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PANDI BABU MUTHURAJ

Atlanta,GA

Summary

Highly analytical and detail-oriented Software Engineer Principal with over twenty years of experience in engineering, cloud architecture, and application development. Possessing over 15 years of leadership experience, leading teams ranging in size from five to fifteen people. Demonstrating motivation and creative problem-solving skills to meet demanding deadlines and overcome complex challenges is a consistent trait, whether working independently or as part of a team. An articulate and proactive approach combined with excellent interpersonal skills allows for effective and concise communication at all levels. Thriving in any work environment comes naturally.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer Principal

The Home Depot
04.2022 - Current
  • Triages high priority issues and outages as arise
  • Design, develop, and maintain software systems and applications
  • Architected Demand model to handle Non-statistical ordering via unified Cloud platform integrating with many IPR sub-experiences like Optimization, Allocation, Platform, POM
  • Lead technical design and development of software projects
  • Analyze user requirements and develop software solutions
  • Develop and maintain code and scripts to enhance software applications
  • Collaborate with other software engineers to develop software solutions
  • Troubleshoot and debug software applications
  • Develop and implement software testing plans
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation
  • Research and evaluate new software technologies and tools
  • Develop and maintain software development best practices
  • Monitor system performance and provide performance tuning and optimization
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior software engineers.
  • Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
  • Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
  • Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
  • Mentored newly hired educators and provided encouragement and feedback.

Staff Software Engineer

The Home Depot
10.2015 - 04.2022
  • Work on platform modernization efforts like GAE flex to GKE migration, Grid2PCF migration, and PingFed migration in INDP portfolio
  • Pioneered the rewriting a monolith Tomcat Grid application using Domain Driven Design and Microservices
  • Designed and implemented Microservices Architecture in Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Google Cloud Platform
  • Instituted agile development and acted as Technical Lead to lead daily stand ups, sprint planning sessions, spring retros and spring demos presented to leadership teams
  • Established best practices, peer code reviews and critical thinking sessions to enhance SDLC
  • Implemented Blue Green, Canary & Dark Launches and Feature toggle deployments to accomplish zero/no downtime deployment
  • Worked with virtualization, Performance monitoring, Disaster recovery design techniques, ASA and PSRB processes, governance board approval, and Cloud Migration Strategies by applying 7Rs principles
  • Directed a team for decommissioning legacy Sales Forecasting Application by systematically retiring without compromising business needs by following 'Build Once Configure as Always' principle
  • Involved in performance and load testing to measure the application's performance again the corporate benchmark standards
  • Architected Relex Integration Layer to help onboard products for forecasting across all channel types (stores, DFCs, FDC, MDC) which can handle 80 million SKU/Locations and have ability to scale up to 100 plus million SKU/Locations
  • Also load tested and proved the solution can scale up to 3 times more than current volume
  • Implemented reactive system using resiliency techniques like retry, resume able, fail fast, self-healing, effective monitoring and alerts
  • Developed 12 factor application along with API first and Security in mind
  • Implemented Spring cloud contract to define API specification and contracts and a Threat modelling using System Threat model and Protocol/Sequence/API Threat Model
  • Have experience in troubleshooting, identify and resolve performance issues using Java profilers and AppDynamics
  • Built CI/CD using Concourse, TeamCity and Spinnaker; implemented Application Monitoring using AppDynamics & Stack driver; implemented White source & WebInspect scanning for Open source and integrated with TeamCity pipelines; implemented Google Tag Manager to capture the user's interaction with a System
  • Experience in working with resolving Archer and Fortify security findings out of ASA/PSRB and code scan
  • Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture diagrams and artifacts needed for security reviews or other project stakeholders
  • Implemented Analytics capability in Sales Forecasting using Tableau to help Business/IT Teams proactively capture any data issues
  • Created a proof of concept in deducting Data Anomalies using BigQueryML and improved Application scalability using DataProc/Hadoop cluster that cut down processing time to one-third and cost more than 75% than SFTP process in GCP
  • Architected a solution to effectively calculates Supply chain attributes like Safety stock, Load-in and Average Rate of Sales for New SKUs with no sales history which helped to save THD approximately $20M
  • Designed a technical roadmap for product experience and collaborated with Directors and Sr
  • Managers to develop 2-3 years plans
  • Defined SLO, SLA for products to constantly measure their reliability in production by measuring SLI with help of SRE team.

Technical Lead, Architect

XCeltrait Inc.
10.2008 - 09.2015
  • Designed content management solution for John Deere that segmented content to dealers, admins, and customers across the globe
  • Coordinated with customers in gathering requirements and providing technical solutions and architecture designing
  • Provided project estimates for Budgeting and Roadmap planning to leadership team
  • Installed and setup for WebSphere Portal 8.0.0.1 for development servers and desktop environment using IBM IM
  • Designed a federated database to consume user profile information for different user types (Dealers, Admins, Internal Employees)
  • Created security policy for portal and libraries of Users, Content Authors, Content Owners and Application support team
  • Implemented RBAC - Role Based Access Control for Authorization of modules with multiple user roles
  • Created Business Rules and Customized Taxonomy Component and WCM Components to meet business requirements
  • Setup Syndicators and Subscribers to move the content from Authoring Environment to Runtime Environment
  • Used Eclipse's Garbage Collection/Memory Visualizer tool to fine tune methods and memory usage to meet application requirements
  • Searched integration with IBM's Data explorer to search the content in WebSphere Content Management
  • Configured JMS to enable the Event notification for Content Change
  • Maintained batch jobs to send data to other systems (OSS & TWG, Briggs & Stratton, Brinly & Hardy, Superior Tech, Mi-T-M)
  • Used Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Domain Model, Service Layer, Unit of Work, Lazy Load, MVC, Value Objects)
  • Worked with performance engineers to perform load testing and fine tune application to match with corporate benchmark.

Senior Associate - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2005 - 10.2008

Senior Software Engineer

Aztec Software Technology Solutions
05.2004 - 11.2005

Technical Staff Member

Object Orb Technologies
10.2003 - 05.2004

Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead

Hamsaveni Software Pvt. Ltd
04.2001 - 07.2003

Programmer

GSN Technologies
07.1999 - 03.2001

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science -

Madurai Kamaraj University
TN, India

Skills

  • Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio code
  • Google Tag Manager, Usabella, Sitecatelyst
  • GitHub, Github Actions, Spinnaker, Concourse
  • Tableau
  • Docker
  • Java, Python, UML, JavaScript, NodeJS
  • Spring MVC, JDBC, Security, Cloud, JPA, Cloud contract, Hibernate
  • JUnit, JMockIt, RestAssure
  • Redis Cache, Memcache
  • BigTable, Postgres, Oracle, MySql, BigQuery, MongoDB
  • Design Patterns
  • Security, System, and Protocol Threat Modelling
  • Agile Methodologies
  • SCRUM
  • Extreme Programming
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Anomaly Detection using Facebook’s Prophet
  • Build releases
  • Software Design
  • Functional and integration testing
  • Technical Documentation
  • Cost Estimations
  • System debugging
  • Engineering standards
  • Configuration Management
  • Troubleshooting and resolution
  • Code reviews
  • Conflict Mediation

Certification

  • Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
  • Certified Blockchain Architect
  • Blockchain Council Certified Blockchain Expert

Additional

  • Mentored 3 Interns during summer 2016 & 2017 for Forecasting and NSO team
  • Volunteered in Supply Chain Internship program to mentor 2 Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineer under my team
  • Volunteer in Software Intern recruitment committee
  • Exposed to various Domains such as Manufacturing & Services, Content Management, Digital Asset Management, HR & Technology, Health Care and Retail
  • Have worked with clients like John Deere, JP Morgan Chase, Cadence Design Systems & MyDocOnline
  • Developed products like Performance Management Central, JP Morgan Chase’s Intranet performance appraisal tool, which assists employees and manager in appraisal and validation against their comments. Its globally used application handles 180k users
  • MyDocOnline an Internet-based tool that enables physicians to improve efficiency and enhance patient-physician interaction
  • Virtual Classroom Studio is an e-learning tool that mainly focuses on online/offline sessions between the faculty and students

Additional Information

  • Involved in analyzing impact of Assortment usage and recommendations while working with Inventory Platform and Parameters team (Reference here)
  • Worked on POC for major Cloud Composer migration 1.x to 2.x came with recommendations for smooth migration across IPR teams (Reference here)
  • Worked on researching & building SLA dashboard for IPR Operations team and helped team build Ignio monitoring platform to help monitor Mainframe & CA7 workloads (Reference here)
  • Worked on analyzing BigQuery slots usage and allocation across IPR and came up with recommendations for long term approach (Reference here)
  • Worked on setting environment specific BigQuery slots for IPR and implemented to keep team working effectively in Release candidate environment (Reference here)

Timeline

Software Engineer Principal

The Home Depot
04.2022 - Current

Staff Software Engineer

The Home Depot
10.2015 - 04.2022

Technical Lead, Architect

XCeltrait Inc.
10.2008 - 09.2015

Senior Associate - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2005 - 10.2008

Senior Software Engineer

Aztec Software Technology Solutions
05.2004 - 11.2005

Technical Staff Member

Object Orb Technologies
10.2003 - 05.2004

Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead

Hamsaveni Software Pvt. Ltd
04.2001 - 07.2003

Programmer

GSN Technologies
07.1999 - 03.2001

Master of Science in Computer Science -

Madurai Kamaraj University

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