Tushar Patel

Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of IT experience and 11+ years of specialized expertise in Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP development. Extensive experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-grade portals, customer self-service platforms, insurance applications, and digital transformation initiatives. Expert in Liferay 6.2, 7.x and 7.4 DXP, OSGi modular development, Service Builder, custom portlets, themes, permissions, workflow integrations, REST APIs, Spring Boot microservices, and enterprise integrations.

Proven track record of leading distributed teams, architecting scalable solutions, improving application performance, and delivering mission-critical applications for Fortune 500 organizations including IBM, PepsiCo, Travelport, and Aditya Birla Insurance.

Senior Software Engineer - Turing

(2024-10 - 2025-07)

Client: PepsiCo | Project: Should Cost Modelling Portal

• Developed enterprise portal solutions using Liferay 7.4 DXP and Java 17.
• Designed OSGi-based custom Vaadin portlets and reusable components.
• Integrated GraphQL APIs and backend microservices for global cost-modelling workflows.
• Implemented audit logging, analytics, and role-based security controls.
• Enhanced portal performance resulting in 3x faster simulation processing.
• Reduced manual cost analysis effort by approximately 80%.
• Environment: Liferay 7.4 DXP, Java 17, Vaadin, Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka, Azure Cosmos DB

Senior Software Engineer - IBM India Software Labs

(2021-11 - 2024-10)

Project: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Portal

• Led development of enterprise portal solutions using Liferay DXP.
• Designed modular OSGi architecture and reusable services.
• Integrated IBM ELM products through REST-based services.
• Developed scalable backend services using Spring Boot and Java.
• Managed production deployments, monitoring, and platform stability.
• Delivered highly available solutions supporting global users.
• Environment: Liferay 7.x DXP, Java, Spring Boot, OSGi, Db2, Oracle

Team Lead - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

(2018-06 - 2021-11)

Project: Travelport B2B Customer Portal

• Led offshore development team for customer and partner portal initiatives.
• Designed enterprise portal architecture using Liferay DXP.
• Developed dashboards, user management modules, and CRM integrations.
• Implemented ServiceNow, Solr, and Bizagi integrations.
• Improved portal response times by more than 30%.
• Mentored development teams on Liferay best practices and OSGi development.
• Environment: Liferay DXP, Spring Boot, MySQL, Solr, ServiceNow, Bizagi

Senior Software Engineer - Anblicks (Knowarth Technologies)

(2015-02 - 2018-06)

Client: Aditya Birla Insurance | Digi Shield Term Insurance Portal

• Developed customer-facing insurance portal solutions using Liferay.
• Built dynamic questionnaires and policy workflow modules.
• Integrated third-party insurance and underwriting services.
• Participated in platform upgrades and migration initiatives.
• Implemented secure customer self-service capabilities.
• Environment: Liferay 6.2, Java, Spring, MySQL, JavaScript, Bootstrap

Senior Software Engineer - Dental Shopper

(2014-06 - 2015-02)

• Developed eCommerce solutions using Liferay 6.2.
• Built custom portlets and responsive portal components.
• Implemented Spring MVC-based business modules.
• Environment: Liferay 6.2, Spring MVC, MySQL

Senior Software Engineer - Aspire

(2013-11 - 2014-04)

Learning Management System

• Developed enterprise LMS modules using Spring MVC and Hibernate.
• Designed reusable business services and database components.
• Environment: Java, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Oracle

Software Engineer - eInfochips

(2011-08 - 2012-08)

American Home Security System

• Developed enterprise applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Worked on Struts2, Spring, Hibernate, and Oracle-based solutions.
• Environment: Struts2, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle

Master of Computer Applications - MCA (2011)

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA (2008)