HariKishore Modigunta
Mangalore ,KA
Summary
Results-driven software development professional with over 18 years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining software applications, particularly within the E-Commerce sector for leading U.S. retailers. Proficient in creating REST-based microservices and APIs using Java 1.8, Akka, Play, NoSQL, and RDBMS technologies. Demonstrated leadership in mentoring cross-functional, geographically distributed teams while delivering innovative solutions across business and IT domains. Committed to customer satisfaction and quality service, with a strong ability to foster collaboration among team members to achieve common goals.
Overview
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Certification
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years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Architect
BrandsMartUSA
Florida, US
09.2024 - 06.2026
- Served as the onsite Lead and primary liaison between Business, Product, Marketing, IT, offshore development teams, and third-party vendors for a large-scale enterprise eCommerce platform.
- Led, mentored, and managed a team of 17 offshore software engineers, consistently meeting sprint commitments and delivering major features ahead of schedule.
- Partnered with business, product, and engineering stakeholders to gather requirements, define priorities, and translate business needs into technical specifications, user stories, and implementation plans.
- Owned end-to-end project delivery, coordinating solution design, effort estimation, sprint planning, development, production deployment, release management, and post-production support using Agile/Scrum methodologies to achieve project objectives.
- Designed scalable, secure, and high-performance technical solutions and enterprise integration architectures aligned with business objectives and enterprise standards.
- Reviewed technical designs and implementation approaches, ensuring compliance with functional, performance, security, scalability, and quality standards to mitigate risks.
- Served as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for enterprise integrations, managing relationships with key platforms such as Akamai, Fiserv, and Google Analytics to ensure seamless operational functionality.
- Administered and optimized Akamai services, including WAF, Bot Manager, API Security, DDoS Protection, CDN, Edge Redirects, Caching, and Geo/IP Access Controls, while implementing security policies to mitigate bot attacks, credential stuffing, DDoS attacks, API abuse, and other web threats, improving application performance, availability, and security.
- BrandsMart USA is a leading U.S.-based consumer electronics and appliance retailer with a strong omnichannel presence across retail stores and eCommerce platforms. The organization specializes in electronics, appliances, furniture, and home products, serving customers across the Southeastern United States through integrated online and in-store shopping experiences.
- Technologies – Java 8, Lightbend Lagom, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Apache Kafka
Architect
Allen Brothers
Chicago, US
01.2023 - 09.2024
- Led the migration of Oracle ATG Commerce to an in-house microservices framework (Retisio), improving scalability and long-term maintainability.
- Led the migration of customer profiles, addresses, and incomplete shopping carts from Oracle Commerce Cloud (OCC) to the RETISIO platform, ensuring 100% data accuracy and seamless customer transition.
- Participated in the design, development, and implementation of a cloud-native microservices-based eCommerce platform, contributing throughout requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Designed and developed an independent, deployable Promotion Engine microservice using an event-driven architecture, consuming product catalog events through Google Pub/Sub to evaluate promotions, coupons, and pricing in real time.
- Architected Promotion Engine for supporting 7 promotion templates, includes BOGO, Buy X Get Y, Gift with Purchase (GWP), Order Discount, Shipment Discount, Product Discount, Buy More Save More and coupon-based promotions, exposed through reusable pricing APIs with specific custom rules defined.
- Designed and implemented Order Management microservices (Customer Service Application (CSA)) supporting ticketing workflows, order cloning, replacements, repricing, shipment updates, payment reconciliation, refunds, voids, and post-order modifications while ensuring data consistency across distributed services.
- Built event-driven integrations using Kafka and scheduled background services for payment settlement, eGift card fulfillment, shipment synchronization, order processing, and automated recovery of failed transactions.
- Allen Brothers is a purveyor of prime steaks headquartered in Chicago. It has been serving the exacting standards of top chefs and restaurants nationally. From the hand-selection of the meats to the meticulous aging methods and hand-cut custom portioning, every step of the process is precise and performed to the customer's exact specifications.
- Technologies – Java 8, Akka, Play, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Apache Kafka
Associate Architect
Brand Smart USA
FL, USA
03.2020 - 12.2022
- Led the migration of Oracle ATG Commerce to an in-house Lagom-backed microservices framework, improving scalability and long-term maintainability.
- Designed and developed a number of services, processes, and integration as part of development with the Reactive programming using Java1.8.
- Participated in requirements gathering, elaboration, design, and development.
- Worked on the Cart & Checkout module, Order Management System & Returns.
- Designed and developed to handle the Database down scenarios in the cart & checkout process.
- Prepared and executed soft-launch strategy for different release phases.
- BrandsMart USA is one of the leading Consumer Electronics and Appliance Retailer in the Southeast and one of the largest Appliance Retailers in the country. With 9 retail stores in South Florida and the Atlanta area and growing e-commerce presence at BrandsMartUSA.com, BrandsMart USA continues its legacy of offering your favorite brands at low, low prices.
- Technologies – Java 8, Lightbend Lagom, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Apache Kafka
Lead-Technology
Kohl’s Commerce Open-Source platform
Kohls, CA, US
11.2016 - 02.2020
- Participated in requirements gathering, elaboration, design, and development.
- Worked on the Cart & Checkout module.
- Documentation of complex business flows in the new platform.
- Designed and developed a number of services, processes, and integration as part of development.
- Designed the place order asynchronous flow as part of performance tuning.
- Prepared and executed soft-launch strategy for different release phases.
- Working as a module lead for BOPUS, SDD , VGC programs.
- Designed and developed to handle the Database down scenarios in the cart & checkout process.
- Kohl’s is a leading American department store retailer with over 1,100 stores across 49 states. As part of its e-commerce modernization initiative, the legacy on-premises monolithic application was transformed into a cloud-native platform.
- Technologies – Java/Spring, MySQL, REST APIs, Redis, Apigee, Jetty Server, Kafka, GCP, Apache Zookeeper
Lead Technology
Michael Kors
NJ, US
06.2014 - 10.2016
- Worked as technical lead for the EU implementation and successfully rolled out 6 countries live.
- Developed and deployed EU implementation for our client.
- Facilitated technical discussions and gathered business requirements for EU implementation.
- Coordinated requirement gathering for EU catchall site, covering 15+ countries in a single platform.
- Creation of the Design Documents by understanding the requirements from BRD and FRD.
- Reviewed code and ensured coding standards and client requirements.
- Configured all the environments including production and created the ATG deployment process.
- Michael Kors is a world-renowned, award-winning designer of luxury accessories and ready-to-wear. His namesake company, established in 1981, currently produces a range of products under the signature Michael Kors Collection and MICHAEL Michael Kors labels. With an innate sense of glamour, Michael Kors offers a luxury lifestyle for the consummate jetsetter that is as sophisticated as it is indulgent and as iconic as it is modern.
- Technologies – Oracle Commerce Cloud (ATG), Oracle, Tortoise SVN, JBoss eap 5.1, WebLogic 12c
Systems Analyst
VeriZon MLS
US
07.2012 - 05.2014
- Gathered requirements from clients for change requests and implemented solutions within timelines.
- Analyzed requirements, provided estimations and created impact analysis documents.
- Managed production support and enhancements for Cart & Checkout modules.
- Verizon Wireless is the largest mobile network operator in the United States, providing wireless services to 115.78 million subscribers as of Q4 2012. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey the company is a joint venture of American telecommunications firm Verizon Communications and UK-based Vodafone. Verizon Communications holds 55 percent ownership and Vodafone holds the remaining 45 percent ownership of the joint venture. In Verizon account there are a number of tracks like prepaid, postpaid, iconic and MLS. MLS is only for accessories, prepaid is for prepaid customers and postpaid deals with postpaid customers.
- Technologies – Oracle ATG 10.1.2, Tortoise SVN, Weblogic
Systems Analyst
John Lewis
UK
09.2011 - 06.2012
- Conducted requirement analysis, design, and prepared technical design documents for Cart, Checkout, and Pricing and Promotions modules.
- Developed Command Accelerator framework to execute multiple parallel tasks asynchronously during page load.
- Represented development team in project bug triage meetings with client to address and resolve issues.
- John Lewis Partnership is one of the UK's largest employee-owned retail companies. It operates the John Lewis department stores and supermarkets, offering a wide range of products including fashion, home furnishings, electronics, beauty, and groceries. Founded in 1929, the company is known for its high-quality products, excellent customer service, and unique employee ownership model, where all permanent employees are partners who share in the business's success. The company serves millions of customers through its physical stores and online platforms across the United Kingdom.
- Technologies – Oracle ATG 9.2, Tortoise SVN, IBM WebSphere
Senior Software Engineer
SpeedFC
US
12.2010 - 08.2011
- Developed custom droplets and JSP pages, executed bug fixes, and performed unit testing to ensure application reliability.
- Implementation of User management, Cart and Checkout Modules.
- Reskinned entire application with new front end design using JSP templates to enhance user experience.
- Designed repository to introduce new items, streamlining data management and access.
- MetroPCS is a typical ecommerce site for online mobile store. We can purchase phones and accessories as hard goods and plans and services as soft goods. SpeedFC is an outsourcing for the client MetroPCS. Developed this project in ATG 10.0.2 and SARA. SARA is a core site which has been developed by SpeedFC which contains the core functionalities by extending CRS. This project extends ATG Commerce functionalities i.e., Browse & Shop, Shopping Cart, Checkout Process and Order Status.
- Technologies – Oracle ATG 9.1, Tortoise SVN, JBoss eap 4.0.5
Senior Software Engineer
Oberon Media
US
05.2010 - 11.2010
- Modules worked on Browse & Shop, Account Management.
- Understanding the requirements through FRD’s
- Conversion of the user’s requirements into technical solutions by using the TDDs.
- Creating custom generated Droplets and Form Handlers.
- Worked on the commerce pipeline to insert the custom processors in the process order pipeline and movetopurchaseinfo pipelines.
- Involved in fixing issues of various modules.
- Oberon Media is globally recognized as a leading innovator in the interactive games company, with expertise in the online, social, mobile, interactive TV and retail categories. Oberon brings together the most compelling casual game content, distributes it through global partners in addition to providing innovative services and solutions.
- Technologies – ATG 9.1, Tortoise SVN, JBoss eap 4.0.5
Software Engineer
GAI-ONLINE (Group Application Inventory Online System)
Chennai
03.2008 - 11.2009
- Fixed issues in various modules.
- Developed application using MVC architecture in Struts, enhancing modularity and maintainability.
- Involved in Creating Master Screens using JSP, JavaScript & Struts Tag Libraries.
- Developed validations using the Validator Framework in struts.
- Wrote business logic for various application modules, ensuring functional integrity and performance.
- Designed and developed Modify Application, serving as foundational module for overall application functionality.
- Involved in fixing issues in various modules.
- The Group Application Inventory (GAI) is the definitive list of production applications for which Group Technology is responsible and supports. All functions within Group Technology and Operations (GTO) must use the GAI as the primary source and official information for GT supported application systems.
- Technologies – Struts 1.1, Tortoise SVN, Apache Tomcat Web server 5.5.20
Education
Msc.IT -
University of Madras
Chennai, TamilNadu, India01-2004
Skills
- Verticals: Retail
- Languages: JAVA 18
- Web Frameworks: Oracle Commerce, Spring, Struts, AKKA, Play
- Web Technologies: RESTful web services, JSP, SOAP, XML, JDBC, JMS
- Tools: Akamai, Apache Kafka, Apache Zookeeper, Splunk
- Cloud: Google bucket, Google pub/sub
- NoSQL: Redis , Mongo DB
- App/Web Servers: Jetty, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss
- Caching: Oracle Coherence, Redis
- Database: Oracle, Postgres , MongoDB
- IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ
- Build Tools: Ant, SBT and Maven
- Version Control: GIT, Bitbucket, SVN
Awards & Recognitions
- Delivery Excellence Award – BrandsMart USA (AIEnterprise)
Recognized for consistently meeting delivery timelines while successfully mentoring and leading a cross-regional team of 17 members. - Business Unit Team Leader of the Year – Kohl's (Zensor Technologies)
Awarded for outstanding leadership, coordination, and delivery excellence as an onsite Lead/Coordinator. - Bravo Team of the Quarter Award – Michael Kors i18n (Zensor Technologies)
Honored as part of the team for successfully launching a multilingual, multi-channel e-commerce platform for the European market. - Bright Spark Award (2015–2016) – Professional Access
Awarded for exceptional contributions, consistent performance, and significant impact during the fiscal year. - Bright Spark Award (2014–2015) – Professional Access
Recognized for outstanding contributions and high-quality project delivery during the fiscal year. - Shining Star of PA Award – Professional Access
Recognized for exceptional performance and valuable contributions during the quarter.
Certification
- Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 - 2006
- Certified Reactive Architect - Certified in Reactive Systems Architecture and modern distributed system design principles by Lightbend Inc - 2021
PASSPORT DETAILS
- Name: Hari Kishore Modigunta
- Passport Details:
G5746632 (OLD) , Date of Issue: 17/10/2007 (OLD)
R0839522 (NEW) , Date of Issue: 19/09/2017(NEW)
Timeline
Associate Architect
BrandsMartUSA
09.2024 - 06.2026
Architect
Allen Brothers
01.2023 - 09.2024
Associate Architect
Brand Smart USA
03.2020 - 12.2022
Lead-Technology
Kohl’s Commerce Open-Source platform
11.2016 - 02.2020
Lead Technology
Michael Kors
06.2014 - 10.2016
Systems Analyst
VeriZon MLS
07.2012 - 05.2014
Systems Analyst
John Lewis
09.2011 - 06.2012
Senior Software Engineer
SpeedFC
12.2010 - 08.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Oberon Media
05.2010 - 11.2010
Software Engineer
GAI-ONLINE (Group Application Inventory Online System)
03.2008 - 11.2009
Msc.IT -
University of Madras