sunit randhawa

founder and cto, chief executive officer

About

- Accomplished engineering leader in creating, leading and managing teams with delivering robust software at high velocity, while ensuring high performance - Strong hands-on technical background in building large scale service-oriented systems leveraging AWS cloud-based distributed micro-service architecture with Java & Node.js in the areas of marketplace, subscription e-commerce, security and Identity space - Well-versed with various software development techniques: Full-stack, functional programming, user-centric design, fast experimentation and validated learning, agile and lean practices - Deep startup experience. Great at strategizing and executing on vision. Bootstrapped and launched high quality consumer facing apps catering to millions of users

Country

united states

City

san francisco

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

distributed systems, linux, early stage startups, backbone.js, mongodb, jquery ui, html 5, tomcat, technical leadership, cassandra, agile methodologies, hadoop, java, spring, css3, big data, cloud applications, web services, j2ee application development, scalability, javascript, esper, identity management, user provisioning, software development, analytics, cep, soa, cloud computing, java enterprise edition

Experience

chief architect

big data architect ltd

2011-12 - 2013-6 · 1 yr 7 mos

Collaborated with Cisco Systems to deploy big data analytics solutions to major US Stadiums. Dealt with real big data coming from mobile devices and sensors across the stadiums

director of engineering, platform services

qualys

2010-5 - 2011-12 · 1 yr 8 mos

Building the Scalable Platform Service Infrastructure for Qualys current portfolio of products catering to 3000+ enterprise customers and partners. Leveraging SOA Best Practices. Platform Services will provide new version of External APIs to customers.

platform manager and architect

yousendit

2008-11 - 2010-2 · 1 yr 4 mos

* Managed Platform team to build next generation Platform Infrastructure for supporting 10 Million+ YouSendIt Customers. Some of my accomplishments: * Built new Platform from ground-up to help company migrate its service from LAMP based to Modular, SOA based Scalable Architecture. * Participated in Design of Platform to remove Database as Single Point of Failure while bringing in Enterprise level Messaging backbone along with memcached based caching framework. * Worked with Application team and other Orgs to provide SOAP/REST based Platform API. * Managed and recruited the best talent and built a strong Platform team.

chief architect and vice president technician

securact

2006-7 - 2008-12 · 2 yrs 6 mos

As a hands-on Architect, designed and implemented User Provisioning System purely based on SOA Architecture that can seamlessly fit in any company’s IT environment. Utilized truly Object Oriented Component Based Design Pattern to make the system highly scalable and enterprise class. Implemented a Framework model for developers to plug and play their components and code. Managed On-Shore and Off-Shore Engineering teams. Cultivated a true coding discipline to bring consistency and ease of maintenance of source code. Brought in key differentiator and value-add to the product offering, making it best-of-breed solution with convinced customers and investors.

software lead

apple

2002-3 - 2006-7 · 4 yrs 5 mos

* Worked on building SOA based Enterprise Provisioning and Identity Management System. This Provisioning System was core foundation within Enterprise IT to integrate with all the IT Apps and Processes including CRMs, Data Warehouses, messaging middleware(ESB) in a multi-tier level. Used JBoss, Java/J2EE, Oracle as Key technologies. * Implemented Workflow & Business Rules Engine * Delivered Open LDAP based SSO solution for the IT group that binds natively to the OS and uses Kerberos Auth scheme * Designed and implemented Web based Status Tool Application to create Employee Task and Dependency Reports for Managers. Implemented Business Analytics module to create/resolve employee task dependencies.

president and chief technology officer

liveweb technologies

1999-2 - 2002-1 · 3 yrs

I was the founder of the company. We developed a web based CRM solution with capabilities like Contact Management, Online Collaboration and KnowledgeBase Management. Developed Struts-like framework which was still a concept during that time.

senior software engineer

informative

1996-6 - 1999-2 · 2 yrs 9 mos

* Part of core engineering team to perform SDLC of flagship product ‘SurveyBuilder’. Part of the growth phase of the company from 5 to 60 employees. * Participated and contributed in all aspects of Product Development Lifecycle from Requirements analysis to product release. * Lead feature/product engineering teams and participate in architecture and design reviews. * Defined, designed, and implemented complex, multi-tier distributed software applications. Segment and design system layers to support componentization and layered application development, including user interface, business process functionality, and database access. * Gained solid experience with Servlets, JSP, Databasees, Java and J2EE technologies