Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Awards
Accomplishments
Certification
Timeline
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SOWMYA KASIRAMASASTRY

Chennai

Summary

I am a seasoned Platform Engineer with over 13 years of extensive experience in enterprise

application development. My expertise lies in observability, cloud-native solutions, and

system reliability, enhancing organizations' performance and resilience. I excel in building

monitoring infrastructures utilizing Elastic APM and Prometheus while driving cloud migrations

and optimizing performance across teams

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Staff Software Engineer-Observability

Walmart Global Tech
Chennai
10.2022 - Current
  • Designed and implemented a robust observability framework using Elastic APM Agent for JVM-based microservices
  • Integrated APM with Java and Kotlin services to support distributed tracing and deep performance diagnostics
  • Developed and deployed Prometheus metrics collectors, linked to Grafana dashboards for actionable insights
  • Streamlined agent deployments via Kubernetes Helm charts across multi-cloud environments – Azure, GCP, ensuring consistent and automated observability across environments
  • Partnered with SRE teams to uphold high availability, reliability, and system resilience
  • Experience working with AI Agent to build optimal configuration recommendation engine.

Lead Engineer

Fidelity Investments
07.2019 - 10.2022
  • Enhanced system reliability by –30% through API design and development for appointment scheduling and notifications.
  • Reduced hosting costs by migrating external systems to AWS with CloudFormation and Microsoft Graph API.
  • Automated quality assurance using Selenium and JMeter
  • Mentored a team of 10 engineers to upskill on best practices, ensuring high-quality deliverables and continuous improvement.

Module Lead

Mindtree Ltd
09.2016 - 07.2019
  • Architected and developed an Entitlement Management System to support secure customer data handling
  • Improved data efficiency through designing a data model with cross-functional teams.
  • Improved large-scale search efficiency by integrating Apache Solr and Spring Batch
  • Introduced Redis caching to enhance data retrieval performance and system responsiveness

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
01.2015 - 11.2015
  • Contributed to full-stack development using Java, Spring, jQuery, and Hibernate
  • Designed APIs for Excel report downloads using Apache POI and iText.
  • Created detailed system documentation including HLD, LLD, and UML diagrams
  • Developed unit, integration and regression test cases to support high-quality software delivery

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
06.2009 - 08.2012
  • Contributed to the end-to-end design, development, and maintenance of enterprise applications including Enhanced Payments System, Fee Management, and Retail Diary, within Banking and Insurance domains.
  • Enhanced user interface efficiency through delivering feature-rich front-ends with JSP and jQuery.
  • Built enterprise-grade SOAP APIs for enhanced payment functionality.

Education

B.E. - Computer Science & Engineering

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College
06.2009

HSC -

Sri Vijay Vidyalaya Matric Higher Secondary School
05.2005

SSLC -

Government Girls Higher Secondary School
05.2003

Skills

Languages & Frameworks: Java, Kotlin,

Golang, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring

Batch, Hibernate, JMS

Observability & Monitoring: Elastic APM

Agent, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch

DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Docker,

Kubernetes, Helm, Concord, Maven,

SonarQube

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3,

CloudFormation, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB,

Route 53), Azure, GCP (Big Query)

Awards

  • Excellence in Action, Fidelity Investments
  • Unstoppable and Mastermind Awards, Mindtree Ltd

Accomplishments

  • Integrated custom Java agent for runtime metrics and anti-pattern detection, leading to early detection of production issues.
  • Implemented automated certificate rotation and expired cert detection in platform services, eliminating 100% of cert-related outages.
  • In previous org, migrated critical app to in-house AWS cloud using CloudFormation, EC2, SQS/SNS; set up and tested DR infrastructure, achieving full failover capability.

Certification

  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • Currently pursuing a Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Leaders from Great Learning

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer-Observability

Walmart Global Tech
10.2022 - Current

Lead Engineer

Fidelity Investments
07.2019 - 10.2022

Module Lead

Mindtree Ltd
09.2016 - 07.2019

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
01.2015 - 11.2015

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
06.2009 - 08.2012

B.E. - Computer Science & Engineering

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College

HSC -

Sri Vijay Vidyalaya Matric Higher Secondary School

SSLC -

Government Girls Higher Secondary School

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