Tarun Sharma
@tarunsharma
Full-stack developer with 10+ YOE in developing, deploying, and maintaining web/mobile applications.
What I'm looking for
I am a full-stack developer with 8+ years of experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining web/mobile applications. Innovation excites me, and I am passionate about building creative, practical solutions to large-scale problems. I am a seasoned information technology professional, with a degree in Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. I have diverse experience working with global teams in established multinational firms such as VMware, Amazon and GoDaddy as well as in start- ups.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led engineering of GoDaddy’s domain availability and pricing APIs serving millions daily, migrated legacy systems to a microservice architecture eliminating 1,000+ weekly errors, and ensured 100% uptime during major marketing events while reducing incident resolution time via distributed tracing.
Senior Backend Software Developer
Motive
Mar 2023 - May 2024 (1 year 2 months)
Led teams to deliver cross-org features for Omnicam, migrated 60+ feature flags from LaunchDarkly to Statsig on a large monolith, and built a Python data pipeline ingesting 1 Hz vehicle IoT data to Snowflake via Kafka and S3 for downstream insurance use.
Senior Mobile Developer
FlamencoTech (FT) Pvt. Ltd.
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 4 months)
Developed and maintained EmployeeOne in React Native, led a TypeScript migration and a major React Native version upgrade, improving app stability and performance across Android and iOS.
Mobile App Developer
Flamenco Tech Pvt. Ltd
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 3 months)
- Worked using React Native on EmployeeOne - FT's flagship Android/iOS app that contains a suite of mobile services for automated smart office management.
- Led TypeScript migration for EmployeeOne, which resulted in reduced bug counts and increased performance across the app.
- Played an integral role in a major version upgrade (React Native 0.59 to 0.64) and subsequent release of EmployeeOne
Member of Technical Staff - 2
VMWare
Jul 2015 - Aug 2020 (5 years 1 month)
Worked primarily on the backend (Java) of vRealize Code Stream, an enterprise tool for release automation and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Developed both the UI (Angular JS) and backend for a plugin on a microservice based execution engine (Tekton) to integrate Bugzilla into vRCS.
Led a project to automate generation of documentation for all public facing APIs using Swagger.
Worked on backend Java services for vRealize Code Stream, built CI/CD integrations (Tekton, Git webhooks) and a Go-based CI tool to run user-specified builds in Docker, improving automation and integration capabilities.
- Developed an internal tool in Java for the Customer Marketing Analytics Team for scheduling and resource allocation of workflows in a mutli-threaded environment.
- Utilised libraries and frameworks such as a Java Data Object library (DataNucleus), web services(Coral for providing REST Clients) and SQL databases as backend(Amazon RDS).
Developed a multithreaded Java internal scheduling tool for Customer Marketing Analytics and implemented a load-balancer for workflow scheduling using DataNucleus, REST clients and Amazon RDS.
Software Engineering Intern
CoolCast Inc.
May 2013 - Aug 2013 (3 months)
Integrated Project Omaha into a core product saving $1,100 and implemented/tested instant messaging server functionality in Erlang, providing tutorials and demos to senior staff.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2011 - 2015
Grade: 3.30/4.00
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a 3.30/4.00 GPA completed from Aug 2011 to May 2015.
National Public School, Indiranagar
High School, High School
Completed high school at National Public School, Indiranagar, graduating in May 2011.
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