Ravinder Thirumala, Developer in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ravinder Thirumala

Software Developer

Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Toptal Member Since
October 11, 2022

Ravinder is a senior back-end developer experienced in migrating legacy applications to the cloud and working with API gateways and access management frameworks. He focuses on designing and developing scalable enterprise applications using microservice architecture. Ravinder has experience with object-oriented design principles, enterprise integration patterns, microservices design patterns, and cloud platform services.

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Portfolio

Singtel Optus
Red Hat OpenShift, Spring Boot, Microservices, API Gateways, Apache Kafka, APIs
Macquarie Group
API Gateways, OAuth 2, Microservices, Java, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, APIs...
Equifax
API Gateways, Java, Microservices, Amazon Web Services (AWS), APIs...

Experience

Java - 13 yearsDesign - 10 yearsAPI Gateways - 5 yearsMicroservices - 5 yearsOAuth 2 - 4 yearsApache Kafka - 4 yearsAmazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years

Location

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Kubernetes, Cloud, Docker, Java, Microservices, APIs

The most amazing...

...projects I've worked on are implementing multi-factor authentication and identity solutions for various customers.

Work Experience

2021 - PRESENT

Integration Architect

Singtel Optus
  • Designed and maintained system integrations and components and developed solution designs.
  • Headed end-to-end design and development of an integration solution.
  • Collaborated on vendor and stakeholder management.
Technologies: Red Hat OpenShift, Spring Boot, Microservices, API Gateways, Apache Kafka, APIs
2020 - 2021

API Consultant

Macquarie Group
  • Designed and developed customer identity and access management (CIAM) microservices.
  • Improved API performance by monitoring and analyzing API metrics.
  • Implemented the authentication based on OAuth 2 for microservices.
Technologies: API Gateways, OAuth 2, Microservices, Java, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, APIs, Node.js, Next.js
2018 - 2020

Integration Architect

Equifax
  • Managed the API gateway, design, and development of cloud-native applications.
  • Mentored junior team members, provided code review, and created API policy templates and shared flows.
  • Contributed to setting up cloud CI/CD pipelines for microservices and designed and developed a testing framework that included integration and smoke tests.
Technologies: API Gateways, Java, Microservices, Amazon Web Services (AWS), APIs, CI/CD Pipelines

Experience

CIAM Software

Implemented the customer identity and access management software for bank customers using microservices based on Spring Boot, the Apache Cassandra database, and OAuth 2. I also deployed all the identity microservices to a Kubernetes cluster. CIAM software enables organizations to securely store and manage customer information and profile data and control customer access to applications and services.

Skills

Languages

Java, Scala

Frameworks

Spring, OAuth 2, Next.js, Spring MVC, Spring Boot

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, Node.js, React

Tools

Keycloak

Platforms

Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Red Hat OpenShift

Other

APIs, Distributed Systems, API Gateways, Design, AWS Transit Gateway, Full-stack, Amazon API Gateway, Architecture, Software Architecture, Cloud, Apache Cassandra, CI/CD Pipelines

Paradigms

Microservices

Storage

MySQL, Google Cloud

Education

2004 - 2007

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology Madras - Chennai, India

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Linux Foundation

NOVEMBER 2019 - PRESENT

Professional Cloud Architect

Google