Summary
Work History
Education
Skills
Received Outstanding Employee Award 4 times.
Timeline
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Ravindra Babburi

Application Architect
Pleasanton,CA

Summary

Application Architect with over two decades of experience in design and development of scalable enterprise applications. Expertise in enhancing/adding highly scalable features to existing product. Highly skilled in web application vulnerability assessment, mitigation strategies, and enhancing developer security awareness. Known for adaptability, creativity and result-oriented mindset.

Work History

Application Architect

Cornerstone Ondemand Inc.
04.2020 - 12.2024
  • Enhanced application functionality by designing and implementing cloud-based architecture solutions for the new Cornerstone Talent Marketplace product.
  • Functionality was built using Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Elasticsearch and AWS Services such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB..
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams for successful project completion as there are upstream and downstream dependencies.

Security Lead

Saba Software Inc, Cornerstone OnDemand
07.2016 - 03.2020
  • Built the API based Data Extract framework for third party vendors of Saba's customers to be able to access the customer's data.
  • Enhanced scalability of the company's Data Extract framework.
  • Security Architect role was 0.35 FTE.
  • Was responsible for developing code for securing Saba's web application.
  • Managed relationships with customer security teams, external vendors and ensuring timely fixing of critical vulnerabilities.

Team Lead

Saba Software Inc
02.2008 - 06.2014
  • Implemented new features and functionality for the company's Search feature built on top of Apache Lucene.
  • Implemented Prescriptive Rules functionality that came into extensive use for it's ability to perform actions on a targeted section of the user population based on very flexible criteria.
  • 100% adoption of Prescriptive Rule functionality by customers. This feature has consistently seen features getting added in nearly every major release since

Sr Software Engineer

Saba Software Inc
12.2004 - 01.2008
  • Played a key role in building and keep enhancing the Profile feature of Saba web application.
  • Fixed 100% of web application security vulnerabilities reported by
    customers and by external pen testers.
  • As part of the Advanced Customer Engineering team, fixed customer production down issues and customer escalations. This involved analysis of heap and thread dumps, garbage collection logs.

Education

Bacherlor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

NIT Surat
Surat, India
05.2001 -

Skills

API design and integration

Received Outstanding Employee Award 4 times.

Though the specific reasons for the awards are not disclosed, they are awarded to employees who go above and beyond to create value for the organization. I would presume that I got the awards for the following reasons. 

  • Being the most productive member of the Advanced Customer Engineering team in bringing the backlog of customer issues to sustainably manageable level.
  • Fixing the scalability issues for the Search feature.
  • Adding platform code for mitigating the security vulnerabilities reported against the product
  • Designing and implementing the API based Data extract feature under tight schedules with high quality.

Timeline

Application Architect

Cornerstone Ondemand Inc.
04.2020 - 12.2024

Security Lead

Saba Software Inc, Cornerstone OnDemand
07.2016 - 03.2020

Team Lead

Saba Software Inc
02.2008 - 06.2014

Sr Software Engineer

Saba Software Inc
12.2004 - 01.2008

Bacherlor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

NIT Surat
05.2001 -

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