A self-directed and driven Senior IT Engineering Developer with over 16+ years of Industry Experience with comprehensive accomplishments in building, organizing, structuring and optimizing to ensure high quality work products. Currently working on migration and modernizing legacy mainframe ecosystem to New Banking aligned cloud micro services leveraging containerization on private/public cloud. My extensive understanding of Z OS mainframe infrastructure and application behavior (cobol, vsam, cics) coupled with knowledge of spring boot, Kafka event messaging, oracle database contributed to the setting up of new micro services and shifting traffic to target stateExpertise includes:• Worked in almost all areas of the SDLC job families–System Analysis, Development, Quality Assurance and scrum with proven track record in all the avenues demonstrating strong Domain, Analytical, Problem- Solving, Solution-focused, Delivery-oriented for highly complicated, complex and innovative IT solutions• Migration of mainframe business function to Private cloud using java spring boot, Kafka event messaging, oracle database along with observability capabilities• Working towards AWS migration strategy for existing customer critical business functionality.• Leveraged IBM Change Data Capture (CDC) to expose mainframe data as Kafka events. A simple light weight Java service mapped mainframe data structure to avro schema before kafka publishing.• Exposing mainframe legacy business functions as RestApis using IBM Zosconnect and used IBM CDPz to enhance observability and alerting.• Solving blockers of oauth/adfs and infrastructure challenges while adapting IBM products like Zosconnect, CDC, CDPz to existing applications• Designing and delivery of end to end projects• Ability to work independently and also collaborate in a cross functional, global and team-oriented environment with multiple stakeholders