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TOGAF 9.1 Part 1(aka TOGAF 9.1 Foundation)

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH)

DataStax Academy - Installing and Configuring Cassandra

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Learning the Cassandra read path

Participated in the discover volunteering event at lambs farm which works for the cause of people with developmental disabilities for a day to do landscaping and painting.

Volunteer

Participated in the Amex volunteering event at Food Bank for packing of the boxes.

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Contributing in various StackExchange forums.

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Volunteering reviewing Manning books.
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President - Home owners association

Moderator

School

Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing(Information Technology)

Bachelor of Engineering - BE(Computer Science and Engineering)

Joined Discover's big browser applications group in the capacity of Sr. Applications Architect 

Initiatives:
Redesigning Digital Marketing Platform, Target Marketing and Discover deals into Unified Discover Offers Platform
o	Understanding as-is architecture and came up with to-be architecture (Integration of to-be DFS system with Hortonworks Apache Hadoop/DataStax Cassandra)
o	Full life cycle involvement right from use cases till Production deployment.
o	Replacing 3rd party vendor integration with in-house developed Hadoop based solution(Apache Spark) and integrating with Adobe Site Catalyst.
o	Overall savings of around $5.5M in licensing itself(by retiring the 3rd party analytics vendor).

Discover as a Default Card Payment Mechanism
o	Converting business requirements into technical specifications and design
o	Came up with pilot approach using web scrapping framework – HTMLUnit. Overall savings of $75K for the pilot using this approach.
o	Second phase with broad rollout has been done

Sr. Consultant/Application Architect

Joined NMG as Advanced Analytics Architect and also worked as Customer Experience Platform(API and microservices based tier) for neimanmarcus.com(Online, Mobile and Retail).
Responsibilities includes
o Cloud vendor selection among AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud platform
o Thought leadership and thorough analysis in terms of what needs to remain on Premise and what needs to be migrated to Cloud?
o Phase wise Data and application migration strategy to AWS/Snowflake
o Evaluation of various tools and products in the field of Data pipeline, data cataloging, Metadata management, Data Discovery, Data Lake, Data Visualization
o Designing data pipeline for data ingestion with various source systems using Spark
o Orchestrating the delivery network for consumers in such a way that there is least or no impact on consumer applications
o Also worked with the Enterprise Data warehouse architect to architect target architecture in AWS Cloud(Snowflake and lift and shit of SAP BO/Reporting tools)

Advanced Analytics Architect

Started in IBM Global Services India Limited at Bangalore India for telecom and media Department for the client(AT&T) as a Software Engineer. Went multiple times to Onsite - Redbank NJ and Herndon VA to work with AT&T team(Ordering). This was the first billion-dollar outsourcing project that any IT company in India ever got. 

Two major initiatives
CM/DSBS (Customer Manager/ Desktop Suite based System). 
CM and DSBS consist of distributed services and applications spread across multiple tiers, platforms and physical locations. CM is a web interface to the Universal Platform (UP). It is a standard User Interface (UI) and infrastructure Service to enable the implementation of Transactional web applications and the business service required to support customer care across the business functions of the UP. The focus of the CM is to provide open access to all user communities. CM interacts with the other applications of the UP, providing the common UI and infrastructure services between the

Software Engineer

o Helping enterprise support customers in their AWS journey. 
o As a Senior TAM, help design and execute strategies to drive customer adoption and use of AWS services. 
o Provide advocacy and strategic technical direction to help plan to make sure customer's AWS environments operationally healthy. 
o Help Customers achieve the greatest value from AWS.
o Work with Solutions Architects and Specialist Architects to help customer make right architecture decisions
o Complete analysis and presents periodic reviews of operational performance to customer
o Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed pre-launch planning
o Help during critical customer launches aka Infrastructure Event Management
o Make recommendations on how new AWS offerings fit in the company architecture(Private Preview, Public Preview and General Availability)
o Advocate for customer features and requirements within AWS (Voice of the customer)
o Participate in customers meetings
o Know and uses all ke

Senior Technical Account Manager

Later STAR group was expanded to take care of entire BFSI(Banking Financial Services) vertical. Worked in the capacity of Sr. Technology Architect for the major enhancements project right from Requirements phase till production deployment.
STAR was more like a SWAT team. Team members will be deployed apart from the regular client assignment where there is a fire.
Two major client projects:

Enterprise Money Movement platform for American Express Phoenix AZ.  
o Arrangement Manager is one of critical system within Enterprise Money Movement Platform which makes the arrangement for the payment of credit cards for Corporate and Personal Credit cards across the world for the entire American Express.
o Redesign from legacy to Spring batch based system. 
o Led a team of 50 developers for various feature enhancements, integration with other American express systems.
o Identifying and fixing the issues of Duplicate and missing payments in the legacy EMM.
o Overall benefits – more robust, scalab

Senior Technology Architect

Later promoted to Senior Software Engineer. 
Major Initiative:
Electronic Order-Switched Voice at Middle NJ and IBM India Bangalore
EO-SV is a web-based system that provides users the capability to provision orders for Outbound SDN, VTNS, One Net and VON service bundles. EOSV designed to allow AT&T customers to place a Service Request (SR) and track service orders. 
o Requirement Analysis for 2 releases of EOSV.
o Design and Development of UI, middle tier of the application using Java Servlets, JDBC and MVC pattern.
o Developed high level design and use case documents using Rational Rose.
o Writing DAO for the CRUD kind of operations with the backend DB2.
o Developing entity and session beans as per the project requirements.
o Exposing integration points via SOA based webservices to integrating systems.
o Deploying and remote debugging on IBM Websphere application server
o Writing UNIX shell scripts

Senior Software Engineer

Worked as a Systems Architect in Client Onboarding and NextX360 Trading platform

Initiatives
Account Services/Forms External Vendor Integration
Account Services is a group mainly responsible for providing infrastructure services for all sort of BDs and IBDs to work on Account opening & Client onboarding related functionalities. Pershing standard, custom and semi-custom forms integration with the vendor LaserApp to cater the needs of Pershing and IBDs for Forms management and Forms generation needs.
•  Vendor selection based on POCs.
•  Integration with External vendor – LaserApp for prefilling of forms with Customer Contact Data using LaserApp SDK.
•  Integrating NetX360(Desktop and Web) with LaserApp Desktop and LaserApp web
•  Abstracting out forms generation services to cater to various source systems within Pershing.
•  Creating SOA based web services for Forms Plaform.
•  Form selection logic using Drools plug-in.
•  Feed process design and implementation using Spring Batch Frame

Architect

Joined Infosys as a Technical Architect for BCM(Banking and Capital Market) clients in the STAR(Solutions Technology and ARchitecture stream).
Responsibilities includes
o Worked for various clients viz. Goldman Sachs, American Express, Capital One and CitiGroup. These are either technical consulting kind of assignments or full SDLC where I was working in the capacity of  Technical Lead or Technical architect roles. Work was mainly into server side Java/JEE technologies interfacing at client site.
o Also worked for various Pre-sales RFP processes.
o Private Wealth Management group at Goldman Sachs, NY(Wall Street). Worked in the initiative to transform all the paper based statements to e-delivery using Java Messaging and Apache James Mail server. Integrated with other GS systems. This got overall savings of $1 Million USD per year.
o Communications Utility project at American Express Phoenix AZ where I worked for the complex integration of DocSciences and Documentum with overall Java/J2

Technical Architect

Worked as Senior Applications Engineer/Technical Leader in Oracle India/USA

Two initiatives
Worked on World's first healthcare product viz. Clinical Transaction Base at Oracle India(Bangalore), Washington D.C. HealthCare Department(Client) and Bay Area(CA). This product can be utilized to provide customized end-to-end solutions for the healthcare industry. It is HL7 compliant. This helps customers integrate all healthcare data (clinical, administrative and financial) into one single repository and provides a mechanism to share this data using HL7 V3 messages across institutions and geographic regions.
http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/healthcare/index.html

o Had ownership of Inbound messaging processor. Lead a team of 5 engineers to develop persistence and query engines based on HL7 RIM model
o Requirement Analysis of Messaging framework
o Design of Inbound Message Processor (IMP) using Rational Rose.
o Implementation and coding of IMP using Oracle Application (OA) Framework, Busin

Sr. Applications Engineer

Joined American Express as a Platform Engineering Architect. 
Developed engineering platform to be used by Business application developers.
Led a team of 80 developers.

Major initiatives.
CSRT(Cornerstone Realtime Platform)
Integration of state of the art API Platform using data pipelines with datalake. It enables business applications to access Cornerstone ecosystem data in a request/response manner.
•  USP – overall time to market for any bigdata usecase has been reduced from 6 months to 1.5 months and overall savings of $7.5 Million USD per year. The entire platform runs in Amex’s private cloud based on Openshift and later migrated to GCP.
•  Extension and Customization of Spring Cloud Netflix OSS to create services layer which can autoscale
•  Redesign for batch feeds & real-time feeds
•  Unified metadata layer for data discovery
•  Enabling true Polyglot persistence in CSRT LLC(Low latency Cache) by integrating to Mapr-DB, Cassandra, Mongo-DB, ElasticSearch, Redis and MySQL.
•  C

Senior Engineer-I/Lead Technical Architect

Worked as a Technical Leader in Java/J2EE projects for American Express client at New York City and Salt Lake City UT

Initiatives
Amex Gift and store Card Payment system re architecture/redesign 
o SOA based webservices to integrate with existing systems
o Creating Loosely coupled components
o IBM websphere deployments for SOAP based web services
o Data Access from Backend DB2 on Z/OS

MyCA(My Card Account is the front Application) for American Express Card members(landing page) where major functionalities are available.
o Analysis, Architect, Design and Development
o Design and development of UI and business layers using Spring MVC
o Working on Data Access Layer using Hibernate as O/R Tool
o DB modeling for backend DB2 on Z/OS.
o Creating class, sequence and activity diagrams using Rational Rose Enterprise Edition.
o Estimation & work allocation using Microsoft project plan.
o Deployment and remote debugging on IBM Web Sphere Server.
o Performance optimization using JProbe.

Project/Technical Leader

• SME for Microservices, EMR(Elastic MapReduce - Hadoop Ecosystem), Athena, DynamoDB, S3-select, AWS Data Exchange, Postgresql, Snowflake and other related AWS Services. 
• Working on high transaction application - 40 Million transactions per day.
• Critical resource for DTCC's transformation from T+2 to T+1 clearing and processing
• Create the best architecture for various DTCC use cases
• Determination of real-time, near real-time, batch feeds for Data Lake
• Real time streaming of data into Datalake & Datawarehouse(Snowflake) from various source systems using Kafka and Spark streaming.
• Integration of Confluent Kafka cloud and elastic clouds with Datalake
• Making sure that applications are following best practices regarding Enterprise Security, compliance and auditing.
• Cost Optimization and best practices. Saved $50K per month for an app via autoscaling.
• Automation using terraform and chef
• Helping teams migrate to Snowflake. Ope-rationalization of Snowflake. 
• Migration of 

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