VIGNESH NARAYANAN

Software Engineer excited about understanding business problems, designing and delivering efficient solutions.
Ability to work across the complete tech stack, quickly scale-up in and work with any skill.

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• CAREER SNAPSHOT
• 15 yrs work experience in software design, development and maintenance with 3 yrs of Salesforce.com platform expertise
• Feature Lead – 10-member Scrum team for 15+ consecutive Program Increments delivering well-recognized business value
• Primary expertise:
• Salesforce.com Platform (3 yrs) – Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I (PD I)
• Data Integrations Development using Mulesoft and Informatica ETL (3 yrs) – Mulesoft Certified Developer (MCD)
• Thorough understanding of business processes and delivering highly effective and robust solutions in an efficient manner
• Technology-agnostic logical thought process that enables to quickly step up with any tech-stack
• Automation and continuous process improvements
• Secondary expertise:
• Salesforce Commerce Cloud - B2C – Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Developer
• CI/CD – Jenkins, Groovy, XLR, Artifactory
• NCino
• Oracle PL/SQL (12 yrs), Data Modeling and Database performance tuning
• People management and mentoring
• 6 months onsite exp
• During 2016/17 at NC, USA for Bank of America as Database team lead
• 6 months onsite exp
• During 2011/12 at London, UK for Financial Conduct Authority (through Steria) as on-site coordinator leading support services transition
• Exceptional team leadership and mentoring qualities; 8 yrs exp
• In setting up and leading high performance global delivery teams
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation and articulation skills, and process design expertise
• Rigorous practitioner of Continuous Learning
• Extensive knowledge in Banking domain – specialization in Wholesale Credit Underwriting, Operations and Regulatory Reporting frameworks such as 14Q, CCAR, HMDA
• Risk Management and Auditing
• SPECIAL CALLOUTS
• Championed the adoption of Salesforce trigger framework by 20+ feature teams in the release train, resulting in standardization of all triggers to efficiently perform SOQLs and DMLs better adhering to the governor limits, and enabling modularity and easier traceability – 2021
• With a strong relational database and ETL development background for 10+ years, stepped up fairly quickly on Salesforce.com (PD I certified) and Mulesoft integration skills (MCD I certified), obtained full-stack expertise, consequently leading a Feature team successfully for 2 years – 2019-2021
• Designed and developed pluggable and configurable frameworks
• Metadata-driven dataset API framework using Mule and Salesforce composite API, leading to quick build-out of new APIs just using configuration avoid costly development and testing efforts - 2021
• Batch framework using Mule batch capability, leading to migration of Informatica ETL processes to Mule in turn resulting in platform simplification and FTE saves – 2020
• Proposed and built framework to invoke Salesforce Apex classes from Autosys / Unix / Mule thereby preventing scheduling conflicts between Autosys and Salesforce CRON
• This allowed easier dependency definitions and centralized control of all scheduled processes under one umbrella, resulting in failsafe overnight batches, easier monitoring and alerting – 2021
• Collaborated with vendors and DevOps teams and led end-to-end CI/CD setup of Datical (Liquibase) database automation
• This helped in automating build validations and Artifactory packaging for Oracle database DDL/DML changes and stored programs hence avoiding costly manual errors - 2019
• During times of funding shortages and resource crunches, led global development teams from offshore to deliver Oracle database design and development for key regulatory programs such as CCAR and HMDA in extremely short timeframes, leading to dollar saves - 2015
• Tuned performance of a Loan Booking platform database using AWR, exec plans, indexes, hints, query remodeling, and delivered 30% improvement in run time of critical batch processes - 2016
• Risk Champion and Process Improvement Champion for project portfolio – 2018-2021
• Collaborated with broader teams and brainstormed 50+ ideas resulting in effort saves and user experience improvements; helped articulate problem statements and benefits accurately
• Pro-actively identified and escalated multiple process and technology risks leading to operational robustness.