Varun Aggarwal
Technical Architect
Gurgaon
Summary
Result driven technical leader with a successful track record of combining technical excellence, problem solving and strategic thinking to align engineering goals & objectives with company mission to move forward progressively while building consensus. Overall 17+ years of experience including 7 years being a part of technical leadership team of T-Mobile, USA in developing products with active involvement throughout the development life cycle. Proficient at designing and developing single page applications, REST API, website maintenance etc. while working with multiple frameworks, software, operating systems & programming languages. Adept at employing Agile methodology of software development to lead multi-disciplinary teams & deliver high quality products within the stipulated timeline and budget. People leader with a mission to build strong technical teams by providing effective mentorship, training & feedback to ensure a highly motivated team that performs to the best of its abilities
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Technical Architect
Rohde and Schwarz
New Delhi
11.2021 - Current
- Develop a tool which is used by application engineers and internal developers to troubleshoot signaling log and debug logs.
- Application development
- Responsible for estimating sprint stories and working closely with Product owners in grooming and planing activities
- Develop different views using Angular, Ngrx State Management and other third party npm packages
- Translated business requirements into technical user stories and deliver working capabilities at the conclusion of each sprint
- Participating in retrospective to further boost process for tight execution deadlines
- Team Management
- Acting as a primary Practitioner-coach for the team and providing training for building the development capabilities
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Performed quality code review and removed technical debt
Technical Architect
HCL Technologies/HCL America
Seattle/Noida
12.2007 - 11.2021
- Develop an ecommerce application that enables customers to purchase phones, plans, services and accessories online (TMO.COM). Develop a self-service portal (MYTMO.COM) for managing both consumers accounts, as well as business user accounts
- T-Mobile for Business - Ecommerce
- Technology Stack: Angular 8/11, Typescript, NodeJS (Hapi and Express), Redis
- Responsibilities:
- Architecture and Design
- Build the design and architecture for two SPA using Angular8/11, Angular SSR, NgRx State Management
- Design and architect caching layer in NodeJS using Hapi framework to improve the performance of APIs to almost 80%
- Create a utility library using Angular Library for logging, SEO Implementation, reusable components which can be used across all the Angular applications
- Designed and closely worked with DevOps teams to achieve single image Angular app deployment across all the environments
- Application Development
- Collaborate with cross functional teams, Product Managers and domain architects to understand project requirements
- Responsible for estimating sprint stories and working closely with Product owners in grooming and planing activities
- Develop sprint features using Angular, Ngrx State Management, custom form controls using Control Value Accessor
- Participating in retrospective to further boost process for tight execution deadlines
- Translated business requirements into technical user stories and deliver working capabilities at the conclusion of each sprint
- Team Management
- Conducted reviews of 10+ team members to verify quality and accuracy
- Acting as a primary Practitioner-coach for the team and providing guidance for building the development capabilities
- Hired and train a development team entailing 15+ members
Senior Technical Lead
HCL America
Seattle/Noida
- Architecture and Design
- Build a caching library which can be used across all the micro services using Jedis client and Redis
- Application Development
- JAD sessions with cross functional teams, Product Managers and domain architects for enterprise projects
- Determined and recommended the best designs based on customer business objectives
- Responsibility for estimating enterprise projects from Front end perspective
- Transformed monolithic app to microservices using Spring Boot
- Team Management
- Conducted reviews of 8+ team members to verify quality and accuracy
- Conduct a technical grooming session for team to ensure developers have clear understanding of stories
Software Engineer
Trisoft Systems
04.2006 - 12.2007
- Build and maintain an efficient and reusable code via.NET languages while ensuring pristine code quality
- Executed SQL programs to support the table creation, stored procedures, function and views
- Identified, troubleshoot and resolved bugs in code that arise during field testing
- ACCOLADES
- Recipient of HCL's elite O2 achiever club- with top talent recognition across previous 6 years.
Education
B.E - Electronics and Communication
Institute of Technology and Management
09.2001 - 05.2005
Skills
Programming Languages: JavaScript, Typescript, C#
Client Framework: Angular 8, React
Server Side Technologies: Node Js, Spring Boot, JSP, Servlets, WCF Rest Services, ASPNET, ADONET
Unit Testing Framework: Jasmine and KarmaAutomation: Protractor, Playwright
Container Orchestration: Kubernetes using DockerDeployment Tools: GitLab, JenkinsTimeline
Technical Architect
Rohde and Schwarz
11.2021 - Current
Technical Architect
HCL Technologies/HCL America
12.2007 - 11.2021
Software Engineer
Trisoft Systems
04.2006 - 12.2007
B.E - Electronics and Communication
Institute of Technology and Management
09.2001 - 05.2005
Senior Technical Lead
HCL America