Shameer Kunjumohamed, Application Architect

Shameer Kunjumohamed

Application Architect

Injazat Data Systems

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology (Software Engineering)
Experience
23 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 1 Months

Application Architect at Injazat Data Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since September 2016

1. Leading the Architecture & Engineering for the modernization of a set of mission critical legacy systems into Java/Spring/micro-services platform (still hands-on, building frameworks and PoCs).
2. Collaborate with the stakeholders, domain experts, business analysts and the development team on end-to-end software development life cycle.
3. Assist the DevOps team on transforming the dev, test and production environments to support the new architecture and facilitate effective CI and CD tools and practices.
4. Collaborate the testing team to modernize their testing tools and methods

Principal Architect at Marcura Equities
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2015 to July 2016

1. Architecture, leading project teams developing SaaS based high volume (and business value) applications for Shipping & Logistics industry.
2. Evolved from traditional monolithic Java EE/Spring/JSF systems running on Weblogic & JBoss Servers to modern self-contained micro-services based solutions with Angular Front-end over years.
3. Being an executive member of Architecture Group (Board) in the group organization helped the IT department in IT strategy, planning and governance in alignment with the business goals.
4. Team transformation from traditional Waterfall and RUP to Agile (SCRUM, XP and Kanban) methodologies.

CTO, Chief Architect at The Great Internet Factory
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2012 to April 2015

1. Established a highly dynamic and self-organizing, agile software development team, strictly following agile and quality practices with high productivity rate.
2. Successfully architected, managed, developed and implemented a highly secure, scalable and high performance SaaS(Software as a Service) model procurement software on Amazon Cloud(AWS) using the best of bread technology stack, to automate and standardize complex workflows and rules of procurement cycles in medium to large organizations.
3. Developed a much enhanced version of standard BPM(Business Process Management) framework, extending Activiti BPM platform (http://www.activiti.org), solving many typical problems of Workflows and BPM systems.
4. Developed a rich set of highly sophisticated web components on Ember JS.
5. Developed projects based on NodeJS platform using SailsJS, EmberJS and MongoDB.
6. Implemented Test Driven Development Development(TDD) from the very beginning of the projects, and ensured measurable quality using tools.
7. Fully automated the development, testing and production deployment cycles with cutting edge, open source tools, from local environment till AWS.
8. Developed a set of high productivity frameworks and components that helped cutting down the development time by 70%.
9. Worked closely with the CEO and other stakeholders throughout the complete life cycle of the systems development.

Teaching Fellow(Part time) at Heriot Watt University
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2010 to November 2013

I worked as a Guest Lecturer for MSc IT and MSc Computer System Management Courses for the same University where I have graduated my Masters (In the Dubai International Academic City Campus) in 2009.

As a Guest Lecturer, I taught the following topics -
Advanced Software Engineering,
Software processes and methodologies such as XP (Extreme Programming), Scrum and Lean,
Software development with Java and enterprise technologies such as EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JMS and Web Services
Research Methods.

Software Architect, Tech Lead, Senior System Analyst at Marcura FZE, Dubai Airport Free Zone
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2005 to October 2012

1. Successfully designed, developed and implemented enterprise systems using industry leading technologies and frameworks, working closely with the stake holders and management.
2. Executive member of Architecture Board in the group organization.
3. Performed leadership roles and actively contributed to the ongoing iterative and incremental development of software projects within the organization to provide maximum value to the customer.
4. Actively contributed on transforming the team and environment which had been following a mix of traditional waterfall model and Rational Unified Process into a self-organizing, cross-functional agile development team by adopting and enforcing SCRUM, Lean and XP principles & practices.
5. Trained and empowered the team on modern application frameworks such as Spring Framework, JSF, Hibernate and related technologies within the organization, before implementing them in the projects (Ref Projects: Port Payables, IntegrationSpring, Lasagne, PortsDirect, Martrust, DA-Desk Integration System).
6. Led the migration of main Shipping Application from an EJB 1.0 + XSL based solution into a modern environment consisted of Java EE, Spring, JSF(Rich Faces), Hibernate technologies(Ref. Project: Lasagne).
7. Implemented and enforced best practices such as
o Refactoring
o Design patterns
o Test Driven Development
o Pair Programming
o Peer Review
o Other agile practices within the whole team and projects.

Senior Software Engineer at Wellogic ME FZ LLC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2003 to October 2005

Wellogic is a US company, developing critical healthcare applications in J2EE for renowned healthcare providers in US.
Projects--
Cerner Powerchart
Web Server : IBM Websphere
Software Tools : IBM WSAD, Rational Clearcase, Clearquest, Feature Tracker.
Database : Oracle 9i
Responsibility : Team lead, coding, QA
Client : Cerner Corporation, 2800 Rock creek Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64117. http://www.cerner.com
Abstract : Cerner Healthcare Application in J2EE. The system is intended to help physicians to manage their clinical routines. The whole system is architected as a single ear file and multiple war files, in order to use each war file as a plug and play module. Each war file will handle each sub projects inside. Major war projects are: Clinical Documentation, Orders, Chart, DialogSearch, Cerner (base web-context), Messaging, etc.
Wellogic Consult
Web Server : Oracle AS 10g
Software Tools : IBM WSAD, Tortoise CVS, Eclipse
Client : Wellogic, 222 Third Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Wellogic Consult is a modular clinical workflow management solution providing desktop and mobile features - ranging from physician order entry to clinical documentation to multimedia second opinion consultations - for ambulatory and inpatient use at medium-to-large hospitals, and for Healthcare Information System and eHealthcare service providers to embed within their solutions.
Wellogic Synapse
Web Server : Oracle AS 10g
Software Tools : IBM WSAD, Tortoise CVS, Eclipse
Database : Oracle 9i
Team Size : 18.
Client : Wellogic, 222 Third Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Wellogic Synapse is a modular application integration platform providing Web services-based features - ranging from data and image transport and translation between systems, to an industrial strength master patient index and clinical data repository to HIPAA-supporting auditing and logging - necessary to integrate disparate healthcare information systems within and between organizations.

Freelance Consultant/Developer at Al Mazroui & Partners L.L.C,
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2004 to February 2005

· www.artaaj.com
Web Server : IIS
Software Tools : MS Visual Studio.NET, C#, Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Database : MS SQL Server 2000
Team Size : 5
Role : Consultant & Project Manager.
Responsibility : SRS, System/database Design, Project Management.
Client : Artaaj Events, Sheikh Zayed Rd, Dubai.

Abstract : Corporate website for an events-management and brands-promotions company. Handling clients, projects & content-management.

Project Manager at Greens Infotek Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • January 2001 to September 2003

1. Successfully designed, developed and deployed clinical softwares in J2EE and .Net technologies for clinical and finance industries with a team of software engineers.
2. Built up a strong team of J2EE developers out of freshers by providing intensive

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology (Software Engineering)
  • at Heriot Watt University
  • August 2009

I passed with distinction. The topic of my dessertation was "Simplifying Software Development with Inversion of Control(IoC) and Aspect Oriented Programming(AOP)", which was top ranked in the university.

Specialties & Skills

Containers
MicroServices
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Architecture
Integration
Java / J2EE
Spring Framework
Dotnet Technologies
Docker, Kubernetes
BPMN, Activiti
Node JS
Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
Big Data
Angular, Ember, SPA

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Languages

English
Intermediate

Memberships

Oracle technology network
  • member
  • February 2002
Spring Support Forums
  • Junior Member
  • February 2006
Sun Developer Network
  • Certified Member
  • June 2004
Dev 2 Dev BEA Forum
  • Member
  • August 2004

Training and Certifications

ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2018
Togaf Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2019
Sun Certified Java Programmer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2005
Redhat Linux Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Pentasoft Technologies
Date Attended:
May 2001
Duration:
64 hours
Core Spring Framework (Training)
Training Institute:
Spring Source
Date Attended:
February 2009
Duration:
40 hours
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect - Java EE 5 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2009