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Mahesh Chandrashekar

Mahesh Chandrashekar

Carrollton,TX

Summary

With around 18 years of experience in techno-functional and mid-management roles, I am a seasoned Staff Engineer adept at overseeing the entire software development lifecycle from planning to deployment. I bring strong expertise in rapid prototyping, customer engagement, and effectively leading large, cross-functional teams. Known for driving operational efficiency through automation and process improvements, I consistently deliver high-quality software solutions that align with strategic business objectives.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Engineer

SiriusXM
Dallas, TX
07.2019 - Current
  • Encouraged and mentored a team of 10 engineers toward achieving efficient utilization of AWS resources, adhering to the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Strategic Business Development: Introduced a high-impact business opportunity, creating a comprehensive business plan with detailed cost and profit analysis. This initiative, with an initial market forecast of $849M-$1.2B, is projected to generate $100M+ annually as a new revenue stream for the organization.
  • Pioneered the adoption of Data Lakes aligned with Data Mesh Architecture across multiple teams in CV, enhancing capabilities for building Anomaly Reports and improving cross-system analytics within the platform.
  • Spearheaded Step Function migration to Express Step Functions to optimize costs, targeting a reduction in the 30% infrastructure cost.
  • Championed a minimal code, maximum functionality approach with a configuration-driven architecture, reducing maintenance costs, enhancing platform adaptability, and enabling rapid adjustments without core code changes to accelerate time to market.
  • Established Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to facilitate modular, consistent, and repeatable deployments, resulting in reduced labor and management costs.
  • Reduced projected timeline of data migration from 3 years to 7 months through enhanced observability
  • Spearheaded the Full Loop CI/CD Pipeline, leading ideation through delivery, and empowering my team to build a scalable, extensible system that established the foundation for the zero-touch, continuous deployments across the organization.
  • Accelerated Feed Processing with AWS Glue, thus standardizing the Feed processing pipelines and reducing deployment time, enabling faster time to market.
  • Embedded Reporting Dashboards: Integrated embedded Quicksight dashboards within the Self-service portal, providing cost-efficient, real-time data-driven insights and improving data accessibility for stakeholders.

Senior Consultant

Freddie Mac
McLean, VA
12.2017 - 06.2019
  • Advocated AWS Serverless Adoption to drive adoption of AWS's serverless portfolio, including AWS Lambda,Step Functions, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.

  • Led Monolith to Serverless Migrations: Drove Proof of Concepts and strategies to migrate client applications from monolithic architectures to serverless architecture on AWS.
  • Led the team in creating REST APIs for securitization services and transforming monolithic applications into microservices.
  • Orchestrated Serverless Solutions Development: Oversaw the development of Tasks-as-a-Service using AWS S3, Step Functions, Lambda, and DynamoDB to automate accounting and data validation workflows.
  • Provided strategic guidance to clients on cloud best practices for business operations.
  • Managed a team of 5 SDETs, responsible for automating test cases for regression testing, functional testing, and integration testing.

Solution Architect

Tech Mahindra Americas (Verizon)
07.2015 - 11.2017
  • End-to-End Project Leadership: Oversaw E2E project planning, from inception through design, development, and delivery, ensuring alignment with project objectives and timely execution.
  • Rapid Prototyping: Led rapid prototyping of a real-time processing application using Apache Spark, Spark Streaming, and SparkSQL.
  • Drove a Proof of Concept for an Operations-as-a-Service model for an Emergency Operations Console, followed by a full-fledged project implementation, reducing turn-around time on NOC agent operations.
  • SLA Monitoring Tool Development: Led the design and development of an SLA Monitoring Tool to track and orchestrate cell out-of-service and in-service notifications.
  • Distributed Real-Time System Design: Designed a distributed computation system with Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, and Apache Camel to handle real-time processing.
  • Customized WSO2 API Gateway & Business Process Integration: Tailored the WSO2 API Gateway to client specifications, deployed on Amazon EC2, and integrated with the WSO2 Business Process Server to streamline API subscription workflows.
  • Designed real-time interfaces with billing systems to create a billing surveillance mechanism, identifying revenue leakage and billing gaps, achieving $8 million in annual revenue/cost savings.
  • Revenue Assurance Suite Productization: Created a metadata-driven Revenue Assurance Suite with customizable functional point checks, enabling deployment across diverse customers.

Software Engineer, Solution Architect

Tech Mahindra Americas (British Telecom & ATT)
06.2007 - 07.2015
  • Designed and developed Order Orchestration and Service Assurance capabilities using Java, PL/SQL, and Cramer 6.2, creating capability-based interfaces that support diverse order life cycles, including Service Delivery, Service Assurance, Network Assurance, Network Provisioning, and Activation
  • Developed key features using Cramer Task Engine, Delivery Engine, and Network Activation Engine, enhancing automation and efficiency in task management, service delivery, and network activation processes.
  • Led E2E design using COTS products like Cramer, Netcool to streamline lead-to-fulfillment, concept-to-market, Service Delivery, and Service Assurance processes, enhancing efficiency across the Telecom order lifecycle.
  • As a Service Assurance Capability Consultant, I led a team of 5 Solution Designers, providing technical guidance to the BT Operate user community for inventory enhancements via capability-based interfaces, ensuring robust service assurance and operational alignment.
  • As a Solution Architect, I led a team of 8 engineers in developing a metadata-driven Data Transformation Engine, enabling efficient and adaptable data processing across various systems.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Enginering

Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology
Bangalore, Karnataka
06-2007

Skills

Cloud Architecture

  • Compute & Storage: Lambda,EC2,ECS, ,EKS, S3, EFS
  • Management & Governance : Cloudwatch, SSM,Secret Manager, Cloudtrail
  • Security: KMS, WAF, IAM, Securitty Groups, VPCs
  • Databases : DynamoDB, Aurora MySQL , RDBMS, Elastic Cache, Neptune
  • Infrastructure as Code : Serverless, SAM , Cloudformation
  • Data Migration : AWS Datasync, Transfer Family
  • Data Governance & Analytics : Glue, Crawlers, Quicksight,Athena, Lakeformation
  • Application Integration : API Gateway,Step functions, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS
  • Front end, Web, Mobile: Appsync, Amplify, FCM, APN
  • Observability : CW Dashboards, X-Ray , Cloudwatch Insights
  • Alerts & Monitoring : Zenoss, Cloudwatch Alerts, Firebase

Languages : Java, Nodejs, Python, Scala

Affiliations

  • AI Powered Distracted Driving
  • Home Automation

Accomplishments

  • Digital Warrior

Timeline

Staff Engineer

SiriusXM
07.2019 - Current

Senior Consultant

Freddie Mac
12.2017 - 06.2019

Solution Architect

Tech Mahindra Americas (Verizon)
07.2015 - 11.2017

Software Engineer, Solution Architect

Tech Mahindra Americas (British Telecom & ATT)
06.2007 - 07.2015

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Enginering

Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology

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