Arun Krishnaswamy

Professional architect specializing in crafting innovative, scalable solutions. Proven ability to design and implement robust systems that meet client needs and drive business success. Strong focus on collaboration and adaptability, ensuring seamless integration with team objectives and evolving project requirements. Proficient in cloud computing, system architecture, and software development, with results-oriented approach.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Iasa Architect CITA-F

Solution Architect - Individual Markets  Guardian Life Insurance  

• As a Solution Architect for the Individual Markets Line of Business, I am responsible for providing technical guidance for the overall design and deployment for various IT infrastructure projects, while translating customer's business requirements to Solution Design artefacts.
• Worked closely with vendors and technology partners to evaluate and select solutions that supported clients' enterprise architecture needs.
• Designed and worked on GraphQL service layer, enabling applications to efficiently fetch the data they need and reducing the over-fetching problem.
• Worked on developing an enterprise level Event Driven Framework to seamlessly implement event driven architecture.
• Developed an XML Rule Engine to automate manual XML validation which enabled manual effort of 10 hours/week and significant cost savings.
• Defined target architecture and deployment strategies in migration of Tibco processes into Apache Camel.
• Involved in re-architecting and redesigning legacy applications into microservices architecture applications using Docker, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud config, Active MQ, MongoDB, My SQL, Restful Web Services.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to assess existing infrastructure, workloads, and applications to develop migration strategies.
• Worked with application teams on developing Java and Python based microservice applications deployed using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams, including Development, Platform, and Infrastructure, to ensure the successful execution of integrated architectural projects.
• Assisted in building architecture teams by participating in the selection and onboarding of new team members.
• Conducted design, application code reviews to ensure compliance with application development and best practices, ensuring zero security audit issues, data governance issues.

Data Extraction Tool - Intellect Design Arena 

• Involved in solutioning, design and development of data extraction from forms by implementing OPEN CV and Spacy NLP models.
• Developing highly scalable product components using micro services patterns and best practices with python, ActiveMQ, Redis, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Developed Kibana dashboards to visualize the transactions and for monitoring potential issues.
• Designed and developed rules engine to process business rules and to touch point with various external systems.
• Responsible for delivery of releases and enhancements and identify risks and propose action plans to mitigate potential risks.
• Responsible to maintain security compliance by ensuring that the code is subjected to various security scans.
• Documented project plan, effort estimates, breakdown work, define timelines, and release plans.
• Responsible for delivery of enhancements and bug fixes which is executed by managing the production support team.

Legacy Migration to AWS Cloud - Intellect Design Arena

• Design technically compliant and secure Cloud solutions, to facilitate the effective transition and migration of projects into the cloud environment.
• Created a migration strategy involving minimal transformation with a 'Lift and Shift' approach and canary deployment.
• Involved in risk mitigation planning and overall project effort estimation discussions.
• Responsible for providing inputs to Project plan updates, architecture document updates deployment documents, issue logs and other project artefacts.
• Implementation of application security using Keycloak and Lambda authorizer.
• Handled a team of 12 members and mentored junior developers for the production support.

Airline Check-In Solution - Tata Consultancy Services

• Responsibilities Development and maintenance of a solution to enable the passengers to check-in to a flight through different channels (Kiosk, Web and Mobile).
• Played the role of a senior developer in implementing solutions in Java frameworks.
• Worked with solution architects in the re-architecture and re-design of the Check-In solution.
• Involved in documentation, review, analysis and fixed post production defects. Responsible for introduction of JUnit Test-Cases for the developed components.