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Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the establishment and leadership of the AI team, driving initiatives in machine learning and data science.• Developing a highly configurable Python 3.x data science platform that enables configuration of multiple ML models for improving accuracy in anomaly detection, prediction, and other use cases.• Integrating near real-time data into pre-trained models using SGD (Stochastic Gradient Descent) for continuous learning in fraud detection.• Optimizing API performance and latency through benchmarking with tools like Dynatrace, profiling, JMeter, SQL query tuning, and adhering to Java and Kafka best practices.• Structuring Kafka topics with Spring event listeners to prioritize message processing based on business needs.• Orchestrating microservices interaction using design principles to ensure scalability and maintainability.• Leading the migration of data from legacy systems to the latest product version using the Strangler Fig design pattern, minimizing disruption and ensuring data integrity.• Engineering Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for end-to-end automation from build and deployment to product testing, and defining effective branching strategies to streamline development processes.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Application architecture for performance, security and failovers• Maintain quality of code (code reviews, setting coding standards, development processes and best practices)• Technology research by doing PoCs• Strategic initiatives to improve efficiency of present way of working• Maintain delivery and timeliness of product development

Gurgaon, India

• Played a key technical leadership role in designing and implementing a Microservices-based platform integrating IoT-based controller hardware for a leading global access solutions company headquartered in Sweden.• Successfully migrated the existing Dropwizard-based microservices architecture to a more scalable and resilient architecture using Spring Boot and Kafka.• Implemented attribute-based policy-driven access control using the WSO2 framework, enhancing security and compliance across systems.• Designed and implemented a solution to efficiently query complex and large sets of events from AWS S3 using Apache Drill, leveraging its schema-free SQL query engine capabilities.• Defined and implemented robust application security processes, including threat modeling, to proactively identify and mitigate security risks.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Led a team of technical architects in strategic technology initiatives for investment banking products, focusing on both ABOR and IBOR in the back office domain and transfer agency in the middle office domain.• Developed an Integration Framework to expose investment banking product functionalities through secure and scalable Web Services using Spring Boot, Zull and Eureka tech stacks, enhancing system interoperability and accessibility.• Migrated legacy architecture to a Microservices-based architecture, improving scalability, resilience, and ease of maintenance.• Conducted benchmarking and performance tuning of middleware servers and applications using advanced load testing tools, ensuring optimal capacity sizing and efficiency.• Designed infrastructure and technology architecture to meet clients' specific needs, including scalability and high availability solutions. Implemented infrastructure setup automation with Chef and product deployment automation using Jenkins as part of DevOps practices.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Continuous research and POCs on various technologies and domains and demonstrate capabilities to influence product technology roadmap • Infrastructure and technology architecture that addresses client’s specific needs such as scalability/high availability solutions, infrastructure setup automation using Chef, product deployment automation using Jenkins, security process automation etc., all as part of Devops. • Part of architecture board that takes architecture initiatives, review product architectures, review design and code to ensure it meets the defined secure and best practice standards

Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed and implemented Application Security Framework that consists of a set of Application Security standards and processes (such as requirement review, threat modeling, code reviews and PEN testing) to be followed for all Multifonds products as part of product development lifecycl

Bengaluru Area, India

• Application Architecture of Multifonds Next Generation Fund Accounting Platform using Oracle ADF, ADF BC frameworks.• Single Sign-on Architecture using Oracle Identity and Access Management technologies (OAM, OID, OVD, AD and WebGate) and project execution for integrating Multifonds products developed in diverse technologies such as Oracle Forms & Reports, Oracle ADF and Oracle BIP

Bangalore

• Played a key role in winning back-to-back strategic deals with Energy and utilities domain-based companies in Australia by demonstrating Oracle’s OUCSS product capabilities in meeting the business requirements and transformations.• Led the Application and Security Architecture and delivery for a leading energy and utilities company in Australia in their Digital Transformation Program, focusing on customer self-service digitalization and integration with external systems using Oracle Utilities Customer Self-service 2.0.1, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, and Oracle Identity and Access Management suite (OAM, OUD, OIM).

Bengaluru Area, India

• Implemented robust tracking mechanisms for Oracle ADF & WebCenter Portal projects, consistently achieving high customer satisfaction scores.• Architected portal and its integrations for a leading publisher in Europe utilizing Oracle ADF, Oracle IDM (OAM, OID, OIM), and Java technologies to build an editorial platform for research content submission.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed high-performance batch jobs using Java and IBM MQ for a leading US bank to extract SWIFT messages and validate NAV data, improving operational efficiency.• Instituted project management policies and established a PMO model for project control, standardizing project definitions, categorization, and tracking.