Asad Palekar, Senior Software Engineer

Asad Palekar

Senior Software Engineer

Musafir.com

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, PG Diploma In Advanced Computing
Experience
15 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months

Senior Software Engineer at Musafir.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • My current job since June 2014

i. Design and development of Musafir.com
ii. Mentoring of Junior development and reviewing code of peers.
iii. Keeping track of the project plan and estimating/planning of monthly releases.
iv. Introduction of few processes (Agile & Kanban) in the team.
v. Identifying areas of improvement in the code for speed and reliability of the web.
vi. Preparing functional and technical specifications of new features.
vii. Fan of TDD and BDD.

Computer Programmer at Illusions Online Arabia LLZ
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2013 to May 2014

o Developed an entire web page which shows hotel information to users. Improvised older pages for better SEO.

o Developed a web service for the help desk team to use for better analysis of failures/crashes in application

Senior Software Engineer - Applications at ZS Associates
  • India - Pune
  • November 2010 to November 2013

Worked as a Senior Software Developer in a US based Consultancy Firm. (Ranked among top 25 consultancy firm in world)

Few responsibilities include :
o Hands on experience in designing and implementing new features and modules in existing ASP.NET application using the Agile Development methodology.

o Development of a mobile application/Hybrid (IOS/Android) from scratch which shows users their current incentive standings. Led a team of junior developers to achieve this.

0 Developed NodeJS and shell scripts to run automation builds for mobile deployment.

o Understanding client and senior management requirements to effectively provide them software solution prototypes with clean and intuitive user interface mock ups.

o Refactoring legacy code using better oops structure to make the code more testable and maintainable.

o Experience in investigating different libraries for unit test mocking. Also introduced QUnit to test JavaScript functions in our application thereby increasing the code coverage for unit tests.

o Hands on experience in Javascript, jQuery, HTML, CSS etc. Took initiative to convert some of the user controls in the application to a more structured MVVM architecture.

o Good understanding of Sql Server 2008/T-SQL. Was involved in tuning the Sql queries fired in our application to increase the performance and scalability of the system. (Profiling and applying appropriate indices when required.) Knowledge in various profiling techniques and tools for performance tuning.

o Involved in paired code reviews and pair programming

o Good understating of Software development and deployment process using sub versioning tools and continues integration.

o Brainstorming and bring out fresh ideas during team's daily SCRUM meetings.

Trainee Engineer at Transweigh India Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • July 2008 to January 2010

Working in fixing issues with Automation controls in C++. Involved in developing in house application for requesting leaves in c#.Net.

Education

Diploma, PG Diploma In Advanced Computing
  • at Center Of Development Of Advanced Computing
  • August 2010
Bachelor's degree, Instrumentation Engineering
  • at Pune University
  • April 2008
High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Abu Dhabi Indian School
  • March 2004

Specialties & Skills

Web Development
ASP.NET
SQL Server 2000 2008
Sql server 2008
Javascript and jQuery
MVC 2.0
nHibernate
Version Control Like SVN

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner