Compliance Manager, Technology Lead/ Application architect, Senior Developer

H&R Block is a North American Tax preparation company operating in Australia, Canada and USA.
As part of the cloud first strategy, I am responsible for the Canada Squad to transform their
integrated client experience. As part of the process, I am responsible in optimizing the cost of IT
software, Infrastructure and vendor operations by choosing the right technology, and product design
strategies while working in tandem with Canada leadership and product teams.


Project : Canada Document Management system
* Architected, and developed a headless document management system in microservice
architecture using .Net Core, WebAPI, Azure SQL, Keyvault, Azure Kubernetes, Application
insights and Azure storage account, Azure Function
* This implementation saved $1.25 million USD on YoY licensing cost as this custom solution
replace IBM Box
* During this implementation a reusable .Net Core library was created to be re-used amount
Canada Applications
* Implemented IAC using Terraform

Projects: Tax Academy and New Tax filing platform
* Cloud hosted (k8s) Tax filing software Design, Architecture, Pilot, and go live
1. Working with Project/Product and program managers and other stakeholders to understand
business requirements and take the product architecture to align with organization
guidelines and drive the initiative till execution level so that the execution team can take
it to completion.

* Project: Cloud Governance and Dev Ops
* AKS Namespace implementation
* AKS KEDA implementation and Architecture
* Cloud Cost optimization
* Environment provisioning and Resource provisioning governance
* Terraform IaC
* Newrelic application monitoring implementation across products

* Project: Tax Pro Software on Cloud
* Multi year architecture implementation of Tax products on Azure that will be used by 20000
Tax prepares.
* Enabling asynchronous communication between systems using cloud technologies like message
queues (Azure Service Bus), Event grid etc
* Enable the development team to conform to security standards
* Lead Load and performance testing and resolving the findings
* Release planning with stakeholders
* Communicating the product impediments, challenges and other factors to stakeholders
* Align the product goals to enterprise vision and technology frameworks



Tools and Technologies: * C# , ASP.NET, WEB API, SQL, App Insights, HTML 5, CSS3.0, Azure, App
service, Azure Service Bus, Azure key vault, React, Kubernetes, Azure App Configuration, Postgres,
Java, Azure Functions, Azure Logic APPS, Power APPs, SharePoint, JIRA, Azure DevOps(ADO),
Confluence, Storage Account, Terraform, HELM, ASE, ASP, Blazor,App gateway, NSG, etc

CLIENT :* MICROSOFT
Project Name : Compliance Manager Redmond- WA- USA

Role: Senior Software Engineer/Technical Lead

Secure Trust portal and Compliance manager is a platform that Microsoft provides for its
Office 365 and Azure customers to help the customers to be compliant with different data protection
and governance standards like HIPPA, NIST, FEDRAMP, GDPR etc. This project aimed to integrating
Compliance manager with Secure Score Platform.

Responsibilities:
* Analyzed current state architecture and designed future state architecture also analyzed
current project portfolio and provided recommended actions for the in-flight and future
planned projects as part of transformation program planning.
* Responsible for assembling project teams, developing processes and documentation,
understanding customer requirements, preparing technology budgets, facilitating meetings, and
providing ongoing updates to Higher Management.
* Co-ordinate with 5 on-shore team members and 10 offshore team members in optimizing the
development process. Guide the team on the offshoring model as this was new to many on-shore
members
* Helped moving the monolithic application to a SOA
* Managed releases with Engineering and Product Managers and other stake holders
* Develop Web APIs that can be consumed by Secure Score platforms
* Fix and modify Azure Deployment scripts
Tools and Technologies: * C# , ASP.NET, WEB API, COSMOS DB, App Insights, HTML 5, CSS3.0, React,
Azure, App service, Azure key vault

The LMx system is a re-imagining of how XPO Last Mile can provide tailored solutions to our
customers while standardizing execution as much as possible. LMx is a wholesale replacement of the
current DMS system to eliminate as many of the artificial constraints the current system imposes on
The primary reason for upgrading DMS is to support the growth in the MDC network, supporting
more advanced networked freight and order flows.
The project will serve as the means to reduce variation in processes and promote process
standardization across Last Mile, where possible. LMx will streamline Last Mile order management,
not allow unnecessary process variation, and result in more refined output data and better business
intelligence.

Responsibilities:
* Design applications based on the user stories written by product owners
* Design the DB schema
* Design WEB API architecture
* Suggest implementation strategies for various business needs
* Pilot integration between systems

* As a lead
* Ensure User stories are groomed and story pointed
* Technically design API end points and create development tasks for team members
* Fill the sprint with stories according to capacity of the team
* First ever Alexa skill for tracking orders on Logistics domain
* Responsive web design using bootstrap
* CQRS Pattern implementation for 36 micro services
1. Read and Write Data transfer using Message Queues
* Implementing Auditing features to finance module using CouchBase
* Monitor Team city builds and Octopus deployments

Tools and Technologies: * C# , ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WEB API, MS SQL, MS SQL Management Studio
2014/2012, SSRS, LINQ, SQL Server 2014, HTML 5, CSS3.0, GIT, JIRA, Confluence, Angular 5, Jenkins