Rakesh Kathalagere Math
Summary
Over 19+ years of experience in consulting and leading Solution Architecture across API, Integration, and Enterprise Digital Architecture domains. Specialized in Azure Cloud solutions, DevOps practices, and delivering scalable technical architecture for Finance, Manufacturing, Insurance, and Healthcare sectors. Successfully collaborated with diverse clients across geographies.
Architectural professional equipped with strong background in design, project management, and sustainable building practices. Adept at leading collaborative teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet client needs and adapt to project demands.
- Translate business needs and requirements into IT capabilities, architecture, technical solutions.
- Strong applications development background - Enterprise systems, Digital Technology including Cloud, User Interfaces, Microservices, API’s, Serverless.
- Experience in API Architecture, API Management, API Governance, API Security, API Identity, Standards
- Experience in API Management Gateway platforms (Azure APIM, Sentinet)
- Worked with business teams to understand and translate business requirements to functional requirements.
- Architect highly available solutions using Azure PaaS services.
- Providing Technical solutions and Platform solutions using Microsoft Cloud Native Products.
- Expertise in with Azure (IaaC – ARM and Bicep, Azure DevOps & CI/CD)
- Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for API development and management.
- Monitor and optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams.
- Stay updated with emerging API trends and technologies to enhance system integration.
- Extensive experience in design and development of Web/Windows applications, BizTalk application using Microsoft framework .NET 8.0/6.0/4.5/4.0.
- Working on PoC, Proposals, Prototypes and RFP, Workshop and Consulting assignments.
- Collaboration and working with Global Project Teams, cross functional teams, LOB’s and Vendors
- Familiar with Agile, Kanban, Scrum, SDLC, Secure SDLC, and DevSecOps.
- Expertise in designing UI pages using HTML, CSS and implementing client-side scripting using Java script and JQuery, Angular.js.
- Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) concepts including inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements and functionalities.
- Implement API security protocols and ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Designed and Developed SQL server store procedures/functions/ tables/ SSIS packages. Architect highly available solutions using MS Azure PaaS services such as Functions, Service Bus, App Insights, SQL Server, storage, Logic Apps etc.
- Define cloud architecture, design and implementation plans for hosting complex application workloads on Azure.
- Provide technical guidance on building solutions using Azure PaaS and other services.
- Troubleshoot and identify performance, connectivity and other issues for the applications hosted in Azure platform.
- Prepare technical design documents, perform code reviews, debugging and testing
- BizTalk Server and Apps migration from BizTalk 2013 to BizTalk 2020.
- Developed Logic Apps for Cloud- Cloud integration scenarios.
- Service virtualization using Sentinet API management.
- Designed and developed integration of SAP Logistics and Finance flows with various internal/external systems.
- Developed BizTalk orchestrations, maps, custom pipelines.
- Involved in design of BizTalk Technical Strategy for several inputs and outputs, in various formats, including SAP BAPI/IDOCs, Flat Files, Xml files and SQL Tables.
- Design and development of BizTalk (2020/2016 2013 R2/2010/2006 R2) custom pipelines, schemas, Orchestration and maps.
- Installed & Configured monitoring tools to monitor BizTalk/ .Net/ Cloud Apps applications.
- Implemented Pager Duty for incident management, integrated Pager Duty with various systems
- like Dynatrace/Splunk/ Serverless 360/ SCOM, Teams.
- Implemented secure transmission of data to finance institutions.
- Provide inputs in architecting, designing, and implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for
- the application development group.
- Dynamic XSLT mapping, Dynamic File send adapter, logging and reporting.
- Developed custom pipeline to replace file path with document stream bytes.
- Create BizTalk maps for XML/ Flat file transformations using advanced functoids, including Inline C# Scripts.
- Involved in end-to-end system and integration testing with external vendors.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
API Architect/ Solution Architect
DLL (De Lage Landen Financial Services, Inc)
06.2023 - Current
- Working as a API Architect for Global Contract Originations Uniform API Product designed to streamline the equipment finance sales process by automating the finance offer configuration, pricing, and quoting. With CPQ API Product, any sales team can quickly and easily create accurate quotes, even for highly complex products with multiple options and configurations. This eliminates the need for tedious manual processes, reducing the risk of errors and saving valuable time.
- Architect highly available solutions using MS Azure PaaS services such as Functions, Service Bus, App Insights, SQL Server, storage, Logic Apps etc.
- Define cloud architecture, design and implementation plans for hosting complex application workloads on MS Azure.
- Provide technical guidance on building solutions using Azure PaaS and other services.
- Troubleshoot and identify performance, connectivity and other issues for the applications hosted in Azure platform.
- Prepare technical design documents, perform code reviews, debugging and testing
System Development Lead
Mohawk Industries Inc
08.2018 - 05.2023
Senior Programmer
Hexacorp LLC
12.2013 - 07.2018
- Clients: Mohawk Industries Inc, Munich Reinsurance America, Inc, White & Case LLP, Center Light Healthcare System
Project Lead
L&T Infotech
09.2007 - 11.2013
- Client: Guy Carpenter, Standard Life, Westcon Group
Software Engineer
Salegen Outsourcing Services PVT Ltd (Industry IDS)
08.2006 - 09.2007
- Project: Online Marketing & Advertisement system
Education
Bachelors - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Postgraduate - Cloud Computing
Great Lakes
Designing and Building AI Products and Services
MIT
Skills
- Coding Language: C#Net, VBNet, Python
- API Identity & Security: API Security (SSL, TLS, mTLS, encryption, signature, etc), API Identity (API Key, oAuth, OIDC, connect, JWT)
- API Gateway: Azure APIM, Sentinet
- API Design: Swagger Hub
- EAI/ Middleware: BizTalk Server 2020/2016, Logic Apps, SAP CPI
- Devops: Git, Azure Devops, Bamboo
- MS Azure Cloud: App Service, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Azure API Management, Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus, IAM - Azure AD, RBAC, PIM, Access models, Azure AD B2C and MS Graph API Services- Compute, Networking, Storage, App Services, AKS and others DevOps - Yaml Pipelines, Templates, Automation, Self Service
- ETL Data Platform: Azure Data Factory, Databricks, SSIS
- IaaC framework: ARM, Bicep, Terraform
- IAM & Security: Azure AD, AD B2C, MFA, RBAC, PIM, oAuth 20, OpenConnect ID, SAML
- Automation: Azure CLI, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, GitHub Actions & Workflows, Ansible, Puppet, PowerApps
- SAP Cloud: SAP Cloud Platform Integration
- AWS Cloud: S3 Bucket, EC2, SNS, Lambda
- BizTalk Server (2006 R2, 2010, 2013 R2,2016,2020): Adapters, Pipelines, Schemas, Maps, Orchestrations custom Exception handling, Debugging, Configuration & Deployment, BAM & Basic BRE BizTalk ESB Toolkit, UDDI, Itineraries, Custom Resolver & Custom Itinerary Service Components BizTalk ESB Toolkit 20 Custom XSLT, EDI (X12), AS2 & HL7
- BizTalk Adapters: FILE, FTP, HTTP, SOAP, SQL, WCF-SQL, SMTP, WCF-BasicHTTP, sFTP
- Web Development: ASP, ASPNet, AspNet MVC 5, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, Web Service, Web API, WCF, XSLT, JQuery
- Database Management Systems: Microsoft SQL Server 2020, 2019/2008 R2/2005/2000, MS Access, Azure SQL
- Design Patterns: Abstract, Factory, Singleton, Dependency Injection
- Development Tools: Visual Studio Code, MS Visual Studio
- Net Framework: VSNet Framework v11, v20, 35 ,40, 45,80
- ERP System/Document Management: SAP HANA S4, JD Edwards [Order Processing], FileNet, SharePoint
- App/ Web servers: Internet Information Server 60, 70, 100
- EDI/HL7 Transactions: 834, 850, 855, 810, 857, 837 I &P, 278, HL7 A05, 270, 271
Certification
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals & Solutions Architect Expert.
- Azure Data Bricks Platform Architect & Fundamentals
- SAP Cloud Platform Integration.
- Microsoft Certified Professional in developing & implementing web applications and windows applications using C#.Net
- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: BizTalk Server 2006 custom application development.
Timeline
API Architect/ Solution Architect
DLL (De Lage Landen Financial Services, Inc)
06.2023 - Current
System Development Lead
Mohawk Industries Inc
08.2018 - 05.2023
Senior Programmer
Hexacorp LLC
12.2013 - 07.2018
Project Lead
L&T Infotech
09.2007 - 11.2013
Software Engineer
Salegen Outsourcing Services PVT Ltd (Industry IDS)
08.2006 - 09.2007
Postgraduate - Cloud Computing
Great Lakes
Designing and Building AI Products and Services
MIT