Vijay Bhaskar K

Digital Architect with 15+ years of experience leading solution architecture, platform modernization, and enterprise digital transformation initiatives. Proven track record of translating business strategy and customer needs into scalable, resilient, and future-ready technology solutions that drive operational efficiency and business growth.

Extensive experience architecting and modernizing large-scale distributed systems, data and analytics platforms, cloud-native applications, and integration ecosystems. Skilled in defining technology roadmaps, establishing architectural standards, and guiding complex initiatives from strategy and design through implementation and operationalization.

Recognized for bridging business and technology, influencing stakeholders across all levels, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable, high-impact solutions aligned with organizational objectives.

Project#1  : CNG (Cyrus Next Generation) and Trips, UK London.

Client  :TUI UK and TUI Germany

Description : Cyrus Next Generation (CNG) is TUI Group's enterprise-scale cloud-based yield management platform, designed to replace the legacy on-premise Cyrus Classic system. Built on AWS, CNG automates millions of dynamic pricing decisions across multiple source markets (UK, BENE, GAS, Central Europe) by leveraging real-time capacity, demand, and margin data.  The platform comprises several key applications processing packages based business rules— all delivered through an event-driven microservices architecture using AWS Cloud, Snowflake and AI/ML technologies.  The project was driven by four strategic objectives reducing cost through cloud migration, enabling scalability to support business growth across all markets, unlocking superior yield capabilities via machine learning and advanced optimisation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Led solution design and architecture using Micro Services CNG Architecture through Airflow, snowflake and AWS cloud services.

• Developing reusable services and present to the TDA - Technical Design Authority

(Architecture Groups TUI) for approvals.

• Implementation of Orchestration framework and develop custom plugins in Python

• building the airflow jobs/workloads to run snowflake data pipelines

• Involved in Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment of all Microservices through

Jenkins, Terraform and Ansible.

• Collaboration with SRE, Cloud Engineering team devops and Data scientists.

• Involved in operational resilience and Disaster Recovery. Migrate data from the on-premises

instances to AWS cloud through DMS.

Project#2 : Airline Supply Chain Management (SCM) Platform

Client: TUI Group – Aviation Engineering & Maintenance | Location: London, UK 

Technologies: React, TypeScript, Python, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Microservices, CI/CD

Description : The Airline Supply Chain Management (SCM) Platform is a cloud-native enterprise application developed to modernize and consolidate multiple legacy aviation supply chain systems into a unified digital platform. Designed using a microservices-based architecture on AWS, the platform supports critical Engineering & Maintenance operations across consumables, rotables, and tooling processes, improving operational efficiency, inventory optimisation, and decision-making capabilities.

The platform provides end-to-end supply chain capabilities including purchase order management, transfer order processing, consumption analytics, demand forecasting, transfer cycle optimisation, calibration recommendations, parts interchangeability analysis, and advanced visualisation capabilities for maintenance planning.

Responsibilities

• Led solution design and architecture for cloud-native supply chain services, ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
• Defined microservices architecture, integration patterns, and API-driven communication between business domains and enterprise systems.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders, product owners, engineering teams, and aviation domain experts to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Designed reusable platform components and architectural standards to support future business capabilities and system extensibility.
• Contributed to modernization initiatives by consolidating multiple legacy applications into a unified cloud-native platform.
• Supported Kubernetes (EKS) adoption, deployment architecture, CI/CD automation, and operational best practices.
• Worked closely with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to improve platform reliability, observability, and operational resilience.
• Participated in architecture reviews, technical governance, estimation, roadmap planning, and solution delivery activities.

Project#3 : VVD - Scalability (VMware Validated Design for Software Defined Data Center)

Client : VMware, Inc. SDET

Environment Esxi, vCenter Server, NSX, vROPs, vRLI, vRA, vRO, Java, TestNG, Maven.

Description : The VMware Validated Design is validated model of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)

provides a detailed design of each component of the SDDC stack that meets the requirements for

capacity, scalability, backup and restore, and extensibility for disaster recovery support including

Monitoring & Alerting of Data Center. The purpose of the Scale Automation development is to stress

the management stack by scaling the VMs using vRA Automation framework simulating tenant

operations and verify each product integrated together works as expected.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, Configure and Manage SDDC Stack.

• Development of vRA Automation Framework Using Concurrent Executor Service API in java

Executing the developed scale test cases on the environment, debug and troubleshoot for any

issues, identify gaps through negative test cases.

• Continuously improve the QA test coverage by adding more automated for Test Driven

Development with Continuous Integration.

Project#4 Asup.Next

Client NetApp (Network Appliances)

Technologies Java, Hadoop 2.0, Flume, Cloudera 4.5, HBase 0.95, Hive,

Splunk, Web Logic and Apache servers, Windows 2007/NT, Linux & Ubuntu OS

Description : NetApp’s Auto Support service empowers NetApp products to automatically send configuration,

events log and performance data through SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS protocols to NetApp data centers. The

ASUP.NEXT project is designed to scale to the future needs of the ASUP platform providing next

generation data storage and processing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Worked for the implementation of ASUP.Next project migrating legacy code to a scalable

application in Hadoop infrastructure for Auto Support System using different components like

Hive, HBase, Flume and Map reduce programs.

• Implementation of Flume agents for parsing different sections in ASUPs across various domains.

• Involved in design and development of HBase Schema to feed the sectional data in to columnar

Database to support the front-end applications. Performance tuning and enhancements to

achieve performance targets

Project#5 Support.Netapp.com, Remotesupport.netapp.com.

Client NetApp (Network Appliances)

Technologies Java, J2EE, spring 2.5, Struts 2.1, JSP, SOAP XI, Perl, Ajax, JSON, Oracle 11.2

Web Logic and Apache servers, Windows 2007/NT, Linux,

Description : NetApp core business is the range of filers for huge data storage and cloud related products. The

NetApp Support Site (NSS Site), RemoteSupport.netapp.com (RSE) are the portals for all NetApp

customers and partners to obtain technical and non-technical support for NetApp products including

End user registrations Contract and Warranties with SAP ERP backend with inbound and outbound XI

Service calls to SAP/Oracle ERP.

Responsibilities

• Worked for core modules like eService Case Rules, AMT and Remote support enterprise.• Implementation through Struts and springs for Case Creation logic.

• Customization of the AXEDA code base for remotesupport.netapp.com (RSE)

• Performing Unit/Module/functional/Stress Testing.

Project#6 Manage IT (DTEMS -Development and Testing Environment Monitoring services)

Client Amex - American Express

Technologies Java, J2EE, DB2, Power shell, spring 2.5, Struts 2.1, Web services (WAS6),

Description : MANAGE-IT is ITSM Product developed for all application teams to restore services and to

troubleshoot the applications, providing basic monitoring for the applications in Prod, Dev and Test

environments maintaining stability. This self-enabled infrastructure tool has many functionalities to

support both windows and Linux platforms.

Responsibilities

• Implementation through Struts, Springs, Servlet Filter and JSP's and integrate with web services

and execute them.

• Involved in database queries, stored procedures, sanity test and developing build tool.

• Performed Unit/Module/functional/Stress Testing.

Project#7 ECHS Site®, Electronic Correspondence Handling Systems.

Client Aetna and Humana (US Health care), MBF Medical Benefit Fund Australia.

Technologies Java, J2EE, Oracle 9i, Servlets 2.4, JSP 2.0; Struts 1.1, Spring 2.5x, Hibernate.

Description : ECHS is an information system for managed HealthCare obligatory with HIPAA. It’s a product

developed for Insurance organizations for Handling correspondence and Claim management, billing,

capitation and data management and claim Handling Outbound correspondence like Letters are

electronically imaged and creating electronic files routed within ECHS systems to multiple

organizational teams with in Aetna.

Responsibilities

• Implementation through Struts, Servlets, and JSP etc execute them.

• Handling Incident, Problem and Change Management and deployments.

• Identifying the root cause for critical and complex tasks by running profiler scripts and checking

through different Mainframe systems for data consistency.

Project#8 ACAS and HMO

Client Aetna and Humana, US

Technologies AS400 Main frame, Rumba, COBOL, VB script, Windows NT, HTML etc

Description : ACAS is Automatic Claim Adjudication System in mainframe AS400 systems for Aetna health

insurance claims and similarly HMO for Humana. Claims spool in to Aetna Systems on daily basis will

be processed with predefine claim handling instructions and guidelines connecting to various

systems through mainframe interface called RUMBA applications CLI mode.

Responsibilities

• As a claim analyst processing the claims based on Diagnosis, procedure, Claim codes etc.

• Developing Macros for claim adjudication and VB scripts to capture Mainframe Data Spooling etc.

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Thank you Vijay Bhaskar K

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