VASUGI SANKARAPANDIAN
TECHNICAL LEAD
Chennai
Summary
Lead Software Engineer delivering Spring Boot microservices and 21+ RESTful APIs per year for core banking workflows, including loans, account management, customer KYC, and payment processing. Partners with 6–10 business and technical stakeholders per release cycle to translate requirements into secure technical deliverables, then strengthens release quality through code reviews, Kafka-based async processing, SonarQube checks, and CI/CD controls. Improves API response times to be 36%+ faster while aligning change approvals and production releases across cross-functional teams.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies
01.2022 - Current
- Gathered requirements from business stakeholders, translating them into actionable technical deliverables.
- Develop RESTful APIs for key services like loans, account management, and customer KYC.
- Integration of third-party vendor APIs for borrower screening and payment processing.
- Integrated third-party vendor APIs for borrower screening and payment processing to enhance service capabilities.
- Conduct performance tuning, improve API response times, and optimization of JVM usage.
- Performing code reviews, establishing design best practices, and secure coding practices.
- Conducted performance tuning, optimizing API response times and JVM usage for improved application performance.
- Embrace Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, project management via Jira boards and Confluence.
Senior Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2014 - 01.2022
- Designed and developed enterprise web applications with Spring MVC to enhance user experience and streamline operations.
- Led development of payment APIs, implementing authentication, batch processing, and reporting with Kafka and RabbitMQ to improve transaction processing.
- Designed and developed enterprise web applications with Spring MVC.
- Analyzed and optimized complex SQL queries and stored procedures in Oracle and MariaDB to enhance performance and reduce latency.
- Conducted unit and integration testing with JUnit; maintained 85%+ code
Education
Bachelor’s degree - Electrical & Electronics
01-2012
Skills
Java
Spring Boot
Kafka
MySQL
Docker
Microservices architecture
REST API design
Event-driven architecture
Database query optimization
Performance tuning
Code review standards
Secure coding practices
Stakeholder management
Change management
Agile delivery
ACHIEVEMENTS
Star Performer award, Gem Award, Multiple Sprint awards
Timeline
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies
01.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2014 - 01.2022