Platform Architect
Resume:
SANDEEP RAGHAV
Technical Leader & Enterprise Integration Architect
STRATIGIC THOUGHT LEADER, IT STRATIGIST, INTEGRATION ARCHITECT
Leadership Profile
A Creative, Strategic IT leader with experience of Integration Architecture, IT transformation with deep experience of IT processes, support & operations, integration, cloud architecture, SaaS & PaaS ecosystem, enterprise security, high performant highly scalable and secure hybrid cloud architecture.
Leading Data and Integration practice at Pacific Life
Worked as contractor at Tyson Foods and Fairbanks Morse as lead Integration Architecture
Build new Data Engineering team at PepsiCo eCommerce and build Datawarehouse in Snowflake
Transformed IT Support and Operations interaction practice fostering strong collaborative environment.
Develop strategic direction for the information systems plan including technology deployment plans and departmental budgets.
Led implementation of MuleSoft API Management and SnapLogic IPaaS integration platform, acting chief architect and owner of Mule and SnapLogic platform.
Lead data integration for MDM program at Clorox
Architected and led implementation of Clorox Direct to Customer strategy (D2C)
Led M&A with new Clorox acquisition with Renew Life (Digestive Supplement Distributer)
@ IBM:
Demonstrated strong hands-on technical expert to develop effective cloud and security solution components using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies.
Identified new vistas with technology and business process enhancement.
Lead CITI Banks open API initiative using IBM API Management
Implemented various SOA/API, Secure Gateway projects performing up to thousands of transactions per second at various companies across industries like Boeing, Citi, ADP, BlueShield, Exxon Mobile, Pitney Bose, DaVita, and WestJet Airlines.
Patents:
Method for encapsulating logical units of work using business objects - Issued
Apparatus, system, and method for signaling logical errors in an EIS remote function call - Issued
Apparatus, system, and method for retrieval of hierarchical data from SAP using dynamic queries -Issued
Information Technology Resource Management --Filed
PROJECTS DETAILS:
Company: Pacific Life
Duration: 2022-Till Date
Role: Enterprise Data and Application Integration Architect
Responsibilities:
Responsible for developing the technical strategy, architecture, design, and system application standards for integration systems including MuleSoft, Informatica, Control-M, Azure Cloud services, Azure API Gateway and data integration services/platforms
Develop long-term roadmap for the API Platform, aligning near-term platform scalability needs with strategic investments in AI-native capabilities and platform monetization.
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Developed lifecycle strategies for API versioning, including formalized processes for deprecation, backward compatibility, and zero-downtime migrations across a distributed microservices environment.
Mentored senior engineers and tech leads, driving adoption of scalable API-first design patterns and responsible AI integration practices across the org.
Setup a high-performance engineering culture, emphasizing platform reliability (SLOs/SLAs), developer self-service, continuous learning, and cross-functional innovation with product, data and business teams.
Evaluates project requirements and produces solution blueprints that enable project teams to develop systems that are robust, flexible, scalable, secure, and that support enterprise strategic initiatives.
Support enterprise architects, client portfolio leads and systems analysts to provide IT solutions that are consistent with Enterprise Standards, Architectures and Strategies.
Responsible for providing senior level expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the enterprise's overall application system architecture.
Lead the design and implementation of new Workforce Benefit division integration and API’s from ground up and lead implementation using MuleSoft.
Lead Architecture committee to bring all the architect together to share and align architectural patterns, standards and new best practice to be adopted across enterprise .
Company: PepsiCo eCommerce
Duration: 2019-2021
Role: Tech Lead -Architecture and Data Integration
Responsibilities:
Hire and build talented team for brand new Ecommerce Engineering Division
Establish technical evaluation process to hire engineers.
Lead the MDM data strategy and connect with business to capture business requirements .
Integrate eComm opensource and Cloud based systems with PepsiCo legacy systems.
Establish new Snowflake data-warehouse, defined best practices, data governance and warehouse data model using Data-Vault pattern.
Define strategy and execution roadmap to implement data integration into Snowflake
Build a product catalog for e-Commerce, extension to PIM with full support of eComm data
Selected Apache Airflow as platform for data engineering team
Lead team to develop over ~300 data pipelines into Snowflake including operationalizing them with dev-ops model with end-to-end CI/CD automated process from PR to Prod deployment
Company: The Clorox Company
Duration: June 2015 -2019
Role: Enterprise Integration Architect and Team Lead
Responsibilities:
Procured SnapLogic IPaaS and lead implementation, including infrastructure (HA, DR), network topology, security setup, monitoring and operationalizing it.
Led implementation of MuleSoft API Management, created end-to-end hybrid infrastructure and security architecture and established it as the enterprise integration platform.
Implemented RabbitMQ as enterprise messaging bus and with team used for Transport Management integration project
Setup roles and permission to access SnapLogic also integrated SSO with OKTA
Defined MDM API strategy to provide product data to more than a dozen brands and eCommerce websites.
Architected and implemented setup of SnapLogic ground-plexes and configured to connect with cloud-plexes
Lead data democratization initiative to create a data lake for Clorox using Google Cloud .
Led implementation of over 300 data integration pipelines using SnapLogic
Replaced Informatic integration platform with SnapLogic
Worked relentlessly and promoted culture of innovation and efficiency across organization
Lead effort to bring all the departments like HR, Marketing, Finance, Sales and IT to agree upon integration strategy and technology alignment
Educate and help setup integration platform and do POC to solve complex marketing personalization problems
Architected scalable Microservices using Spring Boot and Docker for Clorox ecommerce backend platform
Lead implementation of a PKI-based web application access control as API’s for e-commerce platform.
Lead setup of IPaas integration platform end to end including infrastructure, network, SSO (OKTA) and RBAC setup.
Define data security and compliance guidelines for integrations across enterprise.
Led key cloud strategic initiatives like replacing HCM solution at Clorox with Workday and acted as chief integration architect for over 50 integrations spanning across complex global landscape
Led team and provided architecture guidance to integrate Renew Life merger & acquisition with Clorox standard enterprise systems.
Company: IBM (2003-2015 Multiple IBM Projects)
Duration: May 2012 -- June 2015
Roles: Managing Architect
Project: IBM API Connect platform (June 2015)
Responsibility:
Architected and coded from line 0 and released first ever IBM API Connect product
Manage team of developers and define strategic direction for IBM’s API Management program.
Led API Management cloud architecture using bottom up, infrastructure first approach and using flexible resilience cluster design using loosely coupled cloud components
Conduct analysis of various architecture and IBM products available to architect API management
Conducted and led brainstorming session with technical experts to come up with best hybrid cloud platform architecture
Led API Management cloud architecture using bottom up, infrastructure first approach and using flexible resilience cluster design using loosely coupled cloud components
Decoupled component into Security, Analytics, Management and Runtime using API’s to allow very scalable cloud.
Led implementation of Cloud development, conduct scrums to monitor daily status to manage fast paced monthly release delivery.
Actively work with various customers to find solutions to problems faced by them and address then in design.
Hands-on development:
Architected API policy enforcement framework for IBM API Connect platform.
Contribute to design and development of SSL profiles support for API Management cloud.
Design framework to compile and transform API design-time-metadata to runtime code to run on IBM Secure DataPower Gateway.
Design and develop SSL mutual authentication framework for back-end connections.
Designed and led development of automated functional verification scenario to test end to end scenarios without UI interaction.
Coded high-quality framework for dynamic xslt based transformation using UI mapping meta-data.
Contribute to NodeJS based test framework for testing REST based Apis.
Collaborate and identify creative way to solve technical challenges.
Wrote WSDL parser for parsing wsdl.
Project : Development of Castiron (IBM App Connect) iPaaS integration platform
Duration: Sept 2010 -- May 2012
Roles: Architect/Team Lead
Responsibility:
Led IBM IPaaS ecosystem architecture by building community platform, share large set of prebuild solutions, fast connector development framework, marketplace to share these connectors and solutions.
Design and develop new Castiron Studio wizard for generating proprietary Castiron connector artifacts.
Work closely with IBM India and China team to provide technical leadership.
Resolve all the technical challenges faced by team at every level.
Define requirement gathering process to identify sample integration scenarios.
Design/Develop Salesforce Bulk API Connector.
Lead team to build various technology connectors like Salesforce, NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Workday, SFDC Bulk connector, Taleo etc.
Project : Developing SCA based Websphere Business Integration Process server components
Duration: Sept 2010 -- May 2013
Roles: Lead Developer/Team Lead
Responsibility:
Design develop SCA(SOA) core components for IBM middleware product.
Developing osgi plugin based server components.
Designed and developed support for high performance XML data for WebSphere SOA layer.
Developed full junits to test all the runtime functionality.
Developed web-services component to support all the WSDL styles like Doc-lit, rpc etc .
Wrote automated test cases to test Webservices for different wsdl styles.
Responsible for gathering functional specification, designing different SCA -Fast-XML.
Played important role in design and development of common connector architecture, which enables providing common integration components for different broker.
Providing Adapter integration services as SOA interfaces.
Involved in design and development of prototypes for SCA based JCA adapters.
Project : Developing Business Integration Adapters for Websphere Process Server
Responsibility:
Design and development of Websphere Adapter for SAP Software .
Developed JCA support for BAPI\RFC\ALE inbound\ALE outbound\RFC Server ABAP extension module.
Designed and developed SAP QIS module to retrieve data from SAP tables using foreign key relationship.
Helped customer across IBM SAP integration implementation.
Responsible for Design of XML Schema and interfaces for all supported calls.
Designed and developed Messaging EJB,Servlet to test different adapters with different brokers.
Responsible for gathering functional specification, designing different JCA adapter functionalities.
Played important role in design and development of common connector architecture, which enables providing common integration components for different broker.
Providing Adapter integration services as SOA interfaces.
Involved in design and development of Data Exchange API ‘s for all IBM adapters.
Company: AOL Time Warner
Integration of AOL Time Warner Financial System with SAP using BEA WLI.
Duration: June 2002 till June 2003
Company: AOL Time Warner
Responsibility:
Code Integration protocol for Financial interface like Goods Receipts, AR, PR, PO invoice etc.
Coded Messaging EJB,Servlet to interact with Workflow.
Developed workflows for Goods receipts(inbound/outbound),PR,PO,INVOICES,AR,GR using BEA WLI (Weblogic Integration 2.1,7),
Design setup coding of BPM Workflows, configuring BEA File Adapter, Email Adapter,FTP Adapter,SAP Adapter. Developed SAP Extension IDOC’S for above Interfaces.
Company : I2 Technology, Mountain View, CA
Duration: Feb 2000 - June 2002
Company: I2 Technology, Mountain View, CA
Role: Software Engineer (Java, Database, Servlet, XSLT, JavaScript )
Company : D2k Inc, 1920 Zaker San Jose, CA
Duration: 1999 to 2000
Role: Software Engineer (VC++, Database, C, java, Installshield)
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating System : Linux, Unix, Windows
Languages : JAVA(Expert), Pythan,JavaScript, C++, VC+,HTML, XSLT, CSS
Build/Scripts : Ant, Maven, Python, Shell, Jenkins (Tool)
Special Software : Airflow,Docker,Datapower Secure Gateway, osgi,Tomcat and Apache Server, Git, CleareCase (Source Control), ESB, SOA,Node JS, Tomcat, WebSphere Application and Process server, Dell Boom, Snaplogic, Informatica, Kafta, Spark, MuleSoft, IBM Castiron, API Management, Jenkins, vSphere ESXi hypervisor, AWS, Elastic and Docker
Database/No Sql : MongoDB,Oracle,Sql Server, Informix, DB2 (Stored procedure, Intermedia (oracle), MySql, Sql Server.
API Artifacts: XML, JSON using SOAP and REST APIS.
Education: Bachelor Of Technology 1996 (Major: Electronics and Telecommunications)
KNIT, India
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