Sajith Punanchira

Experience

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  Infosys

  Jul 2006 - Jul 2009

  Worked for Scottish and Southern Energy, Havant in developing a customer care solution using Microsoft CCF and Biztalk Server 2006. Worked as a Biztalk Developer with Nationwide Building Society in implementing faster payments at Swindon, United Kingdom.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Scottish and Southern Energy, Havant, United Kingdom

    Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

  • Senior Software Engineer at Nationwide Building Society, Swindon, United Kingdom

    Nov 2007 - Jun 2008

  • Software Engineer at Tesco

    Jul 2006 - Oct 2007
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  Infosys

  Feb 2010 - Feb 2011

  Technology Analyst at Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney, Australia

  The program aimed at developing an integrated desktop application to be used used by bankers in Westpac contact centers. This desktop-based user interface (UI) application presents data aggregated from various Lines of business application front ends and presents them in a unified view.

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  Infosys

  Nov 2011 - Sept 2014

  Technology Lead at Digital Integration Services, DISDPI - MSBT Responsible for implementing a SOA based solution to install Smart Meters across UK. The solution was implemented using BizTalk Server 2009 WCF services over SSL.

  • Technology Lead

    Sept 2012 - Sept 2014

  • Technology Lead at Scottish and Southern Energy, Havant, United Kingdom

    Nov 2011 - Sept 2012
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  Tech Mahindra

  Oct 2014 - Nov 2018

  Technical Architect

  • Set up and helmed the Azure Integration Competency Center.• Recruited, coached and managed a team of 15 integration engineers.•Participated in pre-sales activities, client proposals, budgeting, project scoping, estimation, scheduling etc.•Engaged with C level executives of various clients to showcase competency.

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  Lowe's India

  Nov 2018 - now

  • Currently leading a team of high performing engineers in the Digital Commerce & Omni-Channel business unit focusing on the Omni Post Purchase and Re-Engage funnel of Lowes.com. My team is responsible for different features like Order History, Order Details, Order Tracking, Subscriptions, Operational Communications, Buy It Again etc. for both DIY and PRO customers.Led the modernization of Lowes.ca front end by moving away from a monolithic architecture into micro frontend and microservices architecture for high agility.• Migration of top of the funnel non product content pages (Home, Categories, Brands, Promos) to inhouse Content Management (CMS) and Content Authoring platform that delivers content using Content As A Service (CaaS) architecture.• SEO - Dynamic Rendering of Pages to improve ranking, initiatives to grow more qualified traffic by providing better category content, optimized and harmonized navigation, filtering and search results• Modernization of Search platform using LucidWorks/Solr• Identity and Customer Profile migration from Azure Active Directory B2C/Microsoft Dynamics 365 to HCL Commerce• New Payment Connector APIs to Verifone RTS gateway for Credit Card and Digital Wallet transactionsTech Stack - React JS, Spring boot, Jenkins/Spinnaker for CICD onto GCP Cloud, Kong for API management, ELK for observability, Grafana/Prometheus for monitoring, MongoDB as data store, Kafka for pub/sub, LucidWorks/Solr for content search etc Show less • Instrumental in developing Integration and Cloud competency by recruiting, coaching and mentoring (on the job and otherwise) a team of 10 developers for Canada Digital.• Set up governance, standards, best practices, guidelines and patterns for the team. Patterns included various enterprise integration (application and data) and cloud design patterns focusing on high availability, security, reusability, reliability, disaster recovery and resiliency.• Helped define cloud adoption strategy for on-premise applications and helped making decision for As-Is vs Cloud Native vs Hybrid Approach for movement to Azure/GCP.• Helped to drive adoption of cloud native development with focus on Azure and GCP PaaS capabilities.• Helped define DevOps strategy by implementing continuous integration, continuous deployment, continuous testing and continuous monitoring as part of software development life cycle.• Managed the development team in an Agile environment to build and deliver high quality integration solutions by building accountability and measuring progress at every stage of the program to achieve results aligning with target-state architecture, standards and roadmaps.• Collaborated with technical stakeholders from Rona/Reno banners in designing data models (conceptual/logical/physical), data visualization for complex solutions and ensured that the development team adheres to data architecture principles, security policies, standards etc.• Collaborated with business, enterprise architects, domain owners and SMEs to implement microservices based architecture for the transformation of Lowe's Canada. Show less

  • Senior Manager, Software Engineering

    Jun 2021 - now

  • Technical Architect

    Nov 2018 - May 2021