Nikhil Channa
Senior Software Engineer
Toronto,Ontario
Summary
Multi-talented Senior Software Engineer successful completing simultaneous projects. Willing to jump in to develop "outside the box" solutions. Decisive leader and reliable team builder with results-focused and driven approach.
Self Motivated and highly effective at developing new programs and fixing problems with existing systems. Proficient in Microservice and Agile/Scrum methodology.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Securonix
Toronto, CA
04.2022 - Current
- Experienced in defining development and deployment strategy
- Trained, Mentored & Motivated Team Members to learn new technologies
- Experienced in preparing and conducting client and internal demos
- Experienced in estimating and planning roadmaps and product development
- Experience working with Scrum Agile Methodology
- Current Technology Stack:
- Java ,Spring Boot
- Microservice Architecture
- Spring boot, JPA(Hibernate),Jasper,MFA
- Good understanding of all three major clouds (AWS)
- CICD & version control with Jenkins & Git & Octopus
- Good understanding of Java8 features like - Lambdas, Streams , new
- Date APIs, Optional and Parallel programming
- Vast experience in designing and developing applications from scratch
- Worked on design and development
- Working on Shared Service modules of Snypr UEBA and SIEM Solution
- Overall 6+ years of development, design and delivery experience in
- Java and Spring boot
- 2+ years of experience in leading team of 5-6 members
- 4+ Years of experience in Software Designing & Re-designing
- 4+ years of experience in code reviews
- Experience in migrating the Monolith to Microservices
- Designed and Delivered
- User Management Service
- Multi Factor Authentication Service
- Central App level Configuration Service
- Data Masking and Unmasking
- Report Service to Cater 5 million records per report
- Masking and Unmasking Service
- Highly Experienced in SAAS OnCloud MSSP product
- One of the Major
- Contributors to Securonix SIEM MSSP solution development
- Rest APIs
- Architect and develop new microservices for SIEM
- Build next gen Security SIEM product
- Strategize and help the team to shift left
- Drive and maintain the legacy SIEM application and protect the customer base
- Reduce operation cost by defining and streamlining the engineering practices
- Reduce support and app down issues with debugging skill
- Architect and develop new microservices for Next Gen SIEM
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
- Partnered with development team on product development and application support plans.
- Defining service standards and guidelines as per best practices and governance structures
- Understanding business needs & designing roadmap/ solution for further development
- Security Industry Domain Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programming and design principles
- Strong experience in designing & developing frameworks
- Hands-on experience in building complex, fault tolerance & scalable applications & modules in Java technology stack, Team Leading, Code
- Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Microservice and working to improve overall team performance.
Senior Software Engineer
Securonix
Pune, Maharashtra
03.2021 - 04.2022
- Working on Shared Service modules of Snypr UEBA and SIEM Solution
- Migrating and Maintaining Securonix Shared Services to
- Microservices
- Responsible for Edge Microservices that include discovery, gateway, and Platform common service
- Reviewing and Designing Services new services
- Designed a notification/Email Services
- Designed and implemented standalone reporting service
- Implemented Dependency Track and SonarQube for code security issues
- Security bug fixes of FortifyScans
- Docker images creation
- Docker Images Security Scan
- Mentoring Team members and enabling them
- Working on Snypr reporting, Custom exit reports
- Job Monitor, Setting page maintenance and enhancements
- Application Level issues like DataLeak prevention, Memory issues,
- Sizing application
- Developed Custom monitoring metrics for services
- Documentation and RCA
- Working on Authentication and Authorization for microservices
- Collaborating with multiple teams
- Migration of Projects to BitBucket from Gitlab
- Snypr SRE bug fixing and Supporting Team members
- LANGUAGES
- English, Hindi,Marathi,Teglu
- Working on caching mechanism and integration of Consul and Vault to microservices.
- Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
- Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.
- Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
- Worked with development teams to correct problems and run test scenarios.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
Software Engineer
Qualys, Pune
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2020 - 02.2021
- Designed and Implemented a System and Data Pipeline monitoring Solution for Qualys XDR product
- The monitoring solution enabled visibility across the data flowing through multiple microservices
- API for UI Screen using Rest Template
- Writing Docker files
- Code Review
- Designed Data structure to hold and support High EPS data
- Indexing Service Maintenance and Enhancements to write data in elastic search
- Kafka Client enhancement to support auto-commit features
- Designed and Implemented Monitoring Framework for XDR product
- Monitoring Framework can accommodate new pipeline without manual intervention and zero downtown
- Grafana and Prometheus is used for visualization and time series DB respectively
- Completed and owned the entire project of monitoring.
- Represented software applications engineering team during large and complex development projects.
Software Engineer
Securonix
11.2019 - 03.2020
- Recognized as Rookie of the year in Dec-2016 Securonix
- Reviews & conducting training & demos
- Good exposure to relational databases and Solr ,kafka
- Experienced in defining development and deployment strategy
- Trained, Mentored & Motivated Team Members to learn new technologies
- Experienced in preparing and conducting client and internal demos
- Experienced in estimating and planning roadmaps and product development
- Experience working with Scrum Agile Methodology
- Current Technology Stack:
- Java ,Spring Boot
- Microservice Architecture
- Spring boot, JPA(Hibernate)
- Good understanding of all three major clouds (AWS)
- CICD & version control with Jenkins & Git & Octopus
- Good understanding of Java8 features like - Lambdas, Streams , new
- Date APIs, Optional and Parallel programming
- Vast experience in designing and developing applications from scratch
- Worked on design and development
- Jasper Reporting Framework Implementation in Snypr SIEM Solution
- Jquery , HTML, CSS experience
Software Engineer
Securonix
Pune
08.2016 - 03.2020
- Recognized as Rookie of the year in Dec-2016 Securonix
- Worked on multiple dierent modules on Snypr UEBA and SIEM Solution
- Below are the important modules that are implemented and owned
- Designed and Implemented a health monitoring Solution for the Securonix
- Enterprise Application
- Health Monitoring solution reduced the customer downtime and predicted the outages due to memory and Database issues
- MSSP Features are implemented in multiple UI Screens and backend
- Multi-tenancy (On Cloud) Changes in Snypr (Enabling UI and Middle layer)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) changes in multi-tenancy /Snypr
- Views and Dashboard
- Complete Solution of Reporting Framework (UI and backend on SIEM using JASPER)
- Spotter (SIEM) based dynamic widgets framework (backend) for the
- Security command center
- Solr multi-collection-join-based widgets framework (backend) for the Security command center
- Security Command Center Widgets (Dashboard) UI framework
- Watchlist Import /View Ui and Backend
- Third-Party Import Views/Screen
- Invalid/Unparsed Events showing through HDFS and Downloading for Re-import
- Live Data Imports Jobs status, Counts and scheduling information (Ui and Middle layer)
- Live Kafka events monitoring UI
- Generation and Graphical representation of data from last hour to 7 days which includes Application Threads, Memory, Loaded Classes,
- Hibernate Sessions, Running Import Jobs
- Hadoop Components connection/Settings view (UI and Middle Layer)
- Designed and implemented an endpoint in java that gathers data of the application’s node
- Communication between master and endpoint through Syslog-Ng
- Syslog-ng forwarder
- Technologies Used: 1
- UI :- HTML,CSS,jQuery,jTemplates,Highcharts,GSP,WebSockets 2
- MVC: Grails and Groovy 3
- BACKEND: Java, Hibernate, HDFS(API), Kafka(API) , Solr,MySql
- Reviews & conducting training & demos
- Good exposure to relational databases and Solr ,kafka
- Jasper Reporting Framework Implementation in Snypr SIEM Solution
- Jquery , HTML, CSS experience
Education
B.E - IT
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Pune ,MH India 08.2012 - 05.2016
Skills
MicroServices, Spring-Boot,Java
Dependency Track
SonarQube,Netflix-EurekaConfigService,Consul,vaultBasics of HTML, CSS,SCSSJQuery,jTemplateJava, Hibernate, GroovyGrails, MySqlMachine Learning BasicsBagging, Boosting, ensembleModelsAWS experience in EC2, S3DynamoDBKnowledge on HadoopEcoSystem Solr, HDFSHBase, Hive, Impala, KafkaClouderaAdditional Information
- AWARDS , Recognized as All-Rounder Engineer of the year 2019-20 at Securonix. Recognized as Outstanding Performance for the Month
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Securonix
04.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Securonix
03.2021 - 04.2022
Software Engineer
Qualys, Pune
04.2020 - 02.2021
Software Engineer
Securonix
11.2019 - 03.2020
Software Engineer
Securonix
08.2016 - 03.2020
B.E - IT
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
08.2012 - 05.2016