Sugandh Khanna
Gurgaon
Summary
Results-driven Solution Architect with 10+ years of experience in Drupal and headless architecture. Successfully managed 64 brand websites, optimizing performance through Akamai cache and reducing load on servers. Proficient in AWS, Docker, JavaScript, and APIGEE. Skilled in creating CI/CD pipelines and GitHub actions workflows. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget. Adept at handling critical incidents, including DDoS attacks, using cutting-edge technologies like Akamai CDN and AWS.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work history
Associate Principal Engineer
QBurst
12.2022 - 05.2023
- Interacting with a middle-east client for requirement gathering and analysis
- Sugandh Khanna - page 1
- Worked simultaneously on 64 brands Ecommerce website built on headless architecture that involves
- Drupal+React
- Parallely managed multiple projects like Germany based Healthcare projects, Islamic monuments
- Ecommerce projects and API integration
- Add tags on various features, eg: product landing page, add to cart page, one time login page so that
- Google tag manager can crawl it for SEO purpose
- Involved with code reviews and drupal coding standards
- Worked on AMP (accelerated mobile pages)
- Worked on Akamai cache for API acceleration
- Debug and trace APIs with API debugger tool
- Created reverse proxies in APIGEE X and assigned various policies like cache invalidate policy, KVM operations policy, Message assign policy
- Executing Jenkin builds for continuous integration and deployment.
Senior Technical Analyst
Bed Bath & Beyond
12.2019 - 12.2022
- About Project: A multilingual E-commerce website with multi-site concept, built on headless architecture, where backend is in Drupal and front-end is managed by React
- Three years of service includes 60% contribution in requirement gathering and demonstrating user stories to stakeholders and internal team members, and 40% contribution as a tech lead in delivery of custom module in Drupal 8 and 9 that handles content migration across environments like dev, stage and production
- Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 upgrade
- Create REST APIs and work on caching mechanisms
- Creating documentation in confluence and meeting agendas
- Create user stories in JIRA and manage the JIRA dashboard
- Develop process flow diagrams, use case, current/future state diagrams
- And other product documentations as directed by product managers
- Ensure that the wider team fully understands the feature
- Requirements/specifications and conduct user testing to met business expectations/needs
- Assist in conducting demos as well as preparing various internal presentations and documentations
- Facilitate stakeholder collaboration effectively and efficiently with some guidance from the product manager
- Drupal 8 to Content stack migration
- Understanding of Akamai CDN, load balancer, reverse proxy
- Understanding of different layers of caching including Pregen
- Database alignment strategies
- APIGEE edge - Create flows, Drupal integration and creating Swagger files.
Sr. software engineer
Srijan- A Material+ Company
01.2017 - 11.2019
- Sugandh Khanna - page 2
- Developed custom module in Drupal 7/Drupal 8/Drupal 9
- Single sign-on functionality with OKTA and SAML
- Drupal migration 7 to 8
- Custom Rest APIs and headless architecture
- Contributed modules integration and customization
- S3 integration and media deployment to the cloud
- Drupal upgrade
- Custom Drupal plugins
- Form
- APIs Budget Estimation and planning
Software Engineer
Investis Digital
07.2015 - 01.2017
- Worked on several Drupal contributed modules for building websites which includes: Views building, Workbench, Ctools, Multilingual
- Entity reference, Webforms, Custom Drupal APIs, etc
- Developed custom modules in Drupal 7 & Drupal 8 like 301 redirects
- Disclaimer, Email tokens, RSS feeds
- Website development in Drupal 7 & 8 from scratch
- Convert static HTML templates to complete functional Drupal responsive site
- Handled Multilingual and multi-domain redirects functionality using a custom module
- Frontend development, JS scripts exposure
- Handled multiple projects simultaneously
- One to one client interaction
- Drupal sites estimation according to budget plan
- Active participation in SPRINT planning
Software Engineer
Intelliswift Software
10.2014 - 06.2015
- Custom theme development in Drupal 7
- E-commerce sites development
- Direct client interaction
- Errors & logging reports handling
Associate Producer
iamwire
10.2013 - 10.2014
- Custom website development in Drupal 7
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Maharshi Dayanand University
2013
Senior Secondary School Certificate - Science
Sidheshwar Public School
2009
Skills
- Drupal 7,8,9 AWS EC2 APIGEE REST APIs Mysql Swagger Akamai CDN CI-CD pipeline Hubspot API integration nodejs
- Sumologic Cassandra Kafka Akamai CDN Route 53 PHP CRM AWS S3 OKTA-SAML Content stack
- Linux Github actions Docker Lando Acquia DAM API acceleration
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Issued Mar 2021 - Expires Mar 2024
- API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform - Coursera DJ8NWKCDJZ94
- Scrum Master Certified (SMC) - Scrum Alliance Issued Feb 2023 - Expires Feb 2025 001486507
- Acquia Certified Developer - Issued Feb 2019
Languages
English
Advanced
Hindi
Native
Timeline
Associate Principal Engineer
QBurst
12.2022 - 05.2023
Senior Technical Analyst
Bed Bath & Beyond
12.2019 - 12.2022
Sr. software engineer
Srijan- A Material+ Company
01.2017 - 11.2019
Software Engineer
Investis Digital
07.2015 - 01.2017
Software Engineer
Intelliswift Software
10.2014 - 06.2015
Associate Producer
iamwire
10.2013 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Maharshi Dayanand University
Senior Secondary School Certificate - Science
Sidheshwar Public School
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