Narayan Nayak

| Director of Engineering | Technical Architect | SCJP |

Vadodara, Gujarat, India

M:+91 9428300906

Email: nayak.narayan@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/narayan511

Professional Summary

  • Innovative Director of Engineering with 20+ years of experience in developing and applying new technologies to deliver final products. Combines technical engineering capability with effective management techniques. Dedicated to driving rapid, advanced product development through meticulous oversight of team and hands-on participation.

  • Travelled and managed projects at Abu Dhabi-UAE, Abingdon-UK and New York-USA.

  • Having valid US B1/B2 business visa.

  • Individual contributor, Self-made and motivated person, having a proactive and goal-oriented approach.

  • Quick problem-solver, strong analytical/ designing/ project & team management skills.

  • Desire to continuously learn new skills.

  • Excellent communication skills.

Specialties/Domain

  • Agile scrum framework

  • Product Development using MVC, SOA, help converting monolithic to microservice.

  • Integration with Ad Servers, financial/banking apps, Avaya IVR and custom software.

  • Experience in domain like DMV-Motor Vehicle, Digital Ad Media & Ad Servers, Retail, Telecom, B2B & B2C, Manufacturing

Skills

  • Optimize use of Resource, Process & Technology

  • Strategic Planning

  • Team Structure Management

  • Project Planning Oversight and Project Scheduling

  • Technology integration

  • Development: Java EE, Spring boot, Hibernate, Webservices- SOAP/ REST APIs, STS/Eclipse, App Servers like JBoss, Tomcat, Database like MySQL, MongoDB

  • DevOps: JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Maven, GIT, SonarQube, Aware of AWS, MS Azure

  • O/S: Windows, Linux, Solaris

Education

JUL 2000 - JAN 2001

Diploma in Advanced Computing/ C-DAC, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

MAY 1993 - MAR 1997

BE-Mechanical/ Faculty of Technology, M S University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Throughout first class with specialization in CAME – Computer Application in Mechanical Engineering


IT Experience

APR 2019 – present

Director of Engineering/ Celtic System Pvt. Ltd, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • Managed resource allocation and utilization for entire project department.

  • Introduced and implement RACI matrix.

  • Adhered to overall company business goals, meeting deadlines of projects.

  • Built strong teams through selective recruitment and post-hire mentorship of Project Managers, Team Leads, Senior teammates.

  • Took ownership of assigned projects, presenting daily updates to senior leadership on progress and status.

  • Led proposal development efforts, presenting engineering opportunities to senior leadership for go-no-go decisions.

  • Designed and monitored project schedules and project manager assignments.

  • Established procedures for corrective and preventative maintenance.

  • Determined necessary steps to bring systems into compliance.

  • Planned and directed projects focused on improving areas such as Process, People and Technology.

  • Attended weekly department head meetings to share information and voice concerns.

  • Co-ordinating with Celtic onsite team in Arizona and Infosys team working across locations.

SEP 2007 – MAR 2019

Technical Architect/ Talent Anywhere (QSG), Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • Worked for their client called PMC, Solbright and Operative.

  • Developed network and system architecture according to business needs.

  • Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.

  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.

  • Participated in all phases of system development life cycle, from requirements analysis through system implementation.

  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.

  • Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.

OCT 2005 – SEP 2007

Team Leader/ Realsoft (Intl) Pvt Ltd (head office in US), Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • Led product development for OneManage and AppCentral.

  • Migrating BOMG system from Jboss-3.2.1 to Jboss-4.0.2.

  • Making whole product compatible with Eclipse/My Eclipse IDE which speed up development activities.

  • Team Coordination and Work delegation.

  • Preparing process documentation

  • Integration testing and release management

  • Bug Fixing.

MAR 2004 – OCT 2005

Senior Software Engineer/ C-SAM (acquired by Mastercard, USA), Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • Part of e-Wallet project team, visited UAE for launching a project for UAE Exchange, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  • Involved in product development of Wallet Service Center (WSC)/Transaction Platform

  • Preparation of Technical Specifications

  • Porting WSC to Sybase database.

  • Development of product's component like User Management, alert Management and Device Management.

  • Development of some UI modules using JSP, tag library, Java beans, ‘C-SAM UI Framework’ based on WebWork.

  • Integration testing and release management.

  • Fixing Priority defects.

  • Mentor for new team members

APR 2003 – MAR 2004

Software Engineer/ Emaginative Technologies, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • As a Software Engineer involved in project development of Experimental Lab and Reverse auction for US based client.

  • Requirement analysis and present document to get final approval from client.

  • Developed & design modules using MVC architecture.

  • EJB Development and Deployment for Buyer, Message Board, Feedback modules.

  • Implementing Proxy bidding facility for seller.

  • Module Integration, Local and remote deployment, testing of the modules.

APR 2001 – MAR 2003

Senior Software Programmer/ WWQuote (MNC), Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • Designed and developed Server-side Image processing tool for Financial chart and analyse data structures.

  • Prototype preparation.

  • Development of Cache Engine, Template Loader, and Image Converter modules.

  • Integration of modules.

  • Local and Remote deployment and testing.

  • Bug fixing and testing.

  • Debugged and modified software components.

Non-IT Experience

AUG 1997 - APR 2000

Production Engineer/Arrow Macco (India) Limited, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • Ensuring smooth plant operation to maintain continuous supply of material.

  • Production Planning for Conventional and CNC M/Cs.

  • Co-ordination with Shift, Quality Control and Assembly.

Activities

Music Cycling Carrom Table Tennis