ASHOK KUMAR V S
Chennai
Summary
Experienced and dedicated Java professional with a proven track record of over 17 years in designing and developing web portals and omnichannel marketing web applications. Recognized for organizational skills, results-oriented approach, and high motivation. Excels in Agile environments and thrives as a self-starter, capable of working with minimal guidance. Demonstrates flexibility and eagerness to learn, adapting quickly to new project requirements within tight time frames.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Manager
Changepond Technologies
06.2023 - Current
- Used Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as Cloud for building the guest and member facing sites.
- Currently leading the team on embracing Headless architecture using React as Frontend on Netlify Platform
- Managing 3 MarTech teams comprising of Frontend, AEM developers, Testers, Data Analysts, DevOps engineers.
- Liaised between business and technology units to manage delivery schedules for applications.
- Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources.
- Gathered requirements and maintained communication between project teams, internal clients and external stakeholders.
- Recruited and trained IT team members.
- Worked closely with customers to evaluate various types of risks such as impact, reputation and regulatory.
- Managed deliverable estimates, negotiated resource conflicts and allocated resources.
- Communicated cross-functionally with technology leaders across analysis, architecture, build, quality assurance, deployment and support teams on project execution.
- Assisted product owners with prioritization of backlogs.
- Managed implementation of new technological improvements resulting in increased efficiency.
Technical Architect
Ideas2IT Technologies
01.2023 - 05.2023
- Used Kafka, Spring Boot, PostGres, IntelliJ IDEA, Flyway, Java 8, Java 17, GCP, AWS
- Summary: Part of multiple project teams focusing on Cloud ready, platform agnostic microservices for Healthcare notification & Financial Analysis & Planning Applications
- Responsible for the implementation of the multi-tenancy and developed features for seamless schema creation for tenant onboarding using Flyway and JPA
- Custom Audit log management API
- Implemented API method level security with help of custom Spring Security expressions.
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Used Kafka, Spring Boot 2.0, Spring 5, Spring Integration, Eclipse Memory
- Analysis Tool, Java 8
- Summary: Part of the TCS BaNCS - Market Infrastructure product team
- Supporting the NFR fulfillment for other Trading and Securities Clients in
- South Africa and Canada
- The product supports data flow multiple channels like File processing, REST APIs and Message queues
- The product uses a proprietary high-performance framework for supporting large volumes of data processing
- Responsible for the implementation of the communication layer between various product components and external systems
- Involved in the technical discussions for NFR requirements, performance tuning, design, and development of REST APIs, Spring Boot based adapters.
Senior Associate & Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2015 - 07.2021
- Used Liferay DXP 7.2, Liferay 6.2, Spring (Portlets, IoC, Security for SSO
- Headless CMS), Hibernate ORM, Microservices, Java 8, Gradle, Maven, SVN
- Jenkins, SonarQube, Eclipse MAT, CA Wily APM
- Summary: For a leading North American Life Insurance, an omnichannel marketing website which is responsive built using Liferay DXP is built and successfully deployed to production creating an impressive impact on the Life
- Insurance stream for the client
- Lot of Liferay out-of-the-box features like
- Audience Targeting, Dynamic Data lists, and Friendly URLs etc
- Are used to achieve the complex and user centric requirements
- Also the multi brand sites are aggregated for re-marketing and single sign on implemented for users
- Microservices are used for user and role management functionalities leveraging PingOne SSO features
- Responsible for Requirement Analysis, Technical Design, Implementation plans (Efforts/Resources estimation based on requirement criticality and design complexity), Providing technical support during development, integration and testing phases, Also, Part of Technical review team performing code reviews, Performance tuning workshops, identifying potential improvement (functional and technical) areas.
Senior Software Engineer &, Technical Lead
Wipro Technologies
02.2010 - 11.2015
- Used Java 7, Java 8, Portal (JSR168 & JSR286), Java Script, Spring, Hibernate
- ORM, EJB, Dynatrace, IBM Websphere Portal Server V8, IBM Websphere
- Application Server V8, IBM DB2
Senior Programmer Analyst
Wipro Technologies
03.2012 - 03.2014
- Under H1B between March 2012 and March, Summary: Agency Gateway is an IBM Websphere Portal application that acts as a gateway from which agents can launch individual business applications
- The application consists of portlets developed using JSR 168 and JSR 286 portlet specifications along with other dashboard tools like XCelsius
- The system uses EJB and Webservices for the Business Tier most of which depends on a third party webservice for data
- Responsible for Requirement Analysis, Technical Design, Providing technical support during development, integration and testing phases, Defect Analysis, Root cause analysis for defect prevention and control measures
- Participated in a joint working session between Client and AT&T on identifying and correcting the performance bottle necks of the application
- Worked in IBM Websphere Portal Migration from V6.1 to V8
Software Engineer
UST Global
07.2007 - 01.2010
- Used JSF, Spring, Hibernate, JBoss Drools, Java Script
- Summary: Enterprise Provider Database System (EPDS) centers on the heart of client’s business model of creating, tracking, marketing, and managing flexible, quality provider networks to support all lines of business, products, and services
- The high-level scope of the project is to replace the Back-end
- Hierarchical Databases (IMS DB) to Relational (DB2) databases to support the high-volume back-end activities and the Front-end (IMS DC) screens to Web
- Interface which will be in Java/J2EE technologies using WebSphere
- Application Server [WAS 6.1] and IBM DB2 database
- Front-end provides Data entry & Admin features and the back-end provides extracts or query access to external systems
- Responsible for Requirement gathering, analysis and preparing the Test Case
- Involved in Designing, coding modules and testing the same to execute the project
- Also worked as QC Tester for the modules as part of training.
Education
B.E - Electronic & Communication
Anna University
TamilNadu01.2007
Higher Secondary -
Kongu Vellalar Matriculation Higher Secondary School
TamilNadu01.2003
Matriculation -
Kongu Vellalar Matriculation Higher Secondary School
TamilNadu01.2001
Skills
- Headful and Headless CMS Expertise in Liferay DXP, Adobe Experience Manager
- Spring Boot Application Design
- Microservices Architecture
- Kafka Implementation Skills
- React, Gatsby Headless Application design & development
- Hibernate, Flyway
- Git, SVN, Maven, Gradle
- IBM WPS & WAS , Tomcat, Weblogic Application Servers
- Dynatrace APM
- Performance Tuning using Eclipse MAT
- Agile Methodology Expert
- Strategic Decision Making
- Crisis Response
- Proactive Knowledge Seeker
- Strategic Problem Resolution
Timeline
Technical Manager
Changepond Technologies
06.2023 - Current
Technical Architect
Ideas2IT Technologies
01.2023 - 05.2023
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Associate & Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2015 - 07.2021
Senior Programmer Analyst
Wipro Technologies
03.2012 - 03.2014
Senior Software Engineer &, Technical Lead
Wipro Technologies
02.2010 - 11.2015
Software Engineer
UST Global
07.2007 - 01.2010
B.E - Electronic & Communication
Anna University
Higher Secondary -
Kongu Vellalar Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Matriculation -
Kongu Vellalar Matriculation Higher Secondary School
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