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Nitin Kotasthane

Nitin Kotasthane

I am banker turned Technology Professional. Quick Learner and keeps myself updated in latest technologies. I am passionate about technology. Open Source contributor and evaluator.

Currently I am interested in research in Quantum Computing, Quantum Physics and Category Theory.

I am big fan of "....As A Code" like Diagram as code , Dashboard as a code, Infrastructure as a code, Policy as a code , Architecture as a code.

  • Role

    Python

  • Years of Experience

    22 years

Skillsets

  • React Js - 5 Years
  • Linux
  • Oracle
  • DB2
  • Mongo DB
  • ArangoDB
  • Aws rds (mysql)
  • AWS Aurora(Postgres
  • Redshift
  • Microsoft Office
  • visio
  • Windows
  • SQL - 22 Years
  • Cloud Architecture (GCP/AWS) - 7 Years
  • Nodejs - 5 Years
  • System Design / UML - 22 Years
  • AWS - 8 Years
  • Jenkins - 12 Years
  • Github - 12 Years
  • Terraform - 5 Years
  • Azure DevOps - 2 Years
  • k8s experience - 2 Years
  • Perl
  • Java
  • Kubernetes
  • JEE Micro services
  • Python - 15 Years
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Ext JS
  • Hadoop
  • Pig
  • Hive
  • Apache Spark
  • Flex
  • SAS
  • Swing
  • Spring
  • Spring roo
  • AWS Kinesis
  • Apache Flink
  • HR analytics
  • AIX

Professional Summary

22Years
  • Oct, 2015 - Present9 yr 7 months

    Sr. Solution Architect

    L & T InfoTech
  • May, 2014 - Oct, 20151 yr 5 months

    Associate Consultant

    Tata Consultancy Services
  • May, 2012 - May, 20142 yr

    Technical Architect

    RAGE Frameworks Credit Pointe Sol. Pvt Ltd
  • Apr, 2004 - Jun, 20051 yr 2 months

    Assistant Manager (IT)

    Syndicate Bank
  • Jun, 2005 - Dec, 20083 yr 6 months

    System Analyst

    AonHewitt
  • Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20123 yr

    Technical Lead

    Hewitt Associates

Applications & Tools Known

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    Microsoft Office

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    Visio

Work History

22Years

Sr. Solution Architect

L & T InfoTech
Oct, 2015 - Present9 yr 7 months
    Solution/Technical Architecture Design Concept Solution and High Level Design Artefacts like E2E Design Document. Follow Architecture Governance. Member of Architecture Review Committee Board Software evaluations for Build vs Buy decision. Support component teams on High Level Architecture Design. Doing POCs with Open Source Technologies. Reuse Open source tools.

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
May, 2014 - Oct, 20151 yr 5 months
    Designing and architecting solutions for Production Parallel Platform. Worked on Hadoop-HBase. POC with Merkle Trees for Reconciliation. Apache Spark for data processing.

Technical Architect

RAGE Frameworks Credit Pointe Sol. Pvt Ltd
May, 2012 - May, 20142 yr
    Designing and architecting analytical financial services product. R & D of product features and choosing right kind of technology for product ecosystem and user friendliness. Product involves EJB, Swing Spring Hibernate and other open source technologies. Design and architected solution for automatic code generation using Netbeans Open API, Spring Roo automation. Architected integration of Open Source Maqetta Visual Designer in the product. Contribution to Open source product Maqetta. Design & development of product from scratch. EJB Migration to TomEE - MS SQL Server.

Technical Lead

Hewitt Associates
Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20123 yr
    Designing and developing one additional tier (APIs) in product architecture which allows different applications to access the information. Designing solution for UI makeover with Ext JS Ajax. Creating scalable and maintainable architecture with use of JSON for communication between client side Ext JS and Server side Java. Handling work of a team member and completed full module within timeline, side by side coaching to the member, with quality deliverables having 1% defect density.

System Analyst

AonHewitt
Jun, 2005 - Dec, 20083 yr 6 months
    Product implement work flow process for performance management cycle. Designing & developing backend process for application configuration with Java, SQL and SAS; rendering production support to client. Automating various pieces of Complink offline process with the help of writing SAS Macros to save 40% of client hours.

Assistant Manager (IT)

Syndicate Bank
Apr, 2004 - Jun, 20051 yr 2 months
    Automating day to day process at Bank Data Center with the help of Windows Scripting and Linux shell scripting. Operating as Oracle DBA and performance tuning for DB. Automating manual process of taking event log backups of 23 servers in datacenter with the help Windows Scripting / WMI, this saving 80% of efforts. Assisting the networking team to conduct Penetration Testing.

Achievements

  • Soultion/Technical Architecture Design Concept Solution and High Level Design Artefacts like E2E Design Document. Follow Architecture Governance.

Major Projects

12Projects

Platform Architect Open Banking Cloud Platform

Aug, 2020 - Present4 yr 9 months
    As Platform Architect, involved in: - Architecture governance and design authority approvals - Solution Architecture for Event Hub, Event Notification. - Diagram as Code - Automated diagram generation from Terraform scripts. - Data Archival & Retention Strategy on AWS - Core product design and regional customisations - Product Database design - Redshift Architecture Design - Streaming Architecture using Apache Flink/AWS Kinesis - Cost effective server-less architectures - Platform reporting product architecture - PoC on AWS Elastic Search and AWS Redshift - Cloud/Open Source product evaluations.

Product R & D Architecture, Design & Development

May, 2012 - Present13 yr
    As Platform Architect, involved in: - Designing and architecting analytical financial services product. - R & D of product features and choosing right kind of technology for product ecosystem and user friendliness. - Product involves EJB, Swing Spring Hibernate and other open source technologies. - Design and architected solution for automatic code generation using Netbeans Open API, Spring Roo automation. - Architected integration of Open Source Maqetta Visual Designer in the product. - Contribution to Open source product Maqetta. - Design & development of product from scratch. - EJB Migration to TomEE - MS SQL Server.

Solution Architect For African Bank

Feb, 2016 - Jul, 20204 yr 5 months
    As Solution Architect, involved in: - Architecture Governance based on TOGAF - Part of Architecture Review Committee. - PoC on Enterprise MetaData Catalog, evaluated Lyft- Amundsen, Netflix MetaCat, Apache Atlas, ArangoDB - AWS, IBM, AZURE Cloud experience. - Published 2 Whitepapers on African Banking Especially Population Age Group and Income Patterns in Africa and Country wise Banking opportunities based on weighted parameters. - Auto Architecture diagram generation through Graphviz. - Auto content generation for Newsletter with Web scraping, Auto document summarisation in Python using Spacy, Genism and NLTK. - Architecture Design for Middleware migration and POC on OpenShift based Micro Service Architecture. - Architecture Design for Bank to Wallet and Wallet to Bank. - Architecture Design for MNO Initiated Bank to Wallet. - Architecture Design Digital Sales Platform. - Architecture Design for Fast track Digital KYC. - RFP & Design for implementing NPS in African country for a Bank. - RFP for Contract management using Block chain.

Solution Architect Micro Service Architecture

Oct, 2015 - Feb, 2016 4 months
    As Solution Architect, involved in: - Designing and architecting solutions for Insurance Platform. - Worked on JEE Micro Service Architecture - POC for Auto Policy generation using Selenium for auto unit testing

Solution Architect Prod Parallel platform

May, 2015 - Oct, 2015 5 months
    As Solution Architect, involved in: - Designing and architecting solutions for Production Parallel Platform. - Worked on Hadoop-HBase - POC with Merkle Trees for Reconciliation - Apache Spark for data processing

Solution Architect World Link Payment platform

Jan, 2015 - May, 2015 4 months
    As Solution Architect, involved in: - Designing and architecting solutions for World Link Platform. - Worked on custom Map Reduce framework

Solution Architect FDR Automation

May, 2014 - Dec, 2014 7 months
    As Solution Architect, involved in: - Designing and architecting automating FDR. - Customized Spring Security.

Solution Architect Sanction Screening

May, 2014 - Dec, 2014 7 months
    As Solution Architect, involved in: - Designing and architecting Sanction Screening with Kofax. - Innovative solution using Python NLTK for automatic proper noun identification. - Big data exposure.

Back Office Automation

Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20123 yr
    As Tech Lead, involved in: - Designing and developing one additional tier (APIs) in product architecture which allows different applications to access the information. - Designing solution for UI makeover with Ext JS Ajax. - Creating scalable and maintainable architecture with use of JSON for communication between client side Ext JS and Server side Java. - Handling work of a team member and completed full module within timeline, side by side coaching to the member, with quality deliverables having 1% defect density.

Compensation Product

Jun, 2005 - Dec, 20083 yr 6 months
    As System Analyst, involved in: - Product implement work flow process for performance management cycle. - Designing & developing backend process for application configuration with Java, SQL and SAS; rendering production support to client. - Automating various pieces of Complink offline process with the help of writing SAS Macros to save 40% of client hours. - Worked onsite for three months

Bank Data Center

Apr, 2004 - Jun, 20051 yr 2 months
    As Assistant Manager (IT), involved in: - Automating day to day process at Bank Data Center with the help of Windows Scripting and Linux shell scripting. - Operating as Oracle DBA and performance tuning for DB. - Automating manual process of taking event log backups of 23 servers in datacenter with the help Windows Scripting / WMI, this saving 80% of efforts. - Assisting the networking team to conduct Penetration Testing.

Centralised Banking Solution

May, 2000 - Apr, 20043 yr 11 months
    As Assistant Manager (IT), involved in: - Supporting CBS implementation at Bank Zonal office. - Looking after Branch conversions from old systems to CBS. - Branch server configuration. - RFP processing using technologies like Windows 2000 Server, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. Designed MIS solution for Bank Executives.

Education

  • Professional Diploma

    DataPro. (1997)
  • Bachelor s Degree in Science (B.Sc.) Chemistry

    Pune University. (1985)