Maya Pillai
Kochi
Summary
Accomplished Technical Leader at Cognizant Technologies, proficient in steering teams in the design and development of cloud-based applications.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Cognizant Technologies
01.2022 - Current
- Car to Cloud/Bike to Cloud Project – for connected services to Car/Bike.
- Lead a team of software developers with a broad range of responsibilities including software architecture, design, development, unit testing and software configuration management.
- Build microservices that is optimized, well organized and maintainable.
- Monitoring on-going risks and providing resolutions, driving process improvements, resource planning & optimization and performance management.
- Working with key stakeholders, both off-shore and on-shore, and delivering on the service level agreements.
- Coordinate architecture review, oversight, and implementation in conjunction with the Architecture team.
- Invest time daily on all projects to remove impediments and provide solutions to technical challenges and make escalations as necessary.
Wipro
03.2018 - 12.2021
- SEW-Southeast Water project, various projects for US Bank.
- Delivered consistent status updates to clients regarding performance to objectives, engagement constraints, and mitigation plans for risks/issues.
- Served as the “first line of defence” for ensuring quality and timeliness of deliverables met or that have exceeded client expectations.
- Participated in requirement gathering JAD sessions and support documentation where applicable (business, functional, UI, usability, data, compliance, data migration, NFR, 3rd party tools & products).
- Developed/ Designed/reviewed tier coding, business layer coding, interface development, service development, creation of stored procedures, etc., as applicable to the work package /project.
- Monitored developer integration testing by integrating the components developed by each individual team member and ensured that the integration for teamwork has been completed before the next phase of testing (system testing).
- Monitored rework carried out on the code based on review comments from code reviews/ defects raised in unit testing, peer testing, SIT, UAT testing, or any other relevant testing phase for core / critical modules.
IBS
10.2012 - 05.2017
- Orbitz, JTB.
- Understanding project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
- Work with multiple onshore teams.
- Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
- Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
- Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Review deliverables to make sure it's adhering to the expectation/sprint goals.
- Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
- Being transparent about challenges, failures, and successes.
- Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
Nest
06.2011 - 09.2012
- KSFE (Kerala State Financial Enterprise).
- Contribute effectively to defining the architecture/design of solution and implementation.
- Independently handle all modular designs and could see through modular issues.
Assyst
01.2007 - 06.2011
- CASBA (Core Application Solution for Business Accounting), MMV (Mobile Money Ventures), various project for Indian Navy.
- Understand Requirements for assigned tasks.
- Design and develop assigned functions.
- Independent delivery of all assigned tasks.
- Delivery of assigned tasks in time.
- Perform unit tests for the tasks.
- Perform Code reviews and Performance evaluation.
- Report status, intimate any risks identified with the task delivery to Engineering Manager.
Annz
07.2004 - 12.2006
- KDHP (Kannan Devan Plantations Hills Project), CLDA (Clinical Leadership Database Application).
- Develop clean, efficient code based on specifications.
- Integrate software components and third-party programs.
- Verify and deploy programs and systems.
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
- Recommend and execute improvements for performance enhancements.
- Create technical documentation for reference and reporting.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Skills
- Cloud-based application development
- Spring framework expertise
- AWS and GCP proficiency
- Messaging services (SNS, SQS)
- Storage technologies (S3, DynamoDB)
- Serverless solutions (Lambda)
- Monitoring and logging (CloudWatch)
- Pub/Sub systems
- Kafka messaging
- BigQuery processing
- RESTful API implementation
- JPA with Hibernate
Awards
- Certificate of Excellence -I&ES -Wipro, 2019
- Project Management Professional – IBS, 2014
Personal Information
- Total Experience: 20+ years in Software Applications within the IT industry
- Title: Diligent Technical Leader
Timeline
Project Manager
Cognizant Technologies
01.2022 - Current
Wipro
03.2018 - 12.2021
IBS
10.2012 - 05.2017
Nest
06.2011 - 09.2012
Assyst
01.2007 - 06.2011
Annz
07.2004 - 12.2006