IT Development Lead with 15 years of experience in retail, banking, and manufacturing domains. Experienced in delivering projects using waterfall, agile, and hybrid methodologies, specializing in backend API, cloud, and database development.
API & Database Development:
Expertise in Cloud Platforms: Skilled in designing and deploying cloud solutions on platforms like Azure and Google Cloud with expertise in various cloud services including compute, storage, and databases
Dev Ops & CICD Expertise: Expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps & ability to integrate infrastructure as code (Terraform) into development workflows.
Team Leadership : Proven ability to lead and mentor development teams, manage project timelines, and coordinate cross-functional efforts.
Stakeholder Management : Collaborative professional with over 5 years at the client location, building strong relationships with product owners and the head of IT to strategise and deliver successful outcomes
Retail Store Operations: 7 + years of experience in the retail domain with a good understanding of store back office operations, optimising store performance, and enhancing customer satisfaction
Cross Functional Collaboration: Works closely with cross-functional teams including developers, product owners, business analysts and UX/UI designers to deliver high-quality solutions.
Quality Assurance: Delivering high-quality project outcomes and ensuring seamless handover to support teams
Agile Expertise : Certified scrum master, guiding teams through the scrum framework, ensuring adherence to Agile principles
Key Projects:
Stores Back Office Application: Next Generation Back Office is the project that replaced the Legacy Systems providing common platform for the store users to access all in-store inventory routines and reports in the back office. Around 20+ core inventory functionalities were designed and developed as part of this project and the entire application was rolled out to 3000 + stores .
Actionable alerts for store users (GCP Cloud): Solution to deliver stores actionable alerts to the store user devices at almost the same instant as and when the alert is produced by the source systems by leveraging Google cloud based PaaS solution involving various components like cloud functions, Cloud Composer, and Firestore db.
Point of sale in-store media (Azure Cloud): A retail solution built to push the marketing content to the point of sale screens across all the stores. This solution was built in Azure PaaS involving various cloud components like Function Apps, Event Hub, Service Bus, and PostgreSQL DB built using terraform and integrated with Splunk for monitoring and alerting.
Store Modernisation (Microservice based Azure Cloud): Modernisation of the existing monolith store back office application to a microservices based cloud architecture with a unified front end across all stores. This solution is built in PowerApps and Azure cloud PaaS providing various benefits like better time to market, low ownership cost and auto scaling.
Project Store Modernisation & Point of Sale In Store Media : (Azure Cloud)
Project Action Center: (GCP Cloud)