Kousick Shanmugam Nagaraj

• Driving stack, design and architecture decisions for a GraphQL platform on AWS appsync. Determining approaches to overcome limitations on the platform while taking care of efficiency and quality of the end product.
• Completed code read, recommended changes and determined frameworks, architecture and High Level Design in moving a monolith written in Node with Express to a mature Node with NestJS and Fastify.
• Studied Core Architecture of the logistics system of a fortune 500 and world leading supermarket chain, prepared presentations on the current state architecture. Guided and reviewed work of four teams of five members each working on different lower level implementations of the same system.

• I orchestrated a team of 15 Java developers in building big data connectors for a leading ETL platform. Developed and released over 5 connectors and database plugins to help the ETL tool connect with various Hadoop platforms and Big Data Sources using core Java and Karaf OSGI bundling.
• Spearheaded a team of 12 full stack Engineers in building a Java Spring Boot microservice platform for a Real Estate product in Australia. It involved building a mobile application and a platform based on microservices architecture. The product is live, with over 15K active users and over 100K real estate properties synchronized.

• Headed a team of 7 full stack engineers in migrating a legacy platform of a leading Pharma Insurance company in the US to a new technology stack(Java, React, AWS services). Handled platform and data migration of over 30 Million sensitive data with zero downtime.
• Planned and executed the evaluation of a decade old leading insurance platform written in core Java. Suggested and implemented necessary changes to improve quality and scalability of the product. This work improved performance of the application 12X times
• Enabled a team of 5 full stack developers in building a platform to manage overtime planning for a leading microchip manufacturing company located across the globe. The platform was written as a multi-tenant architecture to support multiple locations and different timezones. This work involved synchronizing over 90K daily check in and check out entries.

• Architected the core architecture for an Electron JS desktop application that was built to support Gmail on desktop
• Engineered and lead a team of 4 UI developers to build a plug and play chat bot framework using NodeJs and Redux. Improved build and deploy time by 2X times.
• Trained and monitored a team of 10 junior developers to build and automate application tracking process for a huge job portal in the US.
• The job portal also involved designing and developing Automation tools in Python and Chrome Extensions/Plugins. Changed how application tracking process was handled, and our tools improved developers efficiency by 3X times.

• Owned the design phase of building ecommerce solutions for Art Collective and Orange Gubbi on top of the Shopify ecommerce framework. Handled daily synchronization of over 100K product data.
• Programmed WIX installers in C# for a product that performs remote communication across different linux machines.

My first corporate adventure and brainchild, co-founded with two college mates as a service based software venture.

• Gained wide exposure in pre-sales, client interaction, budgeting, planning, estimation and pricing at a very early stage.
• Won a project with Lenovo and developed a procurement system on C# .NET which was later discontinued.
• Lead and handled the development of a desktop and a hand held device application on C# .NET to read barcode on examination answer scripts for a renowned educational institution. Also built a management application that read and processed over 15K students and 70K exam entries.