Kushal Chokhani

Experience

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  Oracle

  Jun 2008 - Sept 2011

  Worked on multiple projects at the same time involving JSF framework, web services, SOA framework. In between, I was working on lot of complex perl, unix and sometimes python scripts to support product development and quality check. I got a chance to work on more and more complex application development projects using JSF framework. I had basic training, followed by various projects on Java, PL/SQL using ADF Framework. This role mainly helped me to evolve from fresh out of college student to more than a freshman in corporate world.

  • Senior Applications Engineer

    Feb 2011 - Sept 2011

  • Applications Engineer

    Jun 2009 - Feb 2011

  • Associate Applications Engineer

    Jun 2008 - Jun 2009
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  Enlighted inc

  Sept 2011 - Jun 2016

  Technical Lead

  • Worked on lots of UI pages and corresponding backend, including database schema and ORM, using spring MVC, spring jersey, hibernate and relational database.• Load balancing production tomcat and apache servers using reverse proxy and session/caching broadcast to achieve scalability and fail-safety.• Custom incremental replication for thousands of local client databases to cloud portal (total size is more than 10 TB so far).• Implementing HVAC Advisor using real time motion, other data from sensors. This product is built from scratch to achieve real time HVAC savings and it involves third party systems integration using BACnet and other protocols.• Cold storage for historic sensor data and easy scheduler to get the data back in raw format.• Prototype: Writing large amount of sensor time-series data in Cassandra with ability to cache/store most recent data locally for real-time access using SparkSQL RDDs.• Setting up system security using o Firewall settingo Certificate based authentication by creating self-signed CA authorityo Spring security layer using roles and accesses, custom filters, authentication manager, etc.o Username/password form logins, etc.• System backup and restore frameworks for disaster recovery.• Created installers and upgrade packages for various products.• File repository using GlusterFS framework achieving distribution and replication.• Solr search engine to index data and achieving real time searches. For example, city, locality, restaurant data search. Results can be further filtered/sorted/scored based on various criteria.• MySql clustered database for distribution and replication.• Customized long polling framework to serve two way communication between nodes in real-time similar to http-bind feature in XMPP.• Implementation of OpenADR client library as per specification and getting it certified.• Scheduler based mechanism to remote upgrade client systems. • Simulating hardware devices to speed up software development. Show less

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  Vuclip Inc.

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2018

  Principal Software Engineer

  Primary role is to architect and implement a comprehensive search/recommendation platform across all products of Vuclip and for other internal business purposes. It involves working with various data inputs, elasticsearch engines, crawlers, doing in microservices manner and supporting it with real stats.

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  Bluecoin IoT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

  Jul 2018 - now

  Co-Founder