Nandakumar Kuthalaraja

nandu.smart@gmail.com +1 318-450-5069 LinkedIn

SUMMARY:

 Software Technology Specialist involved in API Strategy, Micro-Services Design & Development,
Cloud based Development & Transformation.

 IBM & Pivotal certified Cloud Platform specialist.

 Have working experience in AWS & IBM Softlayer IaaS offerings. In PaaS have working experience
with IBM Bluemix, Pivotal Cloud Foundry & Redhat Openshift with their service offerings.

 Working extensively in Node.js, Docker, Cloud Foundry & Cloud based agile transformation covering
DevOps, Micro-Services transformation & core API development. Also have rich experience in IBM
Watson offerings.

 With more than half-decade of proven results with profound knowledge working across two distinct
software platforms - Java & .NET concurrently & following industry standard best practices.

 Functioned in the role of a Technical Lead with excellent leadership & team skills in managing teams
distributed across different geographies & cultural diversity (onshore/offshore). Meticulous
resource planning, Development & Design Estimation, Coordinate onshore/offshore effort, Deliver
status reports & metrics proactively, propose & implement initiatives based on the lessons learned.

 Strong experience in building solutions involving complex business requirements across multi-tier
architecture & multi-product environment.

 Extensive exposure in designing & formulating complex Web Services & consuming them, both –
SOAP & RESTful Service. Proficient in inter-application communication techniques involving JSON.

 Rich experience as BMC Remedy Consultant in implementing & developing complex BMC Remedy
AR System with J2EE frameworks.

 Have also worked extensively in .NET platform covering ASMX, ASPX & Windows Service
development & enhancement.

 Also an avid learner, would love to explore new technologies, Cloud approaches, Architectural
Designs, languages and frameworks. Currently updating myself on Azure, Redhat Openshift &
Puppet.

SKILLS

Languages - Java, C#, VB, C, C++, XML, HTML, UNIX Shell, Javascript, VB Script, PL/SQL, SQL, nodeJS

Methodologies - OOP/D, UML, Agile, SEP, Waterfall, MVC, Pair programming, Kanban

Products - BMC Remedy 7.1, BMC Remedy 8.1, ECDS ecENACT, TIBCO Bus, TCS-IPMS, TCS-Mastercraft,
Jenkins, JBehave, Cucumber, IBM UCD

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 Tools & IDE - Eclipse, NetBeans, CVS, Visual Studio 2010, SQLDeveloper, Caliber RM, IIS, Apache Tomcat,
Notepad++, Putty, CoreFTP, Netbeans IDE, JBOSS, Glassfish, IBM WebSphere 8.5, IntelliJ Idea

Databases & Storage - Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2012, MySQL 4, DB2 9, Mongo DB, Cloudant, Redis, S3

Framework - Hibernate, Spring, Apache Axis2, .NET Framework 4.6, J2EE, Jersey, JUNIT, WCF, WPF, Spring
Boot, Spring Cloud, Drop Wizard, Apache Camel, .NET Core

Techniques - JSON, AJAX, CSS, JAX-WS, ANT Script, Web Services, RESTful API, log4j, XSLT, Micro Services,
TDD (Test Driven Development), BDD (Behavior Driven Development), JMS, Rabbit MQ

Cloud Offering – IBM Bluemix, AWS, Vagrant, OSS Cloud Foundry, Docker, IBM Watson Services, Pivotal
Cloud Foundry, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Stream

DevOps – IBM Urbancode Deploy, Jenkins

WORK EXPERIENCE:

COGNIZANT TECH SOLNS US CORP (Hartford, CT)

Technology Specialist/Architect (Cloud Services) Jul 2016 – Present

 Working as Technology Architect – Cloud for Corporate Systems LOB in Travelers, involved in
cloud adoption, migration & cloud native development.
 Performing technical assessment & works on transformations of cross-platform applications to
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or Docker containers across LOBs.
 Working extensively in transforming legacy Java applications to cloud compatible micro-services
architecture utilizing Spring Boot, Netflix OSS stack & following TDD.
 Transformed many .NET applications as Cloud compatible and moved them to PCF. The
applications include WCF, Windows Services & REST APIs.
 Provided End to End cloud solutions for transformation including CI-CD process using Jenkins
& IBM Urbancode Deploy
 Researching .NET Core & its transformation approaches for cloud.
 Worked & developed Application-As-A-Service involving Service Brokers.
 Also worked with nodeJS development specific to PCF transformation.
 Worked & technically assessed various BDD (Behavior Driven Development) products for Java
applications – Jbehave & Cucumber.
 Researching on Cloud Compatible Data Intensive Event Driven Architecture using Spring Cloud
Stream & Spring Cloud Data Flow.

PERFICIENT INC (Denver, CO)

Senior Consultant (Cloud Practice) Sep 2015 – Jun 2016

 Reports to PRFT Solutions Director, perform technical assessment of the IBM Bluemix & AWS
case for cloud transformation for various business cases.
 Working extensively with containerization technology - Docker.
 Working on Micro-Services architecture based development of services utilizing latest
frameworks.

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  Working on transforming existing Web based applications & services to IBM Bluemix Cloud using
Cloud Foundry & Docker based approaches for a Healthcare Client
 Working in building/transformation of business cases utilizing Pivotal Cloud Foundry & IBM
Bluemix also utilizing Jenkins.
 Working on transformation of monolithic architectured applications to AWS public cloud utilizing
AWS – EC2, S3 & Dynamo DB following micro-services architecture.

TATA Consultancy Services (Monroe, LA)

CENTURYLINK INC – Technical Lead - Development Mar 2015 – Aug 2015

Worked on estimations, requirement discussion, design, development and implementation for

various systems and applications within OSS. Co-ordinated Onshore-Offshore teams.

 Lead a team of 8 split in different geographies & time zone.

 Enhanced various OSS systems/applications with respect to business needs using J2EE
frameworks.
 Built suite of REST services from scratch with dedicated schemas to be used by 100+ clients
following cloud native development paradigm.
 Worked on transformation of existing services to Micro-Services architecture with service
registry.
 Worked extensively on Cloud Transformation of applications utilizing Cloud Foundry.

TATA Consultancy Services (Chennai, India)

CENTURYLINK INC – Technical Lead - Development Dec 2014 – Mar 2015

Worked on requirement discussion, design, development and implementation for various

Service Assurance applications. Also as SME for implementing BMC Remedy with J2EE
frameworks.

 Lead a team of 10 in offshore.

 Worked extensively on building interfaces using SOAP web services & Enterprise TIBCO Bus
for communications within applications of various platforms.
 Pursued solutions with Message Brokers replacing traditional TIBCO bus.
 Worked extensively on Cloud Transformation PoCs involving micro-services & Jenkins.

CENTURYLINK INC – Module Lead - Development Jun 2013 – Nov 2014

Worked on design, development and implementation of notification & outage management

system. Worked concurrently in both .NET & J2EE (with Remedy).

 Lead a team of 3 in offshore module.

 Enhanced around 7 ticketing applications and built 1 from scratch.
 Worked extensively on building Windows Services & Spring applications part of customizing
Remedy Ticketing Solutions.

QWEST CORPORATION – Developer Mar 2011 – May 2013

Worked on design, development and implementation of centralized assurance manager service.

Worked extensively in .NET – ASPX, ASMX & Windows Services.

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  Worked in a team of 5 in offshore module.
 Enhanced a Tier 1 Gold application with half million transactions every hour.
 Built a dedicated throttling framework to normalize the transaction processing across time.

INTERNAL APPLICATION –Developer Nov 2010 – Feb 2011

Worked on design, development and implementation of Mail Subscription System and portal.

 Worked in a team of 3 in offshore module.

 Built 1 application from scratch.
 Worked extensively on building portal using J2EE frameworks.

EDUCATION

B.Tech. Degree in Information Technology, Anna University, India

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) in Operations Management, IGNOU, India

CERTIFICATIONS

Pivotal Certified Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer v1.7

IBM Certified Application Developer - Cloud Platform v1

IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 9

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - .NET Framework 4 Windows Application Development

PERSONAL DETAILS

Nationality : Indian

Location : Hartford, CT, USA

Experience : 6 years 5 months

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