Sukdeb Chakraborty Email & Phone Number

Blaydon, England, Gb

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading and providing cloud expertise to teams for designing and implementing cloud-infrastructure for CGI’s Payment Product – All Payment System, identifying leading Cloud services to provide guidance and make recommendations based on assessment, Work in collaboration with multiple teams (security, technology and applications).Selected Achievements: Created security architecture for internal and external facing services using certificate management in K8 cluster with Hashicorp vault to align with security compliance. Streamlined CI/CD process using automation which caters to multiple teams like dev, test, performance etc. to optimize team’s velocity Streamlined azure resource governance using Azure Policy and automation. Designed pluggable file transfer solution using containerized IBM C:D, SFTP in K8 to support multiple EU payment clearing houses. R&D and building a POC with GitOps for setting up application in K8 cluster to provide higher Cost Efficiency, Compliance, Security, and Resilience.Major Solutions Contributed:  Designed and implemented a POC to implement GitOps using GitLab and Flux operator. GitOps is a way to do Kubernetes cluster management and application delivery for higher Cost Efficiency, Compliance, Security, and Resilience. Automated cluster deployment along with dependent module in Azure using shell script and ARM template. Setting up container based Connect:Direct to interface with EU payment provider Mentored teams to build capability on cloud technology. Tools Used: Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure IaaS & PaaS, Azure PostgreSQL, Oracle 12c, Jenkin, Visual Studio Code, Microservices, Kafka, Helm, Hashicorp Vault, IBM C:D.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Provide technical leadership to teams for designing and implementing cloud-based solution. Extensively interfaces with technical, senior management, infrastructure, and operations to achieve the highest mutual aims. Selected Achievements: Improved SCI (Security Compliance Index) to 99% within 2 weeks for Azure resources using Policy. Reduced SQL Server and Windows Server License cost by 30% using Azure Policy. Established common Azure policy standard and best practices to achieve highly configurable policy which is future-ready. Designed and developed Policy Automation framework (end to end) to deploy and manage all policy works without manual intervention. Assessed and migrated few critical applications to AWS/Azure as part of POC and resulted in wining large deal. Go-to expert in building Azure Policy and complex application design.Major Solutions Contributed: Designed and implemented a robust self-service-oriented Monitoring framework on Azure by capturing logs to centralized repos, building alerts, and integrating it to ServiceNow. Leaded and contributed in implementing the Policy Automation framework (end to end) and remediating lot of resources. Participated in many compliance initiatives. Mentored other members and teams on better understanding of cloud technology. Understood on-premise IT landscape, analyzed data collected using scanning tool, collaborated with client, analyses multiple cloud vender to prepare target state architecture. Analyzed legacy SSIS project and proposed solution architecture using Azure IR and Data Factory to save high SQL Server license cost. Analyzed legacy applications and proposed cloud native architecture to deploy in Azure using server-less computing for cost optimization. Established Best Practices in Azure Policy and .NET development.Tools Used: Azure Policy, Azure IaaS & PaaS, Azure CosmosDB, Azure DevOPs, Visual Studio Code, C#, Python, AWS IaaS & PaaS, NoSQL, Microservice.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led team of developers to design and develop a highly scalable product suit which acts as a payment hub inter-connecting all the Banks Hosts with number of Payment and Settlement Systems. Consulting and providing solution to clients to resolve their concern in an optimal way. Application contains Web UI built upon three-tiered architecture, multiple back-ground tasks (multi-threaded). It uses async processing models using queue-based messaging. Selected Achievements: Led 10-member team which succeeded in delivering new product (Automated Clearing House) within 6 months.  Designed multi-threaded windows service-based solution which can be configured to process any number of transactions. Led 5-member team to deliver File based Payment Processing engine within 3 months Migrated legacy ASP applications to ASP.NET within 3 months Optimized legacy applications to increase TPS by 25% by identifying bottleneck and proposing solution.  Migration of testing environment to Azure resulting in cost savings of 50%.Key Activities Supported: Managed a team of fifteen resources at the build, test, and deployment phase of multiple banking products. Implementation of Accounting System to interface with Core Banking System to facilitate payment transactions.  Design and implementation of major components (multi-threaded STP framework, Exception handling, multi-level authorization etc.) of projects and significant contributor to the design process  Independently built a prototype on UPI (Unified Payment Interface) solution and proposed the implementation to the leadership team. Independently assessed and migrated product testing environment to Azure Played key role in troubleshooting technical issues.Tools Used: ASP.NET, ASP, C#, Windows Service, Oracle 11g, IBM MQQ, Webservices, SOAP API, REST Services, Azure, Visual Studio, Jenkin, JIRA, SVN.

1. Playing a crucial role in understanding the specific customer requirements and architect the solutions2. Coordinating with client and project team in implementing the developed solution in production and resolving issues that may arise during the implementation3. Understand the applications and provide required training to other team members.4. Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure that proper quality procedures of IBM are followed in all the phases.5. Resolving production failures within the timeframe which adheres to the service level agreement (SLA).

Kolkata Area, India

Kolkata Area, India