Shrikant Dange

SHRIKANT SADASHIV DANGE S.No 5/4, Dhankawadi, Pune MH 411043 | - |- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE PayPal – Bangalore, India APR ‘21 – PRESENT Member of Technical Staff – 1, Information Security • SOAR – Built a distributed, highly scalable, and configurable integration platform to enhance security operations like threat detection, incident response, incident management, etc. • Replaced Mule based solution to provide various integration points for incompatible systems to communicate with each other. Helped to save around $700K$ per year. • Security Analytics – Building an enterprise data lake to consolidate security data like vulnerability data, assets data, user data, config data from various sources to serve as the single source of truth. • Building analytics models and AI/ML models on top of the data to make context aware decisions to assess and mitigate security risks. APR ’19 – MAR ’21 Information Security Engineer 3 Built real-time, embedded analytics platform to improve security related decisions by analysis of large amount of data from varied sources. • Context aware system provided decisions on whether accessing agent poses a security threat to company’s resources and data. • This application led us to take the first step towards Zero Trust Architecture. Optum Services Inc. (Formerly, The Advisory Board Company) – Austin, TX, Chennai, India AUG ’18 – APR ‘19 Senior Software Engineer • Built Big Data platform solution to orchestrate analytics-based pipelines using AWS stack to analyze health care data. • Provided AWS platform and security solutions to support strategic planners of healthcare providers. NOV ’17 – JUL ‘18 Software Engineer • Built a tool to streamline security and access control to national data across teams. • Built an application to migrate metastore from Hive to AWS Glue Data Catalog. Bitwise, Inc. – Schaumburg, IL SEPT ’17 – OCT’ 17 Senior Consultant • Automated migration of metadata from Data Registry to Nebula (metadata store on AWS Cloud). • Wrote an application to preprocess input datasets (change formats, clean data, etc.,) using Scala and Apache Spark. SEPT ’15 – SEPT’ 17 Consultant • Built a large scale, time critical, multi-threaded java application to tokenize and de-tokenize sensitive information like SSN, etc. • Improved processing time for 18-gigabyte data file from 120 hours to just 8 minutes. • Involved in migration of application processing from on-prem Hadoop to AWS Cloud. Zensar Technologies Ltd. – Pune, Maharashtra SEPT ’11 – JUL ‘13 Software Engineer • • • Independently built a web tool to automate processes such as defect tracking, creating, and deploying configuration files, managing 4 jvm’s and sharing test reports to team members and managers. Involved in code development and change in business mappings for 3A4 and cXML orders. Academic Projects SEPT – OCT ‘14, SUNY Chord – Scalable Peer to Peer Lookup Service • Implemented Chord, a multithreaded distributed peer to peer lookup protocol to efficiently lookup nodes that stores data items. • Created a basic chord distributed hash table to implement node joins and remove functionality and basic file operations. MAY – AUG ‘14, SUNY Customer Retention Tool • Built a web-based recommendation tool to focus more on visitors of a shop rather than buyers buy capturing personal details, likes and dislikes, etc. JAN – MAY ’11, Pune University, India Unified Database Interface Built a tool to enable developers to interact with any backend database e.g., Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MySQL etc. Implemented functionalities to build, test and debug PL/SQL packages, procedures, and functions. MAR – MAY ’10, Pune University, India Cyber Café Management Tool • • • Built a system for Cyber Café owner to provide ‘prepaid facility’ for regular users using Java. Technical Skills • Programming languages • Frameworks/Libraries/Tool Reactive Programming, Apache (Kafka, Hadoop`, Spark, Hive, Zeppelin), AWS (S3, EC2, EMR, SNS, • • • Familiar With Databases Web Technologies Java, C, Scala (Intermediate), Python (Beginner) Step Functions, Lambda), Firebase Cascading, Multithreading Programming, Bamboo, Jenkins, Agile Methodology FireStore, Oracle 10g, SQL, MySQL, MS Access HTML5. CSS3, JSP, Servlets, Apache Tomcat 7, XML, JavaScript Education Binghamton University, State University of New York Master of Science in Computer Science. GPA - 3.67/4.0 Courses: Design Patterns, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Computer Security. Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune University Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Courses: Data Structures, Operating Systems, Database Management Systems, Computer Architecture. Aug’13 – Aug ‘15 Jun’ 07 – Jun ‘11 Additional Experience, Certification and Awards JUN – AUG ‘20, PayPal, India Inventory Management System • Built Inventory Management System for Parikrma NGO as part of PayPal Opportunity Hackathon 2020. • System was built to help the NGO manage inventory of goods like food, books, furniture etc., for students. Amongst the Best Award (Star Performer) AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA) Excellence Award for demonstrating excellence with passion in Tokenization project. Big Data and Hadoop Certification (Edureka) Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 6 Programmer PayPal, 2019 - 2020 MAY ’17 – MAY ’19, Bitwise, Richmond VA MAY ’16, Bitwise, Richmond, VA DEC ’15, Bitwise, Richmond, VA JAN’ 11, Pune, India