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AKSHAY YEDABETTU DIVAKARA

Belle Mead,NJ

Summary

Seeking a position where my 9 + years of full stack software development experience along with experiences in leading multiple agile development teams, architect business driven enterprise security compliant software solutions and leading the associated effort estimations can all be put into practice and tailored to the next level.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Senior AI Consultant (Lead Developer, Solution Architect)

Findability Sciences Inc
08.2021 - Current

12.2021 - Current
  • This project involves comparing different types of documents and automating the result set to replace the current manual document comparison operation being performed in this Japan based pharmaceutical company
  • Responsibilities:
  • Initial code skeleton build and push into SVN
  • Research on Microsoft Azure’s Computer Vision Offering that provides OCR as part of it
  • This research was done keeping this client use case in mind
  • Developed the feature to check English spelling and provide the list of corrections based on the input text using Java and Spring Boot service that uses maven build tool
  • Developed document conversion service that converts an input Microsoft word document in .docx format into a pdf and then into an image for OCR ingestion
  • Industry: Pharma
  • Skills Used: Microsoft Azure Computer Vision based Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Java, Spring Framework, maven, MySQL, React.JS and JavaScript, Web application security, Subversion
  • Project: SMB Platform (, This project involves ingesting millions of records of data on demand and on an event into a data warehouse and performing computing business valuations and other metrics of business value from this data, also providing a Restful API based access to this through a web-based user interface that is publicly accessible
  • Responsibilities:
  • Designed solution architecture using Snowflake as the data warehouse and AWS as the application and API layer hosting infrastructure
  • Rigorous research of AWS services and their integrations, also concentrating on Snowflake in AWS as a data lake plus warehouse
  • Presented the final technical architecture after thorough internal reviews to the senior directors and decision makers
  • Interviewing developers for delivering this implementation
  • Working on Snowflake on AWS integration with Data stage in Amazon S3 bucket
  • Industry: Finance
  • Skills Used: Amazon Web Services- Route 53, CloudFront, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancer, Amazon
  • Cloudsearch, Cloudformation, AWS devops services, API gateway, AWS Lambda, S3 Buckets, IAM and Snowflake on
  • AWS

SEC Chatbot, Voice – TTS
08.2021 - Current
  • Transactional chatbot development for an Energy domain company whose end customers will use this product as a first level of support before reaching the live agents for assistance
  • Transactions include authenticating users, getting details from customers and raise tickets/ complaints on the power connections, get status of tickets/ complaints from their backend ticketing system that also includes Cisco
  • ECE, and redirecting the user to a Cisco ECE based live agent within the same chatbot
  • Responsibilities:
  • SOAP Web service integration with Spring and JAXB Marshalling / Unmarshalling
  • Install and setup UAT and Production Infrastructure that comprised of RedHat Linux servers
  • This included installation and setup of MySQL, Apache Tomcat Web Server
  • Setup L4 Load Balancers with HAProxy in front of UAT and Production web servers
  • Cisco ECE Integration
  • Working with Watson Assistant intents, entities, and dialogs
  • Specifically on context variables and output json formatting in order to use in the spring backend service
  • Mobile OTP implementation using My SQL DB and spring
  • Testing chatbot thoroughly with different scenarios and text cases for every flow
  • Setting up Alerts and Quotas for monitoring RedHat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Pak for Data
  • Working closely with IBM Cloud Pak for Data and effective utilization of underlying infrastructure for the pods that make up the CPD
  • Web application security triggered code changes
  • Deployment into on-premises Production and UAT tomcat web servers
  • Industry: Energy – Power Supply Distribution
  • Skills Used: Java, Spring Framework, IBM Watson Assistant, RedHat OpenShift & IBM Cloud Pak for Data, MySQL,
  • Apache Tomcat, Linux – RedHat Distribution, GitHub, Soap and RESTful API, HAProxy Load Balancer Setup, React.JS and JavaScript, Web application security
  • Project: FS Custom

Senior Consultant, Innovation (Lead Developer, Solution Architect)

Sogeti USA, A Capgemini Company
10.2019 - 07.2021

Vouching Tool
11.2020 - 07.2021
  • A project that involved User Interface development in Angular 11 and a middleware in .net core that consumes
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based API exposed by an existing backend platform
  • Auditors from the client company being the primary users of this application use case, this application is built for uploading general ledger, invoices, purchase orders and other audit documents
  • Once uploaded, they are used for specific data extraction from these documents and match them against the general ledger
  • AI and ML is used for extraction and matching
  • Responsibilities:
  • Lead developer responsible for setting up ground rules for scrum-based agile development with Jira as facilitator
  • Administrator of Jira setting up user story workflows, planning scrum ceremonies, defining sprints and processes to be followed by the agile development team
  • Used Kanban boards to track tasks that are not sprint based
  • Documented coding best practices along with code merging with pull requests, code review guidelines with
  • Bitbucket, and Laying out UI architecture while using Angular
  • Streamlined the development sprints by proposing a focused Jira workflow for user stories and tasks
  • Planned the development sprints from a UI development angle in terms of resource allocation, effort estimation and splitting development based on UI components being built
  • Wrote Mock data after creating JSON structures of new rest APIs that the user interface was dependent upon
  • These were based on the business requirements and wireframes provided by the product owner
  • Hands on UI development with Angular 11 using SCSS, Flex Layout and material for designing responsive layouts and styling supporting Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari
  • Prepared Security Requirement Questionnaire for approval from the security manager assigned to the project before application can go live
  • Played key role in making security decisions for the application
  • Produce architecture diagrams using services of Microsoft Azure as a core hosting environment of the application and middleware
  • Review client security requirements and build a secure application architecture which includes using Azure application gateway, KeyVault and Azure Firewalls
  • Additionally, involved with application hosting on Azure, setting up CI/CD pipelines with bitbucket on one end and Azure based Containers running Azure based Kubernetes services on the other
  • As a career counsellor of two employees, setup monthly meetings and review their achievements and guide them forward going into the next month of project delivery
  • Industry: Audit & Advisory
  • Skills Used: Angular 11, Node.JS, HTML, SCSS, Typescript, JSON, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Graph API, Azure Active
  • Directory, Bitbucket, Postman, Jira, Gresham Clareti for Document Matching, Planning & Leadership, Interviewing
  • Junior and Senior Technical Resources

Intelligent Assistant

IBM
10.2019 - 10.2020
  • This is a chatbot development project using, Watson Assistant NLP Engine
  • User interface of the chatbot application built with React.JS and a middleware Spring microservice architecture built for integration with IBM
  • Watson Assistant, Service Now, Microsoft Outlook, EMS and Microsoft Teams
  • This application is being used by the employees of the client for routine activities like scheduling meetings, booking workspace and meeting rooms, open tickets in service now and monitor its status, answer firm-wide frequently asked questions across multiple departments
  • Responsibilities:
  • Estimated the development effort involved in a solution for automating content ingestion into chat bot environment using Microsoft Sharepoint as a source of information
  • Lead meetings with the client security manager answering and remediating the concerns raised before go- live of a release
  • Proposed solution that helped handle personalized content that were specific to a user’s location and role
  • Lead the team of developers in an onshore-offshore team model
  • Contributed actively into release planning, resource allocation and sprint grooming
  • Experience in running Fortify and Whitesource based code repository scanning and working on security remediations
  • Developed Scripted APIs on Bot platform back end using Spring-Boot micro-service architecture with maven build tool
  • Used Spring-Cloud for managing configuration properties of multiple microservices
  • Used Spring-JPA with Hibernate with entity based ORM implementations
  • Utilized the IBM Watson Assistant – conversation SDK for Java to communicate with Watson Assistant API and fetch intents from a trained IBM Watson NLP Engine
  • Worked on training the Watson Assistant AI in alignment with enterprise-wide use cases
  • The training returned a unique intent for an input question/ phrase with a strong confidence score
  • Extensive Rest API development experience with Java-Spring Boot and NodeJS server-side
  • Worked extensively on testing APIs with Curl and Postman
  • Profound experience with tomcat stand-alone server setups on Linux servers and java package deployments
  • Work with a multi-OS server architecture involving windows and Linux-RHEL
  • Profound experience and expertise working with Linux
  • Developed crypto utility that encrypts and decrypts text using RSA-2048 Asynchronous Algorithm with block ciphers
  • Thorough understanding of AES and RSA cryptography with multiple cipher algorithms
  • Experience working with Java Keystores and incorporating Certificates and Keys into the same
  • Made decisions on code repository management and merging strategy for Bitbucket
  • Extensive working experience with command-line Git to clone, pull, push, merge code, resolve merge conflicts and more
  • Involved in extensive reverse engineering and back tracing of an already existing server architecture along with certificate issues
  • The work environment is Agile methodology that uses Scrum to manage the team through JIRA with bi- weekly sprints
  • Good working experience with management of sprints and user story cycles on JIRA
  • Experience creating application runbook, installation guide and other project-wide pre-production documents on Confluence
  • Industry: Audit & Advisory Enterprise Operations
  • Skills Used: Java, Spring Framework, Sprint boot, Microsoft SQL Server- 2016, Cryptography with RSA and AES,
  • Redhat Linux, Apache Tomcat, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, IBM Watson Assistant for Chatbot Conversation Design, Service
  • Now API integration with chatbot, Microsoft Graph API and Azure AD, Postman

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
02.2013 - 07.2017

Application Developer Analyst

Accenture
01.2015 - 07.2017
  • Newspage- A Sales Force Automation Project that comes under FMCGS Industry delivering web interfaces and business logic involved in salesperson operational and monitoring tasks
  • Responsibilities:
  • Handed application deployment along with database (MS SQL Server) design, development and deployment of a new client market
  • Worked with client gathering requirements for a new market app development
  • Co-ordinated with the team of DB-administrators to setup new databases
  • Developed Java model classes, Spring Boot with Spring JPA- Hibernate for ORM with SQL Server database
  • Worked with handling http requests and responses for RESTful API endpoints
  • Worked in an Agile environment with scrum implementations of user stories using Jira
  • Attended bootcamps for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Industry: Fast Moving Consumer Goods & Services (FMCGS)
  • Skills Used: Java, Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Business Intelligence-SSRS

Associate Software Engineer

Accenture
02.2013 - 12.2014
  • Methods & Tools (AMT)
  • Responsibilities:
  • Worked on production support for two of the internal .net based applications and their databases
  • Worked on change requests and priority incidents majority of them were related to database
  • Worked extensively on backtracking to find root cause of stored procedure failures, incorrect data injected into tables in MS SQL Server Procedures, Views and Complex Queries
  • Setup indexes to high-volume tables to reduce adverse impact on performance
  • Worked on creating SSRS reports for rendering weekly, fortnightly, and monthly metrics of ticket resolution
  • Worked on setting up data replication using SQL Server Agent to push data into disaster recovery environment
  • Worked on ETL with SQL Server Integration Services
  • Developed SQL procedures to run on fixed schedules through SQL Server Agent Jobs
  • Industry: Internal Operations
  • Skills Used: Java, Spring Framework, Microsoft SQL Server (2008, 2012), Microsoft Business Intelligence-SSRS, SSIS.

Education

Badges Google Cloud Certified- Associate Cloud Engineer (Jan 2022 -

Issuing Organization: Google Cloud Platform Type: Certification - undefined

Microsoft Type: Certification Hands On Essentials - Data Warehouse (Nov 2021 - undefined

Issuing Organization: Snowflake Type: Badge SAA-C02 AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate (May 2021 - undefined

Amazon Web Services Type: Certification CLF-C01 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Apr 2021 - undefined

Amazon Web Services Type: Certification AZ-900 Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (Jan 2021 - undefined

Microsoft Type: Certification Google Analytics Individual Qualification (Apr 2020 - undefined

IBM Type: Badge Watson Discovery Foundations (Nov 2019 - undefined

Issuing Organization: IBM Type: Badge Implementing Data Warehouses with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Dec 2014) Issuing Organization: Microsoft Type: Certification Skill Set Server-Side: Java, Spring Boot, Node. - undefined

Master of Science - Computer Science

UT

Bachelor of Engineering - Instrumentation Technology

VTU

AZ-104 Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate - undefined

Google Type: Certification Watson Assistant Foundations - undefined

Skills

  • Spring AOP
  • Relational Databases:
  • Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • NoSQL: Azure CosmosDB - MongoDB
  • Graph Database: OrientDB
  • Cache: Redis
  • Natural Language Understanding: IBM Watson Assistant, Google DialogFlow
  • Front End: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Angular 6, Typescript, ReactJS
  • Message Brokers: Apache Kafka, AWS SQS
  • Cloud Computing:
  • O Microsoft Azure- App service, AKS, KeyVault, Azure AD, Azure Firewalls, Azure Application Gateway, Graph
  • API, Subscriptions, Users, Groups and Roles, Monitoring and Log Analytics, Computer Vision for OCR
  • O AWS- EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, ELB, IAM, Cloudfront, Elastic Load Balancer, SG, Understanding of TCO and
  • Cost Explorer
  • O IBM Bluemix- Watson Assistant, Watson Discovery, Cloud Pak for Data
  • Analytics: Google Analytics, MS-Business Intelligence
  • Source Code Control: Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, Subversion
  • Build Tools Used: Maven, Webpack, Babel
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux/Unix – RHEL, MacOS
  • Container: Docker
  • Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift
  • Tools/Other Software:
  • Jira, Postman, WinSCP, Curl, Visio, Confluence, JFrog, Gresham Clareti, SoapUI
  • Masters - Computer Science: Courses
  • Cloud Computing- Working with GCP, Azure and AWS separately to deploy a basic front-end application into the
  • Virtual machines provided by these cloud service providers
  • Python Programming – Basics of python programming, file handling, html parsing and object-oriented
  • Programming, tkinter, turtle, Matplotlib
  • Web Data Management- included HTML

Certification

5, CSS3, Javascript with ES6, PHP and Code Igniter for MVC Others- Data Analysis and Modelling Techniques, Secure Programming, Advanced Algorithms, Wireless Networks, Software Testing, Advanced Topics in Software Engineering- Static Program Analysis, Information Security-I, Bitcoins and Crypto-Currency

Timeline

12.2021 - Current

Senior AI Consultant (Lead Developer, Solution Architect)

Findability Sciences Inc
08.2021 - Current

SEC Chatbot, Voice – TTS
08.2021 - Current

Vouching Tool
11.2020 - 07.2021

Senior Consultant, Innovation (Lead Developer, Solution Architect)

Sogeti USA, A Capgemini Company
10.2019 - 07.2021

Intelligent Assistant

IBM
10.2019 - 10.2020

Application Developer Analyst

Accenture
01.2015 - 07.2017

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
02.2013 - 07.2017

Associate Software Engineer

Accenture
02.2013 - 12.2014

Badges Google Cloud Certified- Associate Cloud Engineer (Jan 2022 -

Issuing Organization: Google Cloud Platform Type: Certification - undefined

Microsoft Type: Certification Hands On Essentials - Data Warehouse (Nov 2021 - undefined

Issuing Organization: Snowflake Type: Badge SAA-C02 AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate (May 2021 - undefined

Amazon Web Services Type: Certification CLF-C01 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Apr 2021 - undefined

Amazon Web Services Type: Certification AZ-900 Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (Jan 2021 - undefined

Microsoft Type: Certification Google Analytics Individual Qualification (Apr 2020 - undefined

IBM Type: Badge Watson Discovery Foundations (Nov 2019 - undefined

Issuing Organization: IBM Type: Badge Implementing Data Warehouses with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Dec 2014) Issuing Organization: Microsoft Type: Certification Skill Set Server-Side: Java, Spring Boot, Node. - undefined

Master of Science - Computer Science

UT

Bachelor of Engineering - Instrumentation Technology

VTU

AZ-104 Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate - undefined

Google Type: Certification Watson Assistant Foundations - undefined

AKSHAY YEDABETTU DIVAKARA