Sampath Kumar Gunasekaran Email & Phone Number

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• As a Technical Lead, responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, as well as implementing Guidewire RESTful services and APIs.
• Implement, integrate, and document the APIs supporting the Micro frontend pages and components through the REST API framework.
• Create Integration views – Swagger schema files to define the structure of an API and JSON schema and mapping files to define the schema and mappings for API inputs and outputs and Handler classes implementing the API.
• Integrate new code into existing continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) pipelines. Packaging and running applications in containers using Docker.
• Ensuring the quality of user stories has been maintained and the requirements captured are conformant to Guidewire best practices and standards.
• Performing code reviews on all the features developed by team members thereby improving the performance, and quality of code, and conforming to OOTB standards which helps in maintenance and ease of upgrade in the future.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Acquired by Endava (NYSE: DAVA) in Feb 2022
• As a Technical Lead, responsible for planning, designing, developing, modifying, debugging, and evaluating policy center and digital portal applications forvarious home line functional areas.
• Ensuring the quality of user stories has been maintained and the requirements captured are technically conformant to Guidewire best practices and standards.
• Streamlining change management process
• Performing code reviews on all the features developed thereby improving the performance, quality of code, and conforming to OOTB standards which helps in maintenance and ease of upgrade in the future
• Assessing the feature conformity of all the features planned for build phase as High/Med/Low. Adding value by calling out features which deviates from OOTB and standard configuration thereby helping the team to be.

United States

• As a Lead PolicyCenter developer, responsible for planning, designing, developing, modifying, debugging, and evaluating policy center guidewire application for various commercial multi-peril functional areas.
• Converting the project specifications into a sequence of detailed instructions and logical steps for coding into functional business applications following the software development life-cycle.
• Working closely with stakeholders to understand systems flow, work processes to design and document automation solutions that align with the business needs.
• Assisting/leading in development of analysis and design for configuration requirements and new or existing integration points.
• Developing business rules by configuring and customizing rule sets, events, PCF’s, and entity changes for P&C insurance.
• Coding and designing new functionalities for the existing Guidewire platform and implement inbound and outbound integrations with external systems.

United States

• As a Lead ClaimCenter Configuration/Integration developer, was involved in Hands-on Guidewire PCFs, Business Rules, Data Model changes, Rules Administration, Gosu/Enhancement classes, Expedite Defects, CRs, UW Issues.
• Lead the Scrum meetings as a ClaimCenter Scrum master to ensure the transparency of the dependencies of the user stories of a sprint, to address any blockers, to dashboard the status of the sprint user stories.
• Collaborated with project teams to ensure schedules are accurate and ensured that all the changes and their impacts are accurately reflected in schedules.
• Plans, assigns, and directs the tasks and activities of technical personnel involved in the analysis, design, and development functions required for the project.
• Involved in Code Review, supporting the developer in BA/Test Review meetings, Release build co-ordination meetings, and defect tracking meetings.

Chennai Area, India

• Worked as a member of agile scrum team, for Future Bond Processing System Web Application.
• Contributed in converting legacy bond details into Guidewire Policy Center for surety insurance.
• Designed and developed Guidewire code and Integration code to process large volumes of data from oracle database using Spring batch framework and transform them into different format based on requirements.
• Developed Web services & interfaces for connecting external systems using standard Guidewire API’s/Plug-ins.
• Designing and Implementation of JUnit & GUnit test cases using JMock framework.
• Developed Guidewire implementation design for key functional concepts. Provided estimates for coding, unit and integration testing efforts, and post-launch activities.

Chennai Area, India

• Requirement analysis of change requests, develop technical design documents, Coding and unit testing of independent modules.
• Worked as a member of agile scrum team, for Transformation of Claims Business Web Application.
• Developed business rules by configuring and customizing rules, events, PCF’s, and entity changes for Home and Auto insurance.
• Developed SOAP web services to expose data to the external applications and consumed web services published by the external applications.
• Development of batch jobs (Payment, Exchange rate etc.) to keep custom third party system coordinated with the ClaimCenter product.
• Analyzed root causes hindering the performance of GW batch jobs & resolved them.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 4/4

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Information Technology, 8.4/10

Activities and Societies: General Secretary of IT department.Graduated with a distinction in Information Technology. Received "The Budding.