Amer Chaudhary

Amer Chaudhary Senior Software Architect & Developer Address: 473 Vetterlein Ave, Hamilton, NJ 08619 Phone: - Email:- SUMMARY I have more than 15 years of experience with software development architecture and management. I have excellent hands-on troubleshooting, analytical and problem solving skills with a great understanding of Software Lifecycle and available technologies. Software Architecture is one of my favorite subjects. I have led and managed teams with excellent management and communication skills being extremely confident in public speaking. PROFILE Leadership / Management: ● ● ● ● ● ● Motivate team members / Remove communication gap Code reviews / Best Practices / Team input One on One Bi-Annual Progress/Performance Reviews & Feedback Career Growth guidance and advice / Team Building Interview Candidates Approve, Estimate, & Assign work, Manage WIP & available resources Communication: ● ● ● ● ● Tactful with oral and written communication skills Technical Resource for client meetings Perform Sales Demos Create and present ideas/solutions through powerpoint presentations internally (team members) as well as externally (clients) Extremely comfortable with public speaking Architecture: ● ● ● ● ● Design & Architect large enterprise web applications Powerpoint presentations on solving complex design problems Architect solutions for migrating old outdated applications with high volume to latest technology without downtime or sacrifice of business needs while using latest technology and ensuring high performance Final approver of all designs and architecture for all the product offerings by my company Final decision maker on tools / technology stack TECHNOLOGY STACK System Administration: ● ● ● Operating Systems: Centos, Redhat, Ubuntu, OSX, Windows Shell Scripting, OS setup, Daemon/Server setup, Manual Installations / Building from source, configuration, troubleshooting, cloud management, Scaling Horizontally and Vertically, Provisioning, Replication, Server Migration AWS cloud migration, management, troubleshooting, optimization Devops: ● Docker, Kubernetes, Pipelines, CI/CD, Automated testing and deployment PHP: ● ● Architecture, Development, Data Modeling, Team Management Object Oriented Programming, Design, and Analysis (OOP, OOD, OOA) ● Design Patterns (MVC, Factory, etc..) MVC Frameworks: Yii, CodeIgnitor, Laravel (versions 4 to 8) SOAP/XML & JSON Web Services / REST API’s Extensions, Modules, and Configuration of PHP with apache & nginx ● ● Front End: ● HTML5 ● Javascript, JQuery, VueJS, Quasar, AJAX ● CSS3, SCSS, SASS ● Bootstrap Database: ● ● MySQL, MS SQL, Postgres, Mongo, CouchDB Design, Modeling, Mapping, Functions, Triggers, Migrations, Data Normalization, Query Optimization, Performance, Master Slave Replication, Big Data EXPERIENCE Recovery Database Network, Mesa, AZ - Software Engineer FEBRUARY 2014 - October 2020 Technology Stack: Git, PHP, Laravel, Bootstrap, MySQL, CouchDB, Javascript, JQuery, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes VendorVision: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Product owner and Team Leader for VendorVision, a Vendor Compliance tool for Lenders & Vendors Performed Sales demos for this product to prospective clients Communicated with clients regularly to present ideas & solutions Created the product and mobile app from scratch using the latest version of Laravel (v4.2 at the beginning of this project) Kept the product up to date with PHP (v7) as well as Laravel (v5.4) Managed the team’s work log, monitored their performance, performed regular code reviews and asserted best practices are being followed. Created extremely flexible architecture (Both database and code) Managed the entire infrastructure; migrated the product from on-prem datacenter to AWS and then to Kubernetes and Docker ● Wrote automated tests for this app covering more than 95% of the application functionality RDN App: ● This application was built a very long time ago and was very outdated running on a very old version of php and mysql when I first started working on it ● Moved the app to docker and kubernetes with automatic deployments and CI/CD ● Updated the application to latest version of PHP and MySQL ● Completed SAFe practitioner certification ● Started to fix old broken code and re-imagine a new way of getting things done in RDN SecureAuth: ● Take out the authentication and authorization from RDN application and move it into a separate microservice of its own ● This Microservice should be completely independent and self reliant with its own datasource/database ● This application should sit in front of all RDN applications using the Kubernetes ingress to make every request pass through this microservice allowing SSO into all RDN applications ● Design a new data model for auth data combining 6 user tables into one and so on. At the end of our data modeling we had converted more than 50 database tables into less than 15 with correct indexes, and foreign keys Build America Mutual, World Financial Center, NY - Senior Consultant MARCH 2013 - FEBRUARY 2014 Technology Stack: Git, Java, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Jquery, Yii framework, BIRT ● ● ● Make an overall framework for the java reports as a servlet in Tomcat. Design and create excel reports manipulating live data using Java and JExcel. Also generate customizable reports on the fly using BIRT. Manage a huge database of financial data and tune mysql as well as the application to perform faster while implementing features to automate the financial applications and processes. Help the engineers with architecture and design decisions on an large enterprise financial application Web Thrift Store, New York- Senior Software Engineer & Architect NOVEMBER 2012 - FEBRUARY 2013 Technology Stack: Git, PHP, MySQL, JSON, Javascript, JQuery, Smarty ● ● ● Create a new in-house framework and architect a solution to separate the old outdated codebase from new codebase without rewriting the old code completely Create the Fundraiser feature and Mobile app API in the new codebase. Communicate ideas and architecture with remote colleagues and come up with mutually agreeable solutions to different architectural problems. MDX Medical Inc / Vitals.com, Lyndhurst, NJ- Software Engineer SEPTEMBER 2011 - NOVEMBER 2012 Technology Stack: ● Git, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, JSON web services, Javascript, JQuery, Smarty ● The Go-To person for all deployments and prod server management Patient Review System (PRS): ● ● ● ● ● ● Design, develop, and architect the product from mockups. Make the product generic and extendable for each client Maintain and manage production servers and deployments to keep the product highly available. Lead a team of 4 developers to achieve product goals. Regularly interact with managers and clients Fix bugs and implement new features Provider Finder: ● Rapidly learn an already existing product and familiarize with its codebase. Make modifications to the code on a regular weekly basis to fix bugs and add new features. CLIENTS I HAVE WORKED WITH ● Bluecross Blueshield (Enterprise) ● Bluecross Blueshield (state-level daughter companies of enterprise) ● Aetna ● GM Financial (GMF) ● Capital One ● Bridgecrest ● BB&T / Regional / Sheffield / Hann ● Chase / Morgan Stanley OTHER LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES ● Peer Leader -) ● Former Stokes Counselor (2005) ● Captain of NJ Bulls Cricket Team (2015 - 2017)