Sumodh Sudhakaran

Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering with First Class

Pre-University (+2)

Computer Science

Senior Sofware Engineer / Rise People Inc.

• Developed and maintained payroll systems using .NET technologies.
• Upgraded systems to SQL Server 2019 to enhance performance and scalability.
• Implemented the latest .NET technologies to improve system functionality and security.
• Led the migration of payroll systems from an on-premises environment to AWS to enhance scalability and reliability.
• Designed and developed new features to meet the evolving needs of users.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate payroll systems with other HR modules.
• Conducted code reviews and implemented best practices to ensure code quality.
• Provided technical support and troubleshooting for payroll system issues.
• Participated in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Successfully upgraded payroll systems to SQL Server 2019, resulting in almost 30% improvement in performance

Senior Consultant / Thoughtworks

• Enhanced the client experience by demonstrating the microservices architecture while translating their needs into user-friendly, back-end services using .Net/Java and React/Angular, as a Senior Consultant for Thoughtworks.
• Determined operational feasibility by evaluating analysis to define the problems and requirements to develop innovative solutions.
• Spearheaded and implemented data and market-driven solutions by creating well designed, testable, efficient code while guiding and directing the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
• Empowered clients by investigating and understanding problematic areas while conferring with users throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Leveraged TDD and CI/CD best practices to innovate customer processes and experiences while working in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management.
• Improved performance by mentoring Software Engineers to enhance their overall skill set and knowledge while supplying constructive advice, coaching, and training.
• Cultivated continuous improvement by conducting systems analysis to recommend updates or changes in policy; and kept a thumb on emerging technologies and available vendor packages.

Senior - Tax Technology Transformation / Ernst & Young

• Began journey with Ernst & Young, one of the world’s big 4 accounting firms, as an Advanced Analyst (Technology and Transformation) en route to being promoted to the current title in Oct. 2018.
• Maintained accountability for designing, developing, modifying, and implementing solutions across the full software stack
• Demonstrated the ability to understand each business’s needs while gathering, understanding, and summarizing their requirements to execute well-crafted, market-driven tools; and tracked and reported progress throughout.
• Analyzed company processes and standards to develop the front-end framework for a client that can be used across web applications in Angular/HTML and CSS.
• Empowered a small team of junior and mid-level engineers by training and mentoring them; monitored progress and supplied constructive feedback and encouragement.
• Championed and improved the customer experience by conceptualizing and building a boilerplate template to enable the rapid building of microservices applications on the Azure platform and .Net tech stack.
• Created one of the very first in-house, cross-platform mobile applications for the tax practice to demonstrate the capability of moving to firmwide adoption of Xamarin.

Software Engineer / Teamsuccesso Software Pvt Ltd

• Planned, designed, developed, and maintained several custom software solutions using a variety of technologies, while serving as a Software Engineer for TeamSuccesso Software, which specializes in data- and market-driven solutions for education, digital marketing, and other custom software
• Utilized clean, efficient coding to develop and maintain an application on the Google Cloud Platform to enable tests to be taken and managed online
• Performed verification and validation testing; reviewed and debugged codes of various programs while identifying and prioritizing tasks across the software development lifecycle
• Planned, designed, and developed one of the first digital marketing tools with the capability of consolidating data across a variety of sources, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter