Muktesh Mehta
Sitecore Technology Lead
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Ambitious Technology Lead with 9+ years successfully aligning internal and external technical resources to provide consistent and reliable progress toward business goals. Proponent of human-centric management approach and owner of deep technological expertise. Adept at combining technology and common sense to maintain uptimes and exceed service level agreements.
Overview
3
3
Certificates
6
6
years of post-secondary education
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Skills
Sitecore
Net Technology Stack
Solr, Coveo
Azure PaaS, AWS
Technology Architecture Design
Team Management
Communication Skills
Training Experience
Web Content Management
Customer Guidance
C#
Presentation Skills
Work History
Technology Lead
Horizontal Digital
Bangalore, Karnataka
2018.01 - Current
- Define Sitecore architecture aligned with third-party integrations like Salesforce, DAM systems, internal client CRMs/DMSs, customized pricing engines, etc.
- Worked on advising customers following best practices working with Sitecore and associated tools.
- Managing project starting from tech assessment, planning, implementation till delivery with long-range strategic planning.
- Support sales team for at least 4 end-to-end RFPs along with estimation and architecture designs.
- Experience in activities including story boarding to defining software architecture.
- Offered technical leadership to junior personnel and other team leaders, providing expertise on Sitecore.
- Collaborated with client and product enterprise architects for designing system architecture with Sitecore.
- Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
- Travelled to customer location and worked with vendor partners.
Senior Web Developer
Horizontal Digital
Vadodara, INDIA
2016.01 - 2018.01
- Worked on various projects including website development for Allianz, AspenDental and MerrilCorp.
- Managed migration of existing sites to Sitecore without any downtime.
- Worked on multiple Sitecore version upgrade projects.
- Worked with Helix-based Sitecore solutions to increase maintainability of solution.
- Technical documentation related to projects to help clients maintain solutions in longer run.
- Worked on data exchange framework for one client and managed to sync location data including staff member details for over 650+ locations.
- Integration with third-party DAMs.
- Managed end-to-end delivery of project with Tech leads.
Development Team Lead
Investis
Vadodara, Gujarat
2015.01 - 2016.01
- Managed development team of up to 8 members, including Sitecore developers, .Net developers and quality analysts.
- Worked on custom Sitecore platform hosting almost 1200+ corporate websites on Amazon AWS including clients like ArcelorMittal, AtkinsGlobal, AngloAmerican.
- Created plug-and-play custom search module using Solr including web crawling with ability to collect analytics and reporting.
- Took initiatives to set up ELK stack for log analysis and launched same for internal development team that helped in troubleshooting.
- Managed migration of full Sitecore platform from on premise to AWS cloud and worked on fine tuning performance using Cloudfront post.
- Worked on integrations with multiple third party systems like Sharepoint, internal DMS of clients, third-party analytics, etc.
- Search API using Solr and Arachnode.net crawler with one developer.
- Social media hub to manage 8+ different social media channels.
- Annual report generator – integration for Winnovative into Sitecore to generate HTML to PDF report.
.Net Developer
Investis
Vadodara, Gujarat
2013.01 - 2015.01
- Assisted in feasibility study and decision making for major projects.
- Established training schedule for junior team members and trained them in Sitecore.
- Major enhancements in Lucene-based search service – including Autocomplete feature.
- Worked on performance enhancement and helped increasing application uptime
- Worked on Sitecore version upgrade project from v6.4 to v7.2
Jr. .Net Developer
Investis
Vadodara, Gujarat
2011.01 - 2013.01
- Performance troubleshooting of customized Sitecore platform – Experience in preliminary memory/crash dump creation and analysis along with performance counters.
- Customized Sitecore publishing feature by adding publishing basket and schedule publish features.
- Utilized excellent Sitecore skills and increased performance and scalability of Sitecore-based platform as part of CMS core team improving uptime to almost 99%.
Intern
L&T - S&L
Vadodara, Gujarat
2011.01 - 2011.05
- Worked on L&T - S&L .net based website along with managing documentation resulting in increased usability of website.
- Understood development flow in Agile methodology and implemented in project.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information & Technology
R K College of Engg. & Tech
Rajkot 2008.08 - 2011.06
PG Level Advanced Certification - Deep Learning
IISc - CCE
Bangalore 2021.03 - Current
High School Diploma -
M S University of Baroda
Vadodara 2005.08 - 2008.06
Additional Information
- Investis Q1 Excellence Award for year 2016
- Contributed in Sitecore Cookbook for Developers by Yogesh Patel
Certification
Website .NET Developer Certification for Sitecore CMS 7.0
Timeline
PG Level Advanced Certification - Deep Learning
IISc - CCE
2021.03 - Current
Technology Lead
Horizontal Digital
2018.01 - Current
Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance, 2017-2019
2017-07
Senior Web Developer
Horizontal Digital
2016.01 - 2018.01
Development Team Lead
Investis
2015.01 - 2016.01
MCSD
2014-09
Website .NET Developer Certification for Sitecore CMS 7.0
2014-05
.Net Developer
Investis
2013.01 - 2015.01
Intern
L&T - S&L
2011.01 - 2011.05
Jr. .Net Developer
Investis
2011.01 - 2013.01
Bachelor of Engineering - Information & Technology
R K College of Engg. & Tech
2008.08 - 2011.06
High School Diploma -
M S University of Baroda
2005.08 - 2008.06
Quote
No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein