Gokulnath Venugopal

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• Built databases and table structures for web applications.
• Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
• Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
• Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.

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• Built databases and table structures for web applications.
• Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
• Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
• Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
• Tuned systems to boost performance.
• Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
• Optimized dust, temperature and humidity controls for installed systems.
• Rapidly prototyped new data processing capabilities to confirm integration feasibility into existing systems.
• Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
• Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
• Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.

• Domain: Product Architecture and design
• Key skills: AWS Solution Architecting, Shell/Python, CloudFormation/Terraform, VPN’s, Serverless Architectures.
• Gather functional and technical use case, operational and SLA, monitoring and reporting requirements, security limitations and integrations requirements to develop product design
• Construct cost projection for product detailed design, development, automation and opex cost to compare it against existing opex, AO and IO cost and derive financial breakeven points, business benefit, product reusability and develop business case
• Architect a cloud first, serverless, decoupled, redundant and optimized high-level design that meets the business case
• Design the control plane, data plane, operational plane around the high-level design to develop ready to market state product
• Recommend technologies, software, and products to be used around the new product design for robotic process automation
• Design product and data migration strategy, cutover plan and construct a high-level design for reusable migration tools to package with new product development
• Construct an agile methodology for detailed product design, development, testing, and deployments.
• Perform detailed design, design transitions to development team, lead/interact development and testing teams in software development lifecycle and deliver fully functional product
• Design and setup CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, automations using Infrastructure as a Code (CloudFormation/Terraform) and robotics automations within applications

• Project Description: Host secure infrastructure in AWS to deploy market gateway applications that enable client to enter Australian utility market.
• Design and host a secure and highly available infrastructure in AWS to deploy market gateway application components.
• Develop industry standard, secure and robust API integration modules for north/south bound connections.
• Design and develop disaster recovery strategy and solution, DevOps (CI/CD) and cost reduction automations.
• Design and implement secured and cost-effective data storage and data protection, backup & archive, and data destruction solutions as per the regulatory requirements.
• Design, develop and implement VPN and Direct connect solutions for secured connections.
• Gather business requirement, analyze, and design end to end infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting solutions using Splunk.
• Plan and co-ordinate cybersecurity and penetration testing, fix hardware and software vulnerabilities.
• Identify and apply all hardware and software patch update, fix vulnerabilities for all testing and production servers.
• Design and implement single sign on solutions using Active directory for secured authentication.
• Create technical design documents, infrastructure blueprints, support plan, disaster recovery and application recovery document, application build guide and walkthrough to clients/security teams.
• Chair workshops for sprint planning, scrum meetings, infrastructure design and program architecture with client security architects, project management team, and client stakeholders.
• Collaborate with colleagues and vendors in other parts of world (Germany, in this case) to design and develop secure and enterprise standards integration solutions to implement multi-vendor & multi-platformed applications.
• Perform impact analysis and proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction to enable business strategy, cost reduction, and for design modifications to existing systems to support new designs and solutions.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis, support team cost analysis, support contracts preparation, review and participate in support contract presentation process.

• Project Description: Support and manage business-critical financial reporting client production system that enables Telstra to submit end-of-month journal reporting and end of financial reporting to market in International Financial Reporting Standard 15 - format.
• Scrum Master and DevOps lead Engineer for production and non-production applications for 8months+ leading ~20 member multi-vendor team (Accenture, Infogix, and Telstra).
• As DevOps lead, conduct sprint planning, progress, and retrospective sessions, monthly status reporting sessions for both internal and client leadership teams, and develop good working relationship with Telstra Business GM's in Accounting and Finance community and external financial auditors (received multiple appreciations from various Telstra GM's).
• Strategized and managed successful migrated 2 years of IFRS15 contract data from existing to new stack that sums around ~$3 billion in contract balance, reconciled and delivered required substation documents to auditors.
• Project Description: Re-architecture big data solution hosted in Azure IaaS, Cloudera, and Hadoop technologies to Azure SaaS cloud for enabling solution towards technology direction, performance improvement, and predominantly cost reduction.
• Architected, designed robust reusable data ingestion framework in Azure that instantly onboards and processes very high volume of Billing and provisioning data from various on-premise Telstra application into Azure to support Business Critical IFRS15 End-of-Month Processing and Reporting.
• Architected, designed custom framework that replaces existing licensed software 'ARRE' that saved $1.5 per year for client (licensing + infrastructure).
• Define and enforce design standards, create and review functional design documents, perform solution walkthrough to client stakeholders and security teams for sign off process and transition design to development and testing team and support throughout testing cycle.

• Project Description: Design and architecture data ingestion module and integration module for enterprise solution hosted in Azure IaaS, Cloudera, and Hadoop technologies, for business-critical, time-sensitive, large-scale transformation project directly previewed by client CFO, that enables client system to be compliant with new industry standard "IFRS15" journal reporting.
• Design and architect data ingestion module that swiftly onboard data (~350 million records per day) from various cloud and on-premise application systems to Azure, Hadoop system.
• Lead team of 5-member offshore feature teams as DevOps Engineer to manage cloud-based business-critical production system (Microsoft Azure).
• Chaired workshops with the client’s senior stakeholders, General Managers to gather Business & functional requirements and created Functional requirement documents (FRD) and Functional detailed design document (FDD) for cloud-based applications.
• Estimated and provided effort & cost for application development, application support, application & infrastructure decommissioning.
• Delivered high-quality presentation packs on behalf of Accenture to brief the Client’s Deputy CFO & Executive Director (Program Sponsor) about the project overview which was used for C-level presentations, prepared Competitive Tender response pack.
• Challenged existing designs and architecture, created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions and used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions to constructively develop automated multiple automated and cost-effective solutions.

• Project Description : Project Production Support and Maintenance - Telecom Retail Billing hosted on 60+ production servers and various platforms (like AWS, On-Premise E25K servers).
• Led ~6-members offshore team and managed 5 Business-critical applications hosted on 60+ production servers and various platforms (like AWS, On-Premise E25K servers).
• Provide Hardware & Software architectural design solutions, deployment strategies for new application development, installation & existing application upgrade programs.
• Identify the limitations of existing applications and provided consultation for upgrades and proposed migration approach/strategy of applications to cloud services like (AWS, Azure & EPIC cloud) wherever applicable to increase efficiency and reduce running cost.
• Designed, developed a capacity Management prediction model in a data analytics tool that provided insight into application & infrastructure breakpoints.
• Created multiple custom frameworks like application auto-recovery framework, cognitive application restarts (custom framework that initiates auto application restart without human intervention).
• Expertise on application support/maintenance/upgrade/installation/decommission and external system audit.
• Chaired meetings with client Technical and Product owners for sprints, production changes/outages, escalated Sev2/Sev1's, capacity management reports, and precautionary actions.
• Extensive experience in setting up new environments, configuring clusters/managed servers/domains/load balancers/high availability (HA)/failover configuration/disaster recovery and restoration, performance tuning in Oracle WebLogic, Tuxedo, Database, CI/CD automation, deployments.