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Prashant Kumar

Prashant Kumar

Scotts Valley

Summary

Over 15 years of experience leading engineering development projects and driving digital transformation. Proven proficiency in technical product design and delivery within dynamic environments. Expertise in Big Data, distributed systems, and cloud solutions, complemented by strong leadership and strategic planning skills. Consistently delivers projects on time and within budget while fostering high-performing, collaborative teams.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul>

Apple - Adplatform
08.2017 - Current
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Hiring and team building
  • Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews
  • Managing Performance improvement plan and firing
  • Mentoring
  • Product roadmap planning and execution
  • Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.
  • Stakeholder management
  • Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform
  • Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.
  • Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads
  • Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.
  • Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms
  • Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform
  • Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access
  • Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.
  • Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale
  • Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data
  • Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.
  • Deliveries
  • Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.
  • Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.
  • Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.
  • Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform
  • Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.
  • Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.
  • Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations
  • Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform
  • Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform
  • Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.
  • Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.
  • Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.
  • Tools and Technologies
  • AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Big data system design and architecture</li><li>Project Review and Demos</li><li>AWS team account management and AWS budgeting</li><li>Hadoop to AWS migration</li><li>Requirement discussion with product and stakeholders</li><li>Third party Integration management</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup a 20+ engineering team to handle analytics and micro services for digital advertising and implemented agile methodology across 3 geographies</li><li>Led and delivered multiple projects to achieve business needs on an ongoing basis. E.g. Saturn Micro services that includes breaking Saturn functionality into different micro services for scalability and ease of management</li><li>Migrated 510 node Hadoop cluster to 1000 nodes Amazon cloud for faster processing and cost saving under Cloud (AWS) migration project</li><li>Delivered campaign analytics digital platform which is a self-driven UI to measure online campaign performance for customers like P&G using snowflake and looker</li><li>Led end-to-end development for reporting framework named Insights aimed at generating all the reports via MR framework. Those were earlier generated manually using Pig/ Hive. The new framework reduced cluster utilization and resulted in generation of >100 reports in one go</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Spark, Hadoop, MR, Hive, Pig, HBase, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Grafana and Graphite, Java 1.6, Python, Eclipse, Oracle, MySql, Git, Jenkins, Agile.</li></ul>

Audience Science
12.2013 - 08.2017
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Hiring and team building
  • Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews
  • Managing Performance improvement plan and firing
  • Mentoring
  • Product roadmap planning and execution
  • Stakeholder management
  • Big data system design and architecture
  • Project Review and Demos
  • AWS team account management and AWS budgeting
  • Hadoop to AWS migration
  • Requirement discussion with product and stakeholders
  • Third party Integration management
  • Deliveries
  • Setup a 20+ engineering team to handle analytics and micro services for digital advertising and implemented agile methodology across 3 geographies
  • Led and delivered multiple projects to achieve business needs on an ongoing basis. E.g. Saturn Micro services that includes breaking Saturn functionality into different micro services for scalability and ease of management
  • Migrated 510 node Hadoop cluster to 1000 nodes Amazon cloud for faster processing and cost saving under Cloud (AWS) migration project
  • Delivered campaign analytics digital platform which is a self-driven UI to measure online campaign performance for customers like P&G using snowflake and looker
  • Led end-to-end development for reporting framework named Insights aimed at generating all the reports via MR framework. Those were earlier generated manually using Pig/ Hive. The new framework reduced cluster utilization and resulted in generation of >100 reports in one go
  • Tools and Technologies
  • AWS, S3, Spark, Hadoop, MR, Hive, Pig, HBase, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Grafana and Graphite, Java 1.6, Python, Eclipse, Oracle, MySql, Git, Jenkins, Agile.

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Technical lead for the product. Leading the design and architecture for the product development and features deliveries.</li><li>Played the role of Architect for 2 projects</li><li>Ensure delivery of new features on time and high quality</li><li>Drive the development and deliver new services and solutions that are bot data center and cloud enabled.</li><li>Collaborate with stakeholders, program and product management, architects to ensure that the solution meets the requirements.</li><li>Provide technical leadership to the developers both local and around the globe for building powerful, scalable, reliable and highly available functionality.</li><li>Sprint execution and Demos</li><li>High level and low-level design</li><li>Managing production deployments and production support</li><li>Code reviews</li><li>Tech Strategy and POC</li><li>Development</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Hadoop architect for SVS recon project that dealt with log analysis of production servers to find failed transactions and to do the reconciliation of the transactions using Hadoop</li><li>Team Lead of 7-member Redemption Service project that designed and implemented a restful web service for redeeming internal and external store liability; and Stored Value Service project that provided ledger capability for store value products like loyalty, gift cards, registry service etc.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>Java 1.6, Spring3.0, jaxWs-rs, Groovy, IntelliJ, Green Hopper, Fisheye, splunk, C3p0, Java 1.6, Hadoop, Flume</li></ul>

Expedia
10.2012 - 11.2013
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Technical lead for the product. Leading the design and architecture for the product development and features deliveries.
  • Played the role of Architect for 2 projects
  • Ensure delivery of new features on time and high quality
  • Drive the development and deliver new services and solutions that are bot data center and cloud enabled.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, program and product management, architects to ensure that the solution meets the requirements.
  • Provide technical leadership to the developers both local and around the globe for building powerful, scalable, reliable and highly available functionality.
  • Sprint execution and Demos
  • High level and low-level design
  • Managing production deployments and production support
  • Code reviews
  • Tech Strategy and POC
  • Development
  • Deliveries
  • Hadoop architect for SVS recon project that dealt with log analysis of production servers to find failed transactions and to do the reconciliation of the transactions using Hadoop
  • Team Lead of 7-member Redemption Service project that designed and implemented a restful web service for redeeming internal and external store liability; and Stored Value Service project that provided ledger capability for store value products like loyalty, gift cards, registry service etc.
  • Tools and Technologies
  • Java 1.6, Spring3.0, jaxWs-rs, Groovy, IntelliJ, Green Hopper, Fisheye, splunk, C3p0, Java 1.6, Hadoop, Flume

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Played the role of lead developer</li><li>Requirement gathering at onsite location for 2+ months</li><li>Reviewing code work for accuracy and functionality.</li><li>Technology selection and creating migration plan</li><li>Release management</li><li>Provided end to end functional training to the new recruits</li><li>Transition management</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Training new team member on Grails, Groovy and Flex</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Team Lead on a Dynamic Pricing project, which using Hadoop, Pig and Scoop, analyzed the prices of various products on competitor site and decided on the Pricing for a product</li><li>Worked on Sears inventory management system which is the backbone for the Sears retail system used for maintaining item repository and monitoring item flows to stores; and on vendor on boarding applications which maintain all the details of any vendor selling products at Sears (stores / online)</li><li>Lead and delivered multiple components on groovy and grails of VOB application maintains all details for any vendor selling products at Sears (stores / online). It also takes care of all legal and transactional details too</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>Java 1.6, Grails1.3.6, Groovy, Hibernate, iText, Jboss, JBPM, STS, IntelliJ, Hudson, Scrumworks, Java 1.5, Flex, Struts.</li></ul>

Sears
03.2010 - 09.2012
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Played the role of lead developer
  • Requirement gathering at onsite location for 2+ months
  • Reviewing code work for accuracy and functionality.
  • Technology selection and creating migration plan
  • Release management
  • Provided end to end functional training to the new recruits
  • Transition management
  • Mentoring
  • Training new team member on Grails, Groovy and Flex
  • Deliveries
  • Team Lead on a Dynamic Pricing project, which using Hadoop, Pig and Scoop, analyzed the prices of various products on competitor site and decided on the Pricing for a product
  • Worked on Sears inventory management system which is the backbone for the Sears retail system used for maintaining item repository and monitoring item flows to stores; and on vendor on boarding applications which maintain all the details of any vendor selling products at Sears (stores / online)
  • Lead and delivered multiple components on groovy and grails of VOB application maintains all details for any vendor selling products at Sears (stores / online). It also takes care of all legal and transactional details too
  • Tools and Technologies
  • Java 1.6, Grails1.3.6, Groovy, Hibernate, iText, Jboss, JBPM, STS, IntelliJ, Hudson, Scrumworks, Java 1.5, Flex, Struts.

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Project Prototype creation and developing the Proof of Concept</li><li>Module lead for design and development</li><li>Requirement gathering</li><li>Database Design</li><li>Code reviews</li><li>Knowledge base creation</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Worked on multiple projects for key accounts like American Express, Honeywell and internal initiatives and was awarded for the key contributions</li><li>MAT Diligence Tool which is app used by for American Express HR to evaluate candidates</li><li>Honeywell GMS app used for global associate mobility management, Variable Pay Admin app to manage claims and extra hours, VOC app to conduct surveys and collect information amongst various other projects</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>Struts, Oracle9i, OS workflow, Apache Ant, Eclipse-IDE, Web Sphere, Java, Ajax, JSP, Quartz Framework, JavaMail Api, Groovy on Grails, Hsql, Glassfish, Netbean 6.7, YUI, Aspose Api, java 1.6, Documentum</li></ul>

Mindtree
07.2007 - 01.2010
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Project Prototype creation and developing the Proof of Concept
  • Module lead for design and development
  • Requirement gathering
  • Database Design
  • Code reviews
  • Knowledge base creation
  • Deliveries
  • Worked on multiple projects for key accounts like American Express, Honeywell and internal initiatives and was awarded for the key contributions
  • MAT Diligence Tool which is app used by for American Express HR to evaluate candidates
  • Honeywell GMS app used for global associate mobility management, Variable Pay Admin app to manage claims and extra hours, VOC app to conduct surveys and collect information amongst various other projects
  • Tools and Technologies
  • Struts, Oracle9i, OS workflow, Apache Ant, Eclipse-IDE, Web Sphere, Java, Ajax, JSP, Quartz Framework, JavaMail Api, Groovy on Grails, Hsql, Glassfish, Netbean 6.7, YUI, Aspose Api, java 1.6, Documentum

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Requirement gathering</li><li>Database Design</li><li>Coding</li><li>Production support and Bug fixes</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Developed an inventory management system for retail stores. Also, carried out bug fixes</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>JSP, Servlets, Eclipse, MySQL, Java Script</li></ul>

Bansal Computers
07.2004 - 07.2005
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Requirement gathering
  • Database Design
  • Coding
  • Production support and Bug fixes
  • Deliveries
  • Developed an inventory management system for retail stores. Also, carried out bug fixes
  • Tools and Technologies
  • JSP, Servlets, Eclipse, MySQL, Java Script

Education

Stanford LEAD - Leadership

Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, CA
01.2024

MS - IT

Gujarat
Gujarat
01.2007

B.Tech - Electronics

India
India
01.2004

Skills

  • Database management
  • Programming languages
  • Software development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Technical mentorship
  • Software architecture design
  • Microservices architecture
  • Technical leadership
  • Database management
  • Programming languages
  • Software development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Technical mentorship
  • Software architecture design
  • Microservices architecture
  • Technical leadership

Accomplishments

  • Setup a multiple high performing team in last 7+ year @ APPLE with 0% attrition
  • Setup a team of 20+ engineers in the previous organization (Audience Science) from scratch in a challenging startup environment with a track record of 0% attrition for 3 consecutive years.
  • Leading demand side and budget experimentation along with complete budget allocation system in Apple Ads
  • Leading all the online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads
  • Lead the design and development of fraud service in Apple Ads
  • Led the design and development for Data Ingestion Platform at Apple Ads. It enables the system to extract and load data between any two data sources.
  • Lead the Data Platform efforts at Apple Ads
  • Led the development of a new analytics solution for a platform performing 75billion requests/ day
  • Spearheaded the Migration of 500+ node Hadoop cluster to Amazon Cloud without any glitches
  • Delivered a fully integrated customer rewards system from scratch
  • Best Team Performance of the year – Audience Science
  • Consistent ‘Best Performer Award’ for 5 years across 2 organizations as an individual contributor
  • ‘Best Techwork Award’ for 2 years for delivering innovative technical solutions

Languages

English
Professional
Hindi
Professional

References

References available upon request.

Conferences/ Training

  • AWS Reinvent Nov 2023
  • Snowflake conference Feb 2020
  • Databricks conference @SF April 2018
  • MesosCon Conference Seattle Aug 2015
  • Strata Hadoop Conference London May 2015
  • Hadoop Training Apr 2014
  • Hadoop Architect Workshop Mar 2013
  • Scrum Master Workshop and certification Dec 2011
  • Retail Domain Primer by National Retail Federation Nov 2010
  • Agile Workshop@ ThoughtWorks Sep 2010
  • Grails & Groovy Workshop with Jeff Brown at Sears holdings Hoffman USA Apr 2010
  • Adobe Flex @Mindtree Apr 2009
  • Yahoo Pipes Workshop @Mindtree Jan 2009
  • Spring Workshop @ Mindtree Nov 2008
  • Ibatis Workshop @Mindtree Jun 2008

Timeline

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul>

Apple - Adplatform
08.2017 - Current

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Big data system design and architecture</li><li>Project Review and Demos</li><li>AWS team account management and AWS budgeting</li><li>Hadoop to AWS migration</li><li>Requirement discussion with product and stakeholders</li><li>Third party Integration management</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup a 20+ engineering team to handle analytics and micro services for digital advertising and implemented agile methodology across 3 geographies</li><li>Led and delivered multiple projects to achieve business needs on an ongoing basis. E.g. Saturn Micro services that includes breaking Saturn functionality into different micro services for scalability and ease of management</li><li>Migrated 510 node Hadoop cluster to 1000 nodes Amazon cloud for faster processing and cost saving under Cloud (AWS) migration project</li><li>Delivered campaign analytics digital platform which is a self-driven UI to measure online campaign performance for customers like P&G using snowflake and looker</li><li>Led end-to-end development for reporting framework named Insights aimed at generating all the reports via MR framework. Those were earlier generated manually using Pig/ Hive. The new framework reduced cluster utilization and resulted in generation of >100 reports in one go</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Spark, Hadoop, MR, Hive, Pig, HBase, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Grafana and Graphite, Java 1.6, Python, Eclipse, Oracle, MySql, Git, Jenkins, Agile.</li></ul>

Audience Science
12.2013 - 08.2017

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Technical lead for the product. Leading the design and architecture for the product development and features deliveries.</li><li>Played the role of Architect for 2 projects</li><li>Ensure delivery of new features on time and high quality</li><li>Drive the development and deliver new services and solutions that are bot data center and cloud enabled.</li><li>Collaborate with stakeholders, program and product management, architects to ensure that the solution meets the requirements.</li><li>Provide technical leadership to the developers both local and around the globe for building powerful, scalable, reliable and highly available functionality.</li><li>Sprint execution and Demos</li><li>High level and low-level design</li><li>Managing production deployments and production support</li><li>Code reviews</li><li>Tech Strategy and POC</li><li>Development</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Hadoop architect for SVS recon project that dealt with log analysis of production servers to find failed transactions and to do the reconciliation of the transactions using Hadoop</li><li>Team Lead of 7-member Redemption Service project that designed and implemented a restful web service for redeeming internal and external store liability; and Stored Value Service project that provided ledger capability for store value products like loyalty, gift cards, registry service etc.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>Java 1.6, Spring3.0, jaxWs-rs, Groovy, IntelliJ, Green Hopper, Fisheye, splunk, C3p0, Java 1.6, Hadoop, Flume</li></ul>

Expedia
10.2012 - 11.2013

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Played the role of lead developer</li><li>Requirement gathering at onsite location for 2+ months</li><li>Reviewing code work for accuracy and functionality.</li><li>Technology selection and creating migration plan</li><li>Release management</li><li>Provided end to end functional training to the new recruits</li><li>Transition management</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Training new team member on Grails, Groovy and Flex</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Team Lead on a Dynamic Pricing project, which using Hadoop, Pig and Scoop, analyzed the prices of various products on competitor site and decided on the Pricing for a product</li><li>Worked on Sears inventory management system which is the backbone for the Sears retail system used for maintaining item repository and monitoring item flows to stores; and on vendor on boarding applications which maintain all the details of any vendor selling products at Sears (stores / online)</li><li>Lead and delivered multiple components on groovy and grails of VOB application maintains all details for any vendor selling products at Sears (stores / online). It also takes care of all legal and transactional details too</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>Java 1.6, Grails1.3.6, Groovy, Hibernate, iText, Jboss, JBPM, STS, IntelliJ, Hudson, Scrumworks, Java 1.5, Flex, Struts.</li></ul>

Sears
03.2010 - 09.2012

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Project Prototype creation and developing the Proof of Concept</li><li>Module lead for design and development</li><li>Requirement gathering</li><li>Database Design</li><li>Code reviews</li><li>Knowledge base creation</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Worked on multiple projects for key accounts like American Express, Honeywell and internal initiatives and was awarded for the key contributions</li><li>MAT Diligence Tool which is app used by for American Express HR to evaluate candidates</li><li>Honeywell GMS app used for global associate mobility management, Variable Pay Admin app to manage claims and extra hours, VOC app to conduct surveys and collect information amongst various other projects</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>Struts, Oracle9i, OS workflow, Apache Ant, Eclipse-IDE, Web Sphere, Java, Ajax, JSP, Quartz Framework, JavaMail Api, Groovy on Grails, Hsql, Glassfish, Netbean 6.7, YUI, Aspose Api, java 1.6, Documentum</li></ul>

Mindtree
07.2007 - 01.2010

<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Requirement gathering</li><li>Database Design</li><li>Coding</li><li>Production support and Bug fixes</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Developed an inventory management system for retail stores. Also, carried out bug fixes</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>JSP, Servlets, Eclipse, MySQL, Java Script</li></ul>

Bansal Computers
07.2004 - 07.2005

Stanford LEAD - Leadership

Palo Alto, CA

MS - IT

Gujarat

B.Tech - Electronics

India
Prashant Kumar