Mahendran Natarajan
Washington,DC
Summary
Adept individual with more than 15+ years working as Solutions Architect Manager for 300M+ revenue-generating business. Determined and experienced in mentoring and challenging team members to meet and exceed company goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager - Solutions Architecture
Travelers Insurance
03.2016 - Current
- Led cross-functional project teams for seamless migration to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance
- Provided technical guidance to application development teams, emphasizing DevOps practices and automation, and achieved a 40% increase in the adoption of DevOps practices
- Prepared and presented artifacts to stakeholders and Governance teams, ensuring transparency and alignment with business goals
- Designed and Delivered software applications using orchestration techniques with asynchronous features from Java Completable Future, Spring Web Flux, and Apache Kafka and delivered 95% of software applications on time and within scope
- Conducted cloud suitability assessments and successfully led AWS cloud transformation and migration initiatives
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including Business Architects, Data Architects, Security Architects, and technology teams, to provide scalable and secure cloud solutions and cost saved up to 70% compared to existing infrastructure.
Technical Architect
Statefarm Insurance Accenture
04.2010 - 03.2016
- Developed, implemented, and maintained Java-based components and interfaces, contributing to the creation of robust solutions
- Actively participated in the design review process, providing valuable insights to enhance overall Enterprise Architecture
- Took ownership of the end-to-end application lifecycle, including design, project setup, alternative evaluation, proof of concept, code review, testing, troubleshooting, deployment, and ongoing support.
Senior Software Engineer
Scottish Power UK
02.2008 - 03.2010
- Managed the deployment of web applications with high availability, fault tolerance, and geo-distributed architecture, ensuring optimal performance and reliability
- Built distributed, scalable, and highly available/fault-tolerant architectures, contributing to the overall robustness of the technical infrastructure
- Broke down very complex technical programs, abstracted technical complexity, and presented information to non-technical stakeholders and decision-makers.
Software Engineer
First Indian Corporation
05.2005 - 02.2008
- Designed and meticulously documented the upgrade and migration processes of Java-based applications, ensuring a well-defined and streamlined transition to new versions and technologies
- Successfully orchestrated the migration of legacy applications to a new platform, utilizing J2EE technologies with Spring Boot in a cloud-based infrastructure, resulting in improved performance and scalability.
Education
Master of Science - Computers
Bharthiyar University
India04.2003
Skills
- Solution Design and Implementation
- Enterprise Architecture
- AWS Cloud Architecture and Migration
- System Integration
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Technology Innovation
- Project Management
- Team Leadership and Mentoring
- Risk Management
- Cloud Suitability Assessments
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Vendor Management
- Client Relationship Management
- Security Best Practices
- Strategic Planning
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Lambda API Gateway, EKS, ECS, Fargate, S3
- Redhat OpenShift
- Argo CD
- IBM UCD
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Hashicorp Terraform Enterprise
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Microservices
- Spring Boot
- Apache Kafka
- NoSQL – Dynamo DB, Mongo DB
- Node
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- J2EE
- React
- Resource Allocation
Role
Software Solutions Architect Manager
Accomplishments
- Designed and implemented cloud architecture for multi-platform applications, achieving 99% infrastructure flexibility and 95% operational efficiency.
- Migrated 30+ critical applications to RedHat OpenShift resulting in 99% improved scalability.
- SME for more than 30+ critical applications and accountable for the expertise and guidance, core responsibility for project success.
- Led cross-functional teams for seamless AWS migration with minimal downtime and optimal performance, delivering 100% project success rate.
- Provided technical guidance on DevOps practices, leading to 75% increase in automation and 90% reduction in mean time to resolve issues.
- Presented artifacts to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with business goals, resulting in 95% approval rating.
- Led AWS cloud transformation and migration initiatives, achieving 90% cloud adoption rate and 99% reduction in security incidents.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, ensuring 100% compliance with industry standards and 99% scalability in cloud solutions.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Hashicorp Terraform to AWS Lambda and EKS, achieving 100% reduction in manual errors and 95% improvement in deployment speed.
- Orchestrated migration of Java components to Node.js microservices, deploying AWS Lambda functions, resulting in 80% improvement in performance.
- Worked with central infrastructure team, ensuring 60% cost savings and 85% improvement in architecture efficiency.
- Engaged with developers, system administrators, and project managers to define cloud strategies, resulting in 90% increase in cloud adoption.
- Conducted proof of concepts, evolving architecture standards, and improving organizational capabilities by 85%.
- Led teams on projects, achieving 100% success rate and 90% improvement in project delivery speed.
- Monitored project progress and identified potential delays/risks and mitigated the issues within timeline and attained 100% with SLA.
Certification
Amazon Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Timeline
Senior Manager - Solutions Architecture
Travelers Insurance
03.2016 - Current
Technical Architect
Statefarm Insurance Accenture
04.2010 - 03.2016
Senior Software Engineer
Scottish Power UK
02.2008 - 03.2010
Software Engineer
First Indian Corporation
05.2005 - 02.2008
Master of Science - Computers
Bharthiyar University
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