Jilesh J.

Lakhani

+91

9820659854
Lead Software Engineer

PROFILE SUMMARY
11 years of experience in product development of embedded software platform and SAAS based
applications using various open source technologies with multi-national companies.
Leadership & Responsibilities
High degree of initiative and sense of urgency with strong communication and leadership skills.
Demonstrated ability to lead and influence technical professionals across the enterprise.
Excellent verbal and written skills with the ability to interact with senior management,
technical subject matter experts, and business customers.
Have ability to lead project end-to-end, work individually or work with team, motivate and
lead team.
Have ability in project estimations, architect, development, project delivery and manage the
complete communication flow with customers.
Have ability to multi-task amongst multiple projects, provide technical assistance as needed.
Analyze project requirements and develop effective functional and design specification
documents. Fully understanding of the companys methodologies and processes.
Has very high ownership and commitment towards the work.
Have ability to learn new technologies and develop quick prototypes/POC.
Have worked with cross-functional teams, collaborate and deliver the features to sprint cycles.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages

Java, Python, Javascript

Web Frameworks

Python(Django, Tastypie, DjangoRest, SQLAlachemy, Redis, Celery,

RabbitMQ), Java(GWT, MVC, SPRING, HIBERNATE, JSP), JQuery,
YUI, CSS3, HTML5
(Basic, Angular JS).

DBMS

MySQL, PostgreSQL, ORACLE and MS-Access.

No SQL

MongoDB, MySQL-InnoDB

Version Control Tools

GitHub, SVN, CVS and Perforce.

Debugging Tools

Eclipse, Visual Studio, Emacs, VI

Defect Tracking Tools

Functional Areas
Software Development
Methodologies
Operating Systems

Bugzilla, Jira
Project lead, Team Leading, Analyzing, Designing and Developing.
Aglie, Waterfall
Windows 2000/XP, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2012 Till Date as Lead Engineer Product Development
Symphony Teleca Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India
I am architecting and designing an enterprise class software product in a web based SaaS model
using Python/Django framework. This is a Hands-On role where I am also responsible to
communicate with the business counterpart as well as the technology counterpart for the
successful implementation of the product. It also includes in mentoring and hiring new team
members.
Provided training for more than 100 hrs on Python, Linux, Continuous integration to onshore as well
as offshore teams across the company.
Awards:
Awarded Going Extra Mile in 2013
Projects:

ToolKit-Lender Services:
Web Application which allows lenders of automotive dealers to create time bound electronic
content and target specific customers with options. The solutions also provided filters to filter out
potential lead and prospects by analyzing the existing data. The report had a capability to track
any transaction until its closure for reconciling dealers commission and accounts with their
associated lenders.
Technology stack for this product is, Apache, Django(1.4.1), Python2.7, DB2, MongoDB, Redis,
Oralce, ESB Mule, socket-io.
Lead Driver:
Restful WebServices which will allow creation and retrieval user lead information. This application
will be called by other internal WebServices.
Technology stack for this product is Apache, Python, Django, SQLAlchemy, Oracle, tastypie,
djangorestframework, Redis.
Menu Driver:
Restful webservices, allows the partners to update / retrieve/ create their product details. This
also has a stand-alone front end application which will be called from C# (classic) application
seamlessly.
Technology stack for this product is Apache, Python, Django, SQLAlachemy, Oracle,
djangorestframework, Redis.
Feb 2012 July 2012 as Sr. Software Engineer (Independent Contractor)
MatchCraft, Santa Monica, CA, USA
I was working with this company as an independent contractor. My responsibilities included
coordinating with the peers onsite and provide the technical & development expertise.
Projects:
Hydra:
It is a SaaS product, which allows the online advertisers (Merchants) to put their business online by
advertising on popular search engines seamlessly.
Technology stack for this product is Java, GWT, MySQL, InnoDB, MongoDB, Apache
April 2010 Jan 2012 as Team Lead
Webvisible India Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India (Webvisible Inc, Irvine, CA, USA)
I was working with this company as Team Lead. My core responsibilities were to build a strong C#
team offshore and work with onsite team peers. I was managing multiple teams and also played a
role of an individual contributor.
Awards:
Awarded Leadership Award in 2010
Projects:
Geneva:
A SaaS based product which allowed the advertisers to login into single account to manage their
advertisement campaigns on the various search engines. It also allowed the process of manual
option to buy interactive advertisements.
Technology stack for this project is C# 3.5, IIS 7, CuriseControl, MsSQL 2005.
Super Pages:
It is a search engine, which exposes a SOAP endpoint. Based on the Merchants configuration using
this endpoint it syncs the advertisement into their platform. It sync back the reports into the
system.
Technologies stack for this project is C#3.5, IIS 7, WCF, SOAPUI, CuriseControl, MsSQL 2005.
Reverse Proxy/ RP Analysis tool:

Tracking activity for the incoming PayPerClick campaign, system creates a proxy version of the
merchant website and would replace email, phone on the webpage automatically to their tracking
email, phone and in turn will provide the reports to merchant.
Technology stack for this project is C# 3.5, IIS 7, MsSQL 2005, CuriseControl.
Nov 2007 April 2010 as Team Lead Software Engineering
LRN, Mumbai, India (LRN, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
I played a multiple role within the company during my tenure, is that of Sr. Technical Engineer, Tech
Lead and Team Lead. It included the coordinating with peers / mangers onsite, talking with
business over the product requirements and supporting the technical support team. We followed
customized version of agile methodology for our project delivery.
Projects:
RA+MS:
This tool is targeted to help companies to assess, prioritize and manage the Ethics and Compliance
risk on an enterprise-wide and help management establish the appropriate controls.
In this project my role was of a team lead with a team located at a remote location.
Technology stack for this project is Python 2.7, Django 1.3, YUI
Alliance:
A web application dedicated for sharing knowledge and facilitating collaboration in specific areas
amongst a large network of experts, users. It would allow the SME to share their knowledge to a
wider targeted audience, and the end users can reach out to SME.
Technology stack for this project is Java 1.5, J2EE, GWT, Oracle 9, Resin webserver
Campaign Manager:
Web based application allowed users to create a compliance campaign using complex rule based
assignment feature along with reminder and tracking facility.
The company had a proprietary Java Framework based loosely on popular Java Spring, Struts & Java
Hibernate frameworks named as NemoII.
Technology stack for this project is Java 1.5, J2EEE, Oracle 9, NEMOII
July 2004 Nov 2007 as Software Engineer
Avenues India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India
I was part of core technology team, the role included of adhering to core development activity.
Projects:
CCAvenue India:
A project targeted for ecommerce industry. It allowed small time ecommerce merchants to charge
their customers credit card / debit card for their product/services.
I was responsible for all the modules right from the client facing to customer facing and internal
admin tools for risk management, payout details and various management reports.
Key Accomplishment:
Created a new version of transaction pages to achieve higher number of simultaneous requests per
second.
Technology Stack for this project is Java. JRun, JSP, J2EE, editplus
Education:
Master in Computer Applications: IGNOU (Distance Education) (2011)
Bachelors in Computer Applications: IGNOU (Distance Education) (2011)
Bachelors in Science (Statistics): Mumbai University (2004)
Higher Secondary School Certificate: Pune University (2001)