Sandeep Kandala
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced lead developer in Java technology stack, specializing in complex development, integration, and solution architecture. Thriving in a pure agile environment as a hands-on lead, with expertise in solution design and architecture. Proficient in Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, along with JavaScript and frameworks like AngularJS. Extensive experience across banking, retail, and healthcare domains, complemented by scripting skills in VB/Shell/Perl. Skilled in Linux platform and shell scripting, with hands-on experience in Selenium and BDD methodologies.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Wells Fargo
04.2021 - Current
- Delivered key features such as adding Authorized Signers to bank accounts, transitioning a traditionally offline task to the online banking experience for small business clients.
- Led multiple feature enhancements and system integrations within the consumer banking Account Opening Experience, improving onboarding efficiency.
- Built and maintained robust Java APIs to support a full application redesign, ensuring performance, scalability, and security compliance.
- Provided application support for onboarding new accounts, resolving onboarding issues and improving customer conversion rates.
- Performed end-to-end Java application development, including architecture design, API test automation, peer code reviews, and enforcing 100% test coverage.
- Ensured compliance with security standards and internal code quality benchmarks through meticulous reviews and static code analysis tools.
- Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices in cloud-native development, Agile processes, and secure coding.
- Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to architect and deliver innovative technical solutions aligned with business goals.
- Practiced Agile methodologies, contributing to iterative development through story grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Worked cross-functionally with UX, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver comprehensive, client-focused solutions within deadline.
- Led a team of software engineers, overseeing delivery timelines, conducting thorough code reviews, and ensuring high-quality releases.
- Designed performant database schemas and optimized queries to support real-time analytics and reporting.
- Proactively monitored application health, identified bottlenecks, and implemented fixes to reduce system downtime.
- Played a key role in customer retention by developing intuitive features that enhanced user experience and satisfaction.
- Troubleshot high-priority production issues under pressure while maintaining transparency with stakeholders and business units.
- Communicated technical plans, risk mitigation strategies, and progress updates to cross-functional teams and leadership.
Lead Developer
Advance Auto Parts
04.2020 - 03.2021
- Collaborated with architects to design and implement a Kafka-based reconciliation solution, addressing critical POS billing discrepancies and improving transaction integrity.
- Developed and deployed microservices on a cloud-native Kubernetes platform (OpenShift), ensuring high availability and scalability of core business applications.
- Mentored junior developers in best practices for developing, containerizing, and deploying applications on OpenShift, accelerating team onboarding and reducing deployment errors.
- Fostered a culture of innovation by organizing lunch-and-learn sessions and ideation workshops, encouraging continuous learning and team engagement.
Lead Developer/Manager
DBS
04.2019 - 03.2020
- Led three cross-functional development teams, balancing managerial responsibilities with hands-on development across surveillance platforms.
- Owned end-to-end delivery from offshore, ensuring timely and high-quality execution of project milestones and production support.
- Redesigned a legacy monolithic system into a scalable, PCF-based microservices architecture, significantly improving application performance and maintainability.
- Developed and supported data ingestion services, enabling large-scale streaming to the enterprise data lake for regulatory analytics and reporting.
- Addressed critical performance issues, refactored core services, and optimized application infrastructure to reduce latency and improve throughput.
- Managed full application environments, overseeing deployments, incident handling, and on-call support to ensure high availability and stability.
- Coordinated requirements gathering by leading discussions across internal business and technical teams, translating regulatory needs into actionable development plans.
- Actively contributed to team performance management—setting objectives, mentoring team members, and conducting performance evaluations to align with organizational goals.
Lead Developer
CDK Global
01.2012 - 01.2019
- Designed and developed new OEM integrations, enabling seamless lead routing and ensuring consistent data transformation across platforms.
- Led project management efforts, including sprint planning, release scheduling, and prioritization of feature deliverables in alignment with product goals.
- Owned DevOps tasks, managing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure support for high-availability environments.
- Conducted code reviews, maintained release discipline, and enforced clean, maintainable code through tech debt management and refactoring.
- Monitored and managed the production environment, proactively addressing incidents, performance issues, and platform scalability needs.
- Managed project assets, including system commissioning and decommissioning in coordination with infrastructure and security teams.
- Coordinated cross-functional meetings with internal teams and external vendors to track progress, align on requirements, and resolve blockers.
- Provided regular project reporting, compiling and distributing monthly KPI reports to stakeholders and leadership.
- Served as the single point of contact for OEMs, lead suppliers, and internal stakeholders for escalations, functional discussions, and integration timelines.
- Defined quarterly and annual team goals, contributing to roadmap alignment, performance planning, and delivery tracking.
- Provided mentorship and leadership to the development team, ensuring high standards in delivery, support, and stakeholder communication.
- Handled support escalations, resolved integration issues, and maintained system health to ensure uninterrupted lead flow.
I.T Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2005 - 01.2012
- Designed and developed SOA based Hybrid framework to handle critical requirements like deal booking.
- Provided a comprehensive solution to automate different Vanilla products.
- Automated different stages in workflow like Back-office validations, document validations, settlements and events.
- Near Shore Automation Team Management.
- Designed solution to effectively implement Business Process Testing.
- Developed operational support tools like CodeGenerator which helps in generating the scripts for business components.
- Developed a comprehensive set of library functions to handle various core tasks.
- Created TestCaseBuilder tool to streamline the BPT Testcase Creation process.
- Taken ownership of Important Module called Record Management and completed the development of scripts.
- Scripted many reusable functions and reusable actions and was actively involved in integrating the scripts related to different modules.
- Designed and Developed Tools for end user to access and execute the automated Tests.
- Created different set of reports to calculate the ROI for automation project.
- Daily Status Preparation and Reporting.
- Co-ordination with Client to discuss the status of the project.
- System testing of the application.
- Designing shell script to automate the testing process.
- Automation and Execution of Regression Test cases.
- Introduced an automated functional and regression approach to reuse scripts across different areas of Broadband Voice service to enable manual resources to focus on new functionality, rather than repeating efforts to regress core business processes.
- Involved in preparing the framework required for developing the Regression Test Suit.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU University
10.2001 - 05.2005
Skills
Java
undefinedCertification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Accomplishments
AI/ML & LLM Integration Experience
Winner – CDK Global Hackathon
- Designed and developed an Amazon Alexa-based voice solution to book vehicle service appointments.
- Built a voice interface using Node.js and a backend system using Spring Boot to create service leads and appointments.
- Created a Common Public API layer to interact with CDK CRM and service-related products, addressing cross-product integration challenges within the CDK ecosystem.
- Explored and developed Proofs of Concept (POCs) integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance enterprise solutions.
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Wells Fargo
04.2021 - Current
Lead Developer
Advance Auto Parts
04.2020 - 03.2021
Lead Developer/Manager
DBS
04.2019 - 03.2020
Lead Developer
CDK Global
01.2012 - 01.2019
I.T Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2005 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU University
10.2001 - 05.2005