Priya Dixit

Key Contributions

Served as Acting Architect for Circle in the absence of the designated Architect for approximately 1.5 years and participant of Travelers Architecture Experience Program

App Modernization

• Led modernization of multiple applications, including Agency Onboarding Tracker and AIRS, across Circle, adopting fully cloud-native solutions.
• Guided teams in implementing various cloud-native architecture patterns with AWS serverless technologies, such as Lambdas, DynamoDB, and container orchestration using AWS EKS.
• Designed and implemented security solutions using Okta, ensuring robust security measures across all applications.

· Agency Digital Platform Initiative

• Led Agency Digital Platform project, exploring various architectural solutions:

o Fully container-based architecture.

o API-based solutions utilizing MuleSoft.

o Serverless architecture with Step Functions and Lambdas.

o Hybrid solutions combining EKS and Lambdas.

• Presented architectural options to senior technology leadership and API team, including members like Jason Wilzack, and cybersecurity office hours.

Security

• Guided the entire Circle team on both external and internal Okta implementation, including setting up IAM roles and policies, configuring service accounts for Vault, and implementing EKS.
• Led numerous cybersecurity meetings and discussions, enhancing the organization's security posture.

Travelers Architecture Experience Program

• Nominated by the Architecture group to participate in the inaugural Travelers Architecture Experience Program.
• This initiative aims to encourage engineers to explore the architecture space, focusing on characteristics, styles, and patterns.
• Worked on real business problems, developed architectural solutions, and presented them to enterprise architecture leads, receiving recognition from Andrej Kobzas.

• Designed and developed first ever working POC across Lobs for AWS ECS
• This POC has .Net core apps deployed in ECS fargate and integrated with Secret manager and KMS to encrypt and decrypt using custom key, fronted through ALB
• Presented the POC learnings and outcomes to CSS Architects and ICS Cloud team effectively
• As a Tech lead of the team, proactively guided them from creating/updating detail design diagram for AOT, validating assumptions with architects (partnered with interim Solution Architect, validated Okta use cases through Cloud Cyber Office Hour), guided team on various challenges, sharing defined patterns (ex: API Gateway, Okta, etc) with other engineers
• Leading the circle for SiteMinder and CI gateway applications to Okta and Viper migration
• Working on Application modernization to modernize legacy applications into latest technologies and hosting on AWS
• Developed Terraform scripts for AWS resource creation to support application cloud migration
• Developed CICD pipelines and UCD component for Cloud deployment
• Working with Oracle to Postgres Aurora DB migration
• Develop and deployed application to PCF using Jenkins pipelines and UCD
• Involved in coding of components using technologies like .Net core, .Net framework 4.5, C#, ASP.Net, MVC and Angular.js, Oracle, MS sql server etc
• Act as a subject matter expert, utilizing understanding of technical architecture design and integration with other modules
• Adopted Agile practices and processes for faster and quality delivery of software product
• Advance knowledge of DevOps tools (like Jenkins, UCD , sonar cube etc.), Code repositories (like GitHub, SVN etc.).

• Managed team of 08 developers and help them in understanding technical requirements, delivery, resolving technical queries, component and application level design, help team in understanding system interactions and build capabilities to new team members and bring them to expert level
• Worked with Microsoft Enterprise Architects for development of new small system to support strategic data movement into Azure cloud
• Developed PowerShell Script for setting up ADF, ADL, Cosmos and Azure DB object as per the configuration database
• Setup link services, pipelines, activity and schedules for Azure Data Factory
• Setup Virtual Cluster, folder structure and access for Cosmos VC management
• Developed Scope Scripting for data movement from Azure DB to Cosmos VC
• Designed and developed .Net Services for data manipulation before movement, email services, exception handling etc
• Designed data model for Configuration Database
• Actively involved in Azure Data Lake Management, ADL object setup including analytic object
• Created USql scripts for Data movement and manipulation in ADL, used in ADL DB and analysis objects
• Scale up code by performing code refactoring which reduced code complexity and improved maintainability.

• Worked as Technical Lead and contributed in Application designer for new services on WCF
• Involved in Application modernization to modernize legacy applications into .Net services
• Developed technical design documents for team to assist in coding
• Managed team of 10 members and provided them technical guidance
• Involved in coding of components using Microsoft technologies like .Net framework 4.5, C#, ASP.Net, MVC and LINQ
• Conduct root cause analysis for Production issues and for provide technical update or fix in case of failure in live system
• Develop, modify and review software/ system designs and associate test plans for module testing and integration testing
• Analyze business and system requirements and design/build robust and resilient system as per requirements with speed to market
• Created learning artifacts like video library, documentations to serve as learning document for new developers on the application.

• Lead module of supplier and location management for Walmart Inc
• Implemented Walmart store locator, adding new locations and highlight locations on map by using Google and Bing maps APIs
• Developed and designed UI and backend services for Supplier management system using MVC 3.0, jQuery, SQL Server and ASP.Net 4.5
• Worked on solutioning according to client requirement and took initiative to deliver the complex solution with least cost/effort variance and a very high Customer satisfaction
• Involves policy rule coding, sequence flow, status flow, and dictionary entries
• Adopted Agile practices and processes for faster and quality delivery of software product
• Analyze business and system requirements and design/build robust and resilient system as per requirements with speed to market
• Act as a subject matter expert, utilizing understanding of technical architecture design and integration with other modules.

• Involved in development at Cognizant Life Sciences Vertical and helps Pharmaceutical organizations in calculating Incentive Compensations for the medical representatives through its Quantitative & Qualitative measures
• Developed and designed UI and backend services C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net and Oracle DB
• Customize CTS Life sciences product for different clients based on their requirements
• Unit Testing and evaluating new programs
• Identifying areas for modification in existing modules and subsequently developing other modifications
• Determining operational practicality
• Developing quality assurance procedures
• Deploying software tools, processes and metrics
• Maintaining and upgrading existing systems
• Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business and systems analysts.

• Developed rules engine to convert product rules written in XML and apply them to render UI
• Developed Authentication and Authorization modules for life speed product to support single sign on and cookies-based authentication
• Develop and maintain Carrier controlled product rules via industry standard format (ACORD)
• Developed case workflow to start case, update case, integrate with electronic feed and send notification to sales force
• Requirement gathering from the product development team
• Creating SQL store procedures, functions, views, sql jobs and query optimization
• Managing backups and restoring
• Unit Testing and evaluating new programs
• Identifying areas for modification in existing modules and subsequently developing other modifications
• Writing and implementing efficient code
• Deploying software tools, processes, and metrics
• Maintaining and upgrading existing systems
• Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business, and systems analysts.