Dinakaran has over 15+ years of IT experience in a multitude of technology stacks. He is currently the Engineering Manager at Lifion By ADP and manages two different microservices with 4 to 5 engineers in each of them.
Over the last 4+ years, he is focussed exclusively on building and managing cloud-native microservices in AWS using Java and Nodejs in combination with Serverless Stack as well as Kubernetes.
Proficient in the technology stack of Java. MVC - Struts, JSF, Webservices - SOAP and REST and JSR specifications as well in Nodejs. He also has basic knowledge of front end stack - Angular, Bootstrap etc.
Hands-on experience with building solutions on top of AWS Serverless Stack of API Gateway and Lambda, K8S, Helm Charts, Kinesis, SQS, Redis, Aurora MySQL and a host of other Managed Services of AWS. Leveraged AWS DevOps for CI - CD pipeline and knowledge of Infra As Code paradigm ( IAC ) like Cloud Formation and Terraform
Exposure to Observability stack - Kibana, Cloudwatch Metrics, DataDog, Pagerduty. Hands-on experience in supporting mission-critical services 24*7 across AWS regions.
Exposure to different Business Domains like Banking, Insurance, Life Sciences, Retail, eCommerce and Human Resources
Well skilled at collaborating with Product Managers and other cross-functional teams to prioritise initiatives, help in the planning of the OKR based on Product Roadmap and align business overall priorities.
Have been managing cross-functional teams of varied sizes from 3 to 10 over for over 4+ years. Good exposure at Team and People Management, Performance Management, Recruitment and Coaching
Primary Skills :
- Java and Microservices ( 2006 ~ 2020, 10+ yrs)
- Node and Microservices ( 2020 till date , ~2 years )
- AWS Serverless API Gateway, Lambda, SQS Managed Services (since 2018, 4+ yrs )
- K8S, Helm Charts, Kinesis, Redis, SQS ( since 2021 , 1+ yr) -DevOps - AWS DevOps, CloudFormation, Terraform, Jenkins ( 3+ yr ) -Observability - Cloud Watch, ELK, DataDog, X-Ray, PagerDuty
Secondary Skills :
- Angular ( 1 + yr)
- Azure ( 6 months) and GCP Firebase ( 6 months)
Career Progression
- Java ( 10+ years, since 2006 )
- IBM Portal/ Web Content Management (10+ years, 2006 - 2017)
- Front End Technologies - Angular ( 2017 )
- Cloud / Serverless / DevOps ( 4+ years , since 2018 )
Blog: https://dinakaran.dev/blog Twitter: https://twitter.com/dinquisitively
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