Chandra Sekhar Polavarapu
Summary
Results-driven principal software engineer with a proven track record in architecting high-performance cloud-native solutions across insuretech, fintech, and telematics sectors. Currently leading enterprise-scale integration delivery at Cambridge Mobile Telematics, overseeing end-to-end solution design from pre-sales to post-deployment. Expertise in AWS technologies, Spring Boot, Java, and microservices architecture, with a focus on building fault-tolerant serverless systems. Recognized for mentoring engineering teams and driving architectural best practices, effectively translating complex business requirements into actionable technical solutions.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Software Engineer
Cambridge Mobile Telematics
Cambridge
08.2022 - Current
- Serve as the chief technical lead for our customers in designing, developing, validating, maintaining, releasing, and operating CMT backend customer solutions and integrations, with the ultimate goal being to help the top insurance companies in the world in growing their business and in implementing CMT's telematics solutions.
- Work with Sales, Engineers, and Solution Architects to understand business requirements and effectively size Sprints with active participation in scrum team planning and technical meetings.
- Conduct due diligence remotely and on-site with clients and partners in concert with Platform Engineering team members to define customer integration requirements and design.
- Ensure that the implementation of integration designs is secure, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and testable.
- Participate in architecture/implementation proposal reviews and defend customer solution's designs.
- Serve as a cross-platform and cross-product SME, leading the architecture and design of tailored, reusable integrations and solutions that drive consistency, scalability, and interoperability across products.
- Served as technical liaison between leadership and engineering delivery during pre-sales and incident response, ensuring alignment and communication.
- Support and continuously improve release and deployment pipeline.
- Partake in an on-call rotation alongside the engineers who build our production backends.
- Be able to operate in a highly regulated environment.
- Execute project tasks that supported defined goals, contributing to overall project success.
Senior Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Phoenix
09.2018 - 07.2022
- Worked on a next generation payment network application at a leading premium credit card company (American Express) and responsible for delivering sub systems.
- Led a team for a year in an unprecedented circumstance to build an orchestration service like Netflix Conductor to manage the complicated routing system among the dozens of microservices and workflows from the scratch.
- Collaborated with teams across the globe and coordinated the work efforts as the scope of the role is not just to develop and to ensure the seamless communication among the microservices with wide variety of requirements.
- Succeeded with a newly proposed solution from moving off the regular git approach to trunk-based approach as it fits more and also collaborated with DevOps teams to build an independent local testing platform using Docker and Envoy to spin up the entire network on a local computer.
- Developing robust and scalable microservices using Java 8 and VertX framework to improvise the application capabilities using Reactive Programming using Rx Java.
- Developing behavioral driven test cases using cucumber to test the end-to-end workflows.
- Creating highly responsive REST services and creating communication channel through tools like Envoy.
- Extensively worked with several tools like Confluent Kafka, ELK, Splunk and Grafana to move the messages among different consumers, to produce the logs to log stash, to create the dashboard and monitor the applications respectively.
- Deploying microservices using Kubernetes on cloud-native and load balancing among the pods.
- Designing and developing Orchestration services among the microservices to manage the complex spec-based routing system.
- Using tools such as Docker and Jenkins to support continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD).
- Utilizing tools like Rally, Jira, and Service now for project management, bug tracking and service requests.
- Developed different applications to support and work with different databases like Redis, Couchbase and Cassandra to perform seamless and accurate operations at high rate of TPS.
- Responsible for Monthly releases to production and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to ensure the spec work is being done as per the regulations.
- Recognized as a developer with extensive business knowledge and has been appointed as SME (Subject Matter Expert) for a layer which includes at least 8 microservices.
- Awarded with Highest employee rating given by cognizant and the client 'EM' Exceeded most expectations with a generous performance appraisal.
Software Developer Intern
AdTech Corp
Walnut
02.2018 - 05.2018
- Responsible for designing the API's and gathering requirements from various API's and then converted the API design and their implementations.
- Responsible in designing & developing API's on APIGEE Edge platform.
- Responsible for securing API proxies using various mechanisms like API Key, OAuth, LDAP, Content Protection policies in Apigee Edge.
- Documenting API's in Apigee developer portal and used as content management system (CMS).
- Integrated services with management analytics and helped in improving the API performance and maintenance.
- Developing and Integrating Alexa skills in business applications for internal business operations to ease the employees work which solved frequent email traffic within intranet.
- Developing middle layer server-less applications using Node.JS and AWS Lambda.
- Creating RESTful APIs to integrate the automation applications with the server-side applications through AWS Lambda.
- Developed REST APIs to integrate Microsoft Active Directories and micro services with the Amazon Lex bots through AWS Lambda to enhance automation of employee personal tasks and improvise the quality of work.
- Integrated Lex bots with Amazon connect for Augmented customer care development which allows users to access all the information through an automated voice assistant.
- Led a team of 4 and operated closely with the management and responsible for timely deliverables.
- Managed users, groups and lambda functions accessibility using Amazon identity and access management (IAM).
- Utilized JIRA for issue reporting, status and activity planning.
- Development of Backend data access using SQL, DynamoDB and MongoDB.
- Making architecture decisions, debate them with the team and help ensure that we're building clean, maintainable, beautiful applications.
- Drive adoption of best practices in developer workflow to ensure code quality and health of the product.
- Working building API proxies using APIGEE API Management with policies like Assign message, extract message, raise fault, Service Call Out.
- Environment: APIGEE Edge, Node.js, AWS, MongoDB, Dynamo DB, MySQL(on Server Side),JIRA, Java, Lambda, Alexa, Amazon Connect and EC2.
Jr. Software developer
Bluemea Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
03.2014 - 08.2015
- Worked with a team of 6 members and developed a project called 'Evolution of windows application for sales and transactions.'
- Investigated and proposed technology-driven product improvements while upgrading post release.
- Developed Cloud-based service end points to reduce the load on servers and to improvise the efficiency of the application.
- Investigated and resolved end-user issues with released products.
- Assisted Advanced Technology Group to architect, develop, and implement software solutions.
- Developed the Login screen so that only authorized and authenticated administrators can only access the application.
- Developed various activities like transaction history, search products that enable users to understand the system efficiently.
- Configured Oracle connection pool, which is included in Oracle JDBC driver JAR file, to allow concurrent access to the database and optimize performance.
- Involved in preparing the Documentation of the project to understand the system efficiently.
- Assists in the development of short, medium, and long-term plans to achieve strategic objectives.
- NOTE: THIS COMPANY IS NO LONGER IN THE MARKET
Education
Ph.D. - Information Technology
University of The Cumberlands
KY06-2026
Master's - information technology
University of The Cumberlands
KYMaster's - computer science
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KYBachelor's - information technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, IndiaDiploma - Information Technology
Andhra University
IndiaSkills
- Java
- Java Script
- Python
- Postgres
- Redis
- Couchbase
- Mongo Db
- Dynamo DB
- AWS
- HTML
- JSON
- Protobuf
- Spring Boot
- Micro services
- CSS
- Node JS
- VertX
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- AWS
- Apigee
- GIT
- Maven
- Gradle
- Jenkins
- Ribbon
- Zuul
- Envoy
- Terraform
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Technical leadership
- Backend development
- Microservices architecture
- API design
Activities
- Director of Information Technology, Indian Student Association at WKU, 01/01/17, 05/31/18, Responsible for updating ISA and its related websites with new students and coordinating campus events to support dozens of Indian students and connect to campus., Served as Interim Vice-President of the organization from May 2017., Planned and Organized several events to build platform between International and Domestic Students., Represented ISA at Council of International Student Organization and Student Government Association., Worked with a team of Committee members and significant number of volunteers towards the goal of the event appreciated and recognized by local news channels in multiple occasions.
- Chair of International Reach, Beta Gamma Omega(βγΩ), 01/01/17, 05/31/17, One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural fraternity Beta Gamma Omega and was responsible for public relations with international community., Led a team of 15 coordinators to arrange events behalf of the frat and campus events., Hosted In-house events and career development classes with the office of career paths.
- Graphic Designer Team Lead, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - SNIST, 09/01/14, 05/31/15, Designed on the fly websites, posters and other graphic content for year-round events hosted by IEEE SNIST branch., Awarded as 'Designer of the year' among 50 participants in a competition (PIXELATOR) hosted by IEEE-SNIST., Organized a national level event called 'ADASTRA' where all techies come together and build something for the society.
- Executive Board Member, International Society Technology in Education-SNIST, 09/01/14, 05/31/15, Led a national level symposium 'Sreevision' which left a remarkable impact on ISTE's achievements in that academic year., Re-designed organizational structure of ISTE on campus and reported to ISTE's Chapter Advisor., Managed a team of 32 members with the support of respective team leads to organize SREEVISION.
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer
Cambridge Mobile Telematics
08.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2018 - 07.2022
Software Developer Intern
AdTech Corp
02.2018 - 05.2018
Jr. Software developer
Bluemea Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd
03.2014 - 08.2015
Ph.D. - Information Technology
University of The Cumberlands
Master's - information technology
University of The Cumberlands
Master's - computer science
Western Kentucky University
Bachelor's - information technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Diploma - Information Technology
Andhra University