Sridhar Ponnapalli

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Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

Phone : 303-***-****

E-Mail : s ac0xtl@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Microservices/Cloud Architect

Summary

Customer-focused technical architect with 15+ years of professional experience in architecting complex, scalable, enterprise-class technology solutions in the areas of Cloud computing, micro services API, and other leading-edge internet technologies. Innovative, high energy professional with proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems using state-of-the-art techniques and strategic vision. A seasoned IT leader with exceptional organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and extensive exposure to customer interaction, working with all levels of management. Skill Summary

Tools/Frameworks

Spring, Spring boot, Maven, Jenkins, Primefaces/JSF, Hibernate, Struts, Apache ActiveMQ, JIRA, JUnit,

Ant, Selenium, Confuence

Technologies/Languages

AWS, Java 1.7 & 1.8, REST, SOAP, JPA/JDBC, JSON,

JSP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, XML, SQL,

PL/SQL, Unix shell scripting

APIs/Services

Twitter, Youtube, Google, Dropbox

Databases/Big data

Oracle, MySQL

Operating Systems

Linux (Redhat, Amazon & Ubuntu), Solaris

Software Development Methodologies

Scrum, Kanban, TDD, XP

Professional Experience

Arrow Electronics (Englewood, CO) June, 2016 to March, 2017 Senior Consultant/Architect

Re-architected and built new RESTful microservice layer for portal applications including quotes, order & invoice search, and portal home to the new Angular/Spring-based service architecture. Worked extensively with:

End users for requirements gathering/prototyping

SQA team for the application integration and user acceptance testing

Operations team for the deployment

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Jeppesen (Englewood, CO) June, 2015 to May, 2016

Solution Architect/Lead

Responsible for architecting and building an enterprise-class SIM (Source Ingest Manager) application to ingest obstacle source received from various countries and aviation authorities throughout the world.

Presented SIM architecture, features and interfaces to upper management up to Sr. Vice president, with every sprint to receive feedback/buyoff

Technologies/Tools: A WS EC2, VPC, RDS, and S3, Java 1.7, Apache Tomcat 8, Spring 4.2 REST services, Apache ActiveMQ, JMeter, Maven, Jenkins, Hibernate, JPA, JSON, MySQL Colorado Secretary of State (Denver, CO) January, 2012 to April, 2015 Senior Consultant/Architect

Re-architected and rebuilt legacy applications using state-of-the-art, reusable web service/JSF framework on WebSphere platform.

Evaluated multiple frameworks for the target architecture for migrating legacy applications, prototyped, and provided detailed recommendations

Architected and built RESTful web services on the websphere platform by designing and defining interfaces, through implementation.

Performance tuning at all levels of the application, from UI, Websphere to the database tier Technologies/Tools: Java 7, Websphere 7, Struts, JSF 2.0, primefaces, JAX-RS services, Oracle, J MS, IBM MQ, Maven, Jenkins, Eclipse, JPA, Hibernate

Comcast (Englewood, CO) June 2009 to Dec, 2011

Solution Architect

Designed and developed an extremely scalable, robust, enterprise-class SOAP service for provisioning customers into next generation Comcast Digital Voice platform (IMS). Responsibilities:

Designed provisioning web service (SOAP), adapting standards-based approach, working heavily with vendor Huawei technologies for interface definition

Conducted performance analysis, identified hotspots, fine-tuned service at all levels, implemented caching techniques, as well as tuned at Weblogic and JVM layers to achieve optimum application performance

Provided architectural recommendations, leadership and mentoring to other members of the development team

Technologies/Tools: Java/J2EE, WebLogic Server 11g, EJB, Oracle, Oracle Service Bus, Maven, JAX-WS SOAP services, SoapUI, Rational RSA, Eclipse, Subversion, JUnit, JMeter, Cruise control Sprint Nextel Corporation (Englewood, CO) July, 1999 to March 2009 Development Manager/Lead, Senior Architect

Led cross-functional team consisting of business (credit, collections and fraud), developers, testers and product vendor to the successful implementation of a new fraud detection system, M inotaur. Architected, designed and implemented several critical interfaces to the out-of-box Minotaur product in high-volume transaction environment. Featured responsibilities:

Participated with business owners & stakeholders for scope definition, feasibility study, requirements gathering, and prototyping

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Architected, and successfully led development of complex interface to the fraud system, consisting of the CDR (Call Detail Records - 300M records/day), interfaces with two billing systems, and order management system

Managed multiple teams of onshore/offshore resources, including hiring, training, mentoring and ongoing performance evaluations

Architected merging of Sprint and Nextel legacy Minotaur applications after the merger of Sprint and Nextel. Created roadmap and vision for the combined product, and led to seamless integration and data migration

Interacted with senior IT management up to the VP level, throughout the project, to present architectural recommendations and discuss strategic vision Technologies/Tools: Java/J2EE, Tomcat, JSP, Oracle, Ant, Eclipse, TOAD, Perl, Unix shell scripts, Javascript, JUnit

Education

Master in Computer Applications, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India Awards & Honors

All star award, Software Architect - 2007

Excellence award, Project Lead - 2006

Team Excellence award - 2005

Won several awards for best presentation in Toastmasters, and represented Parker TM club to the district-level in extemporaneous speaking in 2009

Leadership Roles

VP of Public relations and webmaster for Parker Toastmasters (Parker, CO): 2007-2009

Founder and CEO – Createch Information Systems, Colorado-based startup business specializing in digital marketing and advanced, cloud-based office automation/integration solutions - since 2010

Founder of Rocky Mountain Hanuman organization – Colorado-based non-profit organization - since 2010

Executive committee, Colorado Telugu Association: 2008-2009 Professional Associations

Member TIE-Rockies

Member - RMIUG

Member - Boulder-Denver new technology group

References

Available upon request

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