Rashid Ibragimov - Java Developer

Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Feb 2024

2 months

Java Developer

IT company with more than 100 employees

Data augmentation and normalization
Image transformation
Format conversion
Merging data from multiple sources
Toolset: Java, Helm, Kubernetes, Kafka, OpenCV, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, Git, Docker, Containers, Scrum

Sep 2023 - Dec 2023

4 months

Senior Software Developer

IT company with about 500 employees

Further development (including Java update from 11 to 17 and Spring Boot update from 2.7 to 3.1) and optimization of a mail client for inbox processing
Toolset: Java, Spring Boot, REST, Java Mail (POP3, SMTP), Bouncy Castle, Wireshark, IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, Mockito, JaCoCo, SonarQube, Git, GitLab, Jenkins, OWASP, Dependabot, Docker, Containers, shell/bash scripting, SAFe, Kanban

Jul 2022 - Jun 2023

1 year

Senior Software Developer

Logistics company with more than 30,000 employees

Advising an existing team on rules engines, specifically on implementing a curation engine – tool selection, approach, architecture
Setting up & configuring the rules engine
Handing over implemented results to an existing DevOps team
Toolset: Java, Drools, Spring Boot, REST, IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, Mockito, JaCoCo, SonarQube, Git, Angular, Azure Active Directory/LDAP, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Logging (Filebeat), ELK (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Tracing (Jaeger), Docker, Containers, bash scripting, Scrum, Pair Programming, IBM ODM, Domain Driven Design (DDD)

Jun 2022 - Sep 2023

1 year 4 months

Senior Software Developer

IT company with about 500 employees

Responsible for implementing a defined set of functional requirements (user stories)
Designing and developing base libraries to create a PKI test suite with focus on PKI and security
Developing a test suite based on Java and Spring Boot, including API documentation
Implementing security mechanisms in backend applications
Using encryption, electronic signature and authentication mechanisms
Gathering, evaluating and implementing requirements from product owners and testers within the SCRUM process
Designing and defining software architecture
Helping build and modernize tool chains for backend application development
Conducting quality assurance measures: code reviews, refactoring and regular alignment with stakeholders
Toolset: Java, Spring Boot (including Java update from 11 to 17 and Spring Boot update from 2.7 to 3.1), REST, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI, TLS, OCSP, signatures, encryption, X.509, CVC, Bouncy Castle), SSH, RSA, Wireshark, IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, Mockito, WireMock, JaCoCo, SonarQube, Git, GitLab, Jenkins, OWASP, Dependabot, Nexus, Docker, Containers, shell/bash scripting, SAFe, Scrum, Pair Programming, Test Driven Development (TDD)

Oct 2021 - Jun 2022

9 months

DevOps Engineer & Senior Software Developer

IT company with more than 200,000 employees worldwide

Implementing integration and packaging services
Implementing Spring Boot-based APIs for the new Daily Driver build (development and EC drivers)
Improving the delivery process
Modernizing the binary repository (dnf/yum) with Artifactory
System of internal services for source code management, binary repositories, multi-architecture build environments, project planning and management tools, and access management tools
Toolset: Spring Boot, Podman, Containers, NoSQL database (Cloudant), Artifactory, REST, JPA, Hibernate, Gradle, IntelliJ IDEA, Mockito, JaCoCo, SonarQube, Git, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, Kubernetes, bash scripting, Ansible, Scrum

Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

7 months

DevOps Engineer (CID Infrastructure Specialist)

IT company with more than 200,000 employees worldwide

Creating a unified, coherent and flexible setup for infrastructure configurations and assessing which services can be migrated to the cloud to propose a suitable cloud architecture and design based on OpenShift/Kubernetes
Installing, configuring and maintaining new applications with IT infrastructure
Analyzing issues, evaluating technical questions, testing, maintaining, adapting, integrating, monitoring and ensuring automation of software systems
Maintaining and managing security patches
Conducting complex technical assessments and proposing cloud architectures with detailed designs, migrating selected services to a cloud environment
Evaluating and recommending necessary changes for performance optimization, infrastructure design and monitoring
Toolset: Private Cloud (Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes, VMs, Bare Metal), IaaS, IaC, PaaS, Ansible, Jenkins, shell/bash, Python, Java, RHEL, Ubuntu, Linux on Z, s390x, HashiCorp Vault, Logging, Git, GitHub, Gerrit, Helm, Foreman, Artifactory, Zabbix (Monitoring, Alerting), Grafana, PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, Flask, Scrum

Nov 2020 - Jan 2021

3 months

DevOps Engineer, NLP Specialist

Leading automotive manufacturer

Automating build and deployment processes
Information modeling and extraction
SAFe
Content organization & curation
Toolset: Python, Azure Services (Web Apps, DevOps, Artifact, VMs, LUIS), GitHub, Java, Microservices, Test management, Integration, Flask, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Logging, PyCharm, Eclipse, NLP, Speech-to-Text

Jan 2020 - Present

5 years 7 months

Germany

IT Freelancer

Working as an IT freelancer. See separate project experiences since January 2020.

Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

3 months

Solution Architect

An EU bank with more than 3,000 employees

Automating and customizing deployment and data ingestion processes of a cloud-native application
Designing architecture, defining interfaces, integration, image processing
Toolset: Kubernetes, Python, shell/bash scripting, Cloud Foundry, Docker, Containers, Cloud Services, Helm, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, S3 Cloud Object Storage, IAM/IDM/OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2)/JWT, PyCharm, Linux

Jul 2019 - Sep 2020

1 year 3 months

Solution Architect, Senior Software Developer, DevOps Engineer

Insurance group with more than 1,000 employees

Designing, implementing and integrating a classification and extraction framework for dark processing of coverage requests at an insurance company – pipeline is in production
Automating build, test and deployment processes
Data engineering and preprocessing, data cleaning, feature extraction, custom named entity recognition (NER), entity linking, name & address matching, NLP + machine learning, parsing rules, custom annotators, topic modeling, regex, ontological modeling, spelling correction, text analytics
Toolset: Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, JPA, Hibernate, SQL, MySQL, Python, scikit-learn, NumPy, other ML & NLP libraries; REST, design patterns, performance optimization, Maven, GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, code reviews, Linux, Eclipse, PyCharm; requirements engineering, defining and following functional and non-functional requirements, Domain Driven Design (DDD), 12-Factor App

Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

3 months

Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer

Gas and oil producer

Automating and customizing deployment and data ingestion processes of a cloud-native application
Processing and extracting information from documents, data integration and querying using knowledge graphs, image processing
Designing architecture, defining interfaces, integration
Preparing and processing text and image data
Toolset: Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Docker, Containers, Cloud Services, Helm, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, S3 Cloud Object Storage, IAM/IDM/OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2)/JWT, monitoring, logging, alerting, Python, shell/bash scripting, Java, Linux, PyCharm

Oct 2018 - Jan 2019

4 months

Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer, Data Scientist

Leading automotive manufacturer

Automating extraction of textual customer feedback: sentiment analysis and categorization of textual input
Designing a classification and extraction pipeline, automating build, test, deployment and data ingestion processes
Integrating NLP cloud services and developing custom annotators
Toolset: Java, Python, shell scripting, Jenkins, JUnit, Mockito, JaCoCo, Eclipse, UIMA API, PostgreSQL, Linux, IBM Watson Analytical Components, Natural Language Classifier, Watson Knowledge Studio, REST

May 2018 - Sep 2018

5 months

Solution Architect, Senior Software Developer

Insurance group with more than 1,000 employees

Designing and implementing four use cases to evaluate technical feasibility and profitability, including:
Automating coverage requests
Routing and categorizing incoming mail
Detecting cases with recourse potential
Text analytics for actuarial work
Toolset: Java Spring Boot, Cloud Services, Docker, Containers, Cloud Foundry, DB2, JPA, Hibernate, Python, scikit-learn, NumPy, Node.js, Eclipse, Semantic UI, custom named entity recognition (NER), information extraction

Feb 2018 - Dec 2020

1 year 11 months

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

IT Architect (Solution Architect - Cognitive Computing)

IBM Germany GmbH

Focus: designing and implementing IT solutions, automating build, test and deployment processes, DevOps, microservices, integration, cloud services, processing unstructured data, NLP pipelines, machine learning, developing annotators, parsing rules, dictionaries, regex, NER, information extraction and matching, spelling correction, ontological modeling, designing and implementing interfaces, performance optimization, client consulting
Sample projects: dark processing of insurance coverage requests, classification of incoming mail in insurance, building a cognitive services platform for a bank, document digitization with knowledge graphs, analyzing textual customer reviews, chatbots for sales helpdesk in banking, IT support ticket analysis
Developing prototypes and demos, effort estimation, using and customizing open source NLP and ML libraries, data conversion and preparation, supporting and advising internal colleagues
Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Cloud Services, Docker, Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, TeamCity, Jenkins, JUnit, Agile, Scrum, code reviews, clean code, OOP, design patterns, Maven, Git, JProfile, VisualVM, SonarQube, SoapUI, certificates/OpenSSL, Nexus, Artifactory, MySQL, SQL, JPA, Hibernate, Jupyter Notebook, IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud, JSON, XML, XLSX, XSLT, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, scikit-learn, NumPy, IBM Watson Explorer (Analytical & Foundational Components, +API), IBM Watson Knowledge Studio + NLU, IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Knowledge Studio, UIMA API, Guava, Eclipse Collections, Watson Assistant (+API), Tesseract, HOCR

Feb 2017 - Apr 2018

1 year 3 months

DevOps Engineer, Senior Software Developer

One of the largest banks in Germany

Designing and building build, test and deployment pipelines: solution included many heterogeneous components (on-premise, database, cloud services, etc.) considering governance and security requirements
Automating training and dialogue generation
One-click installation and deployment of the solution
First use case: implementing, integrating and automating a chatbot + enterprise search engine to support the sales service line
Toolset: Java, Maven, Bitbucket, SonarQube, TeamCity, certificates/OpenSSL, Artifactory, UrbanCode Deploy, Cloud Foundry, Docker, Containers, OpenShift/Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing (Jaeger), cloud services, UIMA API, Spring Boot, MySQL, SQL, JPA, Hibernate, REST, LDAP, Python, shell/bash scripting, Linux, SSH, Eclipse, IBM Watson Assistant (formerly Watson Conversation Service), IBM Watson Explorer Content Analytics, IBM Watson Foundational Components

Nov 2016 - Dec 2016

2 months

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Senior Software Developer

IBM Client Innovation Center Germany GmbH

Refactoring and extending an existing component for incoming mail classification and sentiment analysis
Deploying this component as a cloud service
Toolset: Java, UIMA API, JUnit, MALLET, Docker, Containers, Eclipse, REST

Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

3 months

Data Scientist

One of the largest IT service providers in Germany

Setting up an enterprise search engine – boosting, faceting, synonyms
Text categorization & clustering, data preparation
Toolset: Java, UIMA API, Eclipse, Watson Explorer Foundational Components, XSLT, JavaScript

Sep 2016 - Sep 2016

1 month

Senior Software Developer

Parcel service provider

Crawling and extracting information from delivery orders
Toolset: Python, Java, UIMA API, Eclipse, Watson Explorer Analytical Components and Foundational Components

Jul 2016 - Jan 2018

1 year 7 months

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Software Developer

IBM Client Innovation Center Germany GmbH

Focus: designing and implementing IT solutions, automating build, test and deployment processes, DevOps, microservices, integration, cloud services, processing unstructured data, NLP pipelines, machine learning, developing annotators, parsing rules, dictionaries, regex, NER, information extraction and matching, spelling correction, ontological modeling, designing and implementing interfaces, performance optimization, client consulting
Sample projects: dark processing of insurance coverage requests, classification of incoming mail in insurance, building a cognitive services platform for a bank, document digitization with knowledge graphs, analyzing textual customer reviews, chatbots for sales helpdesk in banking, IT support ticket analysis
Developing prototypes and demos, effort estimation, using and customizing open source NLP and ML libraries, data conversion and preparation, supporting and advising internal colleagues
Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Cloud Services, Docker, Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, TeamCity, Jenkins, JUnit, Agile, Scrum, code reviews, clean code, OOP, design patterns, Maven, Git, JProfile, VisualVM, SonarQube, SoapUI, certificates/OpenSSL, Nexus, Artifactory, MySQL, SQL, JPA, Hibernate, Jupyter Notebook, IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud, JSON, XML, XLSX, XSLT, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, scikit-learn, NumPy, IBM Watson Explorer (Analytical & Foundational Components, +API), IBM Watson Knowledge Studio + NLU, IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Knowledge Studio, UIMA API, Guava, Eclipse Collections, Watson Assistant (+API), Tesseract, HOCR

Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

2 months

Senior Software Developer, Data Scientist

Developing a chatbot for vacation bookings: information extraction, modeling chatbot dialogues
Toolset: Java, UIMA API, Eclipse, IBM Watson Conversation Service, IBM Watson Explorer Analytical Components, custom annotators

Mar 2016 - Jun 2016

4 months

Business Rules Consultant

Leading vehicle claims processing company

Modeling and formalizing business logic
Implementing logic as a rule set
Reviewing existing rule sets
Consulting
Toolset: Java, IBM ODM, Eclipse, JUnit, Git, SoapUI, Rule Designer API, JSON, TeamCity, continuous integration

Nov 2015 - Dec 2015

2 months

Software Developer, Business Rules Consultant

Chemical and pharmaceutical company

Designing and implementing the central orchestration component
Formalizing business logic and implementing it as a rule set
Toolset: Java, JavaMail, IBM ODM, Eclipse, WebSphere AS, Decision Center, Rule Execution Server, XLSX, Rule Designer API

Jun 2015 - Nov 2015

6 months

Business Rules Consultant

World-leading car leasing company

Formalizing business logic and implementing it as a rule set
Consulting
Toolset: IBM ODM, Java, Eclipse, Git, SoapUI, Rule Designer API, Decision Center

Jun 2015 - Sep 2015

4 months

Business Rules Consultant

Telecommunications company

Formalizing business logic and implementing it as a rule set
Toolset: JRules, SoapUI, Rule Designer API

May 2015 - Mar 2016

11 months

Software Developer, Business Rules Consultant

Chemical and pharmaceutical company

Designing and implementing the central orchestration component
Formalizing business logic and implementing it as a rule set
Consulting
Toolset: Java, IBM ODM, Eclipse, SoapUI, SQL Server Management Studio, WebSphere AS, Decision Center, Rule Execution Server

Feb 2015 - Mar 2015

2 months

Software Developer

An insurance group

Implementing interfaces
Data conversion
Toolset: Java, Eclipse, XML, XLSX, IBM ODM, Rule Designer API

Jan 2015 - Feb 2015

2 months

Business Rules Consultant

Insurance group

Consulting
Modeling
Formalizing and implementing business logic as a rule set
Toolset: IBM ODM, Java, Eclipse, SVN

Oct 2014 - Jun 2016

1 year 9 months

Dillingen, Germany

IT Consultant (Business Rules Consultant)

S&D Software nach Maß GmbH

Focus: designing and implementing rule sets, automating business processes using business rules, implementing interfaces, on-site customer support and consulting
Developing prototypes and demos, back-office support on multiple projects, including:
Modeling business and industry processes
Formalizing and implementing business logic
Creating rule sets
Consulting
Troubleshooting customer rule sets
Writing user guides and documentation
Creating test data, testing, installation
Developing test GUIs
Building helper libraries for rule sets
Sample customer projects: data quality assessment in business intelligence, rule set for output management in insurance, automating new customer and order evaluation in telecom, automating document and invoice checks in automotive
Effort estimation, back-office support, including test data creation, testing, bug fixing
Technologies: Java, IBM Operational Decision Manager (+API), Eclipse, XML, XLSX, MS SQL, Bosch Visual Rules, Drools, IBM WAS, Web Services, JavaMail, SoapUI, shell, Cygwin, JAXB, Visual Rules Execution Server, Rule Designer API, Rule Execution Server, Decision Center, Drools

Apr 2011 - Sep 2014

3 years 6 months

Saarbrücken, Germany

Doctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Project: algorithms for network alignment using graph edit distance models
Focus: designing, developing and analyzing novel graph algorithms; algorithm theory, implementation, evaluation and comparison, literature research, peer reviewing
Performance optimization
Supervising bachelor and master students, preparing lectures and tutorials
Technologies: C/C++, make/CMake, Valgrind, Linux, R, Python, Java, MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, shell, Cygwin, Cytoscape, SVN, BLAST, Graphviz, Sun Grid Engine

Apr 2008 - Mar 2009

1 year

Data Scientist (Part-time)

Loginom Company

Project: analysis of consumer goods sales
Applied skills/areas: data analysis technologies, data consolidation, data transformation, data visualization, data cleaning and preprocessing, data mining – association, data mining – clustering
Data preparation
Generating, evaluating and interpreting models for predicting consumer goods sales volume
Preparing demos and documentation
Technologies: Deductor Studio, SQL, Firebird

Dec 2006 - Sep 2009

2 years 10 months

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Junior Scientist (Part-time)

Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Institute of Mathematics and Information Technology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan

Topics: high performance & parallel computing, data analysis, distributed machine learning, scientific computing, grid technologies, telemedicine, multi-agent systems
Performance optimization
Setting up & administering Linux cluster
Technologies: Java, WEKA, C, C++, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Linux, JADE, MySQL, shell

Sep 2005 - Mar 2006

7 months

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Software Developer (Part-time)

National University of Uzbekistan

Project/topic: computer simulation of nonlinear diffusion processes with external influence
Developing a program to solve partial differential equations (PDEs)
Technologies: MATLAB, Mathcad

Languages

Russian

Native

English

Advanced

German

Advanced

Education

Apr 2011 - Sep 2014

Max Planck Institute for Informatics & Saarland University

Doctor of Natural Sciences · Saarbrücken, Germany · 1.0

Sep 2007 - Aug 2009

National University of Uzbekistan

Master in Computer Science · Computer Science · Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Sep 2002 - Aug 2006

National University of Uzbekistan

Bachelor in Applied Mathematics and Informatics · Applied Mathematics and Informatics · Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Certifications & licenses

Red Hat Specialist, Red Hat Decision Manager 7 Foundations

Red Hat

Red Hat Accredited Professional, Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Cloud-Native Development with Quarkus

Red Hat

Red Hat Accredited Professional, Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Container Platform (ISV)

Red Hat

Red Hat Accredited Professional, Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Container Platform Application Deployment

Red Hat

Red Hat Specialist, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Configuration

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