Shivkumar Kathirvel
Piscataway,NJ
Summary
Results-driven Software Engineer with 25 years of experience in architecting and implementing distributed and mainframe applications. Expertise in all phases of software engineering and the Software Development Life Cycle, utilizing Agile methodologies. Proficient in cloud development with AWS services, and skilled in building Spring Boot-based microservices and optimizing Java applications with design patterns. Experienced in leading development teams and enhancing system efficiency through automation and mentoring.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Lead
JP Morgan Chase
07.2021 - Current
- Designed and developed a robust suite of RESTful microservices to facilitate the creation and retrieval of Card Member Agreements. These services are integral to Chase's front-end systems, enabling real-time processing for both agreement generation and access. The solution ensures customers receive immediate feedback on their credit card applications, allowing for instant credit decisions and seamless onboarding.
- A key feature of this system is its integration with digital wallet platforms on iOS and Android, empowering customers to instantly store their new credit cards on their mobile devices. This enhances user experience by providing immediate access to credit and supporting modern payment methods.
- Optimized performance of creation and retrieval processes to meet stringent real-time requirements, effectively managing high transaction volumes.
- Scalability: Architected the microservices to handle spikes in application traffic, especially during peak periods, without degradation in service quality.
- Security & Compliance: Implemented robust security measures to protect sensitive customer data and ensure compliance with financial regulations.
- Integration Complexity: Navigated the technical challenges of integrating with multiple front-end systems and third-party digital wallet providers, ensuring seamless interoperability.
- Developed fault-tolerant services with comprehensive monitoring and alerting, minimizing downtime and expediting issue resolution.
- Additionally, architected and implemented a comprehensive tokenization system to safeguard card numbers across the application's APIs. By replacing sensitive card data with secure tokens, this solution significantly reduces the exposure of cardholder information throughout internal and external service interactions.
- This approach not only strengthens data security but also ensures full compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. As a result, the application maintains a high level of trust and integrity, protecting customer information while streamlining regulatory audits and reducing the risk of data breaches.
- Security Enhancement: Minimized the risk of unauthorized access to cardholder data by ensuring that actual card numbers are never transmitted or stored in API payloads.
- PCI Compliance: Enabled the entire application ecosystem to meet stringent PCI DSS requirements, facilitating secure payment processing and reducing compliance overhead.
- System Integration: Overcame challenges in retrofitting tokenization into existing APIs and workflows, ensuring seamless operation without disrupting business processes.
- Engineered tokenization system to efficiently manage high transaction volumes, ensuring low latency and high reliability.
- Period: July 2021 – Present
- Role: Engineering Lead
- Led cross-functional teams to implement engineering solutions that enhanced system performance.
Java Developer/Lead
JP Morgan Chase
02.2020 - 06.2021
- Designed and developed a set of RESTful microservices to make connection and account calls to aggregator vendor, Quovo, to obtain non-chase data and store in Oracle based system of record. Also, designed and built a highly responsive FISearch microservice using Lucene with 24x7 availability. This microservice is directly used in the Chase UI and hence, a critical component. Designed and built RESTful microservices based Publish APIs for ODS, AWM and CWM. All microservices are deployed to Gaia pools with Global Load Balancers and auto scaling. Developed batch process to publish Avro-based Kafka messages to CWM using Spring Kafka. All the development was associated with proper JUnit tests and followed Jules CI/CD pipeline to deploy to production. Led a scrum team of six members across New York and Bangalore to manage the Publish effort. Redesigned long-running batch process for reduced completion time using AWS EMR and Spark.
- Project: Account Aggregation Of Non-Chase Data (MIDAS)
- Period: February 2020 – June 2021
- Role: Java Developer/Lead
Java Developer/Lead
JP Morgan Chase
09.2016 - 01.2020
- Designed and developed a new Sparta module to create monthly managed account performance files in vendor specified format. Derived portfolio performance analytics using R calculations from account holdings and transactions. Pentaho Data Integration ETLs call the RESTful web services based R calculations for every managed account to obtain monthly performance and parse the JSON response to prepare the files for vendor. The purpose is to build composites based on account strategy and use the composite returns for lead account attribution and publishing it to FactSet/MorningStar. Due to high volume of accounts there were overall elapsed time performance issues, which were remediated.
- Generated JPMorgan Online reports from Sparta, facilitating the decommission of Xamin, a vendor product.
- Project: Global Portfolio Performance (SPARTA)
- Period: September 2016 – January 2020
- Role: Java Developer/Lead
Java Developer/Lead
JP Morgan Chase
10.2015 - 09.2016
- Completed NA migration of Trade Tower Gateway (TTG) and Validation Enrichment Engine (VET) through AIM. This entailed migration of complexly configured application software from the EMEA platform to the NA platform. TTG is a high volume gateway for trades feeding in from various upstream systems. It processes tens of millions of messages per day. Position service, settlement gateway and other mission critical downstream systems rely on the trade data to be received in a timely manner. TTG transforms messages received in different formats to a common XML format and persists them in Oracle data store. VET validates and enriches trades with security and account reference data by way of RESTful web services. To ensure the new setup was accurate and functioning as expected, we implemented a fully functional production parallel environment that featured a sophisticated solution to funnel upstream production messages to both EMEA and NA. This involved an innovative configuration of MQ artifacts including Topics, Transmit Queues, Sender & Receiver Channels across Queue Managers that successfully maintained the mandated SLAs for message delivery in both environments.
- Project: Trade Booking Engine (TBE)
- Period: October 2015 – September 2016
- Role: Java Developer/Lead
Java Developer
JP Morgan Chase
06.2013 - 09.2015
- Developed asset servicing interface routing adapter, iSwitch, facilitating migration of asset servicing events from legacy applications to BaNCS, using rules defined in drools engine to process incoming announcement messages.
- Parsed input XML messages to extract values and executed RESTful web service calls to GIM for security type verification, routing messages to the appropriate outbound queue for legacy applications while employing Spring Framework/Integration and adhering to Agile/Scrum methodologies, including test driven development and continuous integration.
- Project: iSwitch/Asset Utility
- Period: June 2013 – September 2015
- Role: Java Developer
Analyst & Technical Architect
JP Morgan Chase
01.2011 - 05.2013
- BaNCS was chosen as the Asset Servicing system that would replace many of the JPM legacy asset servicing systems. For SCPP, I identified all major input and output data feeds and associated elements for legacy asset servicing systems. We wanted BaNCS to interface with all the inbound and outbound systems like the way it did in legacy systems. Worked closely with BaNCS consultants and created detailed requirement documents and solution documents to ensure the data feeds that were sent/received to/from legacy systems are now sent/received to/from BaNCS. Identified and defined the interfaces for inbound and outbound data feeds to determine the strategic solution for incorporating each feed into BaNCS. Also developed an efficient design for position & trade request/response that succeeded in accomplishing the firm's goal of keeping the vendor product change to a minimum.
- Led migration of Asset Servicing Application to BaNCS, overseeing complex system integration and documentation processes to enhance operational continuity.
- Executed project from January 2011 to May 2013, playing a crucial role in transitioning to a modernized asset servicing platform.
- Role: Analyst & Technical Architect
Lead Java Developer
JP Morgan Chase
04.2005 - 12.2010
- Built Fixed Income (FI) Equity Reporting system to provide account equity for hedge fund managers who invest through Prime Broker. This application was required to have rich UI and .NET win forms with Devx widgets was used. The client layer accessed SOAP based web services running on WebLogic, which in turn called DB2 stored procedures to get equity data.
- Led development of Fixed Income Wire Transfer (FIWA) application, providing critical web UI for Repo Desk traders to execute wire transfers for Hedge Funds. Implemented multi-level approval process for wire transfers based on amount, ensuring compliance and security. It was a web application with high availability and quick response time.
- Project: FI Equity Reporting, FI Wire Transfer
- Period: April 2005 – December 2010
- Role: Lead Java Developer
Lead Developer
JP Morgan Chase
06.1998 - 03.2005
- Developed fixed income principle and interest processing system, PIWorks, for US mortgage backed and government backed assets, ensuring timely payments to SCPP based prime broker clients, including hedge funds. Built as a Client-Server application with client in PowerBuilder and server side utilizing DB2 stored procedures on mainframe.
- Built TRCK application which enabled operations users to monitor the General Ledger accounts for any payment discrepancy. Payment discrepancy would come from any over or under payments to our clients. This application also enables operations users to monitor and assess the risk of overpayments. It was built as a Client-Server application with client written in PowerBuilder and server side being DB2 stored procedures on mainframe.
- Led development of PIWorks and TRCK projects.
- Period: June 1998 – March 2005
- Role: Lead Developer
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Anna University
IndiaBachelor of Science - Mathematics
Gujarat University
IndiaSkills
- Languages: Java, Python, R, C#, SQL, XML, JavaScript, Asynchronous JavaScript, XSLT, COBOL
- Java and Spring libraries
- Database: Oracle, DB2, H2, Cockroach, Cassandra
- Message Broker: Kafka, IBM MQ, QPID, Message Bus, Active MQ
- Microservices architecture: Spring Boot, logback, SLF4J, Splunk, Dynatrace, Gafana, Micrometer, OAuth2
- IDEs and Tools: IntelliJ IDEA, Postman, Bruno, Kubernetes, Visual Studio, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Pentaho ETL, Apache Tomcat, Jenkins CI/CD, Git
- AWS/Big Data: S3, SQS, Lambda, Event-Bridge, Step Function, EMR, Apache Spark, Hadoop file system
- Operating Systems: Windows 10-11, UNIX, Red Hat Linux, OS/390
- AI technologies: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
Timeline
Engineering Lead
JP Morgan Chase
07.2021 - Current
Java Developer/Lead
JP Morgan Chase
02.2020 - 06.2021
Java Developer/Lead
JP Morgan Chase
09.2016 - 01.2020
Java Developer/Lead
JP Morgan Chase
10.2015 - 09.2016
Java Developer
JP Morgan Chase
06.2013 - 09.2015
Analyst & Technical Architect
JP Morgan Chase
01.2011 - 05.2013
Lead Java Developer
JP Morgan Chase
04.2005 - 12.2010
Lead Developer
JP Morgan Chase
06.1998 - 03.2005
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Gujarat University
Master of Science - Computer Science
Anna University