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Balaraju Chakka

Irving,TX

Summary

Accomplished Technical Architect offering [Number] years' experience in comprehensive design and development of infrastructure and architecture for software projects. Attentive collaborator and communicator from project conception to completion. Creative in devising solutions to improve business operations and meet clients' technical needs. Seasoned team leader possessing the technical and interpersonal skills to provide exceptional project deliverables.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Technology Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2018 - Current
  • Leading Infrastructure delivery engagements to agreed customer scope, timescales, budget, and quality metrics, as well as assisting clients to achieve the expected ROI
  • Having good knowledge and understanding of the scaled agile framework and working on tools such as JIRA and Azure Boards to plan and track the Epic, Story for all project requirements
  • Led Business & IT Analysis Teams by inspiring a pervasive discipline of excellence in software design, development processes, and customer experience
  • Managed key performance indicators (KPIs) for IT architecture
  • Participate in the Project Increment (PI) planning meeting which occurs every quarter to draft the future implementation for the Azure landing Zone
  • Support pre-sales, RFPs and POCs with business and technical artifacts in collaboration with sales and leadership team
  • Demonstrated successful Infrastructure/application implementation, upgrade, migration and optimization from Legacy/Onperm to Cloud platform
  • Engage in the Architecture design discussions and provide reliable designs in compliance with the Well Architected Framework
  • Work with the customers on the Network and Monitoring connectivity design for the operations team to access the customer environment for operations support

Lead Architect

HuMetis Technologies Inc
12.2008 - 04.2018
  • Responsibility of project SOW, estimation, hardware sizing, enterprise application design, co-ordination between multiple development streams, code review, performance analysis, supporting non-functional (load, security, accessibility) tests and business implementations
  • Design and implement Azure Subscriptions/Management Groups, AWS Organization for the on boarded customers
  • Design and build the Cloud Platform in Foundation/Landing Zone for Azure and AWS customers
  • Provision and manage the Azure and AWS Infrastructure resources such as VNET, Virtual
  • Network/Subnets, Local Network Gateway/Virtual Network gateway, NSG, RBAC, Storage Account, VMSS, Load Balancer/Application Gateway, Azure Private Endpoint / Private DNS, Internet Gateway, Route Table, NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, NACLs, S3 Buckets, IAM Roles and Policies, EC2 Instances
  • Setup AWS Cloud Watch Alarms for Customers and Integrate with Cloud ITSM Platform for Incident generation
  • Implemented the Azure Security Center and remediate the security risks to maintain the security score
  • Has done E2E design delivery including business case study, POC/POT, architecture vision, Risk assessments/mitigation (resiliency, privacy, and security) and BAU process model for complex project
  • Closely work with Design Authority for all design, infra changes
  • Adhere to client policies of Data Security, ACF, Penetration testing, Connectivity, Fire-flows and Raising incidents
  • Participate in Architecture reviews and Audits
  • Hands on Experience in developing & implementing security policies NSG and FireFlow
  • Implemented security best practices, data governance, data privacy standards in AWS, Azure platform such as IAM, OAuth2.0, LDAP, SAML, VPC, HTTP, TLS, Cloud Security, Certificates, and network security
  • Define/ Maintain Technical Architecture for target System/ Service for the current and upcoming requirements
  • Periodic Nonfunctional assessment and review of EOSL of Hardware and software components of the solution and planning the technical strategy of Key Migration, Re platform and upgrade projects
  • Defining design for infra and application security, authentication, integration pattern, logging and alerting, DevOps, automation testing and BAU process model
  • Deep understanding of VMWare platform and Citrix applications in enterprise environments
  • Application Health & Log monitoring and fix the issues if required
  • Fix integration/connectivity issues with Inbound/Outbound services integration applications and PEN Testing
  • Work on maintenance issues for Weblogic, Oracle, Cassandra, Load Balancer, ETL Servers and Test Suite/VM Servers
  • Implemented Deployment Automation Pipeline (DevSecOps) for application platform, Test Suite Automation by using Jenkins, Terraform, and Python
  • Perform environment sync-up, hotfix, security patches when required
  • Analyze interface, connectivity, security, network requirements and implement changes
  • Take ownership of DB change requirements, review, and implementation
  • Participates in gathering sessions to understand project goals, priorities with business, product owner, and program management
  • Building and maintaining the Dev & Test Environments
  • Implementation of Automated traps and Alerts for Environment stability
  • Developed various Mainframe modules by using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and Telon

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Dike Soft Inc
06.2007 - 12.2008
  • Requirement gathering from client/BA's/Stakeholders, analysis, and estimation effort
  • Performing Coding, Unit testing, String, and Integration testing
  • Developed Unit test plan by using business specifications
  • Work involved extensive usage of HTML and JavaScript for client-side validations
  • Implemented client-side validations for the JSP pages using JavaScript and Struts
  • Development and maintenance for IBM Mainframes application programs by using COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM
  • Developed and maintenance for Servlets, BO, DAO, EJB modules and performed back-end integration with IBM COBOL/CICS/DB2 by using J2C/JCA adapter
  • Design, develop, maintenance and support for stable, conventional, and effective message broker components
  • Production support on rotation basis, SEV1/SEV2/SEV3 problem identification and fixing
  • Support for System Testing and Regression testing for major pipelined/bug defects with System Testing
  • Performed traceability of requirements
  • For every release, participated in Technical/Team review and release delivery to BA/System Tester's
  • Documentation for application development and maintenance by using MS-Office, MS-Visio, Rational Requisite Pro and ClearQuest

Asst. Systems Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2005 - 05.2007
  • Requirement gathering from client/BA's/Stakeholders, analysis, and estimation effort
  • Performing Coding, Unit testing, String, and Integration testing
  • Developed Unit test plan by using business specifications
  • Work involved extensive usage of HTML and JavaScript for client-side validations
  • Implemented client-side validations for the JSP pages using JavaScript and Struts
  • Development and maintenance for IBM Mainframes, AS 400 application programs by using COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM
  • Developed and maintenance for Servlets, BO, DAO, EJB modules and performed back-end integration with IBM COBOL/CICS/DB2 by using J2C/JCA adapter
  • Implemented COBOL400 (AS400) conversion to COBOL/390 for CROG applications
  • Design, develop, maintenance and support for stable, conventional, and effective message broker components
  • Production support on rotation basis, SEV1/SEV2/SEV3 problem identification and fixing
  • Support for System Testing and Regression testing for major pipelined/bug defects with System Testing
  • Performed traceability of requirements
  • For every release, participated in Technical/Team review and release delivery to BA/System Tester's
  • Documentation for application development and maintenance by using MS-Office, MS-Visio, Rational Requisite Pro and ClearQuest
  • Developed Conversion, Integration and Regression Test Plans

Programmer Analyst

Cyber Solutions (RDP Company)
07.2002 - 12.2004
  • Worked on multiple development projects for Diagnostics Enroll, Billing Systems and Integration of Key Register with MPHS Data
  • Requirement Analysis from the client side and coordinating with the offshore team members
  • Participated in Requirement gathering, Application flow diagrams, High Level and Low-Level Designs throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Involved in client meetings to study and analyze the requirements for the new Requests/change requests and enhancements
  • Coding, Unit, System, Conversion & Integration, Regression test plans using Use Cases
  • Work involved extensive usage of HTML and JavaScript for client-side validations
  • Developed and maintenance for Oracle stored procedures
  • Developed various reports
  • Problem identification of production issues and Bug-fixing
  • Performed Unit Testing, System integration, Regression testing for Major Pipeline changes and fixes for incidents
  • Weekly regression cycle execution for SIT defects and verification of results
  • Performed the Traceability of Requirements
  • Participated with release management process/procedures for my application while implementation
  • Responsible for documentation and reporting

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Sri Krishnadevaraya University
Anantapur, India
09-2002

Skills

  • Machine learning integration
  • Change management processes
  • IT service management
  • Vendor relationship management
  • Database administration
  • Migration strategies
  • DevOps principles
  • Performance optimization
  • Client communications
  • Production leadership
  • Technical leadership
  • Recovery specifications
  • Network infrastructure development

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional

Timeline

Sr. Technology Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2018 - Current

Lead Architect

HuMetis Technologies Inc
12.2008 - 04.2018

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Dike Soft Inc
06.2007 - 12.2008

Asst. Systems Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2005 - 05.2007

Programmer Analyst

Cyber Solutions (RDP Company)
07.2002 - 12.2004

Master of Science - Computer Science

Sri Krishnadevaraya University

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