Ananda Prasanna Jagadeesan

Experience

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  ShapeSpace Ltd

  Jan 2007 - Apr 2008

  Application Developer

  KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Enabled enterprise clients to search CAD model databases in seconds to identify models relating to certain behavioural traits, enabling users to utilise and enrich existing models instead of developing new models from scratch• Presented model recommendations to users through 3D thumbnails, including a full 360-degree view of model featuresCORE RESPONSIBILITIES• Developed architectural concepts and high-level designs into real-life working solutions, as part of project engagements• Provided technical work estimates for development to the internal management team• Analysed end-user functional requirements and developed best software development practices within ways of working• Provided comprehensives support to software deployment teams• Developed user-friendly interfaces and utilised technologies including Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, .Net and Hoops Show less

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  DMEM - Leaders in R&D

  May 2008 - Jul 2018

  Solution Architect

  KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Setup a new DevOps practice from scratch, within a fast-paced R&D environment• Delivered multi-million-pound funded cloud-based web portals and provided research professionals access to key research datasets and insightsCORE RESPONSIBILITIES• Designed 3-tier architecture for complex web-based applications and databases• Configured customer web applications using AWS cloud, entailing EC2 instances, Amazon RDS and S3• Managed deliverables and quality assured client-facing outputs and maintained high standards in project artefacts• Unit tested, smoke tested and regression tested business-critical applications• Completed hand-on programming in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP)• Setup DevOps pipelines covering build, deploy and test project phases Show less

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  Centre for Sustainable Road Freights

  Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

  Cloud Solution Architect

  KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Helped blue-chip clients John Lewis, UPS and Sainsbury’s reduce their fuel cost & carbon emissions footprint by 17%• Developed a cloud-based solution allowing businesses to optimise fright operations• Led a project team with 50 engineers and ensured GDPR data privacy compliance in the data processingCORE RESPONSIBILITIES• Architected and created micro design applications and coordinated strategic database cloud migrations• Migrated carbon-reducing measure applications from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud• Implemented Docker to run business applications as microservices through containers in loosely coupled architecture• Established a new ETL driven data warehouse to manage logistics operational data, using Google BigQuery• Extracted and consolidated data from source systems in different formats into a single consolidated data warehouse• Automated deployments, built a continuous integration service and utilised DevOps tools including Jenkins and Git Show less

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  ATICS-IO

  Mar 2020 - Oct 2020

  Cloud Solution Architect

  KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Designed cost-effective cloud infrastructure and networking architecture on Google Cloud Platform.• Developed a GCP powered patent portal, allowing users to find relevant patents based on keyphrases• Enabled the Patent portal solution to scan terabytes of data in real-time and advise end-users based on NLP conceptsCORE RESPONSIBILITIES• Designed cost-effective cloud infrastructure solutions for clients, powered by the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)• Implemented network architecture, created enterprise databases and engineered application architectural flows• Fully responsible for managing and handling application operation and providing solutions to incidents and problems• Quality assured technical designs, technical specifications and master test and QA plans• Tailored solution features to meet client use cases and delivered pre-sales pitches to senior client stakeholders• Established DevOps pipelines using Gitlab, to enable continuous integration and continuous deployment• Created templates in Terraform for cloud infrastructure as code.• Implemented Prometheus performance monitoring and resolved firewall related issues• Coordinated complex cutovers for the project go-lives and managed dependencies between cross-functional teams• Established Blue/Green deployment concepts and ensured deployments did not impact BAU client operations Show less

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Nov 2020 - Feb 2022

  Google Cloud Engineer
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  NumberEight

  Mar 2022 - May 2022

  Site Reliability Engineer
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  STL Digital

  Sept 2022 - now

  GCP Lead