Ashok V Karunakaran

E-mail: ad499w@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 1-647-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Loblaw Companies Limited Apr 2022 – Current

Team Lead/ People Manager, Solutions Engineering Brampton, ON, Canada

Responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable analytical solutions in the cloud.

Roles and Contribution

Own solution delivery by working with stakeholders, creating project plans, managing resources and development during project lifecycle.

Design and deploy scalable cloud solutions for Machine learning (ML) models and analytical data problems.

Provide technical guidance to the team at project and individual level by performing code reviews and working on research\ discovery tasks (POC).

Scrum master for the team. Lead daily standups, grooming and planning sessions, and maintain the Jira board.

Manage and mentor a team of backend engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, help with individual growth and encourage constant two-way feedback.

Technologies

Google Cloud Platform, Python, FastAPI, Airflow, CI/CD, Terraform, Git, Docker, Rest API

Dayforce Ceridian Inc. Aug 2019 – Apr 2022

Senior Software Developer North York, ON, Canada

Dayforce is an HCM platform that offers payroll, HR, and other services as one application.

Roles and Contribution

Develop, deploy, and maintain microservices in Azure and Kubernetes.

Technical lead for configuration management microservice. Assisted the 4 junior colleagues with implementing and delivering features on time.

Working with the PO, wrote user stories for the above product.

Helped external teams (our internal customers) with product adoption. Responsible for product presentation and demo. Point of contact through the integration process.

Used Terraform to create and deploy Kubernetes infrastructure.

Set up build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps.

Mentored and ramped up 3 junior colleagues through pair programming, code reviews and assisting with research.

Technologies

C#, .NET Core, MongoDB, PowerShell, Git, Docker, Azure services, Kubernetes, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD.

Progress/ Ipswitch Inc. June 2015 – July 2019

Senior Software Engineer Burlington, MA, USA

Ipswitch offers an application and network monitoring solution called WhatsUp Gold that helps manage health, availability, and performance of devices. It also includes monitoring of virtual (Hyper-V and VMWare) and cloud devices.

Roles and Contribution

Implemented Hyper-V event log collection and Outlook 365 monitoring using PowerShell.

Improved the performance of UI reports, from reports timing out to returning data in 5 seconds by using SQL profiler and making LINQ modifications.

Implement frontend features like virtualization reports, settings pages etc.

Developed Azure cloud monitoring features using Azure SDK and REST APIs.

Technologies

C#, .NET Framework, Entity Framework, LINQ, SQL Server, Ext JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PowerShell, WMI, Perforce, Azure REST APIs, Office 365 reporting.

Citrix Systems March 2013 – June 2015

Software Engineer Bedford, MA

The Monitoring Service is a core real-time and historical monitoring component at the XenDesktop system that collects usage and diagnostics data about sessions and machines. Developed a unit-testing framework that supported EF and implemented a versioning strategy for OData to minimize code duplication.

Technologies

C#, .NET Framework, Entity Framework, LINQ, SQL Server, PowerShell, Perforce, OData, Effort.

Netsoft USA June 2011 – March 2013

Software Developer New York, NY

Developed web and mobile applications. Implemented iOS apps, MealMonkey and Questioning Autism, which were our first forays into the mobile world.

Technologies

C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, iOS, Xamarin, Mono, TestFlight, JavaScript.

Citrix Systems Sept 2010 – Dec 2010

Software Developer Hourly Intern Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Developed a time management tool that allowed managers to schedule tasks for their direct reports.

Technologies

C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript.

Thomson Reuters March 2009 – Aug 2009

Software Intern Rochester, NY

The project was to rewrite a classification engine that would help categorize legal documents as required by the rules database. Developed multiple functionalities like parsing XML documents into new format.

Technologies

Java, XML, SAX, DOM, Oracle10g, Tomcat, Eclipse

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

EDUCATION

Rochester Institute of Technology, Masters in Computer Science August 2011

Anna University, Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics July 2005

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