VIJAY ARCOT PRABHAKAR

Web / Mobile / Cloud Architect

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E­mail: vijaay3d@gmail.com

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Expertise summary:

▪ Principle Consultant, Architect, Technical Project Manager with over 13 years experience in designing

SMAC application, Solution integration through SOA, Cloud Architecture & Cloud Security, with a

unique blend of business and technical skill sets to innovate and pioneer cutting­edge products and

services

▪ Business Domain knowledge in E­commerce, M­commerce B2B/B2C services & CRM for Retail,

CPG, Healthcare and Market Research industries.

▪ Possess strong experience in Architecting, Deploying, Securing and Monitoring Enterprise application

on public and private cloud services AWS, Rackspace & Azure .

▪ Extensive experience architecting end­to­end Commerce solution, Content Management, Catalog

Management, Search, Personalization & Recommendation engine.

▪ Possess strong programming skills in web technologies. PHP, Python, Node JS, HTML5, CSS3 and

Angular JS.

▪ Divers Hands­on experience Architecting products / projects on web & mobile technologies .NET MVC

and WEB API, Native Apps iOS & Android, Hybrid Mobile Apps Phonegap and Xamarin.

▪ Applied experience with the web servers Apache & Nginx and Proxy server Squid3 . Linux server

administrative experience Ubuntu , Amazon Linux and DevOps using chef.

▪ Proficient experience in Agile Scrum and Waterfall project management methodology & SDLC

activities from requirements gathering and analysis, architecture, development, implementation,

deployment, defect tracking, change management, risk management and release management.

▪ Experience in version management tools like Git, SVN, MS­Visual Source Safe.

▪ Extensive experience in Project & Portfolio Management, worked with software like MS Project, Clarity

& Agile Scrum tool AxoSoft.

▪ Understand the scope of the RFPs, prepare Project Roadmap, Technology Strategy and plan effort

estimations.

▪ Proven track record in customer facing role in implementing high­profile projects and collaborating with

multiple cross­functional and globally distributed teams.

Performance Milestone:

▪ Architecture solution for behavioral data collection on AWS cluster with 30TB new data captured /

processed daily at 2 nd

years.

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largest market research company ($2B). Achieved 99.99% uptime for the last 3

Invented audio recognition and audio beacon technology for brick and mortar stores to identify the

presence of customer using smart phone.

▪ Saved a commerce projects worth $5 million from sinking stage and successfully led the team to go live

in 4 months.

▪ Headed technology for SMAC division for a Start­up firm, helped in delivering 30 projects worth $25

million in a span of 2 years, build a team of 50 developers and architect offshore and onsite.

▪ Architecture cloud solution for a $2B Education firm and migrate 500+ application into cloud in 3 months

as part of a disaster recovery project.

Education & Certifications:

▪ Bachelors of Technology in Information Technology

▪ Master Diploma in Information Technology

▪ Diploma in Computer Hardware & Networking

▪ AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Professional Experience:

Themesoft Inc.

Principle Consultant, Architect, Tech Director

McGraw­Hill Education

Principle Consultant, Technical Project Manager

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June 2014 – till date

July 2010 – June 2014

Hurix Systems

Technical Project Manger

TAYLOR'S Engineering

Sr. Software Engineer

CJAM Tech Squad LLC

Software Engineer

June 2014 to Till Date

My responsibilities as Principle Consultant, Architect, Tech Director

▪ Principle consultant for SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) application.

▪ Developed roadmaps for proper implementation of cost effective solution architecture to digital

transform organization.

▪ Designed, implementation and verification of cloud architecture, security framework and governance.

▪ Design and develop innovative business models application with high availability and fault tolerance.

▪ Deliverables include Modeling, Process Roadmap, Technology Strategy, SOA, BPMN, Application

Portfolio Optimization, Agile, UML, TOGAF, SysML, strategic & process modeling.

▪ Deployed cloud instance at large scale with bootstrapping and configuration management system.

▪ Build virtual infrastructures, PaaS, SaaS systems from conception to completion.

▪ Directed a team of 10+ to successfully deliver a behavioural data collection and analytics application on

cloud that facilitates 100,000+ customers on multiple geolocations and processed 30TB of new data.

▪ Drove a digital transformation project for a healthcare client involving business automating of lab testing

process, commerce portal, secure patent portal, iOT sync fitness device data, data visualization, patent

health dashboard and mobility enablement.

▪ Developed the core algorithm for audio watermarking & recognition to build audio beacon technology for

identify the presence of customer using smart phone

▪ Steered the effort of developing multiple in­house mobile products from conception to completion.

▪ Managed key accounts for Themesoft and establishing global delivery capabilities & Technology

portfolio.

July 2010 to June 2014

McGraw­Hill Education

My responsibilities as Principle Consultant / Technical Architect / Project Manager

▪ End to end Architecture, Implementation & Support of McGraw­Hill Education E­Commerce store

$100M annual sales.

▪ Managed an Agile scrum of scrum team Onsite & Offshore to develop various product features for

Ecommerce store from conception to completion.

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Involved in product backlog grooming with the product owner. Involve in system design, code

development, preparing unit test plan, deployment, integration and maintain the Ecommerce store.

▪ Lead McGraw­Hill Education cloud migration project, migrated 500+ application from dedicated server

to AWS cloud. Involved in secure cloud, VPC, Identity and Access Management, Qualys

implementation.

▪ Architecture cloud infrastructure on AWS for Web, mobile, video streaming application. Deployed and

configured EC2, ELB, Autoscaling, Route53 DNS, Cloudfront, RDS, S3 setup policy and governance.

▪ Architecture major McGraw­Hill education web & mobile initiatives, managed daily operations of onsite

& offshore scrum team.

▪ Steered PCI DSS, Web Application Firewall, Site security scan implementation.

▪ Design and Develop the Database schema , Administer MySQL and MS­SQL database and

contributed in database optimization.

▪ Optimizing web application performance by implementing Akamai CDN and technics like Content

caching, TCP optimization, Content compression and SSL acceleration

▪ Drove Solution Identification for McGraw­Hill Education E­Commerce platform by analyzing out­of­box

Enterprise Omni­Commerce solutions Demandware, Hybris, Magento and Elasticpath.

▪ Own the overall solution blueprint and roadmap.

▪ Accountable for the technical integrity of the solutions, cost effectiveness and supportability that meets

business requirements and industry best practices.

▪ Steered E­commerce brand unification project for McGraw­Hill Education, Migrating 5 sub­division

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Sep 2007 – July 2010

Jan 2007 – July 2007

Dec 2003 – Jan 2007

Themesoft Inc.

legacy commerce platform into a unified solution, designed & develop APIs for ERP and Supply Chain

Management to consume.

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Integrated Salesforce & Marketo for lead capturing, reporting & analytics. Administered Salesforce

Designing reports, dashboards, and business process automation.

Integrated Google Analytics to track Ecommerce measurement, Event, Social and Social Intraction.

Integrated & worked with many Social & Public APIs Facebook, Google Map, Google OAuth2, Google

Search, Youtube API, Yelp, Linked­in.

Implemented Elasticsearch for a custom developed documents resource management system.

▪ Contributed in the technical commit of assessing Key Curriculum and ALEKS online education software

acquisition by McGraw­Hill.

▪ Steered the effort of integrating Key Curriculum digital software product & Digital Rights Management

(Licensing Server) into McGraw­Hill Education Oracle ERP & Salesforce CRM. Architected REST APIs

to communicate between McGraw­Hill ecommerce websites and Key Curriculum Licensing server.

▪ Architect solution to recreate 1000s of flash e­learning animation into responsive / mobile compatible

HTML5 & CSS3 animation using Adobe Edge.

▪ Architect a branded virtual conference platform on AWS Cloud, Live Streaming Audio / Video / Desktop

sharing. Virtual exhibits and auditorium conceptualized and visual design in 3D to bringing real life user

experience. Developed in PHP, Drupal, Flex, Flash, RED5 media server, Adobe after Effects.

▪ Managed QA Team to ensure project scope coverage, defect tracking and quality.

▪ Contributed towards automating test scripts using Selenium Webdriver.

▪ Mentor and guide the on­site and off­shore team to develop design and implement software products

and applications

▪ Major responsibilities owning architectural design, core framework design, application deployment,

project schedule, budget, risk, change & release management, prototype.

▪ Provide thought leadership around best practices and new/emerging concepts.

▪ Manage large teams and/or work efforts.

April 2007 to July 2010

Hurix Systems

▪ Responsible for development, maintenance and support of e­commerce and n­tier software applications

and their implementation & integration into client's production, overseeing smooth operations between

client entities and offshore teams.

▪ Responsible for planning and managing the operations, deliverables, projects, procurement and

technical support for a staff of 20+ technicians in database, web and client/server programs.

▪ Engaging with program/process owners, stakeholders and business partners to communicate project

objectives, strategy, tactics, and ongoing progress, and provide support and direction in completion of

tasks, removing roadblocks when necessary

▪ Major responsibilities owning developing core framework, UI & UX development, application

deployment, project schedule, budget, risk, change & release management, prototype.

▪ Provide thought leadership around best practices and new/emerging concepts.

Jan 2007 to April 2007

TAYLOR'S Engineering

▪ Software developer responsible worked in core team of algorithm design for OCR document scanning.

▪ Designed and developed web services based on SOAP.

▪ Unit testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing

▪ Designed and developed pluggable for data scalping and manipulation.

Dec 2005 to Jan 2007

LLC

CJAM Tech Squad

▪ Responsible for analyzing requirements, design, development, deployment, and maintenance of the

web portals, e­commerce, chat application and CMS using PHP, Python and MySql.

▪ Responsible for setup, configuring and administrating Linux server, Web server and Database.

▪ Developed batch automation scripts using python and SQL stored procedure and triggers for backend

automation.

▪ Developed prototypes, Web UI design and front­end development using HTML, javascript and CSS.

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Computer Proficiency

Operating Systems

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Database Technologies

Cloud Solution

Cloud Tools

Search Solution

Application/Web Servers

IDE

Design Tools

Version Control Tools

QA Tools

Open Source

Online Marketing

Public API

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Ubuntu, Amazon Linux

Project Management Tools :

Programming Languages

Web Technologies

MS Project, MS Visio, Scrum tool AxoSoft

PHP, Python, Node JS, Swift

JSON, XML, AJAX, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3,

Angular JS

MYSQL, Hadoop Apache Spark & Hive, MongoDB

Amazon Web Service, Azure.

Right Scale, Alert Logic, Qualys.

Elastic search

Apache & Nginx

MyEclipse, MsVisual Studio, Xcode, SQL Developer

Adobe Photoshop & illustrator

CVS, Visual Source Safe, SVN, Git

Mercury QC, JIRA, Selenium

Drupal, Joomla, opencart, magento, wordpress

Google Adwords, SEO On­Page & Off­Page Optimization,

Benchmarking, PPC Marketing, Affiliation Marketing

Facebook, Google, Yelp, Linked­in

Salesforce

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