Viraj G. Kulkarni

Working on the next generation of autonomous industrial solutions

• Leveraging AI and Data Science algorithms to uncover new optimization insights in industrial materials management
• Developing real time systems for monitoring & tracking material flow in large industrial manufacturing and storage facilities

Intentionally took a planned career break to support family responsibilities

• Intentionally took a planned career break to support family responsibilities, including relocation to India from US, setting up a new life for my family in India, and caregiving
• During this time, I still actively maintained & enhanced my professional skills through working on a few software projects for US-based clients, online learning, volunteering in tech meetups, participating in hackathons and contributing to open source projects

Architected best-in-class Enterprise APIs and supported Production Infrastructure

• Developed secure RESTful backends and microservices in the Java Spring framework and Jakarta (J2EE) ecosystem using Spring Boot, Hibernate, Spring Data, Spring Security, JPA, JDBC, JAX-RS, JMS
• Leveraged Azure DevOps, Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, Jenkins for automated builds continuous integration, deployment and delivery
• Utilized high-availability data sources with enterprise messaging using Postgres, Kafka and NoSQL databases
• Monitored metrics and triaged health and performance issues with Splunk and appropriate logging

Architected Pharma solutions for HITRUST and HIPAA-compliant environments by:

• Created resilient web services with Node and TypeScript
• Created web components with ES6, Vue, Pinia
• Monitored and triaged application vulnerabilities using Veracode and others
• Built full stack features using Express, Postgres and Prisma

Architected and supported user-facing critical web applications by:

• Created web components with ES6, React, Redux
• Implemented i18n for WCAG and section 508 compliance
• Monitored and triaged application vulnerabilities using HPE Fortify and HPE Auditworkbench
• Built full stack features using Spring Boot

Delivered quality assurance automation solutions such as:

• Architected end-to-end test automation frameworks using Ruby, JRuby, Cucumber and RSpec
• Implemented load testing using JMeter, Kafka, and IBM MQ
• Monitored and provisioned test assets and loads using Splunk, NewRelic and Chef

Primarily focused on frontend engineering, delivered solutions including:

• Developed and maintained web applications based on JavaScript stack
• Created test suites in JavaScript for front end modules
• Created back end test automation and validation suites using Cucumber and Java

Delivered cross-functional scalable engineering solutions for clients with large enterprise applications including:

• Developed web applications using JavaScript frameworks
• Created test suites in JavaScript for front end modules
• Created back end test automation and validation suites using Cucumber and Java
• Developed back end functionality in Ruby, Java, Spring, and Hibernate
• Contributed to internal research, hackathons, technical sessions and PoC projects

A cross functional full stack job role where I was involved in:

• Architecting features in React.js and Redux
• Creating SPAs and static sites using Handlebars
• Containerizing Django apps using Docker and Vagrant
• Streamlining test automation and QA using Mocha and JIRA
• Planning and implementing marketing automation using Optimizely, Mixpanel and Google Analytics

Worked closely with a team of web architecture engineers and product managers in building distributed consumer facing web applications, participating in both early technology research and product development. Projects I worked on included:

• Created cloud-based single page scalable web apps with ReactJS, Reflux and Express with localization
• Built and tested distributed applications with Bower, Jest, Mocha and Promises
• Pushed and managed builds using Asgard, Git and Stash
• Created a side project for setting up systems using Chef and custom tool

Handled a wide spectrum of responsibilities at an internet product startup, working directly with the CTO and CEO. From product ideation to development and eventually interpreting usage analytics, worked on different facets of the product development lifecycle, including:

• Created full stack Ruby on Rails applications
• Managed the web app using cloud-based services Heroku, Amazon S3 and Amazon AWS
• Translated web application security (OWASP) principles to actual application design by hardening backend and frontend for ISO 27001 certification
• Integrated OAuth and Google SSO for easy authentication
• Scripted cron jobs and notification tasks using Ruby