Surendra Kulkarni

About

Strategic Technology Leader having more than 18 years’ experience with expertise in solving business problems in IT for their Digital Transformation efforts. Further managing the design, development, onshore and offshore project execution using Agile framework and methodologies, implementation and support for technology solutions.
Customer focused approach, relationship building with stake holders, innovation and consulting has been instrumental in earning stake holders trust and confidence in delivering the projects on promised timelines and within the budget.
Expertise in the Software Applications Design and Development, Integration, Project Execution and Management, Process Re-engineering, delivering enterprise applications, Testing, Releasing in the various domains such as Market Data, Online Real Estate, Mortgage, Finance, Brokerage, Manufacturing, Shipping Insurance, Utility, Financial and Retirement planning.

Highly skilled at directing, delivering, managing large scale and high value projects through their entire software development life-cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering and analysis, architecting, designing, development, implementation, testing, effective communication, managing stakeholder’s expectations.

Expertise in distributed architectures, software development methodologies, software design processes, relational and object-oriented database technologies, software languages.
Managed project for Sales Trading, Market Data and Algo Trading Solutions for Industry Leading Brokerage Firm from offshore.
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master (CSM), Sig Sigma Green Belt holder
Experienced in architecting, designing, developing, testing, releasing the Web API services in Azure Cloud.
The expertise in working under tight deadlines for the project’s using Agile Framework
Provide technical leadership in architecting large scale, high-performance, multi-tier enterprise applications, (B2C, B2B, Web and Mobile) and solutions, including Business Components/High volume RESTful API/Adapters for application integration.
With technical depth and strong interpersonal skills, I mentor and coach offshore as well as onshore team members and share knowledge to facilitate the team velocity in achieving objectives and deliverables in multiple sprints.

Multi-tiered, .NET applications in the SOA, Azure Cloud, including ASP.Net core web sites, Web API Services, Windows Communication Foundation Services, XML, JSON, Node.JS, Java Script, jQuery, ASP.NET, C# (C-Sharp), Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2017, Smart Clients, Microsoft SQL server 2016/2014
Proficient in using SQL, SQL Express, Mongo DB, Redis, Redis MQ, MSMQ.
Strong passion to build software tools towards rapid development with high quality, scalable and time to market in a dynamic business environment.
Seasoned professional in Enterprise Architecture including enterprise application integration, Service Oriented Architecture, software engineering and technical management for software product development.
Experience in Test driven development, continuous integration testing, Unit testing, Load Testing, Web Performance testing using VS