Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Forte
Accomplishments
Professional Reading
Timeline
Generic

Praveen Ramachandran

Summary

Highly skilled and experienced Cloud Solution Architect with over 15 years of experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions for enterprise-level clients. Proficient in Java programming language, cloud-based technologies, and DevOps practices. Possesses a deep understanding of cloud architecture, microservices, and containerization. Proven track record of delivering scalable and highly available solutions that meet business requirements. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.

.

  • Led geographically diverse teams with expertise in Azure services: web app, function app, Cosmos DB, and more.
  • Designed efficient CI/CD pipelines with GitHub workflows, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins.
  • Proficient in orchestrating containerized apps with Kubernetes.
  • Implemented robust observability with Azure Application Insights.
  • Applied software design using SOA, MVC, and microservices principles.
  • Developed Java web apps on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk and Lambda functions.
  • Collaborated on SMART on FHIR within Azure FHIR Data Services for healthcare data.
  • Implemented Domain-Driven Design, refactoring legacy code for a modular and testable codebase.
  • Expertise in relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, DB2, SQL Server) and ETL processes.
  • Automated tasks with PowerShell, JavaScript, and Bash.
  • Used ELK stack, Splunk for log management and analysis.
  • Implemented advanced chaos engineering methodologies.
  • Leveraged OpenShift for containerization and cloud-native solutions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Solutions Architect

NTTDATA Services
Haslett, MI
08.2023 - Current

Fidelity- Stock private services

Building a integration api (suite of services for the administration platform )for a fidelity acquired company shoobx to meet the needs of late life cycle companies, Mainly focusing on the tax calculation & present it to the private market clients. This feature will give participant & plan sponsor the capacity to analyze the tax break down for their stock options

  • Evaluate the legacy tax calculation rules system, challenges & propose a highly scalable, reliable & available solution.
  • Designed and executed a novel integration hexagonal architecture for a fidelity acquired company Shoobx, leading to a noteworthy in a 25% enhancement in tax calculation service.
  • Designed REST integration api with contract first development with swaggerhub for calculating the tax & overrides for private companies leveraging the existing rules engine service along with customizations.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement software architecture best practices, resulting in a 20% reduction in production issues and a 10% increase in team productivity.
  • Developed the back end server with spring boot involving different layers of the application including entity/model, dao/repo, controller service, business & persistence.
  • Establish continuous integration with jenkins pipelines & udeploy for automating the app deployment.
  • Assist the Implementation team with code reviews, design walkthrough & Mash ups.
  • Mentored and trained junior software architects, resulting in a 30% improvement in their technical skills and a 15% increase in their overall job satisfaction.
  • Increased the overall efficiency of the project by 25%

TECH STACK: Spring boot, Spring JPA, Oracle, Swagger, Stratum, Udeploy, Jenkins, Drools, Junit, Cucumber, Karate tests, maven, k8s

Sr Engineering Manager

NTT DATA Services
01.2023 - 05.2023

Mobile Heart Beat (HCA) - HealthCare

  • Led and guided a 10-member technical team, including architects, developers, devsecops, and quality engineers, in spearheading a multi-tenant Java serverless and microservices architecture on Azure Cloud for a healthcare system. This role involved providing technical leadership, focusing on engineering and agile best practices, contributing approximately 60% of effort.
  • Addressed challenges within the healthcare system by proposing and implementing a highly scalable, reliable serverless Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution on Azure Cloud, contributing to approximately 20% of the overall effort.
  • Collaborated seamlessly with cross-functional engineering and product teams, dedicating around 10% effort to create interoperable systems. Oversaw the implementation of scalable Java serverless functions for HL7 message reception, utilizing Azure FHIR data services for conversions and storage, accounting for approximately 5% of the overall effort.
  • Implemented frameworks, patterns, and services such as observability framework, custom telemetry retries, exponential backoffs, managed identities, and Azure API Management, contributing around 5% to the overall effort.
  • Established continuous integration with GitHub workflows, dedicating around 5% effort to achieve tenant-agnostic artifact deployment. Contributed moderately to Terraform IaC,.
  • Played a vital role in hiring and developing top talent, contributing approximately 3% effort, while actively promoting a culture of cooperation, dependability, ownership, and gratitude.
  • Conducted thorough code reviews, design walkthroughs, and Mash-ups, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions. Overall, the role involved a comprehensive approach to technical leadership, architectural design, implementation, and team development, with a focus on optimizing efficiency and achieving outstanding results.
    TECH STACK: Java Spring, azure functions, github workflows, terraform, APIM, service bus namespace & queues, vnet, microservices, sonarcube.

Delivery Manager

Nexient
08.2014 - 12.2022

Solution Architect

IRIDIUM SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

  • Spearheaded the migration of iridium's complex legacy soap- based services to spring boot REST making it highly scalable & cloud native
  • Lead the discovery phase to analyze the existing architecture, bottle necks & proposed, designed & implemented a domain driven microservices architecture with spring boot application reusing existing business logic, database model and leveraging spring security authentication with JWT tokens.
  • Developed and maintained automated deployment scripts using Kubernetes and Jenkins, reducing deployment time by 50%.
  • Provided technical leadership with a focus on engineering and agile best practices.
  • Collaborate with development team for code reviews, design walkthrough, best practices, proof of concepts & backlog refinement.
  • Conducted performance reviews and provided coaching and mentoring to team members to foster career development
  • Collaborate with PO/stakeholders for planning new features & products, communicating team progress, deliverables, and impediments & provide technical and functional recommendations.
  • TECH STACK: Java, rest microservices, github workflows, aws, kubernates, docker, ELK, SonarQube, openshift

Delivery Manager

PRESS GANEY

  • Leading delivery of Press Ganey's software development, process re-engineering and technical architecture implementations for the new patient survey platform
  • Design & implement ETL solutions with Data-warehouse, Data marts & BI analytics.
  • Identify areas for automation, translate them to user stories & plan the implementation
  • Coordinate migration of legacy applications to Azure cloud
  • Identify opportunities for standardization of processes with best practices.
  • Gather, analyze, identify gaps in requirements and document business requirements to support the design and development of technology and / or process solutions
  • Develop, maintain, and update integrated project/program plans, and ensure alignment of these plans across functions and with team leadership
  • Stakeholders interaction, coordinating project milestones and objectives across workstreams and responsible for business communication
  • Conduct meetings including kick-o fs, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Delivering e fective and engaging presentations which visualizes the project's health & monthly achievements.
  • TECH STACK: Java microservices, azure functions, dynamo db, powershell, .net, oracle, spring boot

Technical Lead

E & Y

  • Lead the high-level backlog estimation, PI – Planning & story pointing.
  • Execute the Scrum ceremonies
  • Lead the HL backlog estimation & story pointing
  • Drive the PI planning sessions by setting up the goals & milestones.
  • Designed the data base for the entire VAT indirect application.
  • Designed & implemented the ETL using the Mapping data ow in Azure Data Factory with scalability options in future
  • Design the reports & dashboards using PowerBI embedded.
  • Integrate the PowerBI with Angular UI.
  • Arrange & schedule the necessary meetings with BA, product owner and stake holders
  • Review and approve the team's deliverables.

Delivery manager

JOHNSON & JOHNSON (Team Size:20)

  • Spearhead the design, delivery & support of Java web app, BI, ETL, reporting & technical support team
  • Collaborate & execute the scrum ceremonies.
  • Designed the REST services using spring boot and microservices.
  • Designed & Develop ETL process using Pentaho.
  • Designed the IBM Cognos health & population trend reports & custom extracts for the customers.
  • Monitor production systems, identify and resolve software & data issues and manage reporting activities.
  • Facilitate & lead operational planning meetings to ensure adequate compliance while in transition.
  • Engage in change management & defects for the J & J coaching site(Spring based java application)
  • Contribute to the Health Discover rewrite application which was developed in parallel with microservices, docker & data lakes which replaces ETL.
  • Onboard new members to the team, coach & walk them through the architecture & make sure they are productive soon with the right tools.
  • Manage CI/CD team for software delivery.
  • Support the 7-minute workout(App) workout change requests, code, deploy, test & release to production.

Team Lead

WELLS FARGO - INTERNAL COMPENSATION APP

  • Lead a 6-member team for developing & enhancing the ICA application.
  • Design & implementation of the Sales Approval workflow which relates to incentive compensation.
  • The system will evaluate these transactions and calculate eligible team members' payouts based on the rules specified in the current Wealth Compensation Plan.
  • Interact with the Business Analysts & product owners Interact & work with QA team for triage and reconciliations. Unit testing the solution. Build & Deployment.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

LBS College of Engineerring
India
11.2006

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Institute of Human Resource & Development
India
07.2000

Forte

  • Servant & adaptive leadership.
  • Architect & design large scale java based web application & pipelines.
  • Legacy app migrations to native cloud.
  • Adhere & enforce SOLID, DRY, TDD, KISS, DDD where ever applicable.
  • Prioritize digital transformation initiatives.
  • Etl, data-warehouse & datamart solutioning.
  • Deliver engaging & effective presentation.
  • Strong experience In Scrum & Safe Agile.
  • Production support, incident & change management.
  • Career coach & trainer.

Accomplishments

Received Technology Athlete award from Nexient in 2016.

Received Honest challenger award from Nexient few times.

Implemented a new DevOps process for a large clinical services client, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment time and a 30% increase in software quality.

Led a team of developers to successfully migrate a legacy Java application to a modern microservices-based architecture, resulting in improved application stability and scalability.

Professional Reading

Domain Driven Design by Erc Evans.

Hands on machine learning with scikit learn by Aurelien Geron.

Radical Candor by Kim Scott.

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert Martin.

Timeline

Solutions Architect

NTTDATA Services
08.2023 - Current

Sr Engineering Manager

NTT DATA Services
01.2023 - 05.2023

Delivery Manager

Nexient
08.2014 - 12.2022

Master of Science - Computer Science

LBS College of Engineerring

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Institute of Human Resource & Development
Praveen Ramachandran