Pankaj Thakare

Pankaj Thakare

Associate System Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    VP - Lead Software Engineer @ JPMC | ex-VMWare

  • Education

    • Nagpur University

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Head Event Co-Ordinator at Literary Club, Winner at various Business Plan (B-Plan) Competitions

  • Experience

    • IBM

      Dec 2012 - May 2015
      Associate System Engineer

      Joined 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 2017
      Senior Systems Engineer

      I 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 2019

      As 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 2019
      • Senior Engineer Product Development

        Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
    • Mindbody

      Nov 2019 - Aug 2021

      Working 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 2021
      • Senior Software Engineer

        Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
    • VMware

      Sept 2021 - Aug 2024
      • Senior Member of Technical Staff

        Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
      • Member of Technical Staff 3

        Sept 2021 - Feb 2023
    • JPMorganChase

      Aug 2024 - now
      Lead Software Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Pankaj Thakare
      Accelerate 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 Thakare
      Elevate 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 Thakare
      People'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 Thakare
      Best 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 Thakare
      FIS 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 Thakare
      FIS 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 Thakare
      FIS Laureate FIS RCCL department Apr 2018 For exemplory contribution in building a cryptography framework based on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) architecture.
    • Awarded to Pankaj Thakare
      Insta 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 Thakare
      Insta Award Infosys FSADM Jan 2016 For demonstrating great commitment in delivering complex reporting requirement in OMGE with good code quality.