Krishna Srinivasan

IT Developer with 15 years of experience across retail, banking, and manufacturing sectors. Expertise in project delivery using waterfall, agile, and hybrid methodologies, with a specialisation in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps and Backend development

Application Development: API Developer experienced in building RESTful APIs and adept at designing, developing, and optimizing relational databases

Azure Cloud: Skilled in designing and deploying Azure cloud solutions, including compute, storage, and database services.

IaC Development: Proficient in using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management

Dev Ops : Expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps

Solution Design : Designed and developed backend solutions for store back-office applications, with experience in upgrading legacy systems and transitioning from monolithic to microservices architectures

Stakeholder Management : Collaborative professional with over 5 years at the client location, building strong relationships with product owners and the head of IT to deliver successful outcomes

Team Leadership : Strong background in leading cross functional teams to successfully deliver various projects that involves cloud migrations, cloud paas solutions and hybrid mobile & web application solutions

Retail Store Operations: 7+ years of experience in the retail domain with a good understanding of store back office operations, optimising store performance, and enhancing customer satisfaction

• AZ-204 : Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate
• AZ-400 : Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

Stores Back Office Application: Project that replaced the Legacy Systems providing common platform for the store users to access all in-store inventory routines and reports in the back office

• Designed and developed the backend solutions for around 20+ core inventory functionalities in the application
• Led and coordinated the cutover team with precision, overseeing the successful implementation of the solution across 3000 stores within one year
• key SME for critical functionalities like stocktake, order management, stock on hand, article lookup, promotions, and markdown
• Configured Azure CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test and deployment process across various platforms such as browser, mobile and databases

Stores Cloud Migration : Migration of existing stores back office application servers from on-premise to Azure cloud

• Involved in the design , migration and cutover phases of the project
• Coordinated with Integration teams for repointing the end points to the new servers post migration
• Effectively planned the data migration and pilot rollout strategy for migrating the servers to all the stores (~3000)

Point of sale in-store media : A retail solution built in azure cloud to push the marketing content to the point of sale screens across all the stores

• Designed and provisioned the Azure cloud infrastructure for various cloud components such as Function Apps, Service Bus, Event hub, and PostgreSQL Database using Terraform IaC code
• Configured Azure CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test and deployment process by incorporating tools like Snyk and Sonar for security and quality checks
• Enhanced API performance and optimized cloud costs through strategic changes in app service plans
• Set up monitoring and logging solutions using Application Insights, and Log Analytics & Splunk

Store Modernisation : Modernisation of the monolith store back office application to a microservices based azure cloud architecture with a unified front end across all stores

• As an application SME , actively involved with the architects and the project team during the discovery and POC stages of the project to evaluate various cloud components and finalise the end state architecture
• Effectively designed and utilized the Strangler Fig Pattern to design a microservices and event-driven architecture, enabling a smooth transition from a monolithic application
• Designed and provisioned the Azure cloud infrastructure for various cloud components such as Function Apps, Event Hub,Azure key vault, and PostgreSQL Database using Terraform IaC code
• Configured Azure CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test and deployment process by incorporating tools like Snyk and Sonar for security and quality checks
• Developed azure functions, timer functions and durable functions to cater to various requirements
• Implemented security best practises by effectively utlising Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC , Service Principle, Managed identity and Oath 2 Authorisation