THANDAPANI A
Power Platform Architect & Technical Lead | AI & Intelligent Automation
Chennai
Summary
Experienced Power Platform Technical Architect with 8+ years of expertise designing, building, and governing enterprise-scale low-code, automation, and AI-enabled solutions. Specialized in Canvas and Model-Driven Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Power BI, Azure Functions, Azure Runbooks, Copilot agents, AI prompts, and Power Automate Desktop (RPA) across logistics, manufacturing, and service domains. Adept at leveraging the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure ecosystem to streamline business processes, improve operational efficiency, and drive measurable business outcomes. Proficient in JSON, PowerShell scripting, REST API integrations, and OAuth 2.0 authentication to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance solutions. Known for strong technical ownership, architectural thinking, and consistent delivery of high-quality applications that support organizational and strategic objectives.
Overview
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years of professional experience
Work History
Power Platform Manager
House Of Shipping
11.2023 - Current
- Organizational Applications: Developed and deployed 3 organization-wide applications supporting approximately 2,200 users, improving operational efficiency and user experience. Performance Review System, Learning Platform Development and Idea X
- Invoice System Overhaul: Successfully eliminated Tally software for FTE billing invoicing by implementing a more efficient solution, reducing operational overhead.
- SAP Integration: Led the integration of SAP API with PowerApps to onboard new customers, automating data creation and streamlining the customer onboarding process.
- Fuzzy search with Python: Developed a custom Python solution to implement fuzzy search functionality, enabling the identification and removal of duplicate customer data before new data creation.
- PAD (RPA): Implemented RPA to prepare multiple databases (IMDG, HS code, etc.), reducing manual data entry and improving accuracy.
- PowerShell Automation: Created PS scripts for various tasks including SharePoint list creation, test-to-prod migrations, solution pipeline management, and access management automation.
- Portal Website Development: Developed an authenticated portal website using Azure AAD, allowing users to securely access resources.
- Administrative Task Automation: Created Azure runbook for low-priority administrative tasks using PowerShell, improving operational efficiency.
- Optimized Search System: Implemented Azure AI Search services to create an optimized index for customer databases, improving query accuracy and performance.
- Vessel Container Data Automation: Designed an RPA solution to track vessel container data from 100+ Port websites and store files in Azure Blob Storage, reducing manual monitoring.
- Static Web App Hosting: Created static Azure Web Apps to display public information for external users, ensuring high availability at relatively negligible cost.
Power Platform Lead
Haworth
06.2021 - 11.2023
- Successfully automated 5+ business-critical processes utilizing PowerApps, Power Automate, and PAD RPA within a span of less than a year.
- Recognized with an award for identifying and automating repetitive, manual processes at a manufacturing plant using PAD RPA.
- The implemented solution streamlined order logging and tracking, cross-departmental approvals, real-time stock entry updates in the database, seamless interaction with organization-specific applications, and automated email notifications upon task completion.
- Developed Power Automate workflows to streamline approval workflows, facilitate messaging in Microsoft Teams, perform monthly data clean-up tasks, trigger reminders, and implement user impersonation for efficient access delegation.
- Designed and built a Portal PowerApps website catering to external users, showcasing Haworth products.
- Utilized JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create a visually appealing, well-styled webpage.
- Integrated Ruby to establish connections with Dataverse for seamless data integration.
- Created visually compelling Power BI dashboards, enabling in-depth analysis of business data, and providing key insights to support informed decision-making.
Power Platform - SharePoint Developer
L&T Infotech
05.2018 - 06.2021
- Developed user-friendly and efficient PowerApps featuring offline and camera capabilities
- Created a practical solution for capturing data on damaged machineries at remote Oil wells with no network coverage
- Designed a seamless process where users can submit data offline, with automatic synchronization to the database when a network connection is restored
- Demonstrated strong proficiency in C# and the .NET framework by successfully creating two console applications and one Windows application
- Leveraged programming skills to develop practical software solutions that contribute to enhanced operational efficiency
- Exhibited advanced skills in PowerShell scripting, accumulating over 10,000 hours of automation experience
- Streamlined complex tasks and processes through scripting, resulting in increased productivity, reduced errors, and optimized resource utilization
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
SSN College of Engineering
Chennai, India05-2018
Skills
Power Platform & Copilot: Power Apps (Canvas, Model-Driven), Power Automate, Power Automate Desktop (RPA), Power Pages, Power BI, Copilot Studio (Agents, Prompts, Topics), AI Builder (Document Processing)
AI & Intelligent Automation: Azure AI Search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Intelligent Document Processing
Cloud, Integration & Architecture: Azure Functions, REST API & OAuth 20 Integration, SAP API Integration, Azure Runbook, Azure Blob Storage, Solution Architecture
DB & Programming: PostgreSQL, SQL, Dataverse, Azure EDW, SharePoint Online, PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS
Accomplishments
- Finalist Quarter Q4, 2024
- Best Employee of Quarter Q1, 2024, Spearheaded the design and development of Organization level application
- The Best Accelerator, 2023, In recognition of agility & promptness in decision-making.
- Best Continuous Improvement Suggestion, 02/2022, Identified critical process and automated using PAD RPA.
- Best Employee of the month, 03/2022
- Best Employee of the month, 10/2021
- Best Employee, 2020
- Pride Award, 2019, Achieved 10,000 hours of automation.
Certification
PL 900, Microsoft, Certificate for undertaking Power Platform Fundamentals exam.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information provided in this resume is true, complete, and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any falsification, misrepresentation, or omission of facts may result in disqualification from employment opportunities.
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Timeline
Power Platform Manager
House Of Shipping
11.2023 - Current
Power Platform Lead
Haworth
06.2021 - 11.2023
Power Platform - SharePoint Developer
L&T Infotech
05.2018 - 06.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
SSN College of Engineering