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Ashfaq Ahmed Khan

Ashfaq Ahmed Khan

Technical Lead / Scrum Master
Leppington,NSW

Summary

● Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.

● Versatile software development experience be REST APIs, distributed back-end systems, batch processing, front end web applications, cross platform mobile apps, RDBMS procedures, middleware messaging, SOA, Microservices, Event streaming, service discovery, network routing & load balancing.

● Developed complex distributed systems that are scalable, secure, robust, high performing, observable, operational friendly and offer mission critical services. Such systems cut through various technology and operational verticals and implemented in multi geography locations serving high volume in traffic.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
24
24
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master / Tech Lead

Effision Australia
Sydney, NSW
9 2023 - Current
  • Led cross-functional team of 5 to successfully complete mission critical features enhancing the MasterCard payment gateway platform.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Work closely with Business Analysts / Product Owners, developers and testers to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from elaboration through to analysis, design and delivery.
  • Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
  • Built strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring clear communication channels for project updates and progress reports.
  • Support the team during the iteration, increasing the team's prospect of achieving its iteration goals and objectives, and overall success
  • Provide regular and effective progress updates and work closely with Business Analysts / Product Owners to ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues
  • Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
  • Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
  • Implemented key performance metrics to track team progress and identify areas of improvement consistently throughout projects'' lifecycles.
  • Mentored junior team members on Scrum best practices, fostering their professional growth within the organization.
  • Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
  • Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions.
  • Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.

Senior Solution Developer

Effision Australia
Sydney, New South Wales
05.2022 - 08.2023
  • Coordinated deployments of feature updates and fixes in MasterCard payment gateway platform.
  • Followed & Practiced Agile Development Methodology and participated in Agile ceremonies
  • Build & maintain 250+ automated test cases on features assigned to team.
  • Followed MasterCard release pipelines cycle to deliver new features
  • Mentored junior developers and involved in design & code reviews.
  • Delivered robust and scalable applications by conducting thorough testing, debugging, and code reviews.
  • Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality.
  • Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired team members.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded MasterCard Payment Gateway Platform to improve performance of its core components.

Senior Java Developer

FIS Global.
10.2019 - 06.2022
  • Involved in Design, Development & Enhancement of Digipay payment processing platform for online payments
  • Development of payment Integration ports and adapters with Clean Architecture Design Principles to integrate with various payment processing gateways Ex CyberSource, Openpay, PayPal, Webpay etc
  • Worked in integration of ApplePay & GooglePay payment integrations to Digipay Payment Platform.
  • Successfully added Openpay payment instrument into Digipay Payment Platform
  • Developed Jenkins shared CI/CD pipeline script & library for deployment of various Digipay Payment Microservices
  • Followed & Practiced Agile Development Methodology and participated in Digipay Agile ceremonies
  • Mentored junior developers and involved in design & code reviews.
  • Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.

Senior Java Developer

Mint Payments Ltd.
01.2016 - 09.2019
  • Design and Development of payment processing platform for terminal initiated and MOTO transactions
  • Gained greater understanding of various payment standards like ISO-8583, AS 2805, PCI-DSS, payments security, tokenisation etc while working on various payment gateway integrations
  • Awareness of Payments Schemes (EMV) MasterCard, Visa, China Union Pay, American Express etc
  • Delivered CNP payments solutions from both business and technical perspective
  • Design and development of RESTFUL APIs for client integrations and payment processing
  • Migrated existing Monolithic SMS Notification Services to Microservice based using Spring Boot, Netflix Zuul Api Gateway, Eureka Service Registry
  • Development of payment Integration adapters to integrate with various payment processing gateways
  • Development, enhancement and maintenance of Hosted Payment Page, Virtual Terminals, Banking and Merchant Portals
  • Respond to trouble/support calls for applications in production and closing the same as per agreed SLA.

Onshore Technical Lead & SME

Technology People Pty Ltd
Sydney, New South Wales
03.2015 - 06.2015
  • Worked as Technical SME for the project at onshore on Kony (Sky), and, but not limited to Telstra's processes and Mobile integrations
  • Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
  • Protect team from over-commitment, involved in backlog grooming; prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 2 major releases
  • Develop and own technical design documentation required for the offshore team leveraging Accenture methodologies as applied on the existing application
  • Provided technical guidance and oversight to developers and testers offshore
  • Involved in triage of defects/issues; provided a solution-oriented perspective when possible by applying Accenture's best practices
  • Done code review offshore code and support development of Kony code
  • Involved in various development/Integration of web services using SOAP and REST
  • Involved in triage of defects/issues; provided a solution-oriented perspective when possible by applying Accenture's best practices
  • Trained and mentor skills for the team on various tools and Kony best practices.
  • Mentored junior developers through regular 1-on-1 meetings, providing guidance on best practices, coding standards, and career growth opportunities.
  • Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.

Technical Lead

Kony IT Services Private Limited
Hyderabad, Telanana
04.2014 - 02.2015
  • Involved in capturing business requirements, design, development and testing of application
  • Develop Technical Design documents for various Presales MOBILE app modules
  • Provided technical guidance and oversight to developers and testers at offshore
  • Involved in various development/Integration of web services using SOAP and REST
  • Supported Project Manager in preparation of project implementation plans
  • Explore multiple approaches and suggest optimal solutions for complex development issues
  • Delivered Application features as per release schedule and quality expectations
  • Involved in Enhancement and efficiency of Dev/Test/Staging/Production release process
  • Handled multiple tasks, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
  • Teamed on development of technology roadmap spanning 1 years.

Assistant Consultant / I.T Analyst / Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Hyderabad, Telanana
11.2006 - 05.2013
  • Work closely with the business to understand business drivers and requirements and deliver solutions that exceed stakeholder expectations
  • Maintain and keep up to date with relevant technical knowledge to effectively provide the best technical solutions to business
  • Provided technical guidance / estimations on various new HR services
  • Support the creation of project documentation, including project initiation documents, project reviews, project status reporting etc
  • Monitoring team performance based on their technical and non-technical deliverables
  • Reviewed and assisted junior developers in their design and development
  • Develop new modules using front end framework like JSF and backend services using spring framework and DAO implementation using Hibernate ORM framework
  • Developed and implemented Axis2 and REST web services for internal and external web service integration of various HR modules
  • Performed unit testing and integration testing using junit and easy mock
  • Used Jenkins CI to build & deploy application
  • Troubleshoot application problems and production issue on regular basis.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India
03.2000 - 05.2024

Skills

Design Skills: UML (Visual Paradigm, Visio), Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), GOF Design Pattern, Design patterns, Clean Architecture

Source Control: VSS, Win CVS, GIT, Subversion, GIT

Mobile App Framework: Kony 562/ Kony 603, Kony Sync 562

Databases MySQL 50, Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL, SQL Server 2016

App Servers: JBOSS 3, Glassfish 3, Tomcat 50/55/7, Web Logic 8, Web Sphere 61

Testing tools: Junit, Mockito, Spring Test

Build System & CI: Ant, Maven 2, Jenkins

Scripts Language: Perl Script, Java Script

Web Skills: HTML5/CSS3, XML, XSLT and JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap

Microservices, Spring Cloud, Docker Containerization

Open-Source Frameworks: Spring Boot 4, Hibernate 51

Events/Messaging: JMS, IBM MQ Series

Java/J2EE: Java /J2EE, Java 8/13, JSP, Servlet, EJB2/3, JNDI etc

Design Skills: UML (Visual Paradigm, Visio), Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), GOF Design Pattern, Design patterns, Clean Architecture

State

Australia

City

Sydney

References

Reference available upon request

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Senior Solution Developer

Effision Australia
05.2022 - 08.2023

Senior Java Developer

FIS Global.
10.2019 - 06.2022

Certified Scrum Master

08-2018

Senior Java Developer

Mint Payments Ltd.
01.2016 - 09.2019

Onshore Technical Lead & SME

Technology People Pty Ltd
03.2015 - 06.2015

Technical Lead

Kony IT Services Private Limited
04.2014 - 02.2015

Assistant Consultant / I.T Analyst / Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
11.2006 - 05.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Osmania University
03.2000 - 05.2024

Scrum Master / Tech Lead

Effision Australia
9 2023 - Current

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