Enterprise Solutions Business Process

Kula Somagattu

Fairview, TX 248-***-**** *********@*****.*** LinkedIn

Summary

Enterprise Solutions Specialist with over 20 years of delivering results-driven, scalable solutions and modernizing enterprise systems.

Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership, offering insights of technology trends, and show casing technology Proof of Value (Proof of Concepts)

Proficient in cloud-native implementation, event-driven microservices, business process management workflows, enterprise integrations, advocating DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles.

Integrating AI/ML capabilities into enterprise solutions to enhance decision-making, automate processes, and deliver intelligent, data-driven outcomes

Recognized for driving transformative outcomes through strategic planning and efficient IT automation.

Core Competencies

Infrastructure and Application Architecture

Enterprise Systems & Integrations Delivery

Proof of Concepts and Proof of Values

Strategic Planning & Roadmaps

Modernization and cloud-native implementation

Container & Hybrid Security

DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code & GitOps

Troubleshooting & Problem Solving

Skills

Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud

Containers & Orchestration: Red Hat OpenShift 4.14, Kubernetes (AKS, ARO, EKS, ROSA, GKE), Docker

Architectures: Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, API Gateways, Service Mesh, RESTful Microservices

Interfaces & Schemas: Open API 3.0, JSON, AVRO, XML / XSD, WSDL

IaC & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD, Tekton, Jenkins, ADO, GitHub Actions

Security: IAM, RBAC, Network Policies, OAuth / OIDC, TLS, Vaults & Secret Managers

Platform Engineering: Internal Developer Platforms, GitOps, Golden Path Design

Business Process Management: BPMN, DMN, Drools, IBAMOE / Kogito, IBM BPM, ESB, MuleSoft, APIC

Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus & Grafana, Log DNA, Splunk, ELK, New Relic, Instana, AppD

AI/ML: Cognitive Chatbots, NLP, Google Dialog Flow, Watson, GPT

Event Streaming & Messaging: Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, MQ Series, ActiveMQ, JMS

Programming Languages: Java 17, Python 3.7, Quarkus, Spring Boot, Node, COBOL, CICS, JCL

Databases: SQL, NoSQL, GraphQL

Experience

Independent Contractor Dallas, TX

BPM SME & Cloud Modernization Consultant 05/2024 – Current

Key Projects:

IBM TxDOT - RHEL/RHPAM Migration and DevOps Optimization

Defined the migration strategy and architectural roadmap for enterprise-wide modernization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Process Automation platforms, transitioning from RHEL 7 / RHPAM 7.2 to RHEL 9 / BAMOE 8.0.6.

Led cross-functional discovery and impact analysis to align infrastructure, middleware, and automation components with long-term modernization goals and compliance requirements.

Architected a fully automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration framework using Ansible playbooks and reusable role-based modules, ensuring consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments across development, test, and production environments.

Implemented the end-to-end migration of 28+ RHPAM environments, achieving improved scalability, resiliency, and reduced operational complexity.

Oversaw the seamless migration of in-flight business processes from legacy JBPM on MySQL 5.2 to BAMOE 8.0.6 on Oracle 19c, ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime, and compliance with business SLAs.

Established DevOps optimization standards and delivery pipelines, enhancing platform reliability, reducing configuration drift, and enabling faster time-to-market for application teams.

Tek Systems FIS - Storage and Container Capacity Automation

Architected a fully automated OpenShift namespace and project provisioning pipeline, leveraging Argo CD (GitOps), Ansible, and CRDs to enforce baseline configurations, RBAC, network policies, quotas, storage and security.

Integrated ServiceNow with GitOps and NetApp/Trident storage automation using Ansible and Argo CD, enabling policy-driven, end-to-end validation and provisioning of storage and project resources.

Reduced infrastructure requests SLA from 14 days to minutes, by automating request intake, validation, and provisioning via ServiceNow, IaC, and declarative GitOps patterns.

Cadence Bank - BAMOE Implementation and DevOps Modernization

Architected and led the implementation of Business Automation Manager Open Editions (Kogito), driving business process automation adoption.

Modernized salesforce to cloud-native, event-driven, scalable, resilient microservices (Quarkus, Spring Boot). Automated and streamlined bamoe echo system including configurations, and additional services for process & task consoles, auditing and data-index services.

Technologies: AKS, RedHat OpenShift 4.14, Domain-Driven Design, Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, Tekton, Jenkins, Maven, Quarkus, BAMOE (Kogito), Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD, GitHub, BPMN, DMN, JBoss EAP, KIE Server, Java 17.

IBM Expert Labs Dallas, TX

Infrastructure and Application Automation & Modernization Expert

05/2019 – 04/2024

Key Projects:

IBM Expert Labs

BAMOE practice, GitOps automation framework for cloud native BPM using Quarkus, Kogito, BPMN, Decision Rules (DMN & Drools), and migration patterns from legacy BPM Processes.

Implemented and integrated AI workflows with personalized content generation to assist and copilot day-day tasks using Watson X Orchestrate skills and Generative AI.

Delta Airlines ZULU

Provide solution architecture to achieve 9999 SLA for mission-critical flight operation applications.

Leveraged technologies Kafka, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform, and DynamoDB.

Discovered customer needs to user stories, solutions architecture for capacity planning of scalable applications.

Adopted Kafka Connect sync and source integration solution patterns for legacy MQ, EMS, File and Datastores

Interac CA

Evaluated both infrastructure and Spring Boot microservices application architecture, conducted thorough health checks.

Managed and provided leadership in refactoring RTR Exchange microservices, addressing critical issues in standards, exception handling, infrastructure, CPU, memory, and JVM thread bottlenecks.

Streamlined the delivery pipeline by consolidating and decoupling configurations from binaries.

Improved performance from 2 TPS to 200 TPS to meet Service Level Agreements, enhancing network and database throughput.

Travelport

Led Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and demonstrated strategic solutions by showcasing OpenShift (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS) Tekton / Argo CD GitOps, Proof of Value to illustrate agility, extensibility, and a loosely coupled event-driven microservice architecture.

Discovered, designed, and implemented secure Quarkus, Spring Boot containerized microservices adhering to Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event Sourcing, Kafka Streams, and CQRS.

IBM Quest

Implemented a production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git-Ops automation solution for managing and maintaining OpenShift infrastructure, container workload configurations including RBAC, Storage, Network, Managed Services, Custom Resources.

Designed and implemented data pipeline to process, filter and enrich the quest opportunity data from up streams using Python, Kafka Event Streams.

Technologies: AKS, AWS, Red Hat OpenShift 4, Domain-Driven Design, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, SQL/NoSQL, CQRS, KTables, KStreams, GitOps (Tekton/Argo CD), BPMN, DMN, Oracle, Java 17.

Independent Contractor Dallas, TX

IBM BPM SME and Specialty Systems Integration Consultant

08/2013 – 05/2019

Key Projects:

IBM State Farm Bank

HDFC BPM Migration & Support

IBM Wells Fargo – BPM COE

IBM ONCOR – Mainframe Modernization

As an IBM BPM and J2EE expert, modeled and implemented both micro and long-running business processes using BPMN, BPEL, ESB Mediation Flows, and Enterprise Integrations.

Overseed server administration, configurations, and performance tuning for efficient business process management and improved workflows.

Implemented interoperable cross-protocol integrations (SOAP, HTTP, JMS, MQ, SCA) for seamless communication.

Automated business processes using AI/ML Cognitive Chatbots, NLP, and Enterprise Integrations, reducing support costs.

Modeled and developed complex micro and long-running Business Process (BPEL) and integrated with disparate systems (ODM, DP, TIBCO ESB, SBI, CCB)

Designed and developed Interface Specifications WSDLs and Business Objects (SDO / XML Schemas)

Modeled and implemented mediation flows (Gateway Proxies, Mediation Policies, Message Filters, XSLT Transformation, Tracing and Logging).

Technologies: IBM BPM, WPS, IBM IID, IBM PD, WESB, J2EE, AI/ML, Dialog Flow, Watson Assistant, GKE, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, SendGrid, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, IVR, Web Chat.

Contractor Dallas, TX

Sr. Java, J2EE, SOA Analyst / Developer

06/2002 – 05/2013

Key Projects:

BCBS TX – Business Acquisition

BCBS MI – Common Service

Ford Motor Company – In Vehicle Information System

DaimlerChrysler Financial Service

Designed and implemented distributed enterprise systems and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Applications using Java, J2EE, SOAP Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, and WebSphere Application Server.

Applied design patterns such as MVC, Singleton, Factory, Command, Abstract Factory, and Builder.

Utilized reusable frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JAXB, JSF, JDBC, Struts) to accelerate the development lifecycle.

Mainframe Development experience using COBOL, CICS, and JCL.

Technologies: COBOL, CICS, JCL, Java, J2EE, SOAP, WebSphere Application Server, Hibernate, Spring, JPA, JDBC, Struts.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

MS (Hons) Mathematics BS (Hons) Mechanical Engineering 05/1995

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