Shaunak Sontakke

Experience

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  Muller & Phipps India Ltd

  Jun 2006 - Jan 2008

  Responsibilities● Ensure smooth functioning of Tally ERP, Payroll-HR module, Intranet Portal and MIS Reporting Systems to ensure timely input to CXOs for decision making.● Managed core IT infrastructure and provide technical support for 25 branches across India.● Started and maintained Disaster Recovery DR system for ERP data.● Introduced & drafted IT Policies for the company.● Designed, developed, and maintained corporate and intranet website.● E-filing of all statutory documents and forms to ensure we stay in compliance.Achievements● Developed formats for quick MIS consolidation that saved 70% efforts for preparing month end reports.● Designed, developed, and maintained application for reporting daily sales with SMS integration. This saved 30mins of daily reporting time per sales executive.● Saving 40-50 hours per month for MIS Reporting by developing a web application for auto creation of masters and ledgers in Tally ERP which standardized branch reporting.● Saved 40% of efforts for MIS Team by writing various macros in MS Excel for automatic consolidation of branch reports. Show less

  • Manager, MIS & IT

    Oct 2007 - Jan 2008

  • Assistant Manager EDP/IT

    Oct 2006 - Oct 2007

  • EDP Executive

    Jun 2006 - Oct 2006
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  Netlynx Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2011

  Manager, Client Operations

  Responsibilities● Heading the Development, Support and Operations with a team of 7 engineers.● Develop android applications using Java Android SDK 2.1● Providing technical support for domain, hosting, DNS, SSL certificates for a large portfolio of more than 250 clients.● Linux System Administrator, managing more than 25 dedicated servers and VPS for many of Fortune 500 clients.● Responsible for developing and maintaining more than 8 e-commerce applications, 25+ web services, 45+ websites on Wordpress, Joomla, OsCommerce, PrestaShop, Moodle.● Analyze and assess client’s business process, business requirements and goals to discover and propose improvement areas, develop, and implement solutions that process efficiency and decrease in expense for clients.Achievements● Assisted in making 100% increase in turnover for 2009 by contact management strategies to develop a relationship with most promising targets.● Replaced outsourcing model by starting inhouse development division and generated 45% more projects and 24% more revenue. This resulted in a new subsidiary start-up development company – V2 Technosys.● Created an “CEO Desk” application for Essar Group for assisting CEO in communications and messaging. This application was awarded Best-of-Best application across Essar Group.● Integrated PayPal, Google Checkout and HDFC payment gateway to reduce 4% on bank transaction charges and automating billing and order execution process. Show less

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  Mauj Mobile

  Dec 2011 - Jul 2012

  Team Lead

  Responsibilities● Leading a team of 3 engineers for mobile analytics and SEO - Search Engine Optimization projects. ● Improving mobile analytics for business intelligence using Google Analytics.● Development and enhancement of WAP / mobile frontend by handset profiling for different mobiles.● Ensuring strict adherence to standards and optimized coding practices.Achievements● 8% increase in page views and 5% increase in unique visitors resulting from informed decision and business intelligence derived from Google Analytics implementation and experimenting different search engine optimization - SEO.● Made mobile website secure by preventing loopholes and vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, XSS attacks, privilege escalation, remote access through file upload. Show less

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  Xento Systems Pvt. Ltd.

  Jul 2012 - Nov 2016

  ● Building and leading diverse and highly talented teams with an emphasis on scaling them to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.● Manage and encourage new ideas from staff to foster improvements through innovations.● Inculcating strategic thinking among leaders to help them drive high performing and self-motivated teams. ● Innovate reporting architectures, stabilize core leasing modules and conceptualizing architectures for upcoming business functions.● High-volume applications/systems experience including performance tuning through profiling SQL queries, analyzing joins and query plans, modifying database structures, and tuning indexes, analyzing memory utilization, time consuming record filtering to acutely optimize a bad query. 10% of monthly time invested towards slow query optimizations.● Analyzing various data diagnostic and focusing on eliminating root causes for bad data.● Pragmatic code reviews while maintaining balance with technical debt and product priorities. Implement strategies for reducing technical debt. Refactoring legacy code into services and libraries.Achievements● Brought best talent to work on business solutions by conducting 70+ Trainings & 50+ Technical Interviews.● More than 100k LOC - lines of code reduced from various legacy libraries and refactored them into clean services.● Formulated bug squashing strategy to reduce number of open bugs by 8%.● Administered coding standards by introducing various static code analysis, auto fixers, code inspection tools that helped developers to avoid pre-commit delays and code violations.● Implemented cutting-edge governance and project methodologies to improve project delivery times by 15%.● 5% reduction in execution time for critical charge posting and late fees processing scripts by doing profiling, analyzing queries, and optimizing SQLs. These scripts are responsible for more than $1M payment processing per month. Show less

  • Technical Product Manager

    Nov 2013 - Nov 2016

  • Associate Technical Project Manager

    Sept 2013 - Nov 2013

  • Team Lead

    Jul 2012 - Sept 2013
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  Entrata

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2021

  Software Engineer IV

  ● Leading and training 6 offshore teams in India and 1 US team with 45+ developers to reduce technical debt, improve time-to-market and build highly scalable n-tier architectures that integrates well into enterprise ecosystem. ● Own and oversee product Objectives & Key Results - OKRs aimed to keep technology and goals aligned with the company's long-term vision.● Partnered with Business Teams in strategic planning and design sessions to influence product management, define product roadmap and backlog grooming from a business and technical perspective.● Executing proof-of-concepts – POC for critical strategic enterprise capabilities. Formulate strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.● Manages ownership of production applications, ensuring critical security, compliance and support obligations are met or exceeded.● Discussing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) strategies for containerization, digital transition to cloud infrastructure and business efficiency solutions.● Gather detailed business requirements and use cases and translate function and non-functional requirements into technical specifications for multi-tenant SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications.● Engineered Domain Driven Design - DDD projects for effective modelling of large domains and micro-services to get better software design.● Pragmatic code reviewer striving for implementing architectural best practices and design principles for software architecture. Provide feedback and develop team knowledge.● Leading BI projects and key Architect for SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and Sisense BI & Analytics Tools.● Provide hands-on technical and systems architecture direction and guidance for the team on all decoupling-monolith projects and most of cloud migration projects.● Overseeing React projects for Entrata Core product portfolio. Show less

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  Pattern®

  Jul 2021 - now

  • Director of Engineering

    May 2023 - now

  • Associate Director Of Development

    Jul 2021 - May 2023
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  Pattern®

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  Director of Engineering