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Shyam Kumar

Bengaluru
Shyam Kumar

Summary

Talented Solutions Architect coordinates stakeholders to drive successful development efforts and meet mission-critical business needs. Skilled project manager and team leader with organized and decisive approach. Over 20 years of progressive experience in designing and developing retail, banking and enterprise level application.

Overview

21
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

ALETRNATIV TECH LABS

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
01.2023 - 09.2023

Job overview

  • Architected design for 2 retail applications by mapping business requirements with technical solutions.
  • Enabled distributed systems, design patterns, microservices, event-driven architecture, application security and optimizations for best performance.
  • Utilized MySQL, MongoDB, Redis Cache, AWS Fargate, Hadoop clusters, Python ML for product recommendations, Google Analytics, Kafka, AWS S3, CI/CD pipelines, ReactJS, NodeJS, TypeScript, and ExpressJS.
  • Lead team of 58 with cross technical expertise like full stack developers, testing team, mobile app developers, backend end team managing both Magento 2.0 and also with NodeJS.
  • Personally assess application performance and improvised by attaining more than 50% improvement in application load time.
  • Optimized API calls, reduced image and banner file sizes, compressed text and other static images through gzip and brotly, used CDN for quicker response, server-side rendering.
  • Refactoring of code for better application response through code splitting, reduce re-rendering through usage of right hooks and other application lags from both frontend and API calls to backend.
  • Customer communications, building technical road map and stake holder management for status reports..
  • Mentored and nurtured growth opportunities for team members and leaders.
  • Recommended new products and services to customers.
  • Optimized operational productivity and collaborated with staff to share and implement process improvements.

IBM

Full Stack - Architect
04.2018 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • Migrated On-prem Monolith Applications to Microservices on IBM Cloud
  • Leveraged Python, Nodejs, and OOP principles for building cloud native applications.
  • Modernized architectures, Microservice patterns, APIs, and event-driven design.
  • Automated UI, Performance and load testing using Python's Selenium and J-Meter, resulting in saving time for testers by 33%.
  • Lead team of 28 members to initiate API hub project needing to develop application for easy API integration with source code, this resulted in reducing manual effort by over 60% from searching relevant APIs on IBM's API portal.
  • Developed REST APIs using Swagger, and managed SQL and NoSQL Databases.
  • Developed MERN stack application for internal project use (KEDB and Taxonomy application code refactoring).
  • Practiced Agile methodologies, managing complex projects within budget and timeline.
  • Contributed to IBM's India Software Labs, enhancing enterprise applications with data analytics.
  • Crafted robust REST APIs and maintained integrity of IBM Cloud's microservices architecture.
  • Implemented effective communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT - MANAGER
08.2014 - 04.2018

Job overview

  • Developed and managed changes to Williams-Sonoma Cookware website
  • Led regular Agile-based feature releases.
  • Orchestrated migration to Azure Cloud, overseeing tools like Azure Site Recovery and SQL Server replication.
  • Cross trained developers to manage application hosting on cloud and optimized head count resulting in reduction of 36% in project cost.
  • Managed front-end development, ensuring seamless customer experience.
  • Oversaw Agile-based feature releases, enhancing Williams-Sonoma Cookware website.
  • Managed successful migration to Azure Cloud, leveraging Microsoft tools and technologies.
  • Delivered best-in-class web solutions through ReactJS and JavaScript libraries.

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES

SOLUTION ARCHITECT
04.2012 - 08.2014

Job overview

  • Led complex, medium/large-scale implementations, bridging gap between business and engineering.
  • Governed solution architects and full-stack developers, driving success in application, infrastructure, integration, and security domains.
  • Led complex implementations with focus on cloud computing and emerging technologies.
  • Contributed to development of scalable, distributed products in multi-platform environments.
  • Applied Agile & DevSecOps methodologies to ensure project success and collaboration.
  • Application performance was a problem faced by customer (Barclays Bank), optimized API calls from backend to avoid unwanted calls to front end based on every webpage, leading to increase of speed by 36%.

HEWLETT PACKARD

LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
02.2004 - 03.2012

Job overview

  • Initiated, managed, and coordinated full lifecycle software development projects
  • Collaborated with solution architects, internal teams, and stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes
  • Managed full lifecycle software development projects, ensuring resource and budget efficiency
  • With a consistent track record of technical leadership, innovative architecture, and successful project management, I bring exceptional value to your team.

24/7 Customer

Relational officer
01.2003 - 01.2004

Job overview

  • 7 customer private limited
  • Call Centre Executive promoting Credit Cards for, bank United States and United Kingdom
  • Facilitating Balance Funds Transfer from other customers to MBNA account / Credit Card.

Education

Annamalai university

MASTER'S from BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, IT Systems

SJRC
Bengaluru

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
05.2002

Skills

  • Reactjs
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • CI/CD and DEVOPS
  • Distributed Systems
  • SQL & NoSQL
  • Docker & Kubernetes
  • AWS & IBM Cloud
  • Nodejs & Expressjs
  • Backup Recovery

Certification

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certified AI & ML Certified (Python) DEVOPS Master Certified IOT Specialist Certified

Timeline

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

ALETRNATIV TECH LABS
01.2023 - 09.2023

Full Stack - Architect

IBM
04.2018 - 01.2023

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT - MANAGER

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
08.2014 - 04.2018

SOLUTION ARCHITECT

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
04.2012 - 08.2014

LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

HEWLETT PACKARD
02.2004 - 03.2012

Relational officer

24/7 Customer
01.2003 - 01.2004

Annamalai university

MASTER'S from BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, IT Systems

SJRC

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
Shyam Kumar