Sreenivas Gopalam

sreenivas.gopalam@gmail.com 425-785-3897 Redmond, Washington.

 

Summary

A seasoned solution architect, highly skilled IT platform designer/developer and strong Dev Sec Ops platform engineer.  Deep expertise in microservices and CICD platforms. Specializes in the Mobile Telecom IT domain.

 

Core Areas of Expertise:

 

Application Development and Frameworks:  Java, Spring Boot, J2EE, Angular, Node.js, Camel Framework, AspectJ, Jetty, EJB

 

Cloud and Dev Sec Ops: Jenkins, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, Ansible, Minikube, AAD, OIDC, OAuth, Jenkins, Istio, ARGO CD, Kong, nginx, Two way TLS, certificates, Git workflow, key vaults

 

Databases:  MongoDB,  H2, My SQL, Cassandra, JPA, Hibernate

 

Middleware Platforms:  Tibco, Weblogic, JBoss, MQ Series, Tuxedo, Kafka, ZookKeeper, JMS, Vitria, CORBA, XA protocol, SMPP

 

Scripting and Automation: Scripting: Unix shell and Awk scripting for automation and system-level operations. 

 

Build Tools:  Experienced in Maven, Ant, and Rational RUP for software builds and deployment. 

 

Testing and Debugging:  Test-Driven Development, JVM Troubleshooting, Thread/Heap Dump Analysis, SpringBootTest, MockMvc

 

Architectural Proficiency:  

Microservices & REST APIs: Proficient in designing and developing scalable microservices using RESTful web services, SOAP, XML, JSON, and XSD, Swagger, OpenAPI, JAXB, XML Beans, Contivo, ETL

 

Object-Oriented Design:  Expertise in developing multi-threaded, high-volume components while identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks. 

 

 Working with business, operations, and development to come up with application and platform architecture and lead requirements through deployment cycle.

 

 

 

 

Education

City University of Seattle

MBA, Financial Management · (2001 - 2003)

 

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

BS, Computer Science · (1986 - 1990)

 

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert                                                                   

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

 

Sun certified Java architect.

VM Ware certified spring professional

 

Professional Experience

Charter Communications (Consultant through Pinnacle)

October 2023 – December 2024

- Architected IT and business solutions for orchestrating sales, billing, activation, network, and fulfillment flows, for the Spectrum mobile MVNO platform

- Architected CICD Dev-Sec-Ops strategies using Jenkins, Harness, Istio Service Mesh, and Kubernetes. 

 

AT&T

January 1997 to May 2023: 26 years 5 months

Senior Solutions Architect

 

Architected and developed enterprise-scale, secure, distributed, cloud-based applications. 

Designed telecom IT business processes for sales, activations, fulfillment, and customer care. 

Created Infrastructure as code templates for Kubernetes Deployments, Services, and other workloads.

Built CI/CD platforms with expertise in Jenkins, security issues, TLS certificates, and encryption. 

Developed credit check, activation, and fulfillment services using CORBA, EJBs, and app servers. 

Achieved multiple awards, including the Circle of Excellence and CIO Award.

 

 

OpenCon Systems

Senior Engineer

March 1995 - January 1997 (1 year 11 months)

Designed and developed network management systems using the following technologies.

Network Management, CMIP, CMISE, DSET, GDMO, TR303, RDT, IDLC

Implemented Remote Digital Terminal network management Components. Designed and implemented DS0 protection switchover system in C++.

Designed test plans to test Remote Digital Terminal Components.

 

HCL

Engineer

May 1994 - March 1995 (11 months)

Designed and Developed distributed transaction management applications using Tuxedo, OLTP, UNIX , C and C++.

ECIL

Engineer

August 1990 - May 1994 (3 years 10 months)

Developed applications for the following areas.

UNIX, C , C++, Message Switching System, Device Drivers