Akhil Rajan
Nottingham
Summary
- Senior Lead Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience in Industry
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Predominant experience in the software area for banking and credit rating domains
- Experience in designing and executing multiple cloud transformation journeys
- Experienced team leader managing the goals and aspiration of a cross functional team
- Experienced software engineer with expertise on multiple technologies in the SDLC
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineering Lead II
UST
05.2023 - Current
- Work closely with the consultants and translate the stakeholder requirements
- Break down the requirements into smaller epics and set pragmatic team goals
- Guide and mentor the team to align with the goals and vision of the organization
- Identify areas of improvement for the client and work on RFP for the same
- Hands on work on the configurations management in Kubernetes clusters
- Work in synergy with SRE team in issue resolution
- Collaborate with cross functional teams for product delivery
Software Engineering Lead I
UST
04.2021 - 04.2023
- Create multiple jenkins pipelines to improve the pace of product lifecycle
- Create new java functionalities on existing code with better compliance and performance
- Openshift to EKS migration of platform
- Terraform to ensure AWS infrastructure availability
- Python and shell scripting as part of the daily tasks
- Work with jfrog artifactory, postman, RDS, multiple AWS services
- Configuration management of EKS clusters using YAML files
- Setting up of secrets and credentials in vault
- Manage certificates and connectivity to external data bureaus
Technology Analyst
Infosys
11.2015 - 04.2021
- Started career after university as a Systems Engineer
- Was promoted to Senior Systems Engineer and later as Technology Analyst
- Entailed multiple responsibilities as Java developer, CICD expert, Azure DevOps engineer, Business Analyst, Release Engineer, Service Now expert and that of an Onshore Lead
- Worked in both offshore and onshore locations in the tenure
- Team lead from offshore location for nearly 2 years at Netherlands
- Expertise into the banking domain with migration to Azure cloud
Educator- Part time
IMS India
05.2015 - 11.2015
- Verbal ability trainer at IMS
- Trained graduates and professionals with aspirations for higher studies
- Placement training sessions at engineering colleges
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Cochin University of Science And Technology
Kochi01.2015
Skills
- Servant Leadership
- DevOps
- Product Management
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Linux
- OpenShift
- Java
- Python (Programming Language)
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Certification
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified, SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile, 617104
- Splunk Fundamentals, Splunk, cert-229911
- Splunk Power User, Splunk, Cert-237050
- Hadoop 101, Big Data University
- Infosys Global Agile Certification
- Big Data 101, Big Data University
- IBM Cloud Essentials, IBMDeveloperSkillsNetwork
- Introduction to Data Science, Cognitive Class
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Python for Data Science, Cognitive Class
- SQL and Relational Databases, Big Data University
- Blockchain Essentials, Cognitive Class
- Docker Essentials, Cognitive Class
- Container and Kubernetes Essentials with IBM Cloud, Cognitive Class
- AZ-900, Microsoft, 989301935
- Creating Change: Diversity and Inclusion in the Tech Industry, LinkedIn
- Kubernetes: Cloud Native Ecosystem, LinkedIn
- Supporting Workers with Disabilities, LinkedIn
- Future Leaders Program (FLP) - a Servant Leadership program, enParadigm, ENP-12-68727
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance, 001583415
Awards
- Rewards and Recognition, Infosys Ltd, 10/2016, I have been award RnR for the excellence in project delivery
- Superstar Performer Award, UST, 09/2021, Superstar Award in recognition of excellence at work
- UST Value Champion First Runner-up, UST, 07/2022, an event conducted annually to identify and felicitate employees who uphold the core values of UST.
- Superstar Performer Award, UST, 08/2022, Excellence Award in recognition of cross functional efforts in improving the landscape for clients and also for leading the team in EKS Migration
- Trailblazer 2023 Finalist, UST, 10/2023, The most coveted Leadership discovery program conducted by UST.
Timeline
Software Engineering Lead II
UST
05.2023 - Current
Software Engineering Lead I
UST
04.2021 - 04.2023
Technology Analyst
Infosys
11.2015 - 04.2021
Educator- Part time
IMS India
05.2015 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Cochin University of Science And Technology
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