
Jiju Thomas Mathew
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solutions Architect and Developer
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Toptal member since February 22, 2023
Jiju is a seasoned developer and industry expert who brings over 30 years of experience in large engagements, including IT infrastructure and program management and solution design, architecture, and implementation across multiple business verticals. He has a comprehensive background working on AWS platforms, Node.js, PHP, MySQL, Linux shell scripting, and other technology frameworks. Jiju is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer, and SysOps Administrator.
Portfolio
Experience
- MariaDB - 15 years
- MySQL - 15 years
- PHP - 15 years
- Ubuntu Linux - 15 years
- WordPress - 9 years
- Database Migration - 8 years
- AWS CloudFormation - 8 years
- Node.js - 7 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Ubuntu Linux, Cloud9, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), AWS CloudFormation
The most amazing...
...project I've delivered involved refactoring a video encoding as AWS serverless and implementing a new solution with savings of 80% on monthly costs.
Work Experience
Technical Architect, Cloud and Migration
QuEST Global Services
- Took over the client's old project, developed by another vendor. My team handled performance improvement and the platform upgrade.
- Conducted TypeScript code reviews for multiple projects.
- Executed code optimizations and library updates for projects.
Solution Architect 1, Cloud and Infrastruture
UST Global
- Combined multiple open-source software to build an internal video conferencing solution with group invite and scheduling and later deployed it on AWS Fargate, a serverless container.
- Implemented DevOps culture using AWS DevOps Solutions like AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy, and integrated monitoring through Amazon SNS and Microsoft Teams.
- Rectified multiple projects, which had poorly designed MySQL databases and shabby code, through reviews and indexing using external tools like Percona toolkit and Amazon DevOps Guru for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
- Suggested a fully serverless platform design for a news portal which was finally developed by a third-party vendor under my supervision. The system uses AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Aurora Serverless, MySQL, and Elasticsearch.
Chief Technology Officer
Innoval Digital Solutions Pvt
- Implemented pfSense, a firewall software, and OpenVPN, a virtual private network system to provide access to resources during the pandemic season. Managed the IT infrastructure and network landscape.
- Managed the data center temperature using Raspberry Pi with AWS IoT Core and multiple temperature sensors to control A/C pumps through relays.
- Enhanced Innoval's website using a version of WordPress on Amazon S3 by running WordPress in a local Docker container and publishing triggered from Jenkins.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy and integrated QA with a manual approval stage.
- Served as the CTO involved and in charge of 100+ projects. Led and inspired more than 500 resources. Implemented virtualization and containerization with VirtualBox, VMware, and Docker for local development and testing.
- Utilized DevOps practices through the code pipeline, code build, and further implementations.
- Led the PHP 5 to PHP 7 migration project, which required heavy interaction and supervision with multiple resources and projects.
- Devised a highly secure deployment of a WordPress website that uses a custom build developed in a shell script, which is practically impossible to hack into.
- Coordinated with AWS regional client support to convince and accept AWS as a preferred vendor for a banking enterprise, as the project conceived and architected depends on managed services on AWS. Architecture deployment used IaC.
Chief Technology Officer
Saturn Systemwares
- Migrated a news portal from the data center to AWS with minimal downtime.
- Maintained the hardware systems, implemented the firewall, and managed the overall network health and server patching upgrading.
- Performed Galileo GDS flight data abstraction into 30+ portals using a single codebase and optimal hosting.
- Developed phpMyProfiler, a later open-sourced scrip with over 6,000 downloads, referenced on the official MySQL manual.
- Served as a multisite content manager for a government department hosting and managing portals for over 200 institutions deployed on dual locations for HA with active-active replication and automatic failover.
- Built custom plugins for WordPress and several scripts to statically host websites on Amazon S3 and delivery through Amazon CloudFront, reducing latency and cost with practically zero vulnerability.
- Architected 20+ complex solutions integrating managed AWS microservices and custom serverless components, mixing development languages and coordinating resources in PHP, Node.js, Python, and Java.
- Visualized and created a routing framework for PHP, which was later opened to the FOSS community. It's posted on my GitHub account at github.com/jthoma/phpmf, with hosting examples like AWS Lambda and more.
- Implemented DevOps practices for CI/CD using Jenkins manual build and automation with post-commit hooks in Apache Subversion and triggers in Git.
- Created an API stub generator for TypeScript depending on a custom JSON Wireframe API definition. It generates a runnable stub where logical folder methods can be updated with specific business logic (github.com/jthoma/typescript-api-stub-generator).
Experience
PHP MariaFramework – PHPmf
https://github.com/jthoma/phpmfOpen PHP-MyProfiler
https://www.jijutm.com/open-php-myprofiler/index.htmlWordPress to AWS S3
https://www.ivldsp.comVersatile QR Code Generator
https://bz2.in/mkqrcode/• Text: Embed any message, from greetings to product descriptions, directly into your QR code.
• URLs: Share website links or online resources effortlessly by converting them into scannable QR codes.
• WhatsApp direct chats: For phone numbers with 12-14 digits, instantly generate a QR code that opens a direct chat on WhatsApp – no need to save the contact first!
• With an optional start message to connect feedback from printed or digital advertisements and analyze coverage and efficiency.
• A prebuilt or custom graphic icon embed feature. The UPI QR Code can have amount, comment, banking name, etc., as optional fields.
This is one of my contributions to give back to the developer community, which has helped me learn all these.
In-browser Text Editor
http://jtm-projects.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/chrcount/Watch Multiple Time Zone to Compare
https://bz2.in/world-clock/Education
High School Diploma in Telecommunications
Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) - New Delhi, India
Certifications
The Open Group Certified: TOGAF 9 Certified
The Open Group
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
DevOps Engineer Master's Program
Simplilearn
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery
Tools
AWS CloudFormation, Git, pfSense, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS Fargate, NGINX, GitHub, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Jenkins, pfSence, Terraform
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP 7, PHP 5, HTML
Paradigms
DevOps, DevSecOps, Scrum, REST
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ubuntu Linux, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, AWS Lambda, Linux, AWS IoT Core
Storage
MySQL, Database Migration, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, IIS SQL Server, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, JSON, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Frameworks
CodeIgniter
Other
Amazon RDS, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS DevOps, APIs, Security, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud9, Cloud Migration, CI/CD Pipelines, Computer, Communication, Data Migration, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, Amazon API Gateway, Architecture, Shell Scripting, SecOps, Serverless, Prompt Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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