June 2023 (Fulltime)

Senior Software Engineer

Open Influence, Remote

• Developed and maintained web applications using Java (SpringBoot) and Python (Django), improving user experience and platform functionality and ensuring high performance and scalability

• Orchestrated cloud infrastructure on AWS, including ECS, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, OpenSearch, EventBridge, and IAM, optimizing resource allocation and ensuring high availability

• Contributed to ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes using pandas, ensuring smooth data migration and integration between systems

• Utilized ElasticSearch for efficient and powerful full-text search functionality within applications, improving data search, retrieval and analysis performance

• Worked extensively with PostgreSQL (Postgres) and ensured efficient data storage and retrieval

• Utilized Terraform to manage AWS environments and resources such as ECS tasks, EventBridge rules, S3 buckets, etc.

• Collaborated with development teams using GitHub for version control and code collaboration, ensuring code quality and consistency.

• Automated build, test, and deployment processes using CircleCI, ensuring continuous integration and delivery of application updates.

• Utilized monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, Sentry and DataDog real-time application performance insights including email and slack alerts as necessary

• Utilized caching strategies with Redis for caching frequently accessed data, improving application responsiveness and reducing database load

December 2021 - April 2023 (Contract)

Senior Software Engineer

Netflix, Remote

• As a part of Data Platform Engineering team, I was responsible for development and maintenance of multiple Java and Python applications that contributed in data collection, retrieval and analysis

• Modify Java and Python applications to increase efficiency be automating process to reduce human intervention steps for improved performance

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines (BitBucket, Jenkins, Spinnaker) for a variety of applications to provide timely improvements to cloud applications

• Used Vue.js to add/update features to improve the user experience of frontend application for data management

• Collaborate with small team of engineers in fast-paced development environment to create/modify/deliver high functioning web applications

• Contribute to all stages of full cycle web application development – from writing code to deployment of services (Analysis–Design–Development–Testing–Deployment–Maintenance)

• The automation of processes led to increase of efficiency of the system by over 10% by allowing developers to focus on other tasks

January 2020 - November 2021 (Contract)

Full Stack Software Engineer

DISH Network, Denver CO US

• Built web applications for support technicians to view/update customers information, packages, payments, etc. 

• Involved in Agile and Scrum project management. Responsible for conducting daily Scrum meeting in the absence of Scrum Master, and actively participated in weekly Refinement and biweekly Iteration Planning and Review/Retrospective  

• Helped Maintain project schedules and tasks by closely collaborating with project managers, scrum masters, other developers and other members of the product development team to deliver updates/ upgrades to the application in timely manner. Also responsible for providing knowledge and individual mentoring to new team members as needed  

• Responsible for creating and deploying new Spring Boot REST microservices and maintaining existing ones by adding/updating business logics based on objectives and functionalities as required by user requirements

• Responsible for updating (and creating, if needed) RESTful APIs to provide the data for frontend application that are written in React/Redux 

• Responsible for maintaining microservices secured with Spring Security with Okta and SAML for authentication purposes

• Used ReactJs/ReduxJs framework to develop/implement custom components in React/Redux/TypeScript, Styled Components, CSS, SCSS, etc.  

• Ensuring that codebase is under a 100% test code coverage by writing codes in JUnit for microservices and Enzyme/Jest/Cypress for front-end  

• Used Logz (and ELK stack implementation) to query logs to investigate issues with the application in test and production environments

• Configured microservices that used RabbitMQ to send and receive messages between different systems

• Implementation of the app led to an increase in the efficiency of customer support agents by over 20%. Also, the interface encouraged and made it easier for technicians to cross-sale products which expected to increase revenue by over $10,000,000

March 2015 - December 2019 (Contract)

Java Application Developer

Cincinnati Financial, Fairfield OH US

• Built web applications for preparation and tracking of documents at different stages to be filed with regulatory bodies of different states in the US in order to replace the manual/ paper filing/tracking of such documents  

• Involved in full product life-cycle experience from requirements realization to deployment of codes to production environment including assisting in designing system architecture, code development and assisting in quality testing  

• Coordinated with the business analysts, project managers, system architects, and fellow developers to analyze new proposed Ideas/Requirements, design the integrated system, develop and implement the necessary modules 

• Interacted with application testers to review system defects and recreate defects in order to provide comprehensive fixes in QAT and UAT environments  

• Worked closely with Database Administrators to design and develop queries, views, nicknames and functions in DB2  

• Used Spring Framework to implement the MVC architecture for interaction between different components of UI, service and DAO layers  

• Developed and implemented GUI functionality using JSP, Javascript, JSTL, DisplayTag and Ajax  

• Implemented Spring Security with LDAP to authenticate and authorize users to provide different permission levels and separate accesses as per requirement

• Worked with WebLogic in configuring the connection pools and deploying the web applications. Migrated from WebLogic to JBoss server to manage and deploy apps 

• Configured and implemented a Java Message Service API that used Apache ActiveMQ to allow clients to send and receive messages from a central message broker

• Implementation of automatic document submission and tracking led to an increase in productivity by over 30% and also expected to increase savings by more than $9,000,000/year

January 2014 - May 2014

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Missouri, Columbia MO US

• Independently taught a class of Corporate Finance to a class of 60 undergraduate students

• Responsible for everything related to the class, withing a prescribed guideline, with responsibilities including, but not limited to, preparation & delivery of in-class lectures, preparation & grading of assignments, preparation & grading of tests, and responding to students' inquiries in class, email and in person

August 2013 - May 2014

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Missouri, Columbia MO US

• Primarily responsible for identification of necessary data, and collection and presentation of such data as part of academic research. Primary sources of data included Bloomberg Terminal, ThompsonReuters, MorningStar, and State Election Boards 

• Initiated on my own to automated data collection and presentation for academic research purpose with targeted web scraping of specific websites using Java  

• Created a Spring Web MVC module to input a web source and parse HTML data using JSoup and HTMLUnit  

• Processed the parsed data using pre-specified logic to filter necessary data and store the same in a MySQL Database  

• Created a user interface to query the data in dynamic tables and display the same rendered in DisplayTag tables, with option to download in CSV or XLS format as needed  

• Implementation of the system led to significant drop for time required for data collection and analysis 

2014

University of Missouri - Columbia

Master's Degree, Information Technology / Finance

2010

Broadway Infosys Nepal

Certificate, Object Oriented Computer Programming / Full Stack Web Development