SAIKRISHNA DASIKA
CEDAR PARK,TX
Summary
An Influential and Driven Information Technology Leader who delivers enterprise-wide technology transformations that create significant business value and competitive advantage. Partners with internal/ external business interests to drive cultural change, leverage best-in-breed technology, and drive operational enhancements across all lines of business. Open, approachable, and collaborative leader who serves as a trusted advisor on complex business problems.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Systems Architect
Department of Veteran Affairs
09.2021 - Current
- Experienced in migrating from legacy systems and deploying in complex cloud based solutions
- Experienced in migrating .NET Legacy Applications to Micro Services(.NET Framework) and deployed to Azure Cloud
- Extensively worked in refactoring all the .NET application code logical components/groups and converted as Micro Services
- Experienced with API design & dev, Event-driven/reactive programming
- Manages and reviews transports through the various environments, ensuring IT controls environment integrity
- Collaborate with a large team of Cloud Engineers, Architects, Senior developers to migrate ,manage, and modernize workloads in the cloud servicing
- Deliver architecture solutions through all phases of the project lifecycle, including requirements definition, architecture design, conversion, and testing; based on a proven agile methodology
- Develops architectural strategy for a given domain and develops/implements the mechanisms vital to ensure that the strategy is realized
- Experience across several of these areas including: cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, server less, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, IT transformation
- Experience in definition, planning and development of monitoring systems Confident and well experienced in systems and service monitoring and management data and systems architecture
- Experienced with Splunk data integrations from external monitoring systems which may include App Dynamics, Dynatrace, SolarWinds, BigFix, Science Logic, Aternity, Fore scout, Topaz, SNMP, CloudWatch and other cloud monitoring capabilities
- Experienced with principles and practices of availability management, reporting and data visualization within Splunk environment which may include service definition, metrics and measures definition, service decomposition, alerting and event management to include integrations with SNOW or other ITSM systems or services.
Senior Solution Architect
GENERAL MOTORS
04.2013 - 06.2021
- Championed management through the accountability of Program Managers, Business Analysts, Logistics managers and engineers across multiple locations
- Responsible for architecting applications and report tool to support Business and manufacturing using open-source technologies like Spring framework, Angular framework, Kafka, Caffeine, Zuul, Spring cloud
- Worked with a team of architects, designed internal API Market Place for both API developers and Vendors
- Instrumental Architecting Galileo (GM Private Cloud App) Application functions like Server build, Database install and App install
- Galileo App developed using open-source framework and tools like Spring, Web Flux, Spring MVC, Spring Gateway, Zuul, Hystrix
- Experience in developing & Align technology Road Map with business Strategy
- Experience in Project Management to identify milestones and associated tasks
- Experience in SOX compliance standards and ITIL process
- Experience in agile development process
- Provide technical Capacity analysis for systems
- Deliver appropriate solutions for retail business problems with suitable technology architecture
- Worked with a team and developed a ETL solution for ITIL databases (ITSM, Asset Manager and CMDB) to a centralized database
- Solution is designed for ETL tool IBM DataStage
- Working with solution architects, Security teams and data management and mitigation plans
- Innovate ways to improve the development, test experience, maximize team efficiency
- Provide reports/status/evaluation to management piers
- Good Retail business knowledge, software delivery methodologies, design skills, experience, and technical systems architecture within retail
- Working with Production Management team and identifying industry trends/emerging technologies for creating a road map
- Evaluating vendor products, gather technical information from vendor solutions and working with vendors
- Lead team to do the application teams development/engineering and make sure all the infrastructure is set up in high availability fashion
- Conduct peer reviews and code improvements with development teams
- Work with Key stake holders and internal teams to develop and apply architectural best practices and standards, including performing a more involved advisory role on complex initiatives
- Ability to adopt new technologies by doing POC work and technical solutions to prove business value
- Analysis of the current environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
- Lead the team for hosting Dealer Commerce Portal in Cloud and rewritten the App screen in react from Angular framework.to reactJS
- Created initial ETL framework using Java, JDBC and SQL and moved the data from old data center databases to new Data Centers.
Application Architect
Home Depot
01.2010 - 03.2013
- Lead the infrastructure team for migrating Checkout App from IBM p7 platform to Cloud
- Responsible for Checkout App third party integrations performance/connectivity after cloud migration
- Responsible for setting up IBM API Connect infrastructure in Prod and Non-Prod environments
- Handled the complete online Ordering and Shipping Information System and Buy online and Pick Up in Store (Bopis)
- POC work and technical solutions to application teams in web and mobile technologies
- Monitored the existing infrastructure and architecture for performance
- Developed a capacity planning for every peak online season and helped the team adding more infrastructure to with stand peak traffic
- Participated in peer reviewing work products and providing direction to the dev teams
- Accessed viability and draft solution for open-source eCommerce platform for the Checkout (Shopping Cart) application
- Part of the Architectural team for evaluating open-source webserver like Nginx and deploying the Browse Content part of the App
- Part of the team worked on IT risk management framework across the organization that can be used to measure, manage, and report on risk to IT assess/ business processes
- Involved development of procedures to ensure a reasonable level of Asset Management Accountability and Controls to meet the tracking and audit requirements of the organization
- Developed procedures and provided in-house training and personnel support
- Issued Policy Instructions and directions on implementation and control regulations
- Worked in a team and designed the ETL process of millions of SKUs between Staging and Live databases
- Spearheaded innovative approaches in reducing the checkout failure.
IT Analyst
IBM
07.2005 - 01.2009
- As an IT architect in IBM, worked at multiple client places like Sprint, Cigna, and multiple state government projects
- Manage the virtual labs that are used by offshore teams and functional automation teams
- Acted as technical lead of development team on issues of performance, tools, and standards
- Provided regular status updates and subjective analysis that will support informed decision making
- Design/Implementation of policies/procedures for production system/cluster architecture
- L3 Technical Support for production servers/workstations, problem determination/resolution with Vendors
- Experienced in installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server/Commerce Server/Process Server on multiple clusters in AIX (prod), Linux (non prod) environments
- Experienced in troubleshooting site issues, debugging the problem, collecting the must gather logs, and working with support team for resolving the issues
- Third party integration, Vendor contact
- Responsible for installation of Web Sphere App Server, Portal server and Oracle software in Linux (non Prod) and AIX (Prod) Which host both Web and Mobile applications of www.sprint.com
- Administered, Configured, Support the Portal through Launch
- Reviewed and developed departmental escalation procedures within the support groups to ensure minimal downtime
- Migration of WebSphere portal V6.1 to 7.0 both in vertical and horizontal topologies
- Lead the client meeting to present and explain the technical aspects of the application
- Alerted management regarding response / repair trends.
Skills
- Strategic planning
- IT Governance
- Corporate Websites
- Microservices
- Portfolio Management
- Asset Management
- Ecommerce
- Dev Ops
- Vendor Management
- Risk Management
- Company Portals
- Customer Service
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Mobile/Web Apps
- Outsourcing
- Capacity Management
- Managed Services
- Java8/9, Rx Java, C, C, Objective -C, Swift
- Python, Rest API, Microservices, Angular JS
- React JS
- Spring Web Flux, Spring MVC, Spring Boot
- Spring Cloud, Spring Gateway, Hashi Vault
- Apache Solr, Elastic, Zuul
- Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud Foundry(PCF), Azure, AWS, GCP
- ETL: IBM Data stage, SSIS
- Content Management: Adobe Enterprise Manager, Joomla, IBM Web Content Management, Share point, Documentum
- Message Queue: IBM MQ, Rabbit, Kafka
- Caching: Redis, caffeine cache, Nginx, IBM Extreme scale
- DevOps: Chef, Autosys, Scrum, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Docket and CA Release Automation, SAFe agile
- Infrastructure: IBM p7/p8, RedHat Linux, Suse Linux, SUN, IBM z Series
- Mobile Technologies: Android, IOS and hybrid Framework tools
- ECommerce: Websphere Commerce Server, Sterling Order Management System
- NET framework with C#, VBNET
- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, SolarWinds, BigFix, Atternity Fortify, Pomregator, Splunk, New Relic APM
- Identity Platforms: Okta, IBM Access Manager, Azure
- Log Monitoring- Splunk, ELK
- Database: Oracle, SQLServer, Db2, Postgres, MangoDB, Couch, RDS, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassendra, redis
- IBM Datastage, SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator
Certification
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Timeline
Senior Technical Systems Architect
Department of Veteran Affairs
09.2021 - Current
Senior Solution Architect
GENERAL MOTORS
04.2013 - 06.2021
Application Architect
Home Depot
01.2010 - 03.2013
IT Analyst
IBM
07.2005 - 01.2009
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
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