Sirisha Medicharla

• Currently leading multiple technical teams, with a total strength of 11 including entry level, mid-level, Sr-SDE's, within Amazon Prime Tech building a large scale enterprise SaaS product (highly confidential), potentially disrupting a multi-billion dollar industry.
• Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to, technical direction on building highly customer focused and large scale software components, overseeing agile software development process, working with various stakeholders (PM, TPM, UX, Business/Operations Leads) on requirement/design/integration of software components, addressing customer issues/escalations and last but not the least, providing production support to existing systems.
• Actively involved and lead product, technical architecture, strategic and executive leadership planning decisions for the group, including customer and partner engagements that fuel product adoption and help build long term strategy for the service.
• Expertise and strength in hiring, leading and growing talent within teams, and help build vision that facilitates organizational growth. Strong experience improving existing software as well as building new ones that impact bottom-line.
  
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• Designed, developed and delivered valuable and business critical solutions, including highly available and efficient customer service routing channels (SMS, Email & Chat), path-breaking browser based screen-sharing application (popularly known as Co-Pilot or Mayday for the Amazon website), automated backend systems to resolve customer queries (leveraging Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques, coupled with simple rule systems), systems that enable customers to resolve their queries faster via self-service workflows, and a customizable and pluggable Contact Us platform.

• Lead, developer and mentor to multiple junior engineers in the Amazno Prime Acquisitions project, which is part of the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform.
• CMSA is a J2EE/Flex based Correspondence Management solution that has the capability to generate interactive and batch documents (single PDFs as well as PDF Portfolios). The application uses core J2EE frameworks like Spring and Hibernate, apart from some other Adobe internal frameworks. Single handedly lead the server side components of the application, including the core application services, user management, PDF rendering, etc.
• As a result of my strong hold on the overall application, I was bestowed with the opportunity to visit the Adobe, Ottawa team and work with them for the end-to-end application integration (client-server).

• Cougar/ISDA Excess Deficit Calculation and Reporting System I have been responsible for managing a team of 3 software developers and building the application based on strong financial/business understanding of the system.
• This system facilitates generation of Margin call statements in various formats (PDF/XLS/RTF) to counterparties based on the computation of our Excess/Deficit with them.
• Tools/Frameworks used as part of the development are Tomcat 5.2, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JasperReports, JMX, and Sybase as the database server.
• Image Uploading System Built an Image Uploading system for the Employees at D.
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• Shaw & Co.
• using J2EE technologies with features of cropping the image, ability to preview while cropping, administrative controls of uploading for another user and approving images uploaded by users (The system sends an email to the administrators once a photo is uploaded by a user for approval).
• Millennium City, Block DN-62, Sector V, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata - 700091.

• Quote Management System, Quest for Avnet (USA) I lead the User Interface team and had been responsible for the overall Portal Application development and designing, working over Java/J2EE/JavaScript/AJAX, Vignette Portal 7.2.2 and WAS 6.0.2.9.
• I worked very effectively as a team player, providing useful support to my teammates at all times.
• I have also been responsible for the overall construction and development of the User Interface, working closely with the Business Tier as part of the Integration process.
• I have an additional responsibility as the Administrator of the deployment environment on Vignette Portal 7.2.2.

· Following G2S protocol standards and using C++, worked in developing communication between hopper (device that dispenses coins from slot machines when cash out is done) and slot machine server.

· Following G2S protocol standards and using C++, worked in developing communication of the mode of amount paid from gaming machine to slot accounting server. Mode of amount paid can be voucher or Jackpot amount or cash paid by attendant.

· Performed black box and white box testing to check communication of messages between hopper and game server is done correctly.

· Worked and tested on bugs filed.

· Worked on documenting the bugs fixed as future reference for me team members.

· Developed original games as per client requirements.

· Using C++, developed clone games as per client requirements.

· Involved in automating some game play functionality. That automation helps to run the game continuously without user input as part of stress testing. This reduced manual effort by around 50%.

· Worked on documentation of all games developed for changes done from base game to localized game.

· Working on assigned Change requests (CRs) of medium and critical level. CR’s were filed in StarTeam Revision Control system.

· Done thorough peer review of peers and documenting the issues found for the project’s future reference.