MySQL, Oracle, Postgres
Arun Kumar Balaguru
Software Developer - Technical Lead
Chennai
Summary
Meticulous Technical Lead strictly adheres to both client-provided technical requirements and internal business goals. Balances project prioritization to fulfill both contractual obligations and internal revenue requirements. Provides foresight and management designed to grow satisfied customer bases and revenue figures. Ready to rapidly onboard new personnel and kick start new projects. Achieves rapid and exceptional completion metrics through careful utilization of available skills and technical assets. Assembles effective teams by exploiting complementary competencies and collaborative employee relationships.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
Technical Lead
MSys Technologies
Chennai
07.2021 - Current
- Work with multiple product stakeholders to understand the requirements and to get them analyzed and convert them into tasks that can be worked upon in an agile environment.
- Took care of multiple projects and have led the team to the closure of the same.
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
- Offered input on technical and platform-related strategic planning initiatives.
- Automated monitoring to reduce required employee attention.
- Designed support structure needed to confirm scalable application rollouts.
- Provided educational expertise and mentoring to junior team members.
- Assessed project milestones and team performance to keep staff on-task.
- Guided teams during continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.
- Handle Code Reviews and approvals for the team to ensure good quality of code to be merged to the codebase repository.
Member Technical Staff
ZOHO Corporation
Chennai
07.2017 - 07.2021
- Working in a fast-paced Product Development team to provide deliverables daily. Also, manage tasks for my team and get the assigned work done.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems. I own responsibility for many features of the product I work on.
- Develop features from the scratch and see them through production.
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
- Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
- Aid my team regarding their work and to manage their daily tasks and deliverables. I guide them to make them have a better understanding and to finish their work on time.
- Also, help Project Trainees to understand the product and proceed further when they face hiccups.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
06.2015 - 06.2017
- Identified potential improvements to reduce number of problems and enhanced supportability.
- Delivered scalable system architecture to support high-availability Internet site with various internal applications.
- Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction, analysis and automation.
- Participated in design sessions with clients to ascertain project specifications.
- Developed and maintained all training and support documentation.
- Assumed role as Lead Developer on completion of the tasks. Also, managing the team around me.
- Worked effectively individually and in team environment with minimum supervision.
- We handled multiple EBS (Electronic Business Services - Business Critical) applications like user authentication, authorization, payments and other major applications were handled by our team and I was the SME of the same from our team.
- Have worked with Payment Gateway (FirstData) for card authentications and our Applications will add payments to our Internal queues that will be managed through the next set of downstream applications, again those are applications managed by our team.
- I have developed many Java utilities for daily maintenance activities and to support L2 and L3 teams. Out of which one utility received client-appreciation as it reduced the turnaround time to the client from the support team perspective [from~ (15-18] hours (part automated + manual) work to ~ (2-3] minutes (fully automated)] as this was a Business Critical (payment related) application.
- Served along with project manager for various internal projects and implementations. That included tool developments for various other teams internally to reduce their Turn-around-time on metrics to be generated monthly.
- Assisted team with gathering requirements from business. Troubleshooted issues that arose in production and test environments.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
RMD Engineering College - Anna University
Chennai 07.2011 - 05.2015
Higher Secondary School - Computer Science
S.B.O.A SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE (CSBE)
Chennai 06.2009 - 05.2011
High School - 10th Standard
S.B.O.A SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE (CSBE)
Chennai 06.2008 - 05.2009
Skills
Systems Development Lifecycle
Software
PostMan, Insomnia
Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio
Guidewire (Claim Center 8)
MS Office
Certification
Certified as IBM DB2 Academic Associate: DB2 Database Application Fundamentals
Work Availability
monday
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Specializations
Full-Stack Developer as an individual contributor, managing a team with Skills and Specializations listed below.
- Full-Stack Development (Java, J2EE, JSP, JSF, Servlets)
- Front-end Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery)
- Product Development
- Web Development (Servlets, Struts 2.0, Spring MVC (~1yr experience) & Other Internal Frameworks within the company)
- WebService Frameworks (SOAP & RestFul - Axis 2.0, CXF)
- ORM Frameworks (Hibernate (~1yr experience), Other Internal Frameworks within the company)
- MySQL, Oracle, Postgres
- MS Office
- Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, Guidewire (Claim Center 8)
Quote
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
Jim Rohn
Timeline
Technical Lead
MSys Technologies
07.2021 - Current
Member Technical Staff
ZOHO Corporation
07.2017 - 07.2021
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2015 - 06.2017
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
RMD Engineering College - Anna University
07.2011 - 05.2015
Higher Secondary School - Computer Science
S.B.O.A SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE (CSBE)
06.2009 - 05.2011
High School - 10th Standard
S.B.O.A SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE (CSBE)
06.2008 - 05.2009
Specializations
Full-Stack Developer as an individual contributor, managing a team with Skills and Specializations listed below.
- Full-Stack Development (Java, J2EE, JSP, JSF, Servlets)
- Front-end Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery)
- Product Development
- Web Development (Servlets, Struts 2.0, Spring MVC (~1yr experience) & Other Internal Frameworks within the company)
- WebService Frameworks (SOAP & RestFul - Axis 2.0, CXF)
- ORM Frameworks (Hibernate (~1yr experience), Other Internal Frameworks within the company)
- MySQL, Oracle, Postgres
- MS Office
- Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, Guidewire (Claim Center 8)
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