About

Zulekha Flexwala is a highly motivated and adaptive Technical Lead with over 19 years of experience designing and building large B2B and B2C Java/J2EE applications. She has a proven record of creating high-quality code to solve a wide range of technical challenges for mobile and web applications in domains ranging from mobile games/apps, e-commerce, media & entertainment, and e-recruitment. Zulekha is an Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect, Sun Certified Java Professional, and Sun Certified Web Component Developer. She has expertise in web and mobile enterprise architecture, iOS/Android/web game subscription e-commerce, SDLC, Agile and Waterfall software methodologies, object-oriented analysis and design, SOAP and RESTful web services, AWS, Google App Engine, Firebase, Guice, Spring 3.x, Spring Boot, Hibernate 3.x, distributed caching using Ehcache 2.x, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server database design, NoSQL solutions like Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, C#, Unity, PHP, continuous integration, team leader, mentor, vendor interaction, and onsite-offshore coordinator. Currently, Zulekha works as a Principal Software Engineer at Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution, where she is working on the backend services' platform that powers ESPN iOS and Android apps. In her past roles at Disney Parks, Experiences and Products and Walt Disney Imagineering, she led the design and development of high-traffic, low latency guest-facing and B2B web services, architected API framework in Spring Boot and deployed on AWS, and developed new Alexa skills for properties like Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars. Zulekha earned her BS(honors) in Computer Science from Jai Narain Vyas University, India. She also has a strong educational background, having completed her high school education in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry from St Mary's Convent Sr. Sec. School, Udaipur. Zulekha's tech stack includes software engineering, web development, AWS, senior software engineering, iOS, mobile development, Spring, Java, Android, SQL, Spring Boot, backend development, CI/CD, Redis, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, integration, machine learning, RNN, and testing.