• Developed custom data adapters to use with Oracle Endeca search engine to index financial research publications and extract metadata from disparate sources, to provide helpful guided navigation and content recommendation mechanisms.
• Implemented entitlement control mechanism in the search index to comply with on-going changes in FINRA rules to guarantee disclosure of only authorized content.
• As liaison between IT Security and Web Portal Services, investigated and coordinated with peers to mitigate or eliminate cyber-security vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting and denial of service attacks.
• Created a mechanism to generate URLs with signed and encrypted user identifier to provide client access to protected content without having to explicitly authenticate, thereby improving readership and facilitating Usage Analytics.
• Boosted security by improving utilization of cryptographic algorithms (such as AES, SSHA, etc...), for a proprietary firewall tunneling service for clients to reach internally deployed applications through Citrix.
• Improved performance of numerous Portal administrative facilities that requires cluster-wide communication by leveraging advanced features from java.util.concurrent package.
• Improved monitoring capabilities of the system to offer numerous mechanisms to gain insights into system status to facilitate issue resolutions.
• Participated as subject matter expert in numerous i18n efforts to simplify multilingual support and decouple translation efforts from application releases.
• Added and improved support for two-factor authentication mechanisms such as RSA SecurID and X509 client Certificate (and CRL) validation.
• Technologies: Java 7, RH linux, JDBC, JCE, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, Ant, WebLogic, Javascript, jsp, XML, XPath, XSLT, bash, AJAX, JSON, Endeca Search, JIRA, Autosys
