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Senior Software Architect / Engineer — GFI Software (via Trilogy)

About

• Innovative, results driven technology leader with diverse experience, including, o Driving strategic road maps for Product & IT Systems o Architecting Systems for high-volume transaction / Zero downtime /BCDR o Delivering software products o Driving projects adhering to Scope, Budget and Schedule and managing risks o Cloud Computing o Prompt Engineering and AI tools • Experience in leading software / IT Development practices o SDLC methodologies - Agile & Waterfall o Automation – Unit tests, System Test & Business Verification tests o Estimation techniques using Analogy, Statistics, Expert judgment & Decomposition o Defect management / leakage / projection o Scenario focused engineering • Hands on experience in Microsoft Technologies across all the application layers from COM to WCF / Web services, Desktop to Smart client / Agile Web clients and Data layer. • Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and problem-solving skills. Specialties: • Technology Architecture & Integration • Leading Edge Software Development • Project Management • Staff Management & Team building • Strategic Planning • Product Development • Client Relations • IT delivery • Cloud Computing • Vendor Management

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Software Architect / Engineer — GFI Software (via Trilogy) at Trilogy, Aug 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore, Technical ownership of the GFI products 1. GFI Mailessentials 2. GFI Archiver 3. Kerio connect The responsibility includes 1. Feature Design / code 2. Review of feature design/code 3. Define the End to End test cases. 4. Automate/manage the CI-CD pipelines 5. Final escalation point on the technical area for dev/test/support/ business

Principal Engineer at Intuit, Jul 2013 - Aug 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, Responsibility 1. Technical design / Debt clearance / maintenance of Payroll / Self help & smart client of the Quickbooks product. 2. Online migration 3. Collaborate across other Architects / PE for cross product integration. Planning 1. Prioritize Tech Debt. Work with Product Management to prioritize in the year planning. 2. Preliminary investigation of the upcoming features, define / do POC and provide estimate as inputs to the planning. People 1. Mentor Staff engineers Key Achievements 1. Successful transition of Payroll of US /UK & CA 2. Decoupled the compliance components from the Quick Books product to enable easy light weight delivery of the compliance changes

Sr. Architect at Microsoft (R &D) Corporation, Oct 2009 - Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Responsibilities • Delivery  Accountable for the design of all the projects  Interface with global counterparts  Monitor the projects • Planning  3-year System road map  Provide for feasibility inputs and estimations for project planning  Migration of other applications to India • People  Mentor the team on technology & SDLC  Build the SME knowledge base in India Key Deliverables D&S Service D&S is the system that is responsible for file hosting and on-line distribution of the products. The system capability is at ~ 200 TB data (700 TB worldwide) and 25 PB downloads in a year. Led the initiative to reduce storage footprint by introducing content deduplication and a two-tier storage strategy, achieving 80%+ reduction in space Xpress File Transfer Microsoft Release systems are responsible for publishing products and make it available for worldwide online after compliance. And this needs the files to be transferred to multiple regions with high latencies. The existing frameworks needed a plan around 3 -4 weeks for the entire process. A new transfer protocol, which leveraged the bandwidth effectively by using split streaming / multi-threading / sockets, to quicken the transfer. The new transfer release process is expected to come down by 2 weeks. My responsibilities include, RCA / establish the solution through a POC / design the new file transfer stratergy / monitor the implementation. Release Systems - BCDR Establish the BCDR capability for the Release systems with RPO / RTO objectives. This involves managing the instance registration with the system, enabling the services to be self-aware, establishing mirroring for data, tools to control the fail-over. My responsibility includes defining the approach/design a re-usable framework for all the release systems and drive automation of the fail-over.

Sr. Manager - Development at Microsoft (R &D) Corporation, Jul 2007 - Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos, • Delivery  Accountable for delivery of all the projects  Interface with the Global counterparts  Project montioring • Planning  Responsible feasibility inputs and estimations for project planning  Resource planning • People  Mentor the team on technology & SDLC  Build the SME knowledge base in India Key Deliverables • Built a new development team and built reliability through on time / quality project delivery. • Managed the transition of multiple applications from the primary development center to India

Sr. Manager at Talisma Corporation, Aug 2000 - Jul 2007 · 7 yrs, • Architecture / Design / High level Project plan the product releases •Ensure the implementation design meets the client’s technical needs like load, scalability, security, audit requirements. And loop the feedback back into the product architecture / design. •Delivery of the CRM product version releases o CRM 6.0 SP2 o CRM 7.0 o CRM Web Services / Web Access •Deliver on the performance & scalability specifications of the product. o Achieved a 2000 user system from 100 users over two versions of the product

Technical Lead at Aditi Corporation, Jul 1995 - Aug 2000 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Education

Master of Science, Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Public links

github: https://github.com/meenavenki

github.com: https://github.com/Meenavenki/orthogonal-test-framework%20https://github.com/Meenavenki/agentic-software-engineering-protocol