Sumit Desai

Project: WealthBench

Description:WealthBench is a valuable tool to help clients determine how
investment decisions affect long-term wealth accumulation and
attainment of financial goals.

Modules:

ESG Module:

• Consumed ESG Services: Integrated external ESG web services to gather environmental, social, and governance data.
• Implemented Strategy Design Pattern: Calculated various statistics such as scores for portfolio's and benchmark's using the Strategy design pattern, ensuring flexibility and scalability for different calculation methods.
• Logging and Failure Handling: Implemented robust logging and failure handling mechanisms to ensure reliable data processing and error recovery.

ESG Module Enhancements:

• Batch Jobs Implementation: Added batch jobs for ESG benchmark indexing to automate the calculation process.
• Performance Optimization: Improved performance and data handling by optimizing batch processing and reducing manual interventions.

Centralized Cache Conversion:

• Migrated from Infinispan Distributed Cache: Led the conversion from a distributed Infinispan cache to a centralized caching system, improving performance and reducing complexity.
• Optimized for Performance: Enhanced the caching strategy to reduce latency and improve the overall response time of the application.

CyberArk Vault Integration:

• POC Development: Conducted a Proof of Concept (POC) to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating CyberArk for centralized credential management.
• Migration from LDAP: Led the migration from LDAP to CyberArk, enhancing security and simplifying credential storage.
• API Integration: Developed and implemented RESTful APIs to facilitate secure access to database credentials from CyberArk.

What-If Scenario Optimization:

• Applied Multithreading: Reduced the API response time by implementing multithreading to handle concurrent "What-If" scenario calculations.
• Performance Improvement: Decreased the processing time for complex scenarios, enhancing the user experience and system efficiency.

Centralized Error Handling for Reports:

• Observer Design Pattern: Implemented centralized error and exception handling for report generation errors across multiple tenants using the Observer design pattern.
• Modular Error Management: Designed the error handling framework to be modular, allowing easy integration with existing report generation workflows for different tenants.

Penetration testing Fixes:

• CSV Macro Injection: Resolved vulnerabilities related to CSV macro injection, ensuring secure handling of CSV files and preventing potential exploits.
• Insufficient Access Control: Implemented necessary changes to address insufficient access control issues, enhancing user permissions and securing sensitive data.
• Security Headers Implementation: Added and configured security headers to improve overall application security, mitigating risks associated with common web vulnerabilities.

Java 17 Migration:

• Version Upgrade: Led the migration of the application from an older Java version to Java 17, leveraging the latest language features and performance improvements.
• Dependency Management: Updated and tested all project dependencies to ensure compatibility with Java 17, resolving any conflicts or issues encountered during the migration process.

Project: WealthBench

Modules :

Alerting Feature Development:

• Admin Configuration: Developed an alerting feature that allows administrators to configure various alerts for different tenants.
• Schema & Service Design: Designed the entire database schema to support the alerting functionality.
• Multithreading Implementation: Utilized multithreading to run alerts efficiently, allowing for concurrent processing and improved performance.
• Design Patterns Application: Applied design patterns to enhance the architecture of the alerting system, promoting modularity and code reusability.
• User Interface Integration: Collaborated with front-end developers to integrate the alerting feature into the existing admin interface, enhancing user experience.

Barra Web Services for Factor Modules:

• SOAP Web Services Integration: Integrated Barra SOAP web services to retrieve data responses, ensuring accurate data flow between systems.
• Data Processing: Processed the responses from the Barra services to transform the data into a presentable format suitable for user interface display.
• Caching Implementation: Utilized caching mechanisms to improve data retrieval performance, reducing response times and enhancing the user experience.

API Integration with Reporting Team:

• Cross-Team Integration: Collaborated with the reporting team within our organization, whose responsibility was to generate PDF reports using internal data.
• Web Services Integration: Integrated the reporting team’s requirements by creating RESTful APIs to facilitate data access from our systems for report generation.
• Authentication & Authorization: Implemented Single Sign-On for authentication and Spring Security for authorization, enhancing security during data access.

Report Shortcut Feature Development:

• Object-Oriented Principles: Designed the report shortcut feature using OOP principles, particularly focusing on polymorphism to allow for flexible and reusable code structures.
• Design Principles Application: Applied design principles such as the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) to ensure that each class and module has a single purpose, enhancing maintainability and clarity.
• Feature Implementation: Developed the functionality for creating shortcuts to frequently used reports, improving user efficiency and access to critical data.
• User Experience Enhancement: Collaborated with UI/UX designers to ensure the shortcut feature is intuitive and seamlessly integrates into the existing reporting interface.

Project:WealthBench

Modules:

New SE Client Development:

• Dynamic API Creation: Developed a single-point API backend that dynamically connects the UI to datasets, enhancing data accessibility and interaction.
• Feature Enhancement: Added new features to the SE client backend through API development, improving functionality and user experience.

Migration from Perl to Angular:

• Module Conversion: Tasked with converting the admin module from Perl to Angular for the front end and Spring for the backend, enhancing the application's modern architecture and user experience.
• Service and Database Design: Created services and designed the database architecture, implementing Data Access Objects (DAO) for efficient data management.
• Unit Testing: Wrote JUnit tests to ensure the functionality and reliability of the developed services.

Spring Security Implementation:

• API Authorization: Implemented Spring Security for API authorization, ensuring secure access control and authentication for the application’s backend services.

Spring LDAP Services:

• LDAP Integration: Developed Spring LDAP services to facilitate secure authentication and access management within the application.

Daily Bug Fixes and Feature Development:

• Bug Resolution: Actively engaged in daily bug fixes, ensuring the application maintained high reliability and performance.
• New Feature Implementation: Contributed to the development of new features as part of the ongoing project, enhancing overall application functionality.

Project: OmniNG/PACS.

Description: Developed and maintained systems for the Agriculture Credit Society, a credit institution governed by the Government of India.

Modules: Daily Deposit, Retail, Ration, Hiring, Share Dividend.

Module Development:

• Development and Customization: Developed modules from scratch and incorporated client-required changes, ensuring that the application met specific user needs and standards.

Spring AOP Implementation:

• POC Development: Involved in a Proof of Concept (POC) for Spring AOP, which was successfully integrated into the application, enhancing its modular structure and design.

Business Requirements Documentation:

• BRD Interpretation: Interpreted Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and created Low-Level Design (LLD) documents to ensure comprehensive understanding and clarity in project execution.

Database Management:

• Database Utilization: Worked with MySQL and SQL Server databases for data management and storage, optimizing data retrieval and manipulation processes.

Unit Testing:

• JUnit Implementation: Wrote JUnit tests to perform unit testing, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of individual components within the application.