VENKATAGOPALAN K

Experienced Software Engineer IV with 18 years in Java and J2EE technologies, specialising in core development, analysis, design, and unit testing. Expertise in developing REST and SOAP web services, integrating Spring, EJB, and JMS to create scalable applications. Proficient in J2EE architecture and design patterns, with exposure to cloud technologies and microservices. Adept at delivering full lifecycle solutions while ensuring quality and security standards.

• AWS Certified AI Practitioner
• IBM Certified Professional on Websphere Studio Application Developer V5.0

• System Name : MCS Loyalty Automation
• Duration/size : Oct 2019 – Till Date
• Team Size: 6
• Client: Shell
• Technologies : Java 11, JBoss EAP 7.3, Spring Boot, Micro Services, Postgres SQL, Active MQ, Jedis, Bit bucket
• Description: MCS Loyalty is an enterprise system that automates transaction processing such Issuance, Redemption & Adjustment for issuing the rewards for eligible members through various promotions & offers. It is basically fuel reward system that automates the reward issuance process through various reward types like Cents per Gallon & POINTS. MCS loyalty comprises of various application components such as Transaction, Offers & Member interface applications.
• My Roles & Responsibilities include:
• As the lead I am responsible for
• Analyzing the Project requirement, brainstorming with team members, QA & Pos.
• Preparing impact analysis, technical system design documents through various technical design sessions
• Providing the LOE & estimate after careful consideration of all the technical impediments
• Providing technical assistance to the team members
• Coding & Unit testing of the assigned module as part of the release deliverables.
• Tracking the team deliverable, status reporting & metrics to the management.
• System Name : DOESII DCOF Migration
• Duration/size : Oct 2018 – Till Date
• Team size : 8
• Client : Ford Technologies
• Technologies : Java 1.8, WAS Liberty 17, Openshift CaaS Container, Spring Web MVC, Oracle 12c, SFTP, Accurev, Github, Gitbash, JUnit 4.0, Eclipse Oxygen
• Description : This new data center migration is aimed in migrating the DOES II Web application from WAS 8 to liberty server in Open shift CaaS(Container As A Service) infrastructure. The global dealers can place online & offline orders via this web interface.
• Involved in Coding, Analysis, Design & Architectural review process
• Involved in the integration of SFTP Server to the CaaS Container via NFS Mounting
• Driven the migration from end to end by coordinating with cross technical teams
• Involved in the package, build & deploy docker image artifacts to CaaS POD instances
• Involved in the administration of POD instances such as auto scaling, memory upgrade etc
• Driven the system, Integration & Load-Performance testing
• Provided Post Launch Support after successful launch
• System Name : BCN EnrollmentMigration
• Duration/size : Feb 2015 – June 2017
• Team size : 10
• Client : Blue Care Network
• Technologies : Java 1.8, Spring Batch 3.0.3, Spring Boot 1.4, Sybase 15.7, Log4j 2, JUnit 4.0, Apache Maven 3.2.5, SOAP Web Service, Eclipse.
• Description : BCN Enrollment Migration involves migrating four of the enrollment applications in scope from Vitria to Spring Batch framework. This involves migratingthe current business rules from old to new platform.
• BCN Enrollment System consists of the below applications:
• 1. Enroll_Medigap - Enrolls members through Tab Delimited Text format files submitted by third party broker/agent
• 2. Enroll_Medicare - Enrolls members through XML format files submitted by third party broker/agent
• 3. Enroll_Custom - Enrolls members through Tab Delimited (Spreadsheet) Text format files submitted by Business or as an output of the Preprocessor
• 4. Enroll_EDI - Enrolls members through 834 format files submitted by CMS, Large Groups and third party broker/agent.
• Roles
• Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Development for Phased releases.
• Implemented the Enrollment Service module for integrating SOAP Web Service hosted in Trizetto Server.
• Leading offshore team and assisting for technical issues.
• Status Reporting and driving the project from offshore end.
• Code Review, Refactoring and Optimization Activities.