Kalaiselvan Swamy

Experience

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  HCLTech

  Mar 2010 - Jun 2014

  Moved to Drupal (PHP CMS) and played the role of Team Lead and developer. Working on sites with huge media and integration with social media. Development of sites based on wireframes and requirements. Suggesting best approaches on building sites using the Drupal CMS. Worked on PHP and MYSQL based projects in Media and Publishing domain and also Zend framework interacting with QA on issues raised and clarifications.

  • Lead Engineer

    Jul 2013 - Jun 2014

  • Software Engineer

    Mar 2010 - Jun 2013
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  Cognizant

  Jun 2014 - Nov 2018

  Playing role of Offshore Lead and Engineer working with customer directly for feature development of EMEA sites. Communicating with onsite co-ordinator and client in understanding of deliverable targets that the team need to achieve and making sure team achieves the same Worked as an onsite engineer in client location in development of enhancements for the e-commerce sites alongside client engineers. Co-ordinated with QA in offshore on clarifications/issues raised. Playing the role of offshore lead and involving in rollout of e-commerce sites to live and fixing of issues that are identified as part of QA in rollout.Achieved award as the best team working together even in difficult situations and challenging deadlines.

  • Offshore Lead

    May 2017 - Nov 2018

  • Onsite Engineer

    Nov 2016 - May 2017

  • Offshore Lead

    Jun 2014 - Nov 2016
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  CollabNet VersionOne (now Digital.ai)

  Dec 2018 - Jul 2020

  Technical Lead

  Worked as Drupal Tech Lead/Architect owning and re-engineering from Drupal 7 to 8 and migrating from other data sources - Guided and mentored the team on solving issues in Drupal 8 - Developed and customised portals in Drupal 8 - Handling regular core security updates and code review of the site

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  Axelerant

  Jul 2020 - now

  Playing the role of Technical Program manager for the Continuous Development and Maintenance Program leading the Program at a technical level by:- Setting up technical best practices and standards for developers and QA- Coaching and mentoring the portfolio team and providing constructive feedback- Release planning on multiple projects- First level of proactive and reactive technical support- Providing technical inputs on proposals for new opportunities- Identifying and working on Shift-Left items that can improve productivity, increase the quality of the software and operate more effectively as a team Show less Playing Technical Architect providing optimal solutions for Drupal applications. Currently, I:- Identify ways to optimize various aspects in projects-Review Code-Fix DevOps issues-Provide estimates for new features-Provide solution feasibility and best approaches-Solve roadblocks for my teamI also have:-Built headless Drupal communicating with frontend app via REST API-Worked on migrating huge files from CSV to Drupal 8.x -Built component based architecture in websites Show less

  • Technical Program Manager

    Oct 2021 - now

  • Technical Architect

    Jul 2020 - Oct 2021