Karthikeyan Kanagaraj

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Senior Consultant, Software Engineer (July 2025 – Present)

• Successfully led the re-architecture of over 170 legacy UI screens, migrating them to a modern, React-based micro-frontend architecture to improve performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Pioneered the integration of Generative AI capabilities to enhance application functionality and developer productivity.
• Initiated and delivered several successful Generative AI projects, including:
  Automated Security Remediation: Developed a RAG-based GenAI tool for automatically fixing security vulnerabilities identified by Nexus and Checkmarx.
  GenieUI: Created an agent-based GenAI application generator that builds dynamic UIs from a data schema based on user prompts.
  Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Built a natural language interface to interact with databases and extract information from internal wikis and Jira, significantly boosting developer productivity.
  Developed various internal tools and extensions for VS Code and Chrome to streamline development workflows.

Staff Software Engineer (July 2022 – July 2025)

• Led a team in managing and modernizing a complex UI application suite of eight distinct applications, encompassing over 150 modules, to support cross-border money movement and payment lifecycle management.
• Spearheaded the migration of two legacy AngularJS applications (over 50 modules) to React to address End-of-Life concerns, ensuring business continuity and improving performance.

Senior Manager (2015 – 2022)

• StockPlanConnect Platform & Mobile Development: Led and architected the full-stack development of StockPlanConnect, a platform for corporate clients to manage employee stock portfolios.
  Designed and built the user interface using AngularJS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  Spearheaded the development of the native Android/iOS mobile application from scratch to deployment, using Ionic and Cordova.
  Reduced the mobile app size from 45MB to 12MB by updating the xWalkView library, significantly improving performance.
• Financial Wellness & Gamification: Managed the end-to-end development of the Financial Wellness platform, a gamified educational resource for corporate employees.
  Authored content and integrated analytics using AEM, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Target to personalize user experiences.
  Developed customizable financial calculators for various life events (e.g., retirement, education savings) using Angular 8.
• Planning for Prospect Application: Led the development of a reusable, NPM-packaged application for creating customizable calculators and quizzes.
  Orchestrated the entire project lifecycle, from gathering user stories to final deployment.
  Developed reusable Angular components, enabling their integration into various applications across the firm.