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Sriram Sudharshan

UK

Summary

Accomplished IT professional with extensive expertise in Java/JEE, Node.js, and microservices architecture. Demonstrates proficiency in agile and waterfall methodologies, with a strong focus on stakeholder management and client engagement. Skilled in cloud computing, DevOps concepts, and enterprise application integration, driving strategic technical vision and cost optimisation. Adept at API design, systems integration, and project management practices to deliver excellence in public sector projects. Committed to leveraging technical architecture knowledge for innovative solution designs and process improvement.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Solutions Architect

Department of Work and Pension - Child Maintenance Group
UK
10.2021 - 05.2025
  • Successfully migrated and digitized over 25 applications and COTS products from on-premises to the AWS Cloud, managing end-to-end architecture design, application impact analysis, authentication, and authorization, resulting in significant OPEX cost savings.
  • Developed comprehensive Application Reference Architectures (ARA), Technology Reference Architectures (TRA), Architectural Roadmaps, and Architecture Patterns to facilitate integration between on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring compliance with the GDPR framework.
  • Migrated a legacy Bank Wizard application to a modern cloud-based API system, achieving over $300K in OPEX savings.
  • Revamped and migrated an outdated legacy platform to a microservice-based architecture, implementing all business capabilities using real-time web services.
  • Containerized multiple business capability microservices into the AWS EKS and ECS platforms from on-premises, enhancing scalability and efficiency.
  • Implemented a product selection matrix for continuous monitoring and alerts, contributing to a 35% reduction in month-on-month AWS Cloud billing compared to on-premises.
  • Managed the end-to-end release engineering for different portfolios' Cloud Architecture using CI/CD practices, ensuring seamless and efficient deployments.
  • Implemented custom API gateways and adapters for seamless payload transformation and service interaction.
  • Collaborate as a Solution Architect on the Enterprise Architecture Board regarding Transformation, Business & Technology Roadmaps, Process, Quality, and Visualization Governance.
  • Drive the Digital Transformation program from Monolith to Microservices using an API-driven NodeJS REST framework.
  • Lead AWS Transformation through Vendor Engagement, Product Evaluation, Capacity Sizing/Costing, Provisioning & Process Governance, TCO – TSO Logic Matrix, CI/CD, Landing Zone, and DB Migration – SCT and DMS, along with Visualization Governance.
  • Manage projects through DevOps & CI/CD practices, overseeing and mentoring across the SDLC in the co-existing ecology of Monolith and Cloud-native systems.
  • Deliver NFR-bound Architecture concerning SLA, Latency, RTO, RPO, HA, DR, Scheduled Backup, and IT Health Check Compliance reporting.
  • Propose solutions for MongoDB to AWS DocumentDB Capacity evaluation and sizing, procurement, schema and data migration, and performance tuning.
  • Provide solutions to Operations for automation, monitoring with Prometheus, and visualization with Grafana.
  • Architect compliant solutions according to UK GDS standards and Data Privacy regulations.
  • Represent Data Privacy and Security Risk assessments and audits for solution design in Business Requirement and Solution Design Workshops as a Solutions Subject Matter Expert.
  • Collaborate with the business for deliverable prioritization on the Book of Work alongside the Tech Roadmap, proposing and piloting projects within the co-existing ecology of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • Develop and implement frameworks and integration design patterns that combine both Monolith and Microservices across Physical and Cloud Architecture.
  • Mentor and collaborate with architects on Business, Application, Data, Technology, Transformation, and Governance.

Solutions/Technical Architect

British Airways
UK
11.2012 - 09.2021
  • Migrated a legacy distribution channel to a new distribution channel on the AWS Cloud for a leading UK airline, enhancing customer experience and boosting B2B business and revenue with real-time observability of business dashboards.
  • Implemented a sandbox environment for travel agents, travel management companies, and aggregators to onboard and integrate with NDC APIs/services.
  • Successfully led and executed the migration program for selling and servicing business capabilities, upgrading from IATA version 16.1 to 17.2.
  • Transformed and migrated an obsolete legacy travel platform to a modern microservice-based architecture, incorporating all business capabilities with real-time web services.
  • Provided expert technical advice and consultancy to clients and management on technical architecture, ensuring the feasibility and maintainability of applications.
  • Managed the Schedule Change Disruption Notification (SCDN) system, efficiently notifying customers of flight disruptions via SMS and email.
  • Led the deployment of SCDN1 on the Service Integrated Platform (SIP), focusing on enhancing Customized Messaging and Operational Cancellation features.
  • Designed and implemented Customized Messaging, enabling operations controllers to deliver personalized notifications through email, SMS, or phone to passengers affected by flight disruptions.

Technical Lead / Estimation Consultant

TCS Estimation Center of Excellence
India
03.2007 - 10.2012
  • TCS realized and embarked the need of standardizing and digitalization of software estimation techniques for different types of projects and developed own in-house estimation tool.
  • This estimation digital tool deals the early-stage estimation and detail stage estimation for various service areas.
  • Different estimation techniques had been digitalized to perform very effective and matured software estimations.
  • In addition, this tool helps to base lining the organization productivity data based on the industry benchmark as ISBSG.
  • Integrated Software Estimation Tool(iESTv3.0) -Development.
  • Requirement gathering, analysis and prototype development.
  • Worked in Front end layer, Middle layer and developed numerous screens using Struts.
  • Customize & integrate other components like report engine, ORM framework, POI and iTEXT APIs.
  • Prepared System Test Cases.
  • Performed Unit testing & System Testing.
  • Devising an input based dynamic reports (Ms-Excel, PDF using POI and iTEXT.
  • User training & facilitation.
  • Implementation.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Anna University
Chennai/India
05.2002 - 05.2006

Skills

    Skills :

  • Java/Web Technologies: Java/JEE, Nodejs, JSP, Java Servlets, EJB, AJAX, SNMP, JXL, Hibernate, Spring Boot, WebLogic Application Server, Apache Tomcat
  • Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Mongo DB, Postgres
  • Project Management: Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, Jira
  • Languages/Tools/IDE : HTML, XML, XSD, XSLT, DTD, DOM parser, SAX parser, XPath, XQuery, Eclipse 3x, VSCode, NetBeans 5x/60
  • Platform Technologies : UNIX, Linux, Windows, Dockers, Containerization, NFS, Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy
  • Business Domain: Travel, Public Sector, Delivery Excellence

    • Digital Transformation:

  • Monolith to Microservice Architecture
  • Physical to Cloud Native Architecture
  • Product Evaluation
  • Capacity Sizing/Costing
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Provisioning & Process Governance
  • CI/CD Viz Governance
  • Product Backlog Refinement and maintenance
  • RFP - Proposals
  • Solution designs
  • API design and implementation
  • DevOps understanding
  • Technical architecture


    • AWS Ecosystem Expertise:

    Public Cloud POC, Landing Zone, VPC, Direct Connect, CDN/Edge Location, ELB, EC2 Auto Scaling, EBS, RDS, Elastic cache, Serverless-Lambda/SQS/SNS, WAF/NACL /SG Routing, Route53, S3 Storage, ECS/EKS, EMR, IAM, SSO, SAML, Cognito, IaC- Cloud Formation/JSON/YAML, CloudWatch, CloudTrail


    Cloud Architecture:

  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS/Private Cloud
  • AWS/Public Cloud
  • On Prem & Hybrid Cloud Architecture


    • Continuous Delivery / Monitoring :

  • GitHub Gitlab, CI/CD-Jenkins, Gitlab Pipelines, Jira, Maven, Nexus
  • Splunk, Elastic Search, Logstash, Fluent-D
  • Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus


    • Architecture/Design Strategy:

  • Cloud/Data Migration Strategy,
  • SOA/Multi-Tier Architecture,
  • Event Driven, Pub/Sub, Stream, Service Mesh,
  • Integration Design Patterns,
  • Technical Document Authoring, Governance,
  • Technical Roadmaps,
  • Scalable-Cost Effective-Resilient-Performant-
  • Secured Architecture,
  • Global Data Compliant Architecture
  • Enterprise Security Risk Assessment
  • Data Protection Assessments

Certification

  • AWS Solution Architect Professional
  • AWS Solution Architect Associate
  • Google Cloud Digital Leader
  • MongoDB SI Associate
  • API Security – API SecUniversity
  • SCWCD
  • SCJP
  • Certified Enterprise Architect (TCS Internal)
  • Certified JAVA Architect (TCS Internal)

Timeline

Solutions Architect

Department of Work and Pension - Child Maintenance Group
10.2021 - 05.2025

Solutions/Technical Architect

British Airways
11.2012 - 09.2021

Technical Lead / Estimation Consultant

TCS Estimation Center of Excellence
03.2007 - 10.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Anna University
05.2002 - 05.2006

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