Sameer Kulkarni

Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin, Germany

Technical Experience

Senior Backend Engineer @ Delivery Hero (Mar 2022 - Dec 2022)
Food delivery platform for Foodpanda, Talabat, Yemeksepeti etc

  • Designed a solution together with the team that optimizes manual process of setting up delivery prices by pricing managers using Kotlin, Apache Kafka, Google BigQuery, Kubernetes, Helm on AWS Cloud
  • Onboarded new team members
  • Technologies used: Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, RDS, Kubernetes, Drone, Gradle, IntelliJ, JPA (Hibernate), PostgreSQL, Spinnaker, Grafana, Metabase

Senior Software Engineer @ Tignum GmbH (Jan 2018 - Feb 2022)
Teach and coach tangible solutions to enhance the personal readiness of leaders and their teams

  • Development of Spring Boot and Spring MVC Web Services (REST APIs) using J2EE components
  • Project has interaction of REST APIs to external applications
  • Worked as Android Application using Kotlin to develop interface that connects the app with Backend Services
  • CI/CD migration from Jenkins to GitHub Actions
  • Prototyping Backend Kotlin Project with Ktor
  • Developed jMeter tests for load testing of Backend Services
  • Mentoring team members
  • Technologies used: J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Android Development, Kotlin, Python, AWS, SQS, RDS, EC2, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, IntelliJ, JPA (Hibernate), PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, Kibana, GitHub Actions
  • Blog: GitHub Action VS Jenkins

Software Engineer @ HealthCarion GmbH (Apr 2012 - Dec 2017)
Patient tracking for hospitals and retirement homes using Bluetooth devices. Also provided PRE/POST OP alarms using location

  • Development of software solution which provides new opportunities in the areas of process management and patient safety
  • Design and development of J2EE software components and GUI Vaadin framework components
  • Developed a wrapper framework over Selenium framework for automated GUI testing
  • Developed an Android application which can be used as a replacement for real devices (e.g. patient call device)
  • Worked on a project to interface third party Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices with Raspberry pi using Python
  • Implementation of specific customer demands and integration into our existing software solutions including design of database, backend and web user interface
  • Managing application building using Jenkins and Maven
  • Technologies used: J2EE, Vaadin Framework, Android Development, Python, Shell scripting, GWT, JavaScript, CSS, JPA (Hibernate), JUnit, Maven, Jenkins, Eclipse

Master Thesis @ Jesta Digital (now Freenet Digital) (Sep 2011 - Mar 2012)

  • Topic: “Automation of the Java EE Server monitoring configuration using RESTful APIs.”
  • Developed a command line tool to perform bulk operations over a monitoring server using RESTful APIs
  • Technologies used: J2EE, Wicket Framework, JPA (Hibernate), JUnit, Zabbix Monitoring System, REST API from Zabbix, Eclipse

Web Application Developer Intern @ Texas Instruments GmbH (Mar 2011 - Aug 2011)

  • Managed equipment reservation tool application (reserve testing time/engineering time for wafer testing process)
  • Developed a cron scheduler which loads data to local database from remote data warehouse
  • Performed SQL query tuning tasks
  • Technologies used: JSPs, jQuery, JUnit, UML tools, PHP, Netbeans

Software Engineer @ SoftCorner (Sep 2008 - Dec 2009)
Product development for different companies and banks in India

  • Worked on Flamingo – Any database to any database object migration tool
  • Worked for a client, LOYAL3, USA to develop HTML scraper to extract information from brokerage accounts
  • Worked with Datagenius, USA: cleaned up database and tuned existing data extraction queries; DBA activities like database creation, schema creation, backups
  • Technologies used: Core Java, Swing, JSPs, Spring, Spring Security, AJAX, Oracle Analytics, NetBeans

Programmer Analyst Trainee @ Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Aug 2007 - Sep 2008)

  • Trained in Core Java, Java Web
  • Worked with Wellington Management Company, Boston, USA (investment adviser/sub-adviser)
  • Managed two applications Statserver and Datamart
  • Member of support team
  • Technologies used: Core Java, Java Web, Oracle SQL/PLSQL

Undergraduate Intern @ College of Military Engineering (Jul 2006 - Jun 2007)

  • Research project: “Pattern Recognition Algorithm Development for Digital Images Using Automated Techniques”
  • Technologies used: Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Access, Visual Studio

Education and Qualification

Masters in Software Engineering for Industrial Application
University of Applied Sciences, Hof - Hof, Germany (Feb 2010 - Mar 2012)
Final Score: 1.4 (1.0 – Best)

Bachelor of Engineering – Computer
Pune University - Pune, India (2003 - 2007)
78.73% (100% – Best)
Honors: 4th rank out of 2269 students

Personal skills and Competences

Certifications

  • TELC – B1 German Language Certification
  • Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) – Java 5 – 84%
  • Cognizant Certified Professional (CCP) – Core Java / Oracle SQL/PLSQL / Visual C# / Investment Management (L1) / Banking & Financial Services (L0)

Courses & Trainings

  • SAP R/3 Enterprise - PS Project System (University of Applied Sciences, Hof)
  • 40 hours training for Oracle – DBA Fundamentals – I
  • Japanese Language Proficiency Test – 4th Level

Languages

  • English (Fluent)
  • Marathi (Native)
  • German (Basic)
  • Hindi (Sound Knowledge)
  • Japanese (Basic)