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Saravanan Kannimuthu

Saravanan Kannimuthu

Principal Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

Goal-driven Principal Engineer adept at reviewing plans and implementing improvements. With over 12 years of successful IT experience in Automation design, development & analysis. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in Software industry. Having a good technical knowledge in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platforms, SRE, Chat-bots, Cloud Administration & Infra Automations.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Principal Engineer - RPA Platform

GSK
10.2022 - Current
  • Developing and executing a strategic roadmap for RPA product implementation, considering business goals, and priorities.
  • Part of GSK Hyper Automation team - worked on business requirement analysis, plan and development of use cases for automation
  • Managed cloud resources installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for SRE engineers.
  • Determine and define clear sprint deliverables, roles and responsibilities for SRE team members required for PI planning using Agile methodology (JIRA)
  • Good hands on experience in configuring and managing Azure infrastructure as global admin and take insights from cloud console for improving performances of application
  • Worked with Cloud Economics/FinOps on Azure operational cost Analysis and budgeting
  • Understanding best practices of Azure cloud infrastructure and provide strong design for efficient application deployments
  • Involved in Server, VM & Database cloud migrations
  • Designed and implemented system security, SOX/GxP compliance policies for RPA platform
  • Collaborate with Automation Anywhere vendor to accomplish technical aspects of projects.
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts/playbooks/HCL to increase system efficiency, configurations and performance.

Senior Automation Analyst

Cognizant Technology solutions
11.2020 - 09.2022
  • Project - Infra Automation & Chat BOT development
  • Responsible for Chat Bot – Virtual Assistant Tool Development, Testing and implementation using Azure DevOps
  • Coordinate with customers and cross functional teams for design & development and deployment of Chatbots in MS Teams and Web channels
  • Have enough knowledge in working with Azure BOT frameworks & its insights
  • Involved in design and creation of Microsoft Adaptive cards for BOT
  • Have good knowledge on Azure data science & ML models & trainings.
  • Build and visualize reports through Power BI and provide insights to the customers
  • Have performed successful Upgrades/patching of chime chat application & windows servers
  • Followed up with clients to verify optimal customer satisfaction following support engagement and problem resolution

Team Lead & Automation Developer

Cognizant Technology solutions
04.2015 - 11.2020
  • PROJECT# 1 - Chat BOT development
  • Responsible for Chat Bot – Virtual Assistant Tool Development, Testing and implementation
  • Analyzed requirements and designed, developed and implemented ASKIVA - Hivecenter Chat BOT (Virtual assistant tool) for various customers
  • Has performed NLP configurations and end to end trainings for BOT models
  • Performed Intent and Entity classifications for the utterances and slot creation & mapping
  • Good hands-on experience in creating BOT stories & AIML patterns for various complex use case chat flow
  • Troubleshooting of issues in Docker containers, logs, configuration/monitoring of servers through Rancher and Kibana
  • Maintained, debugged and optimized automation programs
    Followed agile methodology with daily scrum meetings and providing user story updates


    PROJECT# 2
  • Project - I&0 and WPS Automations using Power Automate & Uipath
  • Involved in requirement analysis, design and development of automation use cases
  • Have developed more than 20 use cases using Power Automate & UiPath tool for various Infra support projects
  • Have good hands on experience in Development of Work place service automation using Python, PowerShell & VB scripting
  • Have developed 10+ scripts using Macro Scheduler RPA Tool
  • Involved in ticket analysis and providing automation solutions for higher volume incidents/requests
  • Responsible for End to End automation development and functional Testings

Tech Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2012 - 03.2015
  • PROJECT - AVM Application Support
  • L2 level Incident management and Application Production Support.
  • Handling Agile projects and perform System testing, Regression testing and functional testing.
  • Worked directly under Client and well versed in Client level communications.
  • Have hands on experience in Test Estimation preparation and Test condition/Scripts preparation
  • Prepare and Present Organization Monthly PMR data and Client’s Monthly Deck presentation.
  • To test and validate test all Application & servers post patching/Maintenance/Release implementation
  • Responsible for Client Monthly SOX audit Tasks.
  • Responsible for various .NET and Intranet applications L1.5 and L2 level support

Education

B.E - EIE

Kongu Engineering College
Erode
08.2008 - 04.2012

HSC -

Vivekananda Vidhyalaya Matric Higher Sec School
Tirupur
06.2007 - 03.2008

Skills

RPA : Automation Anywhere, UiPath, Power Automate, Copilot

Languages & Tools: Python, PowerShell & VB Scripting, Power BI

AI & Chat-Bot: RASA core, Azure BOT framework, QnA maker, LUIS, Chime, Azure Machine Learning

Cloud: Microsoft Azure, AWS

Dev Ops : Azure DevOps, Docker, ARM, Terraform and Ansible

Databases : MS-SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

ITSM : Servicenow, JIRA

Other Tools & Technology : Agile, GitHub, Linux, Hivecenter, CyberArk, SailPoint, API, SonarQube, share-point, HP-BSM, Sitescope and C, C

Leadership and Teamwork

Certification

Uipath Advanced RPA developer

Additional Information

  • Recognized as one of most impactful performer & received "GSK AHEAD TOGETHER AWARD" for the year 2023 from GSK Hyper Automation team
  • Received "Global recognition Silver Award" for successful implementation of Hyper Automation platform "Automation Anywhere - A360" in GSK
  • Awarded as “Associate of the Quarter – Q1 2017" at Cognizant Technology solutions
  • Awarded as “Associate of the Month – October 2017" at Cognizant Technology solutions
  • Awarded as “Customer Champion” for the month of September 2018 at Cognizant Technology solutions

Timeline

Automation Anywhere A360 Control Room Administrator

10-2023

ITIL v4 Foundation certificate

09-2023

Principal Engineer - RPA Platform

GSK
10.2022 - Current

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

06-2022

Microsoft Azure AI Engineer

05-2022

Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

05-2022

Senior Automation Analyst

Cognizant Technology solutions
11.2020 - 09.2022

Uipath Advanced RPA developer

06-2020

Team Lead & Automation Developer

Cognizant Technology solutions
04.2015 - 11.2020

Tech Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2012 - 03.2015

B.E - EIE

Kongu Engineering College
08.2008 - 04.2012

HSC -

Vivekananda Vidhyalaya Matric Higher Sec School
06.2007 - 03.2008

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