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SAIFUDDIN BOHRA

Stanhope Gardens,AUSTRALIA

Summary

20+ years of dynamic and rich experience in varied roles of large-scale software development, which include leading the SaaS team of 13 developers, coaching, software design, development and testing of Graphic Design, Media monitoring and intelligence systems, complex payment, unified communication and infrastructure monitoring solutions developed for cloud, and hybrid platforms

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification

Work History

Engineering Lead

Canva
11.2022 - Current
  • Developed planning criteria for integrating Cloudflare as CDN provider for Canva's edge platform.
  • Interacted with subject matter experts to develop technical solution for last-mile Edge connectivity.
  • Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders (product manager, engineering head) to effectively coordinate work activities for Edge compute.
  • Worked with Customer Support, Observability and Reliability team to resolve incidents within defined SLA.
  • Managed software engineering team and looking after their growth and development plan.

Software Development, Engineering Manager

Isentia
11.2021 - 11.2022
  • Provide strategic leadership and guidance at executive level in areas of Media intelligence and relevance development
  • Manage and prepare project budgets for project resource allocation including hiring new engineers
  • Work with stakeholders, (Program Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Owner, Operation) for resourcing, issue escalation, remediation, and timely reporting of progress and risks
  • Leading geographically dispersed team of software engineers, QA and DevOps where main focus is, to place needs of team members first and help them develop and perform to their best
  • Architect and design Global relevance engine to consolidate various relevance engines used across different media types in different regions (in Asia and ANZ)
  • Led design of Broadcast Automation project by automating manual decision processes using AI/ML solutions to detect location and named entities, text similarity and “NO repeat” decisions, visual and
  • Improved team’s software development productivity by 20% through identifying gaps and introducing latest development tools, and code reuse and encouraging team to look for open source solutions externally.

Integrated Research Ltd
09.2012 - 11.2021
  • Created unique N-tier architecture of Agent (AWS IOT Devices) communication to AWS cloud for IoT MQTT and AWS Kinesis connection, so that even if Agent is installed under highly secure banking network without having internet connectivity can communicate to AWS cloud
  • Leading Full stack squad of 13 members including software engineers, QA and DevOps where main focus is, to place needs of team members first and help them develop and perform to their best
  • Build Highly scalable architecture of SaaS offering of “Collaborate” product developed in AWS using combination of Elastic Beanstalk and serverless architecture to serve high-frequency data collection 24/7
  • Developed DevOps friendly maintenance solution with support of HA, scalability, stability and security.

ALCATEL-LUCENT
10.2003 - 09.2012
  • Refactoring of C and C++ code for AIN services upgrade
  • Designed, developed and delivered the High availability, fault tolerance, high-performance CRE system which provided network capacity planning for up to the year 2025 with complete site redundancy
  • Interact with Customer Operation and support team during defect triage to review and approve core network-related Change Requests and ensure the solution consistency
  • Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations
  • Excelled at gathering feedback and requirements; communicating needed changes to the development team; and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts to on-time and on-budget conclusions
  • Ensuring that all hardware and third-party interfaces are available in Customer Acceptance and IOT testing
  • Schedule the testing in such a way that it has minimum impact on other vendor’s testing
  • Soft skills include planning and Organising, Negotiation, Flexibility, communication, customer interaction, coordination among R&D, and test and support teams located in different geographical regions: India, Belgium, France, and Portugal.

Senior Software Engineer

ARICENT SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
06.2000 - 10.2003
  • Build solutions for Major telco vendors like Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, and was responsible Detail Design, Coding, unit testing, and unit test report for the development and enhancement in GSM, 3GPP Protocol Stacks CAP2(SCF), CAP3(SCF), CAP(SSF), UTRAN (NBAP, RANAP), ETSI INAP CS1 and CS2

Education

Master of Computer Application -

University Of Pune
India
2000

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Mohanlal Sukhadia University
India
1997

Skills

  • Project Management, Project Delivery, Release Management, Change Management,
  • Vendor Management, Operation Management, ITIL, Customer Relationship Management
  • AWS Cloud: AWS cloud services including Compute, Storage, Database, Security, Identity
  • IoT Edge devices, IoT protocols (MQTT, AMQP )
  • Web Protocols & Security (HTTP/S, SSL, Firewall, Access Control, Bot Management DDoS )
  • Analytics, Networking & Content Delivery, Caching, DNS
  • Programming Languages: C/C, C#, Java, Typescript, NodeJS, Python,
  • Platforms: Unix, Linux, Windows, VMware, Virtualisation and containers (Dockers/Kubernetes)
  • Network/Telecom: IP (TCP/UDP), SS7 (SCCP, TCAP), INAP, MAP, CAMEL, IN (Intelligent Network)
  • Development Methodology: Agile, DevOps, Test Driven Development (TDD)

Certification

IT Information Library Foundation Certification (ITIL)

PeopleCert, Issued Jun 2016


Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance, Issued Aug 2017

Timeline

Engineering Lead

Canva
11.2022 - Current

Software Development, Engineering Manager

Isentia
11.2021 - 11.2022

Integrated Research Ltd
09.2012 - 11.2021

ALCATEL-LUCENT
10.2003 - 09.2012

Senior Software Engineer

ARICENT SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
06.2000 - 10.2003

Master of Computer Application -

University Of Pune

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Mohanlal Sukhadia University

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