Sumith Puri

“Sumith was the Head of Product Engineering for the Product Development Unit. Sumith was Leading all Product Development Effort in Agiledge. Agiledge is primarily in the Area of Employee Transportation Optimization and Sumith was Directly Leading Atom v2 Development and Atom v1 Sustenance. I Directly Reported my Daily Work and Tasks to Sumith (I was Working in the Same Product Line for About 2.5 Years Before Sumith Started Leading the Effort). In the Initial Time, I was allocated for Product Knowledge Transfer to Sumith. Wearing the Hat of an Agile Champion and Engineering Manager, He was Responsible for Championing Agile in the Team and also for Task Allocation, Task Tracking, Status Reporting and for Driving to Completion. Wearing the Hat of a Java Champion and Talent Manager, He Created/Set Core Java and Jakarta EE Tests for the Team and Evaluated them. Wearing the Hat of a Senior Architect and Engineer, He was Responsible for Second Level Caching, Application Performance, Database Performance, Build and Release, Deployment, DevOps, Infrastructure and Hardware Sizing. He was Directly Involved (Researching, Prototyping, Implementing) in Mission Critical Activities in the areas of Connection Leaks, Memory Leaks, Connection Pooling, Second Level Caching, Java/JVM Tuning, Product Quality Security and Database Tuning. He Later Led the Implementation and Roll-Out of these to Production. One of the Pain Points of our Flagship Product, Atom v1 was Stability and Availability. Special Mention is Required here of Sumith’s Efforts and Work to take the Atom v1 to a 99.99% Availability Grade Software Product (Almost Zero Downtime). Another Mention is Required of Sumith’s Work in Atom v2 Performance. He Worked on Various Aspects (Caching, Database Tuning, Hardware Recommendations, User Interface, Java Code, JVM Tuning) of the Product to Improve Performance of the Product. Overall, He is Highly Skilled in Core Java, Jakarta EE, Software Architecture, Software Design Patterns and Software Processes. Atom v1 and Atom v2 use the Technologies Spring Boot, Apache Maven, JPA, Infinispan, Maria DB, Jakarta EE, Apache Tomcat, Microservices, Angular, Hibernate, Google Maps API. The Tools that are Used (Some of them Initiated by Sumith) include Slack, Zoho Sprints, GitLab, SourceTree, HeidiSQL, Apache Jenkins. Wearing the Hat of a Head of Product Engineering, Sumith Led 17+ Engineers (Peak), Was Responsible for Day to Day Engineering Activities, Giving Direction to the Teams, Prioritizing Activities across Teams, Driving the Product Vision, Higher Level Problem Solving and Co-ordinating with Human Resource and Other Engineering Heads on matters of Organizational Concern. Overall, I also rate as [High] the Communication (Written, Oral, Status Reporting, Email Etiquette) Skills and Engineering Pro-Activeness of Sumith.”

“Sumith joined Yahoo, Bangalore from Misys, Bangalore. He was part of my Product Team - Y! Cloud. In his extremely short stint at Yahoo, I found Sumith to be effective with Core Java, Spring and Java EE. He is Proactive and a Team Player. As per the information available to me, he left Yahoo to pursue an opportunity that would place him in London (United Kingdom). I wish him all the luck in his endeavors. ”