NEERAJ KUMAR SHAKYA
Glasgow,GLG
Summary
Adept at leading complex projects, I spearheaded budget forecasting and development optimizations at Barclays, enhancing process efficiencies. My expertise in Ab Initio and API tools, coupled with effective team coordination, significantly reduced incidents and streamlined operations. Demonstrates strong analytical skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead
Barclays
Glasgow
01.2023 - Current
- Generated detailed budget forecasts for all project sizes.
- Led initiatives to optimize and advance development processes within project frameworks.
- Developed detailed technical solutions by analyzing project needs.
- Designed a data replication solution to upgrade from Rescat1 to the Rescat0 category.
- Constructed Ab Initio framework for EU, US payment applications using GoldenGate as source system.
- Build the Ab Initio framework called configure management. This is used across Barclays CDS to bootstrap the environment on a new server on service failover.
- Developed framework for ingesting data into ODS database from multiple sources.
- Build Ab Initio continuous flow solution for ledger (BCBS) and payment system (FPS, GPP) for application.
Lead
ANZ
Pune
11.2019 - Current
- Responsible for gathering and translating detailed business and technical requirements from the client.
- Involved in client presentations and user training.
- Preparation of high-level design, code walkthrough, code review, and providing pseudo code to facilitate coding by the team.
- Carry out the implementation of APAR compliance across ANZ.
- This includes the implementation of the probation process, which helps ANZ to calculate RWL, ECL accurately.
- Design and develop a credit card account and credit card plan aggregated across ANZ.
- Mapped around 600 decision keys as part of the R4 release, which play critical roles in deciding customer risk ratings.
- Resolving technical and design issues by coordinating with the team, on-site and offshore coordination.
- Team the team in various deployment and release activities, unit testing, system testing, and successful code promotion.
- Analysis of the requirements and documentation of the impact on the existing systems.
- Developed the various interfaces and aggregation modules as per business requirements.
- Identified the issue with the existing framework and improved the performance.
Lead
ANZ
Pune
09.2021 - 12.2022
- Facilitated development using high-level design and design framework.
- Overseeing offshore team operations and guiding junior staff.
- Engineered high-performance APIs with tools such as Micrograph, Postman, Kafka, and JWT Builder.
- Design a web service for business finance, and customer behavior scoring.
- Analysis of the requirements and documentation of the impact on the existing systems.
- Executed comprehensive processes for development, testing, UAT, and deployment.
Module Load
US Citi Group
Tampa
07.2017 - 09.2019
- Served as designer and developer specializing in Ab Initio.
- Oversaw the entire lifecycle of ab initio coding and testing tasks.
- Developed technical frameworks aligned with functional specifications.
- Executed numerous releases and deliveries of essential migration during 24-hour cutover periods.
- Oversaw critical Go-Live process by handling Ab Initio code management and execution.
- Led initiatives to develop comprehensive design documents using TDD principles.
- Offered guidance to new hires and colleagues.
Developer
USA Insurance (Cotiviti)
Norwalk
05.2016 - 07.2017
- Mapped the existing legacy system into the History configuration for the current system, and the cycle file configuration for future scope.
- Translated requirements into optimized Ab Initio codes using GDE, Plan>IT, and ExpressIT.
- Configured new procedures with Express-IT for efficient real-time data processing.
- Developed comprehensive configuration for four unique clients: Kaiser_CO, BCBS_NC, BCBS_MN and Aetna.
- Configured join, input, output, lookup, reformat, and scan using Express-IT to create a versatile graph.
- Tested newly developed configurations and performed DIT and SIT.
- Provided ongoing support for the newly implemented application in production.
- Addressed production bug promptly.
Senior Developer
US Citi Group
Pune
08.2014 - 05.2016
- Worked on design and development of multiple end to end ETL solutions
- Worked on end to end development, testing, UAT and deployment
- Provided suggestions for optimizing the existing Ab Initio code to reduce Batch Load Window
- Identified and fixed multiple issues and bugs in the existing application and streamlined the process
- Provided support in critical production environment
Abinitio Developer
TCS
Noida
09.2012 - 08.2014
- Achieved seamless completion of Abinitio upgradation with zero errors.
- Formulated detailed test scenarios and corresponding test cases for requirement validation.
- Achieved incident-free operations by refining and updating existing code, eliminating the previous 20-25 incidents per week.
- Facilitated collaboration among team members from different regions.
- Scheduled, executed, monitored, and reviewed Data Warehouse Environment tasks.
- Onsite-offshore coordination.
- Carry out a code walkthrough and review of testing.
Abinitio Developer
TCS
Noida
08.2011 - 09.2012
- Analyzed the specifications provided by the clients
- Impact Analysis on the new functionality into the existing system
- Coding & Designing of 'Patient Eligibility Batch' and validation batch, D.O prescription
- Created test cases for Patient Eligibility Batch' and validation batch, D.O prescription
- Release the code into the UAT for Patient Eligibility Batch' and validation batch, D.O prescription
- Scheduling, executing, monitoring, and reviewing Data Warehouse Environment related jobs
Education
Master of Engineering - Computer Science
MotiLal Nehru National Institute of Technology
Allahabad, India01.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
IEC College of Eng. & Tech
Greater Noida, IndiaSkills
- Having knowledge of Web Services, continuous flow, and batch processing
- Subject Matter Expertise ::
- Ab Initio: GDE, Co-Operating System, EME, MetaData Hub, Query IT, Conduct IT, Continuous Flow, Express IT, BRE Configuration, Micrograph
- API Tool: JWT, Postman, API service
- Scheduling Tool: TWS, ELK Watcher, ELK Monitoring, Control Center
- Source: Golden Gate, MQ, Kafka, Flat Files, API Request
- Relational and NoSQL Databases : Mongo DB, SQL,
- Unix Shell Management : Unix and bash
Publications
Routing Protocol in Adaptive Network, Journal, IEEE
Certification
- Agile Level 1 Certified.
- I have published a journal in IEEE on the routing protocol in adaptive networks.
- Certified Connected Manager.
- Obtained Collebra certification.
- Ab Initio Certification at the corporate level.
Timeline
Lead
Barclays
01.2023 - Current
Lead
ANZ
09.2021 - 12.2022
Lead
ANZ
11.2019 - Current
Module Load
US Citi Group
07.2017 - 09.2019
Developer
USA Insurance (Cotiviti)
05.2016 - 07.2017
Senior Developer
US Citi Group
08.2014 - 05.2016
Abinitio Developer
TCS
09.2012 - 08.2014
Abinitio Developer
TCS
08.2011 - 09.2012
Master of Engineering - Computer Science
MotiLal Nehru National Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
IEC College of Eng. & Tech
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