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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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- Mentored many senior & staff engineers and managers. 
- Designed & built multiple systems with critical focus on scalability & reliability. 
- Solved many cross team & organization misalignments with my inter-personal skills. 

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Software Engineer 2

Ford Motor Company

Developed micro services for Trip Planner Application which is currently implemented in all Ford’s Electric Vehicles which helps users in managing Trips and generating Routes in between.
Improved and developed the OAuth security token accessing process for different dependent 3rd Party APIs which is been consumed by both Vehicles and FordPass Mobile Application 
Successfully Led the team for developing of Jenkins Box which removed the dependences to bring up the new instance using Containerizations in Kubernetes on OpenShift Platform which was highly recognized by LL5 Managers.
Wrote automation scripts for REST APIs to perform health checks and measure overall performance which further displays in Splunk and Dynatrace Dashboards for creating alerts to monitor traffic rate & performance metrics.
Implemented Scripts for Jenkins Pipeline for APIs Health Checks Jobs in DSL and Groovy for all the Orgs in LBS (Location Based Services) which now are avoiding the manual UI process and decreasing the memory usage by 35%.
Added Junit and Mutation Tests using Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology for increasing service efficiency. 
Experience in developing RESTful micro-services and APIs with Spring Boot.
Skillful in handling unit testing using Junit, along with Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology
Experienced working in Agile-based SDLC environment and participating in different Scrum sessions
Expert in version control tools like GIT and SVN; build tools like Maven and Gradle; continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
Tested Rest APIs in Spring-Controller at backend for JSON data using Postman
Tech Stack: Java, Angular, Spring, Jenkins, REST, Postman, Redis, Kafka, Gradle, Maven, Git, Jira, Rally, Splunk, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, Docker, Grovvy, Kotlin.

AgilePoint

Contributed to the core product development of various AgilePoint BPM Workflow components such as Database, SharePoint, DocuSign, Active Directory, Box, etc.
Help sales and support team by attending meetings for technical help, providing technical inputs and samples on AgilePoint blog, attend conference booth exhibits, develop and demo prototypes for prospects. 
Develop and maintain internal employee applications such as Leave Request, Time-sheet, and Travel Request.
Developing a formalized process to identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets. Make recommendations in collaboration with others based on findings.
Work with HTML5, JQuery, SharePoint and JavaScript, Browser debugging techniques and C# and Java outside with Off-Shore Team.
Good experience in Selenium Test Environment setup expert using the entire open source tools. Excellent knowledge in writing unique XPath using firebug and fire path to identify web elements.
Executing Selenium Test Cases and Reporting defects, with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.
Experience with comprehensive understanding of all phases of Test Life Cycle, including requirements gathering, test planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking and reporting.
Developed Selenium test cases using TestNG framework.
Tech Stack: Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Selenium, JQuery, JSON.

Software Engineer 

Denitek Computers

Designed, Implemented and Monitored the new ecommerce portal with the senior developers for continuous improvements.
Improved the Purchase functionality for Company’s Portal to add the different hardware products by the caching and frequently viewed mechanisms, which decreased the memory usage by 20% and increased the sales by 10%.  
Participated on weekly tech meetings to discuss current and future enhancements on portal for increasing the sales of products. 
Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap

Web Developer Intern

Technically skilled and talented Software Engineer with more than 3 years of commercial experience across all phases of software system development from requirements gathering, design and coding to testing and deployment. Adept in testing and troubleshooting computer systems, programs, and user interfaces; skilled in object-oriented programming, digital circuits, systems, and the software development life-cycle. Work well independently with little to no supervision, and cohesively in team settings. Excellent customer service skills; comfortable communicating with clients, colleagues, and all levels of management. Passionate about learning and mastering new technology quickly; a tenacious problem-solver, willing to go above and beyond basic duties to ensure success of projects. 

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages: Java, Python, Kotlin, C++.
Frameworks/Web: Spring Boot, AngularJS, REST, Angular, JavaScript, JSP, jQuery, Ajax.
Servers/Applications: Intellij, Apache Tomcat, ActiveMQ, Kafka MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, PyCharm. 
Databases: MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Redis.
Automation: Jenkins, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Junit, Pi Test, Cucumber Test.
Technical Tools: AWS, Selenium, GitHub, Trello, Postman, Twillo, Hereko, Kubernetes.

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