Vinod Murugesan

Senior Associate

Software Architect & Developer, by profession. I am passionate about building holistic solutions for any software product - built few as well. Apart from software, I am a trained Home Automation Solutions provider & an Organic Farmer too!

Courses and Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

Issued Nov 2019 - Nov 2021

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Issued May 2021 - No Expiration

Safe Agile for Teams

Safe Agile for Teams

Scaled Agile

Issued Sep 2021 - No Expiration

Recognition
  • Cognizant Technology Solutions - Above & Beyond award - Twice
  • Cognizant Technology Solutions - Innochamp award
Career Summary

A Competent, Result-oriented Cloud Transformation & Technical Architect with 12+ years of extensive IT experience. Expertise encompasses Enterprise-wide Cloud Transformations, Cloud Re-Engineering, Architecture development & maintenance and System Integrations. I have developed and currently support a wide range of SOA services, manage multiple release trains across different geographies.
Responsible for Cloud Transformation engagements, Enterprise level Architectural solutions, Requirement Analysis, Project Scheduling, Cross-Functional Supervision & Client Relations. Excel in Safe Agile, Kanban and Waterfall project management methodologies, known for ability to produce high-quality Architectural deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. I have a strong work ethic, taking responsibility and ownership of my work. I also work well under pressure independently or as a part of a team.

Education
  • Bachelor of Engineer - Electronics & Communication
Work Experience
PeerIslands

Senior Associate

2022 - Present

  • Design & Development of Micro service API’s using Java, Quarkus, Spring boot, Migrating data from CosmosDB to MongoDB
Fidelity Information Services

IT ARCHITECT

2021-2022

  • Cloud & Technical Architect for the Worldpay product – Merchant solutions
  • Part of Enterprise Architects group working on Greenfield projects from solutioning to Implementation & Cloud transformations/migrations
  • Cater Architectural need across Release Trains to implement solutions built on Micro services and Cloud Architecture
Cognizant Technology Solutions

Senior Associate

2016-2021

  • Responsible for Cloud Transformation engagements across Customer Portfolios
  • Part of Cognizant Cloud Transformation Group responsible for Portfolio Rationalization, Modernization & Tech upgrades
  • Provide Cloud Transformation Roadmap & identify cost optimization with measurable milestones
  • Tech Architect/Scrum Master for cross functional team of 10+ members in previous assignment
  • Create RFPs, Develop Proof of Concepts & Implementation plan for the Re-architecture of SOA systems to Microservices
  • Involved in Direct Customer Interactions, Client Reporting & Business Prioritizations based on Architectural advancements
  • Major contributor in Re-architecture of existing SOA system using Microservices & AWS Infrastructure (Lambda, S3, ElasticBeanstalk, ElasticSearch, ElasticCache, SQS, ECS/EFS) to improve the scalability, responsiveness and stability which handles average volume of 1 Million records/day
  • Design/Develop Web services using Spring Boot/ Microservices to handle daily transaction of 3 M Records
  • Handled End – End setup of Splunk Enterprise/Cloud versions including Splunk forwarder setup, Index Creations, Custom Source Type creations and Lookup tables
  • Laid the base framework for Splunk Dashboards & Reports, created complex Dashboards & Reports for Audit Project
Grisaille AdTech Solutions (Zeta Interactive)

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

2015-2016

  • Created Analysis & Design documents, coordinated Development, Testing & Deployment of Front End Landing pages using Spring and Hibernate
  • Development/Setup of FTP/SFTP/AWS – S3 servers for secure file transfer spinning across 14 servers
  • Owned Automated DB Data Ingestion using Apache Camel & Memcache [saved $10,000/month]
  • Migrated Data Centre applications to AWS
  • Automated report download process using Selenium Web Drivers [saved 40 hours/month]
  • Integrated client API’s with parent application
  • Experienced in Jenkins Build configuration & Deployment, Automation Job scheduling
Unmetric Technologies

Software Developer

2013-2015

  • Designed and developed Instagram Analytics Data using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) & AWS
  • Developed Social Media Analytics Report comprising 128 analytics data across 6 social networks
  • Implemented feature enhancements & Customer alert generation Modules
  • Created prototypes for emerging features and new Social Network Additions
  • Worked with product and engineering teams to prototype emerging concepts and new Social Network additions
  • Added Multilingual UI support to the application
Cognizant Technology Solutions

ASSOCIATE - PROJECTS

2010-2013

  • Subject Matter Expert for entire Data Collection applications in D & B
  • Responsible for providing Estimates and WAG reports for new project proposals
  • Worked on SOA API changes using ServiceMix 3.1
  • Implemented automated log cleanup across 16 servers
  • Reduced DB Backup process from 24 days to 24 hours using automation
  • Automated Mailbox monitoring for batch job failures
Technical Skills
Backend Technologies
  • Java
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS
Frontend Technologies
  • Javascript
  • Html
  • CSS
  • Google Web Toolkit
Frameworks
  • JPA/ORM
  • J2EE
  • Spring Boot
Webservices Tools
  • REST
  • WebSocket
  • SOAP
  • WSDL
  • Swagger
Database
  • MySQL
  • ElasticSearch
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
Devops
  • SVN
  • Jenkins
  • AWS DevOps
  • BitBucket
  • Maven
  • Splunk
Technical Domains
  • Cloud Technologies
  • MVC
  • AWS