Sumanta Sarathi Biswas

CONTACT

398/1 G.T.Road; Bally Ganga

E-mail:

sumanta.biswas@gmail.com

Apartment;

Phone:

9163917418

Bally, Howrah - 711201

PROFILE SUMMARY
Track record of delivering quality Java/J2EE based solutions over 6+ years in the Investment, Insurance,
Finance, Telecommunications, and Retail industries.
2+ years as a technical lead, 3+ years in Java/J2EE development, and 1+ years in system integration.
Well versed with entire development life cycle and facilitating agile practices.
Spearheaded the design and development of a Spring MVC, Spring, and Hibernate based mission critical
system budgeted at $10 million, which earned high accolades in the independent code and design reviews
conducted by an independent consultancy.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Eliminated cost overruns and delays for more t han 15 project s.
Streamlined engineering processes and provided system training, best practices and project- based
leadership to team members resulting in a 20 percent reduct ion in development t ime.
Delivered a wide range of functional enhancements and performance improvements to doz ens of existing
web- based, e- commerce applicat ions.
Developed a sales lead generation/ management application that increased revenue by 10 percent .
Provided technical leadership on the architecture, design, and successful implementation of a mission critical
24 x7 Java/J2EE applicat ion valued at $10 million at Zensar Technologies Lt d.
Enjoyed repeated success in understanding business expectations, building effective solutions, and
facilitating agile development practices.
Re- architected, refactored, and performance tuned a J2EE based online insurance application, which
previously came down almost daily, became a t rue 24 x7 applicat ion at Tech Mahindra Lt d.

SKILL SET
Operating System

WORK EXPERIENCE
Zensar Technologies

Feb 2008 Jan 2012

Sr. Software Engineer

Provided object- oriented software (OOS) design for one of the construction industrys leading project- management
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platforms. Developed and customiz e software for diverse client base.

Posit ion: Java/J2EE Technical lead/Senior developer ( Design & development focus of
a $10 million dollar high visibility and mission critical project using cutting- edge
technologies and frameworks.)
Achievement Highlights:
Contributed software engineering expertise in the development of products through the software lifecycle, from
requirements definition through successful deployment.
Facilitated customiz ation of systems by encouraging software engineering team to adopt emerging standards
for software application development architecture and tools.
Participated in sales presentations due to ability to translate user needs into easy- to- understand software
solutions. Helped sales team close five major deals generating more than $150K in revenue.
Excelled in rapid application development and management of technological issues for assigned projects,
earning the highest customer satisfaction rating for all software solutions delivered.
Introduced methodologies and best practices that enhanced product definition, release processes and
customiz ation of applications to user needs.
Environment: Java, Eclipse, JSP, Struts, HTML, CSS, XML, CVS, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat Server

Zinf i Sof tware System

Oct 2007 Jan 2008

Sr. Software Engineer

Posit ion: Java/J2EE Senior developer (Leadership, design, and
development focus of a number of Java/J2EE based multi- tiered, high volume (10,000 to
100,000 users), and distributed applications.)
Achievement Highlights:
Managed and mentored a group of application developers, assigned responsibilities, elaborated use cases,
managed project schedules, and module targets.
Reviewed code and encouraged developers to use key design patterns, such as faade, singleton, factory,
command, proxy, strategy, decorator, etc.
Provided recommendations on OO design concepts, best practices, exception handling, and identifying and
fixing potential memory, performance, and transactional issues.
Conducted interviews and made recommendations for hiring Java/J2EE professionals.
Increased the number of JUnit tests from 30+ to 400+ in my watchful eye to improve the overall quality of the
Java/J2EE based applications.
Produced detailed design documents with design alternatives, pros and cons for each approach and
reasons for the recommended approach.
Analyz ed What if scenarios and exceptional conditions and made recommendations to fill the gaps
identified in the functional specs and detailed design.
Environment: Java, , JSP, HTML, CSS, XML, Subversion, Websphere Application Server 6.1, JQuery, Web
services (SOAP,WSDL), JSON, JUnit

Tech Mahindra

Oct 2005 Jul 2007

Sr. Technical Associate

Posit ion: Java/J2EE developer (Development focus of Java/J2EE based applications.)
Achievement Highlights:
Designed and developed Struts like MVC 2 Web framework using the front- controller design pattern, which is
used successfully in a number of production systems.
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Spearheaded the Quick Wins project by working very closely with the business and end users to improve
the current websites ranking from being 23 rd to 6 th in just 3 months.
Normaliz ed Oracle database, conforming to design concepts and best practices.
Resolved product complications at customer sites and funneled the insights to the development and
deployment teams to adopt long term product development strategy with minimal roadblocks.
Convinced business users and analysts with alternative solutions that are more robust and simpler to
implement from technical perspective while satisfying the functional requirements from the business
perspective.
Applied design patterns and OO design concepts to improve the existing Java/JEE based code base.
Identified and fixed transactional issues due to incorrect exception handling and concurrency issues due to
unsynchroniz ed block of code.
Environment: Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, ClearCase, AJAX, Struts2, IBM Websphere 6.1,
Oracle9i/10g, MS Visio, UML, Hibernate

EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration in General
Management

Jan 2010 Dec 2012

Educatis Graduate School of Management, Switz erland

Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management

Apr 1999 Mar 2001

NIIT Ltd

Bachelor of Commerce

Jul 1993 Jun 1996

Calcutta University

INTERESTS
Reading Books
Watching Sports
Playing Cricket

REFERENCES
References available upon request.

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