Santosh Prasad

I worked as a Solutions Architect for a leading educational services provider to lead an assessment of their current eCommerce platform architecture to increase performance and scalability.

Their platform had 12+ subscribing systems that utilize product information delivered through an integration layer that synchronizes these systems.

The end-goal was to:
1. Gather Requirements, Review Solutions, Decide on Path.
2. Improve the performance within the Mulesoft Integration pipeline.
3. Change their Product Model to best fit their product offerings. Considered that they wanted a top-of-the-class Product Configurator to handle primarily configurable furniture offerings, like side color, top color, fabric type, fabric color, castor, and others.

We successfully built an effective and scalable solution in 3 months that addressed their ongoing issues and catered for a higher traffic load anticipated for the next five years.

RACV is an insurance company that embarked on a digital transformation journey to replace its existing integration platform with a cloud-based one. They were looking for a solution that was cost-effective flexible. They enabled integration with the existing and future landscape, along with improved time-to-market through rapid development. They had a vision of building a digital API platform that could offer APIs.

As a senior technical architect, mule developer, and designer on this project, I designed and developed the APIs on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform using a 3-layered API-led connectivity approach, identifying experience, process, and system layer interfaces that fit in the API architecture and analyzing domain-specific scenarios. I implemented the APIs using the right patterns, identified KPIs to enable business monitoring, and developed apps using defined KPIs. I wrote DataWeave 1.0/2.0 for complex XML, FlatFile, and JSON mappings. I built monitoring dashboards using ELK stack, enforced best coding standards, including performance optimization, and adopted DevOps practices to enable CI/CD using Azure DevOps.

Some of my value adds w.r.t optimal messaging, and smart logging saved the customer about $32,8000 per year.

Brightstar supply chain and logistics company envisioned creating a new global supply chain platform to deliver business services to its customers. This platform represented the transformation of the existing IT landscape to a new platform that is scalable, flexible, and modularized. It needed to be leveraged globally to enable them to onboard new customers quickly based on the business service offering and expand their current business capabilities.

As the senior integration consultant, I created and developed integration designs and code for their enterprise systems. I identified system interfaces that fit the business process model and design process models in webMethods BPMS and KPIs to enable business monitoring and dashboards using Software AG Presto. I derived processing rules on business transaction events to perform complex processing and assist with business analytics. I also worked on the latest design patterns and submitted proofs-of-concept to clients.

I helped steer the integration architecture of Brightstar's supply chain platform, and my integration skills helped their SLT make apt decisions and roll out the platform to five APAC countries in just two years.

STC is the largest telecommunications company in the Middle East and Africa, with broad adoption of webMethods Integration suite in its EAI space for almost a decade. It has integrated approximately 50+ end systems, major ones being Siebel, Comptel, Ericsson, and SAP. This program aims to transform the existing legacy and monolithic architecture into a heuristic one by adopting recent, popular, and most successful integration trends such as SOA, RESTful services, and Disposable Architecture.

As an EAI consultant, I designed and developed reusable solution-based integration components using various technology stacks from the SoftwareAG product suite.

This involved designing a lifecycle model of design time assets in Centrasite and policies for the organization. I created runtime policies and a virtualization strategy for the services that existed in the environment. As a technical lead and senior developer, I developed robust, reusable solution-specific components that fit into the new architecture using Flow and Java services. Enforced best practices and coding standards across the environment and coached development teams and DC production support teams on the latest integration patterns and designs.

Multichoice is an enterprise that uses different end systems to function, such as CRMs, to maintain customer information, IBS for billing, and SAP for stock movement. Their challenge was integrating all these systems via ESB and enabling hassle-free data movement throughout the enterprise.

Evolution is a 5-year long, multi-million dollar program designed to replace the core systems of the Multichoice group of companies. The core team building the framework was Synapse. Its role was to develop a robust framework for Multichoice middleware operations on the ESB bus using the webMethods product suite. The framework was developed using most of the webMethods stack, including Terracotta and EhCache for the caching mechanism and JMS layer for faster messaging. This improved the transaction rate and provided guaranteed delivery.

My responsibilities included developing and supporting the frameworks and a CAF-based GUI to control and visibility the framework. I was directly involved in designing the framework components, developing the components themselves, and enforcing best practices and coding standards across the environment.