Ramesh

Java Architect

Summary

 Around 15+ Years of experience in Architect, Designing and Developing Distributed and Client-Server
Applications using Object Oriented Analysis, Design using JAVA, J2EE, NodeJS, Python, Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Azure.
 Having 10+ Years especially with agile practices such as SCRUM and KANBAN Development, with an in depth
knowledge of OOP, Domain Driven Design, GoF Design Patterns.
 Experienced in Java and J2EE technologies/frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Micro Services, Netflix API,
Spring MVC, GRAILS, Spring Core, Spring Security, Spring Transactions, JSF, JSP, JSTL, Servlets, JDBC,
Struts, ORM Frame works like Hibernate, GROM, EclipseLink, Scripting frameworks like Groovy and JQuery.
 Experience in designing and implementing Reactive Programming like Spring Reactive and AKKA.
 Experience in designing and implementing Micro-services using frameworks like NetFlix OSS and Istio Service
Mesh.
 Experience with Container Orchestration, like Kubernetes, DC/OS, AWS ECS, GCP EKS, OpenShift, Azure AKS.
 Leveraged AI coding assistants including GitHub Copilot and Codeium to improve development velocity and code
quality.
 Experience in designing and developing, Migrating from OnPrem to Public Cloud applications.
 Experience in Public Clouds like Amazon Web Services. GCP and Azure.
 Having experience in migrating the application to Amazon cloud using EC2, Cloud Formation, Elastic Load
Balancer, Cloud Watch, Kinesis Streams, Elastic Search and Lambda Functions,
 Experience in developing AI Agents using LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith
 Experience in automating the cloud infrastructure using the Ansible, Terrafrom, CHEF and Ruby.
 Having very good experience in writing Python scripts.
 Having 8+ years’ experience in Web UI Development using ReactJS, Angular, JQuery, HTML, XML, Java Script,
CSS and AJAX.
 Experience deploying applications on Netty, WebLogic, JBOSS and Apache Tomcat Application servers.
 Experience working with Spring Framework, Struts Framework and O/R mapping Hibernate, Eclipse Link
framework.
 Having 15 + years of experience in developing large scale Distributed applications using Java/JEE technologies.
 Expertise in developing Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams, Sequence for multi-tiered object-oriented system
architectures utilizing Unified Modeling (UML) Tools Star UML.
 Successfully designed and implemented various reusable components and frameworks using design patterns like
MVC (Model-View-Controller), DTO/VO, DAO, Singleton, Factory etc.
 Involved in REST Web Services and XML.
 Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL. PostGresSQL, ClickHouse
 Specialized in using IDE’s like IntelliJ, Gravity, VSCode Eclipse, JDevloper.
 Expertise in writing complex SQL queries, PL\SQL Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers.
 Experience in writing and executing Unit Test cases using JUnit, TestNG, DbUnit and Fest testing framework.
 Experience in developing Ant, Maven and Gradle build scripts to build and deploy the java applications.
 Experience in working Jenkins Continuous integration tool, Gitlab CICD

Work History

Oct 2022 - Present Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Verizon Wireless

Role: Architect, Design & Develop
Project: WELL ARCHITECTED SCORECARD
Description:
The Well Architected Scorecard Tool (WAST) is a tool to help applications understand and improve their conformance to
enterprise and portfolio level technology standards. Historically, teams and leaders needed to manually collect and review
metrics across multiple systems, which was time consuming and could yield inconsistent results. The primary goals of this
effort are to
 Automate Standards and Guidelines Evaluation
 Establish Centralized Data Insight Score
 Track Historical
  System Compliance to Standards

Responsibilities:

 Architected and delivered the Well-Architected Scorecard Tool (WAST) using Java, Spring Boot, Spring
WebFlux, ReactJS, and Serverless, enabling high-performance, non-blocking, reactive API workflows.
 Designed and implemented reactive microservices leveraging Spring Boot, WebFlux, non-blocking I/O,
backpressure, and reactive pipelines to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads.

 Built scalable backend systems using Java, Spring Data, Spring Security, and modern authentication
mechanisms (JWT, OAuth2, RBAC)..

 Developed scalable front-end components and internal engineering tools using ReactJS, Redux/ReduxToolkit
improving usability and platform adoption across teams..
 Developed responsive and reusable React components using hooks, context API, and modern state management
patterns.

 Engineered and optimized PostgreSQL data models, including schema design, indexing, partitioning,
replication, and complex DDL/DML and query tuning for large-scale systems.

 Implemented Istio Service Mesh to enable secure and resilient service-to-service communication with mTLS,
traffic routing, retries, circuit breaking, and fault injection.

 Applied microservices design patterns such as API Gateway, Circuit Breaker, CQRS, Saga, Event Sourcing,
Bulkhead, and Strangler to build fault-tolerant distributed systems.

 Designed and implemented enterprise observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger,
and ElasticSearch, providing deep visibility into metrics, logs, and traces.

 Ensured high availability and resilience through Kubernetes autoscaling, readiness/liveness probes, rolling
and blue-green deployments, and multi-zone failover strategies.

 Improved system throughput and performance using caching strategies, asynchronous event-driven
workflows, and reactive database drivers.

 Developed Drools-based rule engines to dynamically evaluate and score application components within the
WAST platform.

 Integrated AWS services including Lambda, S3, and Step Functions, designing scalable ingestion, evaluation,
and orchestration workflows

 Implemented resource-based IAM policies on Lambda functions to allow secure invocation from API Gateway,
EventBridge, and S3.

 Optimized AWS Lambda performance, including cold start reduction, memory tuning, provisioned
concurrency, dependency optimization, and shared Lambda Layers..

 Tuned JVM performance (heap sizing, GC strategies) and Kubernetes resource requests/limits to improve
pod stability and latency.

 Led incident response, on-call operations, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews to
continuously improve system reliability.

 Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins to automate build, test, security scanning,
and deployment of microservices and serverless workloads.

 Implemented DevSecOps practices, integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning,
and security gates into CI/CD pipelines.
  Designed and deployed API Proxies and API Products using Apigee, enforcing governance, rate limiting, and
security across enterprise APIs.

 Implemented event-driven microservices using Apache Kafka, enabling asynchronous communication, loose
coupling across distributed systems.

 Developed Kafka producers and consumers Java/Spring Kafka, implementing partitioning strategies, consumer
groups, and message keys to ensure scalability and ordering guarantees.

 Leveraged AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Codeium) to improve development velocity and code quality.

 Designed and built AI agents and GenAI solutions using LangChain, LangSmith, LangGraph, and RAG
architectures for workflow automation and intelligent decision-making.

 Performed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) responsibilities for Java microservices on AWS EKS, driving
reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

 Defined and monitored SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, implementing proactive alerting and reducing MTTR
through actionable monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana

Environment:
Java, Spring Reactive, Spring Boot, Spring JPA, NodeJS, TypeScript, Java script, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS
Services, PostgresSQL,, ReactJS, Redux, Redux Saga, Jenkins, ElasticSearch, Gitlab CI, APIGEE, NewRelic,
ExpressJS,

June 2017 – Sep 2022 Full Stack Developer @ Verizon Wireless

Role: Architect, Design & Develop
Project: Reference Implementation/ North Star Architecture
Description:
Implementing Reference Implementation/Architecture across the Verizon wireless/wired applications, like making a
standardization of technologies, infrastructure, and CICD Pipeline. As part of this reference we are developing sample
applications using spring reactive, golang, Akka and Reactor frameworks for reactive. Main idea is Containers-As- A-
Service, Micro services deployed as a Docker container on kubernetes. Using Istio as a service mesh.

Responsibilities:
 Architected and delivered a cloud-native reference platform using Java, Spring Reactive (Reactor/WebFlux),
Golang, and [Link], defining enterprise standards for reactive, event-driven, and microservices-based
architectures.
 Designed and built high-performance Golang microservices using Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design
(DDD), ensuring strong domain isolation, testability, and long-term maintainability at scale.
 Containerized and deployed microservices with Docker and Kubernetes across AWS EKS and GCP GKE,
enabling horizontal auto-scaling, high availability, and resilient production deployments.
 Built and operated Kubernetes clusters (kubeadm-based), managing Deployments, StatefulSets, ConfigMaps,
Secrets, and environment-specific configurations across dev, staging, and production.
 Implemented Istio Service Mesh to standardize service-to-service communication, enabling mTLS, traffic shifting,
retries, circuit breaking, fault injection, and distributed tracing.
 Extended and customized Envoy proxies, including filter configuration and advanced routing logic, to support
observability, traffic control, and enterprise networking requirements.
 Designed secure ingress and API routing layers using Istio Ingress Gateway, NGINX Plus, and Apigee API
Gateway for external traffic management and API governance.
 Configured Lambda execution roles with least-privilege IAM policies, granting scoped access to services such
as CloudWatch Logs, S3, SNS, and SQS
 Developed Kafka producers and consumers Java/Spring Kafka, implementing partitioning strategies, consumer
groups, and message keys to ensure scalability and ordering guarantees.
  Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using gitlab ci/Jenkins, automating build, test, security
scans, and deployments to AWS EKS, Lambda, reducing release time and manual errors
 Implemented authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC), enforcing
enterprise-grade security, token validation, and role-based access control (RBAC).
 Integrated Elasticsearch for read-optimized search and analytics and Redis for distributed caching of user and
session data, significantly improving response times and throughput.
 Established centralized observability with EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana), Heapster, Zipkin, and Istio
telemetry for logs, metrics, tracing, and proactive incident detection.
 Architected and managed GCP infrastructure including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, VPC
networking, and Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) with backups, replication, and failover strategies.
 Produced architecture diagrams, reference implementations, and best-practice documentation, enabling
consistent adoption of standardized cloud-native patterns across multiple engineering teams.
 Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Helm, enforcing environment parity
across dev, staging, and production while improving deployment reliability and rollback capabilities

Environment:
Spring Web Reactive, Spring REST, Spring Boot, Spring JMS, Apache Kafka, Angular 17, Spring IOC, Spring JDBC,
GCP, Amazon SDK, AngularJS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Python, Boto3, GoLang, Tomcat, GIT, JENKINS, AM Charts, NodeJS,
Spring NetFlix, Istio Service Mesh, APIGEE Gateway

June 2015 – May 2017 Senior Software Engineer @ CapitalOne

Role: J2EE Developer and AWS Architect
Project: Auto Loan originator
Description:
COAF LO is portal and service used by dealers and customers to apply for auto loans for their eligibility. Once the
application for auto loans are dropped by the vendor or customer on LO applications it gets pushed to different stages.

Responsibilities:
 Involved in design and development of Polling and Web Services used by the Vendor for loan originations.
 Developed SOAP and REST Services using Spring to be used by vendors to validate loan applications.
 Created Dashboard for Loan Origination Services using AngularJS, JQuery, HTML5 and Bootstrap.
 Migrating code from SVN to Git Repo
 Created JOBS execute CFN template which provision the infra.
 Created Automation scripts using CHEF recipes and roles to provision the COAF applications/services on AWS
Cloud
 Cloud Formation templates are used to create stack of application.
 ELB was used to create load balancer and Auto Scaling group.
 Chef was used to automate provisioning of infrastructure.
 Migrated Monolithic Application into Micro-services using spring boot, spring consul.
Environment:
J2EE, Spring Web Services, Spring Boot, Spring JMS, RabbitMQ, Apache CXF, Spring IOC, Spring Batch, Spring JDBC,
Amazon SDK, AngularJS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Python, Boto, WebLogic, Tomcat, Ruby, Chef Recipes and Roles, GIT,
JENKINS, AM Charts, NodeJS

Jan 2015 – May 2015 Senior JEE Developer @ Fidelity Charitable

Project: Fidelity Charitable PIF-Play, CyberDonor and RepApp
Role: Design and Developer
Description:
Fidelity Charitable CyberDonor is portal for Donor’s. It offers a flexible, customized to help donors to achieve philanthropic
goals. It helps to have Giving Account with irrevocable contribution. Grow the Donor’s contribution by allocating it among
several investment options or pools featuring tax-free growth. Recommend a grant from Donor’s giving account to
charities.
Responsibilities:
 Involved in different phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) like Requirements gathering, Analysis,
Design, Development and Deployment of various modules like Monitoring, Alerts
  Extensively used Spring Core (for Inversion of Control (IOC)), Spring Security and Spring Transaction API and
ORM modules of Spring Framework in the project.
 Developing the Pages for PIF-Play using the Grails Action and Pages
 Implementing the Persistence Layer using GROM.
 Implemented persistence layer using Hibernate ORM (Spring + JPA integration).
 Involved in developing web tier using Spring MVC, HTML, JSTL, JSP, Java Script, AJAX, JQuery.
 Developed Front-end pages for latest Fidelity charitable portal as a part of migration to AngularJS using
AngularJS, JQuery, bootstrap and JavaScript.
 Working with MongoDB to log the audit logs.
 Developed code to access third party Web Services using Spring WS and Spring WS client to consume the
services, REST Jersey API, XML, WSDL, SOAP.
 Developed the application using Eclipse and deployed it on Web Sphere and Apache Tomcat.
 Developed JUnit test cases to test all possible business scenarios under the guide lines of Test First Methodology
and Test Driven Development.
 Worked with Developers and QA Testing Team in tracking and resolving defects, which arise in QA & production
environments
 Used Log4j and Sl4log for logging and Maven for building and deploying the application.
 Used Hibernate as persistence mechanism implementing object relational mapping and implemented advanced
features like JPQL and Criteria based querying.
Environment: Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Boot, Axis Web Services, Spring Web Services, JSP, Servlets,
Bootstrap, JQuery, Grails, Groovy, AngularJS, Oracle, Tomcat, Sonar, JUnit, DbUnit, Mockito, Agile SCRUM, Maven,
Rally

May 2014 - Jan 2015 Senior JEE Developer @ HCentive

Project : Connect4Colorado
Role : Design and Developer
Description:
Connect for Health Colorado is a marketplace that opened in October 2013 to help individuals, families and small
employers across Colorado purchase health insurance and apply for new federal financial assistance to reduce costs. In
addition to the shopping website, Connect for Health Colorado offers a statewide customer support network of Customer
Service Center Representatives, Health Coverage Guides and licensed agents/brokers to help Coloradans find the best
health plan for their needs. Connect for Health Colorado is the only place where Coloradans can apply for advance
premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions to help pay for commercial insurance coverage.
The mission of Connect for Health Colorado is to increase access, affordability, and choice for individuals and small
employers purchasing health insurance in Colorado.
Connect for Health Colorado is intended to reflect the unique needs of Colorado state, seek Colorado-specific solutions,
and explore the maximum number of options available to the state of Colorado in meeting the goals of access,
affordability and choice.
Responsibilities:
 Involved in different phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) like Requirements gathering, Analysis,
Design, Development and Deployment of various modules like Monitoring, Alerts
 Extensively used Spring Core (for Inversion of Control (IOC)), Spring Security and Spring Transaction API and
ORM modules of Spring Framework in the project.
 Implemented persistence layer using Hibernate ORM (Spring + JPA integration).
 Involved in developing web tier using Spring MVC, HTML, JSTL, JSP, Java Script, AJAX, JQuery
 Design patterns like Singleton, Business Delegate, Data Access Objects and Value Objects/Data Transfer
Objects (DTO) are used.
 Used AJAX and JQuery for client side scripting, validations and to improve the user’s interaction with Web
applications.
 Developed code to access third party Web Services using Spring WS and Spring WS client to consume the
services, REST Jersey API, XML, WSDL, SOAP.
 Developed the application using Eclipse and deployed it on WebSphere and Apache Tomcat.
 Developed JUnit test cases to test all possible business scenarios under the guide lines of Test First Methodology
and Test Driven Development.
 Worked with Developers and QA Testing Team in tracking and resolving defects, which arise in QA & production
environments
 Used Log4j and Sl4log for logging and Maven for building and deploying the application.
 Used Hibernate as persistence mechanism implementing object relational mapping and implemented advanced
features like JPQL and Criteria based querying.
Environment: Spring MVC, Spring IOC, Spring Web services, JSP, Hibernate, JQuery, Bootstrap, Web Sphere, Apache
Tomcat, Sybase, Oracle, AngularJS, MySQL. Agile Scrum, Maven, JIRA. ElasticSearch
Jan 2012 to May 2014 Senior JEE Developer @ Oracle India Pvt Ltd | [Link]
Project : Oracle GoldenGate Role: Design and Developer
Description:
Oracle GoldenGate Monitor is a real-time monitoring console for the Oracle GoldenGate replication solution. Oracle
GoldenGate Monitor delivers an at-a-glance, graphical view of all of the Oracle GoldenGate instances and their
associated databases within your enterprise. Instantly, you can view statistics, targeted views, and alerts that will help you
to monitor the performance of all of the objects in the Oracle GoldenGate configuration and detect problems, such as lag
or abended processes, the moment that they occur. Oracle GoldenGate Monitor can send alert messages to its own
console workspaces, as well as to e-mail, SNMP, and CLI clients. As part of this release, It is enhancing to include Partial
Solution feature, Param files, report files and obey files of the GoldenGate instances can viewed into it.
Responsibilities:

 Involved in different phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) like Requirements gathering, Analysis,
Design, Development and Deployment of various modules like Monitoring, Alerts
 Extensively used Spring Core (for Inversion of Control (IOC)), Spring Security and Spring Transaction API and
ORM modules of Spring Framework in the project.
 Implemented persistence layer using Hibernate ORM (Spring + JPA integration).
 Involved in developing web tier using JSF MVC, HTML, JSTL, JSP, Java Script, AJAX
 Design patterns like Singleton, Business Delegate, Data Access Objects and Value Objects/Data Transfer
Objects (DTO) are used.
 Used AJAX and JQuery for client side scripting, validations and to improve the user’s interaction with Web
applications.
 Developed code to access third party Web Services using Apache Axis, REST Jersey API, XML, WSDL, SOAP.
 Developed the application using Eclipse and deployed it on Web Logic and Apache Tomcat.
 Developed JUnit test cases to test all possible business scenarios under the guide lines of Test First Methodology
and Test Driven Development.
 Worked with Developers and QA Testing Team in tracking and resolving defects, which arise in QA & production
environments
 Used Log4j and Sl4log for logging and Ant for building and deploying the application.
 Used Hibernate as persistence mechanism implementing object relational mapping and implemented advanced
features like JPQL and Criteria based querying.

Environment:
Oracle ADF Faces, Spring, JSF, Hibernate, JMX, JQuery, prototype, Web logic, Apache Tomcat, Sybase, Oracle,
MySQL. Agile Scrum

Aug 2011 to Jan 2012 Technical Lead @ APTEAN (CDC Software) | [Link]
Project : Interactive Marketing Role : Design and Developer
Description:
Interactive Marketing involves designing, creating landing pages, these pages can be published at the customers site or
search pages. It also has the feature like web submits, where MarketFirst admin can create pages and can have links to
this pages in the emails sent to prospects or leads. Using this feature we can pump prospects into MarketFirst system.
Surveys can be done using these web submit pages.

Responsibilities:
 Involved in all phases of Software life cycle, development, testing and deployment of MarketFirst.
 Developed framework to design the Web submits pages using Struts, JSP, JavaScript.
 Client side validations using JQuery.
 Created and executed test cases using JUnit.
 Struts 1.3, JSP as front end and Servlets as controllers are used to build the Thin client application.
 Developed application using Eclipse and deployed in JBoss and Apache Tomcat.

Environment: Struts 1.3, Hibernate, Java, JSP, Multi-Threading, Spring MVC, Servlets, Swings, JMS, JBoss, SQL
Server 2005, Sybase, Oracle, Agile Scrum

Jan 2010 - Aug 2011 Software Engineer @ APTEAN (CDC Software) |[Link]
Project: MarketFirst510 Service Pack1, MarketFirst5.9 and 5.7 (Lavazza), EasyMail, MarketFirst 5.10 SP3
Description:
In MarketFirst 5.10 Service Pack we have enhanced the Supportability and Critical errors. These enhancements include:
 Identifying and preventing invalid data from entering the MarketFirst system and from passing these characters
through to Pivotal CRM.
 Ability to send notification e-mail before MarketFirst shuts down due to critical errors or if license expires
Responsibilities:
 Involved in all phases of Software life cycle, development, testing and deployment of MarketFirst localization and
internationalization of different modules like Thick Client and thin client.
 Created and executed test cases using Junit.
 Action server is built using the Multi threads.
 Involved in developing Integration server which is built using Multithread.
 SMTP, POP, SMPP protocols are used to send email.
 Struts 1.3, JSP as front end and Servlet as controllers are used to build the Thin client application.
 Developed application using Eclipse and deployed in JBoss and Apache Tomcat.
 Developed Services for vendors to use MF services.
Environment: Struts 1.3, Hibernate, Java, JSP, Multi-Threading, Servlets, Apache Axis 1.2, JQuery, Swings, JBoss 4.0,
SQL Server 2005, Oracle, PLSQL

Education

Bachelor of Technology @ National Institute of Technology|[Link]

Certifications

 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate | Amazon Web Services, 2026

Technical Skills
 Languages & Frameworks: Java (8/11/17/21), Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring WebFlux,
Jakarta EE
 Microservices & Distributed Systems: Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event Sourcing / CQRS, Saga Pattern,
eventual consistency, REST, gRPC, GraphQL
 Frontend Frameworks & Libraries: ReactJS, Redux/Redux Toolkit, Micro-Frontend Integration, Angular.
 Service Mesh & Resilience: Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Circuit Breaker (Resilience4j), Retry, Rate Limiting, mTLS,
Fault Injection
 Cloud & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda), GCP, Azure, Terraform
 Messaging & Streaming: Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS/SNS, Redis Streams
 Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, CockroachDB
 Observability & Monitoring: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK Stack, Zipkin, CloudWatch,
Datadog

 Domain: Insurance, Data Replication, CRM Domain, Marketing Automation, Telecom, eCommerce
 CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Spinnaker
 Other: JUnit 5, Mockito, OWASP practices