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Hamza Akhtar

New Delhi

Summary

Results-oriented individual with a passion for continuous learning and innovation. Known for leveraging analytical thinking and creativity to solve problems and deliver high-impact solutions in fast-paced environments. With an experience spanning over 9 years, I have proven track record of handling end-to-end product development, team management, operational efficiency and business growth.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Vice President

Kotak Mahindra Bank
New Delhi
03.2023 - Current
  • I worked under the retail asset vertical of the bank, wherein I led the development of the Call Reporting and Auditing platform in the Collections division. Also, I am currently leading the Reward Point Management Platform and Accrual Air Miles projects in the Credit Card division.
  • The primary responsibility was to architect the product's design and drive end-to-end development. Established quality control standards and monitored their implementation. Ensured timely delivery of the project and within budget. Interfacing with multiple business and technical stakeholders each day to continuously track the product requirements and unblock implementation impediments.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions for complex business problems.
  • Actively participated in recruitment and selection process for new hires.
  • Managed a team of seven members.

Technical Lead

Paytm Payments Bank
Noida
09.2021 - 03.2023
  • Responsible for end-to-end product development/enhancements for Paytm UPI. Monitored applications health metrics such as error rates, latency, throughput, and took corrective action when necessary
  • Identified and resolved engineering problems around database and application scalability, thereby supporting close to 75 million transactions per day.
  • Redesigned the Paytm UPI’s refund application architecture. Increased success rate from 81% to 99.8%.
  • I led the UPI Lite project at Paytm Payments Bank.
  • Managed a team of four members. Led the UPI refund and UPI Lite projects. Mentored juniors, and worked with technical leadership to achieve business goals.

Lead Java Developer

S&P Global Platts
Hyderabad
09.2019 - 09.2021
  • I worked on the Price Reporting Platform to migrate the product into a microservice ecosystem. Also, contributed towards upgrading existing product’s architecture & CICD processes.
  • Created Price receiver and Price publisher microservices to enable the proper flow of prices to and from the Price Reporting platform.
  • As part of the sonic decommission initiative, I enhanced the price receiver and global variable projects to remove sonic references. Price receiver now connects with IBM MQ-XMLDD for price messages.
  • Developed new microservice-based projects – Price Service API and User Management Service API, as part of the PRP-AGAVE integration initiative.
  • Ensured compliance with security standards by implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms.
  • Collaborated with QA team to develop automated test suites for testing new features and functionalities before release cycles.

Java Full Stack Developer

Blue Yonder (formerly JDA)
Hyderabad
01.2018 - 08.2019
  • I had the opportunity to work on the Transportation Management Modeler application, where I worked as a full-stack developer, building the product from scratch using Ext-JS for the UI, Spring Boot for the back end, and MongoDB for the database.
  • I also worked on the Transportation Management Mobile application as the Java backend developer. The main responsibility was to design and implement the backend application that would empower the mobile app.
  • Implemented CICD via Jenkins, OAuth 2.0 security, and was actively involved in the overall application's architectural design.

Consultant 2

Hitachi Consulting Services
Hyderabad
09.2015 - 06.2017
  • I worked as a Java developer on the RIAB project for Hitachi America Limited. My primary responsibility was to develop RESTful web services using the Spring MVC framework.
  • I also got an opportunity to work on the HVS (Hitachi Visualization Suite) Smart City project, which was developed for the Andhra Pradesh government. I worked as a Java developer. Implemented RESTful web services and JUnit test cases.
  • Integrated Jenkins to perform CI/CD of various modules.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Jamia Hamdard University
05-2015

Skills

  • Spring- MVC, Spring Boot,
  • Maven, ANT,
  • JPA – Hibernate ORM
  • AWS services like ALB, S3, EKS, SQS, ECR, DynamoDb
  • Socket programming
  • Python-34
  • Java 8
  • MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle DB 12g, AWS DynamoDB
  • SonicMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS
  • Authentication and Authorization using OAuth 20 security
  • Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, ECR
  • Elastic Search, Airospike
  • Tools: Jenkins, Wildfly, Tomcat, Weblogic, Postman, Agile, Azure DevOps, Sonar, Putty, GIT, Hive, Grafana, Kibana, New relic

Certification

  • Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 7 Programmer.
  • Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer.
  • AWS certified Solutions architect associate (SAA – CO2)

Accomplishments

  • Received appreciation/recognitions from Paytm leadership for Paytm UPI Lite project.
  • Received multiple Spot awards at Blue Yonder (JDA).
  • Received Quarterly Team Award at Hitachi Consulting.
  • Former Member at Global Solution and Innovation Team at Hitachi consulting.
  • Former Chairperson at IEEE Jamia Hamdard Student Branch.

Timeline

Associate Vice President

Kotak Mahindra Bank
03.2023 - Current

Technical Lead

Paytm Payments Bank
09.2021 - 03.2023

Lead Java Developer

S&P Global Platts
09.2019 - 09.2021

Java Full Stack Developer

Blue Yonder (formerly JDA)
01.2018 - 08.2019

Consultant 2

Hitachi Consulting Services
09.2015 - 06.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Jamia Hamdard University

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