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
Chennai04-2013
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.
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).
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