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NIKUNJ CHITARE

Technology Architect

Summary

  • Extensive Technical Experience: Over 10 years of expertise in the banking and PLM industries, with strong skills in Java, Spring Stack, and RESTful microservices.
  • Cloud Architecture and Integration: Proven ability to design and implement solution architectures on public clouds, including AWS and Azure, meeting various client needs.
  • Industrial IoT Expertise: Hands-on experience working with industrial IoT platforms, demonstrating a deep understanding of cloud-based IoT solutions.
  • Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Domain Knowledge: Extensive experience in the BFS sector, including customization of the Oracle Banking Platform (OBP) and the implementation of features like the Visa Hold for digital APIs.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Technology Architect

DIGITAL NEXT SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
01.2022 - Current
  • Architected, developed, and maintained scalable and efficient backend functionalities using Java and Spring Boot, creating RESTful APIs that ensured seamless system communication.
  • Utilized AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, and SQS to design and deploy robust, cloud-based solutions.
  • Designed a solution architecture to automate the creation and uploading of hundreds of short Bible verse videos using AWS Lambda, RDS, S3, and YouTube APIs.
  • Developed solution architecture proposals for clients, leveraging a wide range of AWS services to meet diverse business requirements.
  • Mentored junior team members by enhancing their technical skills and industry knowledge, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
  • Optimized technology infrastructure by designing and implementing innovative, client-specific solutions that improved efficiency and performance.

Senior Technical Leader

HCL Technologies
07.2018 - 01.2022

MindSphere product is Multi cloud-based Open IoT operating system consists of 100+ micro-services that connects products, plants, systems, and machines to cloud.

  • Led and implemented the "Bring Your Own Data" feature on AWS using services like Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, and AWS IoT Core.
  • Optimized services on AWS (Elastic Container Service) to support the ingestion of data from 2,000 agents/devices per minute.
  • Spearheaded the migration from Azure App Services (ASE) to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).
  • Provided solutions for microservices logging and analytics to optimize costs using Azure ADX and AWS Athena, S3.

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
03.2016 - 07.2018

Ignite Program: The project is about conversion of Legacy Banking Service software Hogan to New Banking Service software Oracle Banking Platform (OBP). This is an Australian Retail Banking Project.

  • Worked as Senior developer on OBP customization for ChequeBook creation, CASA, Term Deposits
  • Provided support for OBDX product (Online Loan Origination)

VISA Card Controls Hold: Suncorp Bank provides control over consumer Transaction controls provided by VISA to its customers/cardholders.

  • Developed REST APIs to ensure that our solutions seamlessly integrate into digital product offerings like Mobile banking, internet banking etc.
  • Requirement analyzing, designing and implemented Restful web-services operations – GET,PATCH, DELETE with Design First approach using Swagger utility. Used Jenkins-Blue ocean plugin (Jenkinsfile) to create CICD pipelines for APIs

Java Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
6 2011 - 07.2016

Client: Delta Airlines

  • DC Scorecard: The goal of the DC Scorecard Application is to assess and compare the different Airport activities and produce a competitive score based on certain Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
  • Worked as Java developer (involves generation of PDF Using iText, Excel Using POI, Charts Using JFreeChart API, sequence flow)

Client: Caterpillar

  • Single Rate Repository Domestic Transportation: This project will enable JDA TM to be a single rate repository and Rate Management as a single platform to display rates across US domestic, Europe, China and India.
  • Working as a designer/Java developer (involves the coding of java components and web service components as well)

Education

BE - Information Technology

SSGMCE
Shegaon, Maharashtra
08.2007 - 05.2010

Skills

Java, Node JS, Python

SpringBoot Spring Framework RESTful APIs Microservices MVC Dependency Injection

AWS EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, ECS, SQS

DynamoDB, Postgres, Oracle, MSSQL

Swagger, Spring security - JWT, Maven, Gradle, Junits with Mockito, Cucumber, Soap-UI, Postman, AGILE, JIRA,Openshift Kubernates, Docker, Helm, Gitlab, Jenkins

Eclipse, STS, Intelllj, Visual Studio Code

Additional Information

  • Sensitivity: Internal & Restricted

Timeline

Technology Architect

DIGITAL NEXT SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
01.2022 - Current

Senior Technical Leader

HCL Technologies
07.2018 - 01.2022

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
03.2016 - 07.2018

BE - Information Technology

SSGMCE
08.2007 - 05.2010

Java Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
6 2011 - 07.2016
NIKUNJ CHITARETechnology Architect