Arvind Harikrishnan
Maywood,NJ
Summary
Over 19 years of experience in software development with expertise in Java, Spring MVC, and Spring Boot frameworks. Proven track record in building applications using Spring Boot and Microservices, with experience in cloud platforms such as AWS. Proficient in database management with Oracle, MongoDB, and MySQL. Demonstrated leadership in managing teams across onsite and offshore locations.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Lead
NBC Universal
06.2025 - 12.2025
- Developed search features utilizing AWS OpenSearch for enhanced functionality.
- Integrated AWS DynamoDB as a transactional database to improve data management.
- Created reusable components to eliminate boilerplate code for search and CRUD operations.
- Designed common libraries to facilitate migration from MarkLogic to AWS DocumentDB.
- Conducted code reviews to uphold quality standards among peers.
- Collaborated with stakeholders, including product owners, UX team, and QA, to ensure effective sprint execution.
- Provided innovative solutions for complex use cases, enhancing overall project outcomes.
Solution Architect & Senior Technical Lead
NBC Universal
12.2023 - 05.2025
- Playing roles of solutions architect and senior tech lead.
- Gathered business requirements and documented them
- High level design and flow diagrams for the entire system.
- Low level design specifications for individual components.
- Code build and review
- Unit and integration test suite preparation.
- Coordinate with Product team for review and feedback.
Functional and Senior Technical Lead
Yahoo
10.2022 - 03.2023
- Played roles of Sr. functional and technical lead
- Gathered business requirements and documented them
- Prepared functional specification document
- High level design and flow diagrams for the entire system.
- Low level design specifications for individual components.
- Story creation and internal IPMs.
- Code build and review
- Unit and integration test suite preparation.
- Coordinate with Product team for review and feedback.
Technical Specialist
NBCU
06.2011 - 09.2022
- Understand business use cases, integrating business processes, writing business & technical requirements documents, detailed design, testing and implementation tasks.
- Create detailed project plans and ensure deliverables are met on time, risks are appropriately mitigated, and status is communicated regularly.
- Used Spring, SCDF, Hibernate and JPA effectively to simplify the development and performance improvement
- Application tech stack upgradation and Dockerization
- Migrations from on-prem infrastructure to cloud (PCF, AWS)
- Weekly review meetings with business department heads to get to know about the process changes in the business and to provide all possibilities to change the application to adapt to the new process
- Monthly business review meetings with the business heads to highlight the deliveries, SLA metrics, team utilization etc.
Technical Lead
NBCU
07.2010 - 05.2011
- Requirement and Analysis
- Development, Code review, Unit Testing and Integration Testing
- Maintenance and support
- Outage Handling
- Providing Production Support
Senior Software Engineer
NBCU
01.2008 - 06.2010
- Involved in developing and enhancing the above-mentioned modules.
- Played the lead role and ensured on-time deliveries.
- The core part of the application is its workflow. Effectively used Struts, Hibernate, and JBPM to implement the workflows of the project.
Software Engineer
NBCU
05.2007 - 12.2007
- Requirement and Analysis
- Development, Code review, Unit Testing and Integration Testing
- Maintenance and support
- Outage Handling
- Providing Production Support
Software Engineer
NBCU
11.2006 - 04.2007
- Requirement and Analysis
- Development, Code review, Unit Testing and Integration Testing
- Maintenance and support
- Outage Handling
- Providing Production Support
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Madras
01.2006
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Madras
01.2004
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring MVC
- Hibernate
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- AWS (Open Search, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Lambda, CloudWatch, EC2, S3)
- Oracle
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- AWS DocumentDB
- MarkLogic
- SQL
- Junits
- SAML
- Mockito
- Gradle
- Maven
- Tomcat
- Mashery
- Docker
- Solution Design
- Requirement Analysis
- Business Analysis and Development
- Application Design
- Estimations
- Vendor coordination
- Excellent Communication skills
Personal Information
Title: Senior Technical Specialist
Accomplishments
Top performer award from NBCU for developing optimized services for AdSales Mobile Application
Timeline
Senior Technical Lead
NBC Universal
06.2025 - 12.2025
Solution Architect & Senior Technical Lead
NBC Universal
12.2023 - 05.2025
Functional and Senior Technical Lead
Yahoo
10.2022 - 03.2023
Technical Specialist
NBCU
06.2011 - 09.2022
Technical Lead
NBCU
07.2010 - 05.2011
Senior Software Engineer
NBCU
01.2008 - 06.2010
Software Engineer
NBCU
05.2007 - 12.2007
Software Engineer
NBCU
11.2006 - 04.2007
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Madras
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Madras