Balasubramanian Palanisamy

• Efficiently redesigned Elasticsearch/OpenSearch index documents, reducing document count from 2.1 million to 970K and size from 50GB to 2.3GB.
• Eliminated 100% of recurring P1 incidents caused by index failures and missing documents through a container-based solution.
• Improved system efficiency and reduced infrastructure costs through effective proposals and implementations.
• Extensively involved in gathering requirements and designing modules based on functional and system requirements.
• Collaborated with stakeholders, business analysts, product owners, and cross-functional leads throughout all phases of design, development, testing, and release support.
• Created comprehensive high-level architectural and low-level design documents tailored to client needs.
• Assisted the team by preparing high-level estimates and breaking down requirements into manageable work areas.
• Built reusable components using technology best practices and design patterns.
• Supported the development team by suggesting suitable technology options and resolving issues.
• Identified pain points and issues in applications and provided solutions.
• Participated in technical decisions, understanding architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Assisted colleague architects in their projects, fostering a learning environment at work.

• Successfully led software development teams as an onsite representative, ensuring effective communication and collaboration between onsite and offshore teams.
• Acted as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, facilitating discussions and ensuring alignment on project goals and objectives

• Monitored team performance, provided constructive feedback, and implemented strategies to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Created comprehensive low-level design and technical documentation to help break down tasks, helping the team to build the solution and for future reference
• Collaborated with software engineers across teams working on similar business problems, driving solutions end-to-end

• Prepared and presented regular progress reports to senior management, highlighting achievements, challenges, and next steps

• Led software development teams for successful project migration from legacy to the new architecture with agreed time and smooth transition
• Successfully integrated with downstream systems for a new feature that helps in improving the user experience and increasing the product sales/profit
• Created comprehensive low-level design and technical documentation to help break down tasks, helping the team to build the solution and for future reference
• Mentored the team members to achieve their and the team's targets/goals by knowledge sharing and skill development
• Participated actively in brainstorming sessions, three amigos, and sprint planning, resulting in innovative ideas and solutions.
• Helped the team to build clean, error-free code in line with industry standard quality standards

• Developed web applications in the retail domain (B2C, B2B) by understanding client needs and technology constraints.
• Integrated third-party services into software products, expanding functionality scope.
• Conducted rigorous testing, ensuring minimal/no bugs at the test and deployment stage.
• Stayed updated on industry trends through continuous learning – ensured relevant knowledge application.
• Proactively monitored and analysed the production system logs.
• Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate software bugs