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Naveen Mereddi

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Senior Software Architect with 20+ years in enterprise-scale software development, including 5+ years in leadership roles. Proven track record of designing and delivering resilient, cloud-native applications on AWS and IBM Cloud using microservices, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern DevOps pipelines (CI/CD, Jenkins, Tekton). Adept at driving security-first development aligned to FedRAMP/SOC2 standards, leading agile teams, and modernizing legacy systems. Hands-on with Java, Python, Spring Boot, NoSQL, Kafka, Zookeeper, and distributed systems design.

Innovative Solution Architect with in-depth understanding of software deployment and system design illustrated over [Number] years of experience in similar roles.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Software Architect – NGDC Fabric

IBM Cloud
03.2020 - Current
  • Involved in the end-to-end architecture in the NextGen Data Center initiatives. Build undercloud that provides services to support IBM Cloud’s Virtual Private Cloud offering worldwide.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with project managers, engineers, architects across cross functional teams.
  • Lead the design of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures using Kubernetes, and other IBM Cloud Services.
  • Translate complex business requirements into cloud-native architectures.
  • Present designs, implementation strategies, and migration plans.
  • Review the security posture of the services, and ensure solutions meet SOC2, FedRAMP, ITSS standards.
  • Designed and developed the Shift Left One Pipeline using Tekton pipelines.
  • Environment: Java 8, PHP 5.6.x, Oracle 11g, Rabbit MQ, Elastic Search, Log Stash, Kibana, Splunk, Git.

Software Architect

IBM Cloud
04.2017 - 02.2020
  • IBM provides IaaS to customers worldwide. Job execution engine and workflow engine are responsible for running JSON based process workflows that provision VMs, bare metal servers, storage etc. on the cloud.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with SRE’s (DevOps) to ensure 24
  • 7 availability of the infrastructure.
  • Revamp the existing design of Job Execution Engine and Workflow Engine, from a monolith to micro services architecture.
  • Improved the overall performance of the Workflow Engine by more than 70%, by offloading events from being persisted, to being sent as notifications to a message queue.
  • Mentor junior developers, and provide training where needed.
  • Environment: Java 8, PHP 5.6.x, Oracle 11g, Rabbit MQ, Elastic Search, Log Stash, Kibana, Splunk, Git.

Lead Cloud Development Engineer - Contract

Citibank
09.2016 - 04.2017
  • Worked as a Lead SDE at Citibank. NGA aka the Next Generation Architecture is the underlying platform powering Citi’s Global Consumer Bank & FinTech, enabling the next generation of digital banking. It is a single stack architecture allowing decoupled services to be built in an agile manner on a cloud based platform.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Involved in the design, development and testing of micro-services for Digital Personal Installment Loan.
  • Lead a team of 6 Software Development Engineers by helping them with HLDs and LLDs.
  • Developed new services using a global data model, creating an abstract layer from backend hosts.
  • Following a domain driven design approach, identified products and services that would yield higher ROI.
  • Built a POC on AWS to measure the overall response times between using AWS vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
  • Involved in the development efforts for sending money through ClearXChange.
  • Re-architect the existing monolithic Citibank Online to micro-services architecture.
  • Environment: Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Spring Boot, Java 8, Spring Gem fire, Hystrix, Eureka Service Discovery, Config Server, IBM API m.

Sr. Java Developer-Contract

Excentus
05.2015 - 09.2016
  • Excentus is a software firm that provides loyalty marketing programs and services that utilize cents per gallon fuel savings for registered members with their patented application.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Revamp existing micro-services and develop APIs to handle new business requirements.
  • Developed business logic/framework to enhance the event by adding pertinent details for visa, Amex and master card pre-authorization transactions. The pre-authorization requests from merchants are handled asynchronously.
  • Developed REST service to respond with transaction history details for issuances and redemptions.
  • Designed, and developed a Rules Engine that would dynamically apply rules for incoming transactions based on offers configured in the system.
  • Optimized the existing logic in Spring Batch to provide faster responses for millions of redemption transactions that transpire daily.
  • Re-built transaction engine v2 using JAX-RS. The transaction engine v1 uses JAX-WS.
  • Built optimized algorithms to manage member’s house hold information.
  • Developed code to support importing of accounts for version 2. 5 million records from Ahold participant would be imported to Fuel Rewards Network.
  • Environment: Java 7/8, Spring 4.x, Red hat Linux, WAS 7.0, JBoss AS 7.x, Apache Kafka, Apache Active MQ, Apache Cassandra, Redis, EHCache.

Software Architect/Lead Developer

International Business Machines
10.2010 - 05.2015
  • Worked as a Software Architect/Lead Developer for the IBM Commerce division. IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP): helps secure and shield the customer's trusted network by preventing direct connectivity between external partners and internal servers. It can secure their network and data exchanges at the network edge to enable trusted business-to-business transactions and MFT file exchanges. IBM acquired Sterling in 2010.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for leading the design and development of the commercial software products mentioned below. Responsibilities in brief are outlined.
  • Product: Sterling Secure Proxy 3.5.0.0 (Configuration Manager & Engine)
  • Developed a shared object (.so) file for ascp to call back methods in the shared object. Buffers are written and read from shared memory.
  • Added support for Aspera’s FASP protocol in Secure Proxy. Data is sent on UDP, while control packets are sent on TCP. The data was read using FaspManager, stored in shared memory, and further read by FASP Manager to be processed by Secure Proxy.
  • Collaborate with software architects from the Industry Solutions and WebSphere Commerce division to provide cloud based solutions for Secure Proxy.
  • Environment: Java8, Eclipse, C, Red Hat Linux, Aspera Fasp servers, FaspManager SDK, Aspera PVCL (C library)

Software Architect/Lead Developer

Sterling Commerce
09.2005 - 10.2010
  • Product: Sterling Secure Proxy 3.4.2.0 Engine
  • Designed the feature that would allow audit level events to be published to a JMS queue.
  • Developed code on the configuration manager to generate audit events and publish to the JMS queue (Active MQ and WebSphere MQ)
  • Developed code that would allow users to import and export configuration data to XML. The REST APIs that were developed earlier were used to accomplish the same.
  • Environment: Java 7, Eclipse, JAX-RS, JMS

Software Architect/Lead Developer

Sterling Commerce
09.2005 - 10.2010
  • Product: IBM Sterling Control Center (5.4.x)
  • Developed the Cognos Service on the engine tier. The new service will enable the Application to generate reports on IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server. The reporting service interacts with Cognos SDK.
  • Developed REST based web services for the new web client.
  • Environment: Java 6/7, Eclipse, WebSphere Application Server (Liberty), Cognos Business Intelligence Server, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Open JMX, JDBC, Dojo, JMS etc.

Software Engineer

JP Mobile
07.2002 - 05.2003
  • JP Mobile is a start-up company based in Dallas. It specializes in providing middleware solutions to its customers through “Sure Wave Enterprise Server 4.0” SES.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Validate the functionality on various hand held device operating systems like Symbian, Palm, RIM, Smart Phone by synchronizing the time settings, both on the handheld and outlook.
  • Created stress tests on the Sure Wave Enterprise Server.
  • Environment: Java, Oracle, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Palm, Symbian, RIM, Smart Phone.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas
Dallas, Texas
05.2003

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University
05.2000

Skills

  • Languages: Java, SQL, Python, Shell Scripting
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Mac
  • SQL Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL
  • NoSQL Databases/Data stores: MongoDB, Cassandra DB, Redis, Zookeeper
  • Cloud Platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, IBM Cloud
  • System architecture design
  • DevOps principles
  • Technical documentation writing
  • Solution prototypes
  • Containerization technologies
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Systems design analysis

Certification

  • Oracle Certified Java Programmer – Java 6.0 (2010-11, Candidate ID: OC1636139)
  • MongoDB for Java Developers – (2016-05)

AUTHORED CONTENT

https://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/00263488

Timeline

Sr. Software Architect – NGDC Fabric

IBM Cloud
03.2020 - Current

Software Architect

IBM Cloud
04.2017 - 02.2020

Lead Cloud Development Engineer - Contract

Citibank
09.2016 - 04.2017

Sr. Java Developer-Contract

Excentus
05.2015 - 09.2016

Software Architect/Lead Developer

International Business Machines
10.2010 - 05.2015

Software Architect/Lead Developer

Sterling Commerce
09.2005 - 10.2010

Software Architect/Lead Developer

Sterling Commerce
09.2005 - 10.2010

Software Engineer

JP Mobile
07.2002 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University

Master of Science - Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas

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