UPENDER REDDY KAKUMANU
Summary
Highly accomplished and strategic leader with 23+ years of experience in leading architecture teams and driving successful project delivery. Seeking a challenging position to leverage expertise in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, delivery management, and organisational leadership to optimize technology landscapes and deliver exceptional value to clients and organisations. Proven experience and expertise in delivering cost effective enterprise wide strategic solutions, digital solutions, digital transformations, platform migrations, open banking, open APIs, internet and mobile applications on micro-services based platforms in Banking and Financial domain. Proven experience in managing of large teams of 50+ members and managing medium to large scale projects / programs.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Delivery Manager /Solution Manager
Standard Chartered Bank
03.2017 - Current
- Played variety of roles such as Delivery Lead, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect during tenure with Standard Chartered, Singapore.
- Played key role in creating enterprise wide architecture practices and engaged in evaluating and building strategic portfolio and project level architectures.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders at country and global level, product owners, business analysts, customer service groups to understand business requirements, business scenarios, and constraints and client feedback. Expertise in translating business vision into technical solutions and architectures.
- Collaborated with customer service groups, client admin groups, sales teams to illustrate product solution, product specifications, working model, and provided inputs which helped in commercialising products.
- Led multiple scrum teams with motive of bank’s strategy New Ways Of Working (design, build and maintain).
- Led solution design/architecture and end-end delivery for various initiatives in retail banking such as digital transformation (web and mobile banking), enhanced security controls, micro services based omni platform for retail channels, cloud transformation, visa/master card integration, and regulatory initiatives.
- Led solution design/architecture and end-end delivery for various initiatives in corporate banking such as open APIs, partner API integrations, open banking, API mashup journeys, API marketplace integrations with clients and third party vendors, regulatory initiatives such as PSD2, HKMA, INDIA localization, and CHINA localization.
- Involved in the solution workshop with internal and third party vendor teams for API mash up journeys, API sand box, swagger set up and token based access to API clients.
- Migrated block chain based projects to new micro services platform for clients named ANT financial and apollo. This initiative has removed obsolete technology dependencies, migrated from manual to automated processing, and onboarded to more reliable and fault-tolerant platform and has significantly reduced maintenance cost.
- Specialised expertise and experience in delivering global digital payment solutions in retail and corporate sectors.
- Technical stack is based on micro services based platform which includes REST APIs, spring boot, spring, Kafka, Kong API GW, OAuth 2.0, OCP cloud, AWS, Solace, ELK, ADO (Azure devops), Jenkins, JIRA, bitbucket, cucumber, BDD, TDD, and blue green.
- Handled various risks during project execution and implemented mitigation actions to tackle risk and provided plan to tackle residual risk.
- Provided feedback for application performance reviews, architecture reviews, and design reviews
- Proven experience and expertise in solutions trade-off, creating estimates, project plan, project schedule, resource allocation and cost to ensure that solution remains within budget and meeting expected timelines.
- Involved in data, platform and cloud migration projects and led application migration projects that helped to remove technology and infrastructure obsolesce, redundancy applications, and reduces maintenance costs significantly.
- Involved in designing and leading omni channel reporting, bulk payments, FX and scheduled payments.
- Established effective and positive working relationship with business and technology stakeholders
- Led multiple scrum teams as people leader with positive attitude, motivational leadership #bettertogther, and strategic vision and mentored teams technically and functionally.
- Conducted team performance reviews, found gaps, implemented action plan to resolve gaps. Led technical evaluation of resources for new scrum teams.
- Supervised and administered day-to-day activities in scrum-of-scrum calls with leads and scrum masters and provided guidance to resolve day-to-day obstacles and challenges.
Delivery Lead
Cap Gemini
02.2016 - 03.2017
- Played Solution and Delivery lead role for various initiates across retail banking portfolio.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders and country business to understand business strategy, constraints and requirements and driven solution delivery.
- Collaborated with ops groups, country business, and sales teams to illustrate product solution, product specifications, working model, and provided inputs which helped in commercialising products.
- Led solution architecture and design for retail payments engine (RPE) which was built based on micro services platform and serves as omni backend for retail channels to handle retail payments processing consistently.
- Played key role in defining guidance for adaptation of micro services platform and key principles to be followed and adhered to.
- Led migration of online and mobile banking monolithic backend to micro services platform as omni backend to centralized single integration touch point integrating with internal interfaces / partner interfaces / regulatory services / external APIs.
- Delivered responsive user journeys for web and mobile channels and omni channel service APIs for initiatives such as pay now, bill payments, bill presentment, GPay, visa/master card payments, merchant payments, cross border payments, p2p payments, automation of customer onboarding and online account opening, wealth profile management and FX engine.
- Delivered cost effective batch solutions for retrieving and storing reference data such as bank master data, merchant data, accounts data, scheduled and recurring payments.
- Technical stack is based on micro services based platform which includes REST APIs, spring boot, spring, Kafka, Kong API GW, OAuth 2.0, OCP cloud, ELK, Jenkins, JIRA, bitbucket, cucumber, BDD, TDD.
- Led multiple scrum teams and delivered projects using Agile scrum as methodology.
- Supervised and administered day-to-day activities in scrum-of-scrum calls with leads and scrum masters and provided guidance to resolve day-to-day obstacles and challenges.
- Demonstrated motivational leadership and shown positive attitude in building working relationship with team members, technical and business stakeholders.
- Involved in assessment of resources and built highly skilled scrum teams across various locations such as Singapore, Malaysia and India.
Technical Lead
Cap Gemini
04.2013 - 02.2016
- Played Technical Lead role for various initiates across retail banking portfolio.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders and country business to understand business strategy, constraints and requirements and driven solution delivery.
- Delivered online and mobile user journeys for payment, beneficiary and global accounts functionalities for various markets HK, SG, IN and MY.
- Delivered back office user journey for modules such as maker/checker, beneficiary & merchant maintenance.
- Involved in solution for creating foundation framework to support micro services based platform for build and deployment.
- Technical stack is based on micro services based platform which includes REST APIs, spring boot, spring, camel, Axway API GW, OCP cloud, ELK, Jenkins, JIRA, GIT hub, cucumber, BDD, TDD.
- Led multiple scrum teams and delivered projects using Agile scrum as methodology.
- Supervised and administered day-to-day activities in scrum-of-scrum calls with leads and scrum masters and provided guidance to resolve day-to-day obstacles and challenges.
- Demonstrated motivational leadership and shown positive attitude in building working relationship with team members, technical and business stakeholders.
Development Lead
Cap Gemini
08.2010 - 04.2013
- Played Development Lead role for various initiates across retail banking portfolio.
- Collaborated with business and technology stakeholders to understand need for next generation financial (NFS) system and translated vision into technical solution driven by domain centric approach.
- Involved in creation of foundation framework which was based on spring framework and serves as base for online and mobile banking applications.
- Created domain centric configurations to handle variations or deviations in markets for various functional flows such as bill payments, funds transfers, accounts portfolio, and cards management.
- Consolidated and created unified back office portal which is used by Ops users to authorize transactions / beneficiaries / payments as per regulatory mandate.
- Developed and delivered various transaction and authorization reports for various markets.
- Rolled out enhanced and consolidated online banking application for MESA and GCNA region markets.
- Technical stack is based on spring framework, camel, AJAX, Java beans, XSLT, XML, IBM web sphere, mavens, GIT, Intellij and Tomcat.
- Led team of 10+ and delivered projects using iterative and water fall as methodology.
- Shown positive attitude in building of working relationship with team members, technical and business stakeholders.
Technical Lead / Architect
Verizon Data Services
06.2005 - 08.2010
- Played dual role as technical lead and architect. Involved in creating high level solution and developed POC. Involved as individual contributor and led small team to delver projects and provide post production support.
- Collaborated with business and technology stakeholders across various locations to understand proposal for developing of GUI based circuit testing application.
- Developed Proof of Concepts (POC) to assess technical feasibility.
- In Phase 1, Developed and delivered GUI based integrated testing system (ITS) for showing network topology, allow to deep dive across network nodes and to be able to select path for network issue troubleshooting, finding breakage and fixing issue on field, and testing.
- In phase 2, Developed and delivered option for customers to open ticket directly by logging in to portal or call service personnel to raise ticket on behalf of customer and assign ticket to technician to fix issue.
- Technical stack is based on JSP, Servlets, Struts framework, AJAX, Java beans, XML, XSLT, EJBs, Design patterns such as singleton, abstract factory, DAO etc, Eclipse and Web logic server.
- Conducted code reviews and test case reviews with team.
- Conducted performance testing reviews and improved performance with network topology display journey.
Sr. Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
08.2004 - 06.2005
- Played key role in performing requirements analysis, analysing legacy code, and creating high level designs using UML.
- Played key role in creating migration plan and mapping legacy components to new platform.
- Developed code for various modules such as insurance portfolio view, payment initiation journey, payment approvals, and handling payment status.
- Technical stack is based on Struts framework, JSP, Servlets, AJAX, Java beans, XML, XSLT, EJBs, Design patterns such as singleton, abstract factory, DAO etc, Eclipse and Web logic server.
- Created unit test cases and involved in bug fixing.
- Optimised SQL queries for performance improvement.
- Designed and implemented notification system for sending alerts when payment approval status is updated.
Programmer
Kumaran Systems
03.2004 - 08.2004
- As developer, played key role in analysis and development.
- Analysed database stored procedures and created analysis document that summarises high level summary of business logics and diagrams to depict same.
- Created low level design using UML to illustrate components / classes required and sequence flow diagrams to depict flow for various business use cases.
- Developed code for migrating legacy DB platform to middleware based web application.
- Migrated database based reports to web reports using templates and developed backend components to populate data for rendering reports.
- Technical stack is based on Struts framework, JSP, Servlets, AJAX, Java beans, XML, XSLT, EJBs, Design patterns such as singleton, abstract factory, DAO etc, Eclipse and Web sphere server.
- Created unit test cases and involved in bug fixing.
Software Engineer
Balaji Software Solutions
07.2001 - 03.2004
- As developer, played key role in requirements analysis and development.
- Created low level design using UML to illustrate components / classes required and sequence flow diagrams to depict flow for various business use cases.
- Developed code for various modules such as login, users, courses inventory, course content management, training schedule, and mock tests etc
- Technical stack is based on Struts framework, JSP, Servlets, AJAX, Java beans, XML, XSLT, EJBs, Design patterns such as singleton, abstract factory, DAO etc and tomcat server.
Created unit test cases and involved in bug fixing.
Software Engineer
ICom Technologies
02.2000 - 07.2001
- As developer, played key role in requirements analysis and development.
- Created low level design using UML to illustrate components / classes required and sequence flow diagrams to depict flow for various business use cases.
- Developed code for airlines online ticketing portal various modules such as login, user authentication and authorization, search flight, schedules, manage booking, and email alert notifications.
- Technical stack is based on JSP, Servlets, AJAX, Java beans, XML, XSLT, EJBs, Design patterns such as singleton, abstract factory, DAO etc and tomcat server.
Created unit test cases and involved in bug fixing and provided production support.
Education
Bachelor Of Technology (CSSE) -
CRR Engg College, Andhra University
Andhra Pradesh, India08.1999
Skills
- TOGAF 10 architecture practitioner
- Spring Boot Micro services, /Sprint Cloud, REST APIs, SOA, Hibernate, JPA, Camel, MQ, JMS, Kafka
- Docker, Kubernetes, Open-shift Cloud, AWS Cloud, AWS services
- ELK stack, Hadoop, Zoo Keeper, JBOSS Fuse
- Sonar, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket, ADO devops
- AI, Block Chain, Data analytics, Data science
- Ember, React, Angular, JS, HTML 5, Node JS, Graph QL
Certification
- TOGAF 10 Architecture Practitioner certified from Open group
Timeline
Delivery Manager /Solution Manager
Standard Chartered Bank
03.2017 - Current
Delivery Lead
Cap Gemini
02.2016 - 03.2017
Technical Lead
Cap Gemini
04.2013 - 02.2016
Development Lead
Cap Gemini
08.2010 - 04.2013
Technical Lead / Architect
Verizon Data Services
06.2005 - 08.2010
Sr. Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
08.2004 - 06.2005
Programmer
Kumaran Systems
03.2004 - 08.2004
Software Engineer
Balaji Software Solutions
07.2001 - 03.2004
Software Engineer
ICom Technologies
02.2000 - 07.2001
Bachelor Of Technology (CSSE) -
CRR Engg College, Andhra University
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