Dr. Farrukh Mirza

PhD (CS), PGD (Statistics), BS (CE)

I build high efficiency, high performance software development teams delivering high quality software.

(Ireland) Stamp 4 – Full work permit

I thrive in fast paced environments in a leadership role. As a senior leader & strategist, I believe in innovation, efficiency, success & delivery through smart hard work & taking responsibility.

I am currently leading & mentoring project managers, business analysts & technical architects, while influencing key business decision makers & stake holders. I have lead, managed and mentored graduate & senior backend engineers, UX designers, UI developers, test engineers and technical software & test architects in co-located and geographically distributed teams. I have more than 6 years of experience of team leadership and management, project management, enterprise software architecture, and overall 14 years of experience of software design, development, integration and maintenance.

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Professional Skills & Strengths

Area	Skill Level
Team Management, Team Leadership, Project & Programme Management (Scrum, Kanban)
Solution/System/Software Architecture
Web Applications, APIs (REST/SOAP), Microservices
Process & Operations Automation, Containers, DevOps & Tooling, Cloud
Software Design, Development & Analysis

Professional Experience

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Employer	Role	Timeline
Bank of Ireland	Senior Solution Architect/Manager	March 2019 ‐ Present
Client Solutions Ltd	Development Team Manager/Solution Architect	February 2013 ‐ February 2019
Distributed Systems Group, University of Dublin, Trinity College	Research Assistant & PhD Researcher	July 2008 ‐ July 2009 & July 2009 ‐ April 2014
Hindsa Technologies Ltd	Software Development Engineer	November 2006 ‐ June 2008
Avanza Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd.	Team Lead & Software Engineer	February 2005 ‐ October 2006

Education

University/Institute	Course/Degree	Timeline
University of Dublin, Trinity College, Republic of Ireland	Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science) Title: Exploiting Unstable Paths in Urban-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks	2009-2014
University of Dublin, Trinity College, Republic of Ireland	Postgraduate Diploma (Statistics) Distinction	2009-2010
IELTS Certification	English Language Band 7.0	April 2008
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan	Bachelor of Science (Computer Engineering) Gold Medal for First Class First Position Gold Medal for Mathematics Received multiple scholarships from govt and university	2001-2004

Management, Architecture & Technical Skills Summary

Area	Skills
Management Skills	Team Leadership & Management (Project Managers, Business Analysts, Senior Software Engineers, Technical Architects, UI/UX Developers, Test Architects), Agile Project/Program Management, Scrum, Kanban, Scoping, Customer Relationship, Crises Management, Product Backlog Grooming, Team Mentorship, Communication (Written/Verbal)
Architectures	System, Software & Solutions Architecture, Microservices, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Middleware, RESTful, SOA, Conventional MVC & Reactive Web Applications, Highly Scalable Distributed Systems.
Design Methodologies & Patterns	UML, ERD, ArchiMate, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP), GoF, OOP/OOAD, Strategy, Factory, Abstract Factory, Front Controller, Template Method, Observer, Singleton, Circuit Breaker, HATEOS, Saga, Event Sourcing, Service Façade, API Gateway, TDD, BDD.
Enterprise Integration	SSO (CAS/Shibboleth), OAuth, OIDC, SAML2, SOAP, REST, APIs, JMS, Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix, Apache CXF, hMailServer, Postfix, ejabberd, LDAP.
Programming Languages	Java (J2EE), JSP, JSTL, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, SQL/PLSQL/JPQL, Linux Shell Scripting, Windows PowerShell and Batch Scripting, C++, nesC.
Frameworks	JQuery, JQuery UI, Bootstrap, AJAX, Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring LDAP, Spring AOP, Spring REST, Hibernate, Java Message Service (JMS), Java Persistence API (JPA), JNDI, Java Cryptographic Extensions (JCE), Apache POI, Jackrabbit, Junit, Zebra Crossing (Zxing), XPath, JAXB, ehcache, TinyOS, uDig (Eclipse Plugin Development), MSMQ, MFC, STL, ATL, Win32 API, WinCrypt, CryptoPP.
DevOps, DB, Build & Other Technologies	Nexus, Jenkins, Bitbucket, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Docker, Apache, Tomcat, WildFly, WebLogic, Azure, Vagrant, Maven, DokuWiki, .Net Core, Git, Mercurial, SVN, OpenSSL
Corporate Technologies	MS Office (365), MS SharePoint, Dynamics 365, MS Teams, Jira, Confluence
Protocols & Standards	HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, AMQP, SSH, RDP, RSA, AES, DES, SHA, IEEE-802.15.4 (Zigbee), TCP/IP, RS-232, ISO-8583

Verticals

I have worked in banking, mobile virtual network operations, customer relationship, energy, financial transaction & payments (e-Banking, e-Commerce), software lifecycle management and research environments. I maintained excellent relationship with customers, exceeding their expectations & advising them on their software investments.

In addition to personnel & business crises management, I also have extensive experience in architecting, engineering, troubleshooting & diagnosis of large scalable & complex systems.

Team Management

I have successfully hired & built software development teams by implementing hiring strategies to attract talent based on business situation. I have recruited, managed, developed & mentored multiple high-performance teams with a mix of co-located and remote resources. The functions of the teams I built varied in nature including enterprise software development (Web applications & services), DevOps & automation, and Advanced Data Analytics using machine learning. I have worked with near shore & offshore teams, and outsourcing business partners. I have coordinated with teams in Poland, Serbia, Portugal, Ireland, Pakistan, Bahrain and India.

I am experienced in Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies. I took responsibility to manage teams, projects & programs from conception to delivery keeping the resource & budget constraints in sight.

Influence

I influenced and helped the customer in adapting a highly scalable microservices architecture and lead the team to decompose monolith into 10 frontend systems and API Gateway, 28 backend services and 10 batch processing engines, migrated the data & processes and decommissioned the legacy software. I have also provided consultations to well-known customers to reduce their licensing costs by moving towards cloud and open source technologies.

I introduced Agile software lifecycle management tooling in my teams and have coordinated in multiple operational areas while company went through management buy back.

Technical Leadership

As an architect & technical lead, I have experience with microservices, messaging systems and have designed workflows and messaging flows with distributed systems. I have architected multiple process automations & integrations, and worked on numerous middleware systems. I am well versed in enterprise technologies such as EIP, SOA, Microservices, ESB, SOAP (JAX-WS), REST (JAX-RS), ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, WebLogic, WildFly, Tomcat and Apache servers. I have worked with Docker containers in the Azure cloud environment.

Adaptability

I have proven ability to adapt and work in a global environment with a diverse work experience in Pakistan, Kingdom of Bahrain, Republic of Ireland and Portugal.