Senthil Kumar Vedachalam

Architecture Bootcamp

Ford

Issued Aug 2023 - Aug 2023

PeerIslands

Architect

2023 Oct - Present

• Provide architectural direction for various functional and technical requirements
• Develop and maintain software applications using a diverse range of programming languages, ensuring seamless integration and optimized functionality
• Employ polyglot expertise to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges
• Work together with diverse teams of developers, designers, and stakeholders to improve communication, ensuring projects run efficiently and align with business goals.
• Proactively identify opportunities for code optimization and performance enhancement across multiple languages, resulting in improved application speed, responsiveness, and resource efficiency

Ford Smart Mobility

Super Anchor

2018 – 2023 Oct

• Provide architectural direction for various functional and technical changes, working with cross functional teams, understand future increase in load and plan for infrastructure capacity
• Work with other architects in connected vehicle space, and identify improvements in overall system and their various interactions
• Work on proposals and Proof of concepts for tech refresh and re-writes to enable scaling of application for future increase in demand and work closely with the product teams to take it to implementation
• Training and Mentoring teams both in terms of architectural and technical directions
• Mentor teams on implementing testing strategies which balance confidence, freedom to change, speed, and readability.
• Refactor legacy code to improve test coverage, readability, and conformance to S.O.L.I.D. principles.
• Quickly learn new programming languages and applies them to the current software product based on product need.
• Review and mentors other teams on the design of their application. Shares design learnings with the wider community of software engineers.
• Research industry best practices in continuous integration and applies learnings to team’s continuous integration tooling. Advises other product teams within Ford on their continuous integration practices.
• Analyse application performance in production and work with the product manager to write new user stories that will improve application performance.

Ford Motor Company

Application Architect

2015 - 2018

• Quickly learn new programming languages and applies them to the current software product based on product need.
• Review and mentors other teams on the design of their application. Shares design learnings with the wider community of software engineers.
• Research industry best practices in continuous integration and applies learnings to team’s continuous integration tooling. Advises other product teams within Ford on their continuous integration practices.
• Analyse application performance in production and work with the product manager to write new user stories that will improve application performance.
• Identification and implementation of frameworks and Ford specific components, that helps in standardization of technology implementation
• Training and consulting teams on new frameworks, existing framework issues and for project rescue and trouble shooting
• Review new technology components, required for new applications, take them through a legal review process before approving them for applications to use
• Build new tools, to help teams get started easily

Infosys

Technology Lead

2012 – 2015

• Responsible for analysis and design of this project.
• Responsible for estimating the modules, splitting the tasks across the developers and coding.
• Responsible for reviews, code deliverables and successful project completion.
• Responsible for Code build and deployment

Mahindra Satyam

Senior Software Engineer

2006 – 2012

• Responsible for analysis and design of this project.
• Acted as an onsite coordinator, coordinating and executing RTB and major enhancements and maintaining a good rapport with the clients.
• Responsible for reviews, code deliverables and successful project completion
• Responsible to Code build and deployment