Solutions Architect with about 16+ years of leadership experience in designing innovative business solutions for multiple business domains using Microsoft Technologies.
§ Seasoned software professional specializing in Azure solutions architecture, development, Integration and DevOps. Experienced in managing enterprise grade solutions and liaising with internal/external stakeholders for US,UK, Australian, European & South-East Asian customers. Committed to continuous learning.
§ Demonstrated proficiency in evaluating requirements for business application integration and service activation. Provided technical solutions, project governance, delivery methodology, estimation, Budgeting, and costing.
§ Involved in system study, requirements gathering and analysis and responsible for preparing of Due-diligence, Capture and Analyze Business & technical requirements, Solution Assessment & Validation, Technology selection, Engagement model. Involved in efforts estimation, design architecture diagram, preparing prototypes and Proof of concept.
§ Highly proficient with customer interactions in understanding the business priorities and propose efficient solutions. Delivered cost-effective business solutions for different domains such as Financial Services ( Novated Leasing & Salary Packaging , Insurances, Fleet Management), HRM, eCommerce, healthcare, B2B & B2C self-service, payment cards, fuel cards, banking, and retail clients.
§ Worked Overseas in the UK(2015-2016) & Norway(2010) over 1+ year of experience.
§ Currently preparing for TOGAF 9.2 , AWS ,Azure AI & AKS certification for upcoming year.
Project: “Ausgrid”
Supported more than 3 Releases for Ausgrid client to introduce complex modules like Recall Management ,Inspections for Smartfleet and currently working on Design for last release in discovery phase with API integrations for Burst SMS via APIM & MFA Integrations with Azure B2C POC using mobile .
Project: “Tech Modernisation”
Key member of the Architect team working with all Stakeholders PM, SA, Execs, Devs Tester, Business& Third party vendors , customers to model the in house Business across key financial services domain - salary packaging , Fleet & novated leasing to be unified as one product based revenue generating business process. Done POC in discovery phase & High level Solutions Design .Release Pilot phase with few customers in progress , supported Business & Architect for Demo .
Project: “Tech Foundations – Smartgroup API Platform”
Founding member of Integration Services team. Collaborated with external consultants to create and establish corporate API integration platform. Designed cloud architecture for API solutions covering best practices, security, scalability, and monitoring. Extensively used IAC and scripting to provision cloud infrastructure, build and deploy solutions using CI/CD. Created end-to-end monitoring solution with real-time dashboards and alerts in Production. Liaised with stakeholders, consultants and dev teams to plan and deliver BAU and project items for business. Managed production releases and provided post-production.
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Technologies: Azure API Management, Azure DevOps, Bicep, PowerShell, Azure AD, Azure Monitor Alerts, Dashboards, Log Analytics, App Insights, Key Vault, VM Scale Sets, Azure Firewall, Swagger, Git, App Gateway, App Services, Azure Storage, Function Apps, Azure B2C Integrations
Project: “Origin”
Developed DevOps pipelines with external consultants to migrate on-prem solution to Azure using Landing Zones and IAC. Designed the migrations of on prem to azure ,also worked on Azure B2C integrations for several applications using OpenID Connect JWT Token POC & SSO integrations
Technologies: Azure Bicep, Azure DevOps, PowerShell
Methodology: Agile
Project: “Phoenix”
Tech Lead for salary packaging core business solution. Implemented and managed DevOps process for staging and production environments, performed load testing and post-production support.
Technologies: API Apps, Web Apps, Function Apps, App Service Environment, VNET Integration, Application Insights, Azure Storage, Service Bus, Azure SQL, .NET Framework 4.5, Web API 2, ARM templates, VSTS DevOps, PowerShell, Git, JMeter
Methodology: Agile
Project: “Autopia”
Tech Lead for the car leasing platform, both Large Corporate & SME sector. Been part of client Audits & RBAC, Performance Tests. Implemented integration module to interface with external vendor via REST APIs. Implemented validation module to capture data issues when migrating data from other systems. Managed overall delivery for both BAU & Projects and deployments. Creation and execution of scripts to fix issues through ongoing application support.
Technologies: API Apps, Web Apps, Function Apps, App Service Environment, Azure VMs, VNET Integration, Application Insights, Azure Storage, SQL Server, .NET Framework 4.8, Web API 2, VSTS DevOps, Git
Methodology: Agile
Project: “Smartfleet”
Tech Lead for the leading provider of fleet management and related services to businesses of all shapes and sizes with a range of functions, such as vehicle leasing and financing, carpooling, vehicle maintenance, licensing and compliance, supply chain management, accident management and infringements, vehicle telematics (tracking and diagnostics), driver management, speed management, fuel management, health and safety management, and vehicle re-marketing. Managed overall delivery for both BAU & Projects and deployments.
Technologies: API Apps, Web Apps, Function Apps, App Service Environment, Azure VMs, VNET Integration, Application Insights, Azure Storage, SQL Server, .NET Framework 4.8, Web API 2, VSTS DevOps, Git
Methodology: Agile
Roles & Responsibilities:
· Worked with Internal / External Stakeholders, IT managers, third-party vendors and technical teams to deliver the required cost-effective solutions. Change Request management with top-level management. Lead the developers, designers in the delivery of technical components.
· Worked on HLSD, BRDs and Cost Matrixes in the Solutions discussions.
· Experience in API management, .Net core applications, Salesforce integrations and other inhouse systems and APIs.
· Currently working improving Business Processes by introducing Microservices and Bots to help with automation in areas like Quotes, Financier Integrations. Also working in proposals to reuse Calculation engine which can be enhanced for Salary packaging and Leasing Solutions as part of Digital Transformation by Enterprise architect. Experience in building quick proof of concepts (PoC)s for same. Currently part of Data lakes discussion for Enterprise with other Leads & architects and B2C azure implementations.
· Sound Knowledge on Agile Scrum and Kanban, DevOps, Waterfall for project deliveries.
· Translate business requirements into solution architecture & detailed designs.
· Strong experience in consulting, requirement gathering, preparing functional and technical documents. Complete involvement in all the phases of the project life cycle
· Client focused & result oriented. Able to negotiate and influence to reach consensus in challenging situations within Smartgroup and the Clients and vendors.
· Engaged effectively across different teams in different geological locations and with the wider community to ensure successful outcomes. Mentoring & training project resources.
PROJECT: Shell Fleet Online (SCOL 2.x, 3.x)
Tech Lead for Fleet Online with Shell Payments cards Platform. Key Contributions for version & technology upgrades & done POC on Azure Service Fabric Integrations for converting the WCF to microservices & Gateway.
Technologies: ASP.NET, MVC, Angular, SQL, Html, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap, WCF, Azure Service Fabric, APIGEE, TFS, Telerik AJAX.
Methodology: Waterfall
PROJECT: SmartConnect (3.x & 2.x)
Tech Lead for SmartConnect with Shell Upstream Monitoring Platform (Oil Extraction- Rig/ Trains/Equipment monitoring). Provided complex tree algorithm the data for Jobs deployed in different time zones consider the daylight savings, and worked completely on the Reliability Module, Ladder, and other modules to solve major issues.
Technologies: ASP.NET, MVC, Angular, SQL Server, Html, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap, WCF (token Based), Custom Reports(Third Party), TFS, Telerik Kendo UI, SharePoint & Excel Services.
Methodology: Waterfall
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Providing the overall design and structure to the application. Managed end to End Deliveries. Meeting with end users and stakeholders to gather requirements, create functional and technical documents.
• Establishing design/coding guidelines and best practices. Drives usage of design patterns. Code review and estimations.
• Mentoring developers in the delivery of technical systems and components.
• Supported server configurations for application setup code installations & IIS and other important apps & Connectivity for all non Prod & Prod environments.
• Involved in creating test cases and deployment packages (process includes creating Deployment checklist, Deployment Plan, code labeling, wsp packages with install/uninstall batch files
PROJECT: Wintid
Senior developer for Wintid an HRM product for over 1000+ Customers from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Also done twitter & Outlook Integrations & NUnit Integrations. Travelled Onsite (Oslo, Norway) twice to KT for the initial module and for the Kick start of Release1, 2 Activities for Outlook Add in Module.
Technologies: ASP.NET, Windows Application, Enterprising Application Block, SQL Server, Html, JS, TFS, WCF , WPF, Outlook Add-ins, Twitter Integrations, NUnit Integration.
Methodology: Agile Scrum
Roles & Responsibilities:
PROJECT: Cortical Map (US)
Senior developer for Cortical Map, a project which builds brain connectivity Maps of various kinds of neurons. It is an especially useful tool for researchers and biotech students to learn more about the neurons and related neural networks present in our brain. Implemented complex logic for drawing the neuron in 2D based on the data present in DB.
Technologies: ASP.NET, SQL Server, Webservices.
Methodology: Waterfall
§ Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ300, AZ301,AZ305)
§ Completed Data Science & R Programming Training
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