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Ankan Chakraborti

Ankan Chakraborti

Solution Architect
Kolkata,WB

Summary

Resourceful Solution Architect with 10 years of in-depth understanding of the EIS V12 framework and right now, transitioning into a V20 architect. Proficient in AWS, learning RX Java and Kafka on the job.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Solution Architect

EPAM
02.2024 - Current

After joining EPAM, received extensive training on V20 architecture and I was onboarded as an architect in one of the existing projects. My roles and responsibilities is to provide technical guidance on V20 architecture and mentor the team as needed. I am also billable in another V12 project as architect.

EIS CoE Lead

Capgemini India Pvt Limited
07.2021 - 02.2024
  • Building the EIS CoE for this customer by mostly training internal associates in EIS V12 Policy and Claims, rolling out of the EIS exit tests on these tracks and by hiring a small portion of the team
  • Offshore CoE Lead for EIS while continue to be billable
  • Driving the training and partnership pursuits from offshore with EIS.

Tech Lead

Capgemini India Pvt Limited
04.2020 - 07.2021
  • Owning development and deployment of 5 services end to end
  • Leading a team of 5 at offshore technically
  • Ensuring java 8 coding standards.

Onsite /Offshore Lead Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2014 - 03.2020
  • I worked as a Technical lead for policy administration system implementations for multiple lines of business
  • I have good experience in Java/J2EE programming including Struts, spring, Rest, Hibernate frameworks
  • I have hands on experience in Exigen Insurance Suite including OpenL rule and Exigen rules
  • I do have very good experience working in a global delivery model involving offshore, near-shore and onsite operations
  • I also have expertise in Source Deployment, Source Configuration Management and Release Management
  • I am well versed in development of components/artifacts that implements Component interface contract, versioning of the components, and creation of the policy transactional services by extending core policy core services provided by Exigen product factory
  • Excellent client interfacing skill, ability to work in a multi-vendor environment and with different teams
  • Design and review of end to end business flows
  • In his current role, he is working as offshore delivery lead.

Offshore Tech lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2012 - 01.2014
  • Tech lead of a 12 member team
  • Preparing Detailed Design, High-level design
  • Participate in design review, code review, coding, peer review etc
  • Participate in peer review discussions with client to finalize requirements and design
  • Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports sent to client
  • Participate in discussion to finalize code review checklist, estimation techniques followed in the project
  • Coordinating with BA, testers and developers.

Tech lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2009 - 04.2012
  • Module lead for a 5 member team
  • Preparing Detailed Design, High-level design, System Integration Test cases
  • Participate in code review, coding etc
  • Participate in peer review discussions with client to finalize requirements and design
  • Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports sent to client
  • Participate in discussion to finalize code review checklist, estimation techniques followed in the project
  • Coordinating with BA, testers and developers.

Team Member/Onsite Coordinator

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2006 - 03.2009
  • Worked as an Onsite Coordinator for about a year and exhibited excellent client interfacing skill
  • Shouldering responsibilities to understand Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Cognizant quality control standards and business practices and procedures
  • Was part of design activities in many major modules like e-Registration, Web Reporting etc
  • Also responsible to perform the analysis for various enhancements, perform impact analysis to find out the systems/programs that could be potentially affected by proposed change(s), coding, and testing and implementation activities
  • Coding, Designing and Unit Testing for various requirements as per the technical specification.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

IIEST Shibpur
Shibpur
05.2005

Skills

  • Enterprise Architecture Design
  • Performance Optimization
  • Security and Compliance
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Technical Project Management

Educationcertifications

  • First class B.Tech (IT) from IIEST, Shibpur, West Bengal
  • First class in Science in 10+2 (West Bengal Board)
  • First Class in 10th (West Bengal Board)
  • 98% in SCJP 1.4
  • Cognizant Certified Professional in insurance domain

Designationhighlights

Director

Projects

Capgemini, EIS Policy Administration System, Global Insurer, Modified Agile, Insurance - P&C, Spring Framework, JSF, Spring Web Flow, Hibernate, JPA, Oracle, Dynamo DB, spring batch, REST webservices, AWS, DXP, 07/2021, 02/2024, Global Insurer undertook a very large program to transform two insurance lines of business namely Auto, Home running on legacy platform into Exigen platform for Western Europe and Asia. The project comprises of User Interface design and customization, business rules and rate algorithms implementation. Insurer went live with the MVP and now are building capabilities within EIS to match the legacy platform. Insurer plans to roll out this implementation to the other part of Europe and US, gradually., EIS CoE Lead, Building the EIS CoE for this customer by mostly training internal associates in EIS V12 Policy and Claims, rolling out of the EIS exit tests on these tracks and by hiring a smaill portion of the team, Offshore CoE Lead for EIS while continue to be billable., Driving the training and partnership pursuits from offshore with EIS. Capgemini, Open Account - A banking project, Global Bank, Agile, Banking, Java 8, Spring 2.3, jax-rs, junit 5, cucumber 4.2, AWS ecs fargate, lambda, dynamo db, splunk, 04/2020, 07/2021, A leading global bank is modernizing their technical stack and migrating their legacy application running on Pivotal cloud foundry to AWS ecs fargate. The legacy application’s data store is moving to dynamo db through AWS lambda in real time. The legacy monolith is now getting broken down to spring boot microservices and and java version is getting upgraded to java 8., Tech Lead, Owning development and deployment of 5 services end to end, Leading a team of 5 at offshore technically, Ensuring java 8 coding standards Cognizant, EIS Policy Administration System, Global Insurer, Modified Agile, Insurance - P&C, Spring Framework, JSF, Spring Web Flow, Hibernate, JPA, Oracle 11g, spring batch, SOAP and REST webservices, 01/2014, 03/2020, Global Insurer undertook a very large program to transform six insurance lines of business namely Auto, Home, Excess Liability, Earthquake, Excess Flood and Collections running on legacy platform into Exigen platform within a very stringent timeline. The project comprises of User Interface design and customization, business rules and rate algorithms implementation. The scope also includes integration of the application with external vendors like DMV, CLUE, and TransUnion etc. for all six lines of business., Onsite Lead Developer, He has worked as a Technical lead for policy administration system implementations for multiple lines of business., He has good experience in Java/J2EE programming including Struts, spring, Rest, Hibernate frameworks., He has hands on experience in Exigen Insurance Suite including OpenL rule and Exigen rules., He possesses very good experience working in a global delivery model involving offshore, near-shore and onsite operations., He has also expertise in Source Deployment, Source Configuration Management and Release Management, Development of components/artifacts that implements Component interface contract, versioning of the components, and creation of the policy transactional services by extending core policy core services provided by Exigen product factory, Excellent client interfacing skill, ability to work in a multi-vendor environment and with different teams, Design and review of end to end business flows, In his current role, he is working as offshore delivery lead. Cognizant, EIS Policy Administration System for homeowners program, Global Insurer, Modified Agile, Insurance - P&C, Spring Framework, JSF, Spring Web Flow, Hibernate, JPA, Oracle 11g, spring batch, 04/2012, 01/2014, Home Owner’s program is a policy administration application. It is a J2EE application built on Exigen product. The application uses extensive Spring features like MVC, WebFlow and JSF,JPA, Hibernate etc. The application uses Oracle 11g as the back-end. Apart from the UI, there is an extensive batch-framework, which helps in the data-flow between the systems. The application offers key features/phases for a policy admin system like data gather, bind, renewal, cancellation, reinstate, document generation, reporting etc., Offshore Tech lead, Tech lead of a 12 member team, Preparing Detailed Design, High-level design., Participate in design review, code review, coding, peer review etc., Participate in peer review discussions with client to finalize requirements and design., Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports sent to client., Participate in discussion to finalize code review checklist, estimation techniques followed in the project., Coordinating with BA, testers and developers Cognizant, eMaisie - Apple Project, Leading Banking Client, Waterfall, Spring Framework, JSF, Spring Web Flow, Hibernate, JPA, Oracle 11g, spring batch, 04/2009, 04/2012, eMaisie is a Transfer Agency Application for one of the Largest Banking Service providers for their UK clients. It is a J2EE application built on an Ext-JS front-end with AJAX for a rich UI backed by Spring framework. The application uses extensive Spring features like MVC, WebFlow, JDBC, etc. The application is pretty data intensive with Oracle 10g as the back-end. eMaisie application talks to other upstream and downstream TA platform applications for order processing, payouts, etc. The application is accessed by the Investment Service Managers (ISMs) of the end-client organization and by the back-office staff. The eMaisie web application is built using conventional multi-tier web application architecture to cater to specific business processes needs. eMaisie seamlessly integrates with other interfacing TA applications to carry out these business functionalities. Apart from the UI, there is an extensive batch-framework, which helps in the data-flow between the systems. The application offers key features for capturing Client Demographics Data, Portfolio Management, Order Management, Automated Dealing, Deal Corrections, Periodic Statement & CTC Mailings, etc., Tech Lead, Module lead for a 5 member team, Preparing Detailed Design, High-level design, System Integration Test cases., Participate in code review, coding etc., Participate in peer review discussions with client to finalize requirements and design., Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports sent to client., Participate in discussion to finalize code review checklist, estimation techniques followed in the project., Coordinating with BA, testers and developers. Cognizant, Workflow Project, Leading Banking Client, Waterfall, Banking, Core Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts Framework, Oracle 9i PL/SQL, JavaScript, OpenSTA, 01/2006, 03/2009, HSA (Health Savings Account) is a savings account created and used specifically for the paying of medical expenses in conjunction with a health insurance policy. The account holder may invest in the account funds, earn investment income on the balance and withdraw money for medical expenses. HSAs carry triple tax benefits; contributions, earnings, and distributions are exempt from federal and Social Security taxes when used to pay for qualified medical expenses. Entire participant related data and transaction related data are stored in and retrieved from Mainframe., Team Member/Onsite Coordinator, Worked as an Onsite Coordinator for about a year and exhibited excellent client interfacing skill., Shouldering responsibilities to understand Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Cognizant quality control standards and business practices and procedures., Was part of design activities in many major modules like e-Registration, Web Reporting etc. Also responsible to perform the analysis for various enhancements, perform impact analysis to find out the systems/programs that could be potentially affected by proposed change(s), coding, and testing and implementation activities., Coding, Designing and Unit Testing for various requirements as per the technical specification.

Timeline

Solution Architect

EPAM
02.2024 - Current

EIS CoE Lead

Capgemini India Pvt Limited
07.2021 - 02.2024

Tech Lead

Capgemini India Pvt Limited
04.2020 - 07.2021

Onsite /Offshore Lead Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2014 - 03.2020

Offshore Tech lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2012 - 01.2014

Tech lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2009 - 04.2012

Team Member/Onsite Coordinator

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2006 - 03.2009

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

IIEST Shibpur
Ankan ChakrabortiSolution Architect