Vivek Kapse

Company Overview: Fortune 500 automotive parts retailer with over 6,000 stores across the US, Mexico, and Brazil, generating $14.6B in annual revenue

• Lead strategic B2B commercial technology initiatives that enable AutoZone stores to efficiently deliver auto parts to commercial customers
• Direct a cross-functional team of 25+ on-site and offshore developers and quality engineers through all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Orchestrated the migration of 100+ mission-critical microservices from PCF to GCP, managing comprehensive planning, cost estimation, resource allocation, roadmap development, execution, design, performance testing, scaling, and reliability for tier-1 order and delivery management systems
• Spearheaded technical projects aligned with B2B commercial business goals that generated over $10M in sales post-rollout and established a foundation for a projected billion-dollar revenue channel within two years
• Redesigned the UAT process by integrating QA automation into the CI/CD pipeline, reducing testing cycles by 40% and significantly accelerating project delivery timelines
• Architected an enterprise-wide high-availability, scalable, fault-tolerant system across multiple data centers, yielding $100,000-$200,000 in infrastructure cost savings
• Established a comprehensive documentation framework for business workflows and APIs, reducing onboarding time for DevOps support teams by 30%
• Facilitated collaboration between customers, business analysts, third-party vendors, architects, product owners, scrum masters, and technical teams to deliver innovative solutions to complex, high-value business problems
• Led enterprise architecture design initiatives and participated in IT standards development, service reliability planning, and capacity management

• Led international expansion technology initiatives for AutoZone's retail business in Brazil and Mexico, encompassing Point of Sale systems, store operations, supply chain management, tax compliance, and distribution center operations
• Progressed from Senior Developer to Technical Lead and Project Manager, directing a team of 15+ developers
• Rescued a critical Mexican government tax compliance project that was delayed by a year, delivering before the compliance deadline and preventing significant tax penalties
• Designed and implemented a technical solution for Brazil's supply chain process that streamlined parts sourcing from vendors to distribution centers to stores, reducing operational costs at distribution centers by $20,000 monthly while improving inventory accuracy
• Architected a solution to the most complex challenge faced after opening business in Brazil, collaborating with Merchandising, Supply Chain Analysts, DC controllers, and Store Managers to address systemic issues
• Developed Spring Integration services to interface with Brazilian government SEFAZ system for creating tax documents (NotaFiscal), ensuring regulatory compliance
• Collaborated with PeopleSoft, Mainframe, Audit, and Finance teams to achieve 100% tax compliance across international operations
• Built components across all tiers of SOA-based applications, from services and data access layers to client applications using modern frameworks

Company Overview: Digital media division of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, serving as the digital portal to Disney's global travel destinations

• Contributed to the design and implementation of e-commerce web applications for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, focusing on quality engineering practices and system integration
• Implemented business logic to interface with external reservation and inventory systems through API integration
• Established rigorous quality assurance practices including JUnit testing, JBehave/Automated (Selenium) testing, and integration testing
• Conducted performance and reliability testing, analysis, and system tuning to ensure optimal user experience
• Digital media division of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, serving as the digital portal to Disney's global travel destinations

Company Overview: Global technology hub for FedEx, supporting the company's worldwide shipping and logistics operations

• Contributed to CSHIP, an SOA-based project for processing domestic and international shipping using ILOG JRules for Business Rule Management with services built on EJB and Java
• Designed and implemented business rules using Rule Studio to support validations for various types of international and domestic shipping
• Developed Fast2Offline Gap closure programming within the Common shipping engine, enhancing system capabilities
• Created detailed design documentation and participated in architectural discussions to ensure system integrity
• Global technology hub for FedEx, supporting the company's worldwide shipping and logistics operations

Company Overview: Leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 18 world-class brands comprising more than 6,800 properties

• Contributed to the Hilton Transaction Exchange, a suite of web services enabling commercial customers to interface with Hilton Hotels corporate systems for business functions such as searching and booking hotel rooms
• Independently designed and developed web applications using JSP, Tag libraries, Struts, and Spring MVC Frameworks
• Created HTE transactions XML Schemas and authored WSDL for HTE web services using Altova XMLSpy
• Established MySQL replication server architecture that replicated databases from master to four different slave boxes, improving system reliability and performance
• Designed Struts portlets (JSR 168, 286) for the HTE portal on Liferay portal using Tomcat application server
• Leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 18 world-class brands comprising more than 6,800 properties

Company Overview: Research and innovation center of Orange Group, a leading telecommunications operator

• Contributed to the SAI Library project implemented using Agile methodology, developing library modules for synchronous and asynchronous operations to back-end entities for the Nextfire UK SECC (Speech Enable Customer Care) service
• Designed and developed Data Access Layer using Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection patterns
• Implemented setter injection in adapters to integrate appropriate library component interfaces for logging and alarms
• Created 'easy-mock' implementation objects in JUnit to test library components outside the container environment
• Developed WebSphere MQ integration to transmit message objects to MQ queues, including an MQDaemon for off-board communication
• Research and innovation center of Orange Group, a leading telecommunications operator

Company Overview: Leading global IT consulting and services company

• Contributed to the TelephoneManager 3.0 (TM) project, an advanced management application providing an integrated suite of tools for configuration, control, and analysis of Nortel Networks systems
• This was Wipro's first software development project implemented using LEAN methodology
• Developed web components using EJB 2.0, Web Services, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI technologies
• Implemented Stateful and Stateless Session Beans (EJB) in session façade pattern for business logic
• Created Message Driven Beans with JMS 1.2 to execute asynchronous operations on network end elements
• Captured requirements, created feature specification documents, and composed detailed design documentation
• Adhered to quality assurance models including Six Sigma and SEI-CMM Level 5 standards
• Leading global IT consulting and system integration services company