Varun Mehta

Current

Senior Software Engineer at Operative

Past

Senior Programmer Analyst at Sourcemedia Inc.
Senior Software Engineer at Persistent Systems
Software Engineer at Verchaska Infotech

Technical Support Enginner at Wipro Spectramind

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Education

University of Mumbai
OLPS High School

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Computer Software

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Varun Mehta’s Summary

- Specialized in Java based Object Oriented Analysis.
- Hands on experience with Java frameworks; Spring, Hibernate, Compass, Lucene.
- Practical implementation of agile methodologies in a test driven environment, with Continuous Integration Server, Version Control and Pair Programming.
- Mentored junior Java developers to use proper development tools & follow coding standards for consistent code base across the board.
- Extensive experience with software design lifecycle including requirement definition, prototyping & proof of concept, design interface implementation, testing and deployment.
- Exposure to multiple development environments, design patterns & principles and technologies spanning services and product environments.
- Key strength includes understanding business problems and effective use of technology to solve them.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- Saved over half a million dollars for the project by moving the staging & testing environment to VMware.
- Key member for consolidating & redesigning of 17 web CMS systems down to a single application, saving per project code maintenance and resource allocation.
- Developed a proprietary Web Service to communicate with the Amadeus GDS API using JNI on Linux.
- Converted an HTML frame based application to use AJAX with drag & drop for seamless user experience, thereby generating client funding of $2 million dollars for further development.
- Introduced AJAX in the application for airline sector-flight search, based on Google Suggest in 2004, and further training a team of 40 to implement it across other applications.

Varun Mehta’s Specialties:

Languages: Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, C, Pascal.
Java Technologies: Servlets, JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, Compass, Lucene, Cobertura, Apache Ant, ACEGI, AJAX, JAXP, OLAP [Mondrian], Terracotta, JUnit, JWebUnit.
Databases: MySQL, Oracle, MS-SQL Server
Systems: Unix-Linux, Windows
Servers: Tomcat 4.x-6.x, JBOSS
Tools: Eclipse Platform, IntelliJ Idea, Bamboo, VMware, CVS, SVN, Jira, Bugzilla, Poseidon.
Concepts: Design Patterns, Agile Methodologies

Varun Mehta’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Operative

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Working with Spring and Hibernate to developed a SaaS based Ad lifecycle management tool.
Senior Programmer Analyst

Sourcemedia Inc.

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

March 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 7 months)

Serving as Charter Member of the development team to manage Java projects for financial clients,
- Senior developer in a team of 11; responsible for implementing vital architectural decisions.
- Designed and implemented core components of the framework in Java using Spring & Hibernate.
- Designed the data model in tandem with the hibernate table per class pattern.
- Developed logical data model to allow seamless transition between Oracle and MySQL database.
- Implemented annotations for mapping Hibernate & Spring bean mappings.
- Streamlined the registration process, with multiple sub-flows using Spring Web Flow.
- Implemented clustering of Spring Web Flow, using Terracotta & tested it across a cluster on VMware.
- Defined coding standards and bug filing procedure for QA & clients.
- Configured the continuous integration server using Bamboo.
- Developed unit test using JUnit & JWebUnit.
Senior Software Engineer

Persistent Systems

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Manage and develop Java projects for the company’s clientele.

- Responsible for complete project lifecycle of a Content Management System & an Accounting system for Balance Sheet & Cash Flow Analysis
- Developed Proof of Concept (PoC) for framework selection among Struts, PetStore and Tapestry with Hibernate to re-architecture the application, and finally selected Hibernate & Web-Work/Struts 2.0.
- Developed PoC for JavaScript UI libraries for Rich UI user experience, studied dojo, script.aculo.us, rico & tool-man, integrated prototype.js along with tool-man for AJAX and Drag & Drop.
- Developed Report generation using Mondrian, Java based OLAP tool.
- Developed and maintained SQL queries using basic SQL statements & Stored Procedures
- Used JDOM for XML parsing on the Server side and VBScript at the user end.
- Recruited and mentored 5 junior Java developers.
- POC on shifting the existing framework from VBScript XML parser, to using AJAX.
Software Engineer

Verchaska Infotech

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 6 months)

Developed solutions for the travel industry.
- Studied and implemented XML extensively in the project as an essential part of the new architecture (Configuration & Data Exchange medium), for web-services.
- Developed and maintained custom Web-Service to communicate with the Amadeus API using JNI on Linux environment. The C program takes an XML from Java, further sends it to a remote server and returns the response XML back to Java.
- Developed a JFreeCharts controller to generate graph using the ServletsHelper Class.
- Developed and maintained Apache FOP & Apache POI based modules, to downloadable fares sheets in PDF and XLS format, with graphs.
- Developed an intelligent search stored procedure to retrieve the lowest priced ticket with the shortest route and minimum stopover.
- Developed the flight booking Shopping Cart, with complete billing and mailing information.
- Wrote SQL procedures & functions for performance purpose. Created indexes and tuned queries.
Technical Support Enginner

Wipro Spectramind

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Develop a complete JSP based support tool for Technical Support Associates.
- Developed the complete architecture based on MVC 1 design pattern.
- Generated HTML & PDF reports using Display Tag.
- Incentive calculator and MIS reports generator with JFreechart graphs, for 600+ employees.
- Extensive use of jsp:include for assembling various panels to create a final page.
- Queried remote Informix database (AVAYA), and backed the data on MS-SQL using ODBC.