Financial Services Software Architect

Keerthi 617-***-****

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Professional Summary:

An accomplished software architect and developer with over 21 years of extensive experience in client-server and web application development, particularly within the financial services and enterprise solutions sectors. Demonstrates proficiency in a wide array of technologies including Java, SQL/PLSQL, web services, cloud computing, and various frameworks. Possesses a robust background in project leadership and application modernization.

Technical Expertise:

Proficient in Java, J2EE, SQL/PLSQL, web technologies (GWT, JSF, AJAX), SOA, messaging systems, caching, and databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. Experienced with open-source frameworks and cloud computing solutions inhouse Private Cloud on IAAS and now in the process migrating to AWS.

Leadership and Mentoring:

Successfully led and mentored teams of 5-10 engineers, overseeing the entire process from design to production delivery. Provided consulting services to support framework adoption.

Project Management and Evaluation:

Adept at conducting proof-of-concept activities, creating software design artifacts (UML diagrams), and making critical go/no-go decisions for software adoption.

Enterprise Deployment Patterns:

Experienced in clustering, fail-over, high availability, and various enterprise application patterns including GUI, synchronous/asynchronous messaging, notification, and caching.

Financial Services Domain:

Extensive experience in derivatives processing, hedge fund services using FpML standards, and developing generic toolkits for alert monitoring, health monitoring, security, and rules engines.

Automation and Quality Assurance:

Developed build and performance testing automation using Ant, Maven, JUnit, JMeter, and Mercury Quality Center. Responsible for ensuring system quality, availability, scalability, and performance.

Business Rules Implementation:

Expertise in implementing business rules using ILog JRules and related configurators.

Recent Work Experience:

Served as lead architect for State Street projects including Hierarchical Pricing Workflow, eHorizon Resiliency, and eHorizon exception management framework. Focused on application modernization, cloud migration, and UI framework development.

Responsibilities:

Lead architect of the design team across different versions of development.

Played a key part in migrating legacy application from BAU environment to IaaS private cloud environment and to AWS.

Provided design solutions for integrating inhouse toolkits CDT4(Inhouse extension of ReactJS) in legacy applications.

Successfully migrated from MQ8 to MQHub.

Played a key role for scaling the application to support an increase of almost 50% of Funds to be onboarded in Europe market.

Interaction with client’s for requirements, bug fixes, release plan, escalations, resourcing etc.

User training and participate in business signoff.

Develop design documents, test case documents, create test case scenarios and publish results.

Supported integration of various scans like Veracode, Pipeline scan to be triggered during development and BlackDuck scans into the application for keeping the application complaint.

Business, Developer and User training.

Education and Certifications:

Holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering. Completed AWS Deep Racer and ISDA FpML training, and is a Brainbench certified Java Developer.

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