Naveen Arjunan
Sr. Technical Architect
Powell,OH
Summary
Accomplished Technical Architect offering 20 years' experience in comprehensive design and development of software applications. Attentive collaborator and communicator from project conception to completion. Creative in devising solutions to improve business operations and meet clients' technical needs. Seasoned team leader possessing the technical and interpersonal skills to provide exceptional project deliverables.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Architect
Perficient, Inc
07.2019 - Current
- Leading Xcel Energy's modernization drive for mobile apps used in the field to manage critical utilities infrastructure
- Provided technical leadership to offshore and on-shore team members during the entire SDLC lifecycle.
- Lead the enterprise for Java Modernization at Spirit Aero systems
- Reviewed Spirit Aero's overall app and infrastructure estate, business priorities and success criteria to design transformation plans.
- Key member of a major modernization project for Maritz that focuses on scaling, reliability, and performance using GCP.
- Project involves designing an event-driven architecture that includes microservice, service mesh architecture, BFF architecture patterns using Google Cloud(GCP)
- Leading Azure Cloud Migration efforts for Kaiser Permanente
- Architecting solutions with Microservices, Adobe UI(AEM) and APIGEE frameworks.
- Working closely with Product teams to design roadmap and product strategies.
- Served as AWS Cloud Resiliency SME for DTCC(large financial entity)
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Sky Technologies
04.2018 - 06.2019
- Architected AWS Cloud applications for U.S Patent and Trademark Office Project (PEDS)
- Planned sprint development and breakdown of Agile stories
- Automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
- Architected REST Services built to OpenAPI Spec with emphasis on Back-end for Front-end Pattern(BFF)
- Design and build real-time Recommendation Engine using SOLR search engine using advanced techniques like COSINE similarity
- Built scalable and fault tolerant architecture using SOLR and Cross-Data Center Replication
- Configured and managed various AWS Services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and Route 53
- Set up a monitoring and alert solution for various PEDS search platform using SNS, SQS and AWS Lambda
- Standardize metrics collection using AWS CloudWatch, Logstash and APACHE SOLR
- Lead DevOps initiative for Continuous Delivery using Lambda, Jenkins
- Architected solution to improve performance and ingestion times for APACHE SOLR indexing
- Designed solutions to improve processing performance for creating downloadable files for large datasets of patent applications data (more than 14 million records in Apache SOLR index)
- Worked with USPTO Security team to upgrade PEDS system to meet enterprise-level compliance standards
- Large scale data and image indexing(OCR) into Apache SOLR for improved searching
- Leverage AWS Best principles supplemented by Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic IP, CloudWatch, Import/Export, SNS, SQS, WAF, and CloudFront to build Enterprise-ready applications.
Sr. SOA Technical Architect
Washington Metro Authority
04.2017 - 03.2018
- Led a group of engineers in the design, and development of Oracle Fusion and Amazon Web Services (AWS) based SOA integration platform
- Instrumental in recommending and implementing AWS Solutions (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic IP)
- Architect responsible for leading enterprise-wide initiative to modernize legacy systems with a combination of SOA and Microservices architecture using Spring Boot, API Gateway, Nginx, Docker, Cassandra, Redis, JSON, XML,
- Built scalable and high-availability, distributed systems using a micro-services stack
- Created prototypes for evaluation, using Micro-services and Angular framework
- Enterprise integration architecture and legacy modernization using SOA
- Built Spring-based Java Micro-services to support enterprise web application
- Built JSON APIs using Swagger tool
- Aggregate host-level and application-level metrics using collectd, ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana
- Identified and suggested new technologies and tools for enhancing product value and increasing team productivity
- Developed next-generation integration platform for internal applications
- Evaluated potential software products based on new and existing system development and migration requirements.
Sr. Staff Engineer
JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking
09.2014 - 04.2017
- Developed a migration strategy to move legacy environment to CloudFoundry-based environment, which reduced turnaround time for application development and deployment, and reduced operational cost
- Managed and led engineers and ensured high-quality code by performing code reviews, providing guidance, developing standards and managing work allocation
- Served as Application Security Champion, responsible for identifying security threats, remediating vulnerabilities, and managing risk on enterprise-level applications
- Drove firm-wide initiative in architecting a Continuous Integration (CI) framework and cloud architecture strategy
- Designed enterprise-scale applications using ExtJS Framework, AngularJS and back-end Java REST services with adherence to clean code and object-oriented principles
- Proposed forward-thinking solutions for OWASP software security issues by building reusable secure-by-design frameworks
- Established and set up best practices for teams, in such areas as agile development, Cloud application design, deployment, and continuous code integration, build automation, and coding
- Identified and remediated security risks and penetration-testing issues and coach other developers on remediation and best practices
- Lead implementation of projects and ensure adherence to IT control and security policies
- Incorporated Corporate Architectural Standards into application design specification
- Worked closely with business partners to design and delivered high quality user interface built using Sencha Architect/Angular
- Presented system solutions and proof-of-concept solutions of Continuous Integration and workflow automation tools like Grunt and Gulp
- Used DevOps tooling, such as Maven, Jenkins, GIT, Confluence, JIRA, JUnit, Mock frameworks and SonarQube
- Created and maintained batch jobs scheduled by Cron / Active batch.
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center
11.2009 - 09.2014
- Played principal role on the team that developed the OCLC World Share Management System, which was revolutionary for shifting time-intensive and costly routine yet critical library functions such as Acquisitions, Circulation, and Subscription and License Management to the cloud
- This resulted in significant time and money savings, simplified library workflows, and data-sharing and collaboration among peer institutions, end-users, and partners
- Led application development utilizing MVC architecture (Spring MVC/Spring Core/Web Services (SOAP/REST)) with a focus on Test-Driven Development
- Coordinated multiple teams within U.S., UK, Australia, Netherlands, and Germany in addressing diverse technical components of development/release management activities
- Architected a single, coherent application development plan with clear deliverables, milestones, and expectations
- Architected a complete refactor of the License Management Platform using Java/YUI Framework
- Helped achieve operational efficiencies by eliminating redundant infrastructure
- Participated in the analysis and implementation of third party solutions for OCLC applications with the ability to understand the impact and analyze the risk
- Eliminated need for Build Engineer by assuming and maturing release management function, processes, and procedures
- Devised infrastructure that provided full-scale management of hardware, software, and release updates, alleviating burden from members and enabling reallocation of resources to higher priority, less routine tasks
- Developed and delivered proof-of-concept presentations on documentation management systems to architectural boards
- Convinced group to consider building new system in-house (versus purchase of off-the-shelf product already available in the market), detailing pros and cons of each software design
- Championed new build process to develop new Unified Build Manager application, which improved management of build/deployment requests for new internal applications
- Established and sustain positive relations and communications with Quality Assurance unit to proactively address and resolve issues without loss of valuable time, considering team’s diverse geographic assignments.
Senior Architect
Vibsha Inc
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Architected the Vibsha Mobile Advertising platform, an advertising solution that allows interactive content to be served on the tablets that serve up videos in sync with large screen televisions
- Platform allows for additional information to be presented to the viewer in an interactive manner
- Architected and developed a media synchronization solution on AWS
- Created DevOps scripts to handle deployment of Django/Python and Flask applications on Amazon Web Services, within a DevOps environment
- Designed complex multi-application production environments, using uWSGI and NGINX
- Developed asynchronous processing mechanisms using Celery, Django, and RabbitMQ
- Used extensively AWS technologies, and EC2 and S3, in particular
- Scaled Django-based application to handle high-volume requests using classbased views and Mem-cached caching
- Utilized Python’s Paramiko to control remote machine without the need for extensive certificate-based authentication
- Used Twitter Bootstrap to customize Django applications
- Migrated an entire application from Django/MongoDB to PostgreSQL
- Experimented with log- management solutions like Splunk and SaltStack.
Senior Analyst
Abercrombie & Fitch
05.2005 - 11.2009
Web Developer/Database Administrator
S.A.C.I.M., Inc
09.2003 - 12.2004
Programmer - Megisto Systems Software Engineer
Tellabs, Inc
10.2000 - 07.2001
Education
MBA -
Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 01.2011 - 05.2011
MS - Computer Science
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS 08.2022 - 12.2000
Skills
Programming—Python, Java and NodeJS
undefinedCertification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Timeline
MS - Computer Science
Wichita State University
08.2022 - 12.2000
Senior Technical Architect
Perficient, Inc
07.2019 - Current
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Sky Technologies
04.2018 - 06.2019
Sr. SOA Technical Architect
Washington Metro Authority
04.2017 - 03.2018
Sr. Staff Engineer
JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking
09.2014 - 04.2017
Senior Architect
Vibsha Inc
01.2012 - 01.2014
MBA -
Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University
01.2011 - 05.2011
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center
11.2009 - 09.2014
Senior Analyst
Abercrombie & Fitch
05.2005 - 11.2009
Web Developer/Database Administrator
S.A.C.I.M., Inc
09.2003 - 12.2004
Programmer - Megisto Systems Software Engineer
Tellabs, Inc
10.2000 - 07.2001
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