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Umang Parekh

IT Chapter Lead | DevOps Engineer | Fullstack Developer
Brussels

Summary

  • 12+ years of experience in IT Application development and Maintenance
  • Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
  • Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact organization success.
  • Pro-active, positive and a good communicator
  • Advanced Knowledge on application development languages like Java 17, Microservices, Restful Webservices, SpringBoot, Maven, CI/CD and Microsoft Azure
  • Apart from development, Having good knowledge about Banking Security & IT Risk aspects while working on tools like ITRMP, SDT for the applications
  • Good knowledge on Infrastructure management from designing infra, requesting infra, creating pipelines to make applications live in production with application deployment
  • Good knowledge of designing Monitoring and Alerting for application to enable resilience and quick pro-active reaction to any anomalies or unavailability
  • Good knowledge on tools like Kibana, Grafana, IAT, Prometheus, RTK, MDPL etc..
  • Onsite & Near-shore experience in requirement gathering and project coordination.
  • Experience on hiring new engineers for ING and TCS.
  • Worked with different teams and stakeholders to achieve common goal and organization KPIs.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Chapter Lead II

ING Bank
04.2024 - Current
  • Read and interpreted blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports.
  • Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
  • Conducted feasibility studies for proposed projects using potential ROI and risk management.
  • Interpreted blueprints and technical drawings to analyse upcoming projects.
  • Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
  • Worked on big projects for private individual onboarding, identification and verification as well as LCM projects to migrate to latest Infra.
  • As Chapter lead, I have actively participated with recruiting of new talent in ING along with TCS. I usually conducted several sessions at Chapter level to increase knowledge sharing sessions among Chapter. I have also worked with different chapter leads to organize cross-domain workshops.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features into existing product lineups
  • Developed high-quality software solutions to address client needs, ensuring timely delivery and customer satisfaction.

Lead Engineer & IT Dev Chapter Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2021 - 03.2024
  • Read and interpreted blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports.
  • Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
  • Conducted feasibility studies for proposed projects using potential ROI and risk management.
  • Interpreted blueprints and technical drawings to analyse upcoming projects.
  • Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
  • Worked on big projects for private individual onboarding, identification and verification as well as LCM projects to migrate to latest Infra.
  • As Chapter lead, I have actively participated with recruiting of new talent in ING along with TCS. I usually conducted several sessions at Chapter level to increase knowledge sharing sessions among Chapter. I have also worked with different chapter leads to organize cross-domain workshops.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features into existing product lineups

Senior DevOps Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 05.2021
  • Mentored DevOps engineer interns on proper engineering methods.
  • Implemented deployment strategies using container orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, VM deployments.
  • Maintained metrics visibility using Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana to create useful dashboards and monitors.
  • Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.
  • Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.

Java Application Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2018 - 09.2019
  • Adjusted design parameters to incorporate new features.
  • Optimized web assets for speed and performance.
  • Collaborated in team-based, Agile environment to accomplish objectives by deadlines.
  • Worked with business teams to understand needs and address production questions.
  • Participated in requirements gathering and design development meetings.
  • Applied scripting knowledge to supplement Java development.

Front end developer

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2017 - 09.2018
  • Worked in Agile environment of software development using JIRA/Stash/Confluence tools.
  • Responsible for developing UI designs as per the requirement, Creating new widgets, and major enhancements on existing modules
  • Developed new widgets for APT like Recommendations and Product finder.
  • Client interaction : Interacting with key business users and PO for new requirement gathering and functional understanding, grooming meetings, DSM etc
  • Development and Unit Testing required code
  • Code review and walk through.
  • Swag efforts with Team for new requirements.
  • Responsible for deploying web application on daily basis.

Full Stack Developer ( Designation: IT Analyst)

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2012 - 01.2017

Roles : Analyst, Full stack developer, Project coordinator

• Key member to decide the technology stack for new Architecture of PRISMH5 i.e. like AngularJs, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Spring. Hibernate
• Integrated application to use Aspera Client API to fast upload and download of Digital Assets.

• Led a team of three for Weblogic to JBoss Migration. Migrated old screens (WebLogic Pageflows based) to Flex equivalents.
• Developed new modules for PRISM/HUB. Made major enhancements in existing modules.
• Module Lead for some of the Key modules in modules in application.

• Provided guidance to other team members to work on any Production support issue related to the above modules.

• Worked for One year in Mexico as Near-shore counterpart for the offshore team. Responsible for coordinating requirement gathering, analysis and development with the offshore team.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

C. U. Shah College of Engineering & Technology
Wadhwan City, Gujarat, India
09.2007 - 03.2011

Skills

    Application Development and Maintenance

Continuous Integration & Deployment

Java Application Development & Matintenance

Design patterns, Microservices

IT Risk Controls

Release and Change Management

Incident Management

Certification

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer Certification

Interests

Traveling

Photography

IT Programming

Chess and Badminton

Timeline

Chapter Lead II

ING Bank
04.2024 - Current

LFC131: Green Software for Practitioners

03-2023

Lead Engineer & IT Dev Chapter Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2021 - 03.2024

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

09-2020

Senior DevOps Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 05.2021

Java Application Developer

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2018 - 09.2019

Front end developer

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2017 - 09.2018

Agile Way of Working Foundation | Internal Certification

06-2016

Full Stack Developer ( Designation: IT Analyst)

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2012 - 01.2017

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer Certification

12-2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

C. U. Shah College of Engineering & Technology
09.2007 - 03.2011
Umang ParekhIT Chapter Lead | DevOps Engineer | Fullstack Developer