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Varun Mehra

Varun Mehra

Lead Full Stack Engineer
Chennai,Tamil Nadu

Summary

Experienced Lead Full Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building software applications and 5+ years in the Cyber Insurance industry. Eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organisational skills. Proven problem solving ability, finding creative solutions using a wide array of languages, tools, and technologies. Keen ability to quickly absorb new technologies and being abreast with the latest industry and software skills. Motivated to learn, grow and excel as Software Architect.

Overview

10
10

Years of professional experience

5
5

Years of Cyber Insurance industry experience

Work History

Engineering Lead

Cyence India Pvt. Ltd. (acquired By Guidewire Soft
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2016.05 - Current

Cyence Risk Analytics / SMB / Core App API's / CyReview (Internal App)


Skills: Python, Nodejs, AngularJs, Angular, R, Jenkins, AWS Services, Shell scripting, PostgreSQL, Puppet, Kubernetes

  • Write clean, clear and well-tested code for various product lines in Cyence Cyber Risk Analytics.
  • Worked with OPS team on Project Sandman to identify cost saving measures on infrastructure usage and helped reduce EC2 cost by 70%; saving ~$200k over 12 months and App / QA redshift clusters consolidation which helped in saving $42K over 12 months.
  • Re-architected Cyence Risk Analytics application by adopting AWS Well-Architected best practices to strengthen web security
  • Designed and developed meta data driven test framework using Mocha to control test execution in different environments
  • Supervise 26+ member team as R & D site lead for Chennai India office
  • Lead scrum calls for Data Engineers, App and BA teams in India
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to design and develop application features Support product releases along with OPS and Quality assurance teams

Senior Programmer Analyst

Cyence India Private Limited
Chennai, India
05.2015 - 05.2016

Data Engineering - Data collection, curation, analysis and transformation


Skills: Python, Java, MongoDB, Web Scrapping, Scrappy, PostgreSQL, Data Aggregation and Analysis, ML, Jenkins, AWS, Shell scripting

  • Performed large-scale data collection from various proprietary, open sources and third party API's.
  • Owned scripts to collect data from more than 14 data sources in production and few data sources in exploration.
  • Automated pipelines to scrap data as per cron schedule ensuring pipeline stability and sorting out challenges arising due to ever changing source of data.
  • Contributed to internal activities for overall process improvements, efficiencies and innovation.
  • Addressed ad-hoc analytics requests and facilitated data acquisitions to support internal projects, exploratory data analysis for model updates.
  • Collaborated with cross-teams to communicate and align development efforts and deliverables.
  • Developed Automated meta data driven Powerpoint generation script to help customers build with custom report needs.
  • Single page PPT Health Check reports got popular among lot of customers and have turned out as separate revenue stream

Senior Software Engineer

Lister Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2013 - 03.2015

Yarc Data
URIKA: Graph Analytics Manager (GAM)
An intuitive, easy-to-use administrator tool to manage security (authentication, authorization and access controls), monitoring, timelining and auditing.
Skills: Spring, Hibernate, PostGres, RESTful Web services (Jersey), TestNG, JSTL, JSP, Ldap, logstash

  • Form based authentication for CLI's
  • Implemented User Role Management and wrote shell scripts to migrate existing users to appropriate roles.
  • Designed and implemented Email Notification framework for reporting error from SOAK tests using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Spring Mail.
  • Designed and implemented REST resources access controls at multiple levels (per user role and database level)
  • RESTful API's using Jersey and documentation using Swagger.
  • Customized and used cystoscape.js and d3.js to render graphs for queried SPARQL results

1A Auto (www.1aauto.com)
Skills: Spring, Hibernate, PostGres, RESTful Web services(Jersey), AJAX, HTML, CSS, Broadleaf E-Commerce, SOLR search, Thymeleaf

  • Worked on Login, Register, User Account, Installation Videos page, Featured Parts and Product detail pages for website
  • Implemented Product Search and Video Search Functionality Using Apache Solr
  • Integrated StrongView for Newsletter Subscription.

CommerceHub (www.commercehub.com)

  • Developed User Interface for application based on design specifications
  • UI integration with backend services.

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2012.02 - 2013.05

Comcast
Internet Service Provisioning Platform (ISPP)
Middleware to cater Mailing services to Comcast users.
Skills: J2ee, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, JMS, Web services, JUnit, Jboss, Activemq

  • Implemented Welcome Mail functionality using Spring Mail
  • Implement Post Processor module, responsible for asynchronous notification to downstream systems using Active MQ as queueing technology
  • Developed standalone routing application to route traffic to new platform based on client characteristics.
  • Designed and developed Delete Batch Scheduler to remove deleted or expired periodically.

Systems Engineer

Infosys Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
10.2010 - 01.2012

Warner Music Group
Direct to Consumers [WMGD2C]
Developed websites for music artists under record labels like Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Music Nashville.
Skills: Drupal, Drupal Gardens, PHP, CSS, HTML, Javascript, JQuery

  • Developed 15+ websites using Drupal 6.0 (PHP) and Drupal Gardens
  • Migrated websites from Drupal 6.0 to Drupal Gardens.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) - Computer Science And Engineering

Medi-Caps Institute of Technology & Management
Indore
05.2006 - 06.2010

Certification

MongoDB Certification for Java

Affiliations

Nodejs, AngularJs, Angular11, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS Services, Jenkins (CI), Elastic Search,Jira, Confluence, Logstash, Jenkins (CI), ReactJs, HTML5, CSS3, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, R, d3.js, Algorithms and Datastructures, System design, Microservice architecture & design

Varun MehraLead Full Stack Engineer