Utsav Sharma

Phone: (M) +64-274822825 Email: [email protected]

OBJECTIVE
To work in a stimulating and challenging environment that would facilitate the maximum utilization and application
of my skills and expertise
SUMMARY
 7+ years of experience in Java, Java EE and other web related technologies
 Experience working in multiple domains but primarily in financing sector
 Enormous amount of experience in creating highly scalable and well optimized enterprise grade applications.
 Experience in writing complex algorithms to make code more optimized and fine-tuned.
 Worked on parallel programming for handling heavy load in clustered environment
 A lot of experience in implementing APIs with maintaining high quality REST standards.
 Experience in containersing and running applications on Docker, Kubernetes
 CI/CD implementation experience using Gitlab
 Well versed with Agile methodologies and ceremonies
 Good communication, interpersonal, intuitive and leadership skills.
 Proven ability to work efficiently in a team or independently.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

✔ B. Tech with specialization in Computer Science and Engineering with a cgpa of 8.91 from Amity
University, Jaipur in 2012
WORK HISTORY
Relay Limited, Auckland, New Zealand (August 2018 – Present)
Co-Founder & CTO

Paymark, Auckland, New Zealand (November 2016 – August 2018)

Software Engineer

Rare Mile Technologies, Bangalore, India (August 2014 – October 2016 )

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India (May 2012 – August 2014)

Software Engineer

TECHNICAL SKILLS

✔ Languages: Java, Python

✔ Cloud: AWS

✔ Api Gateway: Apigee

✔ Webservices: REST, SOAP

✔ Databases: Graph, SQL, Oracle

✔ Build Tools: Maven, Gradle

✔ Domain: Payment, Finance

✔ Source Control: Gitlab, Github

ACHIEVEMENTS

✔ Got exceptional rating, highest in the engineering squad both years at Paymark

✔ Responsible for doing most number of uptime releases at Paymark

✔ Most Valued Player Award in Rare mile Technologies

✔ Was a scholarship holder from 2008-2012 in college, meritorious student with cgpa of 8.91

✔ Was the topper of Java batch in WIPRO Technologies, and was awarded a trophy for the same. Completed
my training with 92.59% marks in Java.
✔ Has been awarded “Feather in My Cap” achievement for hard work and dedication showed in my role.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Project Title: Relay App
Company: Relay Limited
Duration: August 2019 – Present
Role: Co-Founder & CTO
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Responsibilities
✔ Writing the entire complex enterprise application from scratch in a highly optimized & time effective manner in java
using springboot framework.
✔ Architecture & Design of the entire solution to get the project live & running

✔ Creating lamba functions using python and serverless to run cron jobs and jobs via aws api gateway

✔ Hosting the entire application on EKS in a very secure yet fault tolerant manner, keeing platform cost in mind

✔ Implementing CI/CD pipeline in gitlab

Project Title: Platform Contanierisation

Company: Paymark
Duration: December 2018 – August 2019
Role: Devops Engineer
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Team Size: 3
Responsibilities
✔ Dockerising microservices and spa’s to run on a Docker container

✔ Using EKS as our orchasterator to run those docker containers on aws

✔ Implementing CI/CD pipeline to make entire process autonomous

✔ Patching and keeping instances and our platform up to date

Project Title: Online Eftpos

Company: Paymark
Duration: June 2016 – December 2018
Role: Software Developer
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Team Size: 8
Responsibilities
✔ Lead Backend Developer responsible for designing/ creating and enhancing the microservices using Java/Spring and
other web related technologies
✔ Involved and implemented design solutions for the product

✔ Worked on API layers, exposed api’s for integration with external merchants and to consume our microservices.

✔ Responsible for complete third-party integration with both the banks our Product supports i.e ASB and Cooperative.

✔ Worked on various services provided by aws like Lambda, Datapipeline, QuickSight

Project Title: Logo Detection

Client: Product
Duration: May 2016 – Till Date
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore,India
Organization: Rare Mile Technologies, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 2
Responsibilities
✔ Used machine learning for training and making predictions for the data set.

✔ Used mxnet api pre trained model for better image detection.

✔ Used catalano, opencv and lire for various feature extractions

✔ Exposed the entire rest api using spring boot, added authentication with spring security and used spring data for
interaction with database
✔ Used multithreading for faster parallel and better processing.

Project Title: Paypr

Client: Paymark
Duration: March 2016 – May 2016
Role: Software Developer
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Organization: Rare Mile Technologies, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 11
Responsibilities
✔ Worked on building rest-based proxies

✔ Worked on apigee along with javascript to create flows to secure and make backend micro services scalable.

Project Title: Vesta

Client: Red Bell Real Estate
Duration: January 2016 – March 2016
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore, India
Organization: Rare Mile Technologies, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 3
Responsibilities
✔ Designed and developed a new plugin for ElastichSearch which uses Lire.

✔ Developed API for indexing in a multithreaded way for batch processing in parallel

✔ Worked on CEDD, JCD, FCTH, Auto Color Correlogram algorithms of photo extraction in LIRE.

Project Title: Integration

Client: Chrome River Technologies
Duration: November 2015 – January 2016
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Organization: Rare Mile Technologies, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 11 Members
Responsibilities
✔ Exposed REST based web service APIs for travel data processing.

✔ Create a flow for csv feed processing using Mule ESB

✔ Wrote various complicated multithreaded logics and used data structures in the best possible manner

✔ Worked on optimization and performance tuning of the code

Project Title: Social Survey

Client: Leading Lending Business In US
Duration: June 2015 – Novemeber 2015
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore, India
Organization: Rare Mile Technologies India, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 7
Responsibilities
✔ Was the lead backend developer

✔ Did various third party integrations like Zillow, Dotloop, Encompass

✔ Wrote various complicated multithreaded logics and used data structures in the best possible manner
 ✔ Worked on optimization and performance tuning of the code

Project Title: Beacon

Client: Start up In Investment Banking
Duration: August 2014 – Feburary 2015
Role: Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore, India
Organization: Rare Mile Technologies India, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 3
Responsibilities:

✔ Used Mule ESB to implement the entire flow

✔ Worked on performance tuning, Code refactoring

✔ Good business knowledge of FIX protocol used in investment banks

✔ Worked extensively on threads & complex algorithms to handle message load and message relations

✔ Designed the ERD and other flow charts to make the client understand the product flow

✔ Did performance testing using JMeter

✔ Wrote Junit test cases for all service layer interactions

Project Title: Nexera

Client: Leading Lending Business In US
Duration: January 2015 – June 2015
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore,India
Organization: Rare Mile Technologies India, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 9 Members
Responsibilities:

✔ Used Mule ESB to integrate with another LOS

✔ Integration with various third parties.

✔ Created various kinds of batch jobs using spring quartz.

✔ Worked extensively on threads & algorithms, used maximum functionality of threads

✔ XML parsing to handle all interactions with the LOS

✔ Worked on bug fixed and various enhancements introduces

✔ Wrote Junit test cases for all service layer interactions.

✔ Coordinated the functional and non-function testing of the entire application.

Project Title: Counter Point

Client: Cisco Systems
Duration: May 2014 – August 2014
Role: Software Engineer
Organization: Wipro Technologies India, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 3 Members
Responsibilities:

✔ Implementation of JMS(Activemq broker)

✔ Bug handling and optimization of the code

✔ Configured Jenkins for automated build and handling of various report and monitoring

✔ SVN was used for pulling/committing the code.

✔ Worked using Agile Methodology.

Project Title: MDS Program

Client: Cisco Systems
Duration: January 2013 – May 2014
Role: Software Engineering
Organization: Wipro Technologies India, Bangalore, India
Team Size: 5
Responsibilities:

✔ Creation, Deployment and Testing Of Web Services

✔ Developed Java code for various storage vendors, to manage their product in DCNM web client

✔ Handling various bugs & resolving them

✔ Created automation scripts and batch files

✔ Added near about 80-85 testcases through soapUI to support our product.

✔ Optimization of Code using tools like JProbe

PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 8th Mar 1991
Languages Known: English, Hindi
Contact Address: Flat 1, 27 Glencoe Road, Brownsbay