
Pankaj Thakare
Associate System Engineer

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About me
VP - Lead Software Engineer @ JPMC | ex-VMWare
Education

Nagpur University
2008 - 2012Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical, Electronics and Communications EngineeringActivities and Societies: Head Event Co-Ordinator at Literary Club, Winner at various Business Plan (B-Plan) Competitions
Experience

IBM
Dec 2012 - May 2015Associate System EngineerJoined IBM as a fresher with professional training in C# & .Net technology stack. I have worked for American Express, Risk and Compliance domain based web and backend processing applications. I have worked on WCF web services integration, message quieing using MSMQ, C# based batch processing console applications hosted through windows services and scheduled tasks. I have had an exposure to Production support of almost 20+ applications, understanding various integrations, business values and resolving queries from different business groups helped me to become a client centric professional. Show less

Infosys
Jun 2015 - May 2017Senior Systems EngineerI have joined Infosys as a Senior Systems Engineer and worked for Wells Fargo bank under Risk & Compliance, Anti Money Laundering domain based web applications. Started new project called On-going Monitoring and Global Expansion (OMGE) from scratch, analysed requirements with team and decided on architectures and technology stack to fulfill all requirements within given time period. I have used ASP.Net MVC,WebAPI, Telerik Controls from Kendo UI, JQuery, bootstrap, SSIS Package etc. to build solution. Show less

FIS
Jun 2017 - Nov 2019As a Specialist, I have played role of Scrum Master to manage releases and two teams, architectural component design reviews, implementation of OpenId connect and OAuth2 authentication, redis for caching and session management, built cryptography solution which can be plug-play with different implementations, deployment to simple topology, POC for client integration to support sales team, CI/CD management. As a senior engineer, I worked on building micro-services using .net core, angular for building user interface and both SQL & MongoDb for data storage. Started the product from scratch which helped me in participating architectural design discussion, POC implementation to building MVP for tech feasibility.
Specialist - Product Development
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019Senior Engineer Product Development
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018

Mindbody
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021Working as a Tech Lead and Scrum Master for Spa & Salon business. Current role responsibilities include application design changes, feature implementation, code review, unit testing, release management, resource grooming and delivery ownership.Application is built in ASP.Net and SQL server as a monolith with blend of ReactJs, AmberJs, Azure storage, Redis and Azure App service having microservices leveraging Azure APIM, Application Insights & Service Bus.
Principal Software Engineer
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021

VMware
Sept 2021 - Aug 2024Senior Member of Technical Staff
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024Member of Technical Staff 3
Sept 2021 - Feb 2023

JPMorganChase
Aug 2024 - nowLead Software Engineer
Licenses & Certifications
- View certificate

Learning C# Algorithms
LinkedInOct 2018 - View certificate

Python for Data Science and AI
IBMApr 2021 - View certificate

C#: Delegates, Events and Lambdas
LinkedInOct 2018
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareAccelerate Our Best Vmware Jun 2023 Received an award for fixing critical UAT blockers on profile use cases for MacOs platform. The fixes were highly appreciated by leadership as came with the design and implementation on less known codebase.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareElevate Our Best VmWare Mar 2023 Elevate Our Best awarded for performance in Q4 about completing deliverables for resource delivery at scale and handling complex customer escalations.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakarePeople's Choice Award Mindbody Hackathon 2020 Mindbody Inc. Dec 2020 Team "Best Sellers" won People's choice award with $500 cash prize for building new user experience and dashboard to enable single click operations in online booking application to fix customer demands and NPA score.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareBest Engineering - Vista Global Hackathon 2020 Vista Equity Partners and Consulting Group August 1, 2020 Team Futurists from Mindbody India received "Best Engineering" award at Vista Global Hackathon 2020 for building smart scheduler using ML. $25,000 awarded to team.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareFIS Laureate FIS RCCL Department Sep 2019 For contribution and building a reusable framework to achieve faster micro-services development in external integrations like salesforce, experian etc.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareFIS Laureate FIS RCCL department Jun 2019 For providing SSO solution with external workflow engine and saving cost involved from third party implementation.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareFIS Laureate FIS RCCL department Apr 2018 For exemplory contribution in building a cryptography framework based on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) architecture.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareInsta Award Infosys FSADM Mar 2016 For going extra mile in ensuring OMGE development is successfully completed on time and proactively suggesting value adds to enhance customer experience.
- Awarded to Pankaj ThakareInsta Award Infosys FSADM Jan 2016 For demonstrating great commitment in delivering complex reporting requirement in OMGE with good code quality.
Languages
- hiHindi
- maMarathi
- enEnglish
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