ANURAG AVINASH ASTHANA

a.asthana90@gmail.com | +91 9156079166 | Pune, Maharashtra, India | LinkedIn | GitHub

CAREER SUMMARY

• Lead Software Engineer with 9 years of experience in building software applications from scratch
• Very good exposure on multiple software development technologies like C#, Azure, React JS
• Expertise in building ground up software solutions for solving large scale business problems
• 3+ years’ experience in customer facing roles, closely involved with Client’s Solution Architecture team
• 1 year experience working as an Onshore Consultant in London, UK for a well-known insurance client
• Proven track record in mentoring software developers in various organizations and in community
• Community Contributor, Technical Blogger and Speaker at various global level community events

SKILLS
• Azure Functions (C#) • React JS • JavaScript
• Azure Web Jobs (C#) • Redux • Distributed Systems
• Azure PaaS • C#
• Azure Cognitive Services (AI) • ASP.NET MVC
• Azure Serverless • Data Structures & Algorithms
EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology (2008 - 2012) 75%, First Division with Honours
Graphic Era University Dehradun, India

CERTIFICATIONS

• Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence Developer • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

WORK EXPERIENCE

Application Development Lead, Accenture (Pune, India.) Feb 2020 – Jan 2022
Phoenix Applications Development (Oil & Gas Client, London, UK)
The project aims at re-developing multiple legacy applications from scratch. The applications have complex front end and back-end
processes. The redeveloped applications are built in integration with Azure services using Server-less and Micro-Services Architecture
for back end and React JS for Front End.
Responsibilities:
• Developed integrated backend applications consuming Azure AD, Azure Serverless Functions (C#), Azure Web Jobs (C#), Azure
Service Bus, and Microsoft Graph API.
• Designed cloud based integrated applications using Azure Serverless Functions and Azure Logic Apps.
• Successfully designed and developed cloud distributed architecture-based applications using Azure Service Bus, Azure Server-
less Functions, Azure Blob Storage and Azure Logic Apps.
• Built responsive front-end applications using React JS, TypeScript, Redux, Fluent UI, Graph API and Azure Active Directory.
• Built Authentication and Authorization layer for a range of applications using Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Identity Client
(C#, for backend applications), and MSAL.js (For standalone front-end applications).
• Mentoring and Grooming teams of software developers, and actively contributing to design and architecture teams.
Achievements:
• Whole Self Recognition for my contribution in building various cloud based distributed systems for managing documents.
• Appreciations from client’s senior leadership team for driving projects with complex distributed architecture.
• Mentored many junior developers and helped them in transitioning into senior development roles.

Systems Analyst, Hexaware Technologies (Pune, India.) Jan 2019 – Feb 2020
Contract Management Applications Development (Big 4 Consulting, London, UK)
The firm needed an AI integrated solution to manage contracts done between them and their customers. An integrated solution was
built using C#, Azure AI Stack. The Application Interface was designed using ASP.NET MVC, multiple JavaScript Frameworks and Azure
AI development stack. Multiple backend Processes were built for automation in C# for asynchronously processing very high volumes of
data.
Responsibilities:
• Played key role in developing an OCR solution to automate text extraction from image-based documents using Azure
Cognitive Services (Vision & Text Analytics API).
• Individually developed a cloud hosted web application for OCR application using ASP.NET MVC, Azure Messaging Architecture
(Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage).
• Successfully lead development of contract management application, built as ASP.NET MVC based App.
• As part of technology upgrade solution, carried out end to end POC to imitate contract management application using React
JS and Azure API (C#).
• Proposed and implemented asynchronous architecture in various backend applications thus improving application
performance while performing large data operations.
Achievements:
• Received appreciations from Big 4 Consulting firm’s partners for building an important contract management product.
• Completely revamped the architecture of many legacy components and improved performance issues in the product.
• Mentored many junior developers and helped them in transitioning into senior development roles.

Technology Analyst, Infosys Technologies (Pune, India & London, UK) Jul 2012 – Jan 2019
Enterprise Applications Development (Insurance Client, London, UK)
The project aims at creating new applications for back-office activities all around the globe. The technology stack includes Azure, Azure
Artificial Intelligence, and ASP.NET MVC. The project aims at creating multiple intranet portals for the customers across the globe.
More than 100 portals were created using ASP.NET MVC /jQuery /Bootstrap.
Responsibilities:
• Worked closely with Client’s architecture team to build GDPR Solution using technologies like Azure Cognitive Services,
Microservices using Azure Service Bus, C#.
• Individually developed fully responsive portals with multiple client-side technologies using APIs, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery &
Bootstrap.
• Successfully converted a manual payment system to an automated system using ASP.NET MVC and .NET Rest APIs. This
served as a huge value add to client’s finance team.
• Received various accolades from client’s CXOs for providing them with solutions for back-office applications development and
maintenance area during my tenure at Onshore (London).
• Proposed and built a solution to automate various daily support processes using C#.NET, SQL. This allowed proactive
measures to remediate potential issues and significantly dropped daily ticket count in longer run.
• Responsible for ground up development of an e-Commerce portals platform using ASP.NET MVC & Angular JS.
• Successfully integrated various systems with SharePoint using ASP.NET Web APIs and thus built a data flow mechanism for
key process.
• Automated various process for a line of Business using JavaScript & jQuery (Front End) and C# (Back End).
Achievements:
• Got the opportunity to lead the team from Onshore (London), had interaction with many senior leaders in the industry.
• Received prestigious Infosys Awards for Excellence in 2018 for my exemplary contribution towards Infosys Pune.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Part of a global English language advocacy program organised by Accenture to train non-English-speaking employees in Japan
• Community speaker and blogger, mostly writes and speak about latest technologies in the Microsoft space.
• Snooker & Billiards player, have represented myself in various regional and international level tournaments.