Financial Services C++

Vallimayil Chidambaranathan

Mobile: 512-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vallimayil-chidambaranathan-69121b28/

SUMMARY

Almost 18 years of IT experience in BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) and Telecom domains.

Proficient in implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) API enablement and enterprise application integration (EAI) using JAVA/J2EE, Guidewire and MuleSoft technologies.

Expertise in architecting and leading development of micro-service platforms, integrations, and application modernization.

Proven track record in mentoring cross-functional teams and driving technical innovation.

CORE SKILLS

Micro-service Architecture

DevOps Practices

API Design & Implementation

Agile Methodologies

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Legacy System Modernization

Cloud Migration (AWS)

Technical Mentorship

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages : JAVA 1.8, PL/SQL, C, C++, COBOL

J2EE Technologies : Servlets 2.4, JSP 2.0, EJB 3.0, JSF, Java Mail, JMS, JNDI, JDBC, AJAX

Scripting Languages : PHP, HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, PERL, jQuery, Python

Frameworks : Angular 7, Struts1.2, Hibernate3.0, JPA, Spring 3.0, Spring Boot 2.0, AJAX, Junit

Databases : ORACLE 11g, XE, My SQL, MS SQL Server 2014, DB2

Tools : Log4J, Concept Wave, Selenium, QTP, LISA, ILOG, JRULE

Servers : Web logic 8.1, JBoss, Web sphere 9.0, Tomcat

IDEs : Eclipse, TOAD 9.1.0.62, SQL Developer, Fork, JBuilder 9.x/8.x, IBM RAD

Operating Systems : Windows, Unix, Linux

CFG Management Tool : CVS, SVN, Maven, Git

CI/CD Tools : Jenkin, Azure pipelines

Build Tool : Ant, Maven, Gradle

Unit testing Tools : JUnit, GUnit, MUnit, JMeter

Code Review Tools : PMD, Check Style, Jalopy

Atlassian Tools : JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible 3.7.0

Cloud Strategies : Microsoft Azure Dev Ops, AWS

Open-Source Software : Grafana (tView), Open Search, Kafka, Red Hat

Search Engine : Elastic Search

Integration Platform : MuleSoft (Mule 4, Studio 7, Data Weave 2.0, RAML 1.0)

Cloud Platform : AWS (IAM, Auto scaling, AMI, AWS CLI, S3, VPC, R53, WAF, RDS, SNS, SQS, Athena, Quick Sight, Cloud Watch, Kinesis, Lambda and container services)

Big Data Technologies : DynamoDB, Hadoop, EMR, Spark, Hive, NoSQL and Cassandra

Containerization Technologies: AWS ECS, Docker, Kubernetes

Experience in Guidewire Products (Policy Center 8.0.7, Billing Center 8.0.7, Contact Manager 8.0.4), GOSU and experience in GUnit, RALLY, SILK CENTRAL, Jenkin, iKharo Tester V1.0.

EDUCATION

Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning-UT Austin (McCombs School of Business) (Jan 2022 – Aug 2022).

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing – UT Austin (McCombs School of Business) (Feb 2021 – Oct 2021).

Master of Science in Computers (M.Sc.,) (2002 – 2004), INDIA.

Bachelor of Science in Computers (B.Sc.,) (1999 – 2002), INDIA.

CERTIFICATIONS

MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect (MCPA) – Level1(Mule 4) – (July 2021 – July 2023).

MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect (MCIA) -Level1 (Mule4) (Feb 2021 – Feb 2023).

MuleSoft Certified Developer – Level 1(Mule4) (March 2020-March 2022).

Guidewire 8.0 Configuration Fundamentals.

Billing Center 8.0 Functional Certification.

Oracle certified Java SE 6 Programmer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Duration

Employer and Location

Designation

Feb 2024 – Mar 2025

Truist Bank (Contract), Raleigh, NC

Integration Architect

Oct 2023 – Jan 2024

Cetera Financial Group (Contract), San Diego, CA

Sr. Java/MuleSoft Architect

Aug 2021- May 2023

AT&T (Contract), TX

Solutions Architect

May 2014 – Dec 2020

Texas Mutual Insurance Company, TX

Senior Systems Analyst/Architect

July 2013 - Jan 2014

Aricent Technologies, NY

Technical Leader

Mar 2012 - June 2013

Aricent Technologies, India

Technical Leader

Oct 2008 - Feb 2012

Verizon, India

Senior Analyst

Oct 2007 - Sep 2008

Verizon, India

Analyst

Jun 2006 - Sep 2007

Verizon, India

Software Engineer

Truist Bank Feb 2024 – Mar 2025

Involved in business requirements gathering and working closely with stakeholders and business team.

Worked on converting the business requirements to technical requirements and coming up with the appropriate architectural and design documents for the system requirements for DRaaS System.

Involved in providing estimation for the features and stories. Working closely with the product owner and scrum master in PI planning /time basis to achieve the same.

Designed APIs/microservices for accessing the data from different downstream systems and designing the same in MuleSoft for the intake channels to consume.

Developed complex integration requirements and making sure the security of the APIs.

Coordinated with Salesforce, MuleSoft and Pega teams in order to make sure the end-to-end implementation.

Worked with off shore and on shore developers and helping them wherever there is a need.

Enhanced Java 11 application and APIs to Java 17.

Developed APIs in three layered Architecture (System, Process and Experience APIs).

Hands-on experience in Mule Expression Language (MEL) and DW Scripts – to access and evaluate the data in the payload, properties, and variables of a Mule message.

Experience in Continuous integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) practices with MuleSoft.

Cetera Financial Group Oct 2023 – Jan 2024

Prepared architectural and design documents for the Risk Domain Java applications running on AWS.

Worked closely with the enterprise architects and leadership team on providing the design the decision of the complete end -to -end integration of different domains.

Designed mule APIs for accessing FINRA data.

Designed APIs for downstream systems for Risk and L&R domain.

Helped the team on setting up the C4E and COE and shared the best practices of Mule implementation.

Trained off shore and on-site developers on MuleSoft.

AT&T Aug 2021 – May 2023

Helped gateway teams to identify an appropriate migration/integration platform (Mule /Kong).

Was part of C4E team in order to provide best practices of MuleSoft and work with other integration teams.

Helped team on implementing MuleSoft by providing POCs (Salesforce and third party etc.) and real time integration scenarios by doing hands-on development in MuleSoft.

Developed the Mule Apis (Process and system) from the scratch (designed the RAML, released the mock up and got the feedback and developed mule application using necessary features including secure properties, auto discovery and global elements and global error handling and applied API policies (JWT token, Rate limiting) and including runtime properties, data weave transformation etc.).

Provided the postman collections with environment variables for system, integration and production validation with DriveNet APIs.

Worked with operations team on API deployment in Runtime Fabric environment after white listing and bastion the API urls.

Set up the message queues within Mule system and designed and implemented message structure for data exchange.

Built and configured mule applications and flows to integrate systems, applications and data sources using connectors, listeners and appropriate connectors in order to enable data transfer using data weave for transformation.

Worked with cloud architectural team to bring CI/CD, dashboard features for Mule APIs using Grafana (tView).

Experience in Mule Cloud hub, RTF and Hybrid Infrastructure using Azure.

Texas Mutual Insurance Company Jan 2018 – Dec 2020

Involved in requirements gathering with business and understanding the integration needs for the project.

Prepared estimates and provided time frames to successfully implement the migration process in time.

Planning, Tracking and Managing the software development, issues using JIRA with Agile software development methodology.

Created migration flow diagrams and mapping documents using Microsoft tools for a better understanding of each migration scenario.

Experienced working with RAML (specifications/build) using MuleSoft.

Experienced with Services Oriented Architecture and RESTful Architecture and web services development.

Experienced in CI/CD and automation using Maven & Jenkins.

Coordinating with DevOps team to have deployment pipelines and key vault implementation.

Experienced in building integration projects using Mule ESB, Mule API and Mule Cloud Hub.

Experienced in integrating spring boot application, guidewire system (Billing Center) and Workday financial transaction module with MuleSoft. Experience in developing a POC with Salesforce connector.

Experienced in migrating /integrating legacy systems (Mainframe) with MuleSoft.

Experience in building custom policies, framework/components, Mule flows, error handling, transaction handling.

Manually deployed applications into Mule Soft Cloud Hub.

Experience in setting up the security models for consumers and producers. Coordinating with the teams for Okta authentication for the Apis.

Work across various platforms and the associated stakeholders/business users.

Design, develop, test, and implement technical solutions based on business requirements and strategic direction.

Collaborate with architecture team and other development teams to design, develop, test and maintain the various applications. Being part of the platform road map discussions.

Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance existing systems.

Having a sprint review discussion with business and stake holders in a regular basis.

Was part of C4E team in order to learn the best practices of MuleSoft and implement the same.

Texas Mutual Insurance Company May 2014 – Dec 2017

Participating business requirements reviews and provide feedback and suggestions on technical approaches.

Experience on story cards estimation, proof of concepts and designing of robust and efficient configuration solution.

Experience in preparing and enhancing detailed design documentation (Field Mapping, Data Model Definitions, and Rules Definitions etc.) and technical design documentation (entity and enhancement changes, pcf changes, xml and gosu file changes) for user stories.

Configure/develop/build GW configuration components (using GOSU, Rules Engine, Data Model, PCF, Wizards, Workflow, Activity and Product Model Development) in accordance with design documentation and delivering configuration user stories on time.

Configure screen layouts, including creations of new screens (PCFs).

Experience in writing business rules and other business logic.

Experience configuring operational and administration related parameters such as roles and permissions, user attributes regions, activity patterns etc.

Knowledge on configuring rating and GW Rating management (rate table, rate routines, rate books and parameter sets).

Experience working within a development team using agile methodology to deliver User stories.

Experience assisting in GOSU code reviews, code cleanups and perform sprint demos.

Experience handling the responsibility of organizing code merges and environment management tasks.

Experience in performing minor and major Guidewire software upgrades.

Developing unit and functional test configuration solutions using Gunit.

Experience in resolving issues identified during testing regarding the configuration requirements.

Writing web services for the java applications.

Doing end to end development for Java application which involves coding UI screens, database changes and API development.

Aricent Technologies (Verizon Data Services, TX & FL) Mar 2012 – Jan2014

Design, engineer and develop software across various domains of the tool.

Perform engineering evaluation and test materials including hardware and software components, products and systems.

Prepare detailed specifications towards development of programs.

Manage configuration procedures for changes to the operating system files and software.

Perform requirements analyses of all aspects of communications and telecommunications system, by applying statistical/analytical and modeling or engineering techniques, procedures and criteria in specialized areas.

Develop and prepare documentation for procedural, program and user documentation.

Monitor standards and procedures and integrate.

Work with users and the offshore team to ensure successful system implementation.

Verizon Data Services, TX June 2006 – Feb 2012

Worked closely in identifying business requirements, interpreted them and developed solutions to meet the business objectives.

Designed the J2EE based application that involves developing a web-based application using Java, Hibernate, Spring Framework and JSF.

Developing functionality solutions within the production environment, interacting with various teams and co-coordinating with the onsite team for development

Reviewing the code, troubleshooting, fixing critical defects and documentation of the application.

Lead the efforts in Testing/Test plan preparation including Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing and User Acceptance testing at the client location.

Involved in requirements gathering, design, development, and maintenance of the modules. Designed user interfaces using JSP, EJB, CSS, XML, HTML and JavaScript.

Developed technical specifications for various back-end modules from business requirements.

Developed interfaces to access remote systems using web services, XML, XSLT.

Developing Server pages using JSF/JSP, Servlets and Struts.

Developing UNIX shell script for huge data load. Developing back-end interfaces using PL/SQL stored procedures, packages functions and triggers and responsible for SQL tuning. Using Hibernate specification for data persistence.

WORK AUTHORIZATION STATUS US Citizen.

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