Gaddam Srikanth

• Proficient and detail-oriented IT professional with Master of Computer Application and 14+ years of experience in the software industry leading the project effort from technical as well as project delivery. 
• CSM and SAFe 4 Agilist certified. Organized, self-driven, collaborative and client-focused.

Summary

• Proficient and detail-oriented IT professional with Master of Computer Application and 14+ years of experience in the software industry leading the project effort from technical as well as project delivery. 
• CSM and SAFe 4 Agilist certified. Organized, self-driven, collaborative and client-focused.
• True implementation of Scrum framework to meet project development and delivery timelines. 
•  Experienced in guiding multiple teams using Agile/Scrum practices while delivering quality software and solutions to the organization. Work with cross-functional teams while ensuring adherence to agile methodologies and best practices. 
• Excellent communication and prioritization skills. Works toward decreasing product delivery time while ensuring KPIs are met. Facilitate processes of daily standup meetings, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meeting. 
• As an Integration Architect collaborate with project managers and technical directors to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution plan during a projects design phase, and serve as a lead for ESL Architecture design. 
• Work with the product managers and team members to give input and support to the strategic direction of the initiative. 
• Perform design and implementation of applications on distributed platforms including on premises applications, cloud based systems and external systems. 
• Develop & maintain domain blueprints and models for the architecture portfolio. Along with design task provide guidance and mentoring on technology and design patterns to the team. Develop frameworks, standards & reference material for architecture and associated products on various aspects of Architectural design with both functional and non-functional components.
• Have experience working in different countries, integration technologies and business domain.
• Led Digital transformation and successful implementation of Scrum from SDLC waterfall. 
• Flexible to travel, learn new technologies, processes and implementations. Strong in analytical, problem solving, prioritization and communicating skills. Working strategy is to flex and mold, collaborate and communicate, being proactive and defining responsibilities.

Licenses & Certifications

• SAFe 4 Agilist Certification - Scaled Agile, Inc.
• Certified ScrumMaster – Scrum Alliance

Education

 Banasthali Vidyapith University, Jaipur, India | Masters, Computer Application, 2007

Software and Tools

Agile Scrum:                     Jira, JQL, Version One, Miro, Jamboard, Rally

API Design:                       IBM® Rational® Software Architect Designer, IBM API connect, APIGEE, Swagger 2.0, 

Open API 3.0,

DevOps:                            Jenkins, SOAP UI, GIT Lab, Version One, Kibana

Cloud/Orchestration:      Kubernetes, Rancher, Azure

TIBCO Product Suit:        TIBCO BW Container edition 2.6.1, Business Works 5.13, TIBCO Rendezvous 7.5, TIBCO EMS 6.3, TIBCO Hawk, TIBCO Spotfire 6.5/7.0/7.7, TIBCO Active Matrix Service Bus 3.2, TIBCO Administrator, TIBCO Adapters, Integration Manager 5.2, TIBCO Collaborative Information Manager 7.1. , TIBCO CLE. 

Scripting and Database: Oracle, Groovy Script

Experience

 Integration Architect & Scrum Master | Client: CVS Health

Beacon Hill Staffing Group | Minneapolis, MN | May 2021 - Present (2 years 3 months)

• Moderate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and refactoring/reflection sessions. Coordinates cross-team dependencies with other Scrum Masters.
• Work closely with Product owner and Development team for User story creation during sprint planning.
• Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction plans.
• Train and mentor team members on scrum processes to improve efficiency and efficacy of development process.
• Proactively work towards removing impediments leading to improved cycle time.
• Create Architectural design with both functional and non-functional components across distributed systems and Interfaces. Conduct architectural evaluation and design adhering to the Enterprise Strategy and vision.
• API integration with upstream and downstream systems hosted as SaaS, on-prem and external.
• Work with Project Managers, Business Analysts, developers and 3rd party service providers to understand functional requirements, support development and testing, release features.
• Design architecture blueprints in IBM® Rational® Software Architect Designer. Create message models and schema followed by developing prototype in middleware tools.
• Work with development team on technical detail design and implementation bottlenecks, resolution of any issues and get design Signoff by governance team. 
• Work on API lifecycle and API Management using IBM API Connect. Manage and edit Rest APIs defined in OpenAPI 3.0 and Swagger 2.0. Decide on the Traffic management policy, Mediation policies and API security via OAuth, JWT, Two-Way SSL. 
• Communicate complex technical and business concepts API consumers and the team members and negotiate change while keeping projects align to enterprise standards. 
• Effectively identify and frame problems, leading the collection of elements of information, and integrating the information to produce timely and thoughtful decisions. 

 Technical Lead | Client: US Bank

Cognizant Technologies | Minneapolis, MN | May 2018 - May 2021 (3 years 1 month)

• Responsible for end to end project delivery following agile framework.
• Consolidating requirements and work with Product owner to define technical and functional requirements which can be translated to user stories.
• Provide client with best suitable technical options for implementing the required functionality.
• Additionally create POCs for demonstrating the features.
• Design and create message model and meet stakeholders for design signoff.
• Create and Deploy APIGEE Proxy in APIGEE’s API Lifecycle Navigator with defined security policies.
• Perform in code reviews and support the SIT.
• Create checklist and Wiki for new processes and technologies used.
• Create and deploy services in TIBCO BW Container Edition. Perform lift and shift of existing TIBCO BW applications to Digital framework.
• Implementation interfaces Web services with SOAP over HTTP, and JMS Plugin calls, DB calls.
• Fine tune testing and test case automation by creating groovy scripts.
• Deployments implementing CI/CD, Configure GIT Lab to invoke Jenkins pipeline for deployments to Kubernetes Clusters.
• Perform Application Container configuration using Rancher, which include:
  • Resource allocation, 
  • MTLS and PVC storage setup,
  • Pod scaling up/down
  • Health Check parameter update
  • Ingress setup

 Technology Specialist | Client: BB&T Bank

Cognizant Technologies | Raleigh, NC | Sep 2017 - Apr 2018 (8 months)

• Develop interfaces with SOAP based web services and RESTful APIs. Create services with adapters for HTTP, Flat files, JDBC, TCP and JMS messages.
• Design and develop the schemas to be exposed by the web services. Responsible for performing Unit testing and supporting integrated testing prior to product release.
• Monitor EMS components using Gems and EMS Administration tool. Update the EMS configuration files.
• Perform web services testing using SOAP UI. Troubleshooting issues related to TIBCO environment and code.
• Performed the DR gap analysis, from perspective of server and code.
• Implementation plan DR deployment strategy with SME to determine the gap remediation plan.
• Collaborate with various teams like application team, administration, web engineering teams
• Direct client facing role, discussion on daily basis, to illustrate and align the tasks.

 Senior Developer | Client: Monsanto

DB9 | St Louis, MO | Oct 2016 - Apr 2017 (7 months)

• Understand business requirements for creating dynamic TIBCO Spotfire dashboards for financial data auditing and accounting with dashboard customization.
• Work on enhancing visualizations using custom expressions, creating bookmarks, and multi data table analysis. Perform administration task of creating and assigning users licenses.
• Create dashboards with varying level of complexities, data pull from multiple data table from different type of data sources using information links or data connectors. 
• Implement row level security using personalized information link.
• Fetch data for dashboards using data sources: relational databases, ETL, Advanced data services.
• Resolve issues in data load from source systems, which include getting query fine-tuned, and check system and network connectivity.
• Created calculated columns and custom expressions for data representation and analysis.
• Implement marking and filtering with Iron Python for drill downs.
• Perform data on demand load with document properties and expressions to limit data.
• Create various types of charts also including Map charts comprising of Map layer and feature layer.
• Use Automation Job Service Builder to Export DXP file during migration and create scheduled jobs for running weekly. Library administration for managing folders, information links, connectors.
• Perform customization using property controls, filters, calculations, summaries and functions.

 Senior solution integrator | Client: STC Telecom

Ericsson | Bengaluru, India | Feb 2013 - Nov 2015 (2 years 10 months)

• Design and develop complete module, worked on complete SDLC for a deliverable. Designed and developed interfaces for web services, adapters, HTTP, Flat files, TCP and JMS.
• •Message management using TIBCO Enterprise Message Service. Updated TIBCO Hawk rule bases to send alert notifications for engine monitoring as well as for monitoring log files.
• •Generated the common data format XML schemas. Design and development of database interfacing using PL/SQL over JDBC.
• •Analysis, fixes of incidences in customer support, and preparing RCA for priority tickets. Unit testing, System testing and Performance testing in various environments.
• •Deployment and administration of the deployed services using TIBCO Administrator. Monitoring of deployed project using Hawk rulebases and scripts

Senior Software Engineer | Client: Vodafone UK | Client: Vodafone Spain

       IBM | Pune, India | Sep 2007 - Feb 2013 (5 year 5 months)

• Maintain and enhance the application as per the requirements and fix any error in its data synchronization to EDW. Monitor data feeds into CIM from source SQL feed or data file.
• Create data sources, input maps, and write validation and initialization rules, catalog format, output map, trading partner and synchronization profile for new table addition.
• Bug fixes in the synchronization of data to EDW from where the Business users get generate reports.
•  It can be due to error in the CIM application or the scripts written to automate the data load and synchronization.Prepare weekly monitoring reports for data governance.
• Create automated scripts for data monitoring. Create and monitor Cron Jobs and shell scripts
• Create Low level design documents.Create test plan and other documentation for quality audit.
• Build modules using TIBCO Business Works 5.5 and Integration Manager.
• Configure Adapters including different custom adapters like tuxedo TIBCO, TIBCO tuxedo, FIPA.
• Deployment using used domain utility, AppManage, build EAR. Perform Unit testing and support Integration testing to UAT. Resolving tickets for priority high, medium and low for various technical and functional issues within the SLA
• •Experience in creating the RCA document. Creating Workaround for the resolution of High priority tickets. Provide estimations and solution plan for Minor enhancement and code, test and deploy the approved solution

 Banasthali Vidyapith University, Jaipur, India | Masters, Computer Application, 2007