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SHUBHAM AHER
Pune
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
HybridImportant To Me
Work-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hoursCareer advancementSummary
- Seasoned IT Professional with Global outlook and International / Multi-Cultural Leadership Experience
- PROFILE SUMMARY
- From a founding engineer of India team, to taking an "entrepreneurial plunge", and finally becoming a startup-ready Principal Software Engineer with a demonstrated leadership experience of leading, guiding and ramping up a product development team, I was responsible for:
- Leading a team of successful senior software engineers which owned a business-critical aspect of the cyber security company
- Forming a team of senior software engineers that successfully achieved the healthcare company's annual goal
- Handling business impact of a healthcare software customer by unblocking patient care
- End to end ownership of product features right from inception to delivery for an AI-driven cyber risk company
- Communicating effectively and timely with stakeholders to manage business risks for an adtech platform company
- Mentoring the team so as to provide business value by performing RCA(root cause analysis) of product-business problem
- Contributing to product development by using open source frameworks including Spring, JPA, Groovy on Grails.
- Architecting, designing and writing REST APIs, Micro services.
- Designing test automation using TDD approach to prepare, design and write testcases and maintain builds.
- Developing build and deployment pipelines using DevOps(CI/CD) approach with Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker on AWS.
- Learning in a challenging environment by joining passionate teams and work on exciting products.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
IndexNine Technologies
02.2024 - Current
- As a LSE in Smarsh's Cyber Compliance Product Team, my primary responsibility is ownership of Risk Analytics APIs and owning end-to-end Entreda Unify Platform.
- Feature enhancements for Endpoint Device Monitoring and Integrated Risk Analytics API development.
- Owning pre-prod environment issues by creating process-oriented approach for hotfix resolution and fixing bugs.
- Delivering various engineering efforts for my team incl. : Layered API Testing, Test Driven Development, Branching Strategy, etc.
- Adding business value as a backend tech lead under the mentorship of Architect as part of Value Stream Engineering initiative which involves Streams (Teams) and Milestone based software releases.
- Setting up developmental processes from scratch to address Field Issues with triaging processes (bugfixes).
- Leading successful architectural initiatives : Architectural Decision Records (Logs), Architectural Review Board, Joint Architectural Discussions, etc.
- Coordinating with Frontend stream (team) for Contract Negotiation to have efficient integration with backend services.
- Collaborating with DevOps streams (teams) for developing independently the CI/CD build pipeline.
- Enhancing engineering processes to help QA stream (team) with Testing strategies - API Automation, Integration testing.
- Mentoring 7 team members (6 Dev + 1 QA) to assist them in timely software development with focus on velocity.
- Inculcating the team to have TDD Best Practices, Developer's Guide, System Design Review documentations.
- Client Name : Smarsh Inc. ( Entreda Inc. subsidiary )
- Domain : Cybersecurity, Compliance, Risk Management, Analytics, Communications Intelligence
- Product Name(s) : Smarsh Cyber Compliance ( Entreda Unify )
Principal Software Engineer
Operative Media
10.2021 - 01.2024
- As a PSE in Operative's AOS IM (Integration Manager) Team, my primary responsibility was ownership of Ad Delivery Service and owning end-to-end IM Platform.
- Proactively handling critical and blocker issues to avoid revenue-based business impact.
- Monitoring non-prod tier issues to provide timely RCA and bugfix solutions.
- Triaging issues to help the team be enabled for productively participating in the sprint work items.
- Leading various engineering initiatives for my team incl. : Contract Testing, Multi-branching, Tech Stack Upgrade, etc.
- Cross-team coordination on time to maintain API contracts.
- Inculcating proactive communication within team members to help them become self-driven.
- Improving engineering processes to help in QA automation collaboration.
- Mentoring 8 team members (5 Dev + 3 QA) to help them be empowered for contributing towards deliverables.
- Helping the team to have a developer-driven documentation approach.
- Product Name(s) : AOS (Operating System for Advertising), Operative One
- With solutions for Local Broadcast Stations, Cross Media Sales, Network Convergence and Digital Planning, AOS will enable Media Companies to easily transition to Outcome Based Selling without taking on significant headcount and ensuring they maximize the value of every Impression and Spot in their inventory portfolio.
Team Lead (Product Development)
PierianDx (Velsera)
01.2020 - 09.2021
- As a Team Lead of CGW Product Development, acted as a bridge between Product Development and Customer Success departments.
- Coordinating with stakeholders for release of hotfix or patch to fix production issues.
- Investigating RCA of issues and reviewing the solutions provided by the team members.
- Mentoring the team to have a documentation-first approach for the proposed solution and feature development.
- Proactively fixing critical and blocker issues to unblock patient care.
- Improving processes to reduce turn-around-time for the team to roll out product updates faster.
- Investigating production issues and proposing solutions to fix them.
- Monitoring logs and setting up alerts for different types of errors/warnings.
- Reviewing details of the issue, reproducibility, RCA and fix for implementation by the team.
- Providing temporary workaround, if needed, for critical and blocker issues to handle business impact.
- Enabling L1/L2 customer success teams with trainings to reduce escalations to L3 team.
- Educating L1/L2 teams by providing documentation, user guides and troubleshooting guides.
- Successfully lead the L3 team that contributed in improvement of customer Net Promoter Score(NPS) from 4.8 to 6.9.
- Handling L3 technical support end-to-end in order to reduce customer churn rate.
- Product Name : CGW (Clinical Genomicist Workspace)
- Developed for clinical laboratories by clinical laboratories, PierianDx's Clinical Genomics Workspace is a SaaS based solution that provides complete informatics, genomic interpretation, and reporting workflow support for cancer and germline molecular diagnostic testing applications.
Senior Software Developer
PierianDx (Velsera)
01.2018 - 12.2019
- Deliver feature as Individual contributor.
- Understand API specification, perform impact analysis, do code walkthrough, submit work-breakdown structure.
- Design new API endpoints, specification and implementing APIs using HATEOAS principle wherever necessary.
- Designing and development of test-cases based on TDD approach.
- Bug fixes and verification.
- Code reviews.
- Worked on multiple individual API endpoint features from design to implementation.
- Improve code coverage and code quality of API build.
- Maintaining and fixing builds, deployment to AWS, Migration scripts, etc.
- Mentor peers and other team members.
- Product - Project Name : CGW (Clinical Genomicist Workspace) - API
- CGW REST API deployed as a microservice that allows clients to create orders and retrieve reports.
Software Developer
PierianDx (Velsera)
12.2015 - 12.2017
- Understand existing usecase and business logic of allocated report generation steps to migrate and create documentation.
- Designing and development of test scenarios and test-cases in a TDD fashion.
- Implement report generation steps as microservice methods.
- Maintaining and fixing builds, deployment to AWS, Migration scripts, etc.
- Product - Project Name : CGW (Clinical Genomicist Workspace) - Report Generator Microservice
- Code migration activity to rewrite complete legacy Groovy/Grails based Report Generator service as a Java microservice.
Associate Consultant
TIBCO Software
07.2013 - 11.2015
- Requirement gathering and analysis.
- Design technical document.
- Development using TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO BusinessEvents, Java, XML.
- Testing SOAP web services (SOAP-over-HTTP) during different phases of SDLC and deployment environments.
- Performing RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of an issue, resolving defects.
- Project Name : Citi COPS [Centralized Offer Palette System]
- Citi COPS(Centralized Offer Palette System) is a strategic initiative to have the single central source base for both Banking as well as Card system which supports the real time interface with various Touchpoints for Banking and Card products.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
06.2013
GPA: 72%
Skills
- Spring Boot
- Groovy on Grails
- Kafka Connect
- MVC
- REST
- Microservices
- Web services
- Java
- PL/SQL
- Javascript
- HTML
- CSS
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle9i
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- ElasticSearch
- Hibernate
- GORM
- Liquibase
- JPA
- Git
- Maven
- Gradle
- Jenkins
- JFROG
- Artifactory
- Nexus
- Ansible
- Rundeck
- Amazon AWS
- Docker
- Agile
- Scrum
- JUnit
- Mockito
- Grails Spock
- Sonarqube
- Sonarlint
- Jacoco
- Groovy Script
Websites
Certification
Completed 12 certifications in various domains like AI, Cloud, Analytics, Development and related fields.
- http://lnkd.in/MU39Qm
Interests
Tech Stack And Skills
Spring Boot (Data, Cloud Config, Security), Groovy on Grails, Kafka Connect, MVC, REST, Microservices, Web services, Java, PL/SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Oracle9i, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hibernate, GORM (Grails ORM), Liquibase, JPA, JDBC, AngularJS, Ajax, JSON, Apache, Tomcat, Intellij IDEA, STS - Spring Tool Suite (Eclipse IDE based), Git, SVN, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, JFROG/Artifactory, Nexus, Ansible, Rundeck, Amazon AWS (S3, ECS, EC2, CloudWatch), Docker, Unix/Linux, MacOS, Windows, Agile/Scrum, Individual Contributor, JUnit, Mockito, Grails Spock, Sonarqube, Sonarlint, Jacoco, Groovy Script (Migration / Query), Bash/Shell (basics), Swagger UI (REST API documentation & testing), Swagger (API management), Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Slack, Postman, Teams, TortoiseSVN, Wordpress, Jekyll, Google Blogger, Github Pages
Employment Details
Immediate Joiner - within 1 week or ASAP, 0 days (Ready to join immediately), Engineering roles in Global / International / Relocation / Immigration based companies
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 1991
- Availability: Immediate Joiner - within 1 week or ASAP., Ready to relocate Internationally ASAP - Globally interviewing.
- Visa Status: Valid US B1/B2 Business Visa
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Beginner (A1)
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer - IndexNine Technologies
02.2024 - Current
Principal Software Engineer - Operative Media
10.2021 - 01.2024
Team Lead (Product Development) - PierianDx (Velsera)
01.2020 - 09.2021
Senior Software Developer - PierianDx (Velsera)
01.2018 - 12.2019
Software Developer - PierianDx (Velsera)
12.2015 - 12.2017
Associate Consultant - TIBCO Software
07.2013 - 11.2015
Pune Institute of Computer Technology - Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology