Sameer Kedarisetty
Dallas,TX
Summary
.NET Solution Architect with 15+ years of IT experience designing, modernizing, and deploying scalable, high-performance enterprise applications on the Microsoft stack and Azure/AWS. Expert in Microservices, .NET Core, and DevOps. Proven ability to translate complex business needs into technical blueprints and lead cross-functional development teams.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Solution Architect
Gravitas Tech LLC
01.2022 - Current
- As a Solution Architect/Tech Lead for a fast-growing IT Services & Consulting firm, I am responsible for designing and solutioning the digital products for multiple web and mobile projects. The client is a leading electronics retailer offering a wide range of products and services. With a team of knowledgeable experts, customers can enjoy a safe and convenient shopping experience, whether in-store or from the comfort of their own home. Led the technical development and technical strategy of the company’s self-service customer experience platform. I am responsible for closely working with product, marketing, data science, and external partners to build and optimize a robust, scalable, and innovative CX platform.
- As a Solution Architect, I am responsible for the following roles in this project:
- Architectural Leadership: Designed and led the technical roadmap for a mission-critical platform serving thousands of users, guiding a cross-functional team of 10+ engineers.
- Performance & Scalability: Modernized a legacy monolithic system to a .NET Core Microservices architecture, increasing transactional throughput by 45% and reducing P95 latency by 60ms.
- Cloud Migration & Cost Savings: Spearheaded the migration of 12 on-premises applications to AWS Containers/Kubernetes clusters, resulting in a $200K annual reduction in operational costs.
- Security & Compliance: Implemented a Zero-Trust identity and access management (IAM) solution using OAuth 2.0 and Azure AD, ensuring full compliance with PCI-DSS standards.
- DevOps & Automation: Established CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for 20+ services, cutting deployment time from 4 hours to under 15 minutes and significantly reducing manual errors.
- Migrate and upgrade existing .NET Framework (4.8) based apps to new micro-services-based .NET Core platform using latest tech i.e. Domain driven development, Lamar based DI, Serilog Logging, Dynamo DB.
Principal Engineer /Solution Architect
Shory Technology (e-Insurance), Dubai
Dubai
08.2021 - 12.2021
- As a Principal software engineer for an insurance tech start up, I was responsible for designing and developing various insurance products for Shory, which includes both web and mobile aka back-end, front-end, database and mobile apps for customer portal and admin portal for reporting. Shory is a simple and fun platform to compare and choose from lots of options in a matter of minutes. The goal is to simplify customer insurance experience, empower them with real-time insights, and guide them at every stage of the insurance journey with Shory’s full suite of services.
- As a Principal Software Engineer, I am responsible for the following roles in this project:
- Solution Design: Developed high-level and low-level design documents (HLDs/LLDs) for a new multi-tenant Customer facing platform using ASP.NET Web API and React.
- Mentorship & Standards: Mentored 8 developers on design patterns (e.g., Repository, CQRS) and enforced code review standards, decreasing production defects by 25%.
- Database Optimization: Designed the SQL Server schema and optimized complex stored procedures, improving the execution speed of key reports by over 70%.
- Develop Reusable front-end components in React, Redux tool kit, Next.js etc. for presentation and interactive widgets.
Senior Technical Engineer /Tech Lead
Emirates Airlines IT, Dubai
Dubai
05.2016 - 07.2021
- Emirates has a huge global digital presence with various services such as search flights, make a booking, manage your booking, online check in, check flight status and schedules, what’s on fight, skywards loyalty program etc. provided by its web and mobile apps. It has undergone a major digital transformation, in order to respond to business needs in a more agile manner by migrating a big monolith to various cloud native micro services using open-source technologies like Node.js, React.js, Typescript, Javascript, ES6, Couchbase, containers etc.
- As a Senior Technical Engineer, I am responsible for the following roles in this project:
- Design and develops APIs in Node.js, Javascript and Typescript for critical business requirements.
- Build various micro services for business logic on server side using Express and Koa frameworks.
- Develop and maintain common UI components in React.js, Redux.js, Next.js for various user experiences.
- Developing various micro services with Node.js and Java running on the server side such as Content service, Flight status service etc. and integrate with downstream systems.
- Write unit tests and improve code coverage using frameworks like Jest, Mocha, Assert etc. and other mocking tools, as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Create build and deployment configurations in Jenkins and OpenShift for CI/CD and run various jobs in the multi stage build process for each commit/merge to master.
- Customize the Global Caching layer (Varnish) and Routing layer (Nginx) for all of the micro services running in containers inside the Kubernetes environment.
- Implement the monitoring and alerting system for various critical production issues and make the debugging and troubleshooting easier for all team members using AppDynamics, ELK stack etc.
Senior Software Engineer
Emirates Airlines IT, Dubai
Dubai
12.2012 - 04.2016
- As a Senior Software Engineer with CMS expertise, I am responsible for the following roles in this project:
- Design and develops APIs in C# and Java for critical business requirements.
- Implement the unit testing (TDD) for various features using NUnit and XUnit.Net frameworks.
- Build UI layer and interactive widgets to the web app using jQuery, Vanilla Javascript and other third-party libraries.
- Develop back ground jobs for various batch processing services to get/cache the data from various data sources and respond to requests quickly.
- Troubleshooting various issues related to publishing/deploying and configuring various services on the Content Manager and Content Delivery side in all environments.
- Work in a very agile environment with various stake holders like Product owners, Architects and Scrum masters.
- Explored various other CMS products for small websites which do not need multi languages support and implemented a number of sites in Umbraco, an open source dot net based CMS.
- Implemented various social plugins like AddThis, TintUp, Gigya, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram API to render social sharing functionality on web applications.
- Www.emirates.com is a web application which has a number of language and country specific sites, and is centrally managed from SDL Tridion CMS. It has a strong blue printing model and translation process tightly integrated with Tridion WCMS. The publishing and deployer model needs a highly scalable solution as the delivery servers need to be increased frequently.
Member Technical Staff
Hanley Wood, LLC., Washington DC
11.2008 - 11.2012
- As a Member Technical Staff, I am responsible for the following roles in this project:
- Understand and analyze the specifications provided by the clients.
- Develop the User interfaces and back-end services using MVC pattern in ASP.NET, C#.
- Developing Schemas, Component Templates, Page Templates, Template Building Blocks in VBScript/XSLT/Assembly/Dreamweaver technologies in SDL Tridion.
- Working with Tridion Interop dlls and customizing Tridion_Broker database to create views/triggers/stored procedures as per requirements.
- Working with Content Manager/ Content Delivery/Core Service Tridion APIs to solve business problems.
- Developing Web, Windows applications, Console applications, WCF, Web/Windows services as per requirements.
- Writing Stored Procedures, functions, Views in the back end.
- Performing Unit Testing, Web Testing, Load Testing of the tasks developed using VS Team System Test Edition.
- Deploying the code to QA by coordinating with the Deployment team and fixing defects if any.
- Hanley Wood Business Media's more than 30 magazines along with related Web sites, e-newsletters, and conferences keep pros informed about the issues and products shaping construction. Its comprehensive media networks support the unique business and information needs of builders, remodelers, residential and commercial architects, multifamily and public-works executives, and materials dealers and distributors. The division's proprietary data sets capture hundreds of pieces of profile and material information about housing developments in more than 75 housing markets.
Software Engineer
Satyam Computers Services, Hyderabad
07.2006 - 11.2008
- E-Support: The E-Support project was built to automate the Full Life Cycle Leader (FLCL) nomination and approval process via E-support tool, which is a single point of contact web platform for all the global Satyam associates.
- Design and Development
- Coding using C#. Net, ASP.NET
- Database management and ADO.NET connectivity
- Testing - unit testing & integration testing
- ISQELog: ISQELog is a web-based version of ISQ Application, which is used by Reuters Customers as well as Reuters Support Team to log their problems or issues. This application is linked with external applications like RQ through MQ Series and the data are transferred through XML.
- Enhancements and maintenance of application
- Design and Development
- Bug fixing and production support
Education
B Tech - EEE
National Institute of Technology
Kurukshetra01.2006
Intermediate -
Board of Intermediate Education
01.2002
S.S.C - undefined
United Public School
01.2000
Skills
- Languages: Nodejs, Reactjs, Javascript, Typescript, C#
- Scripting: VBScript, jQuery, Handlebars, XSLT
- Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Couch base, Raven DB
- Testing Framework: Jest, Mocha, XUnit, JUnit
- Cloud Services: AWS S3, SNS, EC2, ECR, ELB, VPC
- Development Tools: Visual Studio Code, VS 2019, IntelliJ IDEA
- Web Frameworks: Expressjs, Koajs, NET Core, ORM, WCF, HTML, XML, Web API, IIS, Java, Jboss, Spring Web flux, Rest APIs
- Caching Layer: Redis, Varnish, Nginx, Akamai
- Dev-ops Tools: Jenkins, Openshift, ELK, AppDynamics, PagerDuty
- Content Management: SDL Tridion, Umbraco
- Design Patterns: MVC, Event Driven, Observer, Dependency Injection
- Operating Systems: Windows, RHEL, Linux, Mac
- Version Control Tools: GIT, SVN, TFS, VSS
- Agile Methodologies: XP and Scrum, Iterative and Pair programming
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- 15+ Years of professional software experience in the IT industry including Design, Development, Maintenance, Enhancement and Production support of Business Applications.
- Expertise in implementing Micro-Services architecture with RESTful APIs and Container-based development in Node.js/React.js and deployments using enterprise platforms like Open shift.
- Hands on expertise in Node.js, JavaScript, ES6 and Typescript based APIs and back-end services along with Front end UI frameworks like React.js, Redux.js, Next.js, Web pack, Cypress, Gatsby, Handlebars etc. along with Server-side rendering and routing.
- Expertise in Microsoft Technologies like C#.NET, MVC, .NET Framework, Web Services, WCF, WEB APIs, SQL queries, stored procedures and functions.
- Expertise and strong knowledge of .NET, SDL Tridion, Java integrations.
- Hands-on experience of NO SQL databases such as Couchbase, Raven DB, Mongo db. etc.
- Good experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and code coverage for large scale projects.
- Good Experience in Unit Testing, Web Testing, and Load Testing of the tasks.
- Experience in building APIs using Java based technologies like Spring Boot, Spring Flux etc. with Reactive and Functional programming and stream-based libraries such as Rx Java etc.
- Expertise in SDL Tridion and Umbraco CMS system and development of web sites powered by it.
- Expertise in debugging and troubleshooting various critical productions issues and preventive maintenance using tools like Postman, AppD, Devtools, Perf tools, curl, RUM, Shell etc.
- Experience in setting up Continuous Integration (CI/CD) pipelines for various environments including production/staging as part of DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Nginx, HA Proxy.
- Hands-on experience in various Cloud Services like AWS S3, SNS, EC2, ECR, ELB, ALB, VPC.
- Good Experience with Stored Procedures, Functions and Views using SQL Server, Oracle.
- Involved in Extreme programming principles like pair programming, weekly story review, Retrospectives, Grooming sessions and daily standups in SAFE agile environment.
- Experience in configuration management using Git, SVN and Visual Source Safe.
Timeline
Solution Architect
Gravitas Tech LLC
01.2022 - Current
Principal Engineer /Solution Architect
Shory Technology (e-Insurance), Dubai
08.2021 - 12.2021
Senior Technical Engineer /Tech Lead
Emirates Airlines IT, Dubai
05.2016 - 07.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Emirates Airlines IT, Dubai
12.2012 - 04.2016
Member Technical Staff
Hanley Wood, LLC., Washington DC
11.2008 - 11.2012
Software Engineer
Satyam Computers Services, Hyderabad
07.2006 - 11.2008
S.S.C - undefined
United Public School
B Tech - EEE
National Institute of Technology
Intermediate -
Board of Intermediate Education