Where I started & What am I now….

I started off my career as a Corporate Trainer while I was accomplishing my Maser’s in Computer Management.

Role as a Corporate Trainer:

- Conducted training for EDS Fresher’s batch in C and VB Script

- Training to HSBC in Core Java

- At Bharati Vidyapeeth University trained the PG-IT students in Java and WebTechologies [HTML,CSS, DHTML, PHP, JavaScript]

- At Asian School of Management was a visiting faculty for DBMS

Role as a Software Consultant:

Did couple of projects naming few – Online Admission Portal, Online Examination and IT School. This is where I got first hand experience in SDLC and a scope to explore Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC and Struts.

I had become a big fan of WSAD and Websphere. 

Role as a Weblogic Consultant:

Moved on to become a Weblogic Consultant as I wanted to understand more what and how things work on the server side. 

Troubleshooted issues occurring on Weblogic Server 8, 9 & 10.

Found my interest in Python and made WLST my domain.

Later on started working and consuting client facing issues in devlopemnt with WLW.

Got introduced to JSF, JMS, JTA, POJO & Hibernate.

These new Technologies drew me back to the development environment.

Role as a Programmer Analyst:

Did a project for ILO – International Labour Organization. Which not only gave me a come back into development but got me introduced to the secure coding.  

The experience of the race shows that I got most important education not

through books but through my work. I am developing by my daily task, or else

demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

Role as a Framework Architect:

Currently I am into the designing & development of a framework to facilitate rapid

application development for Java open source projects.

A broad layout on the Framework features -

*        User authentication 

*        Single sign on 

*        User & Role management - Role based access to the functionality & access to data.

*        Advanced search

*        Client side and Server side Validations

*        GUI Generator - Listing, menus, toolbar, filters 

*        XML based screen generation  

*        Supported databases - MySQL, SQL server, ORACLE. 

*        All queries will be ANSI SQL compliant  

*        Flexibility to develop business logic in middle tire or database

*        Exception handling

*        Audit trail

*        Logging mechanism

*        Report Generation - Export to PDF & Reporting services and dashboard 

*        Licensing mechanism

*        Security features - Framework will be protected against following vulnerabilities published by OWASP :-     

>   SQL injection

>   Cross site scripting   

>   Malicious File Execution

>   Insecure Direct Object Reference

>   Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

>   Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling

>   Broken Authentication and Session Management

>   Insecure Cryptographic Storage

>   Insecure Communications

>   Failure to Restrict URL Access 

With this being my career journey, I could say “Find a job u love & u will never work for the rest of ur Life.”

I remember in my college days when I participated for a Paper Presentation “Open

Source vs Proprietary Software where I said “I support Open Source and 1 day I will

start contributing towards it”

I never knew that this would come true so soon.