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Gobinath Natarajan

Unionville,CT

Summary

Self-motivated backend engineer with 19+ years of industry experience in building scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant and secured RESTful APIs. Working closely

with senior leadership and architects to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and promote technical excellence. Proven ability to own design, development solutions

and deliverables. Experienced in Agile, lean development principles, test driven and behavior driven development. Ability to work under pressure and leading teams

toward success.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

CVS Health
09.2018 - Current

Leveraged strong expertise to develop and deploy 15+ cloud-native RESTful

microservices in AWS and GCP, enhancing system efficiency by 20% and with

99.99% uptime.

• Leading a successful migration of 10+ backend applications to Google Cloud

Platform, reducing operational costs by 25%.

• Designed and implemented robust GraphQL APIs, enhancing data retrieval

efficiency by 30% for web and mobile applications.

• Implemented Authorization and Client credentials OAuth flows to secure

RESTful APIs that are consumed by UI and third-party services.

• Expertise in deploying passwrodless authentication mechanisms like

biometrics and multi-factor authentication (MFA), ensuring seamless and

secure access to applications.

• Create and maintain data pipelines to extract, transform and load millions

of members and clinicians using AWS/GCP cloud resources and Kafka event

driven architecture.

• Instrument and implement custom application metrics using micrometer

to provide detailed transaction tracing and monitoring in Prometheus and

Grafana.

• Customize and control infrastructure components and SAS products using

Terraform.

• Analyze and optimize 10+ application code to improve efficiency, reliability,

and performance.

• Contributed to Frameworks CoE to build and maintain reusable assets and

tools to speed up development.

Lead/Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2008 - 09.2018

·Delivered comprehensive documentation on low-level requirements and

design solutions for new features, resulting in increased developer onboarding

speed by approximately 30%, allowing quicker integration into ongoing

projects across departments.

• Designed and developed over 10+ robust SOAP and RESTful Java services,

ensuring seamless integration with existing systems while meeting all

high-level requirements outlined by stakeholders.

• Oversees daily operations of multiple dev teams, making sure teams adhere

to best practices, including code reviews, TDD, automation, and performance

testing to reduce defects in production.

• Developed a PDF comparison tool using Apache Pdfbox and iText open source

utilities that reduced QA testing effort by 50%.

• Passion for harnessing cutting-edge frameworks and tools to streamline

development processes and elevate quality standards.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Bharathiar University
India
04.2002

Skills

    Programming Languages - Java/J2EE, SpringBoot, NodeJS

    Cloud Infrastructure & Container - AWS, GCP, Docker and Kubernetes

    Cloud Resources - IAM, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Cloud Storage, SpannerDB, CloudSQL, Memorystore (Redis)

    CI/CD - Jenkins, CircleCI, Harness, ArgoCD, JFrog, NexusIQ

    SQL/NoSQL - Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SpannerDB

    Event Driven - Apache Kafka, MQ

    Observability Tools - Prometheus, Grafana, Jagger, Splunk, NewRelic

    AuthZ & AuthN - SAML, OAuth 2, OIDC (Keycloak, Auth0 and Okta)

    Testing Frameworks - TDD, BDD, Automation, JMeter and PACT

    Security Tools - OWASP, Twistlock, Checkmarx

Certification

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Apollo GraphQL

• AWS Cloud Practioner

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

CVS Health
09.2018 - Current

Lead/Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2008 - 09.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Bharathiar University
Gobinath Natarajan