Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Technical Expertise
Functional Analyst
Projects
Certification
Accomplishments
Languages Spoken
Timeline
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Sameer Khan

Sameer Khan

Chennai

Summary

With 13 years of experience in the Life Sciences sector, I specialize in technical leadership, application development, and DevOps. My expertise includes working with BIOVIA ULM suite applications, Data Science Platforms, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, and Ansible. I excel in developing web applications and automating REST services and API tests. Looking for a DevOps and management position to apply my expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and team leadership to optimize development and operational workflows.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Engineer

Cognizant
Chennai
10.2021 - Current
  • Leveraged expertise in collaboration with SMEs to enhance product functionality via JIRA EPICs.
  • Conduct frequent demos with SMEs and BAs to present enhancements and gather feedback.
  • Participate in Request for Proposal (RFP) discussions for potential projects and clients.
  • Provide training and knowledge-sharing sessions on various technologies to team members.
  • Conduct interviews to hire the right candidates for projects.
  • Develop protocols and parsers to automatically populate responses in recipes by parsing equipment result files.
  • Collaborated closely with programmers in pair programming sessions to overcome obstacles and optimize the efficiency of recipe methods or protocols.
  • Manage equipment data and ensure connectivity using Integration Gateway on FHUB.

Software Consultant

AstraZeneca
Chennai
08.2020 - 09.2021
  • Collaborate with scientists to write protocols for laboratory usability and create schedulers.
  • Automate packaging and deploy applications to production environments using Jenkins CI/CD.
  • Set up project infrastructure from scratch using Ansible to automate application deployment and upgrades in pre-production and production environments.
  • Write Ansible playbooks to automate deployment processes for repetitive activities.
  • Develop and integrate regression tests for services and protocols to run on Jenkins for continuous monitoring.
  • Guide scientists in resolving technical issues.
  • Receive significant appreciation from company leadership for contributions to DevOps and infrastructure automation.

Senior Development Engineer

Biovia, Dassault Systèmes
Bangalore
04.2012 - 07.2020
  • Integrate new features into the application.
  • Perform API testing using JMeter and automate tests to run on Jenkins with the Gradle framework.
  • Ensure coverage of unit and regression test cases for functional testing.
  • Configure and maintain Jenkins jobs.
  • Engage in pair programming with team members to resolve technical issues in development.
  • Review test cases with QA before starting development on new stories.
  • Create and manage test cycles in JIRA during release time.
  • Participate in global team discussions and share insights on the project.
  • Provide code review suggestions to team members for optimization.
  • Implement RESTful endpoint services using Swagger.

Software Developer

Grasko Solutions
Bangalore
03.2011 - 04.2012
  • Independently develop end-to-end solutions.
  • Sign and deploy applications to Android (Eclipse) and iOS (XCode4) devices.
  • Optimize applications and provide demos after adding new functionalities.
  • Automate monthly purge operations to clean mobile device storage.
  • Conduct frequent demos to showcase enhancements based on product owner suggestions.
  • Configure FMLE software or hardware to record live programming and detect ad durations in videos.
  • Execute complex MySQL database queries.
  • Record programs, detect ads, visualize ad analytics with Google Charts, and push ads to the server via FTP.

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
01.2009

Bachelor of Science -

SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
01.2006

Skills

  • ExtJS/JavaScript
  • Java
  • Pipleline Pilot
  • KNIME
  • Ansible
  • Gradle/Groovy
  • Oracle/MYSQL/SQLite
  • Tomcat
  • AWS
  • Dockers
  • JMeter
  • Jenkins
  • RAS Lab Servers
  • Shell Script

Technical Expertise

  • Expert in building UI with ExtJS framework for monolithic apps, creating responsive and scalable UI components.
  • Implement actions/protocols or REST services using the Pipeline Pilot server.
  • Expertise in reading molecular data from various formats and processing it as needed.
  • Proficient in Jenkins configuration and management for CI/CD.
  • Proficient in leveraging AWS services and Dockers.
  • Load balancer setup and configuration using proxy servers in a Linux environment.
  • Proficient in writing Ansible playbooks to automate IT environments.
    Oracle data pumping between schemas.
  • Extensive experience with BIOVIA products, including customizing, adding enhancements, and providing solutions for informatics.
  • Experience applying Agile to project delivery.

Functional Analyst

  • As a Functional Analyst, adept at requirements gathering, use case creation, analysis, and business modeling.
  • In-depth understanding of digital transformation, program management, Quality Management Systems (QMS) processes, and IT regulatory compliance.
  • Strategic development of quality systems, validation processes, SOPs, test plans, summary reports, and overall GxP compliance.
  • Effective in stakeholder management, program reporting, and coordinating multicultural and multi-location teams (Europe).
  • Skilled in capacity analysis, gap analysis, risk assessment, risk mitigation plans, and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with a proven track record of multi-tasking and prioritizing projects.
  • Played a key role in standardizing and optimizing processes across the tech services department by organizing diagnostic team feedback sessions.

Projects

Project 1 - BIOVIA ONE Lab - 10/2021 to present
Tools - Pipeline Pilot, Foundation Hub, and ScienceCloud

Description - A unified lab informatics solution that streamlines workflows, enhances collaboration, and accelerates research by centralizing laboratory data and processes.

Project 2 - DevOps On Pipeline Pilot  Administration- 08/2020 to 09/2021 

Tools - Java, GIT, Jenkins, Ansible & ANT

Description - Managed installation, configuration, and maintenance of Pipeline Pilot server and components to ensure efficient data processing and analysis workflows.

Project 3 - Chemical/Biological Registration - 04/2012 to 08/2020 

Tools - ExtJS, ANT, Jenkins, P4v, Oracle, Ansible, JMeter, Gradle, LB servers

Chemical Registration - A web-based solution for managing and searching corporate substance and batch databases, including features for registering substances, importing SD files, and customizing business rules.

Biological Registration - A user-friendly web system for registering, searching, and reporting on biological entities, including antibodies, cell lines, plasmids, and more, with support for custom entities.

Project 4 - Oasis - 03/2011 to 04/2012

Tools - Sencha Touch, Phonegap, SQLite & JavaScript

Description - A POC app for homecare providers on Android and iOS, streamlining operations with features for client assessments, profiles, care plans, scheduling, billing, and payroll. It replaces paper timesheets with a phone-based check-in/check-out system and automates printing tasks.

Project 5 - SpotOn! - 03/2011 to 04/2012 

Tools - Core Java, YUI Ajax, ZOOMLA, PHP, MySQL & FMLE

Description - A web-based app offering competitive TV ad insights and integrated ad occurrence data. It provides a comprehensive view of competitors' campaigns with an easy-to-use interface for searching and exploring creative and occurrence data by category, brand, network, and show.

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Certification

  • Dassault Systèmes Developer Certificate
  • KNIME Analytic's Platform
  • BIOVIA Brand essentials
  • BIOVIA ULM product certification

Accomplishments

  • Commended by the Product Manager and team for providing solutions to customer issues, specifically in moving metadata changes from the testing environment to the production environment after customizations, and in upgrading from earlier to later versions. Additionally, optimized performance during the migration of millions of records.
  • Received the Collaborator Award for contributions to the successful release of R2018 and R2020.

Languages Spoken

  • Hindi, Telugu, Urdu and English

Timeline

Lead Engineer

Cognizant
10.2021 - Current

Software Consultant

AstraZeneca
08.2020 - 09.2021

Senior Development Engineer

Biovia, Dassault Systèmes
04.2012 - 07.2020

Software Developer

Grasko Solutions
03.2011 - 04.2012

Master of Computer Applications -

SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science -

SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY
Sameer Khan