Vasanth Raj Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

Hands-on Engineering Manager leading initiatives as part of Citi Public Cloud Enablement team specializing in Cloud Data technologies.Enable a team of individual developers to accelerate adoption of public cloud database technologies across Citi business lines.Maintain roadmap working closely with Program Managers, Scrum Masters, peers, Leadership and product vendors.Build Proof of Concepts and technical opinions/bias to evaluate public cloud database technologiesconsidering various functional and non functional requirements.Design and lead development of distributed systems to support reliable and compliant public cloud service offerings for firm-wide consumption.

New York, New York, Us

Hands-on Engineering Manager leading and scaling a Platform Patterns and Practices team for all lines of business under Marcus brand including the technology platform supporting Apple Card.Pitched for and established a dedicated team that offers data store as a service. The global team supports and maintains 50+ data stores hosting 100s of TB of data meeting a four 9s availability requirement.Recruited talented engineers by communicating the vision, to build the team from ground up. Successfully completed initiatives targeting to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by $10MM+ annually.Identified and documented best practices, built reusable patterns and libraries to manage cross cutting concerns relating to data for improving velocity of application delivery (Time to Market).Identified inefficiencies in existing data pipelines to data warehouse. Proposed and lead building of a centralized change data capture (CDC) platform that dramatically improved time to build/deploy, reliability (near real-time streaming) and availability (four 9s).

New York, New York, Us

Product Engineering Lead with following responsibilities: - Envision and prioritize product roadmap closely working with product owners, clients and other stake holders, while considering the budget, resource availability, functional (business process, domain integration etc.) and non-functional requirements (user experience, scalability, availability, maintainability etc.), effectively identifying the minimum viable product for iterative development.- Architecting technical implementation, build and deployment fulfilling targeted non-functional requirements and budget.- Develop product using agile methodologies, while mentoring junior and mid-level developers on best practices and coordinating with globally distributed teams. - Communicate and network with diverse stake holders about product features and occasionally provide training if needed.Products:Technology Business Management Workstation - highly available and performant analytics and reporting application, helping end users gain meaningful insight from large scale unstructured data. Technologies used include but not limited to Java, Spring, Elastic Search, DB2, Python, Angular, Jenkins, Maven, REST, JIRA and Private Cloud technologies. Global Contract Tracking Tool - A tool used by every product manager within the firm globally, letting Sponsors, Team Leads, Team Members and other stake holders collaboratively agree upon requirements, freeze them as measurable contracts, and letting Sponsors confirm upon project delivery. Technologies and methodologies used include but not limited to Domain Driven Design, Java, Dropwizard, Jetty, Camuda, Oracle, Elastic Search, React, REST, JIRA and Private Cloud technologies.

New York, New York, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

In-house Technology Architect and Senior Software Developer working with the development team, architecting and ensuring quality in development of next generation revenue maximization engine.• Create application blueprints• Mentor development team on architectural best practices• Contribute towards system development efforts as a senior software developer• Ensure highest quality of design and code by continuously monitoring the development

Dublin 2, Ie

Reference Application Module Lead and individual contributor for a firm wide strategic initiative to standardize custom java enterprise applications and its development using prescriptive Reference Architecture.• Enable clients adapt and build customized Reference Architecture as per client requirements• Collaborate with Solution Architects and contribute for response to RFPs• Derive project objectives, plan and estimates from high-level abstract product plan or roadmap and execute them• Create prescriptive best practices documentation on new technologies while considering, various architectural concerns• Explore bleeding-edge technologies and create PoVs and PoCs while actively evangelize within the firm about them• Develop gold-standard code as per the AFP-J recommendations for reference application• Provide and create trainings for projects and clients adapting AFP-J• Collaborate with product vendors and OSS maintainers for productsupport

Dublin 2, Ie

Individual contributor for a large client in insurance domain, to migrate upstream applications running on legacy proprietary stack to contemporary OSS stack.- Research and Identify OSS stack for migration- Migrate 32 web-service applications working in between downstream applications and CICS backend- Develop SOAP-UI based web-services regression testing framework Improved application throughput by 40%, and reduced TCO by 60%

Dublin 2, Ie

Intern working for a CIO project to enable mobile interface for a employee directory.- J2ME based mobile application, integration with enterprise backend- Designed and developed mConnect, a re-usable library for consolidating and standardizing REST communication

Masters In Computer Applications, Computer Applications

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