Amit Gadekar

Background

About Amit Gadekar

Currently working as Principal Software Engineer with Symantec Enterprise (A Division of Broadcom). • Architected and implemented Symantec Content transformation tools and workflow consumed by Symantec Help Center and API Documentation Center • Major contributions in the design, and development of - o Symantec Help Center (https://help.symantec.com): Symantec’s first and only, proprietary, multi-product cloud based help system with search engine, that publishes help for 75+ Symantec products and versions. o Symantec API Documentation Center (https://apidocs.symantec.com) for Symantec products. o Real-time content deployment infrastructure to reduce publish time considerably by finding delta. o More automation and extensive error checks done in CI/CD pipeline leads to lesser manual intervention and human errors. • Experience in working in most the phases of SDLC like - Requirements Gathering and Analysis, Design, Development, Documentation, Deployment, Maintenance and Disposition. • Received 20+ different awards at Symantec during 9 years of tenure. Expertise: • Managing small teams. • Handling geographically distributed customer relations. • Solving customer problems and adding value to customer success. • Scrum and Agile Methodologies. • Product integrations. • Flexible to quickly switch between technologies and delve into new areas if the job at hand requires. • Mentoring junior team members to grow and fulfill the potential. Technology exposure and awareness: • Java, REST Web Services, CI/CD (Jenkins, Docker, Terraform), Maven, XML-XSLT, C#, AWS services, and GCP. Security compliance activities: • Threat modeling, Third party components approval, Penetration testing, OWASP top 10 best practices, tools like AppScan, SonarCube, and Coverity Favorite Quote: It is okay, if you fail, but learn something from that failure.