Software Architecture
Balaji Chandrasekaran
Principal Architect
Irving,TX
Summary
Reliable Technical Director with 25 years leading technology-centric departments to become outstanding contributors. Confident advocate for junior staff members. Enthusiastic about use of technical education to improve business outcomes. Skillful at uniting educationally and geographically diverse teams toward achieving singular goals.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
2
2
Languages
Work History
Technical Director / Principal Architect
Charles Schwab Inc
Westlake, TX
09.2020 - Current
- As a technical director and platform architect for client experience domain, responsible for modernizing legacy MF applications to modern cloud-based architecture that are secured, reliable and highly scalable, performant supporting sub seconds response requirements handling millions of transactions high peak volume during stock trading hours
- Provided technical leadership to SRE and operational teams in streamlining the software release process, deployment change control, ensuring proper monitoring and alerts setup before the production software releases to reduce business risks and to high quality software products to meet 24
- 7 availability requirements
- Responsible for delivering technology strategy, program architecture and solution architecture supporting mission critical systems that are in client digital login path
- Provided technical leadership and lead architecture teams supporting delivery transformation initiatives.
University of Texas
Austin
01.2020 - Current
- SOAP, Rest API, Spring Boot / MVC, Angular
- Maven, npm
- IntelliJ IDA
- Visual source code eclipse
- Key accomplishments
- Supported finance tech modernization initiatives at Charles Schwab, designed highly scalable and reliable systems to handle highly volatile stock market traffic on schwab.com web/mobile, IVRs and field agent support tool
- Modernized centralized client eligibility domain systems for delivering seamless cross channel experiences across digital, non-digital channels at client engagement tools used by the employees, modern system successfully handling millions of low latencies calls per day supporting critical use cases such as login, trading for multiple line of businesses
- Saved Millions of dollars in mainframe cost by reducing legacy calls to modern service
- Delivered ecommerce solutions at American airlines for selling ancillary products on AA.com Web and mobile platform producing $20M revenue annually
- Saved airline millions of dollars in operational costs by enabling self-service capabilities on AA.com and mobile app, introduced real time ticketing solution through automations, 3rd party integrations using scalable cloud architecture
- Built CI/CD pipelines and migrated applications to public and hybrid clouds saving millions of dollars in hardware costs, software licensing while improving product delivery KPIs such as such as deployment cycle, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery, failure rates
- Completed Post Graduate Diploma in Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP) at
Principal Application Architect
American Airlines
Fort Worth, TX
10.2005 - 09.2020
- AA Customer Tech group
- Responsible for delivering technology strategy, program architecture and solution architecture for merchandising products such as Instant Upsell, Seats and other ancillaries
- Provided technical leadership and lead the teams with delivery transformation initiatives
- Built cloud architecture for merchandising platform
- Architected Instant ticketing solutions using Sabre digital connect
- Responsible merchandising platform architecture, Google catalog, ATOM system and solution architectures, delivered payment plan platform integration solution
- Responsible for platform architecture and application integration architecture for AAdvantage IT Ventana Program Siebel CRM platform, delivered architecture roadmap for Ventana and Single FFP
- Provided technical guidance with program implementations and all migration efforts because of the merger
- As a platform Architect, involved in designing, building, and upgrading Cargo Hub middleware platform architecture, SOA DataPower deployments and portal architecture for Cargo Warehouse Management, Revenue Management
- Responsible for delivering cargo hub infrastructure, including delivery of newer technologies such as DataPower, WebSphere process server, enterprise service bus, portal, managing delivery team of 8 people
- Shared Service owner for middleware technologies, responsible for delivering middleware platforms and HA environments, published enterprise standards and best practices for WebSphere portal, process server and application server environments.
01.2005 - 01.2020
Server side Java Developer
Verizon LLC
Irving, Texas
06.2004 - 09.2005
- Involved in SOA - JEE services design, development and implementations for Callcenter applications
01.1995 - 01.2005
Senior Software Engineer
Everse Corporation
Los Angeles, California
07.2002 - 06.2004
- Responsible for developing middleware j2ee components, EJBs, JMS, JSPs, Data Access Objects and front-end UI components for citation processing system and admin fee management system using weblogic application servers
Senior J2EE Developer
Ajilon LLC Philadelphia
Wilmington, Delaware
06.2001 - 07.2002
- Responsible for developing middleware distributed components at Verizon, used EJB, XML, and, XML, enterprise LDAP, Shell Scripting, javascript and HTML on Sun Solaris 5.8,BEA Weblogic 6.0/6.1,Oracle 8i platform
Senior Java Developer
Ecomserver LLC
Princeton, NJ
12.1999 - 06.2002
- Responsible for enterprise software applications development and design using J2EE,Java SDK,EJB,Servlets,JSP,UML,Rational Rose and JMS technologies
- Developed and deployed applications using weblogic applications server on UNIX and windows platforms
- Used visual source safe, design patterns, HTML, oracle, SQL, Object Oriented Programming and UNIX
- Provided IT solutions and services for banking and telecom companies.
Software Service Engineer
Computer Access Pvt. Ltd
12.1995 - 02.1999
- Responsible for developing and deploying Internet applications using Java, Visual J++, HTML, perl and ISAPI technologies for computer access customers on Windows NT & IIS 4.0 platform
- Configuring and deploying Reuters Financial Applications at Reuters Customers site
- Deployment and Maintenance of Reuters Global online Trading Application (Dealing 2000) for Financial Customers
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Cloud Computing
AWS, At University of Austin
graduate - Electronics and Communication Eng
M.K. University
Oracle Siebel CRM t/ IBM Websphere Process Server / DataPower / Portal Trainings Certified Java Developer BEA webloigc application server training programs - undefined
Skills
CORE COMPETENCIESTechnical & LeadershipPlatforms / ToolsLanguages / FrameworkDesigning highly scalable, available systems, microservices and messaging architecturePlatform engineering, Solution architecture, Cloud Architecture, DR & Resiliency, Business continuity deploymentsArchitecture governance, Risk assessment, security, Data Privacy, Compliance, Quality ControlLarge scale merger and acquisitions related system integration app consolidationsInnovation, Cost Savings, Speed to market, POCsBusiness and vendor relationshipEcommerce, 3rd party integrationVisionary, Servant Leader, Leading Architects, mentoringPivotal CF, IBM Cloud, Azur, Dockers, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, VMWareRedis, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, Mongo DB, YugabyteBitbucket, Git, Jenkins CI/CD, Azur DevOpsEnterprise Git HubCoverity, Xray, SonarQube, HygiaDynatrace, Splunk, MoogSoft, logDNA, Rally, CherwellWebsphere MQWebSphere middleware, Weblogic, DataPowerF5 load balancerOracle super cluster, Oracle database, golden gate, SiebelDatastage ETL, DB2Java, JEE – JMS, JDBC, JTA, Servlets, JSP, SQLHTML/ XML, Javascript, Shell scripting
Production improvements
Enterprise software implementation
Best Practice Design
Technology planning
Disaster Recovery
Strategy development
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 150 in the development of [Project name].
Software
Systems Engineering
Technology Strategy
Enterprise Architecture
Disaster Recovery
Certification
Post Graduate Diploma In Cloud Computing
Timeline
Post Graduate Diploma In Cloud Computing
06-2023
Technical Director / Principal Architect
Charles Schwab Inc
09.2020 - Current
University of Texas
01.2020 - Current
Principal Application Architect
American Airlines
10.2005 - 09.2020
01.2005 - 01.2020
Server side Java Developer
Verizon LLC
06.2004 - 09.2005
Senior Software Engineer
Everse Corporation
07.2002 - 06.2004
Senior J2EE Developer
Ajilon LLC Philadelphia
06.2001 - 07.2002
Senior Java Developer
Ecomserver LLC
12.1999 - 06.2002
Software Service Engineer
Computer Access Pvt. Ltd
12.1995 - 02.1999
01.1995 - 01.2005
Post Graduate Diploma - Cloud Computing
AWS, At University of Austin
graduate - Electronics and Communication Eng
M.K. University