Technical Specialist (Software Engineering)

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

July 2024 – Oct 2025 (1 year 4 months)

• Drove the technical direction for Java, Spring Boot solutions within Wiley's mission-critical Access & License Management (ALM) system, the central IAM and licensing hub supporting millions of global users.
• Mentored and guided a cross-functional team with 4 engineers, through complex engineering challenges.
• Conducted architectural design discussions for a new licensing model under architect supervision, driving decisions on scalability and efficiency, resulting in a standardized license management solution across Wiley products.
• Streamlined E-Commerce parallel order processing system by introducing a cloud event validation framework and integrating Spring Reactive Streams, resulting in improved overall system throughput.
• Resolved high-priority production incidents in time-sensitive environments, restoring access for millions of users.

Senior Software Engineer

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

July 2022 – June 2024 (2 years)

• Led the design and development of Java and Spring Boot solutions for Wiley’s mission-critical Access & License Management (ALM) system.
• Executed modernization of the Java ecosystem, upgrading microservices to JDK 21 and migrating Spring Boot from 2.x to 3.x, resulting in improved performance and maintainability.
• Led a cross-functional team of 4 engineers, mentoring them to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Implemented a redundant license management system in collaboration with UK-based Wiley Online Library (WOL) architects, impacting millions of licenses valued up to half a million dollars each while serving as subject matter expert.
• Drove major production releases, resolving issues within production window to minimize disruption and ensure seamless access for millions of users and thousands of institutional customers.

Software Engineer

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

Apr 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 4 months)

• Implemented solutions based on OIDC and Keycloak standards, driving integration with various enterprise IDPs.
• Delivered a company-wide Microsoft Azure AD integration in collaboration with the architect and across teams, resolving client issues and improving authentication reliability for Wiley employees.
• Drove major production releases which affected millions of users & thousands of customers on the Wiley platform.
• Investigated instance's statuses, anomalies, and performance with Dynatrace & worked on performance improvement on several Spring Boot applications and deployed to Docker platform.
• Designed and enhanced the user login and registration front-end system using ReactJS and FreeMarker.
• Developed and presented at a Hackathon & "Innovation Week" on Keycloak access with face recognition/ Location based DB/ Fat JARs and Thin JARs on Docker/ OpenCV image-processing.

Associate Software Engineer

Pearson

Apr 2019 - Apr 2021 (2 years)

• Developed Java, Spring Boot solutions on a cross-functional team delivering advanced educational products to the global education sector, impacting over 160 million users worldwide.
• Integrated leading LMS applications including Moodle, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard, utilizing the LTI Standard for seamless interoperability.
• Resolved critical production issues, ensuring uninterrupted access to educational resources for millions of students and educators across various institutions.
• "Eyes on the Glass" - Monitored applications throughout the peak times, using New Relic, Grafana, and Kibana.

Freelance Full Stack Developer

LyricX

Nov 2018 - Apr 2019 (6 months)

• Worked as a Java, Spring Boot, and Angular full-stack software developer on a song lyrics viewer application that supports sharing lyrics among a group of other users in real-time.
• Focused on the user experience and system design as a Full Stack Developer.
• Had an opportunity to create interactive UI and UX with Adobe XD and worked on ER Diagrams and Database designs.
• Had design discussions and reviews with the client.

Software Engineering Trainee

CodeGen International

Jan 2017 - Jul 2017 (7 months)

• Worked on Java, Spring Boot, and Angular technologies on a multi-tenant restaurant menu & order managing system as a full-stack software engineering intern, learning ER diagrams, DB designs, and system designs in a real-world environment.
• Developed an Android application to manage the orders which each generates with a QR code, along with an Angular application for customers to place orders in real-time.
• Got hands-on experience using AWS RDS (MySQL), and Google Firebase Auth for authentication and the deployments were on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS S3 for SPA (Angular 2).