Prasanna Tholasiram

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Senior Enterprise Architect AWS Cloud Architect Integration Architect

Solution Design Client Management DevSecOps Team Leadership Application Security Vendor Management

Microservices Enterprise Application Design High-Availability Cloud IaaS, PaaS & SaaS Solutions

Key Strengths: Highly skilled AWS Cloud architect with extensive experience delivering enterprise projects that bring disparate technologies together to successfully achieve business objectives. Successfully implements and migrated on-prem to cloud while maintaining PCI, SOX/HIPPA compliance + Disaster Recovery. Leverage expertise to identify/develop cloud security while modernizing platform, maintaining critical system availability for enterprise IT environments. Effectively design collaborates with vendors/clients to create end to end availability programs.

Technical Skills

AWS Lambda, SQS, SMS, Eventbridge, EC2, ECS, ECR, Glue, Glue Catalog, KMS, API Gateway, ELB, ELK, EKS, Route 53, IAM, EMR, S3, ALB, Spark, pycharm, Elastic search. Jenkins, Code pipeline, Python, Java, J2EE, J2EE Server, IBM Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Junit, DevOps, Immuta, Docker, Spring, Spring Boot, Flask, Selenium, Hibernate Angular, Kubernetes, ReactJS, Neptune, Redshift, Cassandra, bitbucket, Swagger, Maven, CloudFormation, Terraform, SAMTemplate, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, SAM Templates, Athena, Serverless framework, GIT, Maven, SVN,Bitbucket, Ping federate, OKTA, SAML,OAUTH,CI/CD pipeline, DevOps, DevSecOps,Angular, NodeJS, XML,,AJAX, JQuery, TDD Development, BDD, Cucumber, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Eclipse

Awards & Recognitions

Award Winning B2B Portal: High Performance Workplace Excellence Award from Gartner Inc.

Work Experience

Algol Software LLC, Park Ridge, NJ Aug 2021 to Present Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Serving as hands on IT On-prem and Cloud onsite/remote consultant for several clients. Successfully lead both onsite and offshore teams to implement new initiative both on-prem and cloud applications. Has extensive experience in migrating on-prem applications to cloud adopted both lift and shift and modernizing the application to latest stack. Lead and implemented CI/CD pipeline by adopting standard DevSecOps best practices. Guide the team implement POC and interact with stockholders to understand the requirements and work with cross functional team to successfully implement the projects.

Lazard Asset Management, Newyork, NY Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Served as an on-site consultant supporting enhancements, migration and new initiative design for AWS cloud platform.

Involved in discussion with Business and IT stakeholder to recommended and outline the roadmap for cloud initiative

Reviewed the existing legacy system and recommend platform modernization.

Review and recommend application modernization using latest tools and technology such as container docker, microservices, Spring Boot and. python platform flask

Designed CI/CD pipeline for seamless development and deployment on AWS platform.

Automation of Infrastructure as service using CloudFormation and SAMTemplate

Western Union, Montvale, NJ 07645 Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Served as an on-site consultant supporting enhancements, migration of Western Customer Care, Agents applications. Developed in depth understanding Western Union’s existing systems and processes for requirements validation, solution planning/design and for the implementation, testing, and delivery of enterprise solutions.

Implemented Global Care Transaction Management System (GCTMS) to locate create and modify a money transfer. Used Spring, Hibernate on JBOSS EAS server with IBM DB2 database and SSO integration with OKTA using OpenSAML.

Established high level design and documented the Interface Design Document to integrate the GCTMS and Western Union Common Service Layer (CSL). Served as the communication conduit between the business and technology teams.

Designed and implemented TDD and text cases are developed using JUnit

Successfully migrated legacy system CSC –DOS to service API using java with microservices architecture from on-prem to AWS cloud platform using ECS and ECR

All the information related to money transfer compliance; KYC meat data are indexed into open search.

Search functionality is built using open search to locate money transfer and different reports are built.

Automation of Infrastructure as service using Terraform template

Build multiple Single page applications using AngularJS

Successfully designed and implemented SSO with OKTA

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd, Edison, NJ Jul 2019 to Aug 2021 Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Served as a Consultant for following clients.

Pfizer Inc., Peapack, NJ Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Served as consultant for the Data Security group to implement a centralized security solution for accessing data-assets based on user profile using Immuta system hosted on AWS platform

-The owner of a data asset can create policy with conditions for data access. The policies can be global or local policy.

-The Entire stack is deployed as docker images on EKS, and ELK is used for centralized logging and monitoring.

-Security for data access will be enforced for Databricks, S3, Presto, Redshift and Snowflake DataSource.

-Implemented federated SSO with corporate IDP Ping Federate to Snowflake, Redshift and customer facing portal levering OAuth2 and SAML integration.

-Lead the development team of 10 people

-Designed deployment model for the platform on AWS landscape.

-Designed and implemented TDD and text cases are developed using JUnit

-Designed and implemented CI/CD pipeline using codecommit,code pipeine

-Logs from all the applications are indexed into elastic search and monitoring and notification is implemented for different Erros.

-Using ELK stack logs are indexed and monitoring for different errors.

-Designed containerized frontend single page applications using Angular.

-Cucumber is used to implement BDD testing

-Custom Restful APIS using java and python are designed and hosted on API Gateway and Flask application.

Citizens Financial Group, Johnston, RI Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Migrate 6500+ on-premises DataStage ETL platform Jobs to AWS cloud Talend Platform Jobs

Citizens Data Lake is built on AWS with 3 s3 zones. Landing zone where all the data feeds are transferred in original format and it’s moved to RAW zone with technical data quality check, audit fields and converting to parquet format and finally transformed and moved to curated zone in parquet format.

Lead offshore development team of 25 people

Utilize AWS data lake landing, RAW and curated S3 zone for source and target transformed files in parquet format.

Automation of Infrastructure as service using CloudFormation and SAMTemplate

The transformed data from curated zone is loaded into Aggregated zone, the DataMart’s for designed for specific functional areas using Redshift database.

The downstream systems and data analyst can consume data from curated and Redshift aggregated zone.

World Bank Group, Washington DC Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Implemented Graph Database application using AWS Neptune database service to identify projects, skills, specialization, person and level as different datasets.

Graph Database implements popular graph models Property Graph and uses query languages Apache tinkerPop Gremlin, allowing to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets.

Application data are loaded using AWS Glue ETL services and deployed as docker image using ECS Fargate and ECR service.

Designed and built complete CI/CD pipelines automation with Jenkins.

Algol Software LLC, Founder, Park Ridge, NJ Apr 2013 to July 2019 Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect

Worked as consultant to serve various clients both remote and onsite setup. Collaborate with business, SME to understand the requirement and translate to technical solutions. Work with development team to implement and rollout the project.

Acord, Pearl River, NY Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect Aug 2017 -July 2019

Served as an on-site consultant to implement iConductor application in java to validate and orchestrate insurance quote messages with different insurance providers using fuse ESB product with microservice architecture. iConductor is built as spring boot app and has four microservice applications and deployed as docker images on AWS ECS Fargate environment.

Frontend applications are designed and implemented using NodeJS.

The information about insurance quotes and responses is indexed to Elastic search.

Search capability is implemented to locate any insurance quote using elastic search.

Designed and implemented enterprise level security application using Apache Shiro.

Automation of Infrastructure as service using CloudFormation and SAMTemplate

Architected hybrid cloud deployment consists of multiple AWS load balancer.

Designed and Implemented CI/CD pipeline using AWS code pipeline.

JPMorgan Chase, Manhattan, NY Senior Solution Architect March 2016 – Aug 2017

Served as an on-site consultant to upgrade, enhance and migrate JPMorgan Chase’s Distributed Auth application from IBM WebSphere to Tomcat and DB2 to Cassandra with microservices architectures.

The application supports 75 million users with a transaction rate of 500 TPS and more than 15 channels including web, mobile, Chase Pay and multiple 3rd-party partners.

Developed an in-depth understanding of current systems and processes for requirements validation, solution planning/design in preparation for the implementation, testing, and delivery of the upgraded enterprise solution written in java.

Collaborated with technology teams to design the integration points to Distributed Auth Applications.

Western Union, Montvale, NJ 07645 Senior Solution Architect / AWS Architect March 2013 to March 2016

Served as an on-site consultant supporting enhancements, migration of Western Customer Care, Agents applications. Developed in depth understanding Western Union’s existing systems and processes for requirements validation, solution planning/design and for the implementation, testing, and delivery of enterprise solutions.

Implemented Global Care Transaction Management System (GCTMS) to locate create and modify a money transfer. Used Spring, Hibernate on JBOSS EAS server with IBM DB2 database and SSO integration with OKTA using OpenSAML.

Established high level design and documented the Interface Design Document to integrate the GCTMS and Western Union Common Service Layer (CSL). Served as the communication conduit between the business and technology teams.

All the information related to money transfer meat data is indexed into open search.

Search functionality is built using open search to locate money transfer and different reports are built.

Successfully migrated legacy system CSC –DOS to service API with microservices architecture.

Successfully designed and implemented SSO with OKTA

Successfully integrated Genesis IVR, Avaya client to the KANA system.

Benjamin Moore & Co., Montvale, NJ May 2005 to Mar 2013 IT Application Integration Architect/IT Web Development Architect

Established high level design for the integration of a web-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Championed initial SOA initiative to enable Benjamin Moore’s 6,000+ dealer network to pay online. Built multiple web services to obtain account information and process payment requests.

Designed a Master Data Management (MDM) repository to achieve consistent color attributes such as name, number and family. The repository serves as the ultimate source for color information.

Led team to build consumer branded website targeting homeowners, contractors, architects, and designers using the BEA WebLogic platform. The site receives 1,000,000+ visits per day and is fully integrated with custom and 3rd party-tools including store locator functionality using MapPoint and MS Bing. (www.benjaminmoore.com).

Developed end to end online e-commerce experience. Collaborated to define detailed business and functional requirements including screen design and process flows. Involved in design, development and deployed which includes integration to Payment gateway first data for processing payments, UPS for shipment and tax modules. (store.benjaminmoore.com).

Implemented search functionality for Products, Colors, Articles and Technical data sheets using Elastic Search

Implemented Benjamin Moore’s employee intranet replacing outdated technology. Delivered technical architecture, user experience, and content management tool. Integrated with 3rd party tools and assisted with the consolidated and organization of content (www.benjaminmoore1.com).

Infosys Corporation / BEA Systems., Los Angeles, CA Mar 2003 to Mar 2005 System Analyst/Architect

Provided consulting on WebLogic platform to develop a working prototype B2B portal for pilot to a select group of dealers for Benjamin Moore.

Designed, implemented and supported a brokerage tool for LPL Financial. The application is used by compliance analysts and management to register account representatives, determine commissions, monitor account activity, and to flag high risk accounts.

Developed a marketing and educational portal for Texas Instruments serving a broad international audience. Replaced outdated sites for each country (education.ti.com).

Collaborated to develop a transactional portal for Toshiba to provide access to online procurement, training, technical support, and sales incentive programs. Supported multiple views, varying permission levels, and admin functionality. Implemented delegated entitlements with numerous systems reducing the costs of the entitlements structure. BEA showcased the application in a case study (fyi.toshiba.com).

American Computer Solutions Inc., Somerset, NJ Jan 2001 to Mar 2003 System Analyst/Programmer

Developed a J2EE web-based reservation system for outfitters that enabled registered companies and their customers to book, cancel or check the status of a reservation and pay online using credit card or check. The site delivered three views with targeted content and varying permissions based on user type. Registered companies were provided Admin access to create, edit/delete reservations, and generate reports for customers.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, computer science Bangalore University Bangalore, India Aug 1992-Feb 1998

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