Vivek Venugopal

Electric Vehicle Charging App (Dec/2024 to Present)

A multi-provider EV charging platform that aggregates data from direct charge point operators and roaming networks, delivering a unified view of charging infrastructure across locations. The platform supports real-time station availability, live session monitoring, and map-based cluster views. The architecture handles multi-provider data consolidation, connector-level status with near real-time updates, and end-to-end payment processing for charging sessions.

Roles & Responsibilities as a Solution Architect:

• Involved in the design of architecture revamp of the application, evaluating structural changes to improve scalability, maintainability, and alignment with evolving business requirements
• Create budgetary estimations for new features by assessing infrastructure costs, third-party integration overhead, and development effort to support informed decision-making by stakeholders
• Created High-Level Design (HLD) documents for the team, covering system components, data flows, integration touchpoints, and technology choices to guide implementation
• Drove framework-related design changes by directly contributed to coding and implementation for major framework-level changes to ensure correctness and set the standard for the rest of the team.
• Involved in requirement discussions with the Product team to translate business needs into technical scope, identifying architectural implications and flagging risks early in the feature lifecycle

Fleet Management System (Sep/2019 to Dec/2024)

It is an IOT based GPS Tracking software that provide business-to-business tracking based services. The application is integrated with virtually every signaling device into the platform and can be monitored in real time anywhere in the world. The platform delivers vehicle location tracking, fleet management, person and asset location tracking. The comprehensive solution is capable of handling wide range of services including real time alerts, geofence features, reverse-geocoder and detailed reports.

Roles & Responsibilities as an Architect:

• Primary point of contact for the team in India
• Directly leads Backend, API, Reports teams and also provide guidance for device team, support team and DevOps team
• Provide design and develop solutions in case of critical implementations
• Needs to be involved in any critical issues that becomes blocker and requires solutions.
• Provided solutions and guidance in case of AWS marketplace integration of platform
• Needs to be involved in cross-functional discussion with other teams like Systems, Database, Security and Network team wherever required
• Coordinate daily scrum for multiple teams and is also involved in scum of scum with customer side, involved in bi-weekly architecture meeting and any other customer side meeting
• Does code reivew, merge and deployment
• Conducts technical interviews for new hires and also involved in resource planning for a quarter with higher management
• Works on critical development ticket for backend team in case of bandwidth

Electric Scooter Booking And Tracking Platform (Feb-2024 to Aug-2024)

An IOT based platform for renting, reselling, and tracking electric scooters. It allows users to rent scooters through a unified platform, lease them to resellers, and track their usage. The system includes automated alerts for battery metrics such as level, voltage, and temperature. Additionally, it monitors geofencing boundaries and automatically halts the vehicle if it exits predefined areas. The application has payment collection and automatic refund using RazorPay. The platform provides vehicle, customer and payment related reports

Roles & Responsibilities as an Architect:

• Design and define the application's high-level architecture, technology stack, and select the appropriate cloud provider.
• Collaborate with the customer to gather and clarify requirements.
• Provide strategic guidance to the team, particularly on architecture and the integration of devices with the platform.
• Act as the primary point of contact, coordinating communication between the team, customer, and device vendor

LEGAL ENTITY MANAGER(May-2015 to Aug-2019)

Many companies are now looking for ways to help reduce their operating cost base, contains cash expenditures, and improve their tax positions. One way companies may achieve these goals is by reducing the number of their legal entities through a KPMG LINK LegalEntity Manager (KPMG LINK LEM) project. Recognizing that a KPMG LINK LEM project can affect a range of functions and processes, KPMG has developed an operationally aware approach to assist in executing them. The KPMG LINK LEM system can be used to plan and implement a new, sustainable, and more efficient structure for companies
Roles & Responsibilities as a LEAD Developer:

• Implementation of the new functionalities in the application including design and coding based on the business rules.
• Fix Penetration testing issues.
• Attend daily scrum call, weekly grooming call, and present Demo of developed modules.
• Involved in weekly requirement gathering call with client manager.
• Create instructions and involve in UAT and PROD releases
• Prepare document for user manual

 Microsoft Total Rewards Portal (December 2014– April 2015 ) )

Total Rewards shows the value of total package at Microsoft all in one place. Get a consolidated view of the employee compensation, stock, and benefits, including access to a view of the rewards that have been received in the past and the opportunity to model rewards that could earn in the future.

Roles & Responsibilities as a SENIOR DEVELOPER:

• Implementation of the new functionalities in the application including design and coding based on the business rules.
• Worked with existing team in Xerox client location.
• Bug fix and modifications in existing modules.
• Attend daily status meeting with onshore manager.
• Involved in the agile development model

 CISCO  (December 2011– November 2014 )

 Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. The Cisco portal is an Employee Benefits Portal of the client CISCO for the regions US and Canada. The portal shows the HR benefits of Employee’s, Retiree and Dependents to the specific regions. The portal acts as a view layer for the employees of CISCO for the annual enrolment activity as well.

Roles & Responsibilities as a SENIOR DEVELOPER:

• Manage contents, create new pages, manage permissions and roles through Dotnetnuke.
• Upgrade Dotnetnuke CMS to latest versions
• Attend daily status meeting with onshore manager.
• Providing technical solutions for business functionalities.
• Implementation of the new functionalities in the application including design and coding based on the business rules.
• Involved in site revamp for annual enrollment. Involve in daily UAT move and monthly production release.
• Knowledge transfer & training of new resources
• Creating enhancement and estimation documents for the developed modules.

 Employee Benefits Portal for UBS  (August 2010 – November 2011)

The project aimed at providing Employee Benefit’s Portal for UBS APAC region. The portal showed the benefits of Employee’s to the Asia Pacific region of UBS. One of the main modules of the project was automated employee letter generation. The module included automated pdf and word document generation related to the various employee letter’s using Aspose. The letter’s included Offer Letter, termination letter and several other employee specific letters.

Roles & Responsibilities as a junior developer:

• Implementation of the new functionalities in the application including design and coding based on the business rules.
• Defect fixes reported through JIRA.
• Attending weekly status meeting with onshore team manager.
• Creating word document templates for letter generation.