Solution Architect / Senior Developer

7/2018 – 12/2020

• Defining clear technological strategies and architectural solutions in order to cope with the extremely high scalability requirements requisite in catering to the domestic Indian market.
• Responsible for the architectural definition and design of the platform and leading a team of 4 architects.
• Overseeing the seamless integration of third-party interfaces, gateways and APIs such as security and authentication services, payment gateways, upselling / cross-selling and adserve providers.
• Development of processes and workflows aimed towards rapid expansion of the product portfolio by applying maximum stakeholder engagement (inclusion of regulators, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and end customers).
• Conceptualized the mobile application for vertical integration for enterprise in product IT strategy and digital architecture.
• Led a proof of concept (PoC) for the development of a scalable and high-performance applications. The effort has led to multi-year delivery engagement.
• Establishing CI / CD pipelines using Maven / Jenkins for automated application deployment and provisioning onto AWS instances
• Assessing and planning the migration strategy of internally developed components towards AWS based components.

Mobile Application Development, Representational State Transfer (REST), Sicherheitskonzept, Software Architecture

9/2016 – 6/2018

• Conceptualization and development of high level requirements in building a (primarily) mobile-based application to connect taskers with task providers.
• Architecting the core components of the platform for Android as well as IOS.
• Driving the development team in adhering to development norms and keeping the development stack as lean as possible.
• Managing and overlooking the development progress with regard to quality of code and alignment with development norms.
• Assessing and defining end-to-end workflows using BPMN 2 / BPML process flows
• Testing and documenting the developed modules and individual components especially with regard to compatibility, cross functionality and extensibility.

Enterprise Architect (EA), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Typescript

1/2015 – 7/2016

• Red Hat Certified Instructor & Training Partner for advanced Java and JEE Technologies.
• Providing corporate and Public-Sector development teams with hands-on training and deep architectural insights required to meet business critical requirements (authentication, authorization, high availability, load balancing, clustering, infrastructure management and maintenance, messaging)
• Participation in defining courseware and customized training content and delivery modules.
• Active participation in Red Hat Instructor Central for Java and JEE Technologies
• Training senior Java / JEE developers in architecting and developing high performance, fault resilient J2EE applications
• Delivering (JBOSS / Wildfly) advanced training to System Administrators (JB248, JB348)

Enterprise Architect (EA), Hibernate (Java), Wildfly, Javaserver Faces, Representational State Transfer (REST), Solution Architektur

4/2012 – 10/2012

• Senior Consultant positioned with the management and analysis of the Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) in alignment and compliance with Basel II requirements.
• Responsible for the simulation of credit risk scenarios applying algorithms for the analysis of multiple risk factors covering trade data (EUR swaps and government bonds), market data (Bloomberg, Reuters, FX Swaps) and scenario data (Monte-Carlo VaR, IR /EQ VaR, stress tests, and exposures) for correctly assessing the involved risk.

Business Intelligence (BI), Eclipse, Eclipse Modeling Framework, Enterprise Architect (EA), J2EE, Javaserver Faces, Junit, Rich-Client, UML, XML

1/2012 – 7/2014

• Leading a team of senior developers towards designing a JEE based platform from the ground up for Risk Mitigation and Reporting with a focus at reusability and extensibility of the core system components - Dependency Injection, OSGi, EJB 3.1, JPA, JSF 2.0.
• Responsible for the assessment, analysis, definition and implementation the Large Exposure Platform targeted towards fulfillment of the regulator reporting requirements as mandated by the German Central Bank (GCB) and the European Banking Authority (EBA).
• Alignment of the System Design and Specification in compliance with the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV), and the Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) of the Basel III agreement.
• Re-haul of the existing requirements ensuing out of a legacy environment and transforming the solution to a service based architecture using JBoss (EAP 6.0) capabilities – Picketbox (JAAS) for authentication and authorization, integration of Hibernate Search (Lucene), use of Stateful & Stateless beans, CDI and MDB driven for the technological blueprints.
• Maintaining high levels of abstraction within application components with a focus on migration / portability to on premise (Private Cloud) / AWS based solutions.

Enterprise Javabeans, Hibernate (Java), Jenkins, Javaserver Faces, Oracle Database, Spring Framework

6/2011 – 2/2012

• Consulted the Unicredit Group with aligning their internal Credit Portfolio Management (ARAMIS) system with existing financial and legal requirements as per BASEL II specifications.
• Conceptualization, implementation and integration of various modules to permit the correction of data, for the integration of third-party platforms needed to assess and evaluate the Credit Risk ratios.
Enablement, Documentation and Hand-over for / to internal-stakeholders (Business Heads).

Enterprise Javabeans, Enterprise Architect (EA), Rich-Client

7/2010 – 1/2021

• Involved in creating a security platform based on the principal of “Security is right, not a privilege” with a focus on the privacy and human rights aspects within the intelligence domain.
• Designing and scaling of systems intended for the Lawful Intercept domain and specifically targeted for Social Media Intelligence and Analytics.
• Providing “future-proof” JEE solutions and concepts based on upcoming Cloud and Virtualization technologies (Hadoop GridGain).
o AWS Instance Management.
o Defining Security Group configurations.
o Developing automated maintenance plans w.r.t. creating / cloning of instances
o IAM user creation and management.
o Assessing Load balancing and Auto-scaling strategies
o Volume management (AWS level EBS volumes)
• Modeling Business Cases and Project Roadmaps for clustered monitoring systems within the Telco / intelligence domain.
• Quoted by Bloomberg for breakthrough approach in introducing transparency in the intelligence and cyber-security industry – (references available upon request)

Representational State Transfer (REST)

5/2009 – 6/2010

• Positioned as a Global Solution Sales Manager providing end-to-end solutions within the LI domain. High-level workshops, presentations and training for decision makers and delegations representing Ministries of Defense and Ministries of Interiors.
• Evaluation of third party products (over 50 partners) and interface definition for seamless integration towards in-house products.
• Capturing high level customer expectations and catering to their strategic, operational and tactical requirements.
• Creating commercial offers for government customers.
• Directing R&D roadmaps and product strategies based on customer requirements and driving Service Provider teams towards a streamlined execution and handover process.
• Planning and staging of onsite Proof of Concepts, and Demos
• Evaluating existing application stack and developing MVPs (Minimum Viable Product) and assessing portability / re-platforming requirements for migration to AWS Cloud (EC2, S3, Amazon IAM, Elastic Container Services).
• Development of AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with on premise data centers for authentication and authorization of internal users (LDAP).
• Consulting client towards migration strategies towards cloud based solutions

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