Kirankumar Gudipudi - Solution Architect - Blue Cross Blue Shield MA

Summary

Sixteen Years of experience in architecting, developing, and deploying distributed applications to private and public cloud. Mentored, led, and managing a team of skilled developers to build an event-driven architecture Solutions/applications. Lead engagements with customers and enterprises and help them with their public and private cloud adoption journey. Using Agile practices to continually deliver value to the business on time, while also building scalable maintainable software utilizing event driven and Microservices architecture. Possess excellent communication and written skills, leadership and mentorship qualities by leading multiple teams of developers, quality assurance professionals, and business analysts towards delivering an end-to-end software project using a highly iterative approach. Encouraged and enabled a culture of Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development, CICD practices at the customer’s organization, to deliver faster to production. Strong fundamentals in Kafka administration, configuration, and troubleshooting and strong experience building stateless and stateful event processors with Kafka.

Overview

18

years of professional experience

7

years of post-secondary education

5

Certifications

Work History

Solution Architect

Blue Cross Blue Shield MA

05.2023 - Current

Company Overview: Perficient Inc
Remote
Led development of Kafka-based event-driven architecture, implementing Consumers/Producers for secure, reusable event handling with automatic retries and Confluent Registry
Architected scalable Spring Boot microservices for seamless API integration and high availability
Designed, developed, and deployed Spring Boot applications to AWS, using Terraform for EC2, RDS, and S3 provisioning
Integrated AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch for enhanced functionality and observability
Implemented Amazon S3 for object storage and efficient large file management with Multipart Upload
Designed NoSQL solutions with DynamoDB, using GSI and LSI for complex queries
Led root cause analysis and tracing/triaging for resolving technical issues
Proficient in Splunk, Splunk APM, and Dynatrace for monitoring, debugging, and performance optimization
Utilized Sleuth
Architected Maven parent POM for standardizing dependencies, optimizing workflows
Developed an SDK with Spring Security, Feign Clients, Swagger, Open API, Kafka Template, and logging for reusable code
Created a standardized .editorconfig for consistent coding styles
Developed a cookbook for upgrading to Java 17 and Spring Boot 3, providing guidelines and best practices
Designed BDD tests using Cucumber for AI-driven APIs, ensuring data accuracy
Collaborated with solution architects and business partners to gather requirements and deliver high-quality solutions
Perficient Inc
Remote

Solution Architect

Blue Cross Blue Shield MA

09.2022 - 04.2023

Company Overview: Perficient Inc
Remote
Advocated the practice of and enabled the adoption of extreme programming, pairing, continuous integration and continuous delivery for a successful path to building robust and resilient solutions with reduced time-to-deploy
Designed, architected and developed a new framework, using Event Driven Architecture principles, to solve the problem of Microservices Orchestration of a business process along with ensuring guarantees, end- to-end status tracking, error handling and retries
Hands-on and responsible for understanding the ESB/ESI based systems and designing micro services using event-based architecture to deploy to the public cloud
Architected, designed, developed and implemented both Kafka Consumers & Producers to implement event-based architecture for microservices
Used several modern development practices and software methodologies in order to get to release a successful project
Worked in a very rapidly moving environment and utilized Java 11, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, OpenShift and REST API to develop the application
Spring Boot, Open API, PCF, AWS, Dynamo DB, Feign Client, Postgres, Redis Cache, Liquibase, config server, Valut, Kafka, are the tech stack used
Perficient Inc
Remote

Solution Architect

DHL

02.2020 - 08.2022

Company Overview: Perficient Inc
Remote
Worked on rewriting DHL’s entire monolithic package/mail delivery system including alert, billing, receiving, sorting, manifesting, encoding etc
The goal is to migrate the monolithic application running on WebLogic server, by breaking I into micro services and deploying to private OpenShift cloud
Worked in a very rapidly moving environment and utilized Java 11, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, OpenShift and REST API to develop the application
Implemented Kafka Consumer to receive and process package information from different microservices and save processed data to SQL database
Implemented Kafka Producer to publish updated package & customer data to different microservices and consume the same
Implemented new endpoint for retrieving, creating, and updating package & customer information along with exception handling and recovery mechanisms such as circuit breaker
Implemented redis local cache for faster data retrieval
Utilized Mockito framework for unit, integration, and resilience tests
Utilized Java Stream and libraries such as Vavr for more readable and robust code implementation
Perficient Inc
Remote

Cloud Engineer, Java developer

State Farm Insurance

01.2015 - 02.2020

Company Overview: HTC Global Services Inc., Bloomington, IL
Worked with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) to contribute new services in micro-services architecture using Spring Boot using 12 factor app methodology
Deployed, Scaled, Configured, wrote manifest files
Architected, converted, designed/developed several legacy/new services/applications to PCF using micro services architecture
Used several services from PCF marketplace while designing, developing and deploying services/ applications to PCF foundation, org/env
Developed API’s to access HBase rest API’s to access data from HBase
Designed, developed and deployed the SOLR instance in cluster and accessed SOLR API’s to retrieve data
Designed, developed services in Hadoop cluster to read data from MQ process data and posted messages using Kafka topics
Worked on Amazon Web Services with API gateway, Lambda and S3, DynamoDB to store and retrieve images
Granting security and Configured user access and limits using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) by creating new profiles and policies for management in JSON
DynamoDB and S3 Database security, creating users and managing permissions
Implemented REST Microservices using Springboot
Generated Metrics with method level granularity and Spring Actuator
Using GIT for cloning, pushing and creating of repositories
Integrated Swagger UI and wrote integration test along with REST document
Used spring config server for centralized configuration and splunk for centralized logging
Create a global Jenkins project which can be used for several services/applications for automation build with Maven, deployments, code quality scans (Find Bugs, Sonar Qube, Checkstyle, Checkmarx, NIQS, Postman collections) and automated testing
This helps to deploy services to deploy from dev to prod ASAP as part of DevOps
Very strong Project Management experience in handling multiple migration projects
Designed and implement front-end projects of various scope
Handle Browser compatibility issues for HTML and Java Scripts
Used CSS3 and jQuery as part of the UI navigation, produced client-side validation through JavaScript
HTC Global Services Inc., Bloomington, IL

Java developer

State Farm Insurance

01.2012 - 12.2015

Company Overview: HTC Global Services Inc., Bloomington, IL
Project Lead and developer for Struts to Spring migration project
Worked extensively on Spring boot for building web service and Web Application
Developed NamedJDBC Template in Data Access Layer to access and update information in the database
Used JavaScript and JQuery for providing client-side validation and Spring Validator for server-side validation
Worked on HTML5 digital documents Viewer application which works with multiple data formats like TIFF, JPEG, PDF, Mp3/Wav
Assist with Production Support issues/defects as required
Build front end prototype using Html5, Css, Javascript, Jquery, Jsp
Conducted Daily Stand-up Meetings, technical code reviews, review test cases, project estimation and impact analysis
Produced and consumed web services including SOAP using SOAP UI and REST
Used CXF web service in SOAP and WSDL to communicate through different application
Had extensive meetings with both the Business and Project teams to gather requirements
Created High level design and code specifications for Offshore
Coordinate code deployment and integration with business affiliates components
Triage defect and reassign them to appropriate teams, also providing fix for design and code defects
HTC Global Services Inc., Bloomington, IL

Software developer

State Farm Insurance

01.2009 - 12.2012

Company Overview: HTC Global Services Inc
Created High level and Low-level design documents for electronic documents migration project
Trained developers on application architecture and requirements
Designed Automation for capturing error logs, Email Alert process, Service tickets generation, Quick and overnight retry process and Web UI page
Development, system testing, performance testing, implementation testing and Implementation
As part of the migration efforts (Migration of index data and enable replication for High Availability) had extensive meetings with both the Business and Project teams to gather requirements
Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications
Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and new requirements
Trained a team of 20+ people from development and testing with business functionality & new requirements
Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules
Worked on webservice development to export data using mainframe export process
Developed web and Host checklist with domain and development standards to deliver quality code and to avoid re-works
Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation
Perform Peer review and log any issues using trackIt tool till it is closed
Implementation planning & Components installation sequencing
Building issuance, implementation and support
Modifying application configuration for Best stored procedure/SQL performance
Automated many day-to-day works by developing VB applications
Monitoring J2EE exceptions and fixing problems in production
Reprocessing failed export MQ messages based on exceptions
Leading a 28+ people development and support team from Offshore
Distributing and getting the work done
HTC Global Services Inc

Software developer

State Farm Insurance

01.2007 - 12.2009

Company Overview: Satyam Computer Services PVT Ltd
Preparing Knowledge Item for 2nd level support
Problem Management and Handling service calls
Application Design & Developer transition from On-site team
Analyzing production issues and fixing problems
Ad hoc image export and delete request
Monitoring Ingestion, retrieval and re-indexing services
Modifying application configuration for Best stored procedure performance
Monitoring J2EE exceptions and fixing problems in production
Reprocessing failed export MQ messages based on exceptions
Leading a 3 people support team from Offshore
Provided extensive training to the team
Distributing and getting the work done
Testing, documentation and support
Executing batch network Jobs
Fixing JCL abends and DB2 errors
Monitoring scheduled job status
Automated daily work by developing tools
Trained on Gathering requirements designing components
Proposed an Automated error Handling and Monitoring design and Approved by client
Worked on High level design documentation for making application High Available to customers and internal users
Involved in project planning for Complete Application migration
Satyam Computer Services PVT Ltd

Education

Master of Computer Applications - undefined

PB Siddhartha College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

01.2004 - 05.2007

Bachelor of Computer Science - undefined

Sadineni Chowdaraiah College, Maddirala, Andhra Pradesh

01.2001 - 05.2004

Skills

AWS Cloud: S3

EC2

ECS

EKS

Lambda

IAM

API Gateway

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

SQS

SNS

OpenShift

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Big Data Ecosystem: Hadoop

HDFS

HBase

Kafka

Hive

Zookeeper

Oozie

SOLR

Programming languages/technologies: Java/J2EE

Groovy

JMS

JAXB

JDBC

SQL

PL/SQL

shell scripting

XML

JSON

YAML

Junit

Mainframe Ecosystem: COBOL

PL/1

DB2

IMSDB

FMDB2

BMCDB2

SPUFI

APPTUNE

RDZ

FTP

Expeditor

Data Studio

REXX

VSAM

JCL

DCLGEN

SDSF

PANAVALENT

CONTROL-M

RMS

DB2 Stored Procedures

Frameworks: Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring Batch

Spring

Web technologies/JavaScript frameworks: HTML

CSS

JavaScript

JSP & Servlet

Web Services: SOAP

RESTful services (JAX-RS)

Databases: Oracle

MySQL

MS Access

Build management: Maven

Security: LDAP

Active Directory

OAuth 20

Open AM

JWT

Version control tools: GitLab

GitHub

Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment: Jenkins

Messaging Systems: Kafka

RabbitMQ

IBM WebSphere MQ

Operating Systems: Windows

Linux

Mac OS

Z/OS

Development IDE’s: IntelliJ

Spring Tool Suite (STS)

Eclipse

Rational Software Architect (RSA)

Methodologies: Agile

Waterfall

TDD/BDD: JUnit/Mockito

Others: Swagger

Splunk

HPSM

Admin 7

UODA

Postman

Soap UI

Visio

Change Management

Release Management

Version One

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Accomplishments

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Spring Certified Professional 2024 [v2]

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 17 Developer (1Z0-829)

Work Availability

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Work Preference

Work Type

Full TimeContract Work

Location Preference

Remote

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCareer advancementWork from home option401k matchPaid sick leavePaid time offStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingFlexible work hours4-day work week

Languages

English

Full Professional

Telugu

Full Professional

Hindi

Full Professional

Interests

Cricket, Socializing

Timeline

Solution Architect - Blue Cross Blue Shield MA

05.2023 - Current

Solution Architect - Blue Cross Blue Shield MA

09.2022 - 04.2023

Solution Architect - DHL

02.2020 - 08.2022

Cloud Engineer, Java developer - State Farm Insurance

01.2015 - 02.2020

Java developer - State Farm Insurance

01.2012 - 12.2015

Software developer - State Farm Insurance

01.2009 - 12.2012

Software developer - State Farm Insurance

01.2007 - 12.2009

PB Siddhartha College - Master of Computer Applications,

01.2004 - 05.2007

Sadineni Chowdaraiah College - Bachelor of Computer Science,

01.2001 - 05.2004