Raja Ponnuchamy Lakshmanan

• Spearheaded a team of 5+ software engineers and 50+ vendors partner, assuming HR responsibilities and ensuring SRE principles to enhance application reliability for all MLC applications.
• Championed the RE Squad adoption for MLC by defining clear objective through OKR for system uptime, reduce incident response time and accelerating deployment frequency and develop KPI’s that support the OKR ensuring they are Specific, Measure, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound (SMART)
• Equipping MLC RE teams with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), ensuring our systems run smoothly and reliably.
• Managed budgets effectively, ensuring optimal financial performance while investing in necessary resources for business growth
• Drove operational efficiency through data-driven decision-making processes, leveraging analytics tools for informed strategy development
• Reduced operational costs through comprehensive process improvement initiatives and resource management
• Involved as technical key liaison between the RE team and technical delivery teams to influence the technical strategy for the organization, keeping in mind its cross-functional impacts, integration across the organization, and architecture rationalization.
• Driving simplification across the stack, responsible for ensuring that all technical designs and component upgrade can be effectively operated and performed without adding technical complexity.
• Drive adoption of DevOps and containerization, driving integration across the company’s technology portfolio and facilitating the cloud migration of critical applications
• Directed initiatives for root cause analysis and resolution, leveraging continuous improvement practices to enhance system reliability.
• Orchestrated the development of real-time observability dashboards and actionable intelligence for client processing systems, integrating tools like Splunk, Sumologic and Dynatrace for comprehensive monitoring, contributing to business insight and proactive issue identification.
• Led design and peer reviews, cultivated continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and maintained rigorous standards for both non-production and production environments.
• Maintained operational excellence by overseeing robust monitoring, timely issue triaging, and ensuring swift service restoration to minimize impact on business operations.
• Engaged in regulatory compliance activities, including SOX audits and PII remediation for MLC applications.

Environment: Java, RESTful service, Angular, JSON, UNIX, Python, JavaScript , Spring , JSF,AWS, Bootstrap, AJAX ,XSD, XML,JAXB,AWS,Oracle18c,Postgres SQL,Spring Security,Spring Boot, Jenkins, deploy, JBOSS , Eclipse , Intelij ,Dynatrace, Splunk, Akamai ,Toad , Github , Code Quality Tools Sonarqube ,Security Vulnerabilities tool like Nexus , Appscan , Checkmark, CA LISA, Rally ,Service now , CMDB, PlanIT

• Spearheaded the seamless migration of applications to open-source platforms, accelerating the transition to cloud infrastructure and fostering the adoption of DevOps practices for enhanced scalability and performance.
• Manage and drive adoption of DevOps and its best practices across the digital and legacy application portfolio.
• Served as a pivotal technical liaison, collaborating with architecture and delivery teams to drive strategic IT initiatives, ensuring the seamless integration of new systems within the existing digital and legacy application mix.
• Championed operational excellence initiatives, establishing robust monitoring protocols, and leading the swift resolution of critical incidents to minimize downtime and maintain continuous service delivery.
• Orchestrated stack simplification efforts, optimizing system functionality while ensuring upgrades and new deployments were executed without increasing complexity. Engaged in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirement analysis, design, TDD, and maintenance, ensuring high-quality delivery and adherence to best practices.
• Conducted comprehensive design reviews and peer code evaluations, bolstering the continuous integration and deployment processes to enhance the performance and reliability of both non-production and production systems.
• Drove rigorous root cause analysis, implementing a structured approach to incident management and problem resolution to ensure system integrity and reliability.
• Managed vital components of IT governance, including compliance with SOX and executing PII remediation strategies for digital and legacy applications. · Managing full stack including software components, database platforms, application server and containers.
• Involved in SOX Audit, PII remediation for Digital and Legacy Application.
• Monitor the Performance of the Digital and Legacy application using tools like Dynatrace.
• Involved in DB virtualization using Delphix and build virtual service for webservice using CA LISA.

Environment: Java, Java Servlets, JSP, Web Services SOAP and RESTful service, HTML5, CSS, Angular2, JSON,UNIX, JavaScript , Spring , JSF , Bootstrap, AJAX,XSD, XML,JAXB, Oracle 12c ,PostgresSQL , Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring Batch , Hibernate, JPAJunit, Mockito, ANT, Maven ,Log4j, Tomcat, Oracle Weblogic , Jenkins, deploy, JBOSS , Eclipse , Intelij ,Dynatrace appmon and oneAgent , WebStorm, Toad , Github , Code Quality Tools Sonarqube ,Security Vulnerabilities tool like Nexus , Appscan , Checkmark, CA LISA, Delphix, Rally ,Service now , CMDB, PlanIT

· Involved in all phases of the Software development life cycle (SDLC) including Requirements gathering, Designing the requirements, implementing the design, Testing, and Maintenance Support.

· Managing whole software project life cycle Functional/Design Specifications, High-Level Design and Low-Level Design Hands-on experience with Application and application Servers deployment in Web Logic

· Involved in the development of HTML5 pages, JSPs and CSS for different User Interfaces.

· Developed the Application using Spring MVC Framework by implementing Controller, Service classes

· Developed user interface using JSP, JSP Tag libraries, Spring Tag libraries and JavaScript to simplify the Complexities of the application.

· Implement Batch monitoring mechanism for the Legacy Application and used Shell scripts toallow several commands that would be entered manually at a command line interface to be executed automatically and without having to wait for a userto trigger eachstage of the sequence.

· Implemented continuous test Integration for Agency application through tool like Sonarlint, Sonarqube and Cobortura for Legacy Application. · Managed Oracle 12c migration for Legacy application.

· Involved in successful retirement for Payment gateway web service.

· Involved in Unit Testing of various modules by generating the Junit Test Cases.

Environment: Java, JSP, SOAP , HTML5, CSS, Angular2, Spring/servlet, XML, Oracle 12c , Junit, ANT, Log4j, Web Services, JSON,UNIX, JavaScript , Eclipse , Dynatrace,

WebStorm, Toad, Sonarlint , Sonarqube and Cobortura

• Involved in all phases of the SCRUM including PI Planning , designing the application, implementing the design, Testing, Sprint Demo and Retrospective
• Involved in the development of HTML pages, JSPs and CSS for different User Interfaces. · Used AJAX for intensive user operations and client-side validations.

· Developed the Application using Spring MVC Framework by implementing Controller, Service classes

· Involved in writing Spring Configuration XML file that contains declarations and other dependent objects Declaration.

· Developeduser interface using JSP, JSP Tag libraries, Spring Tag libraries and JavaScript to simplify the Complexities of theapplication. · Developed various Java beans for the performance of business processes and effectively involved in Impact Analysis.

· DevelopedSession/ Message Driven Beans to be deployed on WebSphere Application Serve DevelopedWeb Services (Restful) using SOAP and WSDL. · Involved in creating various Data Access Objects for Addition, modification and deletion of records using various specification files.

· Created tables, triggers, stored procedures, SQL queries, joins,integrity, constraints and views for multiple databases like Oracle 11g and SQL Server. · Involved in Unit Testing of various modules by generating the Test Cases.

· Used Log4J logging framework for logging messages.

Environment: Java, Java EE, WebService SOAP And RESTful , Java Servlets, JSP, HTML, XHTML , XSD, XML,JAXB, CSS, JSF, JSTL, Bootstrap, AJAX, AngularJS,

Spring, Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring Batch , Hibernate, JPA, Ibatis, JavaScript, Jquery, JUnit, Mockito, ANT, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins ,Udeploy ,Tomcat, JBOSS, Oracle Weblogic , web sphere, Clear Case ,SVN,GIT, Log4j , Eclipse, Intelij , Agile SCRUM, Waterfall, Confluence, wiki , Microsoft SQL Server, RMI Putty; Beyond Compare , SOAP UI , Performance Management Tool, Dynatrace, JProfiler , CodeQuality Tools ,Visio

· Manage project lifecycle from project initiation to project closure

· Developed several Use Cases in the application based on technical specifications outlined in technical design documents

· Attending meetings and design sessions with Business and System analysts (BAs) to finalize the design and to fill the gaps in the business requirements.

· Worked on System Impact Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Development, and Documentation Developed API Contract of web service to adhere to company standard (ACCORD) Used JSP, Javascript, and HTML,AJAX pages to develop the web interface Designed interface using MVC design pattern

· Extensive testing through backend through test scripts, WDSL through SOAP UI Developed packages (PL/SQL) including procedures and functions to fetch complex data from different tables in remote databases using joins, sub queries, and database links Used Exception Handling extensively for the ease of debugging and displaying the error messages in the application Environment

· ACCORD STANDARD DOM parsing methodology is used for serializing and parsing XML request and responses from the API · JSP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSTL tag libraries, AJAX and Jquery are used for the presentation layer of the application for user

interface design and form validations

· Oracle 10 g database and Oracle Application Server 10.1.2 are used for deploying the project

Environment: Java, J2EE, JSP, SOAP, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Spring/servlet, XML, JUnit,ANT, Log4j, Web Services JAX-RS, JSON,UNIX, JavaScript,Oracle PL/SQL Packages,

Procedures, Functions, Unix shell scripts, PERL scripts, Autosys Jobs, JIL components, OracleForms and Reports,File transfer components, Message Queue Components, Database table changes and reporting, Oracle Toad , PL/SQL