
Application Architect at Etilize
Greater Denver Area

Application Architect at Etilize
Greater Denver Area
6+ years of development and consulting experience with Fortune 100 organizations. Lead and developed world class e-commerce search engine and applications for Ingram Micro North America.
Enjoys working on both the front-end/UI and back-end layers. Years of experience working on web based projects and initiatives.
Ability to efficiently work and manage in geographically dispersed team. Leading and managing onshore and offshore resources. Experience working with international clients like Ingram Micro, VentureTechNetworks, Nimax, Walmart, SP Richards etc.
Sun Microsystems certified Java, Web Component & Mobile Application Developer. IBM certified in Object Oriented Analysis & Design
Application architecture, design, development, deployment and maintenance. Web development, portal development. Project management and resource planning. Production troubleshooting. Scalable architecture and performance tuning.
(Public Company; GFK; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Worked on internal product development and enabled $1+ million in profits. Key projects include:
inQuire Search Engine
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Design, developed and maintained the company’s core product over the years providing search and retrieval distributed API for millions of products and enabled the features like faceted navigation, parametric filter, comparing products, search/sort merchandising, display ads, enabling up-sell, cross-sell & accessories etc.
Lead and developed the custom RMI based framework that enabled the clusters of servers with load balancing, distributed communication, hot deployment, health monitoring and zero-configuration.
SpexLive SAAS Platform
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Lead the design, development and implementation of web services and SOA architecture to enable real time retrieval & search of ecommerce data with 4+ millions of products and 100+ millions of product attributes and features. It is executing more than a million transactions in production today and is backbone for 100+ ecommerce sites.
Managed the offshore team of 6+ in Canada & Pakistan. Worked on setting up, maintaining and scaling up 24/7 production system in Tier-1 hosting solutions like Rackspace and cloud computing environment at Amazon EC2.
Data Syndication and Export System
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Developed the critical core component for customer data syndication and export system that reduced the turnover time by 5 folds for Spex data delivery.
Completed the months of work in few weeks and had to rework the same piece many times to get the performance needed. Acquired the exposure to work with MySQL server query optimization and managing 100+ GB of data and 100+ millions rows tables.
(Public Company; GFK; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 2 months)
(Public Company; GFK; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — October 2006 (1 year )
(Public Company; GFK; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2004 — October 2005 (1 year )
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2003 — October 2004 (11 months)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
October 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer , 2004 — 2004
Sun Certified Web Component Developer , 2003 — 2004
Bachelors of Engineering , Software Engineering , 2001 — 2004
Certified in Object-oriented Analysis & Design , 2003 — 2003
Sun Certified Java Programmer , 2001 — 2002
Awarded CUSAC Bursary, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), UK , 2002-2003
PCS Certified Java Programmer & Web Component Developer for J2EE Platform, Professional Certification Services, Operation Badar, 2002 -2003
1st Prize Winner for Software Project, Open Day 2004, Mehran UET, Jamshoro
Software Project Exhibition, ITCN Asia 2004 Karachi, 2004
GIKI ACM Softcom 2003, 3rd All Pakistan Software Competition