Rajesh Vinayagam

Senior Associate

I have been committed to my work within the software industry for 15+ years. So when an opportunity presented itself, I chose to move to the Cayman Islands to continue working on my passion, with my wife and son accompanying me! I've always believed in taking life as it comes, and that philosophy has worked well thus far! I love watching movies, playing cricket and going on long drives!

Courses and Certifications
MongoDB Certified Developer Associate Exam

MongoDB Certified Developer Associate Exam

MongoDB

Issued July 2020

MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam

MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam

MongoDB

Issued Feb 2021

MongoDB Certified Developer Professional Level

MongoDB Certified Developer Professional Level

MongoDB

Issued Nov2020

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS

Issued Jan 2021 - Jan 2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS

Issued December 2020 - December 2023

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Issued July 2020

Professional Cloud Architect

Professional Cloud Architect

Google

Issued Dec 2020

Confluent Fundamentals for Apache Kafka

Confluent Fundamentals for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Issued Jan 2021

Recognition
  • Outstanding Performance Award for 7 years and consecutively for 5 years
  • Outstanding Contribution Award from Rockwell Collins - Contribution to eTES Software Release 2007
  • Outstanding Contribution Award from Rockwell Collins - AirFrance eTES Seat GUI Release 2008
  • Outstanding Contribution Award from Rockwell Collins - Innovative FCMS High Definition Upgrade: Jun 2011
Career Summary

A competent professional with nearly 15 years of industry experience in software architecture, development and programming.

  • Architect large scale cloud solutions using AWS & Azure PaaS components
  • Develop highly scalable, loosely coupled applications using event-driven architecture
  • Develop applications using domain-driven design
  • Development methodologies using Agile Software Development and pair programming
  • Business Process Modelling and Automation
  • DevOps and continuous delivery
  • Domain experience in Internet of Things (IoT) and IFE systems
  • Mobile Application Development
    • Architect for both native and cross platform mobile applications
    • Designed and developed complete Field Service Application for a leading vendor in Xamarin

Education
  • Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. June 2000 - September 2004.
Work Experience
PeerIslands

Senior Associate

September 2019 - present

As a Senior Associate at PeerIslands, I am accountable for:

  • Creating and designing solutions architecture using Microsoft Azure PaaS Services
  • Developing REST APIs to pull data from various systems using Service Fabric
  • Configure and create BPM solutions
  • Drive technical spikes to evaluate new technology on the solution
  • Perform Peer’s Code Review to avoid code quality issues
  • Provide Sprint Demo to client and stake holders
  • Coordinate with external teams to reduce data flow issues and unblock team members
  • Actively participate in four ceremonies: Sprint planning meeting, Daily Scrum, Sprint review meeting, and Sprint retrospective meeting
  • Orchestrating and completely automate build and deployment process using PowerShell, Release Management Online
Cognizant

Senior Architect

June 2016 – September 2019

As a Senior Architect for IoT Practice at Cognizant Technologies Solutions, I was responsible for:

  • Building practice for all emerging technologies, by building solution accelerators such as Telematics, Connected Logistics, Asset Tracking, and Voice Based Services using AWS and Microsoft Azure platforms
  • Solution consultant and architect for 25+ proposal submissions
  • Single Point of Contact for all emerging technologies. Play central role as SME working with various business units & provide PoV on where these technologies fit in current customer process
  • Ideation, Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Design, Implementation & Delivery of multiple customer projects & showcasing digital capabilities to customer CXOs
  • Providing work breakdown, project estimation and drafting realistic schedules
  • Sourcing code management strategies suggesting best practices in various technologies
  • Mentoring and guiding less experienced consultants
  • Architecting and designing software solutions for various problem types
  • Tracking, maintaining & managing Project Plan, Metrics, Program Status & expectations
  • Providing daily status updates to stakeholders & call out any risks or blockers
  • Preparing contingency and mitigation plans for risks identified
  • Project goal setting and appraise teams performance
HCL Technologies (India, America)

Sr. Technical Lead

November 2004 – May 2016

Played a variety of roles during my 11 years with HCL Technologies & exited as Sr. Technical Lead in Aerospace domain for Mobility solutions. Was responsible for:

  • Onsite coordinator leading, mentoring, coordinating with teams in an onsite-offshore model for multiple projects
  • Liaising between Globally Business, Functional, Technical, Sales & Customer stakeholders
  • Understanding scope of project, client interaction, requirements gathering, design, architecting, on-site coordination & implementation of the solution
  • Research, ideate and provide solutions to various hardware & software issues raised as an outcome of different testing phases within an optimum period of time
  • Track, maintain & manage project plan, metrics, program status & manage expectations
  • Defect Management, Risk Management & Project Goal Setting
  • Alert and address critical issues that impact targets
  • Follow through to completion, the resolution of issues, keeping all stakeholders informed
  • Review of project artifacts & appraise team’s performance
  • Trained 45 engineers in HTML5
  • Supported client at Houston for showcasing Flight Manager App at S&D conference                       
Technical Skills
Backend Technologies
  • NodeJS
  • C#
  • C++
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Web API
  • AWS
  • Azure
Frontend Technologies
  • Javascript
  • Angular
  • CSS
  • TypeScript
Frameworks
  • Dot Net
  • ASP.Net Core
Webservices Tools
  • REST
  • WebSocket
  • ASP Net Core
  • SOAP
  • WSDL
Database
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • SQL
  • Couchbase
  • Dynamo DB
Devops
  • Azure DevOps
  • Git Lab
  • SVN
  • AWS DevOps
Technical Domains
  • Cloud Technologies
  • MVC
  • IOT
  • AWS
  • Docker