PALASH SOMANI

Cleveland, Ohio
(216) 307-7672, ​Palashsomani91@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over all 8 years of experience in IT industry.

• Currently working in Production Support to ensure the stability of critical applications. Handling multiple
applications based on .NET technology, Informatica and infrastructure support for Business Owned
applications.
• Experience on Version control tool like Tortoise SVN and GIT, Build Automation tool like Jenkins,
Deployment automation tool like Lara, Quality Control tool like HPQC and ALM tool like RALLY and JIRA.
• Experience in ​application performance management tool like Dynatrace.
• Worked as Business Analyst - Actively involved in Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis, and
Functional specifications to understand the new functionalities and the enhancement of existing
functionalities.
• Experience in creation of Business requirement documents (BRD), System Requirement Specification
(SRS), and Functional requirement specification (FRS).
• Designed, developed and supported applications using Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012, Microsoft SQL
Server 2005/2008, C#, ASP.NET, PHP, HTML
• CDH5 Hadoop cluster implementation. Experience in installing and configuring complete Hadoop
ecosystem (components such as HDFS, Hive, oozie, HBase, Yarn, zookeeper).
• Developed Proof of Concepts (POC) using HIVE and .NET
• Good exposure to RSA Archer and AWS.
• Hands on experience using ITSM tools like Service Now (Incident, Problem, Change and Knowledge
Management).
• Experience in developing Test cases and Plans for Unit, Assembly, System Integration and User
acceptance testing, Coordination with QA/Test Specialist.
• Coordinate and manage relations with other vendors, developers and end users at client location.
• Coordinate with offshore counterpart. Interacting with Business, Technical Teams and multiple support
teams to resolve technical problems/queries faced by the users.
• Ability to handle a team of developers and ready to take-up new challenges which include latest
technologies and opportunity to work in diverse roles

EDUCATION
SYMBIOSIS CENTRE FOR DISTANCE LEARNING (SCDL), PUNE, MAHARASHTRA
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Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT), 2

RAJIV GANDHI PROUDYOGIKI VISHWAVIDYALAYA, BHOPAL (M.P.)

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Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology), 2
 TECHNICAL SKILLS
● ​Skills: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2005/2008, HTML, CSS.
AWS, Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, HIVE (Beginner)
● ​Tools: Dynatrace, uDeploy, Tortoise SVN, GIT, Jenkins, Lara, RALLY, JIRA, Service Now, HP Quality
Center.

CERTIFICATIONS
● ​RSA Archer 6 Certified Associate
● ​SAFe 4 Practitioner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Application Support Lead, Mastech Digital
June 2019 – Till date (Cleveland, OH - USA)

● Working on Application Development/Support using Visual Studio 2016, Microsoft SQL Server 2017.
● Application performance monitoring using Dynatrace.
● Worked on Automated application deployment using uDeploy.
● ITSM tools like Service Now including Incident, Problem, Change Management.
● Handling multiple third party applications including deployment of new versions and support for any
issue faced by business team.
● Involved in patching validation.

Environment/Tools:​ ASP.NET, MVC, Dynatrace, SQL, IIS, Third Party Applications.

Technical Lead, Syntel-Atos

June 2016 – June 2019 (Phoenix, AZ - USA)

● Worked as a Technical lead ensuring stability of business-critical application processes, development of

new functionality, business training, solution design development teams.
● Understanding and translating business requirements to technical functionalities and coordinating with
business team to resolve the issues.
● Coordination with Vendor partner teams, Database team, offshore team and Business users for all
technical perspectives.
● Hands on experience using ITSM tools like Service Now (Incident, Problem, Change and Knowledge
Management).
● Involved in handling high priority tickets and prioritizing the requirements/issues to ensure stability
● Worked on multiple applications based on .NET technology, Informatica and third party application
support coordination including infrastructure support.
● Resolving process related queries for offshore and providing help in Root Cause Analysis of the issues.
● Understanding and translating the business requirements and coordinating with business team to
resolve the issues.
● Monitoring Informatica workflows and maintaining day to day application activities.

Environment​: ASP.NET, SQL, Informatica, IIS.

Senior Programmer, Syntel Inc.

May 2015 – June 2016 (Mumbai - India)
● Worked on Waterfall as well as Agile methodology and have experience of working in a fast- paced
Scrum environment
● Worked on version control tools like Tortoise SVN and GIT, Build automation tools like Jenkins,
Deployment automation tool like Lara, Quality Control tool like HPQC and ALM tool like RALLY and JIRA
● Application development using Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, C#,
ASP.NET
● Daily Stand-up Call with Internal team members to discuss the Task Assignments.
● Deployment of all the business reports using SSRS.
● Coordination of debug sessions with Vendor partner teams to troubleshoot/fix any existing bug/defect.
● Participation in various phases like architectural design, development and implementation for different
projects.
● ​Monitor platform health, maintain backlog of technical debts and address platform health issues in
agreement with business stakeholders.

Environment​: ASP.NET, C# (4.0), SQL Server 2008 R2, SSRS, IIS.

Programmer, Syntel Inc

Dec 2012 – April 2015 (Mumbai - India)
● Application development using Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, C#,
ASP.NET
● ​Developed an application using Hive and .NET as front end to load high volume of data resulting in 70%
savings in processing time. The role involved taking end to end ownership of Hadoop cluster setup
including installation, configuration and monitoring the Hadoop Cluster using Apache, Cloudera (CDH3,
CDH4).
● Installing and configuring Hadoop eco system like Sqoop, Pig, Hive. Adding/removing new nodes to an
existing Hadoop cluster.
● Actively involved in business analysis, requirement analysis, and functional specifications to understand
the upcoming business needs as well as application upgradation requirements.

Environment​: ASP.NET, C# (4.0), SQL Server 2008 R2, SSRS, IIS.