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Dinakaran has over 15+ years of IT experience in a multitude of technology stacks. He is currently the Engineering Manager at Lifion By ADP and manages two different microservices with 4 to 5 engineers in each of them.

Over the last 4+ years, he is focussed exclusively on building and managing cloud-native microservices in AWS using Java and Nodejs in combination with Serverless Stack as well as Kubernetes.

Proficient in the technology stack of Java. MVC - Struts, JSF, Webservices - SOAP and REST and JSR specifications as well in Nodejs. He also has basic knowledge of front end stack - Angular, Bootstrap etc.

Hands-on experience with building solutions on top of AWS Serverless Stack of API Gateway and Lambda, K8S, Helm Charts, Kinesis, SQS, Redis, Aurora MySQL and a host of other Managed Services of AWS. Leveraged AWS DevOps for CI - CD pipeline and knowledge of Infra As Code paradigm ( IAC ) like Cloud Formation and Terraform

Exposure to Observability stack - Kibana, Cloudwatch Metrics, DataDog, Pagerduty. Hands-on experience in supporting mission-critical services 24*7 across AWS regions.

Exposure to different Business Domains like Banking, Insurance, Life Sciences, Retail, eCommerce and Human Resources

Well skilled at collaborating with Product Managers and other cross-functional teams to prioritise initiatives, help in the planning of the OKR based on Product Roadmap and align business overall priorities.

Have been managing cross-functional teams of varied sizes from 3 to 10 over for over 4+ years. Good exposure at Team and People Management, Performance Management, Recruitment and Coaching

Primary Skills :

  • Java and Microservices ( 2006 ~ 2020, 10+ yrs)
  • Node and Microservices ( 2020 till date , ~2 years )
  • AWS Serverless API Gateway, Lambda, SQS Managed Services (since 2018, 4+ yrs )
  • K8S, Helm Charts, Kinesis, Redis, SQS ( since 2021 , 1+ yr)
  • DevOps - AWS DevOps, CloudFormation, Terraform, Jenkins ( 3+ yr )
  • Observability - Cloud Watch, ELK, DataDog, X-Ray, PagerDuty

Secondary Skills :

  • Angular ( 1 + yr)
  • Azure ( 6 months) and GCP Firebase ( 6 months)

Career Progression :

  • Java ( 10+ years, since 2006 )
  • IBM Portal/ Web Content Management (10+ years, 2006 - 2017)
  • Front End Technologies - Angular ( 2017 )
  • Cloud / Serverless / DevOps ( 4+ years , since 2018 )

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