Swapnil Karande
Mumbai
Summary
Engineering Manager with over 10 years of experience in team leadership, system design, development, and oversight.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
NIUM
09.2021 - Current
- Leading a team of six engineers, overseeing their professional development and conducting performance evaluations.
- Leading sprint ceremonies such as DSMs, Sprint Retrospectives, PBRs, Tech grooming, and Sprint planning while focusing on timely delivery, achieving results, and realising product visions.
- Developing high-quality designs for multiple systems and leading system design discussions with higher management.
- Performing thorough code reviews to guarantee compliance with coding standards and assessed the effects of code modifications on the existing functionality of the application.
- Contributing to the development of new product features by writing high quality and maintainable code.
- Evaluating test cases and automation coverage for the QA team to ensure comprehensive and thorough testing of all critical areas. Also, collaborating with stakeholders, infra, 3rd party vendors and other tech teams to align expectations and address cross-team issues.
- Creating and grooming tech specific tasks/POCs and brainstorming implementation plans for the same.
- Identifying opportunities for system improvements and successfully implementing them through meticulous planning, effective communication, and close monitoring of the impact on the systems.
- Analysing performance metrics for systems and developing strategies to address any issues or fix performance problems.
- Supporting the tech support team by updating and reviewing their runbooks and playbooks, and finding ways to remove repetitive tasks from their workload.
Lead Engineer
Kroll LLC - Formerly Duff & Phelps LLP
05.2019 - 09.2021
- Drove automations and service improvements to help minimize manual efforts of our team.
- Led an internal project called Alert Dashboard – A clean sophisticated dashboard that shows error and warning alerts for applications under our purview.
- Engaged in the company's technological initiative, enhancing my technical skills. This led me to significantly contribute towards developing a platform for showcasing demo projects and proof-of-concepts (POCs) crafted for presentations to internal teams and clients.
- Mentored junior members of the team and assisting them with technical and functional queries and doubts.
- Established great rapport with stakeholders and other business counterparts.
- Created and maintained technical documentation on projects under our purview.
Software Analyst
TIAA GBS PVT. LTD.
05.2017 - 05.2019
- Created efficient and lightweight REST services using Spring MVC and Mulesoft.
- Wrote well-organized, optimized, and documented source code for easy understandability.
- Collaborated with fellow programmers and onshore partners to design and build new features.
- Fixed security vulnerability issues surfaced during penetration tests, thus ensuring application security.
- Debugged production issues and fixed them for upcoming production releases.
Junior Analyst
Travelex India PVT. LTD.
08.2013 - 05.2017
- Led end-to-end development of web applications in J2EE and Spring MVC.
- Created 50+ automations to reduce manual effort for mundane tasks.
- Thoroughly debugged production issues and created detailed RCAs for the same.
- Improved application availability and maintenance by creating email alerts and automation utilities for application monitoring.
- Created a good rapport with different stakeholders and 3rd party vendors.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, IN07.2013
Diploma - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, IN07.2010
Skills
- Software Architecture
- Problem solving
- System Design
- Debugging
- Agile Practices
- Team Management
- JavaScript
- NodeJs
- SQL
- Angular
- ReactJs
- Java
Accomplishments
- Received a Pat on the back award for my crucial work contribution towards a feature for PlanFocus project.
- Received a Boundary-less behavior award for automating various manual tasks performed by Application Support team.
- Received recognition and appreciation from higher management during organization wide town hall for innovations and service improvements done.
Strengths
- Programming Languages - From the inception of my career, I've embraced a continuous learning approach, staying open to mastering various programming languages and frameworks. My experience spans working with languages including JavaScript, Java, SQL, Groovy, HTML, CSS, and Bash. Additionally, I have actively engaged with frameworks such as NodeJs, Angular, ReactJs, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Bootstrap.
- System Design - Throughout my career, I have been involved in numerous projects and feature developments from the ground up, necessitating the design of system architectures. I have honed my skills in this aspect through continuous learning, exploring various architecture styles prevalent in the development of the systems I have engaged with.
- Problem Solving - I have a passion for resolving intricate technical challenges, and my expertise has significantly advanced in this domain over time.
- Agile Practices - Due to my active participation in various agile ceremonies in my current position, I have gained a solid understanding of agile practices.
- Team Management - Managed a team of 6 engineers, with a specific emphasis on promoting knowledge sharing, supporting career growth, and fostering a culture of creative thinking.
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
NIUM
09.2021 - Current
Lead Engineer
Kroll LLC - Formerly Duff & Phelps LLP
05.2019 - 09.2021
Software Analyst
TIAA GBS PVT. LTD.
05.2017 - 05.2019
Junior Analyst
Travelex India PVT. LTD.
08.2013 - 05.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
Diploma - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
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