Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Projects Accomplished
Accomplishments
Timeline
SoftwareEngineer
Sumit Sood

Sumit Sood

Bengaluru

Summary

12+ years of Experience in analysis, design and development of web-based products using Microsoft technologies and open-source technologies. Also acting as Scrum Master for more than five year and managing team of eight to twelve people. Have Domain expertise in Finance, Tax & Accounting, Banking and Hospitality. Having work experience in both Product based and Service based company, I have skills set required for both working environments.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Lead Engineer

Preqin
Bengaluru
11.2018 - 02.2023
  • Participated in architecture, lead and implemented software solutions for critical business processes, increasing productivity throughout the organization.
  • Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines.
  • Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
  • Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others. Managed Team of 8 to 12 people to deliver quality work within deadlines and providing technical support.
  • Followed Agile - Scrum: Managing day to day scrum activities, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Sprint review, Analyzing Burn-down and other reports, Sprint Retrospective.
  • Collaborated with Architects to Improve and optimize overall processing like data fetching using scrolling and scanning.
  • Volunteered at local community in organization, providing assistance with day-to-day operations like training resources and employee welfare.

Senior Consultant

Cast Software
Bengaluru
04.2018 - 11.2018
  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Determined areas for improvement and implemented processes to alleviate problems.
  • Monitored technology use and program functionality, updating programs and making changes to enhance output.
  • Identified key areas in need of improvement and implemented plans to rectify issues.
  • Analysis of Web applications for software quality, performance and Security bottlenecks of application.
  • Used Cast fine-grained engine to score, benchmark, size and enhance the security, resiliency, efficiency, and maintainability of complex software systems.

Senior Software Engineer

Wolters Kluwer – CCH
Chandigarh
05.2016 - 04.2018
  • Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in .Net, Web services, MVC and working to improve overall team performance.
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
  • Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.
  • Functioned as Scrum Master – Managed team of four people delivering software insisting on high quality product feature by feature.
  • Migrated legacy windows application to web application using Web API, MVC, SQL, jQuery.

Senior Software Engineer

VServ Business Solutions
Chandigarh, Mohali
11.2013 - 05.2016
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Developed Student Adoption Matching Software for Follett Corporation. Worked directly with business clients to gather requirements, developed solutions to existing problems and for new features, validated the results with regular and frequent demos to clients and deployed new releases to end users.
  • Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience C#. NET, SQL, ASP.NET, SSRS & JQuery.

Software Engineer

Newgen Software
NOIDA, Delhi NCR
06.2011 - 11.2013
  • Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software interfaces.
  • Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements. Developed various stand-alone application for a casino.
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
  • Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
  • Worked on Financial app - Casino Cash Inventory System and hospitality app - IView-Ordering System.

Software Developer

Netsutra Private Limited
Vaishali, Delhi NCR
10.2010 - 06.2011
  • Collaborated with team to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
  • Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality.
  • Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Computer And Information Sciences

Kurukshetra University
04.2007 - 04.2010

Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined

Himachal Pradesh University
04.2004 - 04.2007

Projects Accomplished

Preqin Pro News Aggregation (11/2020– 02/2023)

  • It is part of Preqin Pro product used for data collection. Focus of news aggregation product is to collect daily news from various financial news sources, classify news in distinct categories, analyze news to know its impact on Alternative assets and present it to Researchers in simple and useful UI.
  • Build solution from scratch - Participated in architecture, lead and implemented solution using Microservices Architecture - Centralized messaging topology.
  • Implemented Design Pattern - Used Strategy design pattern to process multiple type of news sources - RSS & Website. Used Chain of responsibility in news processing (As different type of sources may have different processing).
  • Automated News aggregation process - auto fetch news articles from various website and RSS and process news to benefit 500 researchers to get news at earliest.
  • Built .Net Core Web API, .Net Core hosting services. Created Architecture in Elasticsearch for indexing, searching and aggregation.
  • Written library to collect data from 3000 sources with RSS links and web scrapping. Implemented Web-sockets for real time notifications.

Preqin Pro (11/2018 - 10/2020)

  • Preqin Pro is renowned product of Preqin which provides access to the industry’s most comprehensive private capital and hedge
    fund data sets and tools. Alternative asset professionals rely on it to make data-driven decisions throughout the entire investment lifecycle.
  • Preqin is largest data provider in alternative assets industry. With the largest global network of alternative asset decision makers, Preqin Pro allows to build connections and collaborate with half a million curated professionals.
  • Developed and Designed backend services using ASP.Net Core 3.1, 2.2 using Microservices Architecture - using Application REST-based topology.
  • Involved in development of some of the key features of Preqin Pro using ElasticSearch, MongoDB, EventStore and Web APIs.
  • Implemented middleware and token-based authentication. Focused on Code coverage writing unit test cases and integration tests.

MYOB to IQ Connector (03/2017 - 04/2018)

  • MYOB2iQ Connector is a feature used by those clients who are not actual IFIRM clients but want to use IFIRM CCH IQ feature.
  • In this project, we export, and process MYOB Returns data without showing on UI and use that returns to show affected clients in CCH IQ Events.
  • This project includes two sub projects – Client tool which fetches the Tax Return data from MYOB system (Background tool with minimal UI (using WPF) for configuration of tool) and another one is Web app that receives the Tax return data from Client and process it and shows the result to user.

CGT — Capital Gain Taxation (05/2016— 03/2017)

  • A capital gains tax (CGT) is a tax on capital gains. CCT Reporter is renowned product of Wolters Kluwer, which provides historical dividend, corporate action and share price data for every listed company and trust in Australia since 1985.
  • CGT Reporter was windows-based application, so my team got responsibility to migrate it to Web based application. Used MVC and WebAPI to build various async APIs to improve scalability and performance
  • Used Design patterns like Singleton & Factory to implement Architecture of core libraries and data flows based on SOA.

Student Adoption Matching (11/2013 — 04/2016)

  • Follett which provides services to institutes and universities by providing course material (new or old, on rentat or sell) to students. Universities and institutes enroll their students in SAM (Student Adoption Matching System) using FTP or ConnectOnes API.
  • SAM ensures the details of Student and registers their details in the system. SAM creates order for the student after validating their details and provides course material New/Old on basis of availability.
  • SAM provides various SSRS reports to analyze and track business proficiently.

IView-Ordering System (11/2012 — 10/2013)

  • IView-Ordering System is service and order management system, a solution that guaranteed to have operations running more efficiently and profitably. IView-Ordering system improves efficiency of Online Ordering process and gives great satisfaction to casino visitors by saving their precious time.
  • Also, there is a casino guide, which helps casino guests, so that they would be able to enjoy service provided by casino as much as possible.

Casino Cash Inventory System (07/2011 — 10/2012)

  • This is the cash management application to achieve considerable time saving and financial benefits. The management of cash to and from between different cages and main bank is automated.
  • It consists of Open inventory, Shift accountability, Transfers, and then Close inventory modules. This system also provides decision support through various charts, reports, timelines, and data pivoting facility.

BPO Management System (10/2010 - 06/2011)

  • BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) is n-tier Solution for a premier business development and management company, allowing the user to add campaigns, manage them, assign to caller on time basis and caller update contacts and get appointment.
  • Developed and Designed services using ASP.Net, SQL Server, Telerik Controls using Layered Architecture.

Accomplishments

  • CAST Application Intelligence Administrator.
  • Supervised team of 8-12 engineers.
  • Got out of turn promotion & appraisal in Preqin.
  • Proficient in Languages -English & Hindi.

Timeline

Lead Engineer

Preqin
11.2018 - 02.2023

Senior Consultant

Cast Software
04.2018 - 11.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Wolters Kluwer – CCH
05.2016 - 04.2018

Senior Software Engineer

VServ Business Solutions
11.2013 - 05.2016

Software Engineer

Newgen Software
06.2011 - 11.2013

Software Developer

Netsutra Private Limited
10.2010 - 06.2011

Master of Computer Applications - Computer And Information Sciences

Kurukshetra University
04.2007 - 04.2010

Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined

Himachal Pradesh University
04.2004 - 04.2007
Sumit Sood