SANDEEP RAI

• Directed architecture and product ownership for cloud-enabled insurance engines across life, P&C, health, and reinsurance systems.
• Managed international team of 22 engineers in architecture development and DevOps using SAFe framework.
• Owned product backlog by defining epics and user stories; drove PI planning and roadmap execution.
• Designed AWS-based microservices architecture utilizing ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, and ALB.
• Modernized VP/MS and product modeling services into a cohesive digital platform.
• Enhanced platform performance by 50% through comprehensive architectural refactoring.
• Led migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS cloud environment.
• Participated in enterprise architecture governance and design review boards.

Led a team of four in Panorama project, delivering SLA reports from SAP CR server.

Facilitated direct communication with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose enhancements.

Conducted performance analysis and tuning for application optimization.

Mentored team members by providing training on essential project skills.

Designed and developed proof-of-concept for real-time applications.

Analyzed design and requirements for Panorama real-time modules.

Led a team of three in integrating over 25 customer applications with CSC framework.

Educated resources on project requirements while providing necessary skill training.

• Created RADS VRM and VCAs to fortify Visa's risk management framework.
• Formulated secure REST/SOAP APIs, ensuring robust payment authentication systems.
• Engineered encryption APIs with IBM DataPower integration for transaction security.
• Authored comprehensive HLD/LLD documentation adhering to security protocols.
• Managed engineering teams of two to 12 in developing high availability fintech solutions.
• Enhanced system resilience through thorough root cause analysis.
• Led VB/.NET to Java/Spring migration strategy at Kroger, optimizing performance.
• Oversaw Solaris-to-Linux migration and modernization of legacy applications.

Associate Tech Lead

• Led development of software solutions for client requirements at Rave Technologies.

Description: Athena is a single integrated IT solution used by multiple forces to facilitate the sharing of a single data store. Athena aims to make it easier for police to share information in four key business areas Intelligence (Information Reports), Crime (Investigation Management), Management of offenders (Custody), Preparation of court files (Case Preparation)This single database provides individual officers with better access to improved quality, real time information, making it easier to support cross-border investigation and crime detection within the Athena forces. As well as providing a standardised and shared police information system, Athena creates a standard set of business processes that all participating forces will use. Staff will therefore deal with crime recording, intelligence recording, custody management, and case preparation in the same way.

Role: Designed and developed new features and tested using GWT on web application layer.

Designed and developed new features, testing them on web application layer using GWT.

Coordinated assignments, gathered status from development team, and reported project updates to development manager.

· Participate in the daily, sprint and retrospective sessions.

· Assist in the development and oversight of project related documentation, including: project summaries, competitive evaluations, sitemaps, wireframes, user stories, test plans, personas, user experience documents, metric plans, etc.

Resolved technical challenges related to code, architecture, and systems.

· Partner with the teams to identify appropriate technology solutions and also helping them to build prototype web/android application.

· Performed root cause analysis for incoming customer & regression incident/defect rate and proposed mitigation plan to management.

Technologies: Core Java, Spring WS, Spring Core, Spring JMS, EhCache, Hibernate, Spring LDAP, GWT, GWT RPC, ActiveMq, Apache Tomcat server, Apache HttpWeb server, Apache CXF, Google Augmented Reality, Oracle DB and Apache JUDDI.

Led a two-member team on development projects, ensuring timely delivery of quality solutions.

Managed full project lifecycle for Java web application utilizing Spring framework and Hibernate.

Designed and implemented new features, along with developing performance test cases.

Coordinated status updates from development team and reported to development manager.

Advised other project teams on resolving technical issues through collaboration.

Conducted presentations and training sessions on Spring and Hibernate frameworks.

Utilized technologies such as RESTEasy, Maven, jQuery, Groovy on Grails, and Java concurrency.

Title: Charter Communication

Position: Technology Lead and Team Lead

Description: The projects (TivoAdmin & CSR Admin) were aimed at upgrading and enhancing the product which was capable of provisioning, adding, updating and deleting various packages for the client DVR devices as well administration of Customers and admin users.

Role: Successfully:

· Led a seven member development team on current development projects which involved Java web application development with Spring Framework, Struts/MVC and Axis based REST web service and deployed on Weblogic.

· Instituted enhancement of project builds on XML (DOM API), XSLT, JQUERY, Java and SOAP (Java) based software web application to be used internally for customer Devices management.

Technologies: Rest Web service, J2ee, Struts, EJB, Spring, Axis, SoapUI, Solaris 10.1 x86, Maven, Webservice, XSL, XSLT, Java, Jquery, Ant 1.5, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Jquery, Ajax

• Architected and supported 10 high-traffic e-commerce platforms on IBM WebSphere Commerce, enhancing scalability and user experience.
• Sustained 99.9% uptime during Christmas sales handling millions of transactions.
• Reduced production incidents to 1–2% during peak events.
• Led JVM tuning, DB2 optimization, and caching strategies, achieving optimal performance through effective profiling.
• Coordinated architecture collaboration between IBM UK and India, streamlining cross-region communication and project alignment.

• Led performance engineering and provided production support for DHL global logistics systems, ensuring optimal system performance.
• Migrated Informix databases to Oracle, streamlining data management and improving reliability through clustered WebLogic environments.
• Designed enterprise integration using ESB, MQ Broker, and SAML-based authentication.
• Built distributed authentication and secure web services using WS
• Protocols.
• Enhanced UHG healthcare portal access for 573,000 physicians and 4,875 hospitals.