Manager Software Engineer

Siva Velaga, CSM, MCP

San Francisco Bay Area 925-***-****

**************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/siva-velaga

Senior-Level Software Engineering Manager

20+ years’ experience in leading high-impacting and innovative development projects.

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) with a proven background of analytical, organizational, and innovative skills. A transformational leader of Software Engineering with an extensive history of progressive experience in providing strategic direction in diverse technologies within multiple industries focused on distributed, real-time, Client/Server and e-commerce applications, specifically on .NET and JAVA. Demonstrated success managing Product Development, Software Design, Quality Assurance, Project Management and System Architecture.

Areas of Expertise

Software Development & Optimization

Project/Program Management

Strategic Planning & Analysis

Leadership & Development

Continuous Improvement

Scrum/Agile Methodology

Global Team Management

Application Development & Integration

Problem Resolution

Client & Vendor Management

Professional Experience

Arch Mortgage Insurance Co., Walnut Creek, CA

Manager, Software Engineering, 2014 – Present

Oversee the day-to-day product development of client servers, e-commerce applications, and enterprise microservices ensuring alignment with client and organizational objectives. Manage full release cycles in collaboration with onsite and offshore teams driving performance delivery from 25 globally disbursed and cross-functional professionals. Participate in the hiring process of Engineers and QA. Develop and redesign processes focused on continuous improvement in efficiency while driving technical vision within the agile environment. Mentor and coach team on agile performance.

Increased offshore productivity by 20% through the coordination of project efforts of three teams located across the U.S., India, and Philippine utilizing Scrum methodology.

Improved overall performance by 100% by architecting and implementing caching, multithreading and optimizations.

Delivered re-writing estimate and proposal for a new Mortgage Insurance Platform utilizing modern technology stack.

Spearheaded initiatives to enhance organizational maturity to deliver scalability in new products, refactoring, and new technology adoption.

Spearheaded development of RATESTAR (ratestar.archmi.com) a revolutionary Mortgage Insurance pricing solution to provide competitive rates based on risk matrix.

Introduced Gamification features and Improved customer experience in the Origination web applications.

Drove a 500% increase in customer traffic and improved customer experience while improving functionality and enable growth opportunities through the development and continuous enhancement of the Origination applications.

Reduced regression test time by two weeks for release candidates by defining an enhanced strategy and DevOps.

PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., Walnut Creek, CA

Manager, Software Engineering, 2012 - 2014

Oversaw the full-cycle deployment of projects performing research, design, development, technical documentation, testing, and launch of innovative applications. Managed the daily software development activities of a 16-professional team. Lead complex migration encompassing 1M lines of code from Vb6 to VB.Net. Used IBM Mashup Center and Lombardi to rewrite the project. Create Microservice and design RESTful web services. Conducted research on emerging technology and software functionality.

Promoted through various roles as a result of demonstrated ability to deliver high-impacting outcomes.

Instrumental in driving a 100% increase in quality assurance test case coverage as well as the automation of script test coverage by 200%.

Slashed budgeted costs by $1.5M while increasing service and product stability.

Designed and published WSO2 REST APIs for backend REST services while empowering multiple teams to establish local environments and debug issues.

Key contributor to the development, implementation, and establishment of best practices associated with revision control, continuous integration, RUP, and change control management enabling enhanced predictability.

Built a development team and processes from the ground up, including source, defect, and project management tools/processes overseeing two development teams utilizing Scrum methodologies over four years.

Established unit and automated regression testing enabling continuous feedback on product quality while reducing long-term maintenance costs.

PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., Walnut Creek, CA

Jr. Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, Development Lead, 2000 - 2012

Provided strategic leadership in the development of Loan Origination applications focused on multiple channels customer utilization for loan applications as well as the mortgage loan underwriting applications. Prepared various documents outlining requirements and processes. Liaised cross-functionally to build and maintain project schedules. Designed databases performing functions including normalizing, maintaining indexes, and troubleshooting. Created and presented various reports.

Championed the development of various software solutions focused on systems, process, workflow, and customer engagement improvements.

Ensured the release of premium-quality applications that provided intuitive and secure experiences for users.

Automated loan data collection and processing through the design and implementation of an innovative client-server data entry application.

Enabled efficient underwriting processing through the development of Rates and Eligibility Rules process within the application.

Instituted unit and automated regression testing to allow for continuous feedback on the quality of the product and reduce long-term maintenance costs

Successfully completed 100% of integrations and process improvement objectives on time and to client specifications.

Additional Experience

Sr. Software Developer, Resumix, Inc. a subsidiary of Yahoo HotJobs, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Software Developer, Scan-Optics., Manchester, CT

Programmer Analyst, Sun Microsystems, Los Angeles, CA

Programmer Analyst, SMS Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Education

Bachelor of Science

Shimoga, India

Post-Graduate Diploma in Computers

Advanced Diploma in Computers

Hyderabad, India

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master Microsoft Certified Professional Visual Basic.NET

Technologies \ Methodologies

J2EE, Micro services, Web Services (SOAP & REST), JSON, Spring Boot, JPA, EJB3.0, JMS, MS MQ, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, AngularJS 2.0, JSP, JQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 3, XML, XSLT, Ajax, Dojo, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment, Agile / Waterfall

Tools

JIRA, Jenkins, Git, MS Project, SOAP UI, JUnit, WCF test client, Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Crystal Reports

Program Languages

VB.net, ASP.Net, JAVA 6,5, UNIX Scripting, JavaScript, C#

Application Server & DB

JBoss EAP 7, IBM WebSphere 8.5, IIS 7.0, IBM DB2, SQL Server, MongoDB

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