Santhoshkumar K
Senior AEM Developer
Chennai,Tamil Nadu
Summary
AEM Developer with 4+ years of experience building, migrating, and supporting enterprise Adobe Experience Manager platforms across AEM 6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service. Strong focus on AI-driven AEM automation, including agentic workflows with n8n, Gemini API integrations, AI-led SEO keyword generation, page crawling, and intelligent content operations that reduce manual effort for authors and development teams. Proven record delivering high-volume site migrations, reusable AEM components, Sling Models, Servlets, OSGi services, MSM rollout support, production troubleshooting, and CI/CD release support. Recognized for leading complex migration work, improving authoring efficiency, and earning rapid progression to Senior Developer responsibilities.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate (CrowdStrike)
Cognizant
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
04.2025 - Current
- Drive AEM component enhancements and production support, resolving critical issues to maintain site stability, reliability, and release quality.
- Implemented n8n-based agentic AI workflows for complex page versioning, automating page analysis, version decisioning, and operational handoffs to reduce manual coordination for content and development teams.
- Built AI-led SEO generation using Gemini API, enabling an AI agent to crawl page content, recommend suitable SEO keywords through checkbox-based suggestions, and support user-controlled selection or regeneration before publishing.
- Implemented Excel-driven bulk import for AEM Content Fragments, streamlining content operations and reducing repetitive manual authoring effort.
- Worked with AEM GraphQL APIs for Content Fragments, enabling structured content retrieval, reusable content models, and faster delivery of headless content to downstream channels.
- Built Sling Models and Servlets for server-side business logic, dynamic data processing, and seamless integration with AEM components.
- Developed a local full-text search utility for uploaded AEM content packages by scanning content.xml files, overcoming server-side Lucene index limitations for offline package analysis.
- Analyzed AEM error logs to isolate component defects contributing to application slowness, enabling targeted fixes and restored performance.
- Supported CI/CD pipelines and release processes to ensure consistent AEM deployments across environments.
Associate (Abbott Laboratories)
Abbott Laboratories
02.2024 - 03.2025
- Spearheaded migration of 9 websites from AEM 6.5 to AEM as a Cloud Service, coordinating component readiness and production-quality delivery.
- Customized and refined AEM components to meet client specifications, contributing to a reported 20% increase in client satisfaction.
- Created and managed development error logs through OSGi Console, reducing error resolution time by 30%.
- Engineered reusable AEM components including Footer, Link Stack, Carousel, search-results-with-filter, and country-specific components using HTL, Sling Models, and services, improving site functionality and user experience by 30%.
- Used Groovy Console to remove unwanted AEM nodes and improve site maintenance efficiency by 50%.
- Used Splunk to identify and resolve 4xx and 5xx errors, strengthening site performance and reliability.
Programmer Analyst
Abbott Laboratories
02.2023 - 01.2024
- Improved authoring efficiency by 25% through bulk import capabilities while migrating 10,000 data entries.
- Created correction scripts using Sling Servlet and schedulers to trigger services at predefined times, reducing manual intervention by 25%.
- Implemented Multi Site Management (MSM) for Abbott sites including GPOC across 37 countries and 16 languages and Toxicology across 14 countries and 8 languages.
- Established site setups, templates, and custom policies, reducing setup time by 15%.
- Maintained dynamic pages and properties on the Coveo Platform, contributing to a reported 25% increase in page load speed.
Programmer Analyst Trainee
Abbott Laboratories
02.2022 - 01.2023
- Designed responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, Java, and AEM 6.5.
- Built foundational AEM components using Sightly, and Sling Models, improving development efficiency by 20%.
- Generated workflow models and developed Dispatcher knowledge to support content delivery optimization and reduce load times by 10%.
- Used SonarQube, Jira, and Confluence for code quality, delivery tracking, and team collaboration, improving project tracking and code quality by 25%.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Mechatronics Engineering
Chennai Institute of Technology
01.2020
Skills
- Adobe Experience Manager 65
- AEM as a Cloud Service
- Sling Models
- Sightly/HTL
- OSGi
- MSM
- Workflow Models
- Dispatcher fundamentals
- Groovy Console
- Coveo Platform
- Content Fragments
- GraphQL for AEM Content Fragments
- Agentic AI workflows
- N8n workflow automation
- Gemini API
- AI-led SEO generation
- Page crawling
- Keyword recommendation flows
- Java
- Servlets
- JUnit
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- XML
- JSON
- Responsive Web Design
- JSoup
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Harness
- Splunk
- SonarQube
- Jira
- Confluence
- Production support
- Release coordination
- Root-cause analysis
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Certification
- Adobe Experience Manager Sites Developer Professional, ADO-E123
- Adobe Experience Manager Business Practitioner, ADO-E126
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, AZ-900
- Planned: Anthropic Claude Certified Architect, CCA, 2026
- Planned: Adobe Experience Manager Sites Developer Expert, ADO-137, 2026
Accomplishments
- Led an 11-member team during migration of 12,000 pages, earning leadership recognition for timely delivery.
- Recognized by a Senior Director for leading successful migration of 9 sites to AEMaCS and improving performance by 30%.
- Designed a content migration tool that generates pages from templates and scrapes live URLs using JSoup, significantly reducing manual migration effort.
- Built components aligned with SonarQube quality checks and received multiple project awards for high performance.
Core Technical Skills
Adobe Experience Manager 6.5, AEM as a Cloud Service, Sling Models, Sightly/HTL, OSGi, MSM, Workflow Models, Dispatcher fundamentals, Groovy Console, Coveo Platform, Content Fragments, GraphQL for AEM Content Fragments, Agentic AI workflows, n8n workflow automation, Gemini API, AI-led SEO generation, page crawling, keyword recommendation flows, Java, Servlets, JUnit, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, Responsive Web Design, JSoup, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Harness, Splunk, SonarQube, Jira, Confluence, production support, release coordination, root-cause analysis, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Timeline
Associate (CrowdStrike)
Cognizant
04.2025 - Current
Associate (Abbott Laboratories)
Abbott Laboratories
02.2024 - 03.2025
Programmer Analyst
Abbott Laboratories
02.2023 - 01.2024
Programmer Analyst Trainee
Abbott Laboratories
02.2022 - 01.2023
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Mechatronics Engineering
Chennai Institute of Technology