Rakesh Kumar Shah

rakesh.shah.1977@gmail.com | +91-9849090525 | LinkedIn

Open and excited to learn new technologies to solve business problems, I have rich experience on working
different stages of product. I am a growth focused innovator and keen on solving complex business problems
and building scalable solutions applying newer technologies.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

➢ Total of 23+ years of experience in software development/architecture and system integration.

➢ Hands on Experience in creating professional quality products from scratch, writing the first line of
code to the market release.
➢ Worked in a startup environment as well as an agile/scrum based methodological environment.
➢ Architect for KonyOne Studio and hiring/mentoring the complete development team and created a
matured product.
➢ Awarded with Best Performance at Kony and Mojo Networks
➢ Accolades by chief product officer at Phenom.
➢ Leading teams of 5-15 through SDLC iterations and mentoring fellow developers on the various stages
of product development.

Patent: Patent Pending for Content Source Integration API and Design for third party integration bearing
Docket No. OPEN7450

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Architect, Informatica Hyderabad [Nov-2022] https://www.informatica.com
Product: CDGC (cloud data governance and catalog)
Technologies : Core Java/J2ee Stack, Perforce, Jira, Review Board, Kubernetes,Jenkins
Primary Role: Overall system understanding and providing complete design of new microservice and designing
v2 version of the existing micro-service for scalability and performance.
Mentoring and guiding team for SaaS Product Development with microservice architecture for the multi-cloud
Deployment (AWS/AZURE/OCI) including code review.
Involved in the architecture discussion.

Principal Engineer II, Phenom, Hyderabad [Feb-2022-Nov2022] https://www.phenom.com

Product: API Gateway
Fostering Best Engineering Practices, Best Coding Practice - Java, Sonrqube,Checkstyle,Rest API Guideline,
Rest API Review and AWS API-Gateway implementation in production. REST API Development, QA
Deployment to Production Deployment in AWS, automated via jenkins.

Achievement: Initial POC Contributor for major customer Walmart.

Principal Software Architect, OpenText, Hyderabad [Feb 2015-Feb 2022] https://www.opentext.com

Product: TeamSite (Acquired from HP), WEM (Web Experience Management)
Technologies : Core Java/J2ee Stack, Perforce, Jira, Review Board, Eclipse IDE, Solaris, RHEL, Windows, Eclipse
Product Development, JAXB, Jackson, Jersey, ActiveMQ, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana

➢ Secure coding guidelines are rolled out for each category of issue and recommended solutions are
mentioned in the centralized confluence page, and introduced fortify plugin/sonarlint/checkstyle
plugin to arrest issues during development cycle.
➢ Delivered monitoring solution for the enterprise product, liveness/readiness probe and application
specific metrics.
➢ Recommended solution and standard process for performance issues reported by customer.
➢ Migrated complete product to log4j2 implementation, after the log4j1 vulnerability was detected.
➢ Introduced import/export framework for customers to export a large set of projects to make it
portable and useful for the PM and Sales team to share demo quickly.
➢ The Content Source API framework I designed helped to get revenue of 1 million USD, from google.
Google started using the product to source the content from the Google Drive.
➢ Designed and mentored the team to implement an end-to-end tracking system for the analytics on the
website for generating an event.
➢ Delivered successfully OTMM (OpenText Media Management) Integration in the WEM via REST API and
added provider architecture for the rest of the integration as well.
➢ Saved recurring license cost of 1000 USD, converting .NET visio plugin of Microsoft and rewrote the
Eclipse Based BPMN Tools.

Product Architect, KonyLabs, Hyderabad Acquired by Temenos- www.temenos.com [July 2010 – Feb2015]
Product: KonyOne Studio
Technologies: Core Java, Eclipse Architecture, Jira, Review Board, Eclipse IDE, Windows

➢ Mobile Form Development editor - helps customers to create the mobile form, simply using drag and
drop widgets from palette.
➢ It helps customers' to apply skin on the fome for desired look and feel.
➢ Designed information model for core components to facilitate export/import, code generation.
➢ Event Flow Graphical Editor - allows to define the event flow for a widget added in the mobile form.
➢ Supports business features like, print,zoom,collapse and expand of event.
➢ Lua and JavaScript Language Debugger- support for Lua and JavaScript Language is added
implementing eclipse debug framework API and integrated with the devices.

Principal Engineer, Pramati Technologies Hyderabad, www.pramati.com [Oct 2005 - July 2010]
Client:Tibco
Product: Tibco Active Matrix
Technologies : Ant, SCA (Software Component Architecture), Eclipse, Core Java, Debugger Architecture, SVN

➢ Worked as an SME for various Java Specification and involved in developing tools as per the evolving
specification. (SCA - Service Component Architecture)
 ➢ Managed and lead complete offshore Team.
➢ Extension based API Framework in Eclipse for various language integration.
➢ Multipage Graphical Editor (SCA 1.0 compliant)
➢ Composite Editor (Raw and Graphical) (SCA and SOA), with debugging capability along with Animation

Achievement: Product was declared by ThirdSOA as the product of the year for its innovation.
I have been retained and recommended by a client.
Demo link: http://media.tibco.com/devnet/activematrix_service/introbusstudio/index.html

Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Mojo Network - Acquired by www.arista.com [June 2004 - Oct 2005]
Product: SpectraGuard Product (Network Monitoring System)
Technologies: Servlet, Applet, Swing, XSL, XML, SVN

➢ The product monitors activity of devices connected to access points and displays on the console.
➢ Developed Location Tracking module, allows you to locate the device connecting to the wireless access
points.
➢ The feature enables us to figure out the intrusive device as well as the network.
➢ Developed Report Generation module based on US standard, all reports are dynamically configured
and generated and as well can be scheduled.

Sr Product Engineer, Pramati Technologies, Hyderabad, www.pramati.com [Dec 2000 - May 2004]
(First Indian Product Company of Application server)
Products: Pramati Studio Product Development.

Following major components contributed to the product.

1. Code Refactoring Engine

2. JSP Test Tool
3. Scheduler Utility (Server Side Components)
4. ISVKIT Development
5. DBNavigator (Database Browser)
6. Auto code generation for EJB, Testing tools like JUnit and Cactus
7. Bean Wizard and Interface Wizard,
8. Install shield 4.0 (Multi Platform) and framework for complete installation of product.