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SHASHI RATHOD

Application Manager | Software Development & Support | Project Leadership
Mumbai,Maharashtra

Summary

Enthusiastic IT professional with over 14 years' experience, specializing in managing end-to-end delivery of enterprise applications, driving continuous improvement initiatives to deliver high-quality software solutions with "First Time Right" approach.
Skilled in managing diverse teams, stakeholders, and vendors to deliver projects and enhancements on time and aligned to business objectives, ensuring stability & scalability.
Looking forward to an opportunity in an environment where I can make difference, and not just be another on the payroll.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages

Work History

Application Manager - Development & Support

Travelex India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
12.2017 - 06.2025
  • Lead delivery & support of multiple application with a team of 20+ team and in a fast-paced retail software environment, successfully deploying updates to critical systems monthly ensuring availability in 17 countries globally.
  • Steered the planning and completion of a major architecture overhaul resulting in a 20% performance boost across our software suite by migrating Web Servies to AWS Containers with wsse authentication.
  • Coordinated an initiative to enhance application security protocols, SQL versions, Server upgrades, Application upgrades, reducing vulnerabilities by 70% across the board.
  • Spearheaded the Agile transformation for the team, improvement initiatives, enhancing delivery processes, increasing our deployment frequency by 80% (6months to 1day).
  • Introducing Automation for Windows based applications which has reduced 50% regression testing time and resources.
  • Introduced Version Management with Backward compatibility which reduced the maintenance of the application by 70%.
  • Fostered a team environment that prioritized learning, leading to a major improvement in employee satisfaction.
  • Developed user guides, training materials, and conducted knowledge-sharing sessions across teams.
  • Reduced frequent application incidents through proactive problem management, root cause analysis, development and automation.
  • Integrated multiple Hardwares to speed-up application process.
  • Integrated multiple 3rd parties for enhanced user experience including regulatory purposes.

Senior Software Developer

Accenture
06.2016 - 12.2017
  • Worked for 3 different clients using multiple development environments.
  • Directed the development and maintenance of a large-scale enterprise application, serving overall US.
  • Implemented a streamlined release management process (branching-merging) that increased deployment efficiency by 25%.
  • Hiring and Training 10 additional team members (freshers & junior analysts) that successfully integrated within 2months.
  • Involved in enhancing the current product and solving critical bugs raised on different environment.

Lead Developer

ZingHR
06.2011 - 06.2016
  • Lead a team of 3 developers to deliver high-quality applications, ensuring adherence to coding standards, architecture guidelines, and best practices.
  • Design and implement scalable solutions, optimizing performance (minification, bundling, bulk CRUD operations type concepts), security, and maintainability, e.g. Developing SMS & Email engine, Upload & Download engine which can be used by multiple teams.
  • Played role as Module Owner of Time and Attendance, Leave Management System, Online Attendance System, Rostering, Swipe Integration and Employee Dossier modules of Employee Self Service.
  • Used cloud technologies to improve performance like blob storage, CDN.
  • Conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior developers to uplift team capability and performance.
  • Worked with solution architects to design application components and integrations with external systems.
  • Developed RESTful APIs to enable integration with third-party platforms and internal microservices.
  • Provided technical leadership within the team, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Junior Software Developer

Euclid Infotech Pct. Ltd.
12.2009 - 06.2011
  • Developed and maintained features for Web and Windows based applications.
  • Collaborated with senior developers to analyze requirements, design solutions, and implement functionalities.
  • Participated in code reviews and applied feedback to improve code quality and maintainability.
  • Tested and debugged code to ensure optimal performance and user experience.
  • Assisted in database design and wrote SQL queries for data retrieval and reporting.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Anuradha Engineering College, Chikhali, Buldhana
Maharashtra, India
04.2001 -

Diploma - Information Technology

Vartak Polytechnic College, Vasai
Mumbai, India
04.2001 -

S.S.C, Maharashtra State Board - Secondary And Higher Secondary Education

S.S.C From B.N.V.B High School, Goregoan
Mumbai, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Application lifecycle management

System upgrades and migrations

Agile & Scrum methodologies

Team leadership and mentoring

Stakeholder engagement & communication

Business process improvement

Software architecture and design

Code reviews and quality assurance

Solution integration and API development

Performance optimisation and security best practices

Accomplishments

Awards

  • Travelex

- Exceptional Performance 2023 (Yearly)

- Exceptional Performance 2021 (Yearly)

- Boundaryless Behavior 2019 (2nd Quarter)

- TravelLine PCI Integration Project 2019 (1st Quarter)

- Team Award for Exemplary Performance 2018 (2nd Quarter)

- Rising Star 2018 (1st Quarter)

- Led a team which stood 3rd in Hackathon 2019

  • Accenture

- Awarded as a Winner for Learn

& Grow – Mar 2017

  • Euclid

- Awarded Twice as Best Performer

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Recognitions

  • Travelex

- Nominated 3 times for being Efficient (2018 - 3rd Quarter, 2019 - 4th Quarter & 2020 - 1st Quarter)

- Nominated 2 times for begin Focused

(2018 - 4th Quarter & 2019 - 3rd Quarter)


Trainings

- Have attended meets with the Microsoft experts regarding Optimization & Performance

- Have organized number of Training Sessions with the Team for Sharing Good Practices while Coding on Front & Back End.

- Worked as a Trainer at Kohinoor Institute (Dadar) for C, C++, Java, and VB 6.0 from Nov'05 - Jan'06.

- Worked as a Trainer

at ICIT Institute (Goregaon) for C, C++, Java, and VB 6.0 from Feb'06 -

June'06.

Additional Information

  • Retail Trading System [Travelex India Pvt. Ltd.]

RTS is a Point of Sale application which takes care of Currency Exchange process. The purpose of this application is to allow customers to exchange any currency with any currency (supported by Travelex) in any region with various features like Buy-Sell-Cross Rate-Account Holder transactions, Transfers between tills-sites-account holders, Promotions, VAT refund, Remittance and various products, etc. with different settlement types like cash, card, etc.

There are multiple application/services (Windows/WCF/Web Service/Microservices) on Clients as well as Servers which does background processing to complete the process of exchange seamlessly with verification of the customer.

All the Client applications/services along with 3rd Party software's like SQL Express are packaged with customization as per product in a MSI form which is deployed to destinations machines without any manual intervention.
RTS also has 3rd party and hardware integrations some are required for regulatory purposes some for benefits of the customers.

  • Freelancing Project - https://www.stuffindia.in/

Developed the Web Site and Content Management system for a client which was build in MVC and JQuery with Backend as SQL

  • Client Product

Internal product used by the client for monitoring overall jobs carried in the whole country (US) at various sites. Product contains all the information of the jobs which are being carried out across the country.


  • Employee Self Service – https://www.zinghr.com [Cnergyis Infotech Pvt. Ltd.]

This application consist multiple modules related to HR & Payroll namely Leave Management, Time & Attendance, Employee Life Cycle, Payroll Management & many more modules related to HR & Payroll.

The Application was upgraded from

- ASP.net 2.0 to

- ASP.net 4.5 with Telerik controls with certain MVC projects integrated as Dlls and

then later on rebuild with

- JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML & CSS along with AJAX and .Net 4.5 with application hosted on Azure and source control of TFS.


  • Automation & Mailing [Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd.]

Code which visits the websites grabs the information and save it in database. Creates the rough document of the data which has to be given at the client side. More than 50 sites' has been included in the code which are running live on the daily basis and also maintained on a regular basis. Mail Alert system is designed for sending new released tenders, newsletter to various.

Timeline

Application Manager - Development & Support

Travelex India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2017 - 06.2025

Senior Software Developer

Accenture
06.2016 - 12.2017

Lead Developer

ZingHR
06.2011 - 06.2016

Junior Software Developer

Euclid Infotech Pct. Ltd.
12.2009 - 06.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Anuradha Engineering College, Chikhali, Buldhana
04.2001 -

Diploma - Information Technology

Vartak Polytechnic College, Vasai
04.2001 -

S.S.C, Maharashtra State Board - Secondary And Higher Secondary Education

S.S.C From B.N.V.B High School, Goregoan
04.2001 -
SHASHI RATHODApplication Manager | Software Development & Support | Project Leadership