Anand Thangavel Sakthivel
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Lead Full stack Engineer with 15 years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining front and backend applications. Proactive in solving design problems and delivering quality products to end users.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Engineer
Lowe's
05.2022 - Current
- Led a team of engineers to deliver high-quality products on time.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features into existing product lineups.
- Designed, Developed and implemented highly scalable applications.
- Closely worked with product and business teams to gather functional information to transition them to technical design.
- Mentored junior engineers, contributing to their professional growth and overall team productivity.
- Identified and resolved performance constraints in applications.
- Reviewed Pull requests, provided quality code reviews to avoid any issues.
- Worked on unit and regression test cases and established best practices.
- Monitored applications to enure their stability by maintaining proper operational and business metrics.
- Provided design solutions to partner teams.
- Containerized the applications using Docker and deployed them in GCP using spinnaker.
- Made sure code qualities are ensured by defining Sonar rules.
- Ensure there are no security vulnerabilities are in code by working with tools like Synk.
- Made sure applications are properly CI/CDed and took care of branching strategies.
- Participated in hackathon events to develop and presented new ideas.
- Ensured applications are developed in backward compatible ways by ensuring API versioning and feature flag implementations.
Lead Engineer
Target
11.2016 - 05.2022
- Assessed scope and requirements to assist with project design determinations.
- Delivered solutions that met end user expectations while adhering to strict regulatory requirements, ensuring code quality, best practices.
- Enhanced product performance by streamlining design processes and implementing automation tools.
- Mentored engineers and helped them solve complex use cases.
- Responsible for incremental migration from legacy tech stacks to new ones.
Senior Associate
Cognizant
02.2013 - 11.2016
- Responsible for developing applications.
- Implemented test cases and managed deliverables.
- Effectively managed multiple priorities while maintaining focus on delivering exceptional results for clients and the organization.
- Consistently maintained strong relationships with clients, ensuring clear communication and timely updates on project progress.
Software Engineer
Syntel
09.2012 - 02.2013
- Developed reusable components that significantly reduced development effort on multiple projects.
- Refactored legacy codebases for improved maintainability, paving the way for easier future updates.
- Enhanced user experience with intuitive interface design and responsive web applications.
Software Engineer
Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre
07.2009 - 09.2012
- Joined as college passed out.
- Undergone training with experienced engineers and gathered knowledge.
- Worked closely with Leads and developed applications.
- Worked new feature developments and defect fixes.
- Packaged applications and took care of deployments.
- Worked closely with testing team to fix the defects.
- Worked on JMS, Java, Struts.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University
Chennai India2009
Skills
- Kotlin
- Java
- Python
- Javascript
- ES6
- React
- Redux/ Saga
- GIT
- Kafka
- Spring
- Elastic Search
- Mongo DB
- Postgres
- Spring boot
- Node JS
- HTML/CSS
- Cypress and Playwright
- K6 performance scripts
- Kotest
- Grafana
- Kibana
- Operational/Business metrics
- Docker
Timeline
Lead Engineer
Lowe's
05.2022 - Current
Lead Engineer
Target
11.2016 - 05.2022
Senior Associate
Cognizant
02.2013 - 11.2016
Software Engineer
Syntel
09.2012 - 02.2013
Software Engineer
Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre
07.2009 - 09.2012
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Anna University