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Education
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Tools Software Framework Languages
Environments
Cgi Experience
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Industry Expertise
Sooraj Plachingat Babu

Sooraj Plachingat Babu

Associate Consultant IT Software Architect

Summary

Innovative Solution Architect with in-depth understanding of software deployment and system design illustrated over 18 years of experience in similar roles. TOGAF 9 certified solution architect and IBM certified web service developer. Trained in JAVA/JEE and works predominantly in Web Application development. Meticulous Technical Lead strictly adheres to both client-provided technical requirements and internal business goals. Balances project prioritization to fulfill both contractual obligations and internal revenue requirements. Provides foresight and management designed to grow satisfied customer bases and revenue figures.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Associate Consultant, Technical Prime

CGI
06.2022 - Current
  • Involved in development, proposals and solutions as per client needs for telecom domain in service assurance area.
  • Technology: ReactJs, NodeJs, Microservices, Spring Boot, Java 11 Redis Cache, Oracle DB, Red Hat OpenShift cloud Server.
  • Udeploy, Jenkins, Gradle
  • Investigated system issues and implemented solutions to improve performance.
  • Offered input on technical and platform-related strategic planning initiatives

Associate Consultant

CGI
12.2019 - 06.2020
  • Involved in design and project management activities for CVV2 project
  • Involved in technical discussion to implement new stored credential logic to comply with framework introduced by Visa and MasterCard
  • It enables transition to new credit card payment processor with minimal impacts on systems requiring batch and online credit card transaction
  • Eases future changes, evolution and/or addition of credit card payment processors and associated processes
  • Technology: Oracle Service Bus 11g, Spring Batch and Spring Integration, Java EE, Oracle Weblogic server 11g
  • Enhanced security and significantly reduced the no of calls to downstream system for security validation.
  • Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime

Lead Analyst

CGI
02.2018 - 01.2019
  • Technical lead (AD) involved in designing and upgrading EDX system to latest version of BizLink and SecureLink
  • This involves secure and reliable exchange of business data between any application and business internal or external to organization ICN.
  • Technology: BizManager product BizLink and SecureLink V4 (B2B file transfer tool by OpenText)
  • RHEL7 OS

Lead Analyst

CGI
08.2015 - 01.2018
  • Application used by more than 60 BSS ( application) which requires complying with payment card industry standards called PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards)
  • Involved in upgrades: Technologies: Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 8, Websphere application server V7 to V8.6.5, JRE 6 to JRE 7.
  • Mule SB (Integration), JAX-WS Webservice, Spring Framework
  • LINUX Sub module: DTS-ESB Technologies: Weblogic Oracle Service Bus

Education

Training And Degree And Certifications


  • Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner, Scaled Agile
  • TOGAF 9 Certified level (Part 1 and 2, The Open Group
  • IBM certified Webservice Developer, IBM
  • TMForum Certified Frameworks Foundation level.
  • B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University Chennai

Skills

Web Application Development

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Interests

Travelling to explore new places, Actively playing volleyball this year Contribute to community and environment, Study relationship science by means of Enneagram

Tools Software Framework Languages

  • ReactJS
  • NodeJS
  • Spring Boot
  • VS Code
  • STS
  • Java/JEE
  • OSB12c
  • Bizlink
  • Securelink
  • Eclipse
  • Ant
  • Maven
  • MS Visio
  • JMeter

Environments

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform

Cgi Experience

  • TELECOM COMPANY, Technical Prime, 06/2022, Till Date, He is involved in development, proposals and solutions as per client needs for ABC application. ABC application with user interface to display digital repair results live to agent. Technology: ReactJs, NodeJs, Microservices, Spring Boot, Java 11 Redis Cache, Oracle DB, Red Hat OpenShift. Udeploy,Jenkins,Gradle
  • TELECOM COMPANY, Solution Architect, 06/2022, 06/2023, He is involved in proposals and solutions as per client needs for OBOT application. Implement login authentication using LDAP/Active Directory. Checkmarx Vulnerabilities Analysis. Migration for legacy platform to new application. OBOT is a key system in the ordering process for One Bill accounts. It provides a way to query, create, modify or cancel One Bill accounts. Technology: Struts, Java/JEE, Java 8, Weblogic 14c. Windows OS, IIS, JS7 Scheduler, JSP
  • TELECOM COMPANY, Solution Architect, 07/2021, 06/2022, He is involved in proposals and solutions as per client needs for TELECOM COMPANY BU. 1. Involved in upgrading Bizlink product from V4 to V16. 2. Worked team planning to migrate servers to cloud and proposing cloud-based application development. 3. Worked with Bots to automate manual tasks using Automation Anywhere.
  • TELECOM COMPANY, Solution Architect, 04/2021, 06/2021, He is involved in providing solution to expose application services as a REST based webservice for mobile consumers. Standard Java REST libraries were used. Designed to comply with current design of the application. Strong cryptography used to encrypt/decrypt highly sensitive data during communication over network. Followed secure software programming practice and used code quality tools like checkmarx, sonarqube and CAST.
  • TELECOM COMPANY, Technical Architect, 07/2020, 10/2020, The POC involved to upgrade Oracle Service Bus from version 11g to the new Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure - OSB version 12c
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Technical lead (AD), 12/2018, 06/2020, As a technical lead (AD) he is involved in design and project management activities for CVV2 project. He is involved in technical discussion to implement new stored credential logic to comply with framework introduced by Visa and MasterCard. The Generic Payment Service (GPS) system is the central corporate credit card payment service for both online and batch transactions processing. It enables transition to the new credit card payment processor with minimal impacts on TELECOM COMPANY systems requiring batch and online credit card transaction. Supports automation and improvement of the reconciliation and chargeback processes. Eases future changes, evolution and/or addition of credit card payment processors and associated processes. Technology: Oracle Service Bus 11g, Spring Batch and Spring Integration, Java EE, Oracle Weblogic server 11g
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Technical lead (AD), 6/17/2019, 06/2020, As a technical lead (AD) he is involved in designing and producing POC. Design involves end to end security solution to maintain the password and master password. It involves encrypting plain text passwords used in the application. Technology: Jasypt libraries, Cryptography.
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Technical lead (AD), 02/2018, 01/2019, As a technical lead (AD) he is involved in designing and upgrading DTS EDX system to the latest version of BizLink and SecureLink. The EDX Gateway is a data transport system developed by CGI. It is responsible for the secure and reliable exchange of business data between any application and business internal or external to the TELECOM COMPANY ICN. It supports several data transfer standards or protocols such as AS1, AS2, AS3 and Mailbox over the internet, FTPs (TLS/SSL), sFTP (SSH2) and XCOM (TCP/IP) between TELECOM COMPANY’s business partners and TELECOM COMPANY’s backend applications. Technology: BizManager product BizLink and SecureLink V4 (B2B file transfer tool by OpenText). RHEL7 OS
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Technical lead (AD), 02/2017, 01/2018, He is involved in designing the alternative mechanism to trigger JMS message to DTS system (which was triggered by DTS EDX before) Technology: Camel quartz scheduler, JMS producer/consumer, Java File API. RHEL7 OS
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Technical Lead (AD), 08/2016, 01/2017, As a technical Lead (AD), he is involved in DevOps implementation. This is an organizational initiative to move the Development and Operations into an automated mode. Currently, he is involved in research and implementation. Technologies: DevOps tools like Jenkins, Udeploy, OpenShift platform, Docker, JIRA, GIT, CheckMarx, SonarQube etc.
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Technical lead (AD), 08/2015, 01/2018, DTS application, a webservice used by more than 60 BSS (consumers) which requires complying with payment card industry standards called PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards). As a technical lead (AD) he is involved in the overall activities for the following upgrades: Technologies: Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 8, Websphere application server V7 to V8.6.5, JRE 6 to JRE 7 Update 80. Mule SB (Integration), JAX-WS Webservice, Spring Framework. LINUX Sub module: DTS-ESB Technologies: Weblogic Oracle Service Bus
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Developer (AD), 12/2013, 12/2014, As a developer (AD) he is responsible for application development and enhancement. As a lead (09/2013 to 10/2015) he is responsible for the following activities: -Effective planning, execution, monitoring & controlling of technical deliverables across projects. -Effective code review and unit test results review, CRs & Defect fixes throughout the project lifecycle. Languages/technologies: Java/J2EE, Webservices, EJB Tools/Server: Eclipse IDE, sqldeveloper, CA SCM, Tortoise SVN/ IBM Websphere application server 7, Oracle Weblogic server 11g. Migration: Application migration from Oracle weblogic 10g to 11g [10.3.6]
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Team member, 11/2013, 12/2013, As a team member he is responsible for providing Application Maintenance Services (AMS) for ordering services namely ODS, EBCCS, OMF, EHS and NPE. Languages/technologies: Java/J2EE, Webservices, EJB Database: Oracle DB Tools/Server: Eclipse IDE, sqldeveloper, Tortoise SVN/ IBM Websphere application server 7, Oracle Weblogic server 10g and 11g. O/s: AIX (IBM) and UNIX
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Team member, 09/11, 09/13, DTS application support team provides application support of the credit card tokenization service. It is a webservice used by BSS which requires complying with payment card industry standards called PCI DSS. As a team member he is responsible for the following activities: -Investigating and troubleshooting DTS incidents. -Working in cooperation with and engaging the other support teams to analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents. -Managing implementation of defect resolution. -Sanity testing, if required, after any application/server/environmental updates. -Creation of RFC, when required. -To engage TELECOM COMPANY Corporate Emergency Team for any Security incidents -Install Middleware & Application builds on DTS. Technical Environment: Languages/technologies: Java/J2EE, Webservices, Spring and Hibernate, Mule ESB, JSON, JavaScript, JSP, shell scripts. Database: Oracle DB Tools/Server: Eclipse IDE, sqldeveloper, Tortoise SVN/ IBM Websphere application server 7, Oracle Weblogic server and ESB. O/s: Redhat LINUX
  • TELECOM COMPANY CANADA, Team member, 08/09, 09/11, The CGI Application Maintenance Services (AMS), TELECOM COMPANY.ca Virtual Store team, provides application support of the TELECOM COMPANY.ca Virtual Store (www.TELECOM COMPANY.ca). As a team member, He is responsible for the following activities:
  • Manage code on the TELECOM COMPANY.ca Virtual Store application servers
  • Maintain TELECOM COMPANY.ca Virtual Store application build scripts
  • Manage complex incidents within the TELECOM COMPANY.ca Virtual Store
  • Analyzing and troubleshooting TELECOM COMPANY.ca Virtual Store application incidents
  • Developing and testing TELECOM COMPANY.ca Virtual Store defect resolutions
  • Contact 3rd party vendor AMEX for any problem with the credit card processing Technical Environment: Languages: Java. Database: Oracle 10g Framework: Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g, Tools: BEA workshop for weblogic platform, Remedy O/s: UNIX, Windows XP
  • HEALTH INSURANCE, Team member (SME), 02/07, 08/09, DCP - defined care platform is a module, which automates the health care insurance process of HEALTH INSURANCE. As a team member (SME), he is responsible for the following tasks in the area of Production Support, Development & Enhancement: Releases: Any major change in the Backend code that is in Java and the Front-end Design that is written in ASP will be done by a team of people, which will further be modularized. Adhoc Reports: This is a report that is requested by the client team. It is coded using SQL. SRTs: It is a minor code change to solve the Bugs in the present code. A single person does it. Vantives: These are the data fixes that have to be made in the database so that the Insurance Holder’s sees the correct information regarding his members and his groups and Group Policies. The script for this is prepared and tested on three testing servers before it is applied on the Production Server. This is purely SQL server Programming. Technical Environment: Languages: Java, XML. Database: SQL server 2005 Tools: MS SQL, WSAD 6.0 O/s: Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Ecare Inc., Team member, 06/06, 12/06, Underwriting is one of the core business functions in an insurance company which involves verification of the risk information in the proposals submitted, deciding on the acceptance or rejection of proposals, applying the relevant underwriting guidelines and the rating structure for proposals that are accepted, rolling out a quotation for insuring the proposed risk, issuance of a binder for the accepted quotations. The automated underwriting product aims to eradicate the traditional inefficiencies of processing new business. As a team member, he is responsible for
  • Responsible for designing HTML screens/JSP.
  • Technical Analysis of Business Requirement Document
  • Involved in coding, and unit testing adhering to quality norms.
  • Involved in preparation of Quality Documents.
  • Worked extensively in fixing bugs in Insurance module and Policy module. Technical Environment: Languages: Java, Java Scripts, XML, JSP, STRUTS framework. Database: DB2 Tools: WID 6.0 (Web Sphere Integration Developer) O/s: Windows 2000
  • Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Team member, 05/06, 06/06, Personal Auto Quote: Personal Auto Quote is an insurance-based project which aims at creating client’s policy details and maintaining it for future use. Module: Caching Framework: This module is basically intended to improve the response time for a request in a J2EE enterprise application environment. Here the frequently referred pages are temporarily stored in a memory buffer called Cache. Role: Team Member. Technical Environment: Java, JSP, Windows XP.
  • SANDS Instrumentation India Pvt.Ltd, Team member, 01/05, 03/05, To monitoring the heart rate of a patient who is not under the direct supervision of the concerned doctor using microcontroller and a GSM kit. As a Team Member, he is responsible for planning and coding using PIC16F877A. Technical Environment: PIC16F877A (Embedded Systems), ALP, Microchip.

Technical Specializations

  • Java/JEE enabled application development
  • Webservice
  • Cloud native solution etc

Skills Summary

  • Webservices, 13, 5
  • SQL, 2, 4
  • UNIX, 13, 4
  • Struts, 1, 4
  • JAVA/JEE, 17, 4
  • Spring Batch, 2, 4
  • ReactJs, 1
  • Spring boot, 1, 3
  • NodeJs, 1
  • JS7 Scheduler, 2
  • Application knowledge, 4
  • Application Development [JAVA/JEE, Full Stack Web App Dev], 13, 4
  • Estimations and Proposals, 5, 4
  • Industry knowledge, 3, 3
  • Telecom (Ordering, Landline reservation,Payments,Service Assurance), 14, 3
  • Other relevant skills, 12, 5

Experience

18 years of experience in IT

University

Anna University, Chennai

Industry Expertise

  • Payments (PCI DSS,Equifax, Moneris)
  • Ordering,Shopping,Service Assurance (Telecom)
  • Cybersecurity ( OWASP, CVE)
  • Insurance (BFSI)
Sooraj Plachingat BabuAssociate Consultant IT Software Architect