Mahipal Kante

As Software Architect, I work with COBRA platform Agile teams, product owners, UX, SREs and compliance security team in maintaining COBRA architecture, design, development, security and threat models Architecture and design of multi-year incremental migration of Employer portal, a Classic ASP monolith into a modern microservices based ASP.NET Core MVC application, using a combination of SSO, JWT, HashiCorp Consul and feature flags. Extensive utilization of microservices design patterns. Provide technical solutions and come up with design and estimates and breakdown into epics, features and user stories for various projects and initiatives. Create technical documentation including architecture diagrams, articles and specifications and manage wiki. Provide mentorship, code reviews, coaching and technical guidance to SDEs and SDETs of various Scrum teams. Work with remote teams located in India and South America Keep updated with latest design patterns and apply microservice and cloud design patterns including DDD, SOLID, MVC/MVVM in solutioning and evaluate new technologies, trends and tools to continuously enhance solution architecture - Provide technical solutions for Identity management, SSO and API security using Microsoft MyApps, OKTA, OAuth, Microsoft AD, MFA, Passkey, JWT, APIM and Azure Key Vault - Involved in RateRenewal application developed in Azure Cloud, Angular, C#, Docker and Kubernetes. - Design secure, high-available and scalable microservices architecture using .NET Core 8.0, C#, Azure, HashiCorp Consul, Entity Framework, ADO.NET using Visual Studio 2022 - Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, managing code Repos, setup policies, automated deployment and automated testing - Managing security vulnerabilities using Arnica and SonarQube - Work with F5 load balancing and Cloudflare - Integration with Secure Payment Gateways, IVR - SQL Server 2022, SSRS and Databricks (Python and SQL)

As a consultant at Conexis (Wageworks/HealthEquity) Involved in development of Member Portal for COBRA/FSA using ASP.NET C#, MVC, WCF, Telerik, NPoco, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2010, TFS As a Consultant at American General Life Companies: As a member of REDI Project, developed Enrollment, Quoting/Underwriting, and Online Sold Case Submission web applications which are used by the AG Employee Benefits division to support the group insurance products. Followed Agile/SCRUM process ASP.NET MVC architecture designed by using various design patterns such as, Dependency Injection, Domain Model, Message Bus, Repository, Unit of Work, Query Object and Specification Dynamic web pages using Knockout.JS scripting ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, Razor, JQuery, StructureMap, AutoMapper, Fluent, SQL Server 2008 R2, WCF, TFS. As a Consultant at Aetna: Developed web applications for Aetna Life Insurance that manage Evidence of Insurability and Beneficiary Management using ASP.NET, C#, Entity Framework, LINQ, JavaScript, JQuery, Telerik, Microsoft Enterprise Library, SQL Server 2008 R2, SSRS, WCF, XSLT, TFS

- Provided consultancy services for Miami Dade Police Department & Aetna - Architecture, design & development in Microsoft Technologies - Establish Agile/SCRUM process using TFS, VersionOne - Web – ASP.NET, JQuery, Knockout, Entity Framework, Linq, SQL Server 2008 - Desktop UI – WPF, Prism, Unity, Dev Express, Telerik, WCF

Managed developer team in developing Coded UI Test, a newly introduced offering of Visual Studio 2010. Actions performed on any windows or browser applications are recorded and equivalent code is generated in C#/VB that can playback the actions. The code is managed as a Test Project in VS 2010. The entire set of components – Recorder, playback, code generation, and API are integrated into Visual Studio Shell. Conceptualized, prototyped and presented to leadership and got CodedUITest project approved to be developed for Visual Studio 2010 along with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) Designed .Net API for Coded UI Test that conforms to Microsoft API standards Hands-on work on code generation, WPF UI using MVVM patterns and Visual Studio integration Visual Studio Shell & Add-ins, WPF, WCF, Win Forms, .Net 4.0, C# on Win7/Win2k8 Implemented a set of Visual Studio plugins for providing Silverlight support into VS 2010 Load Testing solution (.Net 4.0, WinForms, WCF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, AJAX, JSON) Investigated and prototyped Windows Azure Cloud based Load Test solution Involved in developing a generic unit test framework that integrates into Visual Studio. Any unit test framework such as xUnit, nUnit etc. can be plugged into this framework. (.Net 4.0, C#, WCF)

ITIL based Problem Management of Oracle OnDemand business, which hosts and manages end-to-end enterprise solutions, based on Oracle 11i applications. Managed a team of highly experienced senior staff in managing L4 RCA on Workflow, Concurrent Manager, 9i/10g (Table space, Archiving, Blocking Sessions) and iAS related service down and performance issues Conceptualized and architected Problem Management System, which analyzes incident trends, identifies problems and tracks them to resolution. Performs automatic problem matching based on incidents, customer profile, configuration and diagnostic information. Authored technical articles and BRDs Oracle 11i, 9i/10g, Java, iAS, OC4J, SOAP, Expect, Ksh scripts

E2Open Web Services Gateway is a RosettaNet like B2B exchange platform based on SOAP services, which enable Trading Partners to exchange B2B transactions using SOAP operations as well as other B2B standards such as EDI, RosettaNet etc. Involved in the architecture, design and development Developed E2Open Network Directory (E2ND) that operates behind Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL for exchanging B2B transactions securely and provides service discovery and user/application authentication. Developed a SOAP client that is used by Trading Partners, which sends SOAP messages securely over Tivoli WebSEAL using HTTPS protocol. Java, WebSphere 5.0, DB2 8.1, LDAP, SOAP, Apache Axis, Struts, JSP, XSLT, IBM UDDI4J, WSDL4J and Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL on Linux and Solaris platforms.

Conceptualized MetaBind a rapid application development platform for e-Business integration delivered as fully integrated into JBuilder IDE and founded a startup. Responsible for architecture, design, leadership and management Metadata driven automatic code generation framework and a flexible runtime framework that handles formatting and parsing of various message formats including EDI, Flat File. Code generators for accessing SAP system using BAPI/JCO and IDOCs. Asynchronous communication channels and extensible protocol handlers for data transfer using various communication protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, FTP, TCP/IP and JMS Java, XSLT, SOAP, EJB, Java Mail, SWING, JMS, JBuilder, TogetherJ, UML, WebLogic, Linux. Extensive utilization of UML, design patterns and J2EE patterns in product design.

DotConnect is the B2B Exchange/Middleware architecture of Ventro that consist of a J2EE platform as middleware and integrated with WebMethods for B2B integration using EDI. Middleware integrated with Oracle ERP and Ariba e-Procurement system. EJB implementation for routing and processing of Ventro transactions - orders, acknowledgements, status updates, invoices, shipment notices and catalogue transfer, exchanged in XML data format over JMS messaging. Integration with Oracle Financial system using its interface tables and concurrent manager. Implementation of order completion service: Servlet that accepts a partially filled Sales Order in XML form, parses it, obtains product and pricing details from TIBCO bus, rearranges Sales Order into purchase orders, calculates tax, shipping and handling and sends back results. Java, WebLogic, J2EE, TIBCO Rendezvous, Oracle Financials, Oracle 8i, Visual Café, Perl, Sun Solaris, Windows NT.

MTech in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Compiler Technology and Parallelization.

BE in Computer Science and Engineering