St Joseph's College, Colombo

St Joseph's College, Colombo, Sri Lanka

University of California, Berkeley

Vice President  -  Application Development  -  Data Fabric at Equifax

- Lead and manage a team of 150+ global engineering team and still mange to code
- Provide technical architecture direction and strategy in building the next-gen, cloud-native data and analytics platform on GCP
- Work with the Product team in delivering platform features and capabilities as planned whilst managing the budget and ensuring quality engineering 
- Work with peers, business partners, and multiple vendors in delivering complete end-to-end technology transformation and cloud migration solutions in a highly regulated and secure environment 
- JVM stack, Angular2 + Springboot, distributed, scalable big data processing and analytics, K8s high-performance B2B and B2C micro services and APIs, integration strategies with external vendor and legacy systems
- Experience with GCP computing, storage, and networking solutions including GKE, serverless, and managed services. Multiple GCP certifications

Equifax

Senior Vice President | Data Fabric Platform

- Manage a distributed cross functional team of 50+ developers, architects, product owners, QA/QA, UX/U, SRE, and other roles
- Mentor and guide the team on modernizing and moving legacy apps to the cloud, re-writing functional areas ground-up
- Manage the budget, working closely with other business stakeholders, HR partners and C-level executives
- Responsible for delivering time sensitive critical milestone efforts by leading tiger team/swat teams comprising lead developers, architects and product owners many different teams
- Lead the team on adopting cloud native architecture, best practices, and cloud transformation efforts in delivering best in class secure applications
- Tech stack: C++, Java, Angular/TypeScript,  GCP cloud, Terraform, K8s,

Vice President | Data Fabric | Application Development

Senior Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture, rh.com
- Responsible for architecture, development and all other technology aspects related to the Product business domain  
- Developed Product, Variants, Product Catalogue micro services with integration to legacy systems and headless e-commerce systems
- Developed backend micro services using AWS S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Cloudformation, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Docker, Springboot, Spring REST web services, GraphQL
- Developed frontend portals using Vue.js, Apollo GraphQL client, Websockets, Node.JS, and other Vue.js UI component libraries 
- Agile methodology for all development activities, TDD, GitHub, Jenkins pipeline for CI/CD activities. Adopted cloud-native, event-driven and reactive architecture principles 
- Working with Product Owners, business stakeholders, peers, other internal groups, and managing developers to deliver technology solutions 
- Collaborating with the enterprise architecture team on R&D prototyping activities, and consultation on modernisation of the e-commerce platform

Restoration Hardware

Senior Enterprise Architect

- Delivered innovation-led products and solutions using emerging , best-of-breed technology that differentiates Travelport 
- Provided thought leadership, architecture direction, best practices, guidelines on successful full-stack application delivery 
- Provided subject matter expertise, hospitality & travel technology expertise and consultation
- Managed and worked with development teams in Denver, Kansas City, Atlanta, Strasbourg (FR), Rome (IT), Dublin (IRE) - providing architecture direction and thought leadership 
- Conducted code reviews, mentoring, collaboration with the EA organization, Product and Commercial stakeholders
- Provided R&D work, delivered PoCs, thought leadership and omni-channel research working closely with the Product team, business stakeholders, and customers
- Was responsible for the future state architecture and the implementation of the hospitality data and analytics platform
- Implemented data pipelines and stream processing; acquisition, ingestion, and processing of big data using cloud-native and lambda architecture
- Implemented diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics solutions combined with data monetisation efforts 
- Tech stack: Java, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, SpringBoot, Spring Framework, Git, Apache Spark, Storm, Kafka, AWS stack (Kinesis, S3, Lambda, Athena, Cloudformation, RDS). Jenkins build pipeline for CI/CD

Travelport

Director,  Futures and Innovation - Hospitality and Digital

- Senior Solutions Architect, Hospitality Line of Business
- Provided thought leadership, architecture oversight and guidance for hospitality technology projects
- Worked closely with the development teams, product owners, business stakeholders, and the Enterprise Architecture team
- Created prototypes and POCs 
- Introduced new frameworks and technologies (Spring framework, Springboot, Data Grid, hotel inventory push technology, and many others)

Enterprise Architecture

- TravelTripper: Architected and developed a Hospitality Switch/Gateway (itstcb.com/solutions/hospitality). Groovy, Java, OSGi, ElasticSearch, Amazon EC2

- VoAPPS: Architected and developed the API Gateway, Customer Portal. Groovy, Grails, Java, Amazon EC2

- Verint Corporation: Architected and developed a multi-channel customer interaction capture/acquisition and ingestion framework. Groovy, Gradle, Java, OSGi

- SecondOpinion Specialists: Architected and developed the Customer Service Portal (portal.sospecialists.com). Groovy, Gradle, JQuery, Teleradiology, Rackspace, MongoDB, HL7, DICOM

- Other projects: Architected and developed automation and Telematics systems. Python, MQTT, Z-Wave, Raspberry Pi

Islander Total Solutions LLC

Independent Software Development Consultant | Architect

- Formed the development team, mentored, liaised with the business stakeholders and delivered the Customer Experience Management (CEM) Contact Center application on time and on budjet. This Unified Desktop Application is to be used by 10 Call Centers, 3K agents globally
- Implemented Genesys CTI, increased revenue per call handled, used Complexed Event Processing and other innovative technologies
- Architected, developed and delivered the Reef/Destination web-based Desktop Platform using HTML5 features (Websockets, offline storage, inter-iFrame comm, etc.), Big Data with Cassandra DB, Data Grid capabilities, distributed cloud deployment capabilities, cloud CMS, UI with Ext-GWT, JQuery, and many other cutting edge technologies

InterContinental Hotels Group

Development Manager

- Thought leadership, EA vision, standards and guidelines. Creating unique enterprise application development paradigms, architecture roadmaps, strategies, EA tenants & guiding principles, governance
- Vendor solution assessment, architecting e-commerce, web, b2b, and multi-channel business solutions. Prototyping emerging technologies, tools, & industry standards

- Global Reservation System (GRS) - project REVolution. Researched hospitality, airline, and other travel trade reservation system implementation strategies, perishable inventory & attribute-based inventory implementation. Introduced data sharding, data grid, distributed caching, use of Big Datastores to regionalize and distribute ARI data. Created the Distributed Inventory Service Cell (DISC) concept to provide the next-gen cloud based CRS 

- Next-generation hotel technology roadmap - Hotel Ecosystem. Researched current hotel technology landscape; Property Management Systems (PMS), in-property IT systems, global WAN topology. Defined and prototyped above property, cloud hosted, SaaS PMS.  Employed WAN optimization, offline capabilities, Unified Desktop, voice/video/data convergence etc. Architected the Hotel Operations & Management Interchange (HOMi) appliance & Gateway.

- Enterprise SOA implementation - Advanced Technology Platform (ATP).  Researched & evaluated SOA implementation strategies, vendor product stacks. Introduced distributed caching, web services, data & service grids, app virtualization & dynamic resource brokering and use of enterprise integration patterns. Used EDA, CEP, and BAM concepts for real-time monitoring. Advocated POJO app development, light-weight web service container runtime. Created a Ref. Impl, foundational components/libraries. Created on boarding documentation, mentored development teams with the adoption

Sr. Enterprise Architectect (hands-on)

- Thought leadership, vision, strategy, and evangelize technology solutions within the web, contact center, B2B distribution channels
- Research industry trends, emerging technology, provide oversight; formulate, model, and communicate long-term road maps
- Create prototypes, reference architecture, and extensible frameworks. Conduct design reviews, code reviews, mentoring 
- Strategy and direction for all solutions within the contact center technology landscape
- Architected and coded the Endeavor SDK; introduced SpringFramework, AspectJ, JMX, Hibernate as core technologies. This SDK is used to build e-commerce, B2B, and Call Center applications
- Architected and developed the E-Commerce Business Operations Support System (E-BOSS)

Architect (hands-on), Global eCommerce

- Architected and developed the Enterprise Document Processing Web Portal
- Designed, developed and implemented a real-time data replication solution using JMS, MDBs and advanced JMS features
- Created reusable modular infrastructure class libraries that can be used in multiple projects
- Re-architected the enterprise document processing application as a n-tier implementation

Cingular Wireless

Senior Developer (Contractor)

- Re-architected the OSS/BSS access portal. Referenced the NGOSS and ETOM models 
- Used the OSS/J reference implementation and the API to develop decoupled components
- Used the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to implement web services

Z-Tel Communications

- Re-engineered the web portal application that renders monthly invoice statements
- Developed interface modules to interact with backend (amdocs) billing and usage management systems 
- Adapted the MVC pattern, used XSLT stylesheets and XPath to transform XML data to dynamic HTML
- Developed multiple backend data access clients using  SOAP, JNDI and IIOP
- Implemented user authentication using the JAAS API and custom LoginModules

Sprint Nextel

- Analyzed, designed, and developed core system components of the J2EE OSS/BSS application
- Developed a common data communications library by providing a common transport interface and abstracting the low level implementation of HTTP, SOAP, JMS, and SMPP protocols into a class library
- Used the JCE framework to develop a cryptography library by encapsulating the implementation of DES, DESede, and MD5 algorithms via BouncyCastle and Cryptix32 JCE implementations
- Designed and developed a B2B interface and its subsystem to exchange real-time data between the backend and the external entities/institutions
- Designed and developed a standalone simulator application using Swing and JFC to test the integrity of the front-end nodes, for end-to-end testing, to stress/regression test the backend application

Telemac

Senior Programmer

- Worked on redesigning and enhancing the Kiosk application written in Java
- Designed and coded a J2EE Kiosk Network Management middle-tier application.
- Developed wireless applications using the J2ME API

Apunix Computer Services

Senior Systems Engineer

- Implemented front-end kiosk applications, middle-tier network management and routing systems, back-end processing and authorizing systems
- Designed, developed, and supported multifunction Kiosk software. Coded device drivers to interface with Diebold Cash Dispenser, MGR PIN Pad, TravellersExpress and Western Union Money Order Dispensers, Mars Cash Acceptor, custom Check Scanner, and Telpar Receipt Printer
- Co-architected and coded key components of the Trinity Processor J2EE middleware. Designed a proprietary XML encoded internal messaging framework
- Developed ATM and Check Cashing Simulators to simulate transactions from acquiring devices
- Developed a multi-threaded, multi-functional, cross-platform Java Kiosk application using Swing and JFC. Used JMF API to render multimedia; bootstrapped to a customized stripped-down Linux kernel. Developed an extensible UI rendering mechanism that defines the UI attributes in XML documents to render an implementation independent presentation tier

Seren Systems

Systems Engineer

- Developed and customized financial transaction processing solutions. Worked on enhancing company’s flagship products: stand-alone front-end ATM software, middle-tier ATM controller and routing software, and inter-connection/transaction switching software
- Managed projects and commissioned large-scale turnkey solutions in many banks and financial institutions traveling extensively in the Europe, Middle East and Asia. Made code enhancements, performed QA tests, debugged, and performed on-site installations. Monitored production systems, provided training, and documented the entire project
- Programmed interfaces to banking backend applications/hosts, liaised with external institutions and networks in conducting certification and compliancy tests
- Supported and managed regional customer accounts. As a team lead and a domain expert, conducted requirement analysis and managed junior developers in servicing eight banks and the national ATM Network (switch) in Oman (Middle East). Provided production system support and software customization and enhancing services to other client banks in the Middle East and Africa region

Interlink Computer & Software (acquired by CR2)

- Maintained and enhanced in-house developed Credit Analysis, Loans, and Mortgage banking applications. Developed new modules for both front end and back-office applications using COBOL and C; Worked with JCL and UNIX shell scripts.
- Interfaced with upper management and users and performed requirement analysis.
- Designed, installed, and administered the LAN. Interconnected UNIX, Novell, and NCR-ITX servers; was responsible for administering and trouble-shooting bank’s ATM network, and WAN communication issues

Rajiv Cooray