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Archana Kharade

Pune

Summary

Results-driven Senior Solution Architect with a strong track record of delivering high-quality outcomes in complex, fast-paced environments. Skilled at navigating challenges, resolving conflicts, and aligning teams to achieve ambitious goals. Proven expertise in translating business requirements into scalable designs and solutions using Grafana Stack, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Oracle PL/SQL, and TOSCA across financial and telecom domains. Seeking roles that blend challenge with growth opportunity.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Project - Monitoring Solution

Maersk
Pune
10.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Maersk, a global leader in end-to-end logistics, the network spans over a diverse and complex infrastructure - including terminals, warehouses, container yards, data centers, and offices worldwide.
  • Actively contributed to data centre migration involving diverse estates — including VMware, SDDC, and IBM P & Z Series — from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Grafana stack (Prometheus, Loki, Mimir), Google cloud features.
  • Designed and led the development of a Generic Report Builder — a reusable, dynamic framework that enables on-demand report creation without custom development. Replaced a static, two-week manual process with a dynamic solution, cutting report generation time to minutes.
  • Led the design and implementation of an in-house Network Assurance and Monitoring solution, delivering a comprehensive 360 view of the enterprise network — encompassing inventory management, telemetry ingestion from switches, firewalls, and wireless LAN, configuration backups, and dynamic routing state snapshots. Analysis of critical insights qualifies for alarms/Fault, design the whole pipeline of how Collection, aggregation, enrichment, Storage and presentation on our application.
  • Worked with highly available and fault-tolerant tooling for OSS components, ensuring resilient connectivity across southbound interfaces (to network devices and controllers) and northbound integrations (to cloud-hosted and federated tools).
  • Engineered a complete gNMI-based telemetry ingestion solution for real-time monitoring, including seamless alarm integration with Nokia’s NSP, ensuring actionable fault management workflows.
  • Designed and developed standalone telemetry exporters using SNMP, gNMI, REST APIs, and SolarWinds, GCP incorporating smart caching mechanisms to enhance efficiency and minimize system load.
  • Deployed a centralized log collection and aggregation framework that ingests telemetry and event logs from diverse network segments (WAN, LAN, WLAN, perimeter) and associated management systems, leveraging a hybrid stack of open-source agents and Maersk-native platforms.
  • Maersk, a global leader in end-to-end logistics, the network spans over a diverse and complex infrastructure - including terminals, warehouses, container yards, data centers, and offices worldwide.

Design Engineer Specialist

BT eServ India Pvt Ltd.
Bengaluru
10.2021 - 09.2024
  • Project-1: The Workflow Management Tool is a critical BT system designed for automating BT's Plan and Build Workflow processes. It assumes end-to-end orchestration responsibilities for the defined processes, acting as an orchestrator that interfaces with all connected systems, ensuring the smooth governance of the process until its completion.
  • Designing a solution to reduce the time required to onboard new products and processes by introducing robust self-serve capabilities, empowering users to independently configure and deploy workflows.
  • Providing generic solutions for document management, queue management, email handling, and REST handlers within JBPM across all products.
  • Crafting a plug-and-play role management solution decoupled from JBPM for seamless integration with platforms like Azure.
  • Designing a multi-tenancy solution for all products to share a unified database, leveraging existing capabilities and unified project setup and deployment processes.
  • Project-2- Led the transformation of the Physical Inventory Management System, designed to streamline, and manage global geographical site data onto platform. Ensured compatibility and seamless integration with multiple interfaced systems, addressing all necessary transformations for effective functionality.
  • Designed REST APIs with record limits and time filters to avoid timeouts for seamless integration with planning and ticketing systems.
  • Integrated Metaphors for 3D real-time device planning, improving spatial visibility and efficiency.
  • Automated reporting and bulk updates to reduce manual effort and improve operational workflows.
  • Aligned project goals through effective stakeholder communication and expectation management.

Sr. Software Developer

Infosys Private. Ltd.
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 10.2021
  • Project: SNAP – Service and Network Automation Platform host collection of microservice applications to Plan, build network elements (Physical & Virtual), Orchestrate customer intent onto multiple network domains and Activate captured intent with dependencies onto multiple services & resources across BT's network.
  • As a part of this role, I am responsible for functionality scope finalization in sprint planning, analyzing requirements from technical/functional point of view, resource planning, tracking development and QA phase, arranging demos to external stakeholders, and taking retrospective meetings to improve processes over a period of time.

Sr. Software Developer

Oracle India Private. Ltd.
Bengaluru
02.2015 - 01.2018
  • Project: Order Management - Oracle Corporation's E-Business Suite, an in-house project, encompasses various modules including Supply Chain Management (SCM), Order Management, and Pricing to support comprehensive business processes.
  • As a PL/SQL developer, I analyzed enhancement requests, resolving customer bugs and implementing seamless integration of orders with various system modules.
  • I addressed customer queries in real time, and ensure satisfactory closure of issues.

Software Developer

Altisource Technologies Ltd
Bengaluru
04.2014 - 02.2015
  • Project: Loan Application Classification using Kofax Machine - The project involved utilizing the Kofax machine to automate the classification process and benchmark its performance against human classification.
  • Responsible for generating reports on image analysis for classifying loan documents according to industry standards using OCR technology (Kofax).
  • Evaluated Kofax OCR tool's success metrics against manual mortgage document classification via reporting capability.
  • Developed reconciliation reports to track image synchronization between systems, utilizing PL/SQL migration and data fix scripts for analysis and image transfer.

Software Developer

Tech Mahindra
Pune
11.2010 - 02.2014
  • Project-rPACS: Worked as a PL/SQL Developer on the BTGS Andes Transformation project, aimed at consolidating multiple legacy systems into the rPACS framework. Utilized a multi-tier, multi-layer architecture to streamline and modernize the system infrastructure.
  • Collaborated with designers to evaluate feasibility and migration impact analysis.
  • Developed efficient, reusable PL/SQL constructs, SQL queries to early defect detection and performance.
  • Performed performance tuning and unit testing, following all SDLC practicing.

Education

B.Tech. - Computer Science

Usha Mittal Institute of Technology (SNDT)
Mumbai
01.2010

Skills

  • Telemetry ingestion
  • Network monitoring
  • API development
  • Report automation
  • Stakeholder communication
  • System integration
  • Database management
  • Performance tuning
  • Project management
  • Technical documentation
  • Team collaboration
  • Solution design
  • Workflow automation - Open and RESTful API
  • BPMN workflows
  • Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Kafka
  • MySQL and Neo4j Graph DB
  • YANG Model driven Digital Customer Portal using Angular7
  • Templating [Velocity and Thyme Leaf Templates]
  • Kubernetes deployments
  • Spring Boot

Awards

  • Client Appreciation, 04/01/19 - 01/31/20, Received client appreciation while working on-site (at British Telecom, UK) for leading and demonstrating quality delivery.
  • Best Team Award, FY18, Received Best Team award in regard of client confidence for timely and quality deliveries post transition of the project.
  • Promotion, Promoted for outstanding performance in regard of bringing the project to stable, enabling people, managing deliverables effectively with all quality measures.
  • Valuable Team Player Award, Q4'13, Received Valuable Team Player award for significant contribution towards optimizing existing PL/SQL practices.
  • Best Team Award, Received the Best Team award for rationalizing a legacy telecom system of British Telecom.
  • Star Performer Award, Q2'12, Received Star Performer award for producing reusable solution across all products.

International Work Experience

1 year

Timeline

Project - Monitoring Solution

Maersk
10.2024 - Current

Design Engineer Specialist

BT eServ India Pvt Ltd.
10.2021 - 09.2024

Sr. Software Developer

Infosys Private. Ltd.
01.2018 - 10.2021

Sr. Software Developer

Oracle India Private. Ltd.
02.2015 - 01.2018

Software Developer

Altisource Technologies Ltd
04.2014 - 02.2015

Software Developer

Tech Mahindra
11.2010 - 02.2014

B.Tech. - Computer Science

Usha Mittal Institute of Technology (SNDT)
Archana Kharade