Trinath Appalla
Comcast
Claymont,Delaware
1
Certification
19
years of professional experience
Architected, designed and implemented Cloud Native scalable applications while remaining focused on client needs. Rapidly prototyped new capabilities to confirm feasibility. Experienced in analysis, initial requirements and architecture envisioning, iteration design, test driven development and automation in the Java, Java EE, SOA and Web Services and Microservices Architecture for Cloud (AWS and Hybrid Cloud). A supportive and enthusiastic team player dedicated to streamlining processes and efficiently resolve project issues. Proposed solutions to engineer re-engineer monolith applications to 12 factor SaaS models to provide agility in change promotion, eliminate redundancy and rigidity in release cycles and provide high availability and performance. Advocate of leveraging Open Source frameworks for software development and serverless deployment architecture. Experienced Technical Lead with over eighteen years of experience in Software Engineering. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall architectural and design improvements. Consistently saved costs while increasing maintainability, resiliency, high availability, performance and agility in engineering practices.
Work History
Principal Engineer
5 Years 5 Months- Ensured consistent operational best practices are embraced including setting up the right monitoring and alerting across all application platforms.
- Engineered an automation first approach
- Created and helped maintain and audit comprehensive KPI dashboards to monitor key business initiatives
- Ensured Security Compliance
- Strategized and implemented canary deployments to ensure zero down time for business critical applications
- Coordinated engineering team for projects in terms of architecture and solution design for critical business feature developments.
- Mentored and coached entry-level and junior engineers to improve talent and boost skill levels.
- Assessed scope and requirements to assist with project design determinations.
- Led architecture reviews for scalable application platforms, aligning engineering decisions with business and network requirements.
- Mentored engineering teams on coding standards, system design, and troubleshooting for complex production issues.
- Collaborated with product and operations partners to translate requirements into technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Evaluated emerging technologies and recommended platform improvements for performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
- Established engineering patterns for API integration, security controls, and observability across distributed systems.
- Standardized technical documentation and design artifacts to support knowledge sharing and cross-team execution.
- Directed root-cause analysis for service outages, implementing corrective actions to reduce recurring incidents.
- Improved reliability of systems by conducting root cause analyses and implementing corrective actions.
- Championed continuous improvement initiatives, promoting a culture of innovation and excellence within the organization.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete complex projects on time and within budget.
- Streamlined communication channels among various teams to facilitate seamless information exchange during project execution phases.
- Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
- Developed high-quality engineering designs and plans to meet industry standards.
- Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.
Java Developer IV (consulted With Comcast)
3 Years 8 Months- Architected, designed, and implemented Cloud Native scalable applications while remaining
focused on client needs. Rapidly prototyped new software capabilities to confirm feasibility. - Experienced in analysis, requirement gathering and architecture envisioning, iteration design, test
driven development and automation in Java, Java EE, SOA, Web Services and Microservices
Architecture for Cloud (AWS and Hybrid Cloud). - Engineered software solutions for Service Order Fulfillment in the Activation and Provisioning of
Internet, Voice and Video services domains with a focus on quality and customer satisfaction. - Proposed solutions to engineer, re-engineer monolith applications to 12 factor SaaS models to
provide agility in change promotion, eliminate redundancy in release cycles and provide high
availability and performance. - Leveraged open source frameworks for software development and serverless architectures.
- Excellent reputation for solving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall
architectural and design improvements. - Participated in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirement gathering,
analysis, design, development, testing and reporting in an Agile environment. - Designed and developed n-tier Java EE applications in the SOA framework.
- Reviewed code and leveraged open source frameworks for software development.
- Worked effectively with design teams to ensure software solutions enhanced client experience.
- Conducted performance monitoring and tuning.
- Experienced in SOA, SOAP and REST Web Services, Java 8, Java EE, Spring Framework, Spring
Batch, Spring Cloud, Spring Web Flow, Scrum, J2EE, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Spring
MVC, Spring IOC, HTML & JavaScript to design and implement scalable, full-stack software
applications.
Technical Lead
10 Years 1 Month- Technical Lead with progressive experience in engineering software solutions for business Banking and Securities domains with focus on quality and total customer satisfaction in designing and developing n-tier Java EE applications in the Generic SOA framework.
- Directed software design and development while remaining focused on client needs. Worked effectively with design teams to ensure software solutions elevated client side experience.
- Rapidly prototyped new capabilities to confirm feasibility
Education
Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Skills
Software Architecture and Solution Design
Software Development
Service Oriented Architecture
Microservices Architecture for Cloud (AWS)
Continuous Integration and Deployment
Test & Behavior Driven Development and Automation
SDLC Life Cycle & Agile Methodologies (Scrum and Kanban)
Requirement Gathering
Performance Monitoring and Tuning
Code reviews
Java 8
11 & 17
Java EE
SOA
SOAP & REST Web Services
Spring Framework
Spring Batch
Spring Cloud
Spring Web Flow
HTML & JavaScript
Junit
Mockito and PowerMock Unit Testing Frameworks
Version Control (Git
Gerrit
SVN
etc.)
Databases on cloud for scalability and high availability (DynamoDB
MongoDB
Postgres
Amazon Timestream).
Accomplishments
- Software Architecture and Solution Design
- Designed and developed critical programs for Comcast as part of Service Fulfillment and Assurance.
- Ability to design and develop in multiple programming languages and technologies.
Certification
- IBM Certified Rational Business Developer
- Amazon trained in Architecting on AWS
Timeline
Principal Engineer
Comcast
05.2021 - CurrentRead More
Java Developer IV (consulted With Comcast)
Populus Group
09.2017 - 05.2021Read More
Technical Lead
Wipro Technologies
08.2007 - 09.2017Read More
Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
Master of Science from Mechanical Engineering
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Projects
- Comcast Service Order Fulfillment and Activation: Unified Order Orchestration & Fulfillment Platform as part of Service Order Fulfillment & Activation Domain in Comcast. Contributed to architecting, designing and developing critical platforms & components in a full-stack role leveraging asynchronous patterns. Technologies: Java 8, 11, 17, Python, Spring Core, Spring Web Flow, Web Services - SOAP & REST, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, AWS, Terraform, Serverless frameworks leveraging AWS Lambda, CI/CD leveraging Concourse, Jenkins, etc.
- Capital One - Person-to-person Payments: As part of the prestigious Person-to-person payments program, designed and developed critical functionalities on customer servicing and web fronts in regards to fraud mitigation to provide the ability to cancel standard payments for operations.
- Capital One - Entitlements Integration for Deposits APIs: Incorporation of entitlements which serve as the pre and post-filter checks for Core Deposits APIs as part of the EASE initiative. Received commendations for providing fully automated functional tests.
- Capital One - Great Compatibility: Prepared API Design Specifications and Governance / Developer Experience requisites. Played key roles in fulfillment of Great Compatibility program – an initiative that involved bringing Banking under one umbrella and ensuring that serviceability under one platform.
- Capital One -Legacy Service Standardization: As part of this initiative, standardized 100+ Simple Abstract Services using proprietary XML Messaging formats to standards based SOAP services and enhance service level test automation coverage. Developed DGW Commons Framework for channelizing and simplifying communication to Direct Gateway services from Enterprise API platform services. Developed Database Commons Framework to provide ability to post Teller and Non-Teller transactions to Profile leveraging TSSP (Transaction Services and Stored Procedures) infrastructure.
- CITI - Client on-boarding CRM Solution: A Java EE SOA based solution implemented via Oracle ADF, Spring, OPA (Business Rules) and REST / SOAP Services. Responsibilities included Evaluation of various approaches for integration with the target EIS, Design and Development of a fairly generic service layer for integration mechanism, Performance monitoring and tuning. Business Rule interface design, Code-generation utility development activities.
- CITI - Cross-border Transaction Validation, Enrichment and Reporting: Design and Development of a generic Controller and the Service Layer. Evaluate approaches for large uploads in view of feasibility /performance, UI level validation framework and vulnerability assessment. Technology stack consisted of Spring, Hibernate, JSF and Web Services.
- CITI - Mutual Fund Transfer Agency System: Solution aiming at Web-enabling the aforementioned system. Responsibilities included the development of screens for various critical business modules, code reviews, contribution to common framework components. Performance enhancements of complex transaction screens consisting of DB2 SQL Plan Cache analysis, Query optimization, Hydration time reduction, and profiling application code.