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VIJAY KUMAR MASOAN

Bangalore

Summary

Over the past 23 years, I have held various roles, including Software Engineer/Developer, Operations DevOps, Solution Architect, Engineering Manager, and currently, Associate Director at Kyndryl. I am a dynamic, results-driven technology leader with extensive experience in e-commerce, cloud enterprise, and finance/banking, working with large-scale international organizations. I have a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives, enhancing operational efficiency, and leading cross-functional teams to achieve organizational objectives. My work involves engaging with stakeholders, including clients, contractors, regulatory authorities, and community groups. I have worked on core product development, creating highly scalable product and solutions. I have defined visions and strategies, created roadmaps, and executed plans for product development and cloud migration projects. With hands-on experience in product development, I am proficient in technologies such as AWS/Azure, Shell script, PHP, Perl, Java/J2EE, microservices, Spring Boot, relational databases, NoSQL databases, JavaScript, and more.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Tech Lead/Engg Manager

Intuit Technology Services Private Limited
07.2012 - 03.2017
  • Grew teams from scratch, led by example, and held end-to-end responsibility for product delivery of the registration component of the banking platform
  • Redesigned and transformed a legacy monolithic system into a service-oriented architecture, single- handedly designing the new microservice-based registration system for US-based credit unions
  • Designed and implemented a multitenant platform for onboarding multiple US-based credit unions, enabling users to perform all online banking and registration activities via web browsers, mobile web, or native mobile apps
  • Collaborated closely with other managers, engineering teams, and architects to finalize requirements, design, and approach
  • Broke down roadmaps into actionable tasks and user stories, prioritizing them according to business requirements
  • Leveraged extensive experience in Scrum/Agile methodologies to prioritize user stories by collaborating with business and technical stakeholders, ensuring high-quality product and service delivery that meets business requirements and customer expectations
  • Served as a Scrum Master, conducting scrum meetings and sprint planning, and splitting features into user stories and tasks for the team as it grew in size
  • Developed REST-based web services using JAX-WS and maintained knowledge of REST APIs
  • Interacted closely with product managers, providing insights on customer-facing features and delivering optimal solutions to customers
  • Created a Splunk dashboard to actively monitor user registration and track failed customer interactions
  • Oversaw datacenter migration from Intuit to the Digital Insight data center
  • Led architectural and technology upgrades

Lead Engineer

Yahoo Software Development
03.2009 - 07.2012
  • Worked as a Backend Tech Lead, interacting closely with PM for requirements gathering and QA for quality assurance, leading a team of 6-7 core technical engineers with end-to-end technical ownership of the product
  • Designed and developed near real-time reporting by processing around 2-3 billion records every hour, making data available in HIVE for reporting
  • Reduced real-time report generation time for one month’s data from 95 minutes to 5 minutes without increasing infrastructure cost
  • Identified and resolved memory issues in the API system, preventing large report generation failures
  • Migrated user data from UPES APIs to UPS APIs and migrated Yahoo bookmarks from Oracle to Sherpa, an in-house data storage system designed to be highly available, resilient, and distributed to handle high loads
  • Involved in backend development of various modules on My Yahoo, including developing A/B tests to support different versions of features
  • Developed and published the My Yahoo Android app as an innovation project initiated through a hackathon, taking end-to-end ownership
  • Designed a new distributed cache system to improve performance, latency, and availability for various Yahoo offerings worldwide, and published customized APIs for Yahoo properties
  • Designed and implemented a highly scalable and available backend system to support approximately 3 billion requests per hour, addressing the challenge of scale
  • Developed backend web services and wrote unit test cases to ensure 95% code coverage, following DevOps best practices for bi-weekly production releases
  • Implemented consistent and distributed cache for storing and retrieving user information, ensuring 90% code coverage with JUnit test cases
  • Troubleshot and performed root cause analysis and bug fixing for user login issues across Yahoo properties
  • Reduced loading time for Yahoo properties (My Yahoo, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo.com) from 8-10 seconds to 3 seconds after deploying the LEGO project to production

Tech Lead

Verisign Services India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2006 - 03.2009
  • Defined functional and non-functional requirements
  • Worked as Senior Tech Lead to automate root zone files on a root name server, designing a state machine to address various workflows and writing code using core Java, Spring, Hibernate, and Perl
  • Took end-to-end ownership of new product design and implementation
  • Wrote JUnit test cases, set up CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins servers, and integrated P4 with Jenkins
  • Developed and reviewed code using Java, J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate
  • Defined and streamlined engineering design and review processes across the organization

Senior Member Technical Staff

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2003 - 06.2006
  • Integrated and migrated Oracle users to a new chat application after Oracle acquired Jabbar for instant messaging and chat applications
  • Enhanced features of the chat application
  • Worked on the console of the web meeting and desktop sharing application provided by Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS)
  • Wrote Perl scripts for the Oracle Collaboration Suite installer to improve install time and user experience by managing RTC installation, updates, and uninstalls
  • After several acquisitions in the real-time collaboration (RTC) space, led the name change project, updating all Java package names and performing rebranding activities to replace old names with Oracle's
  • Developed, tested, and fixed bugs using Java and Perl, created OCS installers for various releases, and owned the publishing of release documents with change lists and bug fix lists

Software Engineer

Tavant Technologies India (P) Ltd.
12.2002 - 07.2003
  • Design & development of key warranty components using java
  • Testing using tools like JUnit & Astra Load
  • Environment: Java, EJB, Servlet, XML, XSL, JavaScript, Oracle, Windows 2000 (Development & Testing), Weblogic application server

Software Engineer

Amsoft Systems (I) Private Limited
07.2001 - 12.2001
  • Delivered proper GUI by using HTML and JSP to insert, delete or retrieve data from any of the selected data sources

Associate Director/Solution Architect

Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd
05.2017
  • Collaborate with Kyndryl projects, vendors, services, and functional teams to understand public cloud client needs, and align on a shared vision and roadmap
  • Work with senior management to develop long-term strategies for the business unit, ensuring all projects align with overall business objectives
  • Oversee multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion within budget and quality standards
  • Build high-performing teams and ensure successful roadmap execution
  • Address and resolve issues or conflicts during project execution
  • Identify potential risks in infrastructure projects and develop mitigation strategies
  • Provide technical guidance and support to the engineering team
  • Lead and mentor a team of project managers, engineers, and other professionals
  • Set balanced long-term and short-term goals for the team, including project and resource planning for Terraform adoption on public cloud accounts
  • Maintain strong cross-functional relationships with partners across the business to ensure 100% client satisfaction
  • Lead automation projects to improve BAU operations and delivery efficiency
  • Define KPIs for products, establish SDLC practices, and build a new DevOps and SRE team from scratch
  • Prepare financial reports and provide regular updates to senior management
  • Communicate status, issues, and risks effectively and in a timely manner, leveraging rich experience in onsite and offshore consulting roles

Education

B.TECH - Electronics and Communications

IIT Roorkee
01.2001

Skills

  • Strategic Planning and Execution
  • Project Management
  • Java Programming
  • Team Leadership and Development
  • AWS/Azure
  • Product Development
  • Scrum And Agile
  • Financial Management
  • Application Development
  • Technical problem solving
  • Software Development Lifecycle

Timeline

Associate Director/Solution Architect

Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd
05.2017

Tech Lead/Engg Manager

Intuit Technology Services Private Limited
07.2012 - 03.2017

Lead Engineer

Yahoo Software Development
03.2009 - 07.2012

Tech Lead

Verisign Services India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2006 - 03.2009

Senior Member Technical Staff

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2003 - 06.2006

Software Engineer

Tavant Technologies India (P) Ltd.
12.2002 - 07.2003

Software Engineer

Amsoft Systems (I) Private Limited
07.2001 - 12.2001

B.TECH - Electronics and Communications

IIT Roorkee
VIJAY KUMAR MASOAN