Shivanna M J

• Assisted closely with HTC leadership for building the AEM capability withing HTC.
• Engaged on RFAs building and conducted technical knowledge sharing sessions for the team.
• Set up new team by onboarding & grooming team members.
• Prepared pre assessment of the client platforms and shared detailed project report with estimations.

Acted as a Sr AEM Architect for the below client and drove project intitiates.

Client : Silicon Labs

Project : AEM Cloud Migration, Web Performance Optimization,

• Assessment of the performance of Silicon Labs eCommerce Sites using Google Lighthouse and GT Matrics.
• In Depth analysis of technical gaps on the existing implementations, third party integrations & platform statistics.
• Defining project scopes & Drawing the strategies for various performance diagnostics.
• Ensured the necessary fixes for performance improvement by 30-40%.
• Effective caching implementation over Dispatcher and Akamai CDN.
• Asset transformation into latest WebP format.
• Clientlibs optimization & streamlining
• Translation management
• Co-ordinate with SEO for adoption of AI automations for enhancing SEO score.
• Driving New project initiatives & E2E designing & architecting the technical solutions.
• Streamlined third party Integration
• Directed 15+ technical team of techleads, developers & QA.
• Detailed assessment of Silicon Labs AEM6.5 on premise to Cloud Migration initiative.
• Architected the migration strategies and prepared report for the same.
• Executed BPA and generated report on incompatibilities
• Execution of the strategies for Asset Migration.
• Backlogs building, prioritization, planning, technical refinement.
• Stakeholder management & Client Demos.
• Implemented improvement over SCRUM process to enhance teams productivity/velocity.

• Engaged with stakeholders to identify and convert business needs into actionable technical strategies.
• Directed a team of over 15 AEM developers to ensure successful onboarding of 6 sites onto AEM platform.
• Engineered and deployed scalable software solutions, ensuring seamless integration across multiple platforms.
• Executed setup of development-ready platforms for new initiatives, focusing on repository management and domain mapping.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams such as global link translator, Algolia search engine, Marketo, Adobe Analytics, ISH-PIM etc.
• Owned Product Backlogs, Refinement, SCRUM Planning & Execution.
• Optimized website performance and secured highest SEO score by integrating advanced design principles and innovative architectural techniques.
• Enhanced system security through thorough vulnerability assessments and implementation of stringent security protocols.
• Mentored junior team members and trained internees on AEM.
• Conducted technical talks
• Streamlined development processes by introducing best practices in agile methodologies and release process.
• Contributed to business growth by actively participating in client meetings, showcasing technical capabilities, and winning new projects.
• Managed stakeholder expectations by maintaining regular communication and providing project status updates.
• Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status and documentation.
• Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
• Led architectural design for scalable software solutions, enhancing system performance and reliability.
• Evaluated emerging technologies, recommending innovative solutions to enhance product offerings and competitiveness.
• Implemented best practices for code quality and security, fostering a culture of excellence within development teams.

Worked on the below projects -

1. AEM sites development

Executed Successful implementation of B2B & B2C ecommerce sites and DAM enhancements & customizations. Worked on Integrations for Product features and customer experience enhancement.

• Led a team of 8+ AEM developers to successfully deliver high-quality software projects on time and within budget constraints.
• Owned Sprint planning, Backlogs refinement & Estimation
• Offered input on technical and platform-related strategic planning initiatives.
• Executed POCs for innovative new solutions.
• Supervised work of developers, conducted code reviews, distributed tasks and monitored performance against targets.
• Owned releases & code integrity, customized CICD strategies & pipelines for faster release cycles and site stability.
• Facilitated knowledge sharing sessions for the technical team & client side content authors
• Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
• Owned sprint demos to product owner, business and stakeholders.
• Stakeholder management.

2. AEM Adaptive Forms - This is the new capability we have built on AEM6.4 platform and made 4 forms live on 76+ locales. It is one of the robust and easily scalable forms solution with less effort / time / investment available in the market. It provides dynamic forms which can be even maintained and enhanced by non technical team.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Requirement gathering & Project planning
• Infra set up – New adaptive forms platform set up
• Forms FE and BE technical design.
• Forms development (4 forms) & customizations
• Forms submission to third party REST API
• Forms Integration on AEM pages
• Forms Localization (76+ locales)
• Reviewed the stories developed by other developers.
• Provided sprint demos to the stakeholders.
• Facilitated session to QA on various testing - Functional, Regression, Security, Penetration

3. AEM6.4 to AEM6.5 Upgrade

There are two major AEM platforms following architecture 1-2-2 on 4 environments having 4-5 major ecommerce sites and 10+ microsites with presence in 90+ countries hosted on them. These are upgraded from AEM6.4 to AEM6.5. I have driven the E2E delivery of this project technically.

Empowered the platform wrt below

• Infra set up – Ensured all the instances provisioned correctly, key based authentication, connectivity is in place (local and jenkins – nat servers– aem servers), future operation point of view
• Technical designs - Designed the technical execution plan with list of tasks required to achieve the goals.
• E2E ownership PRX instances split – Facilitated independent releases, new repo creation, AEM and PRX connectivity, Content migration.
• Code upgrade to AEM 65 standard - Ensured code builds/compilation successful by resolving the code compatibility issues.
• Deployment set up – Created Jenkins jobs to build and deploy on new aem and prx instances – Upgraded PDT and DSL scripts to accomplish the deployment steps.
• Akamai and Dispatcher configurations set up for all the sites.
• Feeds processing set up (MCM to AEM65) for all the sites
• Interim public domains set up and domain switching to the original
• Go live activities planning and execution Content migration from aem64- aem65 and copy back from aem65 prod to lower envs.
• Post go live activities ownership – Ensured smooth transition of upgraded platform to other dev team

4. Automation using Python - This was the initiative driven to automate the regression test suite. We have built automation platform and automated 200+ use cases using python + selenium. It supports multiple browser and concurrent execution. The time spent(min 2 days one person effort) on manual execution of regression testing after every release has been reduced to 2 hours per cycle. It had amounted to major time/effort/money saving on a long run. This project had bagged the award on the org level competition.

Client : Shell

Achieved successful project delivery by upgrading AEM from 6.3 to 6.4, enhancing design workflows, tags, and cloud services. Improved operational efficiency by refining dispatcher rules for Akamai through effective whitelisting and blacklisting strategies. Delivered impactful updates to commerce products and workflows, significantly enhancing overall functionality and user experience.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Engaged with clients to identify and document essential project specifications.
• Streamlined task abstraction processes and assigned specific duties to developers to optimize workflow.
• Assisted in conducting technical assessments for various tasks. Supported estimation processes to ensure accurate project planning. Collaborated with team members to facilitate task completion.
• Engaged on design discussions along with architects, Execution of stories development, Sprint Demos, Code review, Documentation etc.
• Owned Sprint releases

Assisted Adobe clients as AEM solution expert in site and asset development projects. Supported third-party integration initiatives using AEM 6.x versions. Participated in various roles, including individual contributor and team lead.

Involved majorly in discovery phase activities, execution of stories development, Client Demos, distributing and reviewing the work of the team.

1. Site Development -

• Delivered comprehensive site development solutions for diverse clients leveraging AEM 6.x.
• Achieved successful AEM project setup, component and template development, and custom design execution.
• Created sling servlets, services, workflows, event handlers, and schedulers, Junit testcases etc.
• Worked on Coral scripting for OOTB features customizations.
• Performed dispatcher setup, MSM configurations.
• Assessment of analytics data and campaign management. Integrated LDAP, SAML, Hybris global connector, and TDM, improving system interoperability.
• Optimized DAM asset handling, custom renditions and metadata creation.
• Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery integrations.
• Conversion of JSP into Sightly, font end customization, UI validations and content authoring.
• Streamlined Maven, Jenkins, and Git configurations for improved project workflows.

2. Adaptive Forms - Insurance portal We have built Health Insurance portal using AEM adaptive forms capability. The whole Insurance policy sale journey for Individual and Group Medical Insurance has been automated all the necessary steps such as user info collection, user info validation, authentication, document proofs upload/download, Eligibility check, Payment integration, Policy issuing etc.

3. AEM Upgrade (AEM 6.1 to 6.3) - It is AEM up gradation project from version 6.1 to 6.3. have performed assessment of current code base and provided list recommendations for upgrading to 6.3 with estimation. Main upgraded features are Coral ui up gradation, Sling Model, JSON API deprecation, OSGI annotations update etc.

Client : Cisco

Worked on Java/J2EE framework based web application development, enhancement and support projects for one of the tier1 client.

1. Cisco xRM RTB Worked on multiple Java/J2EE framework based web application development, enhancement and support projects for one of the tier1 client. I had performed SME role for the various applications and also maintaining DB data.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Requirement gathering and feasibility analysis
• Platform set up & Development of front end and back end entities.
• Release Management and Fixing defects
• Providing technical resolution to L3 incidents. Creation, participation in change requests(CR) review and providing impact analysis.
• Database entities and data flow analysis and performance tuning
• Database, Applications and jobs management and maintenance.
• Guiding business and end users on application functionalities.
• Guiding and mentoring team
• Presenting reports and demos to business stakeholders
• Coordination and Integration with cross dependent teams.
• Mentoring L1 support team

2. Cisco – PIPFE (Pre Importation Partner Front End) Domestic supply chain and order management system has been built from the scratch using Struts2 MVC framework. It helps the client to extend the Business to specific Countries/Territories. It mainly provides features related to customs and regularities clearance specific to that territory, supply chain system to track product shipment and order management system which enable to sale the Products in that territory.

Application helps business to Manage the Orders, Items, Regularity documents, Global and domestic Supply chain modules to ship the items. Also, developed interfaces to process the orders, items, documents etc from global to local territory system and then developed validation logic to confirm validity of orders. Modules worked on -

1.Orders Management

2.Item Management

3.Global and Domestic Supply chain modules, 4.Customer Management

5.Reports generation and Management

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis
• Development of interfaces using PLSQL
• Development of front end and back end entities
• Release Management and Fixing defects
• Monitoring and Guiding the team on their responsibilities.

Client : Verizone mobiles

Assisted in development of telecom-based web application as senior Java/J2EE developer. Supported team in various integration tasks and coding activities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• GUI enhancements
• DB performance tuning
• Cron jobs migration
• Application migration to java version 1.7 from 1.4
• Web service testing using SOAP

Assisted in software development as an associate software engineer after graduation. Completed training in Java/J2EE. Contributed to multiple Java/J2EE development and support projects.

Client : Apple Inc

1. EAI - Enterprise Application Integration - middle-ware application, predominantly developed for integrating all the internal and external applications of Apple. It includes four main phases picking the incoming data from upstream application, validate for standard format, processing and persistence on temporary/permanent basis, subscribe to respective downstream application, spreading the ack across the systems. There were 4 different type of interfaces like file, Snap, VHV(Very High Volume), Mux/Trx etc to handle the different amount and type of requests. MDM-Mata Data Management is GUI developed using Servlets and JSP to fetch the system configuration details as well as data status details.

2. JCM - Java Common Module - It was another middleware application developed using Java/J2ee. Its main motto was to take care of E2E data movement across whole Apple Inc. We developed different sets of daemon processes and deployed on Jboss servers. These processes have to continuously monitor the configured applications through numerous interfaces and pick up the published data from the DB table or receive it from the receiver process and send it to the next process or destination applications. We used Oracle DB to save all system and application configurations, developed a GUI called Metaware with all utilities required to fetch/modify the configuration details.

Roles and Responsibilities -

• Gathering business requirements,
• Interfaces development using Java JDBC, Threads.
• MDM and Metaware GUI development
• Queues and cache development
• Alert raising mechanism via Exception Handler (Ranger and Server level) PLSQL queries development and optimization of DB entities such as functions and procedures
• Unix shell Scripts development
• Incidents resolution
• Servers DB configuration and maintenance
• Report generation and presentation

3. Selenium Test Automation - Computer Associates

It was web automation project using Selenium 1.4. We have automated one of the client web application. Developed nearly 400+ test cases and test suits using selenium and java under TestNG framework. We use to run these test cases on Hudson server.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Developing the automation test cases and test suites using Selenium
• Running the suite on Hudson
• Resolving the comments if any got from client