Hello, My Name is Chouhan.

Rakesh Chouhan, 39 years old, born and grew up in Hyderabad, India. Currently working in Indian Land (Fort Mill), SC. Highly motivated, a solution driven developer.

I currently work for Ark Innovations Inc., as a consultant for different clients and projects where I spend most of my time developing and working on awesome projects.

I am a team player, a self-motivator possessing excellent analytical, communication, problem solving, decision-making and organizational skills. I love to be in a challenging position in the diverse field of design, development and verification software and as well as hardware technologies. I am passionate and enthusiastic in learning and adopting new technologies.

My ultimate objective is to make myself stand in parallel with the latest research and developments, and at the same time benefiting the company for which I work.

Contact Details

  • Rakesh Chouhan
  • Indian Land, SC
  • +1(337)-853-1497
  • me@rakeshchouhan.com
  • www.rakeshchouhan.com

Qualities I carry...

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

1. Impressive technical skills

The years of experience I carried so far has given me a great foundation in many areas of various programming languages like Java, Javascript, Go Lang, Scala, etc., and exposure in many other technical areas.

2. Willingness to learn.

It's important for me as a programmer to have extreme interest in following the latest trends and eager to participate in any continuing education opportunities that are available and so I "GOOGLE" for it very often.

3. Debugging skills

Instead of spending hours searching for issues blindly, I prefer to carefully investigate the code and research for possible issues until an answer is found.

4. Problem solving skills

Programming can best be compared to solving an extremely difficult math equation. I thrive on finding ways to make something work, despite the odds. I foresee every possible scenario & situation to solve a given problem thinking out of the box.

5. Passion for the work

I gladly put in long hours when the situation merits in. I am more of a self proclaimed "computer geek", spending most of the time creating apps for myself, friends & community, building and tweaking servers, learning new technical and non technical things while in my spare time.

6. Grace under fire

Almost 90% of the time, I always was able to handle tight deadlines and even the most stressful situations calmly and gracefully, and most importantly be able to continue working. All what I require is a complete silence environment to thrive.

7. People skills

I regularly interact with client, managers, business users, co-workers for various reasons. I tend to participate in client meetings, business meetings, etc., to keep up with the ongoing happenings and also explain them how a system works.

8. Laziness

Yes, being a human, I sometimes go lazy, which I do not consider it to be a bad trait to which would impact my productivity. Instead being so, I sometimes find a best way to do something quickly in a more efficient way.

9. Business perspective

Being a business-focussed programmer, it's not easy for me to lose sight of the big picture while focusing on creating one piece of software. I do come up with suggestions and ideas for new applications that can improve operations and move beyond the current application.

10. Ability to plan

Rather than jumping into a new assignment, I first learn as much possible about the desired end product. Once I complete that analysis, I would go with design in mind before typing in the first line of code.

11. Ability to handle failure

I always love to fail first and pass later while programming. In fact, failure is almost a certainity. I rarely get everything right on the first try. However, I see errors and bugs as a challenge rather than a sign of defeat. I have the ability to start over from scratch if necessary, even after hours of work.

12. Teamwork mentality

I rarely get the oppurtunity to work alone. I always carry the ability to collaberately work with clients, managers, business users, marketing and sales staff, and fellow programmers (sometimes do pair programming, based on needs).

13. Willingness to research

As my career progressed working with variety of different clients, it wasn't just researching the programming language api kept me rolling but it was essentially important for me to understand the business structure for the client I work for, which eventually ended up having me the willingness to research the business.

14. MultiTasking & Preferred Work Environment

Whenever I feel I am confident enough, I sometimes multitask, to speed up the process or save time. I feel confident that my competency on deliverables, problem-solving skills and debugging skills are more productive when working in a quiet environment rather than working in chaos.

15. Respect for deadlines

I do work on projects with deadlines and I respect that. It makes me more responsible by adhering to timelines, if I am preparing for something or want to achieve something, I would rather set a examination date or a deadline date first.

My Strengths

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

82%
Innovation
71%
Reliable
82%
Communication
58%
Leadership
67%
Persuasion

My Stages of Grief

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

50%
Denial
35%
Anger
60%
Bargaining
55%
Depression
80%
Acceptance

My Resume

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

My Education
1989 - 2009

Thanks to my parents for helping and supporting me for what I am today.

2008 - 2009

Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.


- Wayne State University

Graduated with distinction majoring VLSI Systems design with specific interest in Embedded Systems and Sensor Cells.

2003 - 2007

Bachelors in Electronics and Communications Engineering.


- Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University

Graduated with distinction with extensive interest in Embedded Systems, VLSI, Telecommunication, Electro Magnetic Theory and Networking theory but not limited to Computer Science subjects like Pulse & Digital Circuits, Operating Systems and Computer Networks.

2001 - 2003

Board of Intermediate Education.


- Sri Aurobindo Jr. College

Excelled Intermediate Education (Class of 11 & 12) with top of the class marks mainly in Maths, Physics and Chemistry subjects.

1989 - 2001

Board of Secondary School.


- St. Ann's High School

It's really hard to get back to those initial days of incubating maturedness which was filled with joy and learning things every day in a new fashion. I always feel that I was very well nourished with the qualities I carry myself to this day. I was a simple, sober and a very bright student who would complete his homeworks on time, taking examinations very seriously and had ambition towards any goals which were set forth.

Projects & Clients

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard

Compass Group USA

"The Owner's Management Suite helps the food service suppliers a way to interact to Vendors, Marketers, Temporary Associates & User Admins with humongous amount of data (such as Cost Centers, Point of Sale, Book of Records, Vendor Locations, etc.,) in the form of Web UI. The backend is orchestrated with microservices architecture by leveraging a hybrid cloud (both On-Prem & AWS) infrastructure."

Sr. Software Engineer
Oct 2016 - Till Date

Goldman Sachs

"The Expense Management Application supports Goldman customers to raise Invoices for their monthly businesses. It allows the customers to Self Service themselves with followings tasks like, assigning Invoices to Anlysts, Coders, Reviewers, Administrators, etc."

Sr. Principle IT Consultant
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016

Hortonworks. (Volunteer'ed)

"The Sqoop Data Ingestion Application is the one which re-models an ideal RDBMS IDE/Workbench something like a MySQL or a SQL Server editor into a rich interactive and intuitive GUI Application, which helps Hortonworks internal users to directly function with backend data model which are fetched from different internal data sources."

Sr. Full-Stack Software Engineer
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

VMware Inc.

"The vSphere Web Client enables you to connect to a vCenter Server system to manage an ESXi host through a browser.

The VCSA Installer (aka. vCenter Server Appliance) deployer is used to run the vCenter Server, where the user's can easily install and configure vCenter without the need of having a dedicated server. This product was first developed in Windows Client, which was again packaged as a Linux based VM. Currently this product goes as a standalone application which provides the same functionality as the Windows Client."

Sr. Principle Software Engineer
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015

Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) Delaware.

"ASSIST is an online application for Delawarians to apply for many health and human service programs. The fast and easy way to apply for various benefits - anytime and anywhere. Benefits Include, Health Care Coverage, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Cash Assistance, Long Term Care, Free or reduced school meals, etc."

Sr. IT Consultant
May 2012 - Feb 2014

Department of Human Services (DHS) - Pennsylvania

"COMPASS is an online application for Pennsylvanians to apply for many health and human service programs. The fast and easy way to apply for various benefits - anytime and anywhere. Benefits Include, Health Care Coverage, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Cash Assistance, Long Term Care, Free or reduced school meals, etc.."

Sr. IT Consultant
May 2012 - Feb 2014

Morgan Stanley

"Capital Budgetting (CB/Wallet) and Technology Funding Requests (TFR's) are flex based internal dashboards of Morgan Stanley to maintain Funding Management of various clients across the world. These dashboards are also intended to serve the workflow status of each request made. FAM (Funding Alert Management) dashboard was intended to serve the Business Owner's, the Super Departments to view and or take an appropriate action (CRUD operations) on a Wallet or a TFR."

Sr. Software Engineer Consultant (Remote)
May 2012 - May 2013

Department of Children and Family Services - Louisiana

"CAFE (Common Access Front End) is developed for the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) for State of Lousiana. The Rich Internet based CAFE application, serves the residents of lousiana to opt welfare programs for Child Care and Family while selecting various Benefits.CAFE application is purely a browser based application."

Sr. IT Consultant
2011 - 2012

Deloitte

"ASSIST/COMPASS is an online application for Delawarians/Pennsylvanians to apply for many health and human service programs. The fast and easy way to apply for various benefits - anytime and anywhere. Benefits Include, Health Care Coverage, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Cash Assistance, Long Term Care, Free or reduced school meals, etc.. "

Sr. IT Consultant
2011 - 2014

Chrysler (FCA)

"wiTech Vehicle Diagnostic Application serves as the core and the integral software to inspect all the Chrysler Vehicles and is currently being used by all the Chrysler Dealers across the world. This wiTech Application is Desktop based AIR Application which is purely built using Flex Cairngorm Micro Architecture as the Front End, which connects its own built-in Server (called as wiTech Server) written in J2EE Platform. The Entire backend data is being contacted using secured Socket Connections."

IT Consultant
Apr 2010 - Jun 2011

Verizon Telecom

"Template Manager for sending mails is used for internal Business employees of Verizon Telecom which is totally based on Flex as the UI and J2EE as the server side. This project is mainly intended to make the Business more user friendly. Template Manager is used to send promotional, billing dues and offers as emails to the corresponding preferred customers of Verizon. Template Manger also sends mails to a group using the Open EMM (Open Source Email Marketing Management) server which internally uses a web service."

Software Engineer Consultant
2008 - 2010

N2 Services Inc

"A web based project designed and developed for insurance agents to issue a policy through web. Agent can then, check the status of the customer, while issuing policy house hold information of primary insured or head of house hold, consumer details, number of dependents and coverage details are required. Once all the required details are entered policy number is auto generated."

Programmer Analyst - Intern
2008 - 2008

Skills & Expertise

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

85%

HTML5 + CSS3 + JS

85%

UI/Web Frameworks

75%

Big Data / Hadoop

65%

Other OO Languages

85%

Java/J2EE

70%

RDBMS & NoSQL's

90%

Distributed Systems & Microservices

85%

Web Services (REST/SOAP)

80%

Shell Script (Unix / Linux / Windows)

80%

Cloud Infrastructure

85%

Build Automation Tools

90%

J2EE Frameworks (Spring & Hibernate)

85%

Design & Analysis

85%

Version Tools

95%

Bug Tracking Tools

95%

Development Tools & IDE's

85%

Networking Tools

55%

SOA / BRM / BPM Tools

Knowledge

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living and Wisdom begins with Wonder.

Server Side Programming

90%

Web Development

90%

RDBMS & NoSQL's

75%

Cloud Infrastructure & Virtualization Concepts

80%

Networking Protocols & Tracking

90%

Security, Tools & IDE's

85%

Accolades

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Erlang Language - 2010

A course completion certificate from Erlang Solutions on Erlang Language.

Six Sigma (Green Belt) - 2008

Received Green Belt in Six Sigma as part of my Masters Course.

Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) - 2001

Congratulated with distinction in MS-DOS, C language and MS Office 98 by National Computing Council, India.

Locknil Computer Education - 1997

Certificate in Basic Computer Language (Elementary)

Milestones Achieved

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

10

Cups of Coffee

10

Hours Worked

10

Succesful Projects

5

Happy Clients

Work Process

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process - Vincent Van Gogh

With over 8 years of extensive experience and expertise across different domains with a variety of clients, I have the competence to understand the clients business needs and provide the client with cutting-edge software and mobile applications.

1. Requirements
2. Design
3. Implement
4. Test
5. Deliver
6. Support

I intend to reduce the risks and time associated with the application development and so I follow industry standard SDLC (Software Developement Life Cycle) process. I generally follow spiral iterative methodology to build software applications in the shortest possible time and with zero risk. I start the project by gathering business and technical requirements, designing, development, integration & testing, deployment & acceptance and finally maintaining the product.

Say Hello

Have exciting work !!! Let's discuss.

Rakesh Chouhan

me@rakeshchouhan.com

Indian Land, SC