AKHOURY PRANAB PRATEEK
Tampa,FL
Summary
Senior Technical Lead and Architect with extensive experience in guiding cross-functional teams in secure and scalable software solutions. Expertise in modern data pipeline and a deep expertise in data engineering, data governance, data warehousing, and data lakes. Proven ability to lead engineering teams, mentor engineers, and drive innovation. Passionate about building scalable, resilient, and high-performance solutions
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Architect
CITIBANK NA
02.2021 - Current
- Pioneered the modernization of global risk assessment and regulatory compliance platform to cloud architecture, improving scalability and maintainability of applications reducing cost 20 percent
- Architect and lead in the Citi’s Reporting Data Hub
- Created multiple microservices for the reporting platform and deployed it on on-premises Open Shift
- Build an automated CICD pipeline reducing development time by 30 percent
- Produced platform core capabilities like authorization, authentication, API gateway,3DNS and logging
- Guided Architected and deployed distributed microservices to handle reporting features, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance
- Spearheaded the migration of legacy systems to AWS, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration, resulting in a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs.
Data Transformation
02.2021 - Current
- Led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a Java-based data ingestion and transformation service
- The service reduced dependency on vendor products and resulted in cost savings of 25 percent
- Enhanced data storage resulting in space reduction by 20 percent in HDFS
- Improved the performance of job by 30 percent by tuning the Broadcast Join & other spark parameters
- Conceived and applied archiving solutions for archiving HDFS & Hive tables and storing in S3
- Enhanced the current architecture to support data streaming
- Architected and deployed real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka, enabling seamless data ingestion and processing for regulatory compliance
- Automated data validation and cleansing processes, improving data accuracy by 20% and reducing manual effort
- Build a connector in DTS for reading and writing the data to and from Snowflake
- Improved the performance of running spark query with push-down enabled by 10 percent
- Configured the CICD pipeline and setting up projects for Continues Integration
Data Consumption Architect
DataBridge
10.2017 - 12.2021
- DataBridge is a java-based engine implementing DAG and accessing resources of wide range of Data Platforms: RDBMS, DW Appliances, In-Memory Databases, Columnar Databases, Message Queues, Standard File Systems, Clustered File Systems, Big Data Systems: Hive, HBase, Apache Spark, etc
- Improved the performance of data ingestion in Sybase by 50 percent using the Sybase SQL Loader and integrating with the framework
- Introduced and defined HBase Connector to read the data from HBase
- Redesigned the Scala Spark engine to eliminate the performance bottleneck and increase the performance of the data movement substantially by 50%
- Successfully completed the POC later enhanced by the team to provide resiliency to the engines in ingestion which eliminated any downtime
- Deployed the engine containers on Red Hat Open Shift for non HDFS use case
- Designed, implemented, and deployed containerized solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.
Lead Software Engineer
CSX JACKSONVILLE, Enterprise Plan Management
08.2016 - 10.2017
- Designed framework for quick development and integration with other systems using REST API
- Coding, Designing the technical solution creating application design, deployment design, and application architecture design document
- Mentored and resolved technical challenges faced by team
- Implementation of continuous delivery and quality gate
Associate Architect
FORCAM, FFORCE
02.2015 - 07.2016
- As a technical architect for the agile scrum team and was responsible for designing and developing new features and solutions for FF product
- Worked as an architect for the application development team and designed and developed new features of reporting, navigation, dashboards, alerting, and operation management.
Senior Software Engineer
ERICSSON R&D, Mobile Wallet Platform
08.2013 - 01.2015
- As a technical architect for the agile scrum /kanban team and was responsible for designing and developing new features and solutions
- Responsible for entire technical delivery by the team
- Planned and implemented new features such as batch transfer, batch transfer reversal, cash voucher, and savings
- Involved in short term and long-term strategy of Ericsson Wallet Platform
Software Designer
RBS BANK, Chordiant Decision Management
12.2010 - 08.2013
- Proposed and simplified solution to reduce the average transaction time from 1 sec to 0.6 seconds
- Introduced asynchronous behavior for updates to reduce transaction time and increase throughput
- Worked on across all phases of Software Engineering (SDLC)
- Proposed, planned, and created the Dyna Cache Implementation of distributed caching.
Senior Software Engineer
AMDOCS, BWS Provisioning Sever
02.2010 - 12.2010
Associate Consultant
CAPGEMINI INDIA PRIVATE LTD, Discover Orion Development
10.2006 - 02.2010
Education
Bachelors - technology
Hons -
NIT
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Languages:
- Java 8/11/17, Python 3, SQL, Shell scripting, Scala, Groovy
- Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, REST APIs
- Frontend: Angular, Node JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenShift
- AWS: Lambda, ECS, EKS, EC2, IAM, EMR, Glue, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, Kinesis, S3
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB
- DevOps: Jenkins, Git, Docker, Docker Swarm, Terraform
- Architecture: Distributed, Microservices, Event-driven architecture, API Development
- Tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Kubernetes Akka, Junit, Maven, Open API, CyberArk, IntelliJ, Collibra
- Big Data & AI/ML: Hadoop, Spark, PySpark, Kafka, Snowflake, ETL, Data pipelines, ELT, Snowflake, and Databricks
- Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, CI/CD, Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.
- Sun Certified Java Programmer
Additional Information
- ACCOMPLISHMENTS , Ovation Award for outstanding contribution at UK ‘s third largest bank. Technical leader Architectural authority and technical responsibility for multiple products. Top Performer Consistently ranked 1-5% among peers, routinely exceeds goals and expectations.
Timeline
Senior Software Architect
CITIBANK NA
02.2021 - Current
Data Transformation
02.2021 - Current
Data Consumption Architect
DataBridge
10.2017 - 12.2021
Lead Software Engineer
CSX JACKSONVILLE, Enterprise Plan Management
08.2016 - 10.2017
Associate Architect
FORCAM, FFORCE
02.2015 - 07.2016
Senior Software Engineer
ERICSSON R&D, Mobile Wallet Platform
08.2013 - 01.2015
Software Designer
RBS BANK, Chordiant Decision Management
12.2010 - 08.2013
Senior Software Engineer
AMDOCS, BWS Provisioning Sever
02.2010 - 12.2010
Associate Consultant
CAPGEMINI INDIA PRIVATE LTD, Discover Orion Development
10.2006 - 02.2010
Bachelors - technology
Hons -
NIT
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