Integration Architect Business Process

Abhilash Surendran

Summary

Hands on Integration Architect with 16 years in software Architecture, Design, Analysis & Development.

A seasoned integration architect who has experienced the evolution of enterprise integration space over the years from point to point, EAI, ESB/SOA, API solutions.

Solutions architecture experience with complex enterprise applications including EAI, SOA & API based solutions.

Industry experience in Insurance (Property & Causality ), Telecom, Hospitality sectors.

Extensive experience in design and implementation of asynchronous integrations.

Expertise in SOA, Orchestration and Integration Technologies in the areas of Web Services, ESB, SOAP, WSDL, BPEL, XML, XSD, UDDI, XML, WS-Security and Virtualization of Services

Expertise in Business Process Integration, Service Orchestration using IBM & Oracle SOA Suite of products.

Expertise in Design & Development of complex integration applications on Mulesoft Anypoint Platform.

Expertise in migrating integration applications based on IBM platform to Mulesoft platform

Involved in projects relating to Instrumentation, Networking, Telecom, Distribution & Insurance Domain

Involved in integrations involving Cerner & EPIC FHIR APIs

Experience in providing Enterprise level services

Extensive experience in Integrating Salesforce using REST & SOAP APIs.

Expertise in handcrafting XSD & WSDL Model definitions.

Experience in Message Oriented Middleware like IBM WMQ & IBM SIBus.

Experience in Insurance Industry ACORD (Property & Casualty) Specifications

Mule Certified Integration & Platform Architect

Mule Certified Developer (Mule 4)

Mule Certified Integration Professional ( 3.8)

IBM Certified Integration Developer ( WPS )

Skill Set

Project Domain: Enterprise Integration, Application Design/Development, SOA/Web services, API Management

ERP: JDEdwards Enterptrise One, Siebel Business Application 7.x / 8.x

Cloud Services : AWS ( S3, SQS, SNS, EC2 ), Salesforce

RDBMS: Oracle 10g /11g, IBM DB2

Computer Languages: XML/XSD, WSDL, HTML, JSP, C, C++, JAVA, Assembly, BPEL,

Java /J2EE, Web Service (SOAP/ HTTP, SOAP/JMS), Python scripting, JPQL

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, SUN Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 95, MS-DOS

Middleware: WebSphere MQ v 6.0/6.1/7.0, Tibco EMS, Active MQ

ORM : Apache Open JPA

Adapters: WebSphere Business Integration (WBI), Java Connector Architecture (JCA)

Connectors : Mulesoft Dev Kit Connectors, Mule 4 SDK

API Management : Mulesoft Anypoint platform ( 3.x, 4.x)

Application Server –WAS 6.0/6.1 /7.0, BEA Web Logic 10.1, OAS 10g, WAS CE 2.2.1, WAS Liberty 8.5, WAS 8.5.5

SOASuites : WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Modeller, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus(W-ESB), WebSphere Integration Developer 6.0.1/6.0.2/6.1/7.x, Oracle SOA Suite 10g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, IBM Integration Bus, IBM WebSphere DataPower XI 50 & XI 52

Integration Brokers : Web Methods, WebSphere Interchange Server, WebSphere Message Broker, Mulesoft ESB 4.X

Software Modelling : IBM Rational Software Architect V 7.5 / V 8

Business Process Management : IBM BPM V 7.5 ( Advanced), IBM BPM V8.1 (Advanced)

Configuration Management Tools – Rational Clear Case, CVS,SVN, GIT

Processes: IBM’s QMS (Quality Management System)

Education:

Master of Technology in Instrumentation & Control System -2006, NIT Calicut, India

Bachelor’s in Electrical & ElectronicsEngineering - 2003, Kerala University (CET), India,

Professional Experience

December 2022 – Till Date, Integration Architect,

Employer:SS Soft Tech Technolgies

Client: Crowley, Jacksonville

Design and developer Solution accelerators leveraging Mulesoft & Anypoint platform.

Custom connector development for Salesforce Composite APIs

Design and develop common framework for handing multiple Salesforce Objects using Salesforce REST & Composite APIs via MuleSoft connector ( Mule 3, Mule 4) and HTTP for Composite API & Composite Graph APIs.

Design & developer complex Integration solutions using Mule 4.

Work with customers to create and influence proper standards for development.

Contributed subject matter expertise to effort estimation and SOW development.

Develop POCs and contribute to POVs.

Assist development teams on flow design, data weave and performance tuning.

March 2020 – Dec 2022, Integration Architect,

Employer:IBM Corporation

Client: Multiple Clients, Atlanta

Design and developer Solution accelerators leveraging Mulesoft & Anypoint platform.

Perform architecture assessment to evaluate the API maturity.

Design and develop common framework for handing multiple Salesforce Objects using Salesforce REST & Composite APIs via MuleSoft connector ( Mule 3, Mule 4) and HTTP for Composite API & Composite Graph APIs.

Participate in solution workshops.

Design & developer complex Integration solutions using Mule 4.

Migrate applications from IBM, Mule 3 to Mule 4 versions.

Work with customers to create and influence proper standards for development.

Contributed subject matter expertise to effort estimation and SOW development.

Participate in the continuous improvement of MuleSoft & cloud integration products by leading internal work groups and design sessions within Professional Services and across the firm.

Mentor and train the internal team on design and architecture best practices.

Mentor teams on best practices on Mulesoft 4.X.

Work on RFPs related to legacy migration / modernization.

Develop POCs and contribute to POVs.

Assist development teams on flow design, data weave and performance tuning.

Oct 2019 – March 2020, Senior Software Developer,

Employer: Sirisai Technologies, FL USA

Client: Mulesoft/ADP, Atlanta

Roles/Responsibilities

Perform Design & Implementation of API/ESB based integration applications for MuleSoft customers

Primary responsibilities include Architecture Assessment, Design & Implementation across different projects.

Work with customers to create and influence proper standards for development, governance, and operational lifecycle.

Contributed subject matter expertise to effort estimation and SOW development.

Participate in the continuous improvement of MuleSoft & cloud integration products by leading internal work groups and design sessions within Professional Services and across the firm.

Mentor and train the internal team on design and architecture best practices.

Mentor teams on best practices on Mulesoft 4.X.

Work on RFPs related to legacy migration / modernization.

Develop POCs and contribute to POVs.

Assist development teams on flow design, data weave and performance tuning.

May 2019 – Oct 2019, Specialist Senior, Deloitte Consulting, USA, Chicago

Roles/Responsibilities

Work on Proposals involving API Discovery and methodology.

Perform architecture assessment to evaluate the API maturity.

Work with customers to create and influence proper standards for development, governance and operational lifecycle.

Contributed subject matter expertise to effort estimation and SOW development.

Participate in the continuous improvement of MuleSoft & cloud integration products by leading internal work groups and design sessions within Professional Services and across the firm.

Mentor and train the internal team on design and architecture best practices.

Mentor teams on best practices on Mulesoft 4.X.

Work on RFPs related to legacy migration / modernization.

Develop POCs and contribute to POVs.

Assist development teams on flow design, data weave and performance tuning.

Oct 2018 – April 2019, Technology Specialist, NIIT Technologies, USA, Atlanta

As part of MuleSoft initiative the engagement team was responsible to build an API Led Connectivity approach to the existing landscape to enable enterprise wide usage

Roles/Responsibilities

Work on High level design, detail design, development and testing.

API Layer identification and composition.

Defining Canonicals and resource definitions using RAML 1.0

Deployment of Applications to Cloud hub

Enforcing API Manager policies

Custom Policy development for PCI Compliance.

Worker Sizing and Runtime management.

Actively engaged MuleSoft for Major issues related to Mule 4.0.

Actively participated with DevOps to set up the CICD pipeline along with JFrog

Setup.

Creating reusable transformation frameworks using data weave for ACORD

transformations

Design common logging & error handler frameworks

Extensive performance testing and identified bottleneck Mule 4 components and

notified MuleSoft Support.

Followed best practices and encouraged the team to follow Test driven development

Sep 14 – Oct 2018, Integration Architect, EAI/BPM PRAC, Mindtree, NJ, USA

Migration of IBM Business Integration Applications to Mulesoft Any point platform

Roles/Responsibilities

Provided target reference Architecture on Mulesoft for Migrating IBM Integration applications

Demonstrated customers about Mindtree capabilities on Mulesoft

Revamped the existing design to ensure the migration to Mulesoft achieved better performance and memory efficient

Designed & implemented complex integration flows

Designed Components/flow equivalent to IBM OOB Adapters

Identifying the right components to achieve migration from IBM Platform (Persistence, Distributed Object Store)

Asynchronous Services design

Performance tuning of Applications running on Mule Runtime (on Premise) which involved connector, flow & component tuning.

Designed & Developed DevKit Custom connectors for SFTP & Event Source

Designed & Developed common reusable flows/components

Feb 12 – Aug 14, Technical Lead, Integration Architect, Consultant - EAI/BPM PRAC, Mindtree, B’lore, India

AIG targets to be the industry leader in catastrophe risk management by building a globally deployed Location-based exposure system for Cat Modeling and Risk analytics.

Global Exposure Solution (GES) is aimed to achieve the same. GES application will capture accurate exposure data during the quotation process which will be cleaned and formatted through centralized service. It is expected to augment the captured data with other third-party and AIG internal data and will run the data through various CAT modeling tools available as centralized service allowing AIG underwriters and risk managers to manage location-based risks in individually and in aggregate.

GES will allow achieving better risk management; improve reinsurance negotiations, accurate rating/pricing and meet increasing regulatory and investor scrutiny along with streamlining the operational processes

Roles/Responsibilities

Design SOA Components for Integration Layer

Design and Architect ESB Mediation Layer for stateless Orchestration

Design BPEL macro flows

Design & Model Consumer & Canonical Models for Enterprise Services and Integration Layer

Define QoS identifiers

Design interfaces across several internal and third party systems

Design Enterprise Level Services ( Web Services ) & Data Services

Environment: IBM BPM v 7.5,WebSphere Process Server 7.X, WebSphere Integration Developer 7.X, WebSphere JCA Adapters 7.x, WMQ v 7.X, Altova XML Spy, Oracle XE 10g

Oct 10 – Feb 12, AIS Consultant, Integration Specialist, IBM India Pvt Ltd, B’lore, India

The objective of this program is to develop business integration solutions, enhance existing capability, processes and IT infrastructure of Telecom by building new applications/ packages and integrating the whole of IT infrastructure for carrying out business more effectively and efficiently. Wholesale Transformation is being developed around three core themes of the “Plan on a Page”:

- Customer Retention - Protect and grow traditional product and service revenues

- Operational Excellence - Deliver operational and financial effectiveness and efficiency

- Enablement of New Wave Product Sets - Develop new wave products and services

Roles/Responsibilities

The AIS (Application Innovation Services) Consultant(s) is primarily responsible for implementing business integration solution using IBM WebSphere Process Server

Design and development of ESB mediations

Participating in discussions with other TNZ vendors in preparing the micro design and end to end integration mapping sheets.

Resolving SIT/CIT defects, Change Managements & System Changes on priority basis.

Appropriately analyze the defects and identify the design gaps to obtain resolution or work around with documentation if it is a high priority issue.

Suggest and implement optimized solutions to the new and existing implementations to ensure the robustness of the application.

Implementing patches to the existing deployed services to improve the performance & higher response times.

Work along with the Architects for optimization techniques.

Provide appropriate knowledge transfer to the new joinees.

Share appropriate knowledge with respect to Business integration technology and SOA with fellow team members of wholesale & retail business units.

Maintaining proper versioning of the Business integration artifcats in Clear case.

Assist the SIT & CIT team for any application clarifications and performed administrative task on WebSphere during the term at onsite

Environment: WebSphere Process Server 7.X, WebSphere Integration Developer 7.X, WebSphere JCA Adapters 7.x, WMQ v 7.X, Altova XML Spy, Oracle XE 10g

Sep 09 – Sep 10, WBI Consultant, Senior System Engineer, IBM India Pvt Ltd, B’lore, India

Marriott- CI AMS

The Consolidated Inventory (CI) program has been created to facilitate on and off property sales and is the first step towards implementation of a broad Total Yield vision. The consolidation of group sleeping room and function space inventory in a centralized system is envisioned to grow revenue, increase market share and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. The goal of CI is to minimize the number of systems used to book group customer events and will support the new business process (Sales Transformation) that Marriott International (MI) is implementing to sell and service events.

Siebel Application integration architecture utilizes Siebel EAI workflow to communicate with external middleware. WBI InterChangeServer leverages its adapter event model, which is inherently asynchronous; therefore, a gap exists between the synchronous processing requirement and the integration architecture

Responsible for leading the integration team in delivering solution to our customer in the distribution sector for travel & transportation industry.

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements

Identifying performance & throughput issues related to each interfaces

Development of Custom WBI Adapters.

Design & Development of WebSphere Interchange Server Interfaces

Migration Analysis for WebSphere Process Server from WebSphere Interchange Server

Providing enhancements so as to have least impact on the current deployed solution

Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in WBI products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.

Providing alternate ways to synchronize business critical data between various end systems.

Provide appropriate knowledge session to new entrants in the project

Environment : WebSphere Process Server 6.2.X,Websphere Interchange Server 4.3.1, WBI Adapters, WMQ v 6.0,WMB 6.1, WBI Adapter toolkit, Altova XML Spy, Visual Test connectors

Team Size : 4

Sep 08 – Aug 09, Software Engineer, Oracle India Pvt Ltd, B’lore, India

Fusion Integration Services - BSSV IDC Support

Business Services (BSSV) technology is based on Oracle Fusion Technology and is part of the same. FIS-BSSV provides a platform to build applications to connect and integrate to Enterprise One system, it makes use of web Services technology to develop BSSVs that will interact with Enterprise One System

Roles/Responsibilities

Analyze the FIS code base and suggest for improvements in performance & throughput

Implement WS-Interoperability features on the BSSV’s deployed on WebSphere & Oracle platform

Ensure that development is performed as per requirements

Customizing existing BSSV’s for customers

Develop BPEL & ESB implementation flows and test plans

Design & Development of Custom steps for OWSM

Installing & deploying OWSM server / Client agents

Implement WS – Security for BSSV’s on WebSphere platform

Publishing a red paper on usage of OWSM with Enterprise one BSSV’s

Certifying BSSV’s 8.98 on WebSphere V 7.0 platform

Provide BSSV solutions to customers.

Environment: Windows 2003, Java / J2ee, Web Services, SOA Suite 10g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, JDeveloper, WAS C 7.0, BEA Weblogic V 10.1, OAS 10g

June 06 – Aug 08, Associate System Engineer, IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India

OSST – Telstra Mediator

Roles/Responsibilities

Handled Multiple roles and responsibilities; Module Lead, Developer,Process/SOI Designer for BSS/OSS transformation for Telstra

Designed and developed BPEL & Business Rules for PostFeeForService PFFS service

Implement exception handling & retry mechanisms for PFFS

Designed & developed UpdateOrderItemStatus (UOIS) service

Implement dynamic relationship for UOIS service

Design Adapter Service for Inbound & Outbound communications

Implement QOS (Quality of Service ) for integration services

Testing end to end for various interfaces

Lead the team of developers who are involved in defect fixing & CR’s implementation for TR1.1 A, TR1.1 B, TR1.1 C

Provide sessions on WPS to new team members

Mentor peers

Received IBM customer bravo award for delivery excellence

Environment: Windows XP, Altova XML Spy, WID 6.0.1, WPS 6.0.1, WebServices,SOA,SOMA, Junit, VisualTest Connectors, WAS, WMQ, AIX

Verizon Americas

Analysis, development and implementation of Service Oriented Integration solution with WBI, WebSphere Interchange Server in order to integrate the various Legacy applications used by Verizon Americas

Key project implementations as team member

oDevelopment of Business Process using Collaboration templates

oDevelop Business Object specification as per the technical specification

oDevelop Business Objects Map’s

oDesign ASBO’s using WBI adapter ODA”s(Object Discovery Agents)

oImplementation of WBI Adapters (JDBC,JText,HTTP)

oDevelopment of static relationship lookups

Developed interfaces to legacy systems

Developed, validated and tested End to End flows

Environment: Java/J2ee, Websphere Interchange Server 4.1.3, Websphere MQ 5.3,WBI Adapters 2.6

Jun 05 – May 06, Engineer,Defence Research & development Laboratories(DRDL, Hyderabad, India)

Involved in Planning of the Data Acquisition Part

Installation of Transducers

Installation of Network Switches & Adapters for Communication

Installation of Ethernet based RF Devices

Configuration of Network Devices like Hubs, Switches

Calibration & Testing of various transducers like pressure, heat, strain etc

Jan 04 – Jun 04, Engineer,Defence Research & development Laboratories(DRDL, Hyderabad, India)

Involved in Development of DSP Filters

Tuning of Filters

Monitoring the performance using Performance viewer

Develop filters of suitable amplitude & frequency using c/c++/java

Certifications:

Mulesoft Certified Integration Architect.

Mulesoft Certified Platform Architect.

Mulesoft Certified RAML Design Associate.

Mulesoft Certified Developer (Mule 4).

Mulesoft Certified Developer (3.8 Professional)

Mulesoft Certified Integration & API Associate

IBM Certified SOA Solution designer

IBM Certified WebSphere MQ Solution designer

IBM Certified Solution Developer for WebSphere Integration developer 6.0.1

Training:

Basic Concepts of Enterprise Application Integration(EAI ) at IBM India

Java 1.4 at IBM India

J2EE Concepts at IBM India

IBM Websphere DataPower – SOA Appliances

WebSphere Interchange Server 4.3.x (WICS) at IBM India

WebSphere Message Broker 6.0.x (WMB) at IBM India

WebSphere MQ v 6.0.x (WMQ) at IBM India

WebMethods 6.1 at IBM India

WebSphere Business Modeler 6.0.1 at IBM India

WebSphere Process Server /WebSphere Integration Developer 6.0.1.x at IBM India

IBM Db2 V 8.1 at IBM India

WSDL,XML at IBM India

WebSphere Studio Application Developer v 5.1 WSAD IE at IBM India

UML concepts & Design at Oracle India

MQ Series WorkFlow at IBM India

JDEdwards Enterprise One Tools 8.98 at Oracle India

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