Kamal Wickramanayake

Kamal Wickramanayake
Enterprise Architect/Software Architect/Trainer
http://www.software.lk/people/kamal/cv
Last updated: Oct 14, 2018
Status: Some details are outdated and are to be changed.

Personal Information

Name:Herath Mudiyanselage Kamal Sisira Kumara Wickramanayake

Date of Birth:14th Dec 1976

Nationality:Sri Lankan

Educational Qualifications

Aug, 1997 - Nov, 2001 University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
B.Sc. Eng. (First Class Honours) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. GPA: 3.86 (Converted to 4 point scale)
Aug, 1995 GCE A/L - Kingswood College, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Three distinctions and one merit pass (3 - A, 1 - B) in Physical Science. Aggregate: 313, District Rank: 1 (Kandy)
Dec, 1992 GCE O/ L - Samodaya Central College, Mawathagama, Sri Lanka
Seven distinctions and one credit pass (7 - D, 1 - C)

Academic Awards

University Scholarships for Best Performance (Nov 1999)
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Dr. W.P. Jayasinghe Memorial Trophy for Best Results in GCE A/L (1995)
Kingswood College, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Professional Awards/Certificates

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAFTM 8) Certified (Mar 2007)
The Open Group, San Francisco, CA
TOGAF defines a method to create enterprise architectures and encompasses many other business and technical frameworks, techniques, best practices and resources. TOGAF promotes Open Systems.
Competent Communicator (Mar 2007)
Toastmasters International, USA
Recognition of Contribution Towards Free & Open Source Software Initiatives (Dec 2005)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Contribution Towards the Delivery of High Quality Learning Events (July 2005)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Outstanding Contribution to Training Activities at the Sri Lanka Advanced Technology Center (February 2005)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Outstanding Contribution to Training Activities at the Sri Lanka Advanced Technology Center (November 2004)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Work Experience

Mar 2007 : Software View, Colombo, Sri Lanka
http://www.training.lk/, http://www.software.lk/, http://www.swview.org/
Proprietor, Enterprise Architect, Software Architect, Trainer
Software View offers diverse services related to software and information technology with a special focus on training and consultancy. Service areas include 1) IT governance, business performance optimization and risk reduction through strategic and systematic IT planning and solutions; 2) Software development technologies, architecture, design and analysis, patterns, testing, processes and best practices;
July 2006 - Mar 2007: Self Employed
Independent IT Architect, Software Architect, Trainer
Consultation and training (IT Architecture, Software Architecture, other software development areas)
July 2003 - July 2006: Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka Advanced Technology Center)
http://www.virtusa.com/
Executive Trainer
Training Areas: J2EE (EJB, Servlet/JSP, Struts), JSR 168 Portlet Development, JFC/Swing, Java, Linux, Test Infected Programming, OOA/OOD/OOP, UML, Design Patterns, Estimation of Development of Software Systems, Open Source Tools for Enterprise Application Development, IBM WebSphere 6, General Software Engineering Topics
Project team ramp up, technical induction of new recruits, occasional research and development and pre-sales support.
Aug 2005 - Jan 2006: Department of Engineering Mathematics & Philosophy of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Technology, The Open University of Sri Lanka
http://www.ou.ac.lk/
Visiting Lecturer
Lecturing Areas: Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Probability & Statistics, Numerical Methods, Fourier & Laplace Transformations
June 2003 - July 2003: Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
http://www.pdn.ac.lk/
Research Assistant
Dec 2002 - Apr 2003: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
http://www.pdn.ac.lk/
Assistant Lecturer
Jan 2002 - Apr 2003: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
http://www.pdn.ac.lk/
Network/System Administrator & Web Master
Designing, installation, programming and administration of the department's primary web server and the administration of the department's mail server and the secondary web server.
Jan 2002 - Mar 2003: Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (Kandy Branch), Sri Lanka
http://www.sliit.lk/
Visiting Lecturer
Java, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures
Jan 2002 - Dec 2002: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
http://www.pdn.ac.lk/
Instructor in Charge - E/00 Batch
Laboratory experiment scheduling, resource allocation and conducting experiments.
Dec 2001 - Jan 2002: Stretchline Pvt Limited, Biyagama, Sri Lanka
Database System Developer (Process Re-engineering Project)
Complete development of a web interfaced skill database system.
Sept 2000 - Dec 2000: MTV Channel Pvt Limited, Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka
In-plant Trainee
Acquired knowledge in station management, TV/Radio transmission and broadcasting, VHF/UHF/SHF electronic circuits, microwave equipment, TVRO (Satellite Reception) and ITU/SLTRC regulations.
July 1998 - Oct 1998: Engineering Workshops (Metal), Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
In-plant Trainee
Gained experience in numerous machine tools including computer numeric controlled machining. Participated in a mini-hydro power project survey and manufacturing of cross flow turbines and chalk machines. Acquired knowledge in administration and management aspects of the organization.
1996 - 1998: Vidusara Science Journal, Sri Lanka
Freelance Journalist
Professional writing experience in the fields of Science and Technology.

Publications/Writing

Personal Blogs (Since January, 2007)
http://www.swview.org/blog
Topics include personal improvement, organizational culture, IT governance, software engineering, etc.
Software architecture has enormous impact on cost and quality (April 2012)
This is an article that appears in one of my own websites.
http://www.itgovernance.lk/content/software-architecture-has-enormous-impact-cost-and-quality
Aging software is a trouble for enterprises (April 2012)
This is an article that appears in one of my own websites.
http://www.itgovernance.lk/content/aging-software-trouble-enterprises
O'Reilly Book: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (January 2009)
Contributing Author; Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. (February 13, 2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Software-Architect-Should/dp/059652269X
Conference Paper: Service Oriented Architecture - Making IT Infrastructure Speaks Business (September 2008)
4th Annual Conference on Information Technology Governance - ISACA Sri Lanak Chapter
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Book: Introducation to Computer Systems (June 2003)
Dr. Kithsiri Liyanage, Wickramanayake H.M.K.S.K. (me), Wejerathne D.G.A.K., Gunerathne M.A., Peiris P.S.R.
Used by the Information Technology Center of University of Peradeniya and Ministry of Human Resources Development, Education and Cultural Affairs (Sri Lanka) for an island wide teacher training program
Book: Java for Absolute Beginners (March 2000)
Written for a Java training program for the engineering undergraduates in the faculty
More than 50 Articles Appeared in Vidusara Science Journal (1996 - 1998)
Primarily in the fields of science and technology; Based on interviews with others, translations and self written

Professional Bodies/Society Activities

President (2011 - 2012), ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) Sri Lanka Chapter
Marketing Director (2008-2009), ISACA Sri Lanka Chapter
A standard setting body in the areas of information governance, control, and security for professionals
Past Member, Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA)
An international forum of Enterprise Architects
Past Member (Associate), Radio Society of Sri Lanka (RSSL)
RSSL - Official amateur radio society in Sri Lanka, Member of International Amateur Radio Union
Past Member (Status: Competent Communicator), Toastmasters International
Smedly Toastmasters Club, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Past Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Member of Circuits and Systems Society & Communications Society
Past President (2001), Computer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society
Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Past Secretary (2000), University Inventors Club
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Conferences/Training Programs Attended

4th Annual Conference on Information Technology Governance (18th, 19th of September 2008)
ISACA Sri Lanka Chapter
Hotel Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, Sri Lanka
PHP 5 and Large Scale PHP Deployment - FOSSSL Conference Tutorial (7th September 2005)
By Resmus Lerdorf (Creator of PHP)
Hotel Taj Samudra, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Presenting With Confidence (19th - 20th July 2005)
By Chrishan De Mel (Manager, Training & Development, Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Performance Counselling and Performance Appraisals Skills Training (16th March 2005)
By Dr. S. M. Phadke (BA - Psychology, MA - Organizational Psychology, Ph.D - Organizational Psychology) from Pune University, India
Ceylon Continental Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
IBM WebSphere Portal Training (10th - 15th November 2004)
By George Kirubaharan from Technoturf (IBM Business Partner, India)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Architecturing Enterprise Software (25th - 28th August 2004)
By Sunil Dutt Jha (CEO, iCMG Private Limited, Bangalore)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Linux Workshop (20th - 22nd July 2004)
By Anuradha Ratnaweera, Anuradha Weeraman, Samisa Abeysinghe
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Train The Trainer Workshop (13th, 14th May 2004)
By Chrishan De Mel (Manager, Training & Development, Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Outward Bound Training (24th, 25th April 2004)
By Rukmal and the team from Wild Drift
Kinchigune, Belihuloya, Sri Lanka
Six Hat Thinking (08th April 2004)
By Chrishan De Mel (Manager, Training & Development, Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Training Program for Computer Trainers (25th, 26th March 2004)
By S. Thilaganathan (Chairman, Institute of Management and Computer Studies; BA, MBA, FIB, FCMA, FSCMA, MCIM, MIM)
Association of Computer Training Organizations, Infotel Board Room, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka
Workshop on Project Management : PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (06th - 13th March 2004)
By Chrishan De Mel (Manager, Training & Development, Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Team Centered Leadership Skills Development Programme (13th, 14th February 2004)
By Robert Vander Wall and Lalith Gunaratne from Sage Training (Australia/Sri Lanka)
Hotel Dolphin, Waikkal, Sri Lanka
Advanced Apache Tutorial (24th January 2004)
By Ken Coar (Director and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, IBM Senior Software Engineer)
School of Computing (UCSC), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Open Source Conference (23rd January 2004)
Organized by the Lanka Software Foundation
Trans Asia Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Enhancing Your Teaching with E-Learning (01 December 2003)
By Mrs. M Hellstorom, The Swedish Netuniversity, Sweden
University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC), Colombo, Sri Lanka

Professional Training Delivered

Through Software View, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Since 2007)
Details of common training programs appear here: http://www.training.lk/ and http://www.swview.org/
Links to some event highlights are given here: http://www.swview.org/taxonomy/term/16
Some feedback given by participants: http://www.training.lk/feedback
During Virtusa Employment Period (2003 - 2006)
Around 100 in-house training events were delivered. Duration of training events varied from 1 hour to 2+ weeks.
Other
Section 'Other Notable Engagements' (see below) lists some more educational engagements.

Some Undergraduate Work

PC Based Fetal Heartbeat Monitoring System
Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
With Mr. CK Walgampaya, Supervised by Dr. KS Walgama
Acquisition of fetal and mother's heart beat signals and neural network based adaptive filtering for the isolation of fetal heartbeat.
I designed the low frequency analog signal amplifier.
Stand-Alone Data Logger
Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Supervised by: Dr. PMK Alahakoon, Prof. KGA Goonasekere, Prof. S Ratnajeevan H Hoole
Micro-controller based stand-alone multi-channel analog data acquisition system with PC interfacing software.
I never completed this project though!
Semi-automated Linux Account Creation And Activation System
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Web interfaced database program to hold the account requests and web interfaced activation of Linux accounts.
Automated Duty Roster Generation Program
MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd, Depanama, Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka
Constraint satisfied automated generation of the duty roster of a set of employees.
Preliminary Survey on Sending High Quality Audio Through Phone Lines for Outdoor Broadcasting
MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd, Depanama, Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka
Preliminary survey on the possibilities of digitizing, psycho-acoustic compression of audio signals, transmission through phone lines and recovery mechanisms.
Design of the improved Governor Guidance Unit for the Pitabadda Mini Hydro-power Project's Turbine
Engineering Workshops, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Supervised by late Prof. Sanath Ranatunga
An improvement of the governor controlling system of a turbine.

Other Notable Engagements

Acted as a key speaker in a series of seminars and exhibitions organized by the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka for small and medium enterprise owners. ICTA is the government entity looking after ICT matters in Sri Lanka. These events happened in many parts of the country (Matara, Rathnapura, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Galle, Bandarawela) as part of the government's investment and private sector development activities. July, 2012 - August, 2013. Click on the district names for photos.
Acted as a member of a number of training grant approval boards at the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka. The grants were for businesses in the ICT sector in two categories: train the trainer awards and in house training awards. These grants were provided as part of the government's investment and private sector development activities. November, 2012 - March, 2013
Acted as a member of a number of business startup grant approval boards at the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka. The grants were given to new businesses in the ICT sector with innovative ideas. These grants were provided as part of the government's investment and private sector development activities. January, 2011 - February, 2013
Acted as an industry expert/mentor at a hackathon organized by the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka for university students who were intersted in both ICT and entrepreneurial skills. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. November 16-18, 2012. Here are some photos.
Acted as an industry expert in technical aspects at the Spiralation Connect | SLIIT, a gathering organized by the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka for university students interested in setting up ICT businesses. SLIIT Metro Campus, Colombo, Sri Lanka. August 02, 2012. Here are some photos.
Acted as an industry expert in technical aspects at the Spiralation Mobile Connect, a gathering organized by the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka for those interested in setting up ICT businesses. Park Street Mews, Colombo, Sri Lanka. July 13, 2012. Here are some photos.
"Enterprise Architecture" - Guest lecture for the MSc students at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Metro Campus Building, Colombo, Sri Lanka. March 24, 2012.
"Seminar on Cloud Computing for the Enterprise" - Organized this ISACA Sri Lanka Chapter event as the President and also delivered two technical presentations. Hotel Galadari, Colombo, Sri Lanka. November 18, 2011. Here are some photos.
"Better preparing for the IT paper at the O/L exam" - Delivered presentations to O/L students in a few schools in Colombo district (Royal College, Holy Family Convent - Dehiwala, DS Senanayake College, Devi Balika College). October - November, 2009. Click on school names for photos.
"IT Governance Frameworks" - Talk at the ISACA CXO forum "Business Governance of Information Technology - The CXOs' Perspective", Hotel Galdari, Colombo, Sri Lanka (29th of April, 2009). Here are some photos.
A member of the organizing team of ISACA CXO forum "Business Governance of Information Technology - The CXOs' Perspective", Hotel Galdari, Colombo, Sri Lanka (29th of April, 2009). Here are some photos.
"Service Oriented Architecture - Making the IT Infrastructure Speak Business" - Paper presented at the ISACA conference "Annual Conference on Information Technology Governance - 2008", Hotel Cinnomon Grand, Colombo, Sri Lanka (18th and 19th of September 2008). Here are some photos.
A member of the organizing team of ISACA conference "Annual Conference on Information Technology Governance - 2008" and "IT Security Awards Night", Hotel Cinnomon Grand, Colombo, Sri Lanka (18th and 19th of September 2008). Here are some photos.
"Introduction to IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture" - Presentation for the Computer Society of Sri Lanka, OPA Building, Colombo, Sri Lanka (28th of May, 2008). Here are some photos.
"Introduction to IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture" - Key presentation at the Information Systems Audit And Control Association (ISACA) Membership Day, Hotel Taj Samudra, Sri Lanka (18th of January, 2008). Here are some photos.
Delivery of opening lecture for Information Technology - Master of Public Management (Postgraduate course), Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA), Sri Lanka (9th and 13th of December, 2007). Here are some photos.
"IT Governance and Why FOSS Matters" - IET Local Chapter Monthly Forum, Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (29th Mar 2007).
"How to Start a FOSS Project" - A talk delivered at the "FOSS-Ed for Hackers" Conference, Excel World Conference Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka (22nd May 2006).
"Enterprise Messaging And Software System Integration" - A lecture delivered at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (14th Sept 2005).
Search module implementation of Sahana (Phase I) disaster recovery software - School of Computing, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (January 2005).
"Distributed Processing with J2EE" - A seminar conducted at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (5th Oct 2004).
"Mission Critical Linux" - A public lecture delivered at the IESL (Sri Lanka Institute of Engineers) Auditorium, Colombo, Sri Lanka (10th March 2004).
Consultant (Course Material) for IT Teacher Training Program , Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka (June 2003).
"Information Technology" - Seminars conducted for the personnel in the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka (June 2003).
Initial design and administration of the Ministry of Education's web and mail server (http://www.moe.gov.lk/) (June 2002).
"Web Interfacing of Databases" - A one month lecture series conducted for Final year Electrical and Electronic engineering undergraduates, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (Nov 2002).
Invited Judge (Best Website Competition) and member of the Experts Panel of the Quiz Program. Inter-School Computer Science and IT Competition, Kingswood College, Kandy, Sri Lanka (July 2002).
"Java for Absolute Beginners" - A two month evening lecture series conducted for engineering undergraduates, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2001).
Participated in organizing and conducting mini workshops in diverse areas for undergraduates and school children through the University Inventors Club (2000).

IT/Computer Skills & Knowledge (Non-Exhaustive List)

Software Development

Software Architecture And Design

Architectural and non-architectural aspects of software
Establishing software architectural vision and principles
Identifying architecturally significant requirements and prioritization
Identifying, analyzing and managing stakeholder requirements
Quality attributes, quality attribute scenarios, quantification
Architectural patterns and tactics
Architecture trade-off analysis
Software architecture development, review, blueprint coding, enforcement, risk management and evolution
Leading the architecture development, mentoring and coaching
Act as a sole, primary or shared owner of the software architecture
Assisting team members, project managers and other stakeholders with reference to the software development or architectural concerns
Software structures, models, views, selection of appropriate views
Documenting software architecture
Architecture extraction
Identifying extrinsic and intrinsic values and features of different software, architectures, designs, systems, technologies, solutions or things in general
Compare and contrast software, architectures, designs, systems, solutions, technologies or things in general to identify the best for a given purpose
Distinguish between the hypes and realities
Software modeling, meta modeling, Unified Modeling Language (UML), automated code generation
Object oriented programming (OOP), OOP principles, object oriented analysis and design (OOAD), domain modeling
Software design patterns
Pattern identification, documentation
Pattern languages
API design
Product line architectures (product line engineering activities, modeling the problem and solution spaces, using core assets across the product line, software engineering practices, technical management practices, organizational management practices)
Use cases (use case model, writing effective use cases, business and system use cases, use case leveling, use case reuse mechanisms, use case based effort estimation)
Different transaction models and strategies (local, programmatic, declarative, client orchestration, business API layer, high concurrency, high speed processing)
Distributed transactions, transaction isolation, commit and write delays (buffering)
Short and long running transactions
Optimistic and pessimistic locking
Real time data replication
Service oriented architecture (SOA) - technical aspects
Service designing and best practices
Web services (code first and contract first development, RPC and document styles, encoding styles, SOAP, WSDL, using custom SOAP headers, many WS-* standards, MTOM and attachments, interoperability, message level and transport level security, message signing, encryption, user name and X.509 certificate tokens, different token referencing mechanisms, security concerns, non-HTTP SOAP bindings, stateful Web services, synchronous and asynchronous Web services, message exchange patterns, implementing message processing interceptors for Web service implementation stacks)
Plain Old XML (POX) Web services
RESTFul Web services
XML and XML Schema (validity, well-formedness, information set and different representation mechanisms, namespaces, qualification, mixing vocabularies, best practices in organizing information within XML, differences between different XML parsers, differences between different object models and binding frameworks)
World Wide Web architecture
Enterprise service buses
Enterprise integration patterns
Business process orchestration engines
Enterprise application integration (EAI)
Software internationalization
Data structures, algorithm development, numerical analysis
Data modeling concepts, DB design concepts, SQL, NoSQL, object-relational mapping
Event driven architectures
Artificial intelligence (expert systems)
Cloud computing
Big data and large scale distributed computing
Microservices, Kubernetes
Containerization, Docker

Software Development Process

Software development lifecycles (Waterfall, iterative, incremental, spiral)
Software development processes (Rational Unified Process, Open Unified Process)
Individual performance oriented software development processes (PSP)
Agile software development processes (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Agile Model Driven Development)
DevOps
Agile software development principles
Agile software development practices (Requirements capturing and envisioning, architecture envisioning, estimation, evolutionary software designing, evolutionary data modeling, iteration planning, tracking, burn-down charts, daily meetings, coding, test driven development - TDD, continuous integration, testing, automation)
Scaling Agile software development for larger projects
Agile software development project contract negotiation, establish productive change management practices and guidelines
Assist product owners to reap the benefits of Agile software development and to improve the effectiveness of the whole process
Establish self governance within Agile teams and enforce limits
Establish Agile cultures within organizations and assist in migration
Off-shore, outsourced and geographically distributed software development

Software Development Project Management

Project failure causes, modes and scenarios
Writing proposals, learning from the customer, measuring customer satisfaction
Software project estimation techniques (analogy, expert judgment, Wideband Delphi, top-down/bottom-up, algorithmic approaches)
Software sizing (lines of code, function points, use-case points, object points, complexity metrics)
Single-point and three-point estimation, calculation and interpretation of standard deviation and probabilities related to estimates
Work breakdown structure
Rolling wave estimation, phase, release and iteration planning
Monte Carlo simulation of complex project plans, identification of multiple critical paths, statistical interpretation or results
Project plan analysis for resource bottlenecks and correction
Schedule compression
Productivity influencers
Review and verification of project estimates
Working with estimation databases
Estimation pitfalls
Handling estimation related concerns of customers
Software release management and version numbering/labeling practice

Java And Java Enterprise Edition

Java Standard Edition - since version 1.1 (I am familiar with many areas - JVM internals, heap analysis, memory leaks, different garbage collectors and their performance, decompiling, assertions, Swing, JavaFX, multi-threading, synchronization and concurrency, networking, performance tuning, language features, many APIs, many encompassing technologies, many frameworks)
Java Enterprise Edition - since version 1.2 (Servlets, JSF, EJB, JPA, Web services, JAX-WS, JAXB, JMS, EJB, JNDI, JCA, advanced clustering and deployment scenarios, )
Java application servers: Jetty, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic
Java application server performance monitoring and tuning
Spring Framework (XML and annotation based configuration, data access, aspect-oriented programming, transaction management, remoting and integration, integration testing), Spring Boot
Spring Security (role based security, fine-grained security, ACL, hierarchical permissions, customizing for unique needs)
RxJava
JavaServer Faces 2 (different component and component libraries, managed beans, navigation rules, custom converters and validators, phase listeners and event handling, Facelets, composite components, AJAX, implementing finer security requirements)
Struts Framework and templating with Tiles
Hibernate (different object-relational mapping strategies, different cache configurations, sharding)
OSGi (Apache Karaf, bundle development and packaging, bundle and feature deployment, system configuration changes)
Web portals and JSR 168 Portlet development
Java Logging API, Apache Commons Logging, Log4j (different appenders, logger hierarchy, levels, performance aspects, log file management)
Android development (not extensively but familiar with coding, packaging, debugging, emulators, different profiles, rooting)

Software Testing And Debugging

Unit testing (jUnit, testing with databases, different test runners, reporting)
Mock object testing, in-container testing
Web application functionality testing (HttpUnit, jWebUnit, Selenium)
Web application performance testing, analysis and optimization (jMeter, Apache Bench, YSlow, Firebug)
Performance testing of non-web applications
Acceptance tests
Debugging

Security

Penetration testing of software systems and networks
Security auditing of software
Secure coding and programming practices
Security threats, vulnerabilities and attacks
Security challenges of Web services
Security concerns related to AJAX and other rich interface technologies
User visible design flaws of applications
Hardware security modules (HSM) and keys
Single Sign-On techniques
Kerberos authentication and authorization
Light weight directory access protocol (LDAP)
Public key infrastructure (key generation, certificate requests, certificate signing, certificate authority management)
SSL and TLS security
Two-way SSL authentication
Server fingerprints
Computer/network security (cryptography, intrusion detection/prevention, tools, security management)
Phishing/pharming techniques and countermeasures
Threat of search engines
Evaluating firewalls and network devices
Contracting for secure software development
Security concerns related to in-house and outsourced software development

Web

PHP (building frameworks and using existing frameworks, object oriented PHP, generating HTML and non-HTML content, output buffering, performance tuning, error handling, database abstraction (PDO, Propel), theming, web services, sending mail with attachments, Pear and many other libraries and extension, debugging, php execution modes, configuring secure shared hosting environments)
Drupal - since version 4 (Writing new themes and modules, working with a number of existing modules, complex workflow configurations, muti-lingual configurations, e-commerce, rules, views, groups, spam controlling, personalized newsletters, advertising, advanced security configurations, performance optimization, scaling techniques, Drush)
Web site user navigation tracking
JavaScript and jQuery (selectors, DOM manipulation, event handling, animations and effects, utility functions, writing new plugins, AJAX, jQuery UI)
HTML, XHTML, CSS (I am good at coding web pages with CSS, JavaScript using vim, the text editor)
Websockets programming
Responsive web designs
White-hat and black-hat search engine optimization
Google Analytics, AdWords, AdSense, Facebook advertising
E-commerce systems, payment gateway integration (including Paypal, banks and some other payment gateway providers)

Linux

Linux system administration (RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu)
Shell scripting
Debian package creation and apt repository management
Linux kiosks
Linux system hacking - from kernel code to servers and applications
Linux kernel device driver development
Diskless Linux systems
Server virtualization
Automated Linux system and service provisioning
Ansible
RAID, LVM, disk encryption, and different file systems, RAM discs and RAM file systems
NFS
Linux system security hardening
Linux high performance computing (load balancing, fault tolerance)
Log analyzers
System and service monitoring, graphing
Performance benchmarking (CPU, memory, network, disks)

Networking

Network administration
Network traffic capturing and analysis
Network traffic monitoring
Traffic shaping and routing
Firewalls
Virtual private networks (VPN), OpenVPN
Network address translation (NAT) and destination network address translation (DNAT)
Web proxies (forward and reverse), caches and load balancers (Apache, Squid, Varnish, NGINX)
Domain Name System (DNS), configuring and managing primary and secondary DNS servers (Bind9), split DNS
Email (SMTP, LMTP, POP, IMAP, Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, web mail interfaces, SPF, DNSRBL, sender rate controlling, multi domain mail servers, backup mail servers, mail queue management)
DHCP servers
Boot servers

Coding idioms, simplification and beautification, code analysis tools
Coding standards
IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans and some other development environments)
Automation and build tools: Ansible, Make, Ant, Maven (including setting up organization specific secured Maven repositories)
Scripting: Bash, PHP
Version controlling systems (Subversion and Git, setting up repositories, different ways of securing them, repository organization, usage practices)
Some databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hypersonic
In-memory databases
Indexing and searching with Apache Lucene and Solr
VOIP (numerous Asterisk configurations and deployments, connecting to PSTN and mobile phone networks, IAX2 trunk configuration, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, text to speech, dial plan configurations, managing call routes, handling SMS messages, DTMF configurations, different audio codecs and trade-offs between their audio qualities and bandwidth requirements, automated provisioning of VOIP phones)
Computer animation and graphics (RGB, grayscale, CMYK, indexed, raster and vector images), audio and non-linear video editing with effects, compositions, noise removal, transcoding
C, C++ (I have used these two languages, but not extensively)
Flex development (and a little bit of ActionScript language)
Hardware interfacing (data acquisition, digital I/O, timers, counters, DAC, ADC, USB, serial ports, PCI devices)
Mobile and hand-held device solutions

IT Governance & Enterprise Architecture

IT governance frameworks (COBIT, ISO/IEC 38500)
Enterprise architecture and related frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
Strategic alignment, value delivery, resource management, risk management, performance measurement
Recognizing IT enabled business investment opportunities
Business case development, documentation, optimization and maintenance
Business case analysis (options, strategic and enterprise architecture alignment, financial and non-financial risks and benefits)
Identifying full-cycle costs and benefits
Taking a portfolio based approach to optimize the value of investments
Evaluating and selecting programs to be funded
Monitoring and performance aspects (solution delivery performance, outcome performance, service delivery performance, process metrics, domain metrics, lag and lead indicators, IT balanced scorecards, maturity models, benchmark the value realization practices of an organizations, governance monitoring, investment review process, monitoring and reporting on investment portfolio performance)
Capital planning and budgetary process for IT
Establishing value governance practices in organizations (challenges, baseline assessment, establishing a future state, leadership group establishment, organizational structure, establishing reporting lines, sustaining the transformation)
Running IT as a business Vs taking an IT governance approach
Enterprise architecture principles and vision development
Tailoring architecture frameworks
Identification and establishment of baseline and target sub architectures (business, data, application, technology)
Enterprise architecture patterns, reference models
Opportunities and solutions
Migration planning
Implementation governance
Architecture change management
Architecture requirement management
Benchmarking and maturity models for architecture development process and architecture
Evolutionary implementation of enterprise architecture
Federated enterprise implementations (for a group of organizations)
Service oriented architecture (SOA) - business aspects (horizontal process flow, service contract/policy design, service capacity planning and pricing concerns, migration, business culture and governance, enablement factors)
Segregation of duties
IT security threat risk modeling (STRIDE, DREAD)
Information security policy development and enforcement
Working on compliance requirements
Computer security incident responding (defining policies and procedures, team organization and staffing, organizational regulations, legal compliance and flexibility requirements, professionalism)
Responding to emergencies (triage, technical expertise, tools and techniques, communication practices)

Business Skills

Business plan development, evaluation
Business strategy formation and evaluation
Business execution, monitoring and tracking
Setting up directional strategies (vision, mission, core-values)
Organization culture development and change management
Administration
Financial planning and budgetary process
A little bit of enterprise risk management in large organizations
Human resource and talent management (recruitment, supply/demand matching, performance appraisals, salary aspects)
Competency modeling, evaluation (skills, knowledge, attitudes) and grooming employees (proactive and passive)
Sales and marketing (pricing strategies, marketing channels and their effectiveness, head and long tail marketing, brand building)
Opportunity identification and demand creation