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Saranraj Balasubramanian

Farmington Hills,MI

Summary

Google cloud certified Associate Cloud Engineer with over 13 years of experience in application development in Java/J2EE technology, playing critical role in business and enterprise software design, development, testing, and deployment of back-end systems along with production support. Experienced in implementing best programming practices and testing approaches to establish optimal development approaches.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

LEAD ENGINEER

Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
10.2022 - Current
  • Provisioned required resources like Cloud Spanner, Redis memory store, Secret Manager, Big Query in Google Cloud Platform
  • Provided necessary knowledge to technical team related to the process of migration from On Prem PCF to GCP
  • Guided the technical development of a product with defined scopes
  • Established data flow process to transfer data from Kafka topic to BQ
  • Worked with Access Management team to get necessary access for developers to GCP resources
  • Enhanced the current data model to accommodate changes required for Spanner migration
  • Published back-end services into APIGEE Gateway and securely exposed the APIs to the consumers
  • Collaborated with various teams within the portfolio to understand dependencies
  • Assisted various touchpoints in the integration testing phase of Consent APIs
  • Setup Locust Python based load testing tool and performed multiple rounds of load testing and fine-tuned the factors causing high response time
  • Used Java Image Builder to build container image and deploy it into Cloud run
  • Integrated Kafka in all the services to populate Audit and Activity logs.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
08.2018 - 09.2022
  • Involved in Service Architecture design for managing online consumer profiles and consents
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams during design, implementation, and testing
  • Developed Service Rule Engines to support different validation group imposed by different global regions (NA, SA, EU)
  • Designed request data validation methods to execute in async format
  • Saved 10% of response time by making this as a parallel call
  • Developed REST APIs in such a way that sub-second response is maintained
  • Published all APIs in IBM API Connect - API Gateway and securely exposed them to the touchpoints
  • Implemented Merge Module effectively to merge the privacies of multiple consumers
  • Implemented business logic to integrate two different user bases into one system
  • Developed lookup scheduler to resolve marketing profile consents to online profile consents
  • Implemented Code Quality Standards and Java Code Test Coverage required by Ford - SonarQube rules
  • Conducted Source Code reviews to ensure the quality of source code and provide necessary feedback
  • Leveraged PCF’s marketplace services like Spring Cloud Config Server, RabbitMQ, Redis
  • Wrote Jenkins CICD Jobs to automate micro-services build and deploy jobs on PCF environments
  • Monitored Production services and fix bugs.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

The Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
07.2014 - 07.2018
  • Researched customer requirements and planned analysis and design
  • Migrated Legacy Monolithic services into manageable Spring boot based Microservices using simple, maintainable, and extendable design patterns, frameworks, and tools
  • Build, test, and deploy spring boot applications using Gradle build management
  • Deployed services to cloud through Jenkins deployment pipeline
  • Setting up and managing development and production environments like GitHub repository, Jenkins, PCF, and Application Servers
  • Performed unit, integration, and system tests
  • Technical anchor providing technical and design support for an agile team
  • Monitored live applications and provided production support.

JAVA DEVELOPER

Michaels Store
Chennai, India
12.2009 - 06.2014
  • Led requirements analysis, programming, and implementation
  • Actively worked in setting up initial Spring MVC configuration for the Product compliance system
  • Designed user interface for the MiPCS product
  • Developed core modules like Items List, Add Items, Search Items efficiently
  • Designed, Created, and maintained database schemas
  • Implemented Hibernate Query Language to perform CRUD operations
  • Fixed bugs, defects raised by Quality Assurance Team
  • Actively involved in preparing design, technical and functional documents for the project
  • Deployed applications to application servers and performed post launch service monitoring and optimization
  • Performed code review to ensure the quality of source code.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Easwari Engineering College (Anna University)
01.2009

Skills

  • Java/J2EE
  • Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices
  • GCP Services, PCF Services
  • Cloud Spanner, Azure SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL
  • Docker, Spring Config Server

Certification

Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer, 02/01/2022

Accomplishments

  • Lead the team and migrated 12 APIs in a duration of 4 months from PCF to GCP including critical ones.
  • Mentored team members and brought them up to speed to complete the Phase1 migration on time and achieved 99.999% availability of services.
  • Improved API Performance by 10% by implementing cache mechanism for code tables and asynchronous validations.

Affiliations

  • Meditate, Read Books and Workout.
  • Finished on top 5 in the MVP list in Detroit Cricket league consistently in past 3 seasons.

Timeline

LEAD ENGINEER

Ford Motor Company
10.2022 - Current

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Ford Motor Company
08.2018 - 09.2022

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

The Home Depot
07.2014 - 07.2018

JAVA DEVELOPER

Michaels Store
12.2009 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Easwari Engineering College (Anna University)
Saranraj Balasubramanian