PRADEEP KUMAR EKKA

Financial Reporting Dashboard (ERP Embedded Application)

• Modern ERP Dashboard Modernization: Led the design and development of a ReactJS financial reporting dashboard embedded within a legacy ASP.NET WebForms ERP system using .NET 8 and ASP.NET Core, delivering a decoupled, high-performance solution that significantly improved user experience and maintainability.
• Embedded Frontend Architecture: Designed and implemented a ReactJS single-page application (SPA) directly embedded into the existing ERP landing page, ensuring seamless user navigation without disrupting legacy workflows.
• RESTful API Development: Architected and built ASP.NET Core 8 WebAPIs to aggregate, transform, and expose financial data from legacy ERP systems for optimized dashboard consumption.
• Secure Authentication & Authorization: Implemented JWT Authentication and role-based access controls to securely integrate with legacy application endpoints while enforcing financial data security.
• State Management & Reusability: Developed modular and reusable React components using Redux Toolkit for centralized state management and improved scalability.
• High-Performance Backend: Built efficient data processing logic with C#, Entity Framework Core, and Dapper for performance-critical queries, along with optimized SQL Server execution plans.
• Caching & Scalability: Leveraged Redis caching to reduce database load and enhance dashboard responsiveness during high-traffic reporting cycles.
• Responsive Design & Observability: Created responsive UI layouts with modern CSS and Flexbox, while implementing robust exception handling and logging middleware in ASP.NET Core for better system observability.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnered with finance stakeholders to translate complex reporting requirements into scalable solutions while maintaining data accuracy and compliance standards.

Premier Inc | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Nov 2015 – Present

• Modern UI Transformation: Orchestrated the migration of complex presentation layers to React and React-Redux, improving state management and component reusability.
• Microservices Orchestration: Architected and deployed Microservices for high-volume data processing, ensuring system scalability and 100% code coverage through TDD.
• High-Performance Infrastructure: Leveraged RabbitMQ for asynchronous messaging and Redis for distributed caching to optimize application latency.
• Inclusive Design: Engineered custom UI directives to ensure WCAG 2.0 (508 Compliance) for accessible rich internet applications (ARIA).
• Platform Engineering: Built "ESPRESSO," a reusable application platform utilizing Dependency Injection and Object-Oriented Design to streamline healthcare deployments.

• Project: Loanliner.com — Credit Union Loan & Insurance Platform
• Technology: ASP.NET MVC 4.0, EF v4, WebAPI, Windows Services, WCF, jQuery, Ajax, HTML4, CSS, XSLT, SQL Server 2008
• Microsoft-Centric CI/CD Pipeline: Owned the complete CI/CD lifecycle for a six-member offshore team delivering the Loanliner.com insurance integration platform — from code commit through automated builds, unit testing, system integration testing, and zero-downtime deployments — ensuring on-time, high-quality releases every sprint.
• Enterprise Microsoft Architecture: Designed and developed a scalable, multi-insurance-product platform using ASP.NET MVC 4.0, Entity Framework 4, WebAPI, WCF, and SQL Server 2008, enabling dynamic insurance offerings within the credit-union loan origination flow.
• Real-Time Integration Services: Built and maintained WebAPI services and Windows Services for bidirectional insurance data translation, including high-performance XSLT transformations that mapped claim financial data into Loanliner-specific formats with 100% accuracy.
• Impact Analysis & Governance: Led technical impact analysis and scoping for all enhancement requests, producing detailed architecture and CI/CD documentation that protected system integrity while accelerating delivery velocity.
• Cross-Geography Stakeholder Bridge: Coordinated daily with onshore leads, business analysts, and clients to translate requirements into executable Microsoft backlog items, while enforcing coding standards, code reviews, and automated quality gates.
• Version Control & Release Automation: Managed TFS source control, branching strategy, and automated release management processes, maintaining a clean, fully auditable codebase and eliminating manual deployment errors.
• Modern Microsoft Stack Delivery: Delivered production-ready features using jQuery, Ajax, HTML4, and CSS alongside core .NET technologies, consistently achieving 98%+ on-time delivery while mentoring the team on Microsoft best practices.

• American Express SPEDB Platform: Led a five-member development team in delivering a Silverlight-based project engagement management application for American Express, successfully migrating the entire system from legacy Lotus Notes to a modern Microsoft .NET 3.5 platform.
• Rich Client Architecture: Architected and developed the complete Silverlight UI layer using MVVM Light framework and C#.NET, delivering a highly responsive client experience powered by WCF services for all server-side data access.
• Full Legacy Migration: Drove the end-to-end migration including data conversion, workflow redesign, and stakeholder alignment to transition seamlessly from Lotus Notes to the new Microsoft technology stack.
• Microsoft Standards & Governance: Authored comprehensive coding standards and .NET best-practice documentation that measurably reduced rework and accelerated code/specification reviews.
• Project Planning & Delivery Ownership: Managed the full project lifecycle — including detailed project plans, low-level designs, resource allocation, scheduling, and weekly client status reporting to American Express leadership.
• Quality & Review Culture: Established structured peer review processes for technical specifications, code, and test plans, ensuring consistent high-quality delivery using LINQ and SQL Server 2005.

American Express iMETs & TDC: Served as Technical Lead for two parallel American Express projects — iMETs (application enhancements) and TDC (Test Data Consolidation) — leading the full software delivery lifecycle from design through UAT on the Microsoft .NET stack.

• Solution & Security Architecture: Authored Solution Architecture Documents (SADs) and Security Interaction Documents (SIDs) to proactively address design and security requirements before development began.
• Enterprise Governance: Participated in formal JDAR (Joint Design & Architecture Review) sessions with the AMEX RAM Team and collaborated closely with onshore architects and the Architecture Review Board.
• Impact Analysis & Scoping: Performed in-depth impact analysis on legacy systems for new business requirements, defining clear scope while transparently communicating risks and effort to stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Facilitated daily scrum meetings, onshore-offshore sync calls, and release planning sessions to ensure timely delivery across both initiatives.
• Quality Delivery Leadership: Conducted design and code reviews and coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using ASP.NET Web Forms, C#.NET 3.5, jQuery, Ajax, and SQL Server 2005.

Syntel Limited | Senior Software Engineer / Offshore Team Lead | April 2013 – November 2015

• Industrial Automation Interface: Led a four-member module team in developing a Silverlight-based real-time industrial automation system featuring advanced machine-human interaction components, working in close coordination with the embedded hardware engineering team.
• Real-Time Bidirectional Services: Designed and implemented WCF Duplex Services to enable instant push notifications to client applications whenever server-side machine state updates were received.
• Hardware-Software Collaboration: Partnered directly with the embedded systems team to capture machine interface requirements and translate them into reliable, responsive software behaviors using the MVVM Light framework.
• Core Application & Database Development: Built backend logic in C#.NET 3.5 along with LINQ queries and optimized SQL Server 2005 stored procedures to support full automation workflows.