Ankur Sharma

About Ankur Sharma

An experienced software professional with more than 18 years experience and exposure to the best of the technologies being used across the globe for Developing, Designing and Analysing enterprise applications.• Experience includes working in different geographies like United Kingdom (1 year) and South Africa (1 year).• Having the ability to coordinate across teams and stakeholders in order to identify/ analyze requirements, and ensure on-time delivery.• Lead a team at offshore for a leading U.S. based healthcare giant and Designed critical modules for the pharmacy management system, supporting both In-Prem and SAAS models.• Successfully analysed and developed an efficient payments processing component of the payments processing system for a Leading South African Bank.• Having experience of working as a software programmer for various banking and finance customers of various organizations worked so far.• Good knowledge in Agile software development and Waterfall model in Software Development Life Cycle. • Experience in working with Java 8 and multithreading.Technical Specialties-Application/Web serversI.B.M. WebSphere Application Server, Apache Tomcat, JBoss -Databases:I.B.M. DB2 8.0,MS SQL PostgreSQL 9.5-UML tools:Sparx Enterprise Architect, I.B.M. Rational Software Architect-Issue/Defect Tracking toolsJIRA, HP ALM -Source Code managementCVS,Clearcase,SVN-Automation ServerJenkins -Java FrameworksStruts 2.0, Hibernate 4.0, Spring Framework 3.0.5, Spring Webflow 2.2.1, Spring MVC,Spring Batch,JSF,Spring Integration-Technology Stackcore Java 7, J2EE (Servlets, JSP, JDBC), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Apache CXF, Ant, MVN, Junit, Webservices (REST and SOAP), SOA, Angular JSBusiness Domain:1) Banking: Retail and Commercial Banking2) Healthcare: Retail Pharmacy

Experience

1. Lead Engineer Architect

   Cardinal Health

   Jul 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Designed the architecture for the overhaul of the aging e-commerce platform that was nearing the end of its lifecycle and facilitated the discovery and gap analysis on architectural solutions focusing on data, security, integration, testing, and DevOps. Executed the roadmap to create a Micro front-end architecture and microservices for the backend. Employed a domain-driven design methodology and crafted the bounded context to set out domains such as orders, inventory, carts, shipments, returns, notifications, and more. To support the transitional phase while preserving the existing authentication framework, proposed bridge architecture that allows authentication via both the legacy system utilizing SiteMinder and the updated system employing OKTA Mentor and guide the team to implement solutions and address any technical challenges and unblock during issues. Using Jenkins for CICD, PCF for PAAS cloud service and AWS for application build using spring boot, microservices and React JS, using OKTA, IIQ and LDAP for user authentication and authorization. Collaborating with cross-functional teams such as Data Design, Middleware, and legacy systems to identify reusable services, create wrapper services, or design new services from the ground up Technologies supported include Kafka for data streaming, Coveo search for implementing comprehensive product-wide search utilizing its AI and ML capabilities, and bridge architecture to facilitate a single sign-on for both legacy and redesigned services. OKTA is used for authentication, while Apigee serves as the security gateway. Optimized GraphQL queries and resolvers, improving API response times Pioneered a GraphQL-first approach that reduced API response times by 40% and increased developer productivity by 25%.

Education

• University of Rajasthan

  Bachelor of engineering, computer engineering

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• Jdbc
• Jsp
• Db2
• Weblogic
• Struts
• Hibernate
• Requirements Analysis
• Servlets
• Spring
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Jboss Application Server
• Spring Framework
• Java
• Jsf
• Core Java
• Testing
• Tomcat