Viraj G. Kulkarni

Enterprise Software Solutions Engineer

Experience

Huntington Bank

Columbus, OH
Senior Java Engineer
January 2024 - Present

Architecting best-in-class Enterprise APIs and supporting Production Infrastructure

  • Developing 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
  • Leveraging Azure DevOps, Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, Jenkins for automated builds continuous integration, deployment and delivery
  • Utilizing high-availability data sources with enterprise messaging using Postgres, Kafka and NoSQL databases
  • Monitoring metrics and triaging health and performance issues with Splunk and appropriate logging

Outcomes (formerly Fuse by Cardinal Health)

Dublin, OH
Full Stack Engineer
December 2022 - November 2023

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

OCLC

Dublin, OH
Software Engineer
October 2018 - November 2022

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

Gap Inc.

Groveport, OH
Senior Consulting
QA Automation Engineer
September 2017 - August 2018

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

OCLC

Dublin, OH
Consulting
Frontend Engineer
January 2017 - August 2017

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

Information Control Company (re-branded as g2o)

Columbus, OH
Senior Consultant
January 2017 - August 2018

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

Stratifi (startup)

San Francisco, CA
Frontend Engineer
October 2016 - December 2016

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

Lyve Minds (startup acquired by Seagate)

Cupertino, CA
Web Engineering Intern
Summer 2015

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

IDfy (startup)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Web Development Engineer
2012 - 2014

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

Education

MS in Software Engineering

San Jose State University
2016
Courses taken included:
  • Enterprise Software Technologies
  • Distributed Systems & Parallel Architecture
  • Web Application Development
  • Web & Data Mining
  • Virtualization Technologies
  • Smartphone App Development
  • Network & Storage Virtualization

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Mumbai University - Welingkar Institute of Management and Research
2015
Courses taken included:
  • Product - Brand Management
  • Internet Marketing
  • E-Commerce
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Marketing Research
  • Marketing Finance
  • Advertising & Sales Promotion
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Distribution Management
  • Services Marketing

BE in Computer Engineering

Mumbai University
2011
Courses taken included:
  • Software Architecture & Engineering
  • E-commerce Software
  • Distributed Computing
  • Data Warehouse & Data Mining
  • Advanced Database Management Systems
  • Analysis & Design of Algorithms
  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Operating Systems

Technical Skills

Top Skills

    Programming:

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    Web:

    UI Design:

    Backend:

    Cloud:

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    Project Management:

Other Skills

AppSec HPE Fortify Jest i18n a11y Spring Boot RSpec
Netlify JIRA Vagrant Django Chef
Brand Marketing Google Analytics Mixpanel Segment.io Optimizely

Testimonials

Get in Touch

Please reach out to me with remote or onsite full-time opportunities.

Please do not contact me with contract, temporary or part-time opportunities.

I can help with the following:

  • Web App development with JavaScript technologies
  • Full stack development with Ruby on Rails
  • Dev-sec-ops and developer productivity
  • Responsive UI development
  • Marketing automation using Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Optimizely and others

Drop me a line at mail@virajkulkarni.me.

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