Nandakumar Kuthalaraja
[Link]@[Link] +1 318-450-5069 LinkedIn
SUMMARY:
Software Technology Specialist involved in API Strategy, Micro-Services Design & Development,
Cloud based Development & Transformation.
IBM & Pivotal certified Cloud Platform specialist.
Have working experience in AWS & IBM Softlayer IaaS offerings. In PaaS have working experience
with IBM Bluemix, Pivotal Cloud Foundry & Redhat Openshift with their service offerings.
Working extensively in [Link], Docker, Cloud Foundry & Cloud based agile transformation covering
DevOps, Micro-Services transformation & core API development. Also have rich experience in IBM
Watson offerings.
With more than half-decade of proven results with profound knowledge working across two distinct
software platforms - Java & .NET concurrently & following industry standard best practices.
Functioned in the role of a Technical Lead with excellent leadership & team skills in managing teams
distributed across different geographies & cultural diversity (onshore/offshore). Meticulous
resource planning, Development & Design Estimation, Coordinate onshore/offshore effort, Deliver
status reports & metrics proactively, propose & implement initiatives based on the lessons learned.
Strong experience in building solutions involving complex business requirements across multi-tier
architecture & multi-product environment.
Extensive exposure in designing & formulating complex Web Services & consuming them, both –
SOAP & RESTful Service. Proficient in inter-application communication techniques involving JSON.
Rich experience as BMC Remedy Consultant in implementing & developing complex BMC Remedy
AR System with J2EE frameworks.
Have also worked extensively in .NET platform covering ASMX, ASPX & Windows Service
development & enhancement.
Also an avid learner, would love to explore new technologies, Cloud approaches, Architectural
Designs, languages and frameworks. Currently updating myself on Azure, Redhat Openshift &
Puppet.
SKILLS
Languages - Java, C#, VB, C, C++, XML, HTML, UNIX Shell, Javascript, VB Script, PL/SQL, SQL, nodeJS
Methodologies - OOP/D, UML, Agile, SEP, Waterfall, MVC, Pair programming, Kanban
Products - BMC Remedy 7.1, BMC Remedy 8.1, ECDS ecENACT, TIBCO Bus, TCS-IPMS, TCS-Mastercraft,
Jenkins, JBehave, Cucumber, IBM UCD
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Tools & IDE - Eclipse, NetBeans, CVS, Visual Studio 2010, SQLDeveloper, Caliber RM, IIS, Apache Tomcat,
Notepad++, Putty, CoreFTP, Netbeans IDE, JBOSS, Glassfish, IBM WebSphere 8.5, IntelliJ Idea
Databases & Storage - Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2012, MySQL 4, DB2 9, Mongo DB, Cloudant, Redis, S3
Framework - Hibernate, Spring, Apache Axis2, .NET Framework 4.6, J2EE, Jersey, JUNIT, WCF, WPF, Spring
Boot, Spring Cloud, Drop Wizard, Apache Camel, .NET Core
Techniques - JSON, AJAX, CSS, JAX-WS, ANT Script, Web Services, RESTful API, log4j, XSLT, Micro Services,
TDD (Test Driven Development), BDD (Behavior Driven Development), JMS, Rabbit MQ
Cloud Offering – IBM Bluemix, AWS, Vagrant, OSS Cloud Foundry, Docker, IBM Watson Services, Pivotal
Cloud Foundry, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Stream
DevOps – IBM Urbancode Deploy, Jenkins
WORK EXPERIENCE:
COGNIZANT TECH SOLNS US CORP (Hartford, CT)
Technology Specialist/Architect (Cloud Services) Jul 2016 – Present
Working as Technology Architect – Cloud for Corporate Systems LOB in Travelers, involved in
cloud adoption, migration & cloud native development.
Performing technical assessment & works on transformations of cross-platform applications to
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or Docker containers across LOBs.
Working extensively in transforming legacy Java applications to cloud compatible micro-services
architecture utilizing Spring Boot, Netflix OSS stack & following TDD.
Transformed many .NET applications as Cloud compatible and moved them to PCF. The
applications include WCF, Windows Services & REST APIs.
Provided End to End cloud solutions for transformation including CI-CD process using Jenkins
& IBM Urbancode Deploy
Researching .NET Core & its transformation approaches for cloud.
Worked & developed Application-As-A-Service involving Service Brokers.
Also worked with nodeJS development specific to PCF transformation.
Worked & technically assessed various BDD (Behavior Driven Development) products for Java
applications – Jbehave & Cucumber.
Researching on Cloud Compatible Data Intensive Event Driven Architecture using Spring Cloud
Stream & Spring Cloud Data Flow.
PERFICIENT INC (Denver, CO)
Senior Consultant (Cloud Practice) Sep 2015 – Jun 2016
Reports to PRFT Solutions Director, perform technical assessment of the IBM Bluemix & AWS
case for cloud transformation for various business cases.
Working extensively with containerization technology - Docker.
Working on Micro-Services architecture based development of services utilizing latest
frameworks.
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Working on transforming existing Web based applications & services to IBM Bluemix Cloud using
Cloud Foundry & Docker based approaches for a Healthcare Client
Working in building/transformation of business cases utilizing Pivotal Cloud Foundry & IBM
Bluemix also utilizing Jenkins.
Working on transformation of monolithic architectured applications to AWS public cloud utilizing
AWS – EC2, S3 & Dynamo DB following micro-services architecture.
TATA Consultancy Services (Monroe, LA)
CENTURYLINK INC – Technical Lead - Development Mar 2015 – Aug 2015
Worked on estimations, requirement discussion, design, development and implementation for
various systems and applications within OSS. Co-ordinated Onshore-Offshore teams.
Lead a team of 8 split in different geographies & time zone.
Enhanced various OSS systems/applications with respect to business needs using J2EE
frameworks.
Built suite of REST services from scratch with dedicated schemas to be used by 100+ clients
following cloud native development paradigm.
Worked on transformation of existing services to Micro-Services architecture with service
registry.
Worked extensively on Cloud Transformation of applications utilizing Cloud Foundry.
TATA Consultancy Services (Chennai, India)
CENTURYLINK INC – Technical Lead - Development Dec 2014 – Mar 2015
Worked on requirement discussion, design, development and implementation for various
Service Assurance applications. Also as SME for implementing BMC Remedy with J2EE
frameworks.
Lead a team of 10 in offshore.
Worked extensively on building interfaces using SOAP web services & Enterprise TIBCO Bus
for communications within applications of various platforms.
Pursued solutions with Message Brokers replacing traditional TIBCO bus.
Worked extensively on Cloud Transformation PoCs involving micro-services & Jenkins.
CENTURYLINK INC – Module Lead - Development Jun 2013 – Nov 2014
Worked on design, development and implementation of notification & outage management
system. Worked concurrently in both .NET & J2EE (with Remedy).
Lead a team of 3 in offshore module.
Enhanced around 7 ticketing applications and built 1 from scratch.
Worked extensively on building Windows Services & Spring applications part of customizing
Remedy Ticketing Solutions.
QWEST CORPORATION – Developer Mar 2011 – May 2013
Worked on design, development and implementation of centralized assurance manager service.
Worked extensively in .NET – ASPX, ASMX & Windows Services.
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Worked in a team of 5 in offshore module.
Enhanced a Tier 1 Gold application with half million transactions every hour.
Built a dedicated throttling framework to normalize the transaction processing across time.
INTERNAL APPLICATION –Developer Nov 2010 – Feb 2011
Worked on design, development and implementation of Mail Subscription System and portal.
Worked in a team of 3 in offshore module.
Built 1 application from scratch.
Worked extensively on building portal using J2EE frameworks.
EDUCATION
[Link]. Degree in Information Technology, Anna University, India
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) in Operations Management, IGNOU, India
CERTIFICATIONS
Pivotal Certified Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer v1.7
IBM Certified Application Developer - Cloud Platform v1
IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 9
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - .NET Framework 4 Windows Application Development
PERSONAL DETAILS
Nationality : Indian
Location : Hartford, CT, USA
Experience : 6 years 5 months
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