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Venkata Kanimerakala

Newtown,USA

Summary

Solution Architect with extensive experience at EPAM Systems, specializing in AWS and Azure cloud migrations. Demonstrated success in enhancing CI/CD processes and improving code quality. Expertise in implementing robust security measures and leading teams to drive engineering best practices. Consistently ensures successful project delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification

Work History

Solution Architect

EPAM Systems
08.2019 - Current
  • Company Overview: EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • Working with Technology and Product teams to assess T1 Product for AWS/Azure Cloud migration strategy and execution.
  • Performed multiple Azure Poc’s as per product and technology needs.
  • Designed and developed end to end fully automated Solution in AWS.
  • Designed and developed end to end fully automated CI/CD Usage solution in AWS.
  • Migrated T1 Core services from SAMI Git Platform to LSEG DxOne(Gitlab, SemGrep, Blackduck, vault etc..) CD platform.
  • Migrate & refactor Symbology product and with latest DevOps strategies and deployed as production ready solution.
  • Design DevOps strategy for T1 - Core services, building end to end DevOps solutions with fully automated CI/CD solution.
  • Analyzing architecture of each service and their integration touch points and technology stacks.
  • Evaluating current code quality, complexity, architecture including System data flows, integration and backend process.
  • Guiding team towards engineering best practices and continuous improvement process as needed.
  • Technical documentation & artifacts creation to ensure that there are no knowledge gaps.
  • Identifying challenges in current process and contributed in preparing ENGX To BE process and improvements Engineering Operation Model, Branching strategy, CI & CD Implementation SonarQube & Veracode setup and baseline metrics.
  • Analysis and implementation of all TSA applications, repositories and installers compatibility and its history Migrate the installers to support and run on 2016 servers.
  • Execution of PE testing on TSA 2016 PE TSA 2016 PE Testing and analysis on 2016 performance issues and providing fix and validating the fix and communication to the stake holders Qualifying all TSA servers.
  • Analyzed legacy projects to migrate to latest framework version and customers / external applications that are using actively and provided inputs to customer.
  • Educating customer towards matured devops strategy followed by defining and developing in-house Jenkins multi branch based devops strategy with end-to-end deployment for T1 product.
  • Analyzed existing automation framework architecture and issues. Given walk through to the customer for the importance of stabilization / re-design the frameworks with shorter- and longer-term solutions and got the approval to go further.
  • EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • Team: Dev team: 13, QA team: 3
  • Database: SQL Server 2014 /2019, AWS RDS
  • Tools: Gitlab, Jenkins, Selenium, Jmeter, SonarQube, Blackduck, Veracode.
  • Technologies: Azure, AWS, ASP.Net MVC, Web API, C#, .Net Framework 4.0 /Core, Angular, Kendo, jQuery

Solution Architect

EPAM Systems
10.2018 - 08.2019
  • Company Overview: EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • Provide research teams with the ability to create and update profiles for publication to WorldCheck customers.
  • To enforce a workflow so that management of the research teams can ensure that quality control checks are in place for content changes.
  • Dante system helps the customers business by providing accurate data in various segments listed below.
  • Thorough analysis on Dante system and customer pain point areas.
  • Define and analyze scope, objectives, issues and impact.
  • Create technical documentation, Work feature break down structure.
  • Communicate with Product, business and technical stake holders.
  • Database deadlocks and performance bottle necks.
  • Given complete reports on system draw backs and failures.
  • Provided and implemented alternate solutions.
  • Introduced CI/CD and improved the process and reduce release life cycle to a week.
  • Improvised code quality process.
  • Worked with Security vendor and investigated on penetration testing observations and remediated below.
  • EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • Environment: SQL Server 2014, AWS RDS, Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server Management Studio, Jira, Splunk, Jenkins, Sonar, ASP.Net, C#, HPE-IDOL, Java script, jQuery, SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL, Splunk, Entity Framework, WCF

Chief Software Engineer

EPAM Systems
09.2017 - 09.2018
  • Company Overview: EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • Involved in internal Architecture and Code review assessments.
  • Take over from previous vendor.
  • Stabilization and performance improvement.
  • Improving current process by introducing CI/CD platform.
  • Setting up DEV and QA environments.
  • Providing and enabling Branching strategy, Engx best practices.
  • Addressing Penetration test, security test findings.
  • EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • Environment: SQL Server, Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server Management Studio, Jira, Splunk, ASP.Net, C#, HPE-IDOL, Java script, jQuery, SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL, Splunk, Entity Framework, WCF

Associate Architect / Architect

EPAM Systems
06.2014 - 08.2017
  • Company Overview: EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • System is targeted for reporting the spending on Health Care Professional to Legal Bodies in the region for example EFPIA.
  • Transaction spend and HCP information will be pushed into the system by Tenants using Blob Storage and which will cleansed using business rule engine.
  • Robust online report generation which includes canned reports and ad-hoc reporting capabilities.
  • Involved in the design of Physical and Logical Architecture of the Platform and also in the development of Framework for the application.
  • EPAM Systems is a global provider of software engineering and technology consulting services. Website: www.epam.com
  • Environment: SQL Azure, SQL Server, Visual Studio 2013, SVN, Sonar, Review Assistant Tool, Jenkins, Azure Development Tools, Azure HDInsight, ASP.Net MVC, C#, Kendo UI, JQUERY, JavaScript, Azure: Cloud Services, Storage, Redis Cache, App Services, CDN, Batch Services.

Associate Architect

Alliance Global Services
01.2013 - 06.2014
  • Lead 6 member of team and running sprints.
  • Understanding requirements and discussing with Client /BA / Architects accordingly.
  • Technical Guidance to team members and performing Code Reviews.
  • Participating in High level and low level design with Architects and team members.
  • Environment: SQL Server, VS 2013, SONAR, SVN, NUnit, ASP.NET MVC, C#, JQUERY, WCF, Entity Framework and LINQ.

Senior Consultant

Alliance Global Services
09.2008 - 04.2013
  • Client Coordination and understanding the requirements.
  • Working with Architects and other leads on design and other challenges.
  • Managing Small team with 3 members.
  • Performing peer reviews.
  • Environment: SQL Server, Visual Studio 2013, SQL Server Management Studio, IIS 6.0, FXCop, Visual Studio 2010, C#.Net, VB.Net, Java Script, Silverlight, Web services and WCF.

Software Engineer

I-Vantage India Pvt Ltd
11.2007 - 09.2008
  • Understanding requirements.
  • Coding.
  • Unit testing.
  • Bug fixing and Integration.
  • Environment: SQL Server, Visual Studio.NET 2005, Serveries 5.0, ASP.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET, Web Services, XML and Microsoft Application Block.

Software Engineer

Sindhu Synergy Ltd.
10.2004 - 11.2007
  • Understanding requirements.
  • Coding.
  • Unit testing.
  • Bug fixing and Integration.
  • Environment: SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, IIS 5.0, SQL Server 2005, ASP.net, Vb.net, C# and JavaScript.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University
Vishakhapatnam, India
04.2004

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University
Vishakhapatnam, India
04.2002

Skills

  • Cloud Technologies
  • AWS
  • Security & Network
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Script
  • Izenda
  • MicroStrategy
  • Logging & Monitoring
  • DataDog
  • Splunk
  • Kibana

Websites

Certification

  • Azure Certified Solution Architect Expert (AZ-305)
  • Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
  • Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
  • Software Engineering Institute (SEI): Documenting Software Architectures
  • Software Engineering Institute (SEI): Software Architecture Principles and Practices
  • IASA: IASA CITA – Foundation Certification

Personal Information

Title: Cloud Solution Architect

Skills And Awards

AWS Identity and Access Management, Security – VPC, Subnets, Route 53, Cloud Front, Direct Connect, Certificate Manager, Directory Service, KMS, WAF, Shield, Athena, Athena, Kinesis Firehose, SQS, SNS, Cost Explorer, Cost profiler, S3, RDS, FSx, Data Migration Service, EC2, ALB, elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS, AWS Well Architected Tool, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Security Center, Key Vault, Traffic Manager, FrontDoor, HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Service Bus, SQS, SNS, Cost Explorer, Cost profiler, SQL MI, Azure SQL, Azure Search, Redis, ADF, Cosmos DB, App Service, Azure Batch Service, Cloud Services, AKS, Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Application Insights, Analytics, .Net, .NetCore, Asp.Net, Ajax, ASP.Net MVC, Asp.NetCore, Web API, C#, VB.Net, UML, Visio, Lucid Chart, Terraform, Gitlab, Github, Concourse, Jenkins, SonarQube, Veracode, Black duck, BAMS, MS build, MS test, Nunit, XUnit, Moq, Angular, JavaScript, Powershell, Batch, Jquery, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, SSIS, SSRS, Crystal Reports, Izenda, Micro Strategy, DataDog, Splunk, Kibana

Timeline

Solution Architect

EPAM Systems
08.2019 - Current

Solution Architect

EPAM Systems
10.2018 - 08.2019

Chief Software Engineer

EPAM Systems
09.2017 - 09.2018

Associate Architect / Architect

EPAM Systems
06.2014 - 08.2017

Associate Architect

Alliance Global Services
01.2013 - 06.2014

Senior Consultant

Alliance Global Services
09.2008 - 04.2013

Software Engineer

I-Vantage India Pvt Ltd
11.2007 - 09.2008

Software Engineer

Sindhu Synergy Ltd.
10.2004 - 11.2007

Master of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Andhra University