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Muhammad Khizar

chennai

Summary

  • Professional Profile: Passionate professional specialized in development, data technology, analytics, and impactful strategies.
  • Experience: 10 years of experience in Data Management, Data Engineering, Data Manipulation, and Strategy Formulation.
  • Core Strengths: Front-End Development, Automation, and Debugging Hadoop Applications.
  • Current Role: Serving as a Front-End Engineer delivering application/data-driven solutions for deep-analysis and report generation.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consultant

Manulife Insurance
chennai
02.2018 - 12.2025
  • Requirements: Gathering and understanding requirements from business stakeholders; analyzing impact and participating in technical discussions.
  • Development: Writing reusable production-ready Front-End code meeting Accessibility (AODA) and quality standards.
  • Projects: Member of the technical staff for "CoverMe Travel Insurance," developing responsive UI for travelers and students.
  • Leadership: Led the ‘AODA’ epic for visually and hearing-impaired accessibility.
  • DevOps: Led multiple promotion activities between environments using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
  • Security: Resolved multiple Snyk vulnerabilities and SonarQube issues in real-time.
  • Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJs, Redux, Webpack, NodeJS, GCP, MongoDB.

Consultant

Nest Insurance
chennai
05.2022 - 02.2023
  • Analyzed requirements and designs for given modules.
  • Wrote reusable, production-ready Front-End code following Accessibility standards.
  • Performed code reviews for fellow team members.
  • Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Redux, Webpack, Node.

Consultant

Paypal
chennai
05.2021 - 05.2022
  • Project: PayPal One Identity Project (Team of 5) using the Agile model.
  • Development: Involved in the full lifecycle of component development from requirement gathering to release.
  • UI/UX: Created UI for the SMT PayPal Internal Tool and migrated Dust framework modules to ReactJs.
  • Testing: Conducted unit and functional testing for UI components.
  • Achievement: Received SPOT Award for valuable contributions to SMT Module development.
  • Environment: ReactJs, Jenkins, GitHub, Nemo, Altus, Jest.

Data Engineer

Paypal
chennai
11.2018 - 05.2021
  • Operations: Identified data issues and provided recommendations for optimal performance; managed Informatica environment issues.
  • RCA: Scanned Informatica session logs and performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for failed SLA/Non-SLA jobs.
  • Maintenance: Managed scheduling changes (defining/modifying jobs) and monitored daily/monthly batch cycles.
  • Incident Management: Provided immediate fixes for production abends and worked with Service Now operation teams on incident reporting.
  • Leadership: Led the EDW domain, implementing new processes to improve team performance.
  • Environment: Teradata, Informatica, Unix, UC4, ServiceNow, Airflow, JIRA.

Technical Analyst

State Farm Insurance
chennai
02.2013 - 11.2018
  • Support: Assisted product technical analysts with platform build activities and triaging defects.
  • Testing: Conducted end-to-end testing and defect fixing for Bank-related applications.
  • Environment: Set up test environments and performed weekly production catch-ups for new development.
  • Troubleshooting: Resolved application server configuration and environment issues within SLA periods.
  • Middleware: Worked with middleware teams (MQ, Data Power) for URL updates and maintenance.

Education

B.E - CSE - Computer Science

V.M.H.S.S
Chennai
04-2013

Skills

  • Languages/Frameworks: ReactJs, JavaScript, NodeJs, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
  • Data/Back-End: SQL, EDW/Hadoop, ETL, Shell Scripting, MongoDB
  • Tools/DevOps: GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, SonarQube, Snyk, Grafana, Prometheus
  • Specialties: AEM, JEST, Responsive UI, UC4

Accomplishments

Runners Award: PayPal Clash of Bots Hackathon (out of 75+ participants).
Spot Award: Multiple monetary awards from Atos Management for leadership.
KUDOS Award: Customer Champion Award for timely production error reporting.
Adaptive - Agile Award: For leading the team through critical production issues.

Certification

CCNA (100%): Cisco Certified Network Associate (Cisco ID - CSCO12702825).
Systems Engineering: Completed RHCE & MCSE at Sansbound, Chennai.
Database: Certified IBM Academic Associate in DB2 9 Fundamentals.
Business English: Cambridge ESOL Level 1 (BEC).

Timeline

Consultant

Nest Insurance
05.2022 - 02.2023

Consultant

Paypal
05.2021 - 05.2022

Data Engineer

Paypal
11.2018 - 05.2021

Consultant

Manulife Insurance
02.2018 - 12.2025

Technical Analyst

State Farm Insurance
02.2013 - 11.2018

B.E - CSE - Computer Science

V.M.H.S.S
Muhammad Khizar