BABU Muthupandiyan

I have 23+ years of experience in full life cycle software development ( starting from requirement gathering/analysis, design, architecture, technology selection, drafting the control/data flow db-model diagrams, implementation, integration, debugging, configuring, testing, DevSecOps verification, deploying via DevOps pipeline, post production support, maintenance) on cloud as well as on-permis , leading, managing, onboarding, mentoring team of Java/J2EE platform, UI applications, DevOps in Agile environment. Also participated in assessing existing architecture, improve standards/principles, suggesting best technology/bestPractices, identifying reusable components across projects/functionality, project upgrade, migration, lift&shift, porting large data store, and redesign work. Helped in Product Management, Architecture, Administration, Infrastructure and DevOps 

Jewel                                                    Bermuda

Sr Solution Architect                                                                      Period: Dec’21 – Till Date

Key Accomplishments:  

Engaged Docker, Helm, MuleSoft (Anypoint Platform), Kubernetes for the scalable application configuration, migration of on-perm, implementation, deployment into containers, container orchestration and deployment with autoscaling. With Kafka event driven framework.

Migration of Auth0 identity provider from Okta. OAuth authorization and OIDC authentication configured. IT compliance, data protection with KYC and AML regulation are being exercised  

Terraform for infrastructure/configuration as code, spin up and maintenance via CI/CD pipeline. Created runbooks and standard operating procedures. Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing

Prometheus, Graphana dashboard for monitoring, alerts also integrated with OpenSearch logs. As part of DevOps Engineering Processes and Operations & Management (O&M). SIEM employed like Splunk, Sumo Logic.

Integrated with other 3rd party like Mambu, Modern Treasury, MCB, Keap CRM, RegTech One, Onfido, Comply Advantage, Codefi, Anchorage (for Crypto collateralized loan/lending), DocuSign, Modyo, Fincuro, Hubspot, Slack, Azure AD, Tableau, Dropbox etc.,

BlockChain management via transaction hash, Elliptic for blockchain transaction monitoring/screening. Fungible, NFT configured, issued and redeemed. Crypto assets minting and issuance via agreed/configured smart contract, multi-sign. Crypto wallet and eWallet management.

Did POC with Ethereum, Polygon blockchain networks via distributed ledger transactions. Solana was also considered. Event driven architecture was involved.

Tokeny integrated to provide an enterprise-grade infrastructure to allow companies and financial actors to compliantly issue, transfer, and manage assets on blockchain via market available browser plugins like MetaMask etc.,

Mentorship, hands on and get involved in developing POCs, designing systems, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise. Managing offshore team

Twelve-Factor App methodology for building software-as-a-service applications. DevOps and DecSecOps work culture.

RBC                                                    Canada

Sr Solution Architect                                                                      Period: Nov’20 – Dec’21

Key Accomplishments:  

Engaged Docker, Helm, Kubernetes for the scalable application configuration, migration into containers, container orchestration and deployment with autoscaling.  

Built server-side microservice solution in Springboot, Java 11 with vault for secret management, consul for centralized service management. Employed Nginx configuration based routing.  

Handled Helm chart templates to support multiple environment configurations to support inhouse as well as multi cloud infrastructure/platform.

Implemented presentation tier to configure with OAuth. Suggested to use Helm dependencies for stack based deployments.  

Addressed cross-site scripting issues, docker image scanning for vulnerability, server maintenance. Configured docker registry, Helm, JenkinsCore(with Blue Ocean) for CI/CD automation.

Migrated, ported legacy applications into micro service architecture, built them docker containers and deployed them to Kubernetes cluster in a distributed system.

Customized and used Helios for integration with Git, Jenkins, UCD, LDAP, ServiceNow to generate needed code, configure and deploy to multi cloud environment

Solace for messaging and Ignite for caching. Used CDK for deployment via JavaScript, TypeScript. AWS-SDK for interacting with their service APIs

Used GraphQL, X-Ray for API map/monitoring, Mirantis K8 engine, Kibana for logs, ITRS for system health monitoring/alerts

CRISP/Data Science Platform, Fidelity MA

Enterprise Cloud Architect                                                            Period: Jan’19 – Nov’20

Key Accomplishments:  

Engaged EMR, EKS, ECS for any complex DataScience, MachineLearning application configuration, support. Used MLOPs, SageMaker for AI/ML usecases to train, build, deploy, expose the prediction/model.

Built complex server-side solution in Springboot, Java 8 to handle heavy load  asnychronously and write the data either to S3 or EFS. With vault for secret management. Employed Nginx configuration-based routing.  

Handled Python scripts, Serverless Lambda code, CloudFormation templates to support multiple environment configurations (like JupyterLab, RStudio R markdown notebook, Airflow, Autosys for Scheduling, ShinyApp, Pip, Flask, NumPy, Anaconda etc.,) with backend as DynamoDB on CloudWatch, StackChange, EC2 events employing SNS, SQS, Streams, Lambda.

Implemented Angular framework UI to accomplish multiple cloud environments, EC2 configuration for the users and DevOps with OAuth. AppSync used as backend mediator to facilitate between UI and backend AWS components. Electron to package into executable.

Addressed cross-site scripting issues, server maintenance. Configured Jenkins, Concourse-CI, JenkinsCore(with Blue Ocean) for CI/CD automation.

Migrated Servers, database between two different AWS accounts, infrastructure. Containerization using Docker, EKS and publishing them and managing using Helm Chart, Fargate.

DB migration, ETL to cloud and also migrated data in between different AWS accounts. X-Ray for API map/monitoring, profiling the services by sampling rules.

911 Routing with CellPhone Providers, West Corporation   CO

Enterprise Architect                                                                  Period: Jul’18 – Jan’19

Key Accomplishments:  

Designed cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS

Implemented specification, design, development, maintenance for existing legacy enterprise-scale system that needs critical distributed scaling capabilities

Engaged PCF services at scale including App Autoscaler, High Availability, Config Server, Service Registry, Circuit Breaker, RabbitMQ. NodeJS with ExpressJS for fast UI.  

Built complex server-side solution in Java handle heavy load that can be deployed to PCF. Containerized and managed using Kubernetes.

Defined, led the adoption software best practices, DevOps culture with CI/CD best practices (Jenkins pipeline, Ansible Playbook), Test driven development and collaborative code ownership.

Ming to Director/VP, work with scrum teams, product development, operations, and executives to drive re-architecture and redesign of legacy products using open source technologies, ReactJs, Micro services, Oracle and Private Cloud.

Advised the business and technology delivery leadership on how to translate the client's infrastructure and automate business requirements into executable technology solutions.

Automated deployments, customized Tableau reports for visibility and transparent statistics. CloudWatch log-groups were created to organize logs. Datadog agents were configured along with containers for log shipping and log monitoring.  

Recommended Chaos Monkey for application stability testing and Gattling for performance/load testing. Swagger for API Management

eBooks/Findaway AudioBooks/Profiling, EBSCO                  MA

Enterprise Architect                                                                  Period: Jul’17 – Jul’18

Key Accomplishments:  

Implemented specification, design, development, maintenance enterprise-scale mission critical distributed systems with demanding non-functional requirements

Engaged AWS services at scale including Kinesis, EMR, Athena, SQS, DynamoDB, EC2 auto scaling groups, and IAM. Did a pilot/POC on PCF. Recommended AWS DMS. MongoDB for document-based data storage. Deployed using CloudFormation. Containerized each microservices application and managed using Kubernetes.

Built complex server-side solution in Java to stamp an eBook(PDF/EPUB) requested by the user, using Netflix OSS and application deployed in Docker containers.

Defined, led the adoption software best practices, DevOps culture with CI/CD best practices(Jenkins pipeline, Ansible Playbook), Test driven development and collaborative code ownership. With consul for secret management and Service Mesh.

Reporting to CTO/VP, work with scrum teams, product development, operations, and executives to drive re-architecture and redesign of legacy products using open source technologies, ReactJs, Micro services, NoSQL and Private Cloud.

Led the effort for the cross-product initiative for beta release of new API platform working closely with Directors, executives, product owners and development teams.

Integrated with SauceLabs for browser compatibility/mobile E2E tests. Customized Tableau reports for visibility and transparent. Automated deployment process.

Involved in upgrading their AudioBooks inventory by integrating with Findaway. Suggested Drools engine. Migration Hub to monitor the migration

DB migration to cloud via automated pipeline using Kinesis and event based. Grafana agents were configured along with containers for log shipping and log monitoring.

Used APIGEE to route traffics to legacy vs cloud services by having a façade APIs configured in APIGEE. Implemented few Apps on MEAN. LogBeat or filer agents are also used in few projects to ship logs into Splunk or Logstash for log monitoring.

AudioVideo/Forum/MessageCenter/CCS, Cengage Learning            MA

Systems Architect                                                                                   Period: Jun'15 – Jul’17

Key Accomplishments:  

Built bundles as part of Microservices/SOA/SaaS/OSGi through an appropriate architecture with TDD, designed dataModel that drives stable, performant, scalable and effective. Tried to use Akka for resilient.  SNS, Camel for guaranteed JMS.

Implemented OpenTok/TokBox integration with backend allowing users to do group video conference and recordings. Used few features of Dropwizard framework.

Introduced, suggested to use Discourse, GraphQL, NodeJS, story book to perform discussion forum within platform deployed on AWS. Directed to use Cloud Foundry.

Reduced technical debt to improve site performance by 25% and to allow usability. CloudFormation templates, stacks tried for deployment automation.

Architect for the AudioVideo, discussion forum and messageCenter application. Directed to use SpringBoot, Beanstalk. Automated deployments. CloudFront for content delivery.

Improved development process. Introduced peer-review process and deployed Stash Pullrequest Builder Plugin on Jenkins for automated, continuous builds.

Helped in leading, mentoring, interview and recruit software engineers as a member of recruiting team. Directed to use Workflow. Publishing, streaming contents.

DB migration to cloud via automated pipeline. Used Kong for api-key based customer authentication. Also supported with MEAN stack. Search Engine Optimization and  Elasticsearch analyzer, indexer, configuration.

TrueCare, Casenet          MA

Lead/Architect                                        Period: Dec'14 – Jun’15

TruCare platform for all its healthcare applications, to simplify inter-application integration, maintainability, and cross-cutting features to allow developers to focus on business domain solutions. Capabilities are provided through a common series of interfaces and loosely coupled services.

Accomplishments:  

Building new product features, client support and bug fixing.  

Leading Survey project architecture redesign to move away from Struts 1.x to RESTfull Web Services and client side JS frameworks. Partially redesigned survey admin tool. Directed to use Drools. Cobertura for code coverage.

Designed and implemented multiple modules that are used across various projects/platforms such as rest-common library to unify RESTfull web services implementation for basic CRUD operations and DTO conversions and others  

Did POC and sample code  that the other developers can use to enhance upon

Improved the performance and also configured few performance tools to gather matrix

Credit Reporting Next Gen, Altisource/Ocwen                                               MA

Senior Software Engineer/Lead /SME                             Period: Jun'13 – Dec'14

Accomplishments:  

Designed a high availability and reliably scalable both vertically and horizontally app to deal with millions of data every day.  

Project is designed as a dynamic web application using REST as a mechanism of SOA, to interact/consume the third party services using Spring MVC/Angular.

Advocated to use Event Sourcing. SME, Lead a team of members both off shore and onshore. POC with MEAN stack.

Developed application with latest open sources like Activiti, Akka, Spark, Cassandra, Spring Data, SpringBatch etc.,

Also configured, deployed and maintained these app on AWS cloud based Linux servers using Bamboo scripts.

Other companies:  

-  Feb’ 10 – Jun' 13    Intralinks (MA)  

-  Sep’ 08 – Feb` 10   Perceptive / Parexel (MA)  

-  May` 08 – Sep` 08  MIT (MA)  

-  Jun’ 07 – May’ 08  Fidelity (NC)  

-  Feb’ 07 – Jun’ 07    Stewart (CA)  

-  Sep’ 06 – Jan’ 07    Bank of America (MA)  

- Apr’ 06 – Sep’ 06    CGI (MA)  

- Jun’ 05 – Mar’ 06   Accenture (MO)  

- Dec’ 03 – May’ 05  Accenture (CA)  

-  Jul’ 02 – Nov’ 03    Equifax/SRA Systems (India)  

-  Jan’ 01 – Jun’ 02     L-Cube (India)  

Education: Bachelor's in computer science engineering