Ammar Khalid

Experience

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  Avanceon

  Aug 2007 - Oct 2008

  Software Engineer

  I was a part of team which was involved in the development of solution for energy management. My main duties were to develop Asset configuration Utilities.Technology Stack:1- .Net Framework2- Sharepoint windows services 3.0 and Sharepoint server 20033- Sql server

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  Techlogix

  Nov 2008 - Jan 2014

  Provided critical services as per project requirements. Working on an Enterprise application. The application includes RESTful web-services in - - JAVA using Spring and Hibernate. These services include: 1) Product Recommendation services. 2) Search Services. 3) Data migration & listing services. 4) Product stats gathering services. I figured out many performance issues and resolved them to improved the system.Responsibilities:Collaboration with client, sprint planning, analyse the requirements, designing the solution, development and over-seeing other technical issues regarding development and deployment.Tools & Technologies:SOA, RESTful services, JAVA, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, JUnit, Maven, Solr (Search Engine), AWS EC2 Show less

  • Consultant ERP

    Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

  • Techincal Team Lead

    Dec 2011 - Jul 2013

  • Tech Lead - Techlogix ERP for Crescent Group of Companies

    Jul 2011 - Jun 2013

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Apr 2010 - Jun 2012

  • Software Engineer

    Nov 2008 - Apr 2010
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  NorthBay Solutions

  Jul 2013 - Feb 2014

  Technical Team Lead

  Project Name: Real time bidding / Admin PortalProject Description: Intelligent digital marketing platform to display impression based on the geo-graphical information of end-user with emphasis on increasing revenue at publisher end using Real Time Bidding echo system built on IAB standards.Responsibility: • Work with client directly define system requirements• Development of Supply side platform of Real Time Bidding platform• Add new features, work on the improvement of existing featuresHighlights:• Built a strong architecture to support minimum of 300m request per day• Designed and implemented asynchronous behavior using JMS Technologies/Environment:• Java, Spring, Spring Data, Mongo, JUnit, log4J, SQL, JDBC, Maven, Jackson, Apache, Jboss, Unix, AWS EC2 Show less

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  Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Senior Developer

  Technologies:Java, Perl, Oracle, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, Spring, Hibernate, EclipseLink, Maven, Web services (SOAP, RESTful), WebSphere MQ, ActiveMQ

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  NorthBay Solutions Pakistan

  Jan 2015 - Oct 2015

  Associate Technical Architect

  Responsibilities* Lead a team of developers and quality engineers to develop AdTech RTB(Real Time Bidding Platform) platform* Communication with off-shore product owner & client* Make sure agile is strictly followed* Proposal & Delivery of technical solutions around RTB platformAchievements* Built a framework for RTB & Ad Networks Platform * Improved the existing platform performance to serve upto 300m ad requests/day* Extremely generic solution was provided to handle third party ad networks requests & responses without degrading system performance. Tools & Technologies* Java(Version 8), jquery, bootstrap, Spring, Hibernate, MongoDB, MySQL, Pentaho, Saiku, AWS EC2, Cloud Front, S3, MySQL on Amazon RDS Show less

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  University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

  Feb 2015 - Jul 2015

  Artificial Intelligence Lab Instructor
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  FUJIFILM Data Management Solutions

  Nov 2015 - now

  Responsibility:• Develop new server-less application & migrate and convert existing monolithic applications to microservices built on aws cloud platform.• Part of dev tooling team to continuously improve practices followed across teams to enhance productivity and efficiency of development teams.• Work in various software development teams to design and develop softwares for large scale clients• Follow SDLC(Agile Development) practices• Assume the role of auditor to make sure agreed processes are followed such as Documentation, pull requests are raised, proper comments are in place in code commits. Process of change control is followed when requests for deployments to upper environments are raised.• Work with different project implementation teams to develop features for clients• Provide solutions for platform integration and data migration• Write unit tests as part of development cycleAchievements• Optimised an document archiving product to server 50 concurrent requests (Its a legacy single tier product most of the logic is in database as a result can not be scaled out)• Improved existing code quality process to include scanning of third party libraries to implement better secure coding practices• Led a very high profile project successfully - which I took over when Lead and Architect both left the organisation at a crucial timesTechnology Stack & Development Tools* AWS (Lambda, Lambda Layers, DynamoDB, RDS(PostgreSQL, Oracle) SQS, SNS, Cloudformation, VPC, EC2, ELB, EBS, Cloudwatch(Logs, Events), IAM, Target Group, Launch Template, Auto Scaling), NodeJS, Java (Spring Framework, Hibernate, memcache)* Jenkins(CI/CD), Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, VS Code, Eclipse, NewRelic, Sonar Show less

  • Enterprise Architect

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Technical Lead

    Sept 2019 - Sept 2022

  • Sr Developer

    Nov 2015 - Sept 2019
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  NorthBay Solutions

  Nov 2019 - Feb 2020

  Consultant Architect

  Design Data Lake solution using AWS. - AWS Glue - AWS Athena - AWS Elastic Search - AWS Cloud Watch - AWS S3 - IAM (Roles, Policies)CI/CD Using - AWS CodeStar