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Naresh Pagadala

Naresh Pagadala

Melbourne

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Do not go where the path may lead, go where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Summary

Solution Designer with extensive experience in driving major digital, cloud, and engineering transformations. Expert in designing and developing robust, scalable, and secure solutions using modern technologies and frameworks for both responsive web & API's. Adept at converting monolithic architectures into microservices and micro frontends, leveraging cloud services, and automating deployments to enhance efficiency and performance. Strong leadership skills with a proven track record of improving system efficiency and security.

Skills

  • API Design & Development: RESTful APIs, GraphQL, SOAP
  • Digital Transformation
  • Cloud Transformation
  • Enterprise Technical Design
  • DevSecOps / CI CD
  • Micro Frontend ( ReactJS, Typescript, ExpressJS )
  • Engineering Transformation
  • Single Sign On ( Service and Identity Provider )
  • AWS Cloud
  • API Strategy ( APIGEE )
  • On-Premise, PAAS, SAAS, IAAS
  • Containerization ( Docker, Kubernetes )
  • Mobile Apps ( Native, Hybrid, Responsive )
  • Microservices Integrations
  • Data Strategy / Data Transformation
  • Database Management: SQL, NoSQL
  • Security: OAuth, JWT, SSL/TLS
  • Programming Languages: Java
  • Frameworks & Tools: Spring Boot, Swagger, Postman, Micronaut
  • Performance Optimization: Caching strategies, Load balancing

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Solution Designer

Westpac Group
08.2024 - Current


Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

Currently leading the design and delivery of enterprise-grade solutions as part of a multi-year digital transformation program within Westpac Group, aimed at modernising legacy systems and consolidating them into strategic platforms.

Enterprise Solution Design:

  • Spearheading the migration of legacy web applications into modern, scalable platforms under the bank's strategic architecture roadmap.
  • Designing modular, future-proof solutions that align with enterprise architecture principles and digital transformation goals.

Single Page Application (SPA) Integration:

  • Integrated React-based SPA components into the modern solution stack with seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML/OAuth2 via Azure AD.
  • Collaborated with frontend teams to ensure optimal performance, user experience, and component reusability across multiple digital channels.

Security & Compliance:

  • Ensured all solution designs adhered to enterprise security, risk, and compliance standards, including secure authentication, authorization, and data encryption patterns.
  • Worked with InfoSec teams to conduct threat modelling, secure coding practices, and compliance reviews.

Application Consolidation & Rationalisation:

  • Leading efforts to consolidate multiple legacy systems, defining migration paths, data strategies, and system decommissioning plans.
  • Ensuring seamless transition of business functionalities into strategic systems with minimal impact to end-users

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  • Partnering with business stakeholders, domain architects, delivery managers, and engineering teams to align on solution scope, architecture, and roadmap.
  • Participating in architectural governance forums and steering committees to validate and refine design decisions.

Documentation & Governance:

  • Developed high-level and low-level design (HLD/LLD) documentation, interface contracts, sequence diagrams, and deployment models using Visio & Confluence.
  • Ensured all design artefacts met governance standards and were regularly reviewed and baselined with architecture governance forums.

Associate Director - Architecture

Fidelity International
08.2012 - 07.2024

Throughout my tenure at Fidelity, spanning a decade I actively participated in several projects within UK Pension administration functional domain ( Book Keeping and Fund accounting ), including Member Experience - Digital Refresh, Sierra - Scheme Management and Scheme Rules, Single Sign-On, Tahoe and various other significant initiatives


My responsibilities includes :


Solution Designer and Leadership:

  • Designed and developed components in various programs underpinning digital transformation, cloud transformation, and engineering transformation.
  • Led the conversion of monolithic Struts-based web applications to React-based micro frontend.
  • Transformed monolithic legacy web services into modular microservices running on containers and serverless architectures.
  • Automated testing and deployment pipelines, moving from manual processes to single-click pipeline automated testing and deployment.
  • Utilized technologies and tools including ReactJS, JavaScript, Node.js, Spring Boot, Swagger, Postman, and APIGEE for comprehensive API design and management.
  • Employed performance profiling tools such as JProfiler and JMeter to optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Managed API security through oAuth, JWT, and API Key, ensuring robust security protocols.
  • Orchestrated technical and business processes using Step Functions, Apache Camel, Biztalk, and Appian.
  • Designed structural and behavioural UML diagrams using Visio.
  • Managed databases using SQL, Oracle, and Sybase, ensuring efficient data modelling and queries.
  • Ensured software quality using tools like JMeter, Selenium, and SONAR.
  • Managed deployments using Jenkins and Bamboo, ensuring smooth CI/CD processes.
  • Handled AWS Cloud development, leveraging services such as Docker, AWS EC2, S3, Lambdas, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SNS, and SQS.


Experience Highlights:


  • Architectural Reviews & Best Practices: Conducted reviews and assessments to ensure best practices and adherence to security standards.
  • Technical Solutions & POCs: Developed proof of concepts, prototypes, and architectural diagrams to communicate solutions and gain stakeholder buy-in.
  • Non-Functional Requirements: Implemented resiliency, scalability, reliability, performance, and security measures to ensure application quality.
  • Collaboration & Methodologies: Proficient in Agile, SDLC, TDD, and enterprise-level implementation, collaborating with multiple stakeholders to achieve targeted outcomes.
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM): Designed enterprise login solutions with Single-Sign-On and 2-factor authentication.
  • Mobile & API Design: Developed hybrid mobile applications using React Native and designed public, private, and partner APIs.
  • Governance & Efficiency: Defined principles, guidelines, and standards to align with future-state architecture vision, and identified organizational impacts of digital solutions.


Additional Expertise:


  • Analytics: Designed digital/web and API analytics for insights and improvements.
  • Cloud Service Models: Expertise in SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS design and decision-making.
  • Sustainability: Implemented strategies to reduce data center footprint using serverless computing and containerization.
  • Presentation & Training: Presented solutions in various forums and committed to continuous self-upskilling with 5 hours of e-learning weekly.

Lead Product Architect

Fidelity International
08.2012 - 09.2022
  • Improved development processes through regular mentoring on patterns and practices.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment.
  • Enhanced business flows by assessing operations and recommending enhancements.
  • Helped integrate third-party components with use of both open and proprietary protocols.
  • Followed best practices in enterprise design, project management and methodologies for Digital solutions.
  • Architected centralized monitoring, logging and reporting solutions.
  • Facilitated communication with stakeholders with development of architectural artifacts and specifications.
  • Met specific use needs by developing integrated or distributed system architectures.
  • Detected and addressed system issues with continuous monitoring strategies.
  • Developed system engineering, software engineering, system integration and distributed system architectures.
  • Improved system component compatibility in collaboration with engineers and software developers.
  • Verified stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of system architecture.
  • Collaborated with engineers or software developers to select appropriate design solutions or ensure compatibility of system components.
  • Guided smooth implementations through effective deployment guidelines.
  • Evaluated and predicted system performance under diverse operating conditions with different models.

Technical Lead

Sapient, IBM And Satyam
05.2003 - 08.2012


Investigated technical issues and implemented corrective actions, leveraging existing technologies and creating reusable components. Resolved technical disagreements, managed technical direction, and produced clean code. Improved software performance, stayed updated on web trends, and collaborated with quality assurance. Adapted software to new hardware, developed new products, and supervised team. Contributed to technology roadmap development.

Education

Bachelors of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Osmania University
Telangana
06.2002

Timeline

Solution Designer

Westpac Group
08.2024 - Current

Associate Director - Architecture

Fidelity International
08.2012 - 07.2024

Lead Product Architect

Fidelity International
08.2012 - 09.2022

Technical Lead

Sapient, IBM And Satyam
05.2003 - 08.2012

Bachelors of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Osmania University

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Telugu
Native or Bilingual

Accomplishments

  • Honoured with "Technology Champion Award", "Going Extra Mile Award" , "BU Champion Award", "People Choice Award"
  • Winner of an Hackathon event
  • Received multiple GEM awards in Westpac within first 6 months of my SD role

Work Availability

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Work Preference

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Full TimeContract Work

Work Location

HybridRemote

Important To Me

Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hours

Personal Details

Marital Status: Married to Shweta Sachdeva, an IT professional.
Family: Have a son who is currently 11 years old.
Residence: Currently living in Melbourne.

Visa Status: Full work rights ( Dependent TSS 482 ) until April 2026

Interests

Travelling

Languages

English

Learning

Self-learning achievements:

- Self-learned Python programming language, gaining proficiency in data manipulation, scripting, and automation tasks.
- Acquired knowledge in Generative AI, exploring concepts such as neural networks, deep learning, and natural language processing.
- Independently studied and gained insights into TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), understanding its principles and methodologies for enterprise architecture development.

Personal Details

Marital Status: Married to Shweta Sachdeva, an IT professional.
Family: Have a son who is currently 11 years old.
Residence: Currently living in Melbourne.

Visa Status: Full work rights until April 2026

Interests

Travelling

Languages

English

Skills Identity

Micro-Services : Spring Boot Cloud, Micro-services architecture, Event Sourcing, API Gateway, Containerization, Hystix Circuit breaker, Apigee, NodeJS.

Security : Oauth 2, Spring Security, Authentication & Authorization, API security, JWT stateless token, HTTPS, Encryption

Caching : Redis, EhCache, Elasticache

Performance Profiling : JMeter, JProfiler, VisualVM, YourKit, IBM Heap and Thread Analyzer

Search Engine : ElasticSearch 6.x. Lucene

Messaging/JMS : JMS, Kafka, RabbitMQ

Log Analysis : Splunk, ELK (ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash), LogBack

Code Quality : SonarQube, PMD, FindBug, CheckStyle, Formatter

Programming Languages, Framework ,Web Technologies : Core Java, SpringBoot (Core, MVC, Integration, Transaction, Data), Spring framework, JPA, Hibernate with second level Caching, Jersey, RESTEasy, Web services-SOAP,JMS, HTML, XML, XSLT, XSD, Jackson and GSON JSON, Quartz, Node, React

Testing Framework/APIs : Mockito, JUNIT 4, EasyMock, PowerMock, Emma, RESTAssured and JMeter.

Tools : Maven, Splunk, Kibana, IDE – STS, Eclipse, IBM RAD 7.0, Jira FindBugs,StarUML, MS Visio, SVN, GIT, Bamboo, Confluence, Cucumber JVM BDD, WireMock, Install Anywhere, TOAD, ASE.

Middleware/Servers : Tomcat, Jetty, WebLogic, WebSphere, Liferay.

Reporting : Tableau, Denodo ( Data Virtualization ) , OBIEE, BOBI, Jasper, OAS.

API Frameworks : Swagger, Open API, APIGEE, CA Layer 7.

CI /CD : Bamboo, Teamcity, Jenkins, UD

E-Commerce Platform : DemandWare

Orchestration / BPM : Apache Camel, Biztalk, Appian, XTRAC/XPM, Camunda

Learning

Self-learning achievements:

- Self-learned Python programming language, gaining proficiency in data manipulation, scripting, and automation tasks.
- Acquired knowledge in Generative AI, exploring concepts such as neural networks, deep learning, and natural language processing.
- Independently studied and gained insights into TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), understanding its principles and methodologies for enterprise architecture development.

Personal Details

Marital Status: Married to Shweta Sachdeva, an IT professional.
Family: Have a son who is currently 11 years old.
Residence: Currently living in Melbourne.

Visa Status: Full work rights until April 2026

Interests

Travelling

Languages

English

Skills Identity

Micro-Services : Spring Boot Cloud, Micro-services architecture, Event Sourcing, API Gateway, Containerization, Hystix Circuit breaker, Apigee, NodeJS.

Security : Oauth 2, Spring Security, Authentication & Authorization, API security, JWT stateless token, HTTPS, Encryption

Caching : Redis, EhCache, Elasticache

Performance Profiling : JMeter, JProfiler, VisualVM, YourKit, IBM Heap and Thread Analyzer

Search Engine : ElasticSearch 6.x. Lucene

Messaging/JMS : JMS, Kafka, RabbitMQ

Log Analysis : Splunk, ELK (ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash), LogBack

Code Quality : SonarQube, PMD, FindBug, CheckStyle, Formatter

Programming Languages, Framework ,Web Technologies : Core Java, SpringBoot (Core, MVC, Integration, Transaction, Data), Spring framework, JPA, Hibernate with second level Caching, Jersey, RESTEasy, Web services-SOAP,JMS, HTML, XML, XSLT, XSD, Jackson and GSON JSON, Quartz, Node, React

Testing Framework/APIs : Mockito, JUNIT 4, EasyMock, PowerMock, Emma, RESTAssured and JMeter.

Tools : Maven, Splunk, Kibana, IDE – STS, Eclipse, IBM RAD 7.0, Jira FindBugs,StarUML, MS Visio, SVN, GIT, Bamboo, Confluence, Cucumber JVM BDD, WireMock, Install Anywhere, TOAD, ASE.

Middleware/Servers : Tomcat, Jetty, WebLogic, WebSphere, Liferay.

Reporting : Tableau, Denodo ( Data Virtualization ) , OBIEE, BOBI, Jasper, OAS.

API Frameworks : Swagger, Open API, APIGEE, CA Layer 7.

CI /CD : Bamboo, Teamcity, Jenkins, UD

E-Commerce Platform : DemandWare

Orchestration / BPM : Apache Camel, Biztalk, Appian, XTRAC/XPM, Camunda

Key Achievements

  • API Development & Design: Successfully designed and launched over 75+ APIs, resulting in a 30% increase in system efficiency.
  • Security Enhancements: Spearheaded a security overhaul of API architecture, reducing vulnerabilities by 40%.
  • Performance Optimization: Introduced performance tuning measures that improved API response times by 25%.
  • Efficiency Improvements: Reduced API development time by 20% through the implementation of standardized design practices.
  • Training & Development: Conducted training sessions for over 50+ developers on API design and best practices.
  • Web Build Optimisation: Designed and optimized build processes using NPM and Webpack, reducing build times by 25%

Learning

Self-learning achievements:

- Self-learned Python programming language, gaining proficiency in data manipulation, scripting, and automation tasks.
- Acquired knowledge in Generative AI, exploring concepts such as neural networks, deep learning, and natural language processing.
- Independently studied and gained insights into TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), understanding its principles and methodologies for enterprise architecture development.

Personal Details

Marital Status: Married to Shweta Sachdeva, an IT professional.
Family: Have a son who is currently 11 years old.
Residence: Currently living in Melbourne.

Visa Status: Full work rights until April 2026

Interests

Travelling

Skills Identity

Micro-Services : Spring Boot Cloud, Micro-services architecture, Event Sourcing, API Gateway, Containerization, Hystix Circuit breaker, Apigee, NodeJS, Micronaut.

Security : Oauth 2, OIDC ( Open ID connect ), Spring Security, Authentication & Authorization, API security, JWT stateless token, HTTPS, Encryption

Caching : Redis, EhCache, Elasticache

Performance Profiling : JMeter, JProfiler, VisualVM, YourKit, IBM Heap and Thread Analyzer

Search Engine : ElasticSearch 6.x. Lucene

Messaging/JMS : JMS, Kafka, RabbitMQ

Log Analysis : Splunk, ELK (ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash), LogBack

Code Quality : SonarQube, PMD, FindBug, CheckStyle, Formatter

Programming Languages, Framework ,Web Technologies : Core Java, SpringBoot, Spring framework, JPA, Hibernate with second level Caching, Jersey, RESTEasy, Web services-SOAP,JMS, HTML, XML, XSLT, XSD, Jackson and GSON JSON, Quartz, Node, React

Testing Framework/APIs : Mockito, JUNIT 4, EasyMock, PowerMock, Emma, RESTAssured and JMeter.

Tools : Maven, Splunk, Kibana, IDE – STS, Eclipse, IBM RAD 7.0, Jira FindBugs,StarUML, MS Visio, SVN, GIT, Bamboo, Confluence, Cucumber JVM BDD, WireMock, Install Anywhere, TOAD, ASE, Tailswind CSS, Prometheus, Resilience4J .

Middleware/Servers : Tomcat, Jetty, WebLogic, WebSphere, Liferay.

Reporting : Tableau, Denodo ( Data Virtualization ) , OBIEE, BOBI, Jasper, OAS, Grafana.

API Frameworks : Swagger, Open API, APIGEE, CA Layer 7.

CI /CD : Bamboo, Teamcity, Jenkins, UD

E-Commerce Platform : DemandWare

Orchestration / BPM : Apache Camel, Biztalk, Appian, XTRAC/XPM, Camunda

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