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Imran Lakhani

SUMMARY

A highly experienced Java Team Lead and Architect, having over 14 years of experience of developing of web applications following a full software development life cycle from requirement analysis and design through to the maintenance phase.

Skills: J2SE, J2EE, SOA, Web Services, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP), Hibernate, JMS, Oracle, Elastic Search, Gigaspace (Grid Computing), ANT, Maven, Design Patterns.

EXPERIENCE

Verizon, Alpharetta, GA                                                                                                                                  March 2016 till date
Lead Developer / Software Architect

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

●      Worked as active member of project MobileFirst and developed key components of back end engine.

●      Worked on Spring Web Services on REST based responses for light weight request / responses.

●      Worked on Spring workflow used for sequential and parallel multi-threading flows and activities.

●      Designed and implemented Rule Engine using Drools / Workbench to assist.

●      Separating code in modules using maven for modular based approach.

●      Identified the key areas of working application that can be separated and modularized.

●      Technologies: - Java, J2EE, Spring (IoC, AOP, Workflow, MVC, Web Services), Oracle, Maven. Drools, Workbench, GIT

Etisalat / Technologia, Dubai                                                                                                         September 2013 to February 2016

Software Architect

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

●      Worked on Soap and Rest based web services to using Spring.

●      Technical Design & Proposal for new project LWM - Light Weight Mediation

●      Proposed solutions and support for ongoing production system for performance and scalability‎.

●      Optimized JMS queue mechanism of LWM.

●      Replaced legacy system with new that resulted in performance improvement up to 4 times.

●      Working on Oracle ASAP mobile application tool, used in telecom for prepay / post-pay operations.

●      Single POC for new tools like RTC / CLM and trained other developers in migration phase.

●      Technologies: - Java, J2EE, JMS, Hibernate, Spring (IoC, AOP, Integration, Web Services), Apache CXF, Oracle, Maven, RTC-IBM, CLM-IBM, ClearCase-IBM.

Primatics Financial, Pakistan                                                                                                        September 2012 to September 2013
Senior Technical Lead

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

●      Lead a team of 9 developers and mentored them achieving their daily goals for project LVP – Loan Valuation Platform.

●      Designed and developed processing jobs for Grid Computing.

●      Developed frameworks that isolates developers from underlying technology & allows them to focus on implementing the business logic.

●      Performed Code reviews and Design Reviews to establish quality

●      Collaborated with System Testing & Functional Testing teams.

●      Involved in planning meeting with coordination with on-shore and off-shore PMs on Agile basis.

●      Distributing tasks among resources on 2 weeks Sprint basis in agile development method.

●      Optimized key processing tasks by 80%, the processes run over 360 billion records. 

●      Implemented changes that optimized the development & build process by 70%.

●      Technologies: - Java, J2EE, JPA, GigaSpaces, Spring (IoC, AOP, MVC), Oracle, DHTMLx library, JQuery, Maven & Ant.

ArtStor / ACIT, Pakistan                                                                                                                 November 2009 to September 2012

Software Team Lead

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

●      Worked as lead for (DAM) Digital Asset Management Solution with 4 subordinates.

●      Started DAM from scratch and tested it for more than 500 GB data and 1.6 million records.

●      Developed Backend Engine of DAM using CXF, GSON, Hibernate & Spring.

●      Optimized the efficiency of project to make it work for million records capability

●      Integrated indexing based search tools Lucene and Integrated Distributed Search Engine i.e. Elastic Search

●      Integrated Web Services with a client based on EXT-JS framework that uses DAM web services JSON and SOAP responses.

●      Involved in designing ERD, UML, Test Cases and Wire Frames.

●      Project is in production since 2010 and used by 15 world known institutes like Harvard, Yale, Colby and NYU for data size up to Terra Bytes.

●      Technologies: - Java, J2EE, Spring (IoC AOP), Apache CXF, JAXB, JAXP, Hibernate, Apache Lucene, Elastic Search, Oracle, Maven and Ant.

Etilize Inc. Pakistan                                                                                                                          June 2007 to December 2009

Lead Software Engineer

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

l  Star performer of Java team for Content Based E-Commerce Solutions.

l  Developed Backend Engine and WS of Merchandising Solutions in Content Marketing just like Google’s Ad Sense

l  Developed RMI based distributed solutions for Product search with its Plugins and clients that were on WS

l  Developed Exports system that can manage up to 4 Billion Products records in MySql DB and can export CSVs / XML etc.

l  Developed Web Service using X-Fire, JAXB, Servlets RMI and XML.

l  Worked on J2EE, Web Services, RMI, Distributed Application, Web 2.0, MySql, Servlet, JSP, Filter

l  Software Analysis & Development Using J2EE / Design Patterns under Linux environment.

l  Using technologies that include Java, JDBC, RMI, JSP, Servlets, ANT, J-Unit.

l  Involved in designing ERD, UML, Test Cases and Wire Frames.

l  Designed and Developed Rule Engine Based on AI concept.

l  Designed and Developed Web Services for the Rule Based System

l  R n D on DSL Languages and used Groovy and RonR as the helper tools.

l  Technologies: - Java, J2EE, Apache X-Fire, Mysql, Oracle, Ant, Groovy, Ruby.

ARPATECH (Advance Research Project & Technologies), Pakistan                                                  February 2005 to May 2007

Senior Programming Analyst

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

●      Developed Solutions for Network Securities Products over Internet.

●      Developed Client / Server Applications.

●      Internet searching for new techniques and Open Source projects for further development.

●      Used technologies that include JDBC, Socket Programming, Swing, Beans, Filters, Threads, & XML.

●      Sniffing though various IP’s over net and finding open port and any malicious software running on that.

●      Technologies: - Java, J2EE, JDBC, Swing, JDB, Multi-Threading, PostGre SQL, Ant.

Limton Group, Pakistan                                                                                                                                  June 2002 to January 2005
Software Developer

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

●      Programming of Different Software that includes, (Inventory Control System, Production/Consumption Import/Export, Sales/Purchase).

●      Resolving Clients Queries / Customer Support.

●      System Analysis and Database Design Accordingly.

●      Coordination with Developers, Operators and users.

●      Technologies: - VB6, MS-SQL, Crystal Reports, Foxpro

EDUCATION

●      Preston Institute

Degree           MBA, Accounting and Finance –2005-2007)

●      Preston University

Degree           BCS, Software Engineering (1999 – 2002)

●      Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer (1Z0-851)

●      Oracle Automatic Service Activation Program (ASAP)

●      IBM – CLM / RTC