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Ranjithbabu Sounderrajan

Ranjithbabu Sounderrajan

Frisco,United States

Summary

Accomplished Sr Technical Engineering Manager with a proven track record at CVS Health, specializing in AI solutions and cloud migrations. Expert in data engineering and strategic planning, I led significant projects that enhanced business processes and stakeholder satisfaction by 15%. Skilled in fostering team growth and leveraging advanced PLSQL and Spring Boot for innovative solutions.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Technical Engineering Manager

CVS Health
Richardson, United States
09.2019 - Current
  • Provided direction and oversight on technical architectures and system designs, ensuring scalability and performance for complex systems
  • Communicated status to team, stack holders and leadership; supported multiple roles to meet the deadline; escalated the issues when project at risk
  • Responsible for creating Sequential flow diagrams and Architectural flow diagrams in cvsdigital.atlassian pages
  • Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
  • Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
  • Define, prioritize, allocate resources, track, and provide status reporting of work assignments, projects, and programs
  • Design and implementing the following AI solution in multiple specialty pharmacy functional areas
  • Enhancing Business user experiences by implementing Google Machine learning Products (BigQuery/Vertex AI/Document AI) within specialty applications
  • Leading a team of 10 to build the following AI solution using Gen AI
  • Patient clinical Summary
  • Patient Notes Summary
  • Smart DUR (Drug utilization review)
  • Smart Task workflow assignment
  • Leading a team of 5 to replace RIDP and OpenText intelligent capture tools with Google document intelligent AI to minimize the overall licensing cost and budget
  • Successfully led teams of up to 20 engineers (UI(Angular) and Backend (Spring boot microservice) to build a unique Rx-billing product for centralizing Claim processing as part of Claim F6 enhancement
  • Developed and provided technical solutions for day-to-day operations and long-range strategic planning
  • Providing direction and oversight on technical architectures and system design, ensuring scalability and performance of the complex systems
  • Evaluated and adopted new technologies to address changing industry needs
  • Carried out review calls with Business Partners and technical stakeholders to formulate the right architecture and design for the modernization program, resulting in a 15% increase in stakeholder satisfaction and alignment with business goals and aims
  • Led team of 15 and successfully migrated on-prem Oracle 19c database to the Azure PostgreSQL flexible server and integrated application data back to On-prem Oracle db via Kafka events
  • Led team of 10 and successfully archived the historical data to Google cloud storage
  • Led team of 10+ engineers and Successfully implemented Single sign on using Azure Entra id connect for all the legacy applications that relies on Oracle DB authentication and authorizations
  • Led team of 10 and successfully migrated microservice codes to Azure Kubernetes
  • Hands on in coding (Spring boot, Java,PLSQL and Unix) and testing the final product

Technical Manager - App Development

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
Monroeville, PA
09.2015 - 09.2019
  • Supervised the delivery for one of the biggest PBM transition from CarelonRx Specialty to CVS Health for specialty mail order delivery, Medicaid and Medicare line of business involving 5M+ members
  • Optimized database schema and queries, resulting in a 20% reduction in query response time
  • Developed and implemented a data retention policy to optimize database storage
  • Led a POC to use Oracle advanced compression methods to optimize the database storage and application performance
  • Proposed 50% or greater storage reduction and reduced CPU utilization
  • Led a S.W.A.T team of 5 to govern the Database performance, Spike, and application performance
  • Actively involved with Data Governance team, Application Design review board and Code quality review board to monitor and review the application code quality
  • Improved database performance and loading speed by 80% through SQL queries optimization and database defragmentation
  • Mentored junior team members to foster professional growth and enhance their technical capabilities
  • Established best practices for code quality and architectural design patterns, promoting consistency across development teams
  • Championed continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities for process enhancements through thorough analysis of current workflows
  • Managed design and development of CVS- inhouse products that are being used for specialty mail order delivery
  • Had responsible for aligning business requirements to strategic technical roadmaps using LaaS and PaaS offerings

Scrum Master / Sr Application Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
Orlando, FL
07.2009 - 02.2011
  • Company Overview: Express Script is one of the biggest managed healthcare PBM company with more than 22M members
  • Express Script uses highly integrated systems to run its business operations
  • Cognizant was a strategic business/technology partner to Express Script providing expertise to maintain and enhance the existing applications
  • Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure
  • Carried out Sprint planning meeting, Daily stand up meeting, Sprint Estimation Meeting, Sprint Retrospective, and another Project related meetings
  • Carried out meeting with Product owners and BAs to prioritize User Stories in Product Backlog
  • Closely coordinated with Product Owners and Release Management team to manage release schedule and decides when product is ready to ship
  • Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
  • Taught team to create clear and concise epics/stories
  • Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across enterprise
  • Facilitated team with making proper commitments through story choice, sizing and task definition and taken part proactively in developing and supporting team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%
  • Had oversaw for writing/reviewing Complex Business rules in Packages and Procedures using advanced PLSQL concepts (Collections, User Defined Record type, Types, Dynamic SQLs, UTIL and UTL_HTTP package usage, Send and Receive JSON Request to API and Regular Expressions)
  • Mentored junior Scrum masters and team members in Agile principles, promoting best practices within the organization
  • Led team of 15+ and delivered multiple enhancements to the mail order delivery products using Java, J2ee and Oracle database based applications
  • Resolved impediments to team progress by proactively identifying issues and facilitating effective solutions
  • Successfully led multi-disciplinary teams towards achieving project milestones while adhering to established budgets and timelines
  • Improved overall project efficiency with effective coordination between development, testing, deployment, and support teams during release cycles
  • Orchestrated across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel
  • Express Script is one of the biggest managed healthcare PBM company with more than 22M members
  • Express Script uses highly integrated systems to run its business operations
  • Cognizant was a strategic business/technology partner to Express Script providing expertise to maintain and enhance the existing applications

Sr Associate - Application Development

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
Chennai, India
02.2007 - 07.2009
  • Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure
  • Worked on relational database management systems including ORACLE, SQL SERVER and PL/SQL and have worked on extensively on JDBC to connect to and access various remote databases
  • Experienced in front end development and developed web services to communicate to other modules using XML based SOAP
  • Created Oracle packages, procedures, functions, triggers, views and Materialize views based on project requirements
  • Created advanced PLSQL code for complex business requirements
  • Developed the application using Java, JSP pages, HTML, JSTL tag library, Tuts Tab library and JSP custom tags
  • Developed application using Centura Team developer

Senior Application Developer

Allsec Technologies PVT LTD
Chennai, India
09.2005 - 01.2007
  • Delivered high-quality applications on time and within budget, meeting client specifications and expectations
  • Stayed current on industry trends, integrating emerging technologies into application development processes where appropriate for enhanced capabilities
  • Streamlined application development processes for improved project timelines and resource utilization
  • Carried Out thorough testing, identifying bugs early in the development process and reducing overall project risk
  • Enhanced software performance by optimizing code and implementing efficient algorithms
  • Demonstrated technical proficiency in multiple programming languages and platforms, enabling rapid adaptation to new project requirements and reducing time to market
  • Had Responsible in designing web and client/server application using MVC, ASP.NET, C, ADO.NET, ENTITY FRAMEWORK, LINKQ, Web Services, AJAX control tool kit
  • Implemented applications using Model view controller MVC design pattern
  • Had Responsible for Writing PL/SQL blocks (Packages, Procedures and Functions), test cases Payroll application requirements
  • Had responsible for creating API code in Microsoft .NET technologies & Unit testing the modules

Application Developer

Golden Infotech PVT LTD
Chennai, India
05.2003 - 09.2005
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and develop high-quality applications for various industries
  • Generated detailed documentation to assist other developers and facilitate future maintenance efforts
  • Reduced software bugs by carried out thorough testing and debugging procedures
  • Collaborated on the successful completion of numerous projects, meeting deadlines, and adhering to budget constraints
  • Orchestrated as a Programmer and responsible for Design & Coding in .Net, Visual Basic 6.0 and Oracle Pl/Sql and preparation of Unit Test Case and test results
  • Designed and developed a app using .Net, VB6.0, Oracle 9.0 and Crystal Reports

Education

Master of Computer Science -

Vellore Institute of technology (VIT)
Vellore, TN, India
02.2003

Bachelor of Mathematics -

University of Madras
Vellore, TN, India
04.2001

Skills

  • Healthcare PBM
  • Data Analytics
  • Business Process Analysis
  • Strategic Planning
  • Resource Planning
  • Data EngineeringData Migrations
  • Cloud Platform
  • Project Management
  • Dataflow
  • BigQuery
  • Data Pipelines
  • ETL
  • Cloud Adoption Strategies
  • Application Modernization
  • Angular
  • Spring Boot
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • SQL
  • PLSQL
  • Advanced PLSQL
  • Query Tuning
  • Query Optimization
  • Azure Single Sign-On
  • Microservices

Certification

· AI for Scrum masters from Scrum Alliance!

· AZ-104T00-A - Microsoft Azure Administrator

· AZ-204T00-A - Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

· AZ-303T00-A - Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

· AZ-304T00-A - Microsoft Azure Architect Design

· DP-203T00-A - Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure

· AI-900 - Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

· External Training for Spring boot Microservice and Angular

· OpenText- Content management

· Python for Data Science and AI development (From Coursera)

· Google AI Essentials (From Coursera)

· Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals (From Coursera)

· Machine Learning with Python -IBM (From Coursera)

· Google Cloud Digital leader (From Coursera)

· TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (From Coursera)

Softwareengineeringmethodologies

  • Agile / SCRUM
  • XP
  • Waterfall

Cloud

  • LaaS
  • PaaS
  • SaaS
  • VNet
  • Azure application Gateway
  • Azure Traffic Manager
  • Azure Cloud Services
  • GCP
  • Azure SQL
  • Active Directory
  • Azure Data Factory
  • App insights
  • ExpressRoute
  • Blob storages
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Intra ID
  • Azure Intra ID connect
  • Azure Kubernetes service
  • Spring Cloud
  • Maven

Scripting

  • Unix
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • YAML

Cicdtools

  • Jenkins
  • CircleCi
  • Bamboo
  • AWS Code Pipeline

Sourcecontroltools

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Atlassian Bitbucket

Framework

  • Angular 4
  • Spring Boot
  • ASP.net core

Engineering

  • Generative AI
  • Applied AI
  • LLMs
  • Machine learning (ML)

Workpermit

Green Card

Personal Information

Title: Sr Technical Engineering Manager

Languages

  • Plsql
  • Advanced PL/SQL
  • Java
  • Node.Js
  • .Net
  • Python
  • Advanced Python
  • VB 6.0

References

Available upon request

Training

  • AI for Scrum masters from Scrum Alliance!
  • AZ-104T00-A - Microsoft Azure Administrator
  • AZ-204T00-A - Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
  • AZ-303T00-A - Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
  • AZ-304T00-A - Microsoft Azure Architect Design
  • DP-203T00-A - Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
  • AI-900 - Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
  • External Training for Spring boot Microservice and Angular
  • OpenText- Content management
  • Python for Data Science and AI development (From Coursera)
  • Google AI Essentials (From Coursera)
  • Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals (From Coursera)
  • Machine Learning with Python -IBM (From Coursera)
  • Google Cloud Digital leader (From Coursera)
  • TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (From Coursera)

Toolstechnologiesused

  • Generative AI
  • Generative AI with Large Language models
  • Prompt engineering
  • Python for Generative AI
  • Python for Data Science and AI development
  • Generative AI solutions with Azure open AI
  • IBM Data engineering
  • IBM AI developer

Database

  • Oracle 19c/18c/12c/11g/10g/9i
  • MYSQL
  • Oracle Rac
  • SQL Server 2019
  • YugaByte DB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Azure PostgreSQL
  • Azure Sql
  • Oracle distributed database

Timeline

Sr Technical Engineering Manager

CVS Health
09.2019 - Current

Technical Manager - App Development

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
09.2015 - 09.2019

Scrum Master / Sr Application Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
07.2009 - 02.2011

Sr Associate - Application Development

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)
02.2007 - 07.2009

Senior Application Developer

Allsec Technologies PVT LTD
09.2005 - 01.2007

Application Developer

Golden Infotech PVT LTD
05.2003 - 09.2005

Master of Computer Science -

Vellore Institute of technology (VIT)

Bachelor of Mathematics -

University of Madras

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