Pragash Rajeswaran, M.Eng, PMP

Solution Architect – Homeowner Business Transformation (HBT), CMHC Sept 2024 - Present - Contributed the modernization of Mortgage Loan Insurance (MLI) systems, transitioning from COBOL mainframe into a cloud-native microservices architecture, driving scalability, agility, and faster product delivery. - Partnered with Product Owners and Business Stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical workflows, architecture diagrams, and hands-on prototypes. - Actively engaged in development tasks, including reverse-engineering legacy C# code, quickly adapting to Node.js in the new microservices environment, and providing pseudo-code, reference implementations, and PoCs for development teams. - Designed and documented REST APIs, service interactions, and orchestration flows for MLI transformation. - Introduced PlantUML (diagram-as-code), enabling version-controlled, maintainable architecture diagrams and improving collaboration across architects. - Collaborated with multiple Scrum teams, resolving technical roadblocks, reviewing code/implementations, and ensuring delivery of sprint and product goals. - Leveraged hands-on SaaS and orchestration expertise to design transition flows, which were reviewed and approved by architecture governance. - Advocated Agile and engineering best practices, ensuring design documentation was continuously updated and implemented with high quality. - Produced business-friendly visual artifacts (high-level sprint review slides) to clearly communicate technical progress to executives without exposing system complexity. - Acted as a mentor and technical advisor to developers and fellow architects, sharing deep expertise in cloud-native development, microservices, and REST APIs. Key Skills: - Azure Cloud, Microservices, REST APIs, Workflow Orchestration, SaaS - Hands-on Development: C#, Node.js, React, JavaScript, SQL - Agile/Scrum, Solution Architecture, Design Thinking, Diagram-as-Code (PlantUML), Proof-of-Concept Development

- Worked closely with Software Architects, Business Analyst, other software leads and Release managers to identify the requirements, generate backlog for the team’s workloads. - Provided technical guidance for designing and building the internal application to support the requirements and rolled out delivery plans for Information Technology Enablers(ITE). - As Leader, discussed possible technology selections for the solution of ITE and initiated serverless architecture to develop the ITE enablers, as it suits the requirement better than Spring boot technology - Worked closely with ISED’s stakeholders to demonstrate the ITE application progress, gathered feedback, and identified potential enhancement to ensure application is steered in the right direction. - Advocated to enforce best software engineering practices are followed during the feature delivery with quality, while meeting security standards. - As the software development lead, providing technical guidance with AWS Cloud technologies, and always available for technical discussion with team members to remove any hurdles. - Utilized my quick learning ability to ramp up into AWS Lambda (serverless architecture), and was able to engage with stakeholders within 2 months of joining the team. - Using AWS Lambda, ITE enablers serverless functions were developed based on contract first design architecture and RESTApi. - Using my experience with Cloudformation , I facilitated adding the AWS lambda functions into the ISEDs deployment stack working closely with DevOps personnel. - Presented the technical strategy to develop a test application which will aid in showcasing ITE applications value to upper management/stakeholders. - Worked closely with Ui/UX developers to create the test application with React.js. - Managed the items worked by team members and validated the timesheet for payment.

- Liaised with Stakeholders to agree on product roadmap, and lead the technical team with roadmap. - Managed and guided product managers, development managers as well as analytics managers. - Managed the items worked by the external consultant development team and validated the timesheet for payment. - Worked closely with subject matter experts to provide Strategic plans for current and future product life cycle including product releases, and platform maintenance. - Collaborated closely with stakeholder and team lead to generate technical features and user stories for team's solution development. - Ensured best software engineering practices are followed during the feature release cycle including coding, quality, server technologies, performance engineering, while being compliant with security. - As the Lead for technology, worked side-by-side with University of Toronto researchers to transition the database from SQL (Relational) into GraphDB (non-relational). - Initiated and presented a technical strategy to introduce React.js/Node.js into our frontend stack, which will facilitate the hiring, and allow our frontend to be more up to date and inviting the users. - Delivered SaaS product deployment which includes Data Analytics with AI/ML), and backend component in C# in the .NET framework, Java and Python. - Obtained knowledge in Azure Cloud, being administrator ensured resource allocation/budgeting in tag with solutions deployed. Guided DevOps team to ensure resources and technology solutions are kept up to date with industry trends(ex: Kubernetes deployment was used manage dockerized components) - Managed departmental budgets for staffing. Periodically analyzed the costing for the development team (including the consultants) and provided strategic guidance and cost savings. - As Director lead the quarterly company objectives discussion representing the R & D team to meet key results metrics for the year. - Derived resource plans to growth of product vision.

- Partnered with Executives to define product roadmap, plan and deliver features in HelpSeeker portfolio while focusing on customer usability, design capacity, deliverable timelines. - Worked closely with Customer Support/Executives to generate and capture analytics for the features improvement. This includes usage analytics and data wrangling analytics. - Worked closely with the consultant development team to obtain the existing product details/architecture to grow the internal team and ensure delivery of features with quality. - Coach the internal/external team to transition existing monolithic architecture into micro-service architecture to rapidly deliver features while allowing flexibility. - Played multiple roles such as Project Manager, Release Manager, Architect, Scrum Master, and Developer. - Provided leadership and technical guidance to the team of designers and influenced the feature designs. - Guided and led the transition to Agile project management from traditional through the HelpSeeker cooperation. - As Subject Matter expert on RESTApi web-based application, utilized Java, C#, and Python languages to implement and achieve the team objectives. - Self-initiated the introduction of Atlassian products (JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket) into the Development team. - By demonstrating the benefits of Atlassian produced, persuaded the upper management toward the move from Asana project management tool to Atlassian tools. - Enforced the team to utilize Test Driven Development methodology to ensure the team understands delivering features with high automation coverage and minimal human testing. - Play key role as Architect/Technology expert to influence the team to deliver features with quality and maintainable/reusable components to increase the velocity for future. - Always worked with the direct reports by listening to their aspirations and goals and carving a path to meet their individual objectives while meeting company goals.

• Worked as Senior Consultant on Canadian Pension Plan Enhancement (CPPe) project in ESDC. • The CPPe system, the migration from legacy COBOL system into new micro-service architecture using OpenApi/Spring-boot and Drools rule engine was designed with multiple components. • Demonstrated great leadership/problem solving skills by providing solution proposals, and helping teams to get ramped into domain quickly. • Displayed quick learning/adaptability skills by ramping into new technologies (Such as Spring-boot, OpenApi, Drools, and Citrus), Project Domain (Canadian Pension Plan, Quebec Pension plan. Showed great inter-personnel skills by working with fellow Architects and Product owners. • As part of the Sprint review process, created high level slide representation of the completed stories for clear view for Business without exposing the complex designs. • Proved ability to learn and deliver quickly when taking on new domain/technologies to accelerate delivery of the features. Took the time to train the team on the benefit of unit testing as part of feature development, which increased confidence in delivery with high velocity and quality.

- Partnered with Product Management and Systems team to define product roadmap, plan and deliver features in Ciena’s photonic network element portfolio. (Considering customer usability, design capacity, deliverable timeline) - Coach and manage multi-site product development team to deliver next generation network management software in a micro-service architecture. - Played multiple roles (such as Release Manager, Architect, Scrum Master, and Developer), provided leadership and technical guidance for a team of designers, and influenced feature designs. - Subject Matter experts utilized Java and Python languages in implementation to achieve the team objectives in the sprint. - Took initiative and educated the team on “No Product Verification” which served the purpose of delivering features with high automation coverage and minimal human testing. - As Scrum Master worked with team to breakdown and assign feature stories for sprints - Played key role as Architect/Domain expert on Optical domain (L0) in Network Management System(NMS) to influence the team to deliver features with quality and maintainable/reusable components to increase the velocity for future. - As a people manager, coached designers to guide them in achieving their objectives which allows the company to achieve its goals.

- Received spot award for innovation. Developed a tool which allowed switch frequency selection through either Network Management System (NMS) or Optical domain (L0) Control Plane. This innovation allowed multiple customers to easily deploy the NextGen NMS rapidly. - Used RESTApi, Micro-service Architecture with open-source systems such as (Docker/Cassandra/Kafka) to develop and deliver NextGen NMS web service to customers. - Played a leadership role in providing technical leadership and team management in the migration of Intent Fulfillments Designer (IFD) into Blue Planet Orchestrator (BPO) which ensured quick, on-time delivery of features. - Self-initiated to lead the Network Management solution in optical domain (L0) migration into BPO, as L0 NMS had already been deployed in large customer networks with legacy IFD. - Conceived and executed a two-release plan to migrate AT&T Network management system(NMS) on L0 Optical space, enabling Ciena to become the first vendor to transmit 400GE service in AT&T’s Core network in 2019 - Exploiting advanced knowledge in Java and Python, delivered features with high velocity/ quality. Demonstrated great understanding on SDLC process, and product awareness when reassigned to a struggling team to accelerate delivery. Took the time to train the team on the benefit of unit tests as part of feature development, which increased confidence in delivery.

- As Subject Matter Expert (SME)in Optical domain, demonstrated admirable analytical skills by applying software design principles to deliver complex features with high quality for Network Management System(NMS) for L0 called Wavelength Service Management (WSM), which developed revenue for the organization. - Proven leadership skills and acquired project management proficiency by Acting as a Scrum Master for a team of 8 designers and architects. - As Scrum master, responsible for: defining goals for each sprint, aligning the team on commitments /hosting retrospective to learn and improve for the following sprints. - Demonstrated great interpersonal skills by being Product Verification first point of contact for almost 4 releases. This allowed L0 network management products to go through the Verification cycle smoothly. - Exploited Junit framework to write Unit/Integration tests and working closely to develop automated testing framework exhibited the importance of automated testing in agile development process. - Obtained knowledge of Perforce version controller, WebLogic server with oracle DB interactions. Increased knowledge in Java with applying service-oriented architecture design. - Applied Flex Adobe programming concepts to develop GUI frameworks for Network Management products to facilitate users to easily use the software.

• Gained practical knowledge of OSI layers especially layer 2 (Data link layer) in real time environment. (including Provide Backbone Transport(PBT)/Provide Backbone Bridge(PBB)) • Obtained project management competence by coordinating the Trunk Enhancement Project. • Developed leadership skills by priming the feature called Trunk Audit. • Industrialized client server architecture for Provisioning L2 products and also expanded knowledge on GUI implementation. (Used ClearCase and JAVA) • By performing unit and integration testing, obtained practical experience in different platforms. (Windows, Linux, Unix, and Solaris) • Wrote technical specifications, High level Design, Detailed Design documents advanced written communication skills. • Developed inter-personal skills through team work to produce quality products

• Analyzed Applanix software, hardware products requirements and developed test plans. • Acquired knowledge in unit testing, building real time software releases, and Simulation. • New Hardware assembling, hardware performance testing was done for upgrades in POS systems. • Designed and implemented tools to facilitate developers. (Visual C# was used on Visual Studio.NET 2005 environment) • Conducted Validation and Verification (V&V) process for the products to ensure product meets customer satisfaction and wrote technical documents • Obtained initiative, organizational and time management skill by completing the projects by deadline date, developed interpersonal skills by communicating to co-workers.

Responsibilities and Tasks:=>• Studied the requirements, designed the database and software system. • Developed and implemented Registration Packaging software (Visual C # and Relational Database SQL were utilized). • Wrote memo, proposal, and technical reports concerning the software. • Demonstrated ability to work with minimum supervision by completing the projects. • Revealed good organizational skills by dividing the tasks in incremental process. Final Products delivered:=> (Utilized Visual C# and Microsoft Access DB) - Developed and deployed Registration Helper Tool - Developed and deployed Course Selector Tool

Computer and Systems Engineering with minor in Statistics