MALLIK MOOTAKODURU
Shrewsbury,MA
Summary
Senior Architect with 18 years of extensive experience delivering high-performance solutions at Staples, specializing in WebMethods EAI/B2B, Azure Cloud, SpringBoot, and modern technologies. Proven ability to design and implement enterprise integrations that streamline processes such as order management, invoicing, and inventory control, significantly boosting data flow and reducing errors. Mastery of microservices architecture and containerization complements a strong track record in managing teams and collaborating across departments to exceed client expectations. Comprehensive knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and expertise in various file formats, including Flat File, XML, cXML, and EDI standards like EDIFACT and ANSI X12, further enhance the ability to provide robust application support and technical solutions.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Architect I
Staples, Inc
10.2019 - Current
- Participation in all aspects of project life cycle with a primary focus on application design, architect and software development.
- Coordination among various groups and stakeholders for successful project execution.
- Designed high performance, robust, high quality, supportable and maintainable applications.
- Architect & implemented common services for the Integration platform supporting HTTP/s, SOAP, REST protocols.
- Requirements gathering from end users and developing Business, Functional and non-Functional requirements.
- Participating in Architectural and Functional reviews.
- Lead design and code reviews.
- Design and Develop solution using Integration tools, Micro Services, REST, webservices.
- Quality, Issue and Risk Management and corrective, preventive planning Supporting for User Accepting Testing.
- Implementation/go-live assistance to the release management team.
- Migrated 3PP Punchout&Cart solution to a Microservice architecture, contributed to SBA transformation.
- Modernized Proof Of Delivery Images (POD) for Transport Carriers and Couriers using Azure Cloud technologies and Integrated with EPTS, GNP, SBA and Staples.com.
- Designed, developed, and supported new functionalities for the Staples Ediversity and Non diversity Applications.
- Design and Develop SBA Order Submit API Integrations.
- Facilitated seamless integration of HiTouch, SouthWest MarketPlace Integrations with Staples.
- Designed and integrated inventory with the Titan Inventory system, improving accuracy and efficiency.
- Redesigned and developed 3PP Punchout and ShoppingCart application to a Microservice architecture leveraging Spring boot, Azure Cloud, AKS, and Docker containers, increasing scalability and maintainability.
- Stabilized Contract Gateway, ESB, and Enterprise Gateway webMethods platforms, ensuring reliable operation and performance.
- Led solution design and integration with the new Invoice Platforms.
Consultant Application Development
Staples, Inc
05.2017 - 10.2019
- Responsible for Staples Contract B2B platform design, development, maintainance and support.
- Coordination among various groups like customers, business, customer onboarding, support, operation teams and stakeholders for successful project execution.
- Requirements gathering from end users and developing Business, Functional and non-Functional requirements.
- Participating in Architectural and Functional reviews.
- Develop webMethods solution usings REST, SOAP webservices, pub-sub mechanism.
- Quality, Issue and Risk Management and corrective, preventive planning.
- Architecture, high level design and low-level design.
- Implementation/go-live assistance to the release management team.
- Environment: webMethods IS 10.x/9.x, Broker Messaging System, My webMethods serve, websphere MQ Adapters, WM EDI, JDBC Adapter, Trading Networks, Spring, SpringBoot, GIT, SQL server, Oracle db & IBM AS400 and legacy systems
Principal Software Engineer
Staples, Inc
08.2013 - 04.2017
- Responsible for Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Designing and documenting.
- Architecture, high level design and low level design.
- Coding & unit testing.
- Integration testing & User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support.
- Implementation/go-live assistance to the release management team.
- Environment: webMethods IS 9.x, 8.x, Broker 8.x, My webMethods server 8.x, websphere MQ Adapter 6.5, EDI, JDBC Adapter, Trading Networks, SQL server, Oracle db & IBM AS400 and legacy systems.
Sr. Technical Consultant
Ebay
02.2013 - 08.2013
- Responsible for Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Designing and documenting.
- Working on multiple projects Independently which Includes SAP BW HANA integration and Integration of different heterogeneous applications using wM8.2 environment.
- Implemented a common SFTP/Filetransfer framework which can be reused for different source and target systems for both Inbound and outbound.
- Environment: webMethods IS 8.2.2, Broker 8.x, My webMethods server 8.x, wM SAP Adapter 7.1, JDBC Adapter, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP HANA BW, MS SQL server, Oracle 10g & Legacy systems.
EDI Integration Lead
Nexeo Solutions
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Responsible for discussion with technical and business team to collate the requirement and perform important POVs.
- Responsible for providing Recommendations to customer on webMethods components to be purchased.
- Responsible for Architecture and Design.
- Worked closely with management and helped with project planning, resource requirements, schedules, targets and deadlines.
- Defined high level solution Architecture for the middleware/integration layer.
- Identified the existing architecture and the projected target architecture.
- Performed audit of existing hardware and software, identified and documented the requirements (capacity planning).
- Defined Architecture for EDI track (pub-sub patterns, push-pull mechanisms, TN Processing etc) as per the requirements. Prepared design documents as necessary, provided reference materials wherever required.
- Designed and Developed common EDI frame work for 110 + Inbound/outbound Interfaces for ANSI X12 and UN EDIFACT standards.
- Migrated 110+ Interfaces from IBM WDI tool (WebsphereDataInterchange) to WM EDI tool.
- Designed and developed error handler frame work.
- Performed TN Setup’s (Profile creation, DocTypes, TPA and Rules etc) as part of EDI framework for EDI exchanges between partners etc.
- Performed GXS VAN setup and configuration also AS2 setup for EDIINT AS2 partners.
- Defined Design Principles, development guidelines and best practices.
- Worked with different development team’s monitored progress, provided updates to senior management, conducted status checks, involved closely with development teams for troubleshooting unforeseen issues. Monitored unit testing and stress testing.
- Worked with different application and SAP functional teams as part of SIT and UAT testing.
- Played crucial role in building cutover strategies and implementing the plans in real time.
- Environment: webMethods IS 8.2.2, Broker 8.x, My webMethods server 8.x, wM SAP Adapter 7.1, JDBC Adapter 6.5, SFDC adapter 7.1, SAP R/3, SAP ECC 6.0, MS SQL server, Oracle 10g & Legacy systems.
Technical Consultant
IKEA
09.2009 - 10.2011
- As part of migration project from WM6.5 to 7.1.2, worked closely with management team and helped with project planning, schedules, targets and deadlines.
- Involved in defining the database schemas, IS configurations ans setting up the FTP over SSH connectivity between IS and WCS servers.
- Coordinating with Infrastructure support teams, database teams and WCS administration team.
- Performed end to end Interface testing of each of the application.
- Played a key role in building cutover strategies and implementing the plans in real time.
- As part of enhancement project, fine tuned the existing application which involved Business process model enhancement and code level changes which resulted around 200 % performance gain.
- As part of development involved in requirement gathering, preparing solution design documents, usecases on each Interfaces, development and testing.
- Developing the new features/ interfaces according to the client requirements.
- Working on enhancements and bug fixes.
- Creating various services to fetch data from source databases and transform to target WebSphereCommerce format.
- Prepared Dev handoff and IP (Installation Procedure) Documents to facilitate the deployments of the code to QA (Quality Assurance)/UAT (User Acceptance)/Prod (Production) environments.
- Worked on webMethods deployments using DeployerInvolved in solving CR’s with Client Team.
- Involved in troubleshooting and determining root-cause for issues in the webMethods environment.
- Used the IBM’s Rational Clear case tool to check-in the developed code and version controlling.
- Preparing Known Issues, Error handling etc. and provide Post-production support.
- Environment: webMethods IS 7.1.2, Trading Networks 7.1, My webMethods server 7.x, wM JDBC Adapter, EBB adapter, IBM WCS, ClearCase, Oracle 10g and Linux environment.
Technical Consultant
Wales and West Utilities
06.2009 - 08.2009
- Technical analysys of the current environment and migration risks.
- Involved in built the new 7.1.2 enironment which includes.
- Installation of WM7.1.2 IntegrationServers, Installation and configuration of Broker, JMS, JDBC and SAP adapters.
- Installation of MWS server, IS and Broker clustering.
- Unit testing of all interfaces on new environment.
- Environment: webMethods 7.1.2, JDBC Adapter 6.5, JMS Adapter 6.1, SAP Adapter 6.5 and MS Windows Server 2003.
Technical Lead
StoraEnso
10.2007 - 05.2009
- Responsible for Requirement Gathering, Analysis and documenting.
- Involved in Define, Design Phases of the Project.
- Developed Interfaces for integrating StoraEnso Apllications with its Internal and external partners.
- Created Business process models.
- Created Profiles, defined Document types and Processing Rules within the TN.
- Developed reusable common framework and common Error handling mechanism to handle the Business and Data errors.
- Developed applications that involved JDBC adapter and SAP adapter.
- Responsible for documenting mapping specifications, designing utilities, developing test cases and building commonly used utilities.
- Participated in unit testing and System Integration testing.
- Support Activities:
- Handling P1, P2, P3 and P4 Incidents Calls.
- Monitoring Critical production Applications.
- Identification of the root cause of the problems.
- Identification of preventive measures.
- Review of preventive measures applied and closure of the incident.
- Maintaining project related documents and preparing weekly error reports.
- Environment: OS: IBM AIX and Linux WMComponents: webMethods Integration Server 6.1/6.5, SAP Adapter 6.5, Papinet, FlatFiles, ANSI X12, EDIFACT, wMModeler, Broker, Trading Networks, SAP R/3 Adpater, Db: Oracle 9i and Sql server.
Consultant
WWU
06.2007 - 08.2007
- Wales & West Utilities (WWU) has implemented webMethods Integration platform to interface various internal and external applications like SAP R/3, Advantex, National Grid Metering system (NGM) and National Grid Emergency System (NEC), Symology Insight, ESRI GIS, QAS, LSDB and XOSERVE.
- Responsibilities:
- Handling P2, P3 and P4 Incidents/Calls.
- Monitoring critical production applications.
- Identification of the root cause of the problem.
- Identification of preventive measures.
- Review of preventive measures applied and closure of the incident.
- Maintaining project related documents and preparing weekly error reports.
- Had Involved in changing the Logging frame work & code changes in existing applications and performance tuning.
- Environment: OS: MS Windows Server 2003 WM Components: webMethods 6.5, JDBC Adapter, JMS Adapter, SAP Adapter.
Developer
NOKIA
01.2006 - 05.2007
- NAIP migration project which was being undertaken to replace NOKIA’s existing EDI module(i.e TrustedLink tool) with the latest webMethods 6.5 fabric. The project required the developers to acquire and develop a sound knowledge of EDI standards such as ANSI X12 and UNEDIFACT and using the same to interpret the TrustedLink harbinger code and generate the same functionality using webMethods 6.5.
- Responsibilities:
- Involved in the design of the b2b message exchange between trading partner and NOKIA SAP system.
- Involved in the design of error handling mechanism.
- Analyzed the existing Harbinger trustedLink EDI code and converted the same to webMethods 6.5 using wMdeveloper, WMEDI & TN components.
- Involved in development and implementation of the Inbound and Outbound EDI messages which includes developing Flow services, Java Services, mappings from TLE code, creating Flat-File Dictionaries, Schemas for EDI, VDA, TRADACOM and Flat-File handling, which also includes Installing both xml and flat-file documents in the TN, creating the Processing Rules, generating Functional Acknowledgements e.t.c.
- Maintained the Quality Documentation as per Wipro and Nokia standards.
- Administrated Offshore webMethods environment both for Trading Networks and Integration server.
- Coordinating the Development and Integration testing activities of the EDI team.
- Code review and bug fixing as part of the peer review.
- Post golive support.
- Environment: OS: Sun Solaris, Windows-XP WM Components: webMethods 6.5, JDBC Adapter, SAP Adapter, WM EDIINT OtherTools: TrustedLink EDI, SAP R/3, Oracle.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Mechanical Engineering
JNTU
India09-2002
Skills
- EAI/Middleware - WebMethods, Talend, Mulesoft
- Cloud: Azure Cloud
- EDI: WM EDI, IBM WCS, Gentran & Harbinger
- Technologies – SpringBoot, Java, Azure Cloud, WebMethods, Azure Event Hub, Event Grid, Azure Functions, AKS, Terraform, helmchart
- Databases - Oracle, SQL Server, Couchbase
- General Tools: Splunk, CrossVista, Jenkins, BitBucket, JIRA, Remedy & HP ServiceDesk
Accomplishments
- Completed a $[Amount] project [Number] months early and under budget.
- Collaborated with team of [Number] in the development of [Project name].
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Professional Working
Timeline
Sr Architect I
Staples, Inc
10.2019 - Current
Consultant Application Development
Staples, Inc
05.2017 - 10.2019
Principal Software Engineer
Staples, Inc
08.2013 - 04.2017
Sr. Technical Consultant
Ebay
02.2013 - 08.2013
EDI Integration Lead
Nexeo Solutions
01.2012 - 01.2013
Technical Consultant
IKEA
09.2009 - 10.2011
Technical Consultant
Wales and West Utilities
06.2009 - 08.2009
Technical Lead
StoraEnso
10.2007 - 05.2009
Consultant
WWU
06.2007 - 08.2007
Developer
NOKIA
01.2006 - 05.2007
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Mechanical Engineering
JNTU