Gayathri Nagaraj
Dulles,VA
Summary
Visionary IT leader with a strong background in strategic initiatives and cross-functional team leadership within aviation and federal government. Demonstrated ability to manage diverse engineering projects, focusing on strategic planning and effective team collaboration. Achievements include successful delivery of numerous high-impact projects through strong problem-solving skills.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Leader
Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)
Dulles, VA
01.2021 - Current
- Led team of 13 software engineers and managed P&L exceeding $2M for mission-critical applications.
- Pioneered first microservices-based product using OpenShift, Jenkins, and DevOps best practices.
- Improved software delivery efficiency by 25% through integration of AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot.
- Defined technology roadmaps and led backlog grooming with product managers to align with business goals.
- Oversaw project planning and execution, consistently meeting timelines and budgets through agile practices.
- Built and scaled high-performing engineering teams, promoting ownership and continuous improvement culture.
- Launched continuous learning program that enhanced team skillsets by 40% and improved efficiency by 25%.
- Achieved 85%+ employee engagement scores through a people-first leadership style focused on growth.
- Led strategic decisions on architecture, resource planning, and risk management to drive successful project outcomes.
Principal Software Engineer
Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)
Dulles, VA
01.2017 - 12.2020
- Led the development of scalable technical architectures and design artifacts, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide strategies, security requirements, and long-term technology roadmaps.
- Resolved complex, cross-project technical challenges by driving architectural decisions, troubleshooting systemic issues, and enabling on-time, high-quality solution delivery.
- Acted as a technical lead and mentor across high-impact initiatives, guiding engineers on system design, performance optimization, and code maintainability.
- Championed DevOps culture and automation, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cross-functional collaboration to improve deployment velocity and system reliability.
- Elevated engineering standards across the organization through the introduction of innovative programming patterns, clean code practices, and performance-focused design strategies.
- Improved team velocity and code quality by evolving and enforcing best practices in code reviews, testing strategies, and architectural design decisions.
- Bridged the gap between technical depth and business clarity, translating complex systems and concepts into stakeholder-aligned communication for executive and non-technical audiences.
- Promoted continuous innovation, staying ahead of emerging technologies, leading internal learning sessions, and contributing thought leadership to engineering communities.
- Delivered strategic technical presentations and deep dives, enhancing organizational knowledge sharing, reducing silos, and cultivating a collaborative engineering culture.
Senior Developer
Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)
Dulles, VA
10.2007 - 12.2016
- Company Overview: ATPCO (Airline Tariff Publishing Company) is a global leader in airline fare management and distribution solutions, providing technology and data services to the airline industry.
- As part of the ATPCO ASD team, I was involved in developing various products-such as Data Distribution, Optional Service Fees, Branded Fares, and Taxes-using Java 6/7, Spring Framework, and Hibernate.
- Contributed to the enhancement of the Fares and Rules project and played a major role in migrating 21 applications from IBM Mainframe (COBOL/DB2) to Java-based distributed systems using Apache Camel, JMS (ActiveMQ), and Spring Batch.
- Responsibilities included estimation, design, development, unit testing (with JUnit), integration debugging, documentation, and deployment using Maven and Jenkins.
- Ensured code quality and test coverage using SonarQube and generated AppScan reports for PCI compliance.
- Conducted regular meetings with the Business team, Operations, and other cross-functional teams.
- Acted as a technical lead for application developers, contributed to code reviews and participated in hiring and mentoring new team members.
Software Engineer
Unisys
09.2005 - 09.2007
- Developed an rules application using Java and DROOLS that reduced manual intervention by 35%.
- Involved in creating flows using JBPM(JBoss).
- Migrated build from ANT to Maven which reduced the build time by 10%.
- Deployment automation using Unix shell scripts.
- Created UML diagrams using tools like Rational Rose.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
STJIT
Karnataka05-1999
Skills
- Project management
- Microservices architecture
- CI/CD automation
- Performance optimization
- Code review
- Team building
- Stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Critical thinking
- Process development
- Technical leadership
- Agile methodologies
- DevOps practices
- Continuous learning
- Innovation promotion
Certification
- Project Management Professional
- CSM
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
Technical Summary
Java 8, Java 11, PL-SQL, SQL, JavaScript, Shell Scripts, S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, DynamoDB, SQS, Java EE Technologies, Dockers, Open Shift, DevSecOps, Micro Services, Hibernate 5X, Spring Boot 2X, Struts 2.X, Spring security, Spring data, DB2, MS Access, Oracle 19c, MongoDB, Redis Cache, Elasticsearch, Neo4J, WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application Server, XML, HTML, CSS, Java Script, JQuery, AJAX, Angular 9, Node JS, WebServices (SOAP), RESTFul Web Services, Swagger, draw.io, VISIO, MS Office suite, UML design diagrams, JIRA, Solar Winds, Kibana, Ant Build, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins pipeline for CI/CD, MyEclipse Blue, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, IntelliJ WebStorm, MS Visual Studio
Professional Highlights
- P&L Management, Led a P&L of over $2 million and a team of 13 people
- New Product Launch, The first manager to start the product development along with 1 BA and 2 Software Engineers.
- Operational Efficiency, Led initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, resulting in a 15% reduction in operational costs through optimized resource allocation and housekeeping.
- Mentoring, Increased the team size from 3 to 30. Increased focus on goal setting and celebrating key wins. Ensured recognition of key accomplishments were known by the entire organization.
- Continuous Learning, Regularly participate in coding katas to enhance problem-solving abilities, optimize efficiency, and keep up with new techniques.
- Problem Solving, Utilized rubber ducky debugging techniques to explain complex problems, resulting in faster issue resolution and clearer project insights.
Timeline
Engineering Leader
Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)
01.2021 - Current
Principal Software Engineer
Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)
01.2017 - 12.2020
Senior Developer
Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)
10.2007 - 12.2016
Software Engineer
Unisys
09.2005 - 09.2007
Bachelor of Engineering -
STJIT
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