Varun Sood

• Managing and improving local testing product.
• Responsible for defining quarterly , half yearly and annual OKRs.
• Owned all phases of the development life cycle prior hands-on experience in developing, designing & scaling complex systems both horizontally & vertically required.
• Ensuring that best coding practices are being followed.
• Develop roadmaps for system and product growth, and then ensure timely execution.
• Worked with Designers and Product Managers and other Engineering Managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment.
• Created clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular and deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
  

Tech Stack - Ruby on rails , AWS , Redis .

Project Description: Building Email Delivery platform and performing analytics on those emails

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Reporting to India Engineering lead , one step below CTO.
• Making sure that quality of code is always at optimum level.
• Preparing HLD , LLD and contributing in development of features within sprint
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Keeping Micro-services up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns
• Tech Stack - Java , Kotlin, MS-SQL , CockroachDb, Spring Boot , Microservices, AWS , Prometheus & Grafana

Project Description:

Building Vodafone Connect which is IDM platform based on OpenId Connect authentication protocol that provides applications a simple, web-based method of authenticating end-users across security domains without exposing end-user credentials.

• Got promoted Twice from Associate Manager to Deputy Manager in December 2018 and Deputy Manager to Manager in July 2019.
• Rated as Top performer for 3 years in a row.
• Analysing users' needs and then finding Technologies to serve them.
• Making sure that quality of code is always at optimum level.
• Preparing HLD , LLD and contributing in development of features within sprint
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Keeping Micro-services up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns
• Tech Stack - Java ,Couchbase ,Spring Boot , Spring Boot , Microservices.

Project Description:

SIC Integration layer is a middleware layer which helps to pass data, documents, messages between the Nordea Bank System and third party legacy systems.

• Designing, coding and unit/integration testing using Proficient methodologies, technology and tool
• Debugging and troubleshooting code related issues/defects
• Producing client deliverables such as detailed design documentation, unit test plans and well documented code
• Gaining an understanding of the unique business and technical requirements on each engagement to facilitate the most appropriate solution design
• Practicing strong configuration management and version control
• Representing team professionally in both client and team situation
• Technologies used - Java , Spring , MongoDB, Rabbit Mq.

Project Description:

A SAS Flex/Java based product which used generalized Flex based components developed based on the data provider framework to create Flex reports just by configuring few XML files. Some generalized components are included in this framework which provides a default layout for the Flex UI and also data rendering components like Tables, Charts which can be used to develop simple reports.

The Front end of product was designed using flex based components, Java/JPA was used at middle tier and Oracle was used as DB.

Also, in case of few reports the data encountered on daily basis was huge i.e. lakhs of data was received on daily basis so instead of traditional RDBMS, NO-SQL databases were used.

• Designing, coding and unit/integration testing using Proficient methodologies, technology and tool
• Debugging and troubleshooting code related issues/defects
• Producing client deliverables such as detailed design documentation, unit test plans and well documented code
• Gaining an understanding of the unique business and technical requirements on each engagement to facilitate the most appropriate solution design
• Practicing strong configuration management and version control
• Representing team professionally in both client and team situation
• Technologies used - Java , Flex/Blaze DS, Spring REST web services, Spring framework , MongoDB, Oracle, Spring data , JPA/Hibernate

Project Description:

Client - TD Canada Bank

Finance Center (FC) framework is based on The Loan Originating System which is complete front office platform for automating commercial finance from account origination through credit management. The system enables to lower costs , accelerate processing time , mitigate risk , improve customer satisfaction , increase revenue , measure performance , enhance collaboration .

- Got Promoted twice from ASE to SE in 2011 and from SE to SSE in 2013

· Worked in the team of 15 people which develops application and new Line of business for Toronto Dominion Bank which gives Loans to small scale organizations

· Worked on the business logic implementation of [Core Java/Workflow] as a part of On Financial Reconstructing Group Screens development.

· Understanding the requirements and implementing them using Java / JSP and concepts of Spring-Core , Spring - AOP.

· Configuring steps and providing access according to user level.

· Has used the Java code review tools like PMD, Check style and even developed the customized project specific rules using PMD for automatic review of Java files.

· Created Tech Design, Unit test Scripts, updated Requirement Traceability Matrix for the releases.

· Defect fixing and status update.

· Performing Unit testing, Peer Code review, Peer testing.

· Technologies used – Java , JDBC, Oracle , Google web toolkit , Spring mvc , junit.