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Hello, My name is Ram Marpaka. I am an Engineering Leader/Solution Architect with around 16 years of development experience in Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring boot, Spring REST, Spring cloud, Micro Services, JSF2, Web services, Hibernate/JPA , ehcache, ReactJS, Next.js and nestJS.


Led large scale Enterprise Integration (Mule ESB), Web Content Management (Teamsite/AEM) and Enterprise Content Management (Filenet), Web Analytics (GA) and SSO (SAML) initiatives. Also led technology upgrade, performance improvement , modernization, tools consolidation,Mulesoft,PCF migration and AWS cost optimization initiatives.


Built engineering teams from scratch, contributed to homegrown frameworks and launched SaaS product.

  • Location: Los Angeles
  • Experience: 16 years

Java, J2EE

Excellent

Spring MVC, Spring boot

Excellent

Spring Cloud, Micro Services

Excellent

Middleware (Mule ESB)

Very Good

Enterprise Content Management

Good

Web Content Management

Very Good

Solution Architecture

Excellent

Engineering Leadership

Excellent

AWS

Excellent

ReactJS,Next.js

Very Good

Experience

Lead Solutions Architect

DXC Technology | 2011 - PRESENT

Farmers Distribution IT and Marketing IT

Technical Lead

DXC Technology | 2006 - 2011

Farmers Personal Lines, Distribution, eCM and SOA Applications

Senior Developer

DXC Technology | 2005 - 2006

Agent applications and framework development

Software Engineer

Virtusa | 2005 - 2005

JPMorgan Chase application development

Education

Master Of Computer Applications

KAKATIYA UNIVERSITY

Bachelor Of Computer Science

KAKATIYA UNIVERSITY | MStCs

Professional membership

Member of ACM (American Computer Machinery)
Member of ASUG

Training/Certifications

Architecture

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Scaled Agile

Certified SAFe 4 Agilist

No Sql-Distributed DB

Apache Cassandra 3 Developer Associate

Enterprise Service Bus

MuleSoft Certified Developer (Mule 4)

Scrum

Scrum Foundation Professional

Reactive Architecture

Reactive Architecture-Lightbend

Streaming/Message Broker

Apache Kafka Fundamentals

API Architecture

Certified API Security Architect-API Academy

Training/Certifications

Product

Product Masterclass: How to Build Digital Products

Cloud IOT

Industrial IoT on Google Cloud

Azure Cloud

Azure Fundamentals

Cloud Integration

Informatica Cloud Integration Of Modern Applications

Machine Learning

Getting Started with AWS Machine Learning

Docker

Docker Essentials

API Design

Certified API Designer-API Academy

DB Automation/DevOps

Liquibase Fundamentals

Training/Certifications

Web Analytics

Google Analytics Individual

Blockchain

Blockchain Essentials

Enterprise Cache

Redis for Java Developers

Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager Fundamentals

Chatbots

Building Conversational Experiences with Dialogflow

Web Analytics

Advanced Google Analytics

Software Architecture

IBM Certified Solution Designer- Rational Software Architect

Service Virtualization

CA LISA SV Competency Exam

Training/Certifications

NoSQL DB

MongoDB for Java Developers

Identity & Access Mgmt

CA SiteMinder 12.5:Advanced Topic Impersonation 300

Software Design

IBM Certified Solution Designer- Object Oriented Analysis and Design-UML2

Application Development

IBM Certified Application Develper-Rational Application Developer

Cloud Fundamentals

VMware Certified Associate Cloud

Enterprise Content Management

IBM FileNet Content Manager-Developer 4.5

Cloud Infrastructure

VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization

Business Process Management

IBM FileNet Business Process Manager-Developer 4.5

Projects (Last 5)

Farmers Fast Quote/ Major initiatives

DXC Technology, Los Angeles, CA | 2017-02 - PRESENT

Farmers Fast Quote is a Quoting system. Led several large scale initiatives like making applications ADA compliant, implementing AEM , integrating with Guidewire policy processing system, migrating OSB to Mule, implementing chatbot, modernizing the Home product etc.,


Technology Stack:

Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring AOP, Spring Boot, web services, Jakson API, JAXB, Esapi, Log4j, Ehcache, Redis, Angular JS, Bootstrap , Heroku, Jenkins, AWS Lex, Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC), AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), Mule 4

Contribution:

  • Contributed to Solution Architecture and Application Architecture
  • Led ADA (American Disability Act) projects and made applications ADA compliant
  • Helped implementing AEM (Adobe Experience Manager)
  • Contributed to Mulesoft implementation in the organization and migrated service from OSB (Oracle Service Bus), Datapower to Mule ESB
  • Improved the performance of legacy application by doing performance case study and optimizing the server side and client side code
  • Integration of Fast Quote application with Guidewire Policy Processing systems
  • Managed 20+ developers and technically lead several agile/ scrum teams

Auto Quote Modernization

DXC Technology, Los Angeles, CA | 2016-04 - 2017-02

The initiative is to modernize the Auto product by developing a brand new single page application and deploying on Heroku Platform to improve user experience, reduce time in completing the quote and reduce outages. The applications are also decoupled into UI application and Server side API application to respond to changes quickly


Technology Stack:

Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring AOP, Spring Boot, web services, Jakson API, JAXB, Esapi, Log4j, Ehcache, Redis, Angular JS, Bootstrap , Heroku, Jenkins

Contribution:

  • Contributed to Solution Architecture and Application Architecture
  • Involved in planning and effort estimation
  • Designed and developed Quote Management Provider (QMP) application which abstracts datacenter services like policy processing system Rate, Database and SMTP interactions and provides a REST interface for the same
  • Led the development teams

Farmers Fast Quote (FFQ)

DXC Technology, Los Angeles, CA | 2015-10 - 2016-04

Farmers Marketing IT Portfolio has several applications like Farmers Fast Quote (FFQ) and end user quoting application. Toolkit is a batch application to send the data to downstream systems and it also allows product administration.


Technology Stack:

Java/J2EE, JSF2 (Java Server Faces), Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring AOP, web services, Jakson API, JAXB, Esapi, Log4j, Spring Batch, Quartz scheduler, Ehcache, XSL, Bootstrap, jQuery

Contribution:

  • Leading large-scale initiative like rewriting On prem quote application
  • Designed and Developed major projects like Farmers Smart Plan Auto and Farmers Smart Plan Home products which allows easy customization of the packages
  • Led Responsive initiative
  • Improved the workflow of Home quote application which in turn improved quote completion rate
  • Led technical upgrade projects (Spring upgrade, JSF upgrade, Java upgrade and WebSphere upgrade)
  • Managed several development teams

Farmers Distribution-Enterprise Architecture

DXC Technology, Los Angeles, CA | 2013-09 - 2015-10

Farmers Distribution Portfolio has several applications like eCMS, ADE and SABER (Survey application). This assignment is to lead several new initiatives in these applications, bring innovation and manage these projects from DXC side.


Technology Stack:

Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Batch Ehcache, Maven, DWR, Json/Jackson , Freemarker, CanJS, ejs, HTML5,Bootstrap, Google Analytics

Contribution:

  • Lead Web Analytics initiatives and implemented Google Analytics
  • Contributed to design and development of Single Page Application ( a homegrown Survey application)
  • Led several technology upgrades projects (Java upgrade, WebSphere upgrade, Browser Compatibility etc.,)
  • Managed several large-scale projects include 20+ developers
  • Led APM 2.0 and pursued AppDynamics solution
  • Led Enterprise Logging and pursued Splunk
  • Implemented Service Virtualization (CA Lisa) to improve lower environment availability
  • Technically led building infrastructure for new application (IBM Http Server (Apache Http server), WebSphere Application Server, F5 load balancer, Firewall/ DMZ, Siteminder IAM, Imperva WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Distribution Apps Redesign and Enterprise Architecture

DXC Technology, Los Angeles, CA | 2011-05 - 2013-09

Improve the Distributed agency applications workflow, improve productivity of the agents. Modernize the applications and improve response time. Also allow business to respond to some of the common changes quickly.


Technology Stack:

Java/J2EE, eAgent Framework, web services (JAX WS/Apache Axis 2), SAML 2.0, oAuth 2.0, usa.net, Teamsite WCM, Apache Ant, Bootstrap and JavaScript (jQuery)

Contribution:

  • Contributed to Architecture, Design and Development
  • Improved Agents Quote Workflow by reducing no.of steps and providing type ahead for lead data
  • Initiated Enterprise Search (Apache Solr ) and Social Integration (oAuth 2) for importing leads
  • Technically led several teams
  • Leveraged Bootstrap UI frameworks and jQuery plugins and modernized interface
  • Developed and standardized SSO (Single Sign On ) in organization and integrated partner applications using SAML 2.0
  • Did a performance improvement case study and implemented changes to server side code and UI code which improved the load time of the pages
  • Contributed to Teamsite WCM implementation