Arun Prasad Raghavendran

Key Responsibilities
Owned end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production, owning team features or system components.
Collaborated with the product team to understand requirements and devise effective solutions.
Led the design and development of new features and projects.
Conducted peer and mandatory code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
Mentored junior developers, offering proactive and on-demand guidance.
Coordinated with cross-functional teams regarding dependencies and release planning.
Participated in design discussions, presenting designs and offering valuable feedback on others.
Developed reusable components and libraries to enhance team productivity
Major Achievements and Projects:
Led Custom Watchlist Project:
Assumed full ownership of the project, from high-level and low-level design to implementation.
Developed an API-based microservice and an event-driven architecture service.
Set up Elasticsearch for data ingestion and search, including a batch job for bulk updates from customers.
Created foundational bootstrap for services, guided the team in task assignment and execution, implemented and reviewed the implementation of core logic/components.
Worked with UI team to finalize the API contracts and providing the client library for API integration.
Developed Elasticsearch fuzzy search queries for high performance and accuracy.
Ensured the event-driven service handles millions of events per day in near real-time
Maintained high fault tolerance and implemented comprehensive fallback mechanisms for system interactions.
Monitored key aspects of the project to ensure smooth operation, reliability and providing product related insights.
Optimized AWS costs by identifying discrepancies between needed and allocated resources in production and non-production environments.

Key Responsibilities
Led a development team of three members.
Produced precise and clear technical design specifications with comprehensive details.
Provided technical leadership: led design and development within an agile team comprising Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and an Experience Designer, and contributed individually.
Collaborated with, mentored, and advised team members to enhance productivity and effectiveness, shared business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization.
Developed expertise to act as a domain expert, took ownership of team-built solutions and oversaw team efforts to ensure project completion.
Acted as a junior Architect, bridging junior developers and senior architects.
Participated in design discussions, presenting designs and offering valuable feedback on others.
Mentored junior developers, offering proactive and on-demand guidance.
Major Achievements and Projects:
Key Developer of Athena Medical Coding Service
Served as the go-to person for API design, development, and reviews.
Implemented Single Sign-On (SSO) for the UI application, allowing users to reuse legacy credentials for the new application.
Designed and developed authentication and authorization mechanisms for both backend and frontend using OAuth framework standards.
Developed a React library that renews user sessions based on activity, with customizations like idle time and token refresh time, used by multiple teams for a user-friendly and secure healthcare application.
Troubleshot multiple issues in production and non-production environments, unblocking the team.
Set up numerous infrastructure components and services in AWS.
Part of the 2018 hackathon winning team that developed multilingual support for the patient portal.
Regularly appreciated and recognized for consistency, ownership, dedication, and technical knowledge.

Key Responsibilities
Worked on functional and non-functional requirements.
Collaborated with business analyst and testing team for development and release of functional stories.
Performed performance profiling for multiple services and components.
Conducted load and performance tests to benchmark the service performance.
Fixed numerous performance bottlenecks based on the performance profiling results.
Took additional responsibility as a release manager for a tenure of one year.
Collaborated frequently with the lead and architects for performance findings and optimization.
Mentored junior developers, offering proactive and on-demand guidance.

Major Achievements and Projects:
SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area)
Worked as a key developer in the team to improve the overall performance of the service.
With the guidance from lead and architect, was able to improve the performance of the system by 20X.
Was able to make all the performance optimization within the planned timelines.
Provided post release monitoring support and quickly jumped into and fixed numerous bugs.
Received commendations from clients for demonstrating consistency, meticulous planning, and exemplary execution throughout the SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) project.