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Saravanan Varadarajan

Zephyrhills,USA

Summary

Dynamic technology leader with proven expertise in infrastructure development and cloud migrations. Skilled in project management, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration, delivering impactful solutions in complex environments.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Director Technology

Sagitec Solutions pvt. Ltd
Tampa, USA
07.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded products and projects using complex solution design decisions throughout the development/program lifecycle, right from opportunity assessment, and defining requirements to establishing metrics for measuring success, and tracking ongoing feedback
  • Migrate existing on-prem Team foundation server 2015 to AWS cloud platform and upgrade to Azure DevOps Server 2022 for a client in West-Coast region
  • Migration of existing AS/400 legacy application to configure and implement a new pension benefits administration system for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System
  • Manage Xelence platform and application infrastructure design in Azure cloud using Kubernetes and other azure services to scale
  • Led a team of AI engineers in the development and deployment of a predictive modeling system to process a loan application which aids in credit underwriting decisions and loan pricing.
  • Spearheaded data analytics initiatives, leveraging predictive models to optimize business decisions.
  • Developed Chat AI PoC using Azure Open AI. Convert a pension member handbooks data to vector embedding using python langchain library, and store them in azure Cosmo dB and developed a vuejs based webchat JS plugin that can integrate to a website.
  • Controlling product development and setting a lean-agile mindset in the product team
  • Develop conceptual design of products and demo the same to partners for approval
  • Develop product roadmap, work distribution, way of working, and rituals
  • Managing risks and issues, taking corrective measurements, utilizing resources across projects, and stakeholders' communication
  • Approve product features, design, and technology approaches gathered from individual solution team
  • Conduct Chatbot, mobile, and Xelence product demos to potential clients
  • Implemented DevOps best practices, streamlining development and deployment processes.
  • Manage product costing for small, medium, and enterprise customers
  • Communicating financial and goal results and key performance indicators to senior partners
  • Facilitating goal-level creation for the broader function and working with managers to ensure the goals cascade to all solution team
  • Developed and supported high-volume transactional systems with performance tuning strategies
  • Led disaster recovery planning, ensuring business continuity in critical scenarios.
  • Integrated AI and machine learning solutions to enhance automation and efficiency
  • Manage Chatbot, Mobile, Identity/Access Management, and Xelence low-code/no-code platform architectures
  • Food and Nutrition SaaS product design and development.

Associate Director

Sagitec Solutions LLC
Chennai, India
07.2015 - 05.2022
  • Migrated Workforce application from on-prem VM Model to Azure PaaS model. Managed the end-to-end deployment of PaaS based model in Azure using App Services, Azure SQL, designed to meet scalable architecture and minimize costs.
  • Setup non-prod and production region in Azure for workforce product (PaaS) using Terraform, ARM Template and Biceps scripts.
  • Oversee and coordinate security control assessments and Continuous Monitoring Plans for cloud-based PaaS model.
  • Design DevSecOps architecture. Evaluate system hardening guides following DISA, FedRAMP, and NIST guidelines
  • Led an Identity access management product design and integrated with Pension, Labor and Employment, and Low code/No Code products. Infrastructure setup to run on PaaS model.
  • Managed a team of 80+ Mobile and Chat Bot team to develop a robust mobile framework in a span of 3 months using Ionic, Angular, .Net, C# and Cordova. Automate software deployment processes, using Jenkins. Integrated NUnit Testing framework to continuously test the mobile app before deploying the app to higher regions.

Senior Delivery Manager/Solution Architect

Sagitec Solutions LLC
USA, USA
07.2008 - 07.2015
  • Re-write pension project (OASIS) for the state of Missouri public school employee retirement systems
  • Solution Architect for OASIS Internal, employer, and member web portal
  • Key responsibilities on designing and implementing the solution in 4 years
  • Has 130k active members and 90k retirees
  • Involved in critical module design for monthly benefit calculation and estimates, service purchase calculation, employer reporting, and monthly payouts to retirees
  • Migrate and Implement FileNet imaging system for the state of Kansas Retirement System
  • Design, Develop a Member web portal for the state of Kansas (Kansas Public Employee Retirements System)

Technical Architect

Info Experts
USA, USA
11.2003 - 01.2005

Senior Developer

IVS Consulting
USA, USA
01.2002 - 09.2003

Senior Developer

Lister Technologies
INDIA, India
05.2001 - 12.2001

Developer

Interactive 1 Softcom Solutions
INDIA, India
12.1999 - 04.2001

System Analyst

TCS
INDIA, India
07.1997 - 12.1999

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University of Madras
Chennai, India
03-1997

Skills

  • Infrastructure Development
  • Enterprise Software Development
  • Roadmap Development
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Systems Integration
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Technical Team Leadership
  • Business Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Product Owner
  • Scrum/Agile Methodologies
  • Cloud Computing
  • Vendor Management
  • Strategic/Critical Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • AWS
  • AZURE
  • DevOps
  • Container Platform
  • Jenkins
  • Azure Devops
  • Git
  • TFSVc
  • Gradel
  • Maven
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Java
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Vue3
  • React
  • NodeJs
  • TypeScript
  • GraphQL
  • Hibernate
  • Spring
  • Spring MVC
  • REST API
  • PL/SQL

Area Of Expertise

  • Infrastructure Development
  • Enterprise Software Development
  • Roadmap Development
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Systems Integration
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Technical Team Leadership
  • Business Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Product Owner
  • Scrum/Agile Methodologies
  • Cloud Computing
  • Vendor Management
  • Strategic/Critical Thinking
  • Problem Solving

Certification

  • PMP
  • AWS Solution Architect
  • SAFE POPM

Timeline

Associate Director Technology

Sagitec Solutions pvt. Ltd
07.2022 - Current

Associate Director

Sagitec Solutions LLC
07.2015 - 05.2022

Senior Delivery Manager/Solution Architect

Sagitec Solutions LLC
07.2008 - 07.2015

Technical Architect

Info Experts
11.2003 - 01.2005

Senior Developer

IVS Consulting
01.2002 - 09.2003

Senior Developer

Lister Technologies
05.2001 - 12.2001

Developer

Interactive 1 Softcom Solutions
12.1999 - 04.2001

System Analyst

TCS
07.1997 - 12.1999

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University of Madras

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