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An accomplished Software Engineer (13+ years experience) in developing Java & SOA based Enterprise applications, integrating with web services xml APIs, and has strong knowledge in Object Oriented Analysis & Design. • Built web services based on REST. • Did integrations with Travel booking providers using Web Services. Closely worked with adapters for GDS (sabre, galileo, apollo, worldspan) - for Flight, Hotel, Car, Train availability and bookings. • Substantial experience using Model View Controller (MVC) pattern frameworks and developing business logic. • Load tested business use cases including RESTful services. • Very experienced in design and development of functional requirements and incorporating non-functional requirements - performance, scalability, maintainability, reusability and security. • Experienced in - UML, using design patterns, practicing standards (coding, ISO), unit testing. Familiar with Open source software. • Self-managed, and has proven competency to follow Agile scrum methodology, troubleshoot issues, mentor new engineers and initiate new processes. • Led small size teams through development lifecycle and delivered high quality product features. Technical Skills: • LANGUAGES: Java – XML, XSLT – HTML, DHTML, JavaScript • TECHNOLOGIES: Java Server Pages (JSP), JSTL, Servlets, Webwork, Struts, Spring framework - JMS, JMX, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) - JDBC, Hibernate, SQL - Web Services, SOAP, REST, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JAXB, Dynatrace - Ubuntu, Perforce, Eclipse, Scrum, Ant, Maven.

Lead Application Developer @ From May 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Senior Software Engineer @ • Integrated application & platform with a Rental car provider's booking system. • Built RESTful services • Designed unique model to version REST services. • Integrated application & platform with a Rail provider's booking system. • Developed many Travel specific features that led up to dealing with GDS. • Instrumented functionalities using JMX to monitor health of provider adapters. • Configured dashboards in Dynatrace tool to monitor application. • Performance tested and load tested popular use cases, found bottlenecks and proposed changes based on results. • Developed custom adaptors to get around third party booking system downtime, and most importantly to support load testing business use cases. • Very familiar with topology of production, Dev and test clustered environments. Troubleshooted enormous number of functional and non-functional production incidents. From February 2009 to March 2014 (5 years 2 months) Java Developer @ • Redesigned presentation tier with Webwork framework utilizing JSP, webwork Tag library, Freemarker templates and View Helper, MVC patterns. • Designed and implemented infrastructure for Value List Handler Design Pattern to stream line various search functionalities in the product for consistent behavior and to conform to J2EE guidelines. • Designed and led the infrastructure development to support Internationalization and Localization. • Designed and led the development cycle for feature called Audit which records – User activity during a login session and creation/modifications of Company, Domain business entities in the system. Recording of the auditable data is achieved by Session bean through MDB listening to JMS queue. Persistence is based on DAO pattern using JDBC. • Developed Product Catalog Versioning feature wherein a Product’s current state is versioned before updating it. This functionality can be triggered from UI or through Messaging. Versioned data stored as XML, in Oracle Clobs, is being retrieved, saved and accessed through Hibernate. • Developed a feature that lets a customer to create an Order and ship it through a carrier. Integrated this feature with FedEx and DHL Web Services (to choose best shipment rate, book and download bar code labels) using messaging protocol, SOAP, over http. • Involved in developing major product features, namely – Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM), Landed Cost, Origin Determination, Reconciliation, License Management, Document Generation, compliance and Product Catalog. • All the feature developments involved writing Junit test cases, Ant build scripts and deployments in Weblogic. From January 2002 to February 2009 (7 years 2 months) Java Developer @ • Developed Training Management system, with online curriculum planning, scheduling, student enrollment and course delivery. And integrated product with Netegrity SiteMinder platform for User authentication. • Involved in migrating application to Weblogic 5.1. From 2001 to 2001 (less than a year) Software Engineer @ • Developed Voice User Interface (VUI) to Microsoft Exchange server. • Involved in training on Weblogic at Bea Systems to facilitate future software developments From June 2000 to December 2000 (7 months)

Masters of Science, Computer Science @ Villanova University From 1999 to 2000 Masters of science, Material Science @ Oklahoma State University From 1998 to 1998 Bachelors of Tehnology (B.Tech), Metallurgical Engineering @ Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University From 1994 to 1998 MSN high school kakinada Veera Beeraka is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Ant, Hibernate, Java Enterprise Edition, Web Services, Java, REST, Tomcat