Aravind Nainakanti
Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff
Irving,TX
Summary
A seasoned leader and a proven technology solutions provider with over 20 years of proven record in delivering large transformation programs, improving customer experience, leading systems integrations and implementing process improvements across OSS/BSS stack.
Strong technical background in Open Systems development combined with business acumen to partner effectively in identifying opportunities for the business.
Proven ability to focus on the details while making executive strategic recommendations for solutions, planning and business cases.
Experience leading multiple cross-functional teams across the world to deliver programs on time, within budget and with the highest quality.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff
Verizon Wireless
Irving, TX
04.2021 - Current
- Architect and lead in Verizon Wireless' ambitious program to transform the Billing systems out of legacy Mainframe platform to a cloud based Open systems platform.
- Working on transforming 30+ years old legacy platforms into a modernized platform that is ready for 5G Monetization and the explosive IOT growth
- Responsible for driving the efforts in evaluating and to identifying the Converged Charging Platform for 5G
- Co-ordinate with Business Managers, Revenue Assurance and End to End Quality Control testing teams in the approach, design and effective migration with out impacting customer's bill.
- Presented business leaders with ROI estimations to drive project planning.
- Analyzed and proposed optimal software applications for unique requirements.
- Improved systems with addition of new features and infrastructure.
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
- Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Verizon Wireless
Irving, TX
08.2013 - 03.2021
- Responsible for delivering a scalable, real time kafka streaming based usage rating platform to cater to the volumes of 7B usage transactions / day from all 130 million verizon wireless subscribers
- Successfully led the multiyear transformation program across organizations to migrate the usage rating functions out of legacy mainframe to the modernized platform for all Data, Voice and SMS usage types.
- Coordinate with multiple cross functional teams, business, Revenue Assurance and End to End testing teams and driven the program successfully to completion
- Lead the design and implementation of the 7 year program to move out rating out of the legacy mainframe systems to new open source technologies
- Successfully shut down the mainframe systems for usage rating saving the company millions of dollars for the mainframe contract renewal.
- Integrated sustainable technical solutions to manage the architecture and design of a real time-rating application for Verizon Wireless data, voice and messaging usages.
- Leveraged strong technical background to design and build a complex end of cycle billing aggregation framework to successfully rate final charges and usage, achieving a 99.99% match to the final billing.
- Astutely built framework to handle large scale data usage reporting for real time, constructing a three-tier application framework to handle complexity and reduce migration time from 11 months to 2 months.
- Adapted the architecture and design of usage correction to ensure high accuracy whilst processing 50GB of average usage data.
- Utilized big data platform to monitor KPIs and trends for month over month bill reports, utilizing Hadoop framework, hive, spark, python, kafka to develop reporting framework.
- Expert in programming languages including J2EE, Spring Framework, Python, PLSQL, Shell Scripting etc.
- Advanced knowledge of relational and big data technologies like Oracle, MySQL, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra.
Lead Systems Engineer
Verizon
Irving, TX
06.2007 - 06.2013
- Responsible for development and maintenance of Verizon Wireline's Order Management platform.
- Managed multiple programs for system transformations & integration to increase IT savings and increase revenue.
- Designed, developed and implemented a large scale distributed in memory caching solution to improve SLAs and customer experience.
- Involved in capacity planning, architecture for load balancing for better system availability, real time fail over for order processing.
- Conceptualized and delivered Intelligent Analyzer to fix customer's bundle and discount issues.
- Performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues.
- Responsible to manage and maintain consumer and business bundles framework under the OSS stack application.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, INDIA
09.2004 - 04.2007
- Organized system operating procedures to strengthen controls.
- Lead and key player in building a new online check-in process for British Airways
- Implemented Model View Controller (MVC) architecture Using Commercial Application Platform (CAP) Framework at the Web tier level to isolate each layer of the application to avoid the complexity of integration and ease of maintenance.
- Developed and deployed EJB components.
- Participated in requirement analysis and architectural design. Designed and developed JUnit cases for all the developed components.
- Implemented and designed various XSLT's using XML/XSL/Xpath to communicate between various layers. Used XML/DOM/SAX and JAXP for data transfer and parsing. Used MVC, Session Facade, Business delegate, Singleton...etc design patterns
- Used JDBC, SQL and PL/SQL for storing and accessing data from Oracle.
- Involved in developing Simulator to automate testing for various testing use cases using Java web start & J2EE technologies
- Analyzing the bugs in the order of their priority, debugging and fixing them during all the QA stages.
Education
Computer Science
Kakatiya Institute Of Technology & Science
06.1996 - 04.2000
Skills
Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, Restful Architecture, Python, Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, AWS Cloud Technologies, Reactive Programming, Docker, Kubernates, DevOps, Git, Zuul, Eureka, Oracle MQ, IBM MQ
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Timeline
Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff
Verizon Wireless
04.2021 - Current
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Verizon Wireless
08.2013 - 03.2021
Lead Systems Engineer
Verizon
06.2007 - 06.2013
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
09.2004 - 04.2007
Computer Science
Kakatiya Institute Of Technology & Science
06.1996 - 04.2000