Personal details
Kula S.
Summary
Experienced and results-driven Senior Software Consultant with a strong track record at IBM Expert Labs. Proficient in delivering solution-based consulting, automating Infrastructure and Applications, managing Cloud-Native containerized workloads, implementing Event-Driven Microservice Architecture, Conversational & Analytical AI, Enterprise Integrations & Middleware, and Business Process Management. Dedicated to driving excellence in IT operations through innovative solutions and strategic foresight.
Highlights:
- Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, technology insights, technical evaluations, and risk assessment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and define best practices, governance processes and frameworks to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations, and security policies.
- Define and execute Minimum Viable Products (MVP), demonstrate strategic roadmaps and Proof of Value (POV).
- Conduct infrastructure and application health checks and discover modernization and AI opportunities.
- Advocate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps principles in modernizing infrastructure and applications, adopting cloud-native approaches, and managing reliable, robust, resilient, and scalable enterprise workloads.
- Strategic planning, sizing, optimizing, and continually refine to ensure alignment with organizational goals and requirements.
- Lead and research industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and digital transformation.
- Java, Quarkus, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event Sourcing, and IaC/GitOps.
Work Experience
Expert Labs: Developed BAMOE practice, GitOps framework automation for cloud native BPM using Quarkus, Kogito, BPMN, Decision Rules (DMN & Drools), Predictive Models (PMML) and migration patterns from legacy BPM Processes.
Implemented and integrated AI workflows with personalized content generation to assist and copilot day-day tasks using Watson X Orchestrate skills and Generative AI.
Delta Airlines: ZULU program is an initiative to modernize Delta applications, workforce, and flight operations to AWS. Legacy TIBCO systems modernized to cloud native event driven micro services adopting Domain Driven Design and event sourcing using Spring Cloud Streams, Amazon MSK, Dynamo DB and Red Hat OpenShift on AWS
Interac CA: Evaluated both infrastructure and Spring Boot microservices application architecture, conducted thorough health checks.
Managed and provided leadership in refactoring RTR Exchange microservices, addressing infrastructure, CPU, memory, and JVM thread bottlenecks to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Streamlined the delivery pipeline by consolidating configurations and decoupling from binaries.
Travelport: Led Minimum Viable Products (MVP) and demonstrated strategic solutions by showcasing OpenShift (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS) Tekton / Argo CD GitOps, Proof of Value to illustrate agility, extensibility, and a loosely coupled event-driven microservice architecture.
Discovered, designed, and implemented secure Quarkus, Spring Boot containerized microservices adhering to Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event Sourcing, Kafka Streams, and CQRS.
IBM Quest: Implemented a production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git-Ops automation solution for managing and maintaining OpenShift infrastructure (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS), container workload configurations including RBAC, Storage, Network, Managed Services, Custom Resources.
- AI/ML Chatbot Strategy and Implementation for Dealer Management System (DMS) and Open Dental.
- Automate business intents and engage customers using Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Experience across Web, Social and Voice channels.
- Flexible Cognitive Chatbot solutions framework with one-bot many channels including Web, IVR, Google Actions, Facebook, WhatsApp, Alexa.
- Seamless, Secure, and scalable integrations with Enterprise Applications, Services, Enterprise Data, Cloud Services including GCP, IBM, AZURE, and AWS services.
- Rich native channel multi-media and graphics support such as Cards, Select List, Carousel Cards Features