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Kishore Nadendla

Engineering Director & Principle Architect
Experienced Engineering Director & Principle Architect with a demonstrated history of working and scaling technical solutions across the enterprise.
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Contact Info

  • Charlotte, NC
  • linkedin.com/in/kishore-nadendla-68a78062
  • nadendla.kishore@gmail.com
  • 7048069557

Skills

Design Patterns
Cloud-Native Service Mesh Serverless Micro frontends Microservices
Methodologies
Inner Source Agile DevOps DevSecOps GitOps
Application Infra Patterns
IAAS Scalability Deployment API Gateways Cross-Cutting Concerns Security Reliability Observability

Certifications

AWS
Cloud Partitioner Developer - Associate SysOps - Associate SA Associate SA Professional DevOps Professional Network Speciality Well-Architected Framework
Containers
Docker CKAD CKA CKS Istio
Hashicorp
Consul Terraform Valut
Programming
Java, Spring Angular , React Python - L1
Security
ZScaler Zero Trust Security ZScaler Internet Access CISSP - Working on
Google
Google Cloud Engineer Google Professional Architect

Summary

  • Led and built many scalable and reliable solutions using technology to connect those building it (development & engineering teams) with the people using it (users/customers).
  • Demonstrated a proven track record of project management by successfully leading cross-functional teams to meet and exceed project goals and deadlines, resulting in improved operational efficiency and client satisfaction.
  • Exhibited strong problem-solving and analytical skills, consistently contributing innovative solutions to complex challenges, and driving process improvements, leading to cost savings and increased productivity within the organization.
  • Working knowledge of designing and implementing Landing Zone for Financial Service Client using AWS Cloud Services. Achieved AWS Foundational, Associate, and Professional level certifications. I am currently working on the specialty one.
  • Knowledge of implementing end-to-end continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and configuration management and infrastructure as code with DevOps /DevSecOps tools and methodologies.
  • Led many initiatives to enable application-level security with SAST, DAST, and code reviews. Worked on reusable perimeter security to integrate PingFederate and OAuth 2 RBAC standards.
  • Knowledge of Key Management Services and AWS Encryption process. Practiced recommendations for implementing the best security practices that support NIST or CIS functions.
  • Worked on establishing a foundational framework which was critical to share data across applications for high traffic customer-facing applications.
  • Led many initiatives across digital organizations like Logical Architecture Review, Fixing Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, High-velocity Engineering pipelines, Containerization and Inner Source .
  • Able to influence teams with negotiating and technology skills with the ability to achieve organization goals or roadmap.
  • Good Understanding of Cloud Native, 12 factors, and Micro Service Patterns with Container, Orchestration, and Service Mesh technologies.

Work Experience

TIAA

Sr Lead Engineering Manager
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Sep 2022 - Current

Assumed a Sr lead Engineering Manager role and leading Developer Experience to improve the developer productivity solutions.

Leading strategic initiatives like Supply Chain Security and Zero Trust Model critical on hybrid cloud platforms with continuous delivery pipelines like GitOps and DevOps.

Architected and designed approach implementing Zero trust on Kubernetes Platform and contributing Zero trust white paper on CNCF

Wellsfargo

Principle Engineer
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Jul 2022 - Sep 2022

Part of Hybrid Cloud product team and focused on implementing Zero Trust Architecture with Kubernetes clusters by automating Certification and Secrets Manament

TIAA

Engineering Director & Principal Architect
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Aug 2017 - May 2022

As a Federated Architecture Board member, participate in reviewing all new applications of logical and physical designs.

To address common architecture concerns across organizations, we established a newInnerSource framework based on Open source methodology to reduce duplication efforts and increase collaboration.

Established new technology strategies based on caching, micro frontend, and application modernization which helped the organization use reference applications and tech talks(referenced below).

Worked with customer , internal team and cloud providers to establish a strategy to have aDigital Landing Zone in a public cloud with a collection of tools, processes, and policies that supports the customer.

Have worked with multiple teams to establish the Digital Landing Zone on AWS a fully automated by adopting techniques like infra as a code, enterprise-scale governance, and security solutions.

Worked with application development managers, architects, and engineering team to design solutions and establish standards of cloud-native applications and helped them to identify roadblocks if any.

Helped teams to migrate 15 applications to AWS cloud with seamless integrations with on-prem services with cloud best practices, observability, Cost, governance, Flexible and expandable with completely automated CI and CD.

As an engineering lead, creating a container strategy to migrate an application from VM to containers helped streamline the process to migrate to Kubernetes by enabling DeploymentAutomation using HELM charts.

*Tech Talk: *Micro Services, Micro Frontends, Application Modernization, Service Data Exchange(JSON vs GRPC), Container and Orchestrations, Service Mesh, OAuth2, Testing Methods withs trategies and CI/CD Process ..many more.

TIAA

Principal Architect - Consultant
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Aug 2012 - Jul 2017

Leading and mentoring technical teams implementing DevOps platform to accelerate software delivery supporting techniques such as Trunk Based Development, Feature Toggles, Blue-GreenDeployment, 12 Factors, and others.

Enabled cross-departmental process improvements and worked on automation initiatives. Plan and execute DevOps project tasks and lead technical projects.

Have worked with subject matter experts, architects, and leadership across the release lifecycle to obtain input and support for planned DevOps engineering activities for web and mobile.

Experience with architecting, designing, and automating cloud-native CI/CD workflows and tools, using Jenkins, GitLab, or similar means, Infrastructure as Code, using CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.

Experience with end-to-end software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.Served as a thought leader for emerging DevOps industry trends and concepts.

As a Lead of engineering team of 10 people and built foundational activities. Have created a road map for the engineering team by outlining a multi-year vision of deliverables aligned with organizational goals.

As a leader of a development team of 15 people for the organization-wide initiative on modernizing the sponsor site application, the built website became number one by an external rating company with features adopted.

Worked closely with Product teams to measure and align operational goals with features and product goals by increasing NPR and enabling omni channel experience.

Lead a development team of 25 people for a multi-year extensive transformation initiative program to reduce the cost of back-end systems, eliminate process duplication, and bring in more visibility.

Established Meta data-driven plan and product management, eliminated data correction-related issues, also built the State Through Processing of files new file transmission from vendors to clients.

TIAA

Tech Lead - Consultant
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Aug 2007 - Jul 2012

Contributed to migrating to a new CRM platform by adding features to supporting applications without impacting the current customer service model.

Lead the technical strategy platform team from the proof of concept integrating the customer HR benefits site, registration, and enrollment and have used Open Token technology with 15 member team of 5 different modules.

Lead Design and implementation dashboard for visualization of fund line-up data to be selected customer and integrated external REST API endpoints to process files and retrieve data.

Responsible for the end-to-end delivery and maintenance of web apps and product infrastructure of premium customers. Architect and oversee software development, infrastructure, quality control, and developer operations.

Technical lead for analyzing the requirement from code using Reverse Engineering approach ofApple’s WebObjects to J2EE; project helps customer securely schedule meetings and financial consultation with the provider.

Led re-architecture of an existing beneficiary into a more scalable approach, involving multiple designs and spanning months with first-ever design with an API Gateway type approach.

Technical lead for user registration and authentication project with multiple systems involved enables users to seamlessly and securely log in to client websites also redesigned financial statements system for easy download.

Led two teams that redesigned and rearchitected the complex tax withholding functionality with frontend and APIs. The client considered delivery of the project as best practice and reference project for similar projects.

Technical lead for enhancing functionality for the challenging project that helps agents serve users disconnected from the internet.

Metlife

Tech Lead - Consultant
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Mar 2005 - Jul 2007

Helped to establish the Center Of Excellence(COE) for middleware integration with Web methods and was an active member in exploring technology and best practices. Also, during this period worked with two big US clients: e-commerce and insurance providers.

We have built a critical web application using Weblogic Portal to manage technical requirements with functionality Build permit, Variance, Architecture Engagement, and Technical Assessment which helped 50 enterprise architects.

My role was to engage with clients to gather all requirements for their hub of all file process management and migrate MS-Access data to Oracle using automation also optimized web applications.

Developed web application and associated processes to visualize by tracking all file movements in the centralized system; also built a web application to enable plan configuration system accessible by thousands of users.

Paypal

Developer - Consultant
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Apr 2004 - Feb 2005

My job consisted of the building of websites for an e-commerce company by understanding their proprietary language. Millions of users use these web pages across the globe for their payments.

Modernized the email templates’ looks and feel by enhancing styles for email, added dynamic data with locale information which helped millions of users by enabling personalization in individual emails.

Education

ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY

Master of Computer Applications
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Aug 2000 - May 2003

ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY

Bachelors of Science - Mathematics
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Jul 1997 - Apr 2000