My Journey

Kumar Priyank

I am a fullstack Engineer with over 13 years of industry experience where I have been involved in various stages of SDLC. From Planning to Design, Development, Testing, and Delivery. I can align, lead, and grow world-class product teams from 10 to 50 people.

More recently, I was involved in building a GenAI application for business intelligence and data analysis using Generative AI. Building both front-end, middle-ware, and backend for a complete solution. Training, Finetuning, and Prompt Engineering.

Extensive experience in API development, SQL/NoSQL Database Design, DevOps, Building pipelines, UI/Functional/API automation, and CI/CD to deliver high-quality software products and services to clients in the financial sector.

Skills

Frontend

Backend

Cloud / DevOps

ICFAI UNIVERSITY

| Dehradun, India Aug 2007 – June 2011

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering

Key Skills: Data Structure and Design, Digital Electronic Circuit Design, Robotics

Languages Studied: Object Oriented Programming using Java, C# and C++
Concepts Studied: Numerical Analysis, Operational Optimization, Project Management
Other Relevant Subjects: Digital Electronic Circuit Operation, Computer Architecture, Microcontroller
Database Hands-on: SQL, DB2

Internship: ROBOSAPIENS TECHNOLOGIES Pvt. Ltd.

| Noida, India Jan 2011 – Jun 2011

Research Associate - Intern

Conducted workshop on Robotics & Embedded System in numerous Engineering Colleges across India.
Also conducted workshop on Ethical Hacking in numerous Engineering Colleges and Schools across India.

Projects:

Steganoelectronic Security System @ Robosapiens India Pvt. Ltd., Noida
MicroMouse - an Artificial Maze Solving Robot @ Robosapiens India Pvt. Ltd., Noida
DTMF Controlled & Autonomous Robot @ Robosapiens India Pvt. Ltd., Noida

IBM

| Bangalore, India Jun 2011 – Feb 2012

Technical Support Associate

Key Skills: Citrix, IBM WebSphere, Java, Test Design, Agile

Installed operating systems, applications, security updates, and drivers on user machines.
Responded promptly to emergencies requiring immediate attention such as server outages or data loss incidents.

COGNIZANT US CORP

| Boston, MA Feb 2017 – Jul 2019

Associate QA Automation Lead

Key Skills: Azure Pipeline, ASP.Net C#, Java, Groovy, Jenkins, TeamCity, UFT, Selenium, VBA, Gherkins, API Testing

Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
Developed automated test scripts in Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Maven to test web applications.
Designed End-To-End test automation for various clients within the company.

COGNIZANT INDIA PVT. LTD.

| Kolkata, India Feb 2012 – Jan 2017

Associate - QA Automation Lead

Key Skills: UFT, VBScript, Java, Groovy, Gherkins, BDD, TDD, Functional Automation, Test Design, Agile

Built and maintained CI/CD pipeline for automated API testing using Postman.
Configured Jenkins jobs to run automated regression suites on a nightly basis.

ADVISOR360

| Weston, MA Aug 2019 – Feb 2024

DevOps Engineer III

Key Skills: .Net C#, Python, Azure CosmosDB, Jenkins, Azure LogicApps, MVC, Shell/Bash, EntityFramework, Redis, IaS, Docker, Ansible, RESTful API, YAML/JSON, Razer, SwaggerUI, Svelte, Streamlit, WebScraping

Developed intuitive Data Analysis Dashboards using Streamlit and WebScraping techniques to enhance data insights.
Owned multiple GenAI initiative to develop chatbot for internal knowledge-base, FAQs and existing documentations.
Built and maintained backend database and API using MVC, C#, CosmosDB, Razor, and microservices architecture.
Designed and maintained CI/CD Pipelines as Code using Git, Jenkins, Ansible.
Managed source code repositories such as GitLab and GitHub by creating branches and merging pull requests.
Built an in-house ETL Test Framework using SSIS, C#, and EntityFramework.

PLYMOUTHROCK ASSURANCE

| Boston, MA Apr 2024 – Present

STG - Application Development

Key Skills: Python, NodeJs, Java, Jenkins, React, Selenium, Playwright, HTML, CSS, OpenAI, Ollama, RESTful API, YAML/JSON, Langchain, Streamlit, RAG, FastAPI, Docker, LLM, Pydantic, Agentic RAG, RagChain

Developed and maintained user-facing data visualization websites and chatbots using Python, Streamlit, Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and NodeJs.
Led the development of TestGen AI, an AI-based test case generator, utilizing Langchain, Streamlit, RAG, FastAPI, Docker, LLMs, Pydantic, Agentic RAG, and RagChain.
Extensively worked on python library for unstructured to structure data conversion, Data PreProcessing for training Dataset and RAG ingestion.
Created interactive dashboards using Streamlit to visualize complex backend data.
Created Python/Flask-based portal for Automated Data Validation.
Utilized Machine Learning algorithms to generate synthetic data for staging test environments.