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KRISHNA MACHARLA

Solution Architect
Hyderabad,TG
KRISHNA MACHARLA

Summary

Accomplished Solution Architect with 23 years of experience in the IT industry. Specialized in Solution Architecture, Identity and Access Management, Client Engagement, Team Management/Mentoring, Application Development, Cross-functional Coordination, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management. Demonstrated proficiency in building and delivering reliable and scalable IT applications. Strong leadership skills contributed to the successful delivery of projects. Excellent track record.

Overview

23
years of professional experience
2
Certifications
3
Languages

Work History

EPAM

Third party API integrations – Elastic stack
10.2024 - Current

Job overview


  • Delivered E2E designs for various third-party API integrations like Sailpoint, BeyondTrust, AdminByRequest, Tenable etc
  • Delivered Technical design documents for API integration and package development
  • Addressed various integration challenges like rate limiting, pagination, security, performance issues
  • Regular interactions with various third-party vendors on requirement clarifications and key decision making
  • Regular interactions with client and demos
  • Maintain artifacts related to elastic standards, data mapping and its governance best practices

EPAM

Modernization of BT Applications - British Telecom
02.2022 - 06.2024

Job overview

  • Modernization of BT applications starting with replacing legacy identity providers (SiteMinder, CAMAG, SIPG and Custom) with modern authentication platform (IDAM, OIDC/OAUTH2, Azure AD B2C)
  • Delivered E2E designs for migrating British Telecom (BT) legacy apps to AWS cloud with focus on modern authentication framework
  • Received ‘BT Super Star’ award from BT client for extensive contribution in leading the solution designs and to adopt modern secure authentication framework
  • Delivered business impact analysis and regular interaction with key business stake holder to help them in business key decision
  • Contributed to new authentication platform (SAF) design for various authentication journeys
  • Very good practical experience of Identity principles and migration patterns with modelling tools
  • Conducted technical workshops, participated in project scoping and vendor support management

EPAM

Automation of Finance Reports Audit-Thomson Reuter
06.2020 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • ONESOURCE Accounts Production is a desktop application for creating and managing financial reports for multinational and individual customers
  • Users can export reports in either PREVIEW or EDIT modes and can export whatever part of the report the user viewing will be exported
  • Users can generate reports based on templates for half a year and full-year and can update the content based on the inputs from content providers like BIG4
  • User does the content update manually for report templates by comparing with the existing report template which is tedious and error-prone when the report size is quite big
  • Currently, users have many other challenges with the content update process
  • PTW allows customers to directly push selected financial report entities to web using the Desktop PTW plugin which is based on Plugin architecture
  • User can select multiple entities and push to web
  • Successfully delivered design, development of financial reports automation work and enabled EngX best practices and showed the improved performance results to customer
  • I was the first person to start engagement with Thomson Reuters to setup and led first squad with 100% delivery model and achieved EngX certification for its best quality agile practices and quality deliverables
  • Improved overall quality of deliverables by 50% - Enabled quality gateway (Sonar) to track the quality metrics
  • Addressed the critical performance issue related to financial reporting entities while pushing them to web
  • Achieved EngX certification for delivery based on 100% ownership model

Blue Yonder (JDA) Software

Senior Architect
09.2014 - 08.2019

Job overview

  • Enterprise Store Operations (ESO) helps to manage the full lifecycle of inventory from point of order to point of receipt, driving sales and reducing operating costs
  • It provides comprehensive capabilities for forecasting, optimized ordering and replenishment, inventory execution, cash management, item and price management, rebates and invoice management, reporting and analytics, vendor management to help optimize the back-office operations
  • Delivered solutions to enhance and support customer requirements for retail products ESO (Enterprise Store Operations) and ESO web
  • Optimized stock forecast algorithm by integrating with AI services for best results
  • Played key role in successful migration of on-premises retail components to Azure cloud (Modernization of ESO)
  • Delivered PSR reports for ESO product with the LoadRunner tool to benchmark key business flows
  • Contributed to API governance group in setting up the best industry standard (Open API Specification standards) and helped the team in implementation
  • Chaired & participated in daily status call with client
  • Migrated Persona product (main features) to Azure cloud using Hybrid approach
  • Replaced legacy ‘database as queue model’ with Microsoft Azure Enterprise Service Bus
  • Built the business logic around Asp.net Web APIs and integrated with Azure cloud

DST

Chief Architect
02.2009 - 09.2014

Job overview

  • Growing number of .NET projects in company required a separate competency to setup and manage to streamline the .NET projects so that .NET projects across organization can be managed better and can focus more on client engagements
  • Setup and led .NET CoE, guiding and mentoring teams and various .NET projects
  • Acted as point of contact for technology leadership and to drive the roadmap
  • Did security audits for critical applications across the organization and guided teams in fixing them
  • Exposed the business model as Services, based on the SOA principles for Print and Procurement Management portal (MarketPower) based out of UK, contributed in optimizing the MS SQL based backend for performance issues
  • Monitored and controlled the project execution with periodic reviews to deliver quality product in time

Verizon

Technical Manager
04.2005 - 04.2013

Job overview

  • FlexView allows Verizon customers to store and manage their media content in the cloud, which is integrated with other access points like FiosTV, VzMobile, Web and desktop applications
  • User experiences seamless integration among these access points and can access media from any device
  • This application adds value to the Verizon customer and helps in generating the revenue and customer retention
  • Successfully led a team of 25 members to deliver critical core business functionality in the form of APIs
  • Design, development and maintenance of SOA based services and supported different endpoints
  • Managed Application Security Implementation and Performance Tuning
  • Involved in gathering requirements from the Business Users and Prepare the Technical specifications and design documents
  • Supervised activities related to development and delivery
  • Received four times sport award and worked in client location US for critical deliverables

Microsoft

Developer Support Engineer
04.2005 - 08.2005

Job overview

  • Supported Visual Studio and .Net products for global customers
  • Got trained on internal proprietary Microsoft tools by experts

Silver Software

Senior Software Engineer
07.2004 - 03.2005

Job overview

  • Development of the A380 Landing Gear Extension and Retraction System (LGERS) Control Software, installed on Central Processor Input Output Modules (CPIOM) within the A380 Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) system
  • Involved in analysis and design of Airbus380 landing gear retraction and extension software development
  • Extensively used ARTiSAN design tool for designing usecase diagrams and to track from requirements to work items in JIRA

Polaris

System Analyst
01.2004 - 07.2004

Job overview

  • Delivered dynamic business changes originated from different security data feeds for CitiBank’s Global Security Master (GSM) in reduced time period
  • Reduced delivery cycle from one month to one week by developing in-house tool to test the DLL binaries
  • Involved in development and maintenance of finance security data repository GSM
  • Reduced the delivery cycle of DLL changes from 4 weeks to one week

VisualSoft

Software Engineer
11.2001 - 01.2004

Job overview

  • Object Libraries is a set of library files built for Liberty Information Technology to be implemented in their business applications
  • This library is a solution for object-oriented relational database access in C++, It has a layered architecture that abstracts away the complexity of writing database applications
  • Successfully did reverse engineering of Objects Library Tool (Roguewave libraries) to understand the implementation details so that we can customize the build mechanism for our internal implementations
  • Encryption and Decryption of PIM databases, files and inbox
  • Developed and tested Crypt32 security component
  • Received JOLT award for Crypt32 security component

Education

Master of Computer Application
Warangal, India

Postgraduate
03-2000

University Overview

Passed with distinction ( 76% )

Skills

Solution Architecture, Application Development, Integration Architecture, Well Architecture Framework, Agile Practices, Presales, Estimates, Serverless, Microservices, Layered Architecture, Domain Driven Design, API Gateway, LogicApps, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Azure log analytics, Application Insights, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Blob, Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Azure Security Centre, Azure Defender, Azure sentinel, Azure AD B2C, Azure Open AI Services, Azure Service Bus, Gen AI, OAuth2.0, Architecture Patterns and Styles, Ping Identity, Azure Kubernetes service (AKS), Azure Monitor, AWS SNS, SQS, Amplify, Amazon S3, Eventbridge scheduler, AWS Lambda, CloudFront, EC2, AWS elastic beanstalk, ECS Fargate, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, CloudWatch, Amazon ElastiCache, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, SAML, XML, Jenkins, Sonar, OpenAPI, ELK stack, MSAL, PCI and GDPR compliance, OpenXML, C#, C++, Angular, drawio, Visio, PlantUML, ElasticSearch

Accomplishments

    Third party API integrations with Elastic stack – Design API integration strategies and build various integration packages for Elastic stack (ELK) to search, analyze and visualize data in real time.

    Cloud Migration Strategy & Design: Successfully developed and implemented a comprehensive migration strategy and end-to-end designs for British Telecom (BT) legacy applications, transitioning them to Azure and AWS cloud platforms. This included the adoption of modern authentication frameworks such as IDAM, OIDC/OAUTH2, and Azure AD B2C, all within a short timeframe.

    Implementation Experience: Extensive experience in mid to large-scale implementations across various industries, including Security, Finance, Retail, Telecommunications, and Avionics, effectively modernizing and migrating applications for BT.

    Awards & Recognition: Received the ‘BT Super Star’ award for leading solution designs for migrating BT apps to AWS cloud.

    Authentication Expertise: In-depth knowledge of authentication standards, frameworks, lifecycle management, and technologies such as MFA, SSO, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and customer identity platforms like Azure AD B2C, Okta, and Ping Identity.

    Leadership & Competency Building: Successfully built and led a .NET competency group, participating in various client engagement initiatives to generate new opportunities.

    Pre-Sales & RFP/RFI Creation: Worked with pre-sales teams to create RFPs/RFIs for new project proposals, contributing to solution architecture, effort estimates, POC development and client presentations.

    Process Automation: Reduced average audit effort from 2 hours to 15 minutes by automating complex financial report updates for Thomson Reuters, minimizing manual errors and efforts.

    Application Scaling: Scaled the PTW (PushToWeb) application to support 40 financial reporting entities (up from 4), enhancing user experience and reducing user intervention. Scaled Vertafore’s ProposalBuilder app to support 50% more load.

    Certifications & Awards: Certified IAM specialist (SC-300) by Microsoft, engaged in SCRUM activities, and received the SPOT award five times for technical expertise.

    AI & Business Optimization: Applied Artificial Intelligence for business optimization in retail, with solid knowledge of supply chain and retail domain products.

    Cloud & Security Proficiency: Proficient in cloud technologies (Azure, AWS), solution architecture design, and application-level security, excelling in generating performance reports and possessing strong communication and collaboration skills.

    GenAI Solutions: Experience with GenAI solutions using OpenAI C++, Azure OpenAI services, Copilot, and ChatGPT.

    Quality Improvement: Achieved a 40% overall quality improvement by enabling a quality gateway for code quality, regularly reviewing and tracking deliverables.

    Technical Contributions: Performed estimations, application security audits, customer presentations, and proof of concepts. Delivered design diagrams using Artisan tool for Airbus 380 project (UK onsite).

    Technical Speaker& Hackathons: Technical speaker with experience in podcasts (2) and technical sessions (5). Participated in AI hackathons and achieved EngX certification for Thomson Reuters project.

    Global Support: Provided global support for .NET and VC++ products as a permanent employee at Microsoft Bangalore.

    Security Product Development: Received the Jolt award for developing an in-house Crypt32 security product and PKCS system based on OpenSSL standards.

Certification

SAFe 4 Certified Agilist

Timeline

Third party API integrations – Elastic stack

EPAM
10.2024 - Current

Modernization of BT Applications - British Telecom

EPAM
02.2022 - 06.2024

Automation of Finance Reports Audit-Thomson Reuter

EPAM
06.2020 - 01.2022

Senior Architect

Blue Yonder (JDA) Software
09.2014 - 08.2019

Chief Architect

DST
02.2009 - 09.2014

Technical Manager

Verizon
04.2005 - 04.2013

Developer Support Engineer

Microsoft
04.2005 - 08.2005

Senior Software Engineer

Silver Software
07.2004 - 03.2005

System Analyst

Polaris
01.2004 - 07.2004

Software Engineer

VisualSoft
11.2001 - 01.2004

Master of Computer Application

Postgraduate
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