Swapnil Daptardar

 

Email: Swapnil.daptardar@gmail.com           Contact Numbers:  (973) 794 3990 – Home

             (973) 216 7585 - Cell

 

SUMMARY

▪          Over 15 years of experience in the software development industry working with various fortune 100 Financial, Insurance, Education, Media and Publishing companies

▪          Hands-on technical manager leading digital platform and infrastructure architecture

▪          Hands-on team manager committed to lead, mentor and motivate team members to maximize their potential, to deliver high quality software and continually improve the development process

▪          Proven track record of successfully delivering end-to-end technical solutions in Digital space

▪          Delivered large scale multi-million Content Management, eCommerce and Search solutions

▪          Early adopter of Agile software development methodologies to promote transparency, accountability and frequent delivery of high quality products

▪          Lead all software architecture and software engineering activities across multiple large onsite and offshore development teams.

▪          Responsible to evaluate new technologies (open source/proprietary) to optimize solutions

▪          Able to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

▪          Drive the coordination across various groups within the company such as Project Management, Product Management, QA, DevOps, Operations, Networking/DNS teams

▪          Develop and maintain relationship with software vendors and technology service providers to identify and exploit opportunities to drive optimal solutions and cost savings

▪          Strategic and out of box thinker with strong execution capabilities

▪          Excellent communication, organizational and analytical skills

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Goldman Sachs (Mar 2013 - Present)

Technical Architect

Delivering large scale Digital solutions for the sales and marketing initiatives of the IMD communications group within GSAM.  Established a multi-million dollars strategic web content management and digital delivery platform for all marketing and communications needs.  The platform provides an end-to-end solution to digital marketers by enabling them to create, distribute and analyze intuitive multi-lingual content to the third party distributors via web, mobile and campaigning channels. 

Responsibilities:

•          Platform architecture

•          Application design and software delivery with implementation partners

•          Lead integrator with various internal, external as well as vendor products and technologies

•          Infrastructure management and uplift

•          Product evaluations and POCs

Technologies:  Adobe AEM, Adobe DPS, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Analytics, translations.com, Akamai CDN, Java,  Apache server products

 

Pearson PLC (Jun 2012 – Feb 2013)

Principal Architect

Delivered web, eCommerce and enterprise search solutions for Sales and Marketing group within Pearson Education.  Core team member of the multi-million dollars DOeC (Digital, online, eCommerce) platform initiative to provide a centralized solution for the sales and marketing team for their online and eCommerce needs.   Lead architect of the BAU (business as usual) track, designing and delivering small to mid scale solutions to meet the ongoing business needs. 

Responsibilities:

•          Architecture and design of the DOeC platform

•          Architecture lead of the BAU track

•          Track lead of the data integration and consolidation track

•          Ownership of the legacy platform maintenance and migration approach

•          Product evaluations and POCs

Technologies: Adobe CQ, Autonomy TeamSite, LiveSite, OpenDeploy, Vignette eBusiness platform, J2EE, Level3 CDN, Talend Enterprise Data Integration,  Apache server products

 

HomeBoxOffice Inc (Sep 2011–Jun 2012)

Technical Lead

Managed HBO’s flagship website hbo.com, HBO Microsites and Web Content Management and Integration platform. Managed a team of engineers providing small enhancements, production support and maintenance of the platform.  Participated in infrastructure uplift cloud initiatives with Amazon, SAVVIS.

Responsibilities:

•          Platform management

•          Infrastructure management

•          Vendor relationship management

•          System/Application architecture

•          CDN Architecture

•          Cloud Computing initiatives

•          Research and POCs

Technologies: Autonomy TeamSite, LiveSite, OpenDeploy, J2EE,  Apache server products, Amazon EC2, SAVVIS OpenCloud, Limelight CDN, Level3 CDN

 

Pearson Education Inc (Sep 2004 - Aug 2011)

Senior Web Developer (Sep 2008 – Aug 2011)

Technical lead of the Web Content Management, eCommerce, Social Networking and DRM platforms.  Worked on several large scale initiatives such as WCM platform rewrite, Catalog rebranding, Search Engine migration.

Responsibilities:

•          Technical ownership of the environments

•          Lead technical resources on several WCM and Search projects

•          Technical design and development of the search platform with Solr 

•          Technical design and development of core WCM components

•          Data modeling, DDL and DML design and development

•          Participate in High and low level component design

•          Interface design and development for integrating various internal and external systems

•          Cross team co-ordination between multiple teams involved

Technical Consultant (Sep 2004 – Sep 2008) (Technical Manager at HCL America Inc)

Manager of the development and Production support teams for the enterprise WCM and Search platform implemented with Vignette V6 eBusiness platform and FAST Impulse enterprise search.  Delivered several projects and ensured high availability and integrity in the Production environment.

Responsibilities:

•          Lead Product/Vendor evaluations

•          Project Management / Business Analysis

•          Lead POC initiatives

•          Manage development and Production support teams

•          Architecture of new WCM and Search solutions

•          Lead the initiative for Enterprise Search platform using FAST Impulse/ESP

•          Maintenance of existing Products

Technologies:  Vignette eBusiness platform, Oracle RDBMS, Solr, Apache server products, Adobe CQ, FAST enterprise search, J2EE

 

MassMutual Financial (Aug 2002-Sep 2004)

Systems Analyst

MassMutual is a leading financial company which deals in insurance, financing and investment. MassMutual has thousands of Agents and Agencies working for it. It provides the Agents and their associates with a portal which helps them do their business on a day to day basis. This portal is called Fieldnet. I was part of the redesign project of this portal and migration from Vignette platform to in-house Java based application.

Responsibilities:

•          Analysis, design and development of content management and rendering applications using Vignette APIs

•                       Analysis, design and development of Workflow solutions using Vignette APIs

•                       Analysis, design and development of database applications

•                       Architect and develop a custom ETL tool for database migration

•                       Design and development of Java applications for integration with external systems

 

Integrand Information Systems Inc (Mar 2000-Aug2002)

Software Consultant

Worked with a number of different clients on Web Content Management and delivery projects on Vignette Story Server/eBusiness platform, RDBMSs such as Oracle, Sybase and Web servers such as Apache, Netscape and IIS.

Clients:

•          MassMutual Financial (Jan 2001-Aug 2002)

•          HighWired.com (July 2000 – Dec 2000)

•          R R Donnelley and Sons (Apr 2000 – June 2000)

•          Pfizer Inc (Mar 2000 - Apr 2000)                                           

 

EDUCATION

•          Master of Science , Computer Science, May 2003, University Of Bridgeport, Connecticut

•          Bachelor of Engineering , Electronics and Telecommunications, Dec 1996,              

University Of Pune, India