Goutham Lakinapally

Key Contributions:

I am enabling the Integration Strategy for an Legal and general Retail division, focusing on Data Mesh to standardize integration and data layers. This enables real-time decision-making and next-best actions by leveraging event-driven architectures, API ecosystems, and streaming platforms.

✅ Integration & API Strategy:

• Defined standards, patterns, and reference architectures, including event-driven data models.
• Architected multi-cloud and hybrid solutions using Compute, Containers, Database, Storage, Network, and Identity resources.
• Designed integration patterns for Data Science workflows, enabling seamless AI/ML model integration with streaming platforms.
• Led the Platform Architecture for Confluent Cloud, supporting strategic messaging, real-time streaming, persistent storage, and change data capture (CDC).

✅ Platform Engineering & Operating Model:

• Developed platform roadmaps, ensuring smooth evolution of applications and infrastructure.
• Contributed to the Platform Operating Model, designing self-service capabilities to accelerate adoption across teams.
• Led business case approvals for streaming & graph database technologies, validating feasibility through pilot implementations.

✅ Stakeholder Collaboration & Governance:

• Provided technical review and governance for application, storage, compute, network, and data architectures.
• Collaborated with Enterprise Solution Design, Service Design, Security/Infosec, and Application Architecture teams to align solutions with business goals.

✅ Innovation:

• Explored innovations with Confluent, FlowX, Cinchy, and Neo4j, proving the art of the possible for event-driven architectures.
• Translated business needs into technical specifications accurately and efficiently.

Senior Solutions Architect

✅ Microservices & API Management:

• Architected Developer Velocity Platforms: Leveraged Azure-native services to create reusable building blocks, enhancing developer productivity.
• Service Mesh Strategy with DAPR: Introduced a Service Mesh strategy using DAPR, standardizing microservices communication and acting as a common service registry.
• API Portals for Reusable Service Visibility: Enabled API portals to improve discoverability and visibility of reusable services across the organization.

✅ Enterprise & Solution Architecture:

• Support for Enterprise Architecture (EA): Defined L1, L2, and L3 capabilities for integration, data, and infrastructure, ensuring continuity and informed decision-making.
• Work Management Digitalization: Led the digitalization of work management by integrating Salesforce, MuleSoft APIs, and legacy products.
• Cross-Region Architectures with CDN Protection: Designed architectures that spanned multiple regions, incorporating CDN protection to enhance performance and security.

✅ Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering:

• IPSec VPNs for Secure Connectivity: Designed IPSec VPNs between VDI networks, ensuring secure and reliable connectivity.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implemented IaC for provisioning Azure platforms, automating infrastructure deployment and management.
• SSO & Azure AD Authentication: Enabled Single Sign-On (SSO) and Azure Active Directory (AD) authentication across resources, enhancing security and access control.

✅ Technical Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Demos to Senior Leadership: Presented technical demos to Directors and VPs in engineering and architectural forums, showcasing solutions and gaining buy-in.
• Product Roadmaps: Defined product roadmaps in collaboration with product owners, aligning business needs with technology strategy.
• Technical Roadmaps and Infrastructure Strategy: Provided customers with technical roadmaps and infrastructure strategies, demonstrating expertise in APIs, security, and integration capabilities.

✅ Agile & Team Leadership:

• SAFe Program Increment (PI) Planning: Led PI planning sessions, making strategic trade-offs to benefit the business as a whole.
• Jira Scrum & Kanban Boards: Managed Jira Scrum and Kanban boards, tracking team velocity and optimizing delivery processes.
• Recruitment of Solution Engineers: Interviewed and recruited Solution Engineers, ensuring the right talent fit for the Engineering team.

✅ Innovation & Research:

• R&D on Digital Twins: Led research and development efforts on Digital Twins using IoT and Azure technologies, exploring innovative solutions.
• Reusable Microservices Templates: Implemented cost-effective reusable microservices templates, improving efficiency and return on investment (ROI).

Integration Architect

As an Integration Architect for an IT Transformation migration program in various lines of business within National Grid, I played a pivotal role in driving the end-to-end integration strategy, focusing on disaster recovery, system migration, and optimizing business processes. Key contributions included designing and implementing solutions for cyber asset management, electricity network/generator access management, and data integration across multiple platforms.

Key Contributions:

✅ System Integration & Architecture

• Led end-to-end file transfer integrations, ensuring seamless communication between systems of record, master data, and analytics platforms.
• Designed queueing solutions using IBM MQ and Azure Service Bus, improving system reliability.
• Architected and implemented Redis caching to optimize performance and reduce system load for the asset management system.
• Designed and deployed network and application load balancers, ensuring high availability and performance across the network.

✅ Cloud & Integration Platform Design

• Defined conceptual and logical topology for MuleSoft, enabling a flexible integration platform that aligns with enterprise architecture.
• Collaborated with Enterprise Architects to establish best practices for reusability, fault tolerance, and sustainability in integration design.
• Applied expertise in Oracle SOA Suite, MuleSoft RTF, and CloudHub to lead scoping exercises and solution implementation phases.

✅ Distributed Systems & Integration Patterns

• Designed a large-scale distributed system for outage management, ensuring seamless communication and system recovery.
• Created integration patterns for Oracle, MuleSoft, and hybrid environments, ensuring consistent performance and reusability.

✅ DevOps & CI/CD Implementation

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket and Jenkins, enabling faster deployment and streamlining development cycles.
• Led DevOps strategies for source code management, release management, and traceability mapping of reusable MuleSoft APIs.

✅ Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentored development teams, providing guidance on best practices and integration techniques.
• Produced coherent technical proposals, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and business objectives.

✅ Certifications & Recognition

• Achieved MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect certification, demonstrating deep expertise in integration technologies.
• Promoted to Lead Integration Architect role.

Key Projects:

🔌 Electricity Network Access Management

• Designed and implemented solutions for managing network access, ensuring secure and efficient operations.

🛠️ Asset & Work Order Management

• Developed integration solutions for asset and work order management systems, enhancing operational efficiency and data accuracy.

📄 Document Redaction

• Implemented document redaction solutions to ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and secure handling of sensitive information.

🌍 Geo-Spatial Services

• Integrated geo-spatial services to enhance location-based data processing and decision-making capabilities.

🔒 Cyber Asset Management System

• Designed and implemented a comprehensive cyber asset management system, ensuring robust security and efficient management of digital assets.

📚 Learning Operating Model

• Gained in-depth understanding of the operating model, enabling effective integration strategies and alignment with business objectives.

📘 Introducing API Catalogue

• Introduced an automated API catalogue which helped in discovery of APIs, facilitating efficient API management and promoting reusability across the organization.

Key Terminologies:

• API-led Design: Applied API-led design principles to create modular and reusable APIs, facilitating seamless integration and scalability.
• Experience APIs: Developed Experience APIs to provide tailored data access and improve user interactions with the system.

As a Technical Lead for an Energy & Utility client, I played a pivotal role in the migration of infrastructure and applications from on-premises to Oracle Cloud, managing the transition of workloads, API integration, and security protocols. I led the design and implementation of high-performance, scalable systems while ensuring that security standards, including cryptography, were adhered to throughout the project.

Key Contributions:

✅ Cloud & Infrastructure Migration

• Led the migration of workloads from on-premises to Oracle Cloud, gaining hands-on experience with cloud networking (VPN, BGP) and cloud security protocols.
• Managed the migration of hundreds of legacy services to Oracle Cloud, ensuring minimal disruption and seamless transition.
• Implemented high-availability systems and integrated cloud-native tools to improve system resilience and scalability.

✅ Security & Cryptography

• Applied cryptography principles in the design and implementation of secure APIs, ensuring data confidentiality and integrity during transit.
• Designed and implemented SSL/TLS encryption for secure data communication and key management practices to meet enterprise security standards.
• Worked with digital security teams to ensure vulnerabilities were mitigated by following cryptographic security guidelines and performing appropriate security checks during penetration testing.

✅ API & Service Management

• Designed and implemented various API policies such as rate-limiting, caching, and routing, enhancing API performance and security.
• Led the implementation of public-facing SFTP and HTTPS gateways in the DMZ, ensuring secure data exchange with external systems.
• Managed API lifecycle and established security best practices for public and private APIs, including the use of OAuth and JWT for secure authentication.

✅ Integration Styles & ServiceNow Integration

• Implemented various integration styles, including synchronous and asynchronous integrations, to enhance system interoperability.
• Integrated with ServiceNow to streamline IT service management and automate workflows, improving operational efficiency.

✅ ETL & Batch-Driven Processes

• Implemented ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to facilitate efficient data migration and transformation.
• Developed batch-driven integrations to handle large volumes of data, ensuring timely and accurate processing.

✅ Managed File Transfers at Scale

• Managed large-scale file transfers using Oracle Managed File Transfer, ensuring secure and efficient handling of data across multiple systems.

✅ Email Validation & Processing Patterns

• Designed and implemented email validation and processing patterns to ensure accurate and efficient handling of email data.

✅ Data Fetch & Process Using UDP

• Implemented data fetching and processing using UDP to enable real-time demand and supply updates on the Extranet website.

✅ Oracle Traffic Director & API Gateway

• Utilized Oracle Traffic Director and Oracle API Gateway to manage traffic and secure API integrations within DMZ and Intranet environments.

✅ Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Led a team of engineers through the full development lifecycle, from design to deployment, ensuring adherence to best practices in security and scalability.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solutions, promoting clear communication and effective risk management.

✅ DevOps & Automation

• Implemented DevOps pipelines using Maven and Jenkins, automating deployment processes and integrating cryptographic security checks into CI/CD workflows.
• Designed and implemented logging solutions (using Splunk, Azure Log Analytics) for better traceability and incident management.

Oracle Integration Developer

As an Oracle Integration Developer, I specialized in designing and developing complex integrations and applications using the Oracle Suite (SOA, OSB, BPM). I worked across multiple environments, including on-premises and DMZ, managing network topologies, JVM tuning, and scaling infrastructure for optimal performance. My focus was on creating reusable, scalable solutions, implementing enterprise-grade integrations, and enhancing system reliability.

Key Contributions:

✅ Application & Integration Development

• Designed and developed applications on the Oracle Suite (SOA, OSB, BPM), utilizing industry best practices for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Created complex data transformations using XQuery, XSLT, Java, and Spring Boot, optimizing integration workflows and data handling.
• Developed ETL batching integrations with ServiceNow, enabling seamless data exchange and automation.
• Implemented UDP streaming integration with REST APIs, ensuring real-time data transfer and service performance.

✅ Infrastructure & Network Management

• Worked extensively on WebLogic Administration, managing JVM parameterization and garbage collection, optimizing memory and resource utilization.
• Automated WebLogic scaling through scripting tools, increasing JVM capacity and system resilience.
• Gained expertise in network topologies (on-prem and DMZ), configuring LBRs, network access control, and securing public/private IPs for APIs.

✅ Security & File Management

• Implemented managed file transfers using SSH key-based access, encryption, decryption, and compression, ensuring secure and efficient file handling.
• Developed common error handling and logging services in SOA and OSB, improving traceability and system reliability.

✅ API Management & Best Practices

• Led API management efforts using Oracle API Gateway, ensuring seamless API exposure and secure access controls.
• Enhanced code quality and integration performance through consistent troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Maximized reusability by thoroughly analyzing design phases, resulting in significant cost savings and effort reduction in future projects.

✅ Collaboration & Methodologies

• Collaborated effectively with business analysts, quality analysts, and development teams to improve requirements analysis, testing standards, and project delivery timelines.
• Worked across both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, ensuring adaptable and efficient project execution.

Key Skills & Technologies: Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus (OSB), BPM, WebLogic Administration, JVM Optimization, MQ, JMS, REST APIs, SOAP, FTP/FTPS, SSH, Encryption/Decryption, Spring Boot, ETL, ServiceNow, Agile/Scrum, DevOps

As a Software Associate, I played a pivotal role in delivering robust application support for mission-critical, legacy Java services hosted on-premises. My responsibilities included ensuring system stability, participating in on-call (ROTA) rotations, and proactively resolving high-priority incidents in a 24x7 environment.

Key Achievements & Responsibilities:

🔧 Application & Infrastructure Support

• Maintained and monitored Java-based legacy applications in IBM AIX and Windows environments.
• Oversaw NAS storage management, optimizing data retrieval and space utilization.

🚨 Incident & Problem Management

• Actively led Major Incident Management (MIM) calls, ensuring rapid response and minimal business disruption.
• Conducted detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implemented permanent resolutions, including Java memory leak fixes.

⚙️ Scripting & Automation

• Developed Unix shell scripts to streamline operational workflows and enhance monitoring capabilities.
• Contributed to custom Java-based data mover services, enabling efficient inter-system data flows.

🧠 Communication & Documentation

• Acted as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders, providing timely updates and technical insights.
• Maintained detailed logs, incident documentation, and change records to support governance and compliance.