Avinash Karthaveerya

Client: Discover Financial Services

Role: Cloud Architect and Tech Product Owner

Tech Stack: Java, OCP, DB2, Kafka Spring Boot, Selenium, Maria DB

• Engineering leader for a cross-geographic team of multiple engineers - Interviewed and hand picked the team for a new program.
• Led the team to build centralized customer profile at Discover Financial Services.
• New system to serve as Single source of truth for all Customers at Discover.
• The effort is estimated to generate 44M$ in revenue.
• Built along with the team a set of APIs which will serve 80 value streams.
• Worked closely with Stakeholders of various value streams to define the requirements
• Worked closely with Architects of various value streams to design the solutions.
• Led the efforts to migrate existing legacy systems to new microservices.
• Led the design for all the services.
• Pioneered efforts for performance testing to honor the benchmarks agreed with the stakeholders.
• Redesigned many systems to honor the performance SLAs.
• Achieved significant performance enhancements with the redesigns,
• Created new frameworks and set precedence for performance tests for all programs in the future
• Pioneered efforts of overall API development and defined Golden paths for APIs at Discover
• Efforts were recognized and shared across Discover to help increase the efficiency of all value streams.
• Established a culture of testing.
• Pioneered automation of API testing within the family using Microsoft Playwright.
• Pioneered establishment of Non-Functional requirements along with Golden Paths to implement the same.
• Improved the Organizations efficiency by a factor of 5.

Client: Discover Financial Services

Role: Enterprise Architect

Tech Stack: Java, PCF, OCP, Maria DB, Rabbit MQ, Spring Boot, Selenium

• Architected a suite of Identity protection products across several teams spanning 25 Engineers.
• Products’ total revenue amounts to around 170M$.
• Products serve millions of customers and handle the corresponding traffic.
• Partnered with Product Owners, Directors, Leads across the whole platform to build new offerings.
• Partnered with external vendors such as Experian, FICO to establish appropriate contracts.
• Identified architecture gaps and led the architecture road map for multiple projects.
• Evaluated multiple Architecture solutions and presented rationale behind solutions and the spectrum of solutions explored to Enterprise Architecture Board.
• Redesigned all products and built a platform for current and future Identity Theft Protection Products.
• Led technical direction and production release for law compliant features such as charging state tax for our products.
• Modernized legacy processes to microservices ecosystem from legacy mainframe processes.
• Led teams in migrating applications from cloud providers.
• Owned the formal process of Architecture review of solutions with the Enterprise Architecture Board.
• Worked on completing cybersecurity requirements of various features.
• Ensured that all features met the necessary cybersecurity standards.
• Collaborated with the cybersecurity team to identify and address any vulnerabilities.
• Conducted regular security audits to ensure that all features remained secure.

Product Owner: Cross-domain Enterprise Software Quality Management

• Product Owner of a cross-domain, cross-product testing team responsible for testing all products and all domains.
• Created testing strategies, provided analysis of automation tools, prioritized projects, managed resources, educated testers about the architecture and features.
• Led the end-end test initiatives for several major production releases.

Find24

• Designed and led the overall efforts of Find24, a platform that allows users to discover businesses that run exclusively 24 hours.
• Designed the architecture and the ecosystem of the whole platform.
• Worked with third-party data providing companies for our backend data.
• Led a team of 20 people spanning across processes to complete the product and release it on app stores.

Google Shopping Management Software

• Led overall efforts to build a new product providing campaign management on Google Shopping.
• Product currently used by many clients to run and manage campaigns on Google Shopping.
• Designed optimization algorithm to optimize bids on Google Shopping campaigns.
• Implemented both backend and frontend features.

The product can be found here

https://www.matchcraft.com/our-solutions/

• Led overall efforts to design, develop, test and deliver highly scalable proprietary cluster framework.
• Designed the system to distribute jobs intelligently required to support high number of parallel jobs with varying computation requirements.
• Built a framework similar to Hadoop/Map reduce to support running various kinds of Informatica jobs.
• Implemented Grid support for core execution engine of the Powercenter product (Informatica’s Data warehousing product).
• Designed and architected Grid solution for the same engine.
• Designed, implemented and tested Monitoring framework for the same.
• Implemented and tested high availability and recovery support for the execution engine, which was sold as a separate license post-project.