
Manna Akpan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Applications Developer
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Toptal member since October 2, 2020
Manna has 12+ years of software development experience designing and implementing software applications. He's a MuleSoft Certified Platform and Integration Architect, MuleSoft Certified Developer Level 2, MuleSoft Go-To-Market Champion, and a certified AWS Cloud Architect. Manna's niche revolves around building enterprise integration applications and building and leading enterprise API centers for enablement organizations.
Portfolio
Experience
- Java - 10 years
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) - 6 years
- Networks - 5 years
- Mule ESB - 5 years
- Applications - 5 years
- Sonic ESB - 5 years
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform - 4 years
- Jenkins Pipeline - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Jenkins Pipeline, IntelliJ IDEA, Oracle SQL Developer, Sonic ESB, Eclipse, Anypoint Studio, ActiveMQ, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Salesforce
The most amazing...
...Android mobile application I've developed is being used to help patients with rheumatoid arthritis in a health science lab in Winnipeg, Canada.
Work Experience
Senior MuleSoft Application Developer
Wawanesa Insurance
- Took a lead role in the conversion and migration of multiple integration applications that were formerly running on Sonic ESB into the MuleSoft Anypoint platform.
- Designed and developed approximately over a dozen MuleSoft applications from their foundational stage until production.
- Played a critical role in building a C4E practice, implementing C4E governance, and evangelizing the process of building and shipping integration applications using the MuleSoft Anypoint platform.
- Developed and implemented CI/CD capability for MuleSoft applications being deployed to a customer-hosted runtime. using Jenkins, Groovy, Bitbucket, Maven, and Artifactory.
- Supported a cluster of customer-hosted runtimes with multiple domains constituting over 300 MuleSoft applications in production.
- Designed and implemented a process to improve C4E engagement with LOB teams or developers by instituting and gathering useful metrics to determine successful engagements.
- Architected and implemented prototype CloudHub applications to demonstrate business improvements for digitization.
- Implemented a utility middleware application that saved the company millions of dollars by reducing downtimes during critical production incidents.
- Provided elite analysis, guidance, and improvement strategies for Mule applications experiencing production catastrophes.
Solution Architect
Edward Jones
- Led the solution architecture designing and implementation of 10+ digital transformation projects to support business functions for corporate digital product portfolios at Edward Jones.
- Served as a principal resource and SME in building a C4E organization to elevate the API maturity of one of the largest financial investment firms in North America.
- Oversaw the design and execution of an API developer training plan to increase knowledge and improve proficiency in API management and control standards to support over 3000 technical staff consisting of engineers, architects, and product managers.
- Spearheaded the overall API design strategy for converting 1,000+ legacy EJBs to RESTful API Spring Framework 4 applications.
- Created and published the first REST API design standards to govern all API products delivered in the firm’s digital division.
Integration Architect
Bose
- Served as the lead integration architect during the discovery phase of a Salesforce migration project to enable the client’s business-to-consumer channel on Commerce Cloud, OMS, CDP, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud.
- Designed enterprise integration solutions to enable optimal connectivity between Salesforce Cloud products, 3rd-party services, SAP CRM, and SAP ECC applications to meet business and technical requirements.
- Coordinated requirement gathering by facilitating workshops with the client and overseeing the solution design of the client’s application integration network.
MuleSoft Solution Architect
VF Corporation
- Developed REST APIs to unlock business data from downstream systems using the white-label approach.
- Led a team of MuleSoft developers in delivering API solutions aimed at solving various business use cases regarding an eCommerce customer journey.
- Designed, optimized, and refactored the application codebase, which improved the performance of APIs, decreased time spent on regression, and reduced code conflicts due to shared codebase.
- Implemented and optimized error handling and logging strategy across the client’s application network.
Guidewire Application Developer
Wawanesa Insurance
- Delivered solutions to existing defects in an agile environment for business users of four Guidewire applications.
- Implemented optimizations and performance tuning of the Guidewire suite of applications.
- Implemented rating algorithms and business product changes and coordinated production deployments of the Guidewire suite of applications.
- Supported and coordinated data migration from a mainframe back-end system (PMS) into Guidewire using Cronacle and ETL processes. These data migration ETLs run on a weekly batch with tens of thousands of policyholders' records per cycle.
- Developed and implemented various batch jobs in Redwood Cronacle using various scripting tools for automation and integration of batch jobs with different external systems.
- Led the integration delivery by standing up to other teams' integration capabilities.
Integration ESB Developer
Wawanesa Insurance
- Built multiple middleware integration applications for a major property and casualty insurance company, using the Sonic ESB platform from the design phase until applications were shipped to production.
- Developed custom Sonic services, plugins, and interfaces while applying various enterprise integration patterns.
- Created SOAP and RESTful web services with complex XSLT transformations and multiple orchestrations for real-time processing, batch processing, reliability, and to meet both functional and non-functional requirements and SLAs.
- Developed in-house developer utility tools using Java and SQL, for monitoring Sonic production components.
- Implemented various production support strategies for troubleshooting time-sensitive business applications and ensuring a high available Sonic ESB infrastructure.
Software Developer
Norima Consulting
- Designed and developed an Android mobile application from the requirements stage until it was shipped to production. This application was used by the health sciences lab in Winnipeg to support ongoing rheumatoid arthritis research.
- Engaged with doctors and researchers in designing a user interface for affected patients.
- Implemented low-level OpenGL functions to flesh out a novel user experience.
Experience
General Ledger & Accounts Payable Applications
Integration Proxy Application
Mule Flow Control
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Manitoba - Winnipeg, Canada
Diploma in Information System Management
Aptech International - Abuja, Nigeria
Certifications
Certified Developer - Mule 4
MuleSoft
Certified Platform Architect
MuleSoft
Integration and API Associate - Mule 3
MuleSoft
Certified Integration Architect
MuleSoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline, Java Message Service (JMS), Jenkins Job DSL
Tools
Anypoint Studio, Sonic ESB, IntelliJ IDEA, Adobe Dreamweaver, Jenkins, SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC), Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HashiCorp
Languages
Java, XML, XSLT, DataWeave, Java 8, C++, C, PHP, C#.NET, JavaScript, HTML, XPath, Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Groovy
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Human Interface Design, Object-relational Mapping (ORM), REST
Platforms
Mule ESB, MuleSoft, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Mule Runtime Engine, Eclipse, Ubuntu, Jakarta EE, Android, Salesforce
Storage
Oracle SQL Developer, Databases, Oracle SQL, RDBMS, Azure Cloud Services
Other
Software Engineering, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Applications, Networks, Networking, Data Mining, Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Guidewire, Okta, Order Management, SAP ECC, APIs, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture
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