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Anil Kumar

Reading,United Kingdom

Summary

Seasoned Digital Commerce Professional with over 17 years of experience in designing and developing tailored e-commerce solutions for retail clients. Comprehensive expertise across the entire software development lifecycle, including discovery, design, development, integration, customization, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Specialized in delivering composable commerce solutions leveraging MACH architecture principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless).

Certified Cloud Architect with hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions using core AWS services such as EC2, S3, AWS Fargate, Lambda, and more.

Holds multiple industry-recognized certifications, including Commercetools Certified Associate Functional Architect, Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect and Developer, HCL Commerce (WebSphere Commerce), Akeneo (PIM), and AWS Certified AI Practitioner. Proficient in modern technologies like Microservices and Docker, with a strong focus on innovation and efficiency in digital commerce and cloud solutions.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Solution architect

Capgemini
London
09.2021 - Current
  • Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) - As a technical architect and lead developer Anil worked on migrating the payment service provider to Stripe for a major UK airport. Anil was responsible for defining detailed design documents and leading the development team with hands-on contributions to the project.


  • Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) - As a Solutions Architect, Anil designed and developed Cignpost's e-commerce site, a leading COVID testing provider in the UK. Anil's responsibilities included architecting solutions using Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) to ensure a seamless and user-friendly online experience. Worked on designing and developing various 3rd party integrations like Stripe and order management (SOM).


  • Composable Commerce - As Solutions Architect, Anil played key role in thearchitecture team that designed and developed Clark's composable commerce implementation. This implementation incorporates best-in-breed technologies/tools such as Commercetools, Akeneo, NewStore, Kafka, Amplience, AWS services, and Algolia to create scalable, modular, and future-proof e-commerce ecosystem.
    In this role, Anil contributed to defining overall architecture and took ownership of critical components. This included implementing Commercetools, building integration microservices leveraging AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and AWS Step Functions, and managing Product Information Management (PIM) using Akeneo. Anil's work focused on ensuring seamless integration, high performance, and alignment with MACH principles, enabling flexibility and rapid innovation for business.

Senior Technical consultant

Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology
07.2018 - 09.2021
  • Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) - As certified SFCC architect and developer responsible for developing an SFRA-based salesforce commerce cloud site for theWorks.co.uk. Responsible for developing site functionalities and 3rd party integration and customization of cartridges like Service Cloud Connector, WorldPay cartridge, PayPal cartridge, Apple pay, Google pay, In Store Pickup, Bazaar Voice.

    Worked on building key site functionalities as follows
    • Assisted shopping flow - buy on behalf of customers with phone payment through GCI integration
    • Refund/Return flow - automation of product return from ERP with case creation in service cloud, processing refund in commerce cloud and refunding payment with PSP
    • Basket inventory/price/fulfillment logic - selection of correct product (among dropship vendors), with correct price and fulfilment center.

    Headless/Microservices - As senior technical consultant responsible for developing the production-ready backend for frontend APIs using spring boots which integrate with different 3rd parts services like xChecker, SAP, PIM, Amplience (via URL), and CarWeb.
    • Designed and developed continuous integration (CI) and contentious delivery (CD) pipelines for micros services including head (ReactJs app) and BFF APIs.
    • Responsible for setting up different test and production environments, and installation of docker, docker swarm, and firewall on virtual machines hosted on Azure cloud.
    • Responsible for deploying and maintaining microservices in the docker swarm cluster environment.
    • Build an automation process to download data files from the SFTP server and deploy them to docker containers.

    Headless Architecture (HCL Commerce V9) - As senior techincal consultant responsible for migrating V7 B2B store to V9 including migration of Solr search and other store functionality. Responsible for developing backend for frontend APIs as part of V9 headless architecture.

Senior technical consultant

Horizon Hobby
10.2015 - 06.2018
  • HCL Commerce V7 (earlier IBM Commerce) – As senior consultant responsible for delivering key complex tasks in user registration process, order submit logic, payment plugin development etc. Design and development of payment Plugins with 3rd party payment provider as Affirm, Safer Pay, PayPal, Klarna etc with Horizon Hobby EU extended stores. Implementation of reward program for the customers. Developed custom micro services with Spring boot for special services like rewards, gift cards etc. Worked on different data loads to load the data in custom tables.

Senior Consultant

Avnet
11.2011 - 10.2015
  • HCL Commerce (earlier IBM Commerce) (Mattel Inc - americangirl.com) - As IBM certified websphere commerce senior developer involved in development and development support activities and worked on different WebSphere commerce subsystems including order, catalog, merchandising association, member, data load utility, WebSphere Commerce REST services, payment plugin development, wcs calculation framework

Sr. System Engineer

IBM
09.2009 - 11.2011
  • IBM WebSphere Commerce (Nokia - extended sites) - As senior developer involved in development and development support activity and worked on different WebSphere commerce subsystems including catalog, merchandising association, member, data load utility

Software Engineer

Capgemini
06.2008 - 08.2009
  • Work in Finance domain

Education

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication

Jaypee University of Information Technology
01.2003 - 01.2007

Skills

  • Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC)
  • Salesforce PWA Kit
  • ECommerce Solution Architect
  • AWS Cloud Architect
  • AWS AI Associate
  • Commercetools
  • Akeneo (PIM)
  • Composable Commerce
  • HCL Commerce
  • Micro-services, Docker

Certification

  • Certified Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Architect
  • Certified Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Developer
  • Commercetools Certified Associate Functional Architect, commercetools
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • Headless | API First Accredited Professional, Salesforce Partners

Timeline

Solution architect

Capgemini
09.2021 - Current

Senior Technical consultant

Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology
07.2018 - 09.2021

Senior technical consultant

Horizon Hobby
10.2015 - 06.2018

Senior Consultant

Avnet
11.2011 - 10.2015

Sr. System Engineer

IBM
09.2009 - 11.2011

Software Engineer

Capgemini
06.2008 - 08.2009

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication

Jaypee University of Information Technology
01.2003 - 01.2007

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