Harsha Govindaraju, Developer in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Harsha Govindaraju

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Solution Architect and Developer

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Toptal member since August 29, 2022

Bio

Harsha is a highly focused, driven, and professional solution architect who brings the right technical expertise and business acumen to any organization. He has many years of experience working in teams and providing complex solutions to help organizations overcome difficult problems and grow and maintain market share. Harsha has a broad range of natural skills, qualities, and attributes that, coupled with in-depth technical abilities, make him a great addition to any team.

Portfolio

Infosys
Software Architecture, System Architecture Design, Web Technologies...
Dell EMC XtremIO
InstallShield, Design, Jakarta EE, Jakarta EE Design Patterns, RDBMS, Oracle...

Experience

  • Web Technologies - 20 years
  • Software Engineering - 20 years
  • Design Systems - 18 years
  • Software Design Patterns - 15 years
  • Software Architecture - 15 years
  • System Architecture Design - 10 years
  • Architectural Patterns - 10 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Software Architecture

The most amazing...

...thing I've achieved was becoming the principal architect for a mobile wallet and settlement application, Cadre, for US Bank featured in Money 20/20 Las Vegas.

Work Experience

Senior Technology Architect

2012 - PRESENT
Infosys
  • Headed the architecture, deployment, and implementation of numerous development, re-engineering, and infrastructure optimization projects.
  • Gained experience in working on successful implementation of large programs.
  • Implemented programs and projects for clients worldwide, including US Bank, Citibank, and BMW of North America in the USA, Royal Bank of Scotland and BP in the UK, Aon in Germany, and Optus, National Australia Bank, ANZ, and Westpac in Australia.
  • Participated in the architecture team to create a new bank under the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Technologies: Software Architecture, System Architecture Design, Web Technologies, Software Engineering, Critical Thinking, Software, Programming Languages, RDBMS, Deployment, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Software Design Patterns, Cloud Patterns, Architectural Patterns, Jakarta EE, Design Systems

Associate Principal Engineer

2007 - 2012
Dell EMC XtremIO
  • Headed the design and development of IDS, IDSx, a web publisher, and XML web target installers.
  • Led the product development of "My Documentum Desktop" for India COE.
  • Worked on code review, integration, performance engineering, and deployment of products and services.
  • Created and managed multi-location engineering labs and automation of multiple operating systems, databases, and application servers using Windows, VMware, and Unix platforms.
Technologies: InstallShield, Design, Jakarta EE, Jakarta EE Design Patterns, RDBMS, Oracle, SQL Server 2014, Sybase, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE, Windows, Web Technologies, JSF

Experience

US Bank | Mobile Wallet Application

As a lead project architect, I headed the development of an innovative financial product showcased in Finovate and Money 20/20. After working on this project as the first architect on the team, I won the client's confidence through my technical capabilities, stakeholder management, and exceeding their expectations in the successful proof of concept rollouts, which led to the project receiving an award.

Williams and Glyn

I was a portfolio architect in the finance and treasury area for creating a subsidiary bank for the Royal Bank of Scotland. My responsibilities included:

• Identifying and creating banking applications for the new bank.
• Architecting and working on integrating a multitude of applications developed on multiple platforms, such as Jakarta EE, .NET, operating systems, databases, mainframe applications, and technologies.
• Identifying and managing apt infrastructure allocation, deployment, and performance of the ported or new banking applications.

Education

2012 - 2016

Master's Degree in Business Administration (Executive MBA)

ICFAI Business School - Bangalore, India

1996 - 2000

Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science

Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering - Bangalore, India

Certifications

OCTOBER 2013 - PRESENT

TOGAF

The Open Group

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js

Tools

InstallShield, RabbitMQ

Languages

Java

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jakarta EE, Software Design Patterns, Oracle, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Windows

Storage

RDBMS, SQL Server 2014, Sybase, SUSE, MongoDB, Redis Cache

Frameworks

JSF

Paradigms

Microservices Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture

Other

Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Software, Critical Thinking, Design Systems, System Architecture Design, Operating Systems, Enterprise Architecture, Web Technologies, Programming Languages, Deployment, Architectural Patterns, Cloud Patterns, Design, Jakarta EE Design Patterns, Mobile UX, Mobile UI, RESTful Microservices, Business, Business Cases, Administration, Mainframe

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