Kishore Kailash Madhavan

Responsibilities:

• Function as Engineering Manager for four years, overseeing AI project implementation as Architect.
• E2E solution design of applications hosted on PCF/KOB, following proper system design concepts.
• Implementing an AI translation engine using NLP, SQL-coder, and LLM.
• Implementing an AI chatbot specific to support regulatory compliance requirements.
• Ensuring the security of the entire applications portfolio with proper authentication and authorization mechanisms. Currently using OKTA, Ping, and NGSSO.
• Prepared and participated in project design reviews.
• Oversaw the development and maintenance of engineering budgets, ensuring projects were delivered within financial constraints.
• Organized monthly training sessions for engineering staff on industry trends and best practices.
• AI Innovation Council Lead. Leading the implementation of AI use cases with NLP, LLMs, vector DB, and agents to support compliance business teams.
• Maintained comprehensive records of engineering activities, including test results, design specifications, and changes made during the development process.
• Developed and executed strategic plans for the engineering department, aligning with overall company objectives, and driving technological advancements.
• Reviewed blueprints and schematics prior to the production phase, making sure they adhered to company guidelines.
• Maintained the entire infrastructure and compliance requirements.
• Streamlined and automated internal processes to improve overall process workflows.
• Provided technical guidance to engineers, ensuring all designs met safety regulations.
• Monitored and reported on engineering project progress to senior management, providing insights and recommendations to optimize performance.
• Facilitated collaboration between the engineering department and other business units, improving project outcomes and operational efficiency.

Project Description:

• Dell Product Group's Engineering, Regulatory, Quality, Compliance, and EMC Storage apps are used to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, support Dell sales, and maintain the storage product operations.

Milestones and Achievements:

• Managed more than 25 project deliveries annually, across three consecutive fiscal cycles. Handling a portfolio of over 10 million USD year over year.
• Spearheaded the delivery of software products, ensuring Dell's adherence to both regulatory and trade requirements for a business worth over 2 billion dollars.
• I drove the Innovation Council and delivered POCs using Python, Gen AI, ML, chatbots, BI dashboards, and automation.
• Staff Lead for DevOps Assessment, Security, Training, and Initiatives.

Project Tech Stack:

Angular, Java, Spring Boot, Oracle DB, Mongo DB, PCF, CI/CD DevOps, Microservices, Ping, .NET, Katalon, Python, Kafka, JSON, KOB, LLM, NLP.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements, effort estimation, solution design, development, code review, test support, application release management, project delivery, team management, mentoring team members, innovation management, and application maintenance (production support service), as well as client management.
• Ensured that we followed the SDLC, Waterfall model, and Agile model as per project requirements.
• Managed a team of 15 resources.

Client: IKEA Retail

Project Description: Order Management System (OMS) for IKEA replenishment orders, and Internal Order Booking System of IKEA (INOS). IKEA is a leading home furnishing retail organization. OMS and INOS handle replenishment orders across all IKEA business units, stores, warehouses, and suppliers, and act as a central repository of orders.

Milestones and Achievements:

• Designed a merge of three IKEA order booking applications into a single application.
• Proposed and successfully implemented a proof of concept (POC) to migrate legacy systems to microservices in the cloud as a complete system.
• Successful implementation of Orders-Stock Microservices with Kafka for better scalability and performance.
• Re-designed solutions for better performance, stability, and scalability of the IKEA Order Search engine.
• Migration to Agile and Scrum ways of working from the traditional waterfall model.
• Proposed DEVOPS-CICD for Orders applications. Designed and implemented automation modules for order and stock reports, and stock management activities using Python and Shell scripts.
• Designed a new project delivery estimation template, which was approved by clients.
• Joined as a consultant in 2015, got promoted to Senior Consultant in 2017, and Manager in 2019.
• I represented Capgemini as an architect at the client location in Sweden.
• Finalist of Capgemini IKEATHON 2020. Solution implemented as a POC for the IKEA Control Tower.

Project Tech Stack: Oracle Database, SQL, PLSQL, Java Spring, VB .NET, ASP .NET, Python, Shell Script, Spring Boot Microservice, GitHub, Jira, ClearCase, HP ALM, and Confluence.

Responsibilities:

• Create functional and system specifications for requirements.
• Development, test support, and post-production support.
• Educated resources in Shell scripting, PLSQL, and BPEL as a member of the OFSS training team.

Client: Butterfield Bank (BNTB), International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Project Description: Banking Domain. Implementation and maintenance of OFSS FCUBS (FlexCube Universal Banking System) for the Bank of NT Butterfield (Cayman and Bermuda Islands). Business Process Flow implementation for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) using BPEL.

Milestones & Achievements:

• Implemented efficient BPEL workflows for IMF with excellence.
• Successful migration of customers' savings accounts from HSBC to BNTB banking system without downtime as a result of proper risk assessment and planning.

Project Tech Stack: Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, JavaScript, UI XML, Shell Script, BPEL, SVN.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements, coding, documentation, test support, testing, deployments, and production support.

Client: Cisco

Project Description: Manufacturing Domain. Cisco - EQIT (Engineering, Quality, & IT) includes seven applications to maintain Cisco product information, production testing, quality maintenance, country legal requirements, and production quality certification.

Milestones and Achievements:

• Completed Zensar trainings as top performer.
• Successful migration of applications DB from Oracle 8i to 10g.
• SME for four Perl applications in EQIT.

Project Tech Stack: Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL, Core Java, Shell Script, Perl, Dollar Universe, SVN, QC.