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Mahendra Patidar

Indore

Summary

Mainframe Solution Architect with 22 years of proven success in delivering solutions for Life & Annuity carriers. Specializes in modernizing applications, developing new products, and leading data conversion and release upgrade initiatives, achieving CPU performance improvements of up to 25% and annual savings of USD 48K. Experienced in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodologies and conducting gap analysis for managed services takeovers. Skilled in mentoring cross-functional teams across India and the US.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Architect

Majesco
01.2022 - Current
  • Designed and shipped wellness-claim capability on Majesco Policy Administration, including API automation test suites.
  • Authored training videos and user guides for Product Studio & New Provision Model, improving on boarding process for new joiners and enhancing technical and product knowledge of existing associates.
  • Led CI/CD production-support transition; built runbooks and coached new associates.
  • Collaborated with framework team and mentored clients to use this feature to report team members.
  • Migrate legacy blocks to the cloud with zero customer downtime.

Lead Engineer

DXC Technology
03.2017 - 07.2021
  • Orchestrated knowledge transfer and managed-services transition of CyberLife application.
  • Championed Agile transformation, running Scrum teams and shortening release cycles by 25%.
  • Delivered $48K annual savings via storage-cleanup and regression-checkout automation.
  • Cut CPU by 25% in regression by decommissioning 300+ obsolete product test cases.
  • Drove recruitment and onboarding of 15 engineers to scale the modernization program.
  • Client: Pacific Life

Technical Lead

Transamerica Life & Protection
09.2009 - 02.2017
  • Launched 2 new insurance products within a single quarter—on schedule and defect-free.
  • Facilitated Waterfall-to-Agile migration and trained 20 developers on agile platform.
  • Led Regulatory, Legal & Compliance team, reducing critical report generation time by 50% through automation.

Senior Engineer

DXC Technology
05.2004 - 09.2009
  • Modernized legacy Smalltalk applications to web platforms and coordinated onsite GUI migrations.
  • Designed the Cyberlife Automated Regression Bed (CARB) in REXX, eliminating 2 800+ manual test-hours per release and forming the baseline for continuous regression.
  • Built new customer-correspondence modules within the CyberLife subsystem; performed impact analysis, COBOL coding and DB2 unit tests for high-volume policies.
  • Led VSAM-to-DB2 data conversions improving response time by 40%.

Software Engineer

Syntel (now Atos)
02.2003 - 04.2004
  • Executed VSAM-to-DB2 conversion of 50 million records for a North American health insurer with zero data loss.
  • Proposed and implemented CPU-time optimization, earning the company’s Top Performer Award.
  • Developed and led module-level enhancements across provider and claims subsystems.

Education

Master of Engineering (M.E.) -

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore

Skills

  • Mainframe Technologies: Subject matter expertise in supporting and end to end implementation of complex Life and health care insurance administration applications such as CyberLife, PAS(Policy Administration System), STP (Strategic Technologies Program)
  • Life Insurance and Annuity: Experience with US life insurance customers including Pacific Life Insurance, Trans America, AIG/American General, Allstate Life Insurance, New York Life and Subject matter expert in business and technical side of policy administration for the products such as Term, Universal Life, Variable Life and Indexed UL
  • Product Management: Strategized future vision of Life insurance software products with market research and cross functional collaboration Designed product roadmap, feature to be improved and performance
  • Legacy Modernization: Led significant projects in transforming mainframe applications to web Application
  • Mainframe Modernization Legacy Migration Enterprise / Solution Architecture COBOL JCL CICS DB2 VSAM REXX IBM z/OS Connect WebSphere REST/SOAP APIs Performance Tuning Data Conversion Jenkins Git Agile/Scrum Waterfall Stakeholder Management Team Leadership

Languages

English (fluent), Hindi (native)

References

References available upon request

Projects

API Enablement for Legacy Applications (2022). Designed z/OS Connect-based REST APIs that expose policy and claims data, speeding partner integration 4x and setting the stage for micro-services., CARB Automated Regression Framework. Conceived and delivered the REXX-driven test bed that trims every CyberLife regression run by two days and has become the standard across three DXC accounts.

Websites

Timeline

Principal Architect

Majesco
01.2022 - Current

Lead Engineer

DXC Technology
03.2017 - 07.2021

Technical Lead

Transamerica Life & Protection
09.2009 - 02.2017

Senior Engineer

DXC Technology
05.2004 - 09.2009

Software Engineer

Syntel (now Atos)
02.2003 - 04.2004

Master of Engineering (M.E.) -

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

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