Santhakumar Shanmugarathinam

Dynamic technology leader with extensive experience at Bank of America, driving successful enterprise projects with budgets up to $50 million. Expert in Java and cloud transformation, adept at managing large teams and fostering effective communication. Proven track record in delivering innovative solutions and enhancing operational efficiency in retirement services.

• Directly managed the critical system handling over 5000 files and over 6 million transactions a day.
• Improved files and database processing by over 40% to increase throughput and scalability
• Modernized over 30% of all systems, replacing over 8 million lines of legacy code in key applications
• Led the efforts to migrate from COBOL to JAVA within the Mainframe environment
• Migrated and modernized portals to HTML5, Angular for better user experience.
• Reduced technology and operations costs by over 25% by implementing Automation & Robotics solutions

• Application Modernization, 01/01/19, Present, Responsible for architecting, managing, and deploying the upgrade of three key applications within the Retirement Technology group., Projects involved upgrading and retiring over 3 million lines of code and migrating to newer technologies., Designed and architected major components in Java on Z/Os to facilitate the download of VSAM file via Java SpringBoot to Oracle 19G Platform., Built a reconciliation system to make sure data from Mainframe is always up to date with the Oracle Databases and Vice Versa., Incorporated the use of Kafka’s connectors to generate the System of Record from underlying databases., Changed Legacy UI to using Angular and Java for dynamic rendering of the screens., Migrated all legacy deployment to Jenkins Pipeline and deployed using Ansible Tower and XLR., Migrated from SSIS packages & SSRS reports to Tableau and Oracle 19C databases., Oversaw the development, testing and implementation of all new code and successfully retired the old infrastructure., Migrated application from Sharepoint to Container using Coackroach and Angular.
• Data Management Center, 01/01/18, 12/31/19, Managed the development of a comprehensive self service UI that allows the flexibility for Plan Sponsors to design and control their own reporting and batch processing needs., Successfully completed this $10 million dollar project that spanned across 6 technology teams and 3 core business groups., Architected the system to ensure full self service and automated processing for clients as well as internal users., Streamlined file processing and JDBC calls using Spring-Batch Readers., Implemented custom reader to apply header/footer validation of files to streamline processing., Designed and implemented a new custom writer to accommodate the logic of writing the records on plan-based files., Reduced processing time of all files and reports by over 50%., Ensured the development team identified areas of optimization and refactoring by implementing multi-threading in file processing.
• COBOL to JAVA on Z/OS, 01/01/17, 12/31/18, Led the development effort to migrate two applications supporting outbound files involving contribution rate selection and loan information from mainframe out to client payroll provider., The project opened the mainframe accessibility out to distributed world.
• Benefits Online Platform, 01/01/16, 12/31/18, In charge of creating a new platform to allow participants to perform updates to their Name, Address, Phone Number, Email and other Indicative data even if they are no longer part of the company Payroll., Architected and designed an optimized batch processing of files.