Kumari Sakshi Gupta

Part of the Pricing and Promotion team, worked on multiple projects to enhance skill development, career growth, problem-solving abilities, collaboration, and communication skills. Broadened industry knowledge as well as project management experience.

RESTful API Development Lead to focus on Targeted Offers for Targeted Customers (Project1)

• Developed a RESTful API focused on specific customers, resulting in a 15% increase in user engagement and improved customer experience at GAP.
• Designed the project to support personalized offers by restricting promotions to targeted audiences, driving deeper customer engagement throughout their journey.
• Collaborated with the core team on UI enhancements, enabling dynamic promotion creation with specific dates and generic promo codes, reducing checkout complexity by 20%.
• Enhanced data attributes, including first and last redemption dates, remaining usage, and days left for dynamic dates, leading to improved offer relevancy.
• Implemented Kafka consumers to send feeds to the customer-offers team via API, enriching redemption messaging with personalized content, which improved re-targeting efforts based on customer usage over time.
• Contributed to revenue growth and margin protection, resulting in increased KPIs such as conversion rates, average order value (AOV), units per transaction (UPT), and purchase frequency.

User Experience Enhancement Lead with Barclays Savings Calculator (Project 2)

• Migrated the Savings Calculator from Synchrony to Barclays credit card systems, improving customer attraction and retention by 25% through enhanced financial features and rewards.
• Optimized the UI using ReactJS, tailoring features for Barclays credit cardholders, resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement and satisfaction.
• Implemented FPD (First Purchase Discount) features across various promotional events, enhancing promotional effectiveness by 20%.
• Developed conditional checks for FPD promotions to ensure accurate eligibility, reducing promotional errors by 15%.
• Updated the database schema to meet new Barclays credit card requirements, streamlining data management processes.
• Led API development for retrieving FPD promotion details, supporting brand-specific and channel-specific campaigns, increasing campaign efficiency by 25%.

Code Quality Optimization Lead with Java Upgrade (Project 3)

• Spearheaded the upgrade of critical Spring Boot applications from Java 8 to Java 17, enhancing overall performance by 30% through the adoption of modern language features and optimizations.
• Upgraded the application's codebase, build configurations, and dependencies to ensure compatibility with Java 17, facilitating seamless integration with existing systems.
• Improved application performance by leveraging advanced JVM optimizations and implementing the ZGC garbage collector, resulting in 25% faster memory management.
• Enhanced Stream API functionality by incorporating new methods from the java.util package, optimizing data processing capabilities.
• Replaced Springfox with Springdoc OpenAPI library for API documentation, improving documentation quality and reducing boilerplate code by 40%.

Effective emphasize both operational efficiency and cost reduction with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) (Project4).

• Working on migrating the applications from PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) to AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), which enhanced scalability, increased resource utilization by 40%, and resulted in deployment times improving by 30% to 70%.
• Use of GitHub Actions automation, Docker, and Chartis files with reusable workflow delivered faster application performance and better customer experience through efficient container orchestration and management, resulting in operational cost reduction by optimizing resource usage and leveraging cloud-native features.
• Worked on ArgoCD to manage and automate application deployments through GitHub workflows, and to monitor real-time insights such as health and status.
• Integration of GCP (Google Cloud Platforms) tools and service with Kubernetes workloads helped in optimized Monitoring and Logging, enhanced Data and Analytics Capabilities, as well as Cost Optimization by 25%.
• To improve code quality, visibility, and reporting, I worked on the integration of SonarQube with Azure Kubernetes Service.

Developed and Automated Acceptance Tests using Cucumber increased test coverage by 50% and reduced bugs in production (Project 5).

• To verify that the ReactJS-based UI met functional and business requirements, integrated acceptance tests using Cucumber with the front-end application and enhanced test coverage, reducing manual testing efforts.
• Utilization of the Gherkin language to write clear, human-readable test scenarios, facilitating better collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders.

DevOps and Application Monitoring Specialist

• Utilized Splunk and New Relic to enhance application monitoring, developing real-time alerts that improved incident response times by 30%.
• Designed and implemented dashboards in Splunk and New Relic, enabling teams to monitor job statuses and performance metrics, leading to a 25% increase in operational efficiency.
• Proactively notified teams of failures and errors, resulting in a 40% reduction in critical downtime.

Fostering a collaborative environment as a Scrum lead that streamlined internal processes, decreasing project delivery time by 25%, and helped to encourage communication, transparency, and alignment towards achieving goals.

Worked on Azure VMs to leverage cloud computing. Utilized Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to automate VM deployment, reducing provisioning time by 10%. Also, monitored VM performance and conducted capacity planning to ensure resources met application demands and SLA requirements.

• Designed the 'Digital Shoppe' user interface, a photography application that the business may utilize for social media & Marketing efforts.
• Enhanced User Experience with more user engagements, as well as helped in Brand Image and Recognition.
• Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, and MongoDB.