ANANDAKUMAR ELUMALAI
Lakewood,CA
Summary
As a seasoned Software Engineer with 24 years of experience, I have a proven track record of designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based solutions. I have a deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, Conversational AI and Generative AI practices. I have a strong expertise in designing and developing software systems using a range of programming languages, frameworks and tools.
Https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandakumar-elumalai-28378a4/
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Head of Engineering
Auto Club Of Southern California, AAA
04.2019 - Current
Leading AI practice for Autoclubs. We are currently working on proof of concepts for building a client facing chatbot application which can deal with multiple lines of business.
- Vertex AI, OpenAI, Langchain
- DialogFlow CX, Generative agents, RAG, MongoDB Vector store
Senior Architect
Sempra Energy (Brillio)
10.2017 - 04.2019
This program focused on legacy modernization of 3 major enterprise applications.
Previous Tech stack: Struts 1, weblogic 6, JMS, Tiles, EJB 2.0, JTA, Java 6, Actuate
Current Tech stack: Struts 2.4, Tomcat 8, Active MQ, Tiles 2, Spring Beans, Java 8, JBOSS Drools, Bitronix Transactions.
Key highlights:
- Due diligence of existing applications
- Come up with effective strategy to do phased modernization minimizing risk
- Document Migration guides for developers to follow
- Designed and Coded base frame work and accelerators to speed up development
- Code review
Senior Architect
Toyota Accessories Management (Cognizant)
11.2016 - 10.2017
Migration of Toyota's Accessories Management System to latest technology suite.
Previous Tech stack: Java 6, Oracle ADF, Webcenter Content management
Current Tech stack: Java 7, Angular 2, AWS S3, Spring Boot, REST Services, Micro services
Spring Data, Hibernate
Key Highlights:
- Created a detailed plan for modernization in phases
- Proposed a innovative interim and end-state architecture leveraging a variant CQRS pattern which was highly appreciated
- Executed 2 phases of the program with high quality and ahead of time
- Leveraged Oracle coherence cache for improving performance
- Design and code the base framework and reference architecture
Senior Architect
Toyota Incentive Management System ( Cognizant)
02.2015 - 04.2016
Toyota's Incentive Management system launched a 3 year program to revamp and optimize their incentive launches to dealers.
Tech Stack: Java 7, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate, Coherence Cache, JBoss EAP, Mongo DB, DataPower, REST services, SOLR, Spring cache
Key highlights:
- Designed and developed highly scalable RESTful APIs used by 3rd party Dealer applications
- Designed cache strategies to improve performance
- Defined Integration Architecture for aggregating services from Toyota Financial services & Toyota Mo
Senior Architect
Toyota Vehicle Supply Chain
04.2014 - 04.2015
Design and development of Vehicle specification management system for Toyota.
(Java 7, Weblogic, RESTFul Services, Angular, Oracle)
- Complete System assessment and reporting.
- Define strategy for phased migration of a monolithic application by modularizing them based on business specific concerns.
- Solution architecture and application architecture.
- Lead the technical team for developing critical modules.
- Disaster recovery planning and execution.
- Cutover and execution.
Architect
Toyota Vehicle Supply Chain (Cognizant)
04.2012 - 04.2014
Toyota Pipeline Visualization
Design and development of Enterprise application that helped Toyota to manage and forecast vehicle production.
Tech Stack: Weblogic, AngularJS, Java, JEE, JMS, RESTful Services
Architect
Cognizant
10.2010 - 2012
Projects handled:
Cigna Healthcare Portal Development (2010-2011)
Lexis Nexis Development (2011 - 2012)
Architect
Syntel Inc
06.2000 - 10.2010
Education
B.E - Computer Science
Anna University (College of Engineering)
Tamil Nadu06.2000
Skills
- DialogFlow CX, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Langchain, LamaIndex, NLP
- NodeJS, AWS Personalize, Sagemaker
- Python
- AWS Cloud, Lambda, Kinesis, Personalization Services, Glue, API Gateway
- Java , JSP, XML, XSL, XSLT, JAX RS, JAX WS, JQuery
- Struts 2, Spring 4, Spring Boot, Spring cloud, AngularJS, JEE, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, Micro services, Event driven architecture, Netflix Eureka, Hystrix, Ribbon
- Mongo DB, DB2 v8, v95, ORACLE 12c MarkLogic WAS 61, WAS 51, Weblogic, JBoss 6x
- Active MQ, Rabbit MQ
- JPA, Spring Data
- IBM RAD, Emma (Code coverage), PMD, Stylus Studio, Apache FOP, Fortify, Veracode, Gerrit, Ant, Maven , Gradle
- Junits, Mockito, Selenide, JBehave
Accomplishments
- Have designed and implemented high performance RAG (Retrieval augmented Generation) QnA chatbots using Langchain, OpenAI and MongoDB vector store
- Have designed and delivered customer facing applications for Insurance on AWS cloud (Serverless)
- Have designed and delivered more than 8 enterprise web applications successfully to various clients adhering to core architectural principles
- Have successfully modernized oracle ADF/ Webcenter application monolithic application into decoupled micro services app
- Designed and implemented loosely coupled applications using Message Driven Architectures, Micro services, RESTful Services and SOAP services
- Designing high volume and high throughput applications ( by using Caches, Search servers etc)
- Great deal of experience in using open source frameworks such Spring 4, Spring boot, Struts, Hibernate, JPA etc.
- Have optimized the performance of web applications (Profiling, JVM configuration, GC tuning. UI optimization, Query tuning etc)
- Have designed and developed cache frameworks for optimizing application performance
- Have designed applications using Command Query Integration Pattern (CQRS)
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Head of Engineering
Auto Club Of Southern California, AAA
04.2019 - Current
Senior Architect
Sempra Energy (Brillio)
10.2017 - 04.2019
Senior Architect
Toyota Accessories Management (Cognizant)
11.2016 - 10.2017
Senior Architect
Toyota Incentive Management System ( Cognizant)
02.2015 - 04.2016
Senior Architect
Toyota Vehicle Supply Chain
04.2014 - 04.2015
Architect
Toyota Vehicle Supply Chain (Cognizant)
04.2012 - 04.2014
Architect
Cognizant
10.2010 - 2012
Architect
Syntel Inc
06.2000 - 10.2010
B.E - Computer Science
Anna University (College of Engineering)
Key Responsibilities in the current role
- Align the development of information systems with strategic imperatives of the enterprise
- Collaborate with the business to identify business problems, and propose solutions
- Decompose business and IT initiatives into actionable multi-year road maps that takes financial constraints and business risks into account
- Represent Domain teams in Architecture Review Boards (ARB)
- Collaborate in Infrastructure design meetings to come up deployment architecture that meets recovery time objectives (RTO) , Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) etc.
- Define Solution and application architecture based on application needs and industry best practices
- Execution of projects through development phase
- Develop reference implementations and solution accelerators to speed up development
- Development of Proof of concepts
- Establish process to ensure CI & CD
- Define and enforce coding best practices
- Coding, Code reviews during development phase
- Performance tuning
- Disaster recovery planning and test coordination
Key Responsibilities in the current role
As an Engineer:
- Establish AI & ML practice for Clublabs
- Build Gen AI based Chatbots for internal users and members
- Build Q&A virtual agents using advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
- Align the development of information systems with strategic imperatives of the enterprise
- Collaborate with the business to identify business problems, and propose solutions
- Development of Proof of concepts using latest Generative AI services (AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, Google DialogFlow CX)
- Technology and Tools evaluation
As a Leader:
- Hiring, mentoring and training the team. Performance management
- Continuous improvement
- Stakeholder engagement
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Project management and Delivery