• Experienced Senior Engineering Manager with 16 years of experience in developing and delivering scalable, mission critical enterprise platform software
• Ability to coach highly effective teams, deliver on strategic initiatives and manage multiple priorities effectively
• Experience working with the executive management team (President, EVP & VPs.) for strategic initiatives
• Many years of Java development experience with senior leadership roles in engineering. Hands on development experience of mission critical enterprise software. Lead strategic projects impacting revenues in billions. Filed for 42 patents from various research and development projects.
o Experience leading Multi-tenancy project for WebLogic Server and Oracle Fusion middleware to improve density for cloud and private data center deployments. Currently working as ‘architect’ role for driving multi-tenancy architecture across Oracle middleware. Filed for 12 patents from this effort
o Experience designing and managing a team to deliver Zero Downtime Patching feature for WebLogic. Filed for 1 patent from this effort
o Led Platform as a Service (PaaS) / Private Cloud development project and filed for 21 patents
o Designed and architected Application Server clustering features and filed for 8 patents
• Building and managing globally distributed high performance teams (US, India, Prague, Sweden)
• Winner of People's Choice Award at Sun for excellence in engineering management and execution
• Acknowledged for making projects successful with tight deadlines and constraints. Consistently delivered results with a team-spirited, positive attitude
• Rated as top 10% of Sun Microsystems and Oracle all throughout the career
Director of Software Development, Cloud Application Foundation @ * Responsible for delivering next generation server infrastructure including delivery of end-to-end multi-tenant server runtime with sophisticated management and monitoring and other premium features such as Zero Downtime Patching. Acting as engineering manager responsible for delivery of end-to-end WebLogic Premium product offering.
* Responsible for WebLogic Server product development. Currently manage the manageability and multi-tenancy infrastructure areas. From December 2013 to Present (1 year 11 months) Santa Clara, CASenior Software Development Manager, Cloud Application Foundation @ * Led as engineering manager responsible for Oracle Fusion Middleware PaaS Platform project. This project focused on delivering private cloud infrastructure.
* Was responsible for manageability and core infrastructure of GlassFish Server product development.
* Led GlassFish 3.1 application server release as the engineering manager responsible for the overall delivery of the project. This is a very complex major software product release consisting of 100+ engineers spanning several geographies across the globe. From May 2009 to November 2013 (4 years 7 months) Santa Clara, CaliforniaSoftware Development Manager, Application Server @ * Was responsible for GlassFish Server product development.
* Was responsible for engineering development and overall delivery of GlassFish Enterprise Manager initiative. This was a set of value added management tools that our commercial customers received. It allowed user to optimally tune GlassFish in seconds. Enabled GlassFish monitoring using SNMP. Helped user to proactively monitor key performance indicators and receive alerts, self management of JDBC connection pool, log file pruning, etc.
• Created and managed GlassFish Update Center project. It provided software lifecycle management support. Managed a 6-person, globally distributed open source project to employ a multi-platform packaging system. This Linux distro style network repository approach provided customers with a consistent and high quality means of updating and adding new features.
* Led various engineering and marketing initiatives to drive developer adoption of GlassFish. Was responsible and successfully delivered developer growth target goal for GlassFish measured by download numbers (3 million downloads of GlassFish).
• Was responsible for driving implementation of GlassFish user registration project based on service tags. GlassFish registration was a big success with 300K plus registered users over 6-8 months. This allowed GlassFish team to connect with the users and generate sales leads using automated online sales techniques. From November 2006 to April 2009 (2 years 6 months) Santa Clara, CASenior Staff Engineer, GlassFish @ * Joined Sun at MTS II level. During the 6 year tenure of my career, was involved in various key initiatives (ex. GlassFish cluster design). Filed for 8 patents from my technical work.
* Over the years, lead different product areas such as Java EE 5 SDK, application deployment, synchronization, distributed cluster notification, load balancer administration, web services management, user experience, etc. From November 2000 to October 2006 (6 years) Software Engineer @ Was part of the team that developed the portal server for J. D. Edwards. From March 2000 to October 2000 (8 months) Denver, ColoradoSoftware Engineer @ Was involved in design and development of a framework that provided core runtime functionality for server side Java applications. This framework was developed prior to J2EE and was used in many mission critical system such as in house pay for performance system spanning 13 states of the telecommunication giant. From June 1998 to March 2000 (1 year 10 months) Denver, Colorado
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science @ University of Minnesota-Duluth From 1994 to 1998 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Numerical and Computational Mathematics @ University of Minnesota-Duluth From 1994 to 1998 Nazrul Islam is skilled in: Java Enterprise Edition, Distributed Systems, Application Servers, Middleware, Cloud Computing, Scalability, REST, Java, Solaris, Open Source, Software Engineering, Agile Methodologies, Ant, Enterprise Software, Virtualization, Software Design, PaaS, Glassfish, Tomcat, JSP, System Architecture, Cluster, High Availability, XML, Perl, Weblogic, Enterprise Architecture, WebLogic
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