Amol Sharma

39996 Parada St

Newark, CA 94560

(713) 447-4872

amol.sharma22@gmail.com

 

SUMMARY 

·         A technology director having strong experience in providing technical leadership and driving business oriented solutions for big data and ecommerce.

·         9+ years of extensive experience in analysis, design, planning, and execution of application software and product development using agile methodologies. 7+ Years of experience in lead position.

·         Lead the team of developers to launch big ecommerce websites – sunglasshut.com, uniqlo.com, coach.com, tractorsupply.com, t-mobile.com, wasserstrom.com

·         Team Lead responsible for the delivery of 12+ MM dollar projects, driving a team of 40+ resources spanning the Solution Manager, Technical, UID, and Business Analyst roles.

·         Designed and developed a future prediction app called Chrono based on patent pending crowdsourcing algorithm.

·         Experience in big data technologies Apache Hadoop Ecosystem, Spark, GraphX, Mlib and Spark Streaming

·         Experience in ecommerce tools like IBM Websphere Commerce and Magento.

·         Strong hands-on experience in software development using Core-Java, J2EE

·         Experience with writing code in Scala and Python.

 

 

 

EXPERIENCE

06/2014 – Present   Chrono, Founder/CTO                    San Francisco, CA

·         Founded and led a team of 5 developers to build a future prediction app called Chrono

·         Author of provisional patent for future prediction algorithm using crowdsourcing

·         Created vision and strategy for entire product life cycle: from conception, designing, development, launch and marketing on a minimal budget

·         Architected and designed the server-side infrastructure using various technologies Java, Scala and mySQL and cloud infrastructure

·         Written map-reduce program to create a prediction algorithm on top of Apache Hadoop - Yarn.

·         Implemented GraphX based logic to find out importance of future event based on voting from crowd and old events.

·         Configured Talend Big Data integration (Open Studio) tool to load data into HDFS from MySQL.

·         Written code in Spark Streaming and Mlib to get real time predictions added to Chrono app.

·         Pulled National weather services (NWS) forecast data in Hive using Talend to connect weather events to other events for making predictions e.g. traffic jam etc.

·         Configured Tableau dashboard using Hive.

·         Knowledge of Facebook Open Graph, Twitter API, and various Google APIs

·         Designed the UX and UI of Chrono mobile app

 

Technology: Java, Scala, Apache Tomcat, Apache Hadoop - Yarn, Talend (Open Studio), Tableau reporting, MySQL, Apache Spark, Jersey WS, GraphX, Mlib and Spark Streaming

 

12/2007 – Present    Rosetta Marketing, Technology Director           San Francisco, CA

·         Team Lead responsible for the delivery of 12+ MM dollar projects, driving a team of 40+ resources spanning the Solution Manager, Technical, UID, and Business Analyst roles.

·         Lead the team of developers to launch big ecommerce websites – sunglasshut.com, uniqlo.com, coach.com, tractorsupply.com, t-mobile.com, wasserstrom.com

·         Experience in architecting and implementing eCommerce web sites utilizing IBM's Smarter Commerce suite of applications include both WebSphere Commerce v7 and Sterling order management.

·         Worked on Hadoop-Yarn cluster to handle clickstream data. Responsible for creating architecture for product recommendation engine.

·         Migrated ecommerce data from MPP database (Teradata) to HDFS using Talend

·         Current engagements are focused on Social Media Performance Measurement (including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Bazaarvoice, Jive, Pinterest, and Google+), Web Analytics (WebTrends, Site Catalyst, Google Analytics), and multi-channel digital media campaign performance measurement and optimization.

·         In-depth knowledge of different modules of ecommerce – Catalog, Payments, Checkout, Promotions, Account Management, Tax, Shipping and Returns

·         Building our ecommerce practice across the country through recruiting of talented professionals at all levels of experience

 

 

Technology: IBM Websphere Commerce 7, IBM Sterling order management, Tableau, Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Python, Spring, Hibernate, Talend, IBM Sterling order management, Omniture, SOLR, Java, J2EE

 

 

 

 

 

 

07/2005 – 10/2007  TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Technical LeadMumbai, India

·         Lead the team of four technical developers to deliver B2B ecommerce website in six months. Development was done in IBM Websphere Commerce Suite.

·         Involved in end-to-end delivery of Commerce website starting from requirement gathering to final launch.

·         Developed the JSP, Java Beans using WCS framework. Created tables, procedures, functions and triggers in the Oracle9i database.

·         Developed REST Service that was called by external systems.

·         Received “Star of the Month” award for fastest delivery involving an e-commerce project.

·         Fastest member from the technical team to be absorbed into the Global Account Management team.

·         Instrumental in improving Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) from 2.8 to 3.3 in a span of 6 months.

 

Technology: Java 1.4, IBM Websphere Commerce 6, SVN, Eclipse, and Ant 1.2

 

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

·         Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4

·         IBM Certified Websphere Commerce Developer 7.0

·         Sun Certified Business Component Developer for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3

·         Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4

·         Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4

 

TRAININGS

 

·         Attended developer training for Apache Spark provided by Cloudera

·         Attended developer training for Apache Hadoop provided by Cloudera

 

EDUCATION

2001 – 2005   SVIT, Gujarat University                      India

                 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

  Important Courses: Java, C / C++, Data Structures, Digital / Analog Electronics