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Vignesh Ramadass

Coimbatore

Summary

Highly skilled support engineer with extensive experience in software support and development. Specialized in support of high volume SaaS platforms.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Support Lead

Wavelo
10.2021 - Current

Saas Software Support - Telecom

B2B SaaS (event driven) platform for telecom automation.

  • As senior engineer in product support team identified gaps in current support process and developed strategies for improvement to achieve better trust with client.
  • Identified data points and metrics to create business process, generated reports to improve communication and transparency thereby increasing customer confidence.
  • Hired, onboarded and mentored team of 6 support analysts in building a new tier 2 support team.
  • Provided technical leadership by acting as a point of escalation, leading incidents and releases.
  • Enabled the team to handle support problems efficiently by creating triage workflows and playbooks.
  • As part of the support process handled B2B clients communication via zendesk.
  • Complete ownership of support issues, log analysis, query database, bug replication and root cause analysis.

Sr Support Engineer

TD Bank
01.2019 - 08.2021

Application Support - Digital Insurance Platform

  • Improved the incident and problem management by identifying gaps in the technical and process aspects of the L3 support team.
  • Created tools, dashboards, alerts and troubleshooting guides to enable L2 support team to handle incidents efficiently, reduce triage time and escalations.
  • Reduced the number of customer drop offs on the application by improving stability and availability thereby increasing sales revenue.
  • Lead the troubleshooting process on critical incidents and reduced resolution times significantly.


Software Support Engineer

TD Bank
10.2015 - 01.2019

L2/L3 Support - Easyweb, WebBroker, EReporting

  • Investigation, prioritization and root cause analysis of defects in collaboration with Product, engineering teams.
  • Debug production issues across services and levels of stack to maintain system availability and reliability.
  • Designed and implemented monitoring to ensure alert on symptoms and reduce system outages.

Software Engineer

IBM Canada
05.2014 - 09.2015

Air Canada, TD Risk Management Projects

  • Technology - Java, Spring,Struts,Jersey(JAX-RS),Hibernate,Jenkins.
  • Design and development of REST API to improve faster servicing to mobile platform.
  • Implemented application enhancements that reduced lead time for liquidity estimation on high volume of forex data.
  • Automate deployment process to improve efficiency in release management.

Software Engineer

Unisys
03.2013 - 04.2014

NS State Registry Systems

Technology - Oracle PL/SQL, Java

  • Developed new features for improving portal used in land registry process achieving better customer experience.
  • Debug defects and improve queries to enhance reporting accuracy of inspection data.

Software Engineer

NTT Data
01.2011 - 03.2013

Fidelity, Tufts Healthcare

  • Implement business rule modules achieving seamless benefits integration of new client mergers.
  • Develop code fixes for defects and changes in calculation engine to improve accuracy in benefits calculations.
  • Migration of data extraction modules to Perl to achieve maintainability and future enhancements.

Technical Support Associate

Sitel India
09.2008 - 07.2009

Desktop Support - Dell Systems

  • Provided Tier 1 level technical support to Dell computer's retail customer.
  • Troubleshooting of OS and application issue on Dell desktop and laptops.

Education

Master of Engineering - Computer Networking

Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
2011

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Anna University
Coimbatore, India
2008

Skills

  • Java,Javascript,Go,Perl, Ruby, SQL
  • Spring, Hibernate,Struts
  • REST, Kafka
  • Splunk,Datadog,Dynatrace, Grafana
  • Oracle,Postgres,DB2
  • Linux, Azure
  • IBM OnDemand(CMOD)
  • JIRA, Zendesk, ServiceNow
  • Troubleshooting
  • Agile(SCRUM)
  • Incident Management
  • Support Management

Timeline

Product Support Lead

Wavelo
10.2021 - Current

Sr Support Engineer

TD Bank
01.2019 - 08.2021

Software Support Engineer

TD Bank
10.2015 - 01.2019

Software Engineer

IBM Canada
05.2014 - 09.2015

Software Engineer

Unisys
03.2013 - 04.2014

Software Engineer

NTT Data
01.2011 - 03.2013

Technical Support Associate

Sitel India
09.2008 - 07.2009

Master of Engineering - Computer Networking

Dalhousie University

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Anna University
Vignesh Ramadass