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Deepak Reddy Mekala

Deepak Reddy Mekala

Basingstoke

Summary

A proficient and highly motivated AWS Data Engineer and Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect with Office 365 applications including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, AI Builder, Power BI and SharePoint Online.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Consultant

Talan Consulting UK Limited
London, United Kingdom
06.2021 - Current


Santander Corporate & Investment Banking

AWS Data Engineer:

  • Designed, developed, and managed end-to-end data pipelines, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) solutions using AWS cloud services.
  • Performed end- to-end Architecture & implementation assessment of various AWS services like Amazon EMR, EC2, S3
  • Used AWS EMR to transform and move large amounts of data into and out of other AWS data stores and databases, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Developed reusable framework to be leveraged for future migrations that automates ETL from RDBMS
  • Created various pipelines to load the data from on prem S3 storage system into Staging DB and followed by on prem S3
  • Used Apache Spark, PySpark and Python programming language
  • Skilled in leveraging EC2 and S3 for efficient scaling and cost reduction
  • Imported the data from different sources like on prem S3, SharePoint online into Spark dataframe and performed computations using PySpark to generate the output response
  • Used Jenkins to setup CI/CD piplelines
  • Developed dashboards and visualizations to help business users analyse data as well as providing data insight to upper management using Power BI
  • Created graphs and charts detailing data analysis results. Recommended data analysis tools to address business issues.


Power Platform Architect:

  • Designed and implemented various business requirements using Power Platform across SCIB.
  • Implemented Azure Devops integration to address ALM challenges using solutions
  • Implemented IT request chatbot using PVA and integration with ServiceNow
  • Implemented custom connectors to integrate various data sources with Power Platform
  • Integrated Power Apps and Power BI with various data sources, such as Microsoft Dataverse, SQL Server, SharePoint, etc.
  • Applied UI/UX design principles and best practices to ensure a consistent and user-friendly experience across the Power Platform solutions
  • Troubleshooting and resolving any issues or errors related to the Power Platform solutions
  • Followed best practices to standardize power platform solutions
  • Conducted end user trainings on Power Platform
  • Developed complex power BI reports

Technical Lead

Wipro Technologies
London, United Kingdom
06.2014 - 06.2021


BP, Sunbury, UK

Power Platform Architect:

Responsible for the delivery of the Power Platform solutions for the BP Shipping team. Worked closely with and led the project team through each phase of the implementation. Designed and led the technical implementation of a number of PowerApps in conjunction with knowledge transfer to extend dev team capability.

  • Lead the Power Platform COE at BP Shipping.
  • Designed and implemented number of Apps with offline working capability for Ship based staff using Power Apps. These apps are very useful for Audit and Inspection teams.
  • Defined governance and best practices across the Power Platform.
  • Deployed Power Platform COE kit across the BP Shipping tenant.
  • Designed and implemented custom components using Power Apps component framework.
  • Conducted end user trainings on Power Apps and Power Automate.
  • Supported skill set augmentation of Castrol Brazil team to digitise their workflows from Lotus Notes to Power Automate.
  • Designed and implemented UI flows to bring robotic process automation (RPA) to automate repetitive tasks with legacy applications instead of using APIs.
  • Integrated Power Virtual Agents with the products and services enterprise use every day using hundreds of prebuilt connectors, by building custom workflows using Power Automate, or creating complex scenarios with Microsoft Bot Framework.
  • Bring AI to apps with AI Builder. Enhance apps and business processes with AI that’s easy to build and configure within Power Apps.
  • Implemented Translator App for Shipping team to OCR text and translate it into different languages using Text Recognizer and MS Azure Translator Service


Novartis, Basel Switzerland

SharePoint Technical Lead:

Worked as Onsite SharePoint Technical Lead role for Novartis Pharma services. Designed and implemented various SharePoint based applications for Finance Team.

SharePoint Finance site containing 9 sub applications. Applications involve Master Data, Legal case report, Balance sheet, Fund Replenishment, SOX 302, Self-Invoice, Sales Reduction and Sales Deferral processes.

Credit Note and Debit Note tool application involves creation of Credit Notes debit notes and approval process and integration with SAP

  • Requirement gathering and analysis for the projects and impact analysis.
  • Effort estimation and System design
  • Implemented customer requirements using various SharePoint 2010, 2013 artefacts (OOTB and Custom)
  • Implement customer requirements using .Net and SharePoint
  • Planned and tracked Team’s Development and Support activities
  • Onsite Lead consultant in Basel Switzerland
  • Driven Weekly Status meetings to Business and IT stakeholders
  • Make Go-No Go decisions before opening the sites up for UAT/ Go-Live
  • Conducted UAT with business stakeholders
  • Ensured all IT documentations are in place, reviewed and validated
  • Planned and imparted end user trainings

Senior Consultant

Infosys
Hyderabad, India
04.2013 - 06.2014


Adidas, Germany

SharePoint Consultant:

Responsible for the delivery of SharePoint 2010 portal to maintain all the information related to the Adidas stores across the globe. This application integrates with Bizagi BPM Suite. Bizagi BPM Suite is a Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow solution that enables organizations to automate processes/workflows.

  • Developed custom webparts for raising and approving BPM.
  • Created event handlers.
  • Creating and deploying the application pages
  • Created custom themes and CSS for corporate branding using SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Created and customised the Master Pages using the SharePoint Designer.
  • Involved in internal audits.
  • Involved in code reviews
  • Prepared and executed unit test plans for every module

Senior Engineer

Honeywell Technology Solutions
Hyderabad, India
12.2010 - 03.2013


Schedule-A SharePoint Portal

Senior SharePoint Developer:

The project is designed as a broad central dashboard for UOP Schedule-A Engineering Design Process control. The site at any given point will reflect all UOP design projects work in progress status for everyone who is associated with the UOP engineering business. Vice president, directors, senior managers, project managers, design specialists and staff engineers all will have their own views into control and contribution of the process. SharePoint's multi-purpose design allows for managing and provisioning of project progress status, extranets, websites, document & file management, collaboration spaces, communications tools, enterprise search, business intelligence, system integration, workflow automation, and core infrastructure for third-party solutions.

  • Involved in High-level Design in development of Sequence Diagrams and Use Case Diagrams using Rational Rose.
  • Developed custom webpart for Dashboard using Visual Studio 2010.
  • Developed Silverlight webpart to automate the engineering and design process steps
  • Configured the SharePoint security using SharePoint security programming
  • Configured the Nintex workflows
  • Created event handlers.
  • Created windows services to automate copying files from Shared drive to SharePoint using client object model
  • Creation of site template to reuse for multiple projects
  • Involved in writing CAML queries
  • Created custom themes and CSS for corporate branding using SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Created and customised the Master Pages using the SharePoint Designer.

Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad, India
01.2010 - 12.2010


UBS

Analyst:

The project requirements are to develop portal in MOSS 2007 for document management, collaboration and automation of business processes using workflow. Application was developed using MOSS 2007 in a medium server farm configuration. Extensive use of personalization, branding, custom web parts, content types, InfoPath forms, and custom workflows using Windows Workflow Foundation. It consolidates the management reports for data analytics and product management.

  • Involved in High-level Design in development of Sequence Diagrams and Use Case Diagrams using Rational Rose.
  • Developed custom webparts using Visual Studio 2005.
  • Developed connectable and interacting webparts.
  • Configured the SharePoint security using SharePoint security programming
  • Developed the SharePoint workflows using Visual Studio 2005
  • Created Features and event handlers.
  • Created custom themes and CSS for corporate branding using SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Created and customised the Master Pages using the SharePoint Designer.

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra
Hyderabad, India
08.2007 - 01.2010


Pfizer

SharePoint Developer:

The Project is for migrating The Digital Library from Plum Tree Portal to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.The TDL Portal sites provide an efficient interface between users and experts. User must be able to freely navigate content in this site similar to plumtree portal and utilize a personal page that is specific to them. The user shall be able to configure this page to his/her needs. User must be able to search TDL crawled content and retrieve a result set based on the TDL indexed content. This migration includes a user interface migration and functional Portlet migration. The Port let functionality will be migrated to ASP.NET 2.0 web parts. The Digital Library enables users to quickly navigate and review crawled content aggregated in the portal. Content is displayed using Web Parts that support personalization. Personalized data will be stored in personal properties of the Web Part.

  • Knowing the requirements of business.
  • Produced detailed level design document for the portal.
  • Developed custom webparts using Visual Studio 2005.
  • Developed connectable and interacting webparts.
  • Created Features and event handlers.
  • Developed the SharePoint workflows using Visual Studio 2005
  • Created custom themes and CSS for corporate branding using SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Created and customised the Master Pages using the SharePoint Designer.
  • Tested, fixed, and modified application according to changes in user requirements.

Education

Certified on Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-532) -

Certified –PL-900(Power Platform) - undefined

Nintex Workflow Cloud Expert - undefined

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in .Net Framework 2.0 Web Applications - undefined

B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India – 2007 - undefined

Skills

  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Power BI
  • Power Virtual Agents
  • AI Builder
  • AWS EMR
  • EC2
  • S3
  • Python
  • Pyspark
  • Spark
  • SQL
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Data Lake
  • Azure Storage containers( ADLS Gen2)
  • Azure Key Vault
  • Azure Databricks
  • Azure Synapse
  • MS Graph
  • SharePoint On premises / online [2007/10/13/16]
  • SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
  • PowerShell
  • Azure DevOps
  • Net 45/40/35/30/20/11 Framework; C#, ASPNET, MVC4, VBNET, WCF, Web Services; Web API, ADONet, SSRS
  • SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2/2012; IIS 50/60/70
  • Java Script
  • React JS
  • Nintex

Timeline

Senior Consultant

Talan Consulting UK Limited
06.2021 - Current

Technical Lead

Wipro Technologies
06.2014 - 06.2021

Senior Consultant

Infosys
04.2013 - 06.2014

Senior Engineer

Honeywell Technology Solutions
12.2010 - 03.2013

Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2010 - 12.2010

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra
08.2007 - 01.2010

Certified on Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-532) -

Certified –PL-900(Power Platform) - undefined

Nintex Workflow Cloud Expert - undefined

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in .Net Framework 2.0 Web Applications - undefined

B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India – 2007 - undefined

Deepak Reddy Mekala