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Jagdish Thavasi

Buffalo Grove,IL

Summary

Versatile Senior Manager of Architecture with 15 years of experience in web technologies. Extensive background around web technologies gives the advantage to be able to contribute to different layers tied around web technologies. This has allowed to be a hands-on and accomplished technology leader with diversified experience across a wide range of software languages, platforms, technologies & domains.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, Architecture

CVS Health
08.2020 - Current
  • Created architectural designs and business cases to document business challenges, solution approaches, benefits, security and risks
  • Developed reference architecture, standards and best practices for development and CICD process
  • Managed large-scale applications and introduced new systems, tools, and frameworks to achieve challenging objectives.
  • Expertise in Microservice, Micro-FrontEnd, Serverless Architecture, Client-Server, SSR, SSG, Server Components, BFF, GraphQL & N-tier web based distributed solutions
  • Mentored developers on coding patterns, system designs, caching and web page performance optimization standards
  • Helped discover hindrances to Cloud adoption by both new and existing customers and build field facing artifacts to address them while coordinating product capability improvements.
  • Setup observability and telemetric dashboard for better visibility among key stake holders
  • SEO expertise and guidance for business and development team to achieve better Google ranking
  • Ability to dive in to source code for proof of concepts, debugging, patching and extending application
  • Guidance to developers on cloud computing and automation
  • Contribute to all phases of projects including development, design, testing, deployment and production release. Review issues and recommend solutions to rectify and avoid future escalations.
  • Maintain frequent communication with internal and external business stakeholders to identify process improvement opportunities in different departments
    like design, analytics, mar-tech, security, cms, cmx etc.
  • Provided strong leadership with knowledge of Engineering and operational excellence best practices
  • Developed proposals and presentations for internal and external audiences.
  • Worked in SAFE agile environment to deliver stable applications and passionate in building rich and innovative user experience.
  • Collaborated with multiple stake holders to clarify and prioritize technical design for cross team deliveries.

Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technologies Solutions - Walgreens Co.
12.2012 - 08.2020
  • Responsible for High Level Design, develop and evangelize new tools and techniques to improve productivity across teams.
  • Created Proof of Concept (POC) implementations for technologically challenging requirements that development teams would build upon
  • Works closely with the architecture team to identify the technologies and approaches in migrating the existing applications to micro services
  • Leads the UI development team at onsite & offshore to track their deliverable on daily basis and constantly reviews the code to ensure the quality of the application by avoiding complexity and advocating clarity
  • Works with peer development teams for new and complex tasks and make sure that there is seamless integration
  • Mentors the technical team at offshore and onsite to understand and comprehend the business requirements and come up with the suitable design for implementation.
  • Conducts necessary meetings with business stakeholders to showcase application demos and incorporate if there are any feedback or recommendations.
  • Works with business to make sure that we have the technology capability to execute the initiatives in the near and far future
  • Involves in post-production implementation support and continuous enhancement support in various Walgreens applications.
  • Debugs and fixes critical production issues immediately to minimize the downtime for customers.
  • Monitors and troubleshoots the applications for any critical issues or performance optimizations

UI Developer

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
08.2008 - 12.2012
  • Involved in the development and unit testing of the project with the cutting-edge technologies using the tools
  • Led the offshore frontend team which includes usability, visual design and development resources, thereby ensuring smooth delivery in all phases.
  • Played a major role in responsive development for Walgreens website and AWD migration, as he was involved in creating a generic style guide which has to be used across Walgreens website.
  • Instrumental in providing crucible reviews and also involved in versioning the files in SVN.

Education

Master of Science -

College Of Engineering
Guindy, Chennai
06.2008

Skills

  • Area Of Expertise: Web Architecture, Web development & Optimization, Cloud development, Microservices, BFF, Micro-FrontEnd, Federated Graph QL, Web Components, SEO, CICD, TDD, BDD, RWD, CSR, SSR, SPA, Web Security,Accessibility, Performance, API, JavaScript Packages, CMS, Web Analytics, SAFE Agile
  • Scripting: React, Angular, Stencil JS, Polymer, Next JS, Nest JS, React Native, Angular JS, React Query, Apollo GraphQL, storybook, Typescript, Node JS, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Ajax, XML, JSON, Angular JS, React JS, Redux, Express, Query, mustache, handlebar, motools
  • Testing: Cypress, React Testing Library, React Native Testing Library, Enzyme, pa11y, Selenium, Jasmine, playwright,Protractor, jUnit, Nightwatchjs, Cucumber, Mocha, Chai, Karma, Artillery, Sitespeed, Istanbul, Sinon JS, mountebank
  • Repo & Packaging: npm, yarn, pnpm, nx, turborepo, lerna, renovate, codeowner
  • Cloud: GKE, Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Build, Google Cloud Run, Google Cloud Scheduler, Azure Container Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Engine, Cloud security - Prisma, Docker
  • CICD Utilities: Spinnaker, Circle CI, Jenkins, Harness, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Github Actions
  • Databases: Mongo DB, Redis, Cassandra
  • Build Tools: TurboPack, Parcel, Rollup, Vite, Gulp JS, Grunt JS, WebPack, Browserify, Babel, Docker,
  • CMS Tools: Contentful, Adobe AEM, ATG BCC
  • Analytics Tools: Adobe DTM, Adobe Target, Tealium Tag Manager, Adobe Omniture, Monetate, Adobe A/B Test
  • Debugging tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, App
  • Dynamics, Grafana, Mpulse, Foglight, Fullstory, Quantum Metrics, Kibana, Kiali, Jaeger Tracing, Prometheus,
  • Perf Tools: sitespeed io, Lighthouse, Google Page Speed, GT Metrix, Webpage test
  • Accessibility: WCAG 20 Guidelines, ARIA, JAWS & 508 Compliance, PA11Y automation
  • Web Metrics: Monetate, Adobe A/B Target, Adobe DTM, Adobe Analytics, Tealium, Pixel Integration
  • Utilities: Jira, Rally, Miro, LucidChart, Sonarqube, Spinnaker, Kubernetes, SEO Google search console, Argo CD, Circle CI, Jenkins

Timeline

Senior Manager, Architecture

CVS Health
08.2020 - Current

Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technologies Solutions - Walgreens Co.
12.2012 - 08.2020

UI Developer

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
08.2008 - 12.2012

Master of Science -

College Of Engineering

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