About Me


Manish Kumar Jaiswal 

Liferay Architect [Freelancer] 

Kiel , Germany 

Email: manish.jaiswal@zohomail.eu

(Total Experience 17 Years)

Youtube Blog



 

IT Architect in  EUROPE  in field of  Java / Liferay DXP & Liferay Cloud

  • Competent & consummate professional with exceptional technical and leadership skills offering around 15 + Years of experience in the field of Java , J2ee,, API , AWS , spring boot Portals, Open Sources , Liferay 7 , Liferay DXP , IT and  Technical Development and Management .

  • Worked in Europe for 5 years with Fortune 50 Companies like Jaguar Land Rover ,VW Group Germany, Audi Germany, Unilever as Freelancer .

  • Currently working as a Freelance Liferay Architect with EU & UK based customers .

  • Strong experience in Scrum Methodology.

  • Proficiency in analysing business needs, finding out business problems and proposing solutions for the same

  • Leverage analysis and business insights to drive organisational improvements and best practices

  • Experience in analysing market trends 

  • Systematically created value for the clients by helping them transform their business through analysing their needs and applying pragmatic consulting solutions 

  • Innovative and enthusiastic professional offering strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills

Educational Credentials

  • B.Tech.(Computer Science) from Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, India in 2005 

  • 12th from Little Flower School, ICSE Board in 2000 

  • 10th from Little Flower School, ICSE Board in 1998 


Certification

  • Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)

  • Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)


Technologies Used


  

Operating Systems 

Windows , Linux , MAC

RDBMS

Oracle, MySQL, HSQLDB, DB2.

Java & JEE Technologies

Core Java, JSP, Servlets, JSF, Prime faces, Design Patterns

Application Servers

Jboss, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere , Glassfish

Web Design

HTML, Java Script, CSS , Bootstrap

IDE Used

Eclipse IDE

ORM Tools

Hibernate , JPA

Software Testing

jMeter,Selenium ,Sonar

Version Control Tools

CVS, SVN , GIT

Issue Tracking Tools

Bugzilla, JIRA 

Web Frameworks

Spring boot , Struts 

Tools Used

MS Office, beyond compare , notepad ++, Edit plus ,putty,filezilla

Support Tools

BMC Remedy User Atlas , JIRA

Familiar with

C, C++ ,BASIC

Portal Products

Liferay  Versions 5 - 6.2, Liferay DXP ,Liferay 7.0 , Liferay 7.3 

Build tools 

Ant , Maven , Gradle

Cloud

AWS , EC2 , RDS , Elastic Beanstalk , CLI , Route 53 

Continuous Integration 

Jenkins , CI/CD

Unit Test

Junit , Mockito

API Definition

Swagger , WSDL

Code Quality

Find bug , PMD , Check style ,Sonar 

Web Services

SOAP , REST web services , Microservices 





Professional Experience






Liferay Freelancer  with JAGUAR LAND ROVER UK

( May 2021 – 2 March 2022)

Role: Liferay Architect


Working with JAGUAR LAND ROVER for the Knowledge base portal . I work here as a Liferay Architect with version Liferay DXP 7.3. Working in designing , development , guiding the team , Liferay cloud management , Performance optimization on a daily basis .


Responsibilities

  • Design and development of Liferay Modules

  • Manage Liferay Cloud 

  • Helping other team members on Liferay challenges

  • Involved in discussion with Business and stakeholders on the expectation

  • Architectural best practices implementation

  • Technologies used: Java, J2EE, MYSQL, Gradle,OSGI  , Liferay cloud , rest web services , Tomcat 7.0 , Liferay , Portlets ,MySQL ,LDAP, Jenkins ,CI/CD ,Sonar, Liferay DXP ( 7.3) ,IPC , JSON

  • Team collaboration - JIRA , Confluence tools , Teams 



Liferay Freelancer  with UNILEVER UK

( August 2020 – May 2021)

Role: Senior Solution Architect 


Working with UNILEVER for its one of the most strategic project CARA . I worked for designing the solutions for different modules using Technologies like Liferay DXP 7.2 and later Liferay DXP 7.3. This was a Greenfield project .


Responsibilities

  • Technical Project planning , implementation and supervision of technical IT projects 

  • Supervising changes of the infrastructure

  • Keeping stakeholders informed about the progress

  • Creation of Change/Task tickets for operational teams

  • Supporting creation of GoLive activities

  • Creating Solution design and development with multiple backend systems (Ex Pega , Liferay, Informatica , Java based systems , Mule Integrations )

  • Involved in discussion and design activities




Capgemini India                                                (Dec 2018 – March 2020)

Role: Solutions Architect 


In capgemini I worked as an Architect for a number of projects involving Liferay/Microservices and other java technologies . I was primarily involved in development , deliveries ,  Presales discussions  , new POCs developments , Upgrades  and Digital Transformation . Some major Clients I worked for  Unilever , McDonalds .


Top FMCG client

  • Designation: Architect , Team Size: 10

  • Technologies used: Java, J2EE, Oracle, Gradle,OSGI ,microservices , AWS cloud , rest web services , Tomcat 7.0 , Liferay , Portlets ,MySQL ,LDAP, Jenkins ,CI/CD ,Sonar, Liferay DXP (7, 7.3) , Liferay 6.2 , Mulesoft , IPC , JSON

  • Worked with clients team to create Architecture for Liferay to integrate with their systems and work as a Frontend systems for the end users .

  • Technology Upgrade from Liferay version 7.0 to Liferay 7.2

  • Spring boot , Microservices , API , REST


MBSync Supplier Portal

  • Designation: Architect , Team Size: 12

  • Technologies used: Java, J2EE, Oracle, Ant , Gradle, rest web services , Tomcat , portlet ,MySQL ,LDAP, Continuous Integration ,Spring Boot ,REST , Microservices , Jenkins ,Linux ,Sonar, AWS cloud , 

  • Worked on Upgrade of the MBSync supplier portal from liferay 6.1EE to Liferay DXP .

  • Spring boot , Microservices ,  REST API  , Swagger 

  • Worked on conducting OWASP Top 10 issues , Penetration testing issues, Security Issues finding and Fixing with the team .





Rockwell Collins India (Aerospace Firm / Fortune 500) (May 2017– Dec 2018)

Role: Architect


Rockwell Supplier Portal – This portal is completely developed in Liferay DXP using Microservices. I am responsible for creating the complete architecture of this portal. It has multiple applications running inside. Overcame the biggest challenge of understanding the completely new architecture and enabling the team to start the development. Was involved in end to end development as well with the team.



Technologies used: Liferay DXP , Spring boot , microservices ,, Oracle , easy mock , maven , jax-ws ,jax-rs , soap ,rest web services , Liferay IDE, Liferay SDK ,Highcharts , swagger , ,Tomcat 7.0, Spring , Hibernate,MVC portlet ,MySQL ,LDAP, Continuous Integration , Jenkins , Swagger 




4isoft Technologies (June 16– March 2017)

Role: Technical Architect 


Responsible for development activities and deliveries.  4isoft India is working for multiple fortune 500 Clients for their Software development based on java technologies. Following were the major Projects I worked for

Keenan Insurance Portal - My responsibility is to replace it with Liferay portal so as to save cost and make it more flexible. 

Developer Portal Solution based on Liferay 6.1 EE.

Created multiple spring MVC based Portlet JSR 286 compliant.

Created themes and Layouts

Worked on IPC, Service Layers, and Service Builders.

Guided and worked with multiple junior Team members too.


Currently working on LIFERAY 7 / DXP to migrate the old portals


Responsibilities:

* Discuss with the client about its exact requirements.

* Hands on Development of various modules.

* Taking care of various Technical and Project Management aspect 

* Appropriately translate the needs of the clients to the developer team

* Estimation of the new modules and CRs along with the Team.

* Handling daily scrum & Creation of User Stories

* Resource Handling and providing timely feedback 

* Distribution and Management of Tasks and Timelines.

* Helping Operation with last level support and deployment 


Technologies used: Java, J2EE, Oracle,, easy mock, maven, jax-ws, jax-rs , soap ,rest web services Tomcat 7.0, Spring , Liferay ,Hibernate portlet ,MySQL ,LDAP, Continuous Integration , Jenkins , Salesforce , CVS  ,Maven , Java , J2EE , Mule ESB ,Linux ,Find bug , PMD , Check style ,Sonar, LIFERAY 6.1 EE ,  LIFERAY 7 / LIFERAY  DXP





Confidential Partner firm (In Volkswagen, Audi Germany Wolfsburg )

Role: Senior Software Consultant (Jan’12 – July 15)


I am working for Volkswagen, Audi Germany on Multiple projects based on Liferay Portal. My Role involves Technical Discussion, Technical and Project Estimation, Solving Technical Issues, Foreseeing Challenge’s and plan and propose Solutions and innovating strategies and plans for Successful Project Execution. Some of those are mentioned following

I Portal Project: This is a Portal product for Car Dealers to be used in multiple countries by the leading Car Manufacturer. It is already in markets of Germany and US, still upgrades of the site are going on .We also have plans to launch this to 23 more countries. This is an internal portal solution which fulfils the needs of the OEM, wholesale, dealer’s. This portal provides an integrated solution for accessing all the internal applications for the Users(OEM, wholesale, dealer’s) .The Portal basically provides a platform to manage the organisation structure and the manage user management using features like SSO and Auto login and CMS.

AppFactory Project:  The base project for the main interface portal of Leading Car Manufacturer to the world. This Portal was using solution based on Liferay EE 6.0.20

. Along with Project Management I looked into issues like Memory leaks, performance optimization, and helped the team in setting up Continuous Integration Environments.

  Service Portal Project: This project was basically for the call centre employee to manage the various online services provided to the vehicle of different brands .It had to interact with a lot of web services at the backend using REST and SOAP based web services. 


Technologies used: Liferay Portal 6.1.20 EE, JSF , Prime faces , Oracle , easy mock , maven , jax-ws ,jax-rs , soap ,rest web services , Liferay IDE, Liferay SDK ,Highcharts , Alfresco ,Tomcat 7.0, Spring , Hibernate,MVC portlet ,MySQL ,LDAP, Continuous Integration , Jenkins 


Key Accomplishments:

Successfully handled the Volkswagen Account for my parent company

Was able to solve lot of performance problems client was facing in first 6 months

Successfully placed parent company resources to client side 

  Reduced client budget by 30 % by automating most of the process in the project


Tata Consultancy Services (Dec’10 –Dec’11)

Client: Govt. of India

  ICAR (Indian council for agriculture research) – ICAR is the National Scientific Organisation for Agriculture Research in India. This project is basically its face portal for the Organisation. It Consists of Large number of Sub-Organisation which need to be included within the main Portal of ICAR .The Portal will include 3 level of basic users into it. Guest users /registered users /internal users every level of user will consist of different level of Rights on the portal.

Guests will only have read rights on the portal. 

Registered users are those which gets registered using using “create account” feature , these will have some extra rights like can apply for admissions ,awards , can do comments on articles.

Internal users are the users which are member of Sub-organisation, These are having special rights to add articles and do some admin type tasks on awards and admission type modules.

Business Role

  • Requirement Discussion and Workshops.

  • Propose the client with appropriate solutions for their Requirements

  • Creation of Functional documentation about client needs

  • Appropriately translate the needs of the clients to the developer team

Technical Role

  • Setting up of the Environment using plugin SDK and Eclipse IDE in Liferay 6.0.5.

  • Installation of tomcat + Liferay 6.0.5.

  •  Plugin Ext Environment Creation in Liferay 6.0.5.

  • Plugin Environment Creation in Liferay 6.0.5.

  • Hooks Environment Creation in Liferay 6.0.5.

  • Inter Portlet Communication using events 

  •  Theme Creation/modifications

  •  Portlet creation using 286 standards

  • Analysis & estimation of portal related work product



Platforms Used : Liferay Portal CE 6.0.5 , Liferay IDE , Tomcat 6.0, Spring , Hibernate,MVC portlet

Team Size: 12

Role-Functional Analyst / Liferay Consultant 

 


Teradata Corporation  (Jan’ 08 –Dec’ 10)



Liferay Employee Portal Implementation 


Responsibilities:

Exploring new open source Portal Product (Liferay), Development

Understanding Requirement from the Business

Discussing and assisting Project Manager in technical Design and Scope


Liferay Portal general Tasks


setting up of the Environment.

Performance Optimization.

CMS Usage

Workflow Integration (JBPM)

Inter Portlet Communication

Theme Creation/modifications

Different Portal (Hooks/Ext) environment usage

Hooks Environment Creation

Testing through Junit & Jmeter

creating up of Built script for deployment.

Portlet preferences

Analysis & estimation of portal related work product

User account Creation, Updating, Deactivation of all Employees and Contractor of Teradata in Liferay and will use data from LDAP for user creation.





Damco Groups                                                                                                                                        (Oct’06 - Dec’07)


Responsibilities:

  Worked in the Financial Content Management domain for clients like Data Communique International (For Citibank), etc

  Responsible as a Module lead to translate the business needs to the developers 

  Assist the Project Manager to communicate with the client.

Understanding new technologies and implement in the team as per need.


Key Accomplishments:

Understood and explored use of new Tech reports (Like XBRL) which saved 30 % of the budget by avoiding outsourcing

  Was assisting the PM with client handling and communications


  Increased scope of project by handling new file types by 40 %

Team Management decided for out of turn appraisal of 40% in first 6 months

  Received regular appreciation mails from the client



NIIT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.                                                                                                                 (Jul’05 – Jul’06)


Responsibilities:

  Worked in the E-Learning domain for product development of NIIT Ltd for clients like Google, Philips, Tally

  Was Responsible for development of Java based web portal with hands on in User Interface, browser compatibilities

Also worked for Creating reports, User Module, Optimization and Performance tuning.

  Assisted the Operations in installing and deploying the applications


Key Accomplishments:

Achieved success in controlling various performance parameters 

  Was assisting the lead with client handling and communications

  Chosen for Top Trainee award for the training session

  Received regular appreciation mails from the client

 

Social Projects 

Academic Achievements & Activities 

  • Served as SECRETARY of “DAY SCHOLAR’S CLUB” the largest club in MMMEC.

  • Invited For delivering training to Sub Inspectors for Cyber Crimes

  • Won prizes in different sports at school level

  • Organized cricket tournament at Intra-College level.

Extra-Curricular Achievements & Activities 

  • Active Technology Blog Writer .(http://liferayconsulting.com)

  • Creator/Moderator one of the World’s Largest Liferay forum on Linkedin with 6000+ members(Liferay Opportunities )

  • Rated as Star of the Month in the DAMCO Solutions for the month of Feb. 2007.

  • Received clients' appreciation mails for putting in best efforts for timely and bug free deliveries.

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 17th Feb, 1982

Languages Known: English, Hindi & German (A2 Level)

Reference: Available upon request


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Azure App Service for Liferay DXP Installations

What Azure Infrastructure is better for Liferay DXP