database: ORACLE, MySQL 5.0. Servers: Weblogic Server and tomcat.
Associate Technology L2
Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd.
06.2010 - 08.2011
- Was involved in development of e-commerce hybris based project which is meant for providing e-commerce site which will show the availability of tires across the various stores in Canada.
- Involved in the requirement gathering (KT) from the onsite team.
- Created UML, Class diagram and sequence diagram for payment gateway.
- Involved in the implementation of payment gateway (Moneris integration).
- Technologies: Java, jsp, hybris, Spring MVC.
Software Engineer
ValueFirest Messaging Pvt Ltd
02.2008 - 06.2010
- Was involved in project which deals with the aim of removing the service delay in sending the dlr to client url.
- This project covers all the services of Company such as api15, api10, http, and smpp.
- The client dlr url is called under different threads (around 2000) and the response is updated in the database table.
- If the dlr url call is success than its value is updated in the database else it is inserted into a different table as retry dlr url.
- The failed dlr-url are called under different thread pool and its status is updated in the database.
- Technologies: Core Java, Mysql, jboss -4.2.3.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Sciences, compiler, computer programming, DAA
Uttar Pradesh Technical Universtiy
06.2001 - 08.2005
Skills
Requirement management
Requirements analysis
Negotiation
Risk management
Defect Management
Problem Resolution
Resource Management
reporting
Stakeholder management
Backlog Management
Communications Management
Scrum
Kan Ban
Release Management
L3
L4
Others
AWS Bedrock
Machine Learning
GenAI PoC
Performance & load testing
Log Analysis and Reporting
System Integration
JIRA
Trello
Excel
PowerPoint
Amazon Web Service (AWS)
AWS Lambda
AWS SQS
Certification
ScaledAgile, Certified SAFe Agilist
Foreign Language Skills
- English, Expert, Expert
- Hindi, Advanced, Advanced
- Japanese, Beginner, Beginner
- Bhojpuri, Expert, Expert
- Assamese, Intermediate, Intermediate
- Bengali, Intermediate, Intermediate
- Nepali, Intermediate, Intermediate
- Maithili, Basic, Basic
Timeline
Consultant
GlobalLogic
08.2023 - Current
Technical Lead
GlobalLogic Private Limited
12.2019 - 08.2023
Consultant
GlobalLogic Private Limited
09.2019 - 11.2019
Consultant
Globallogic
02.2019 - 09.2019
Consultant
Globallogic
06.2016 - 12.2018
Consultant Engineering
GlobalLogic
09.2015 - 01.2016
Technical Consultant
NIIT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD.
08.2011 - 09.2015
Associate Technology L2
Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd.
06.2010 - 08.2011
Software Engineer
ValueFirest Messaging Pvt Ltd
02.2008 - 06.2010
B.Tech - Computer Sciences, compiler, computer programming, DAA
Uttar Pradesh Technical Universtiy
06.2001 - 08.2005