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Introduction

Rakesh Godavari

I am a Software Professional with sound Technical expertise and sophistication to comprehend Business needs to architect, design and develop innovative, timely and cost effective enterprise solutions. A professional with career reflecting strong leadership, communication and management skills.
I am an Engineer who enjoys challenges in Design, Development and Architecture of Enterprise Solutions.

Specialties: ESB, JEE, SOA, Web Services, Mobile Apps, UX integartion

Experience

Clemson University - ICAR

Nov 2012 - Present

Software Architect

Design, Develop and Architcet the SOA layer for SC State Medicaid and Medicare projects utilizing Mule ESB, SOAP and RESTful Web Services in JEE environment. The JEE middleware environment is implemented as a combination of WebSphere and jBoss app server clusters. SOA layer is reaized via the Mule ESB server cluster interfacing internal and external clients including the Federal and State departments.

Benefitfocus

May 2012 - Nov 2012

Manager of Engineering

Involved in development of new SOA modules and reconfigure / update existing modules of the flagship eEnrollment product used by several thousand clients including BCBS, Aetna, MetLife. Implemented an innovative module for Quick Enrollment for customers to process their bulk Enrollments using various data streams (spreadsheets, json, XML). Application is built to be multi-tenant and cloud based api using opnestack with multitude of options to suite customer needs.

US Voter Data Inc.

Feb 2010 - Dec 2012

Sr. Architect and Development Lead

Mobile Patriot Systems is a responsive cloud based application, I have designed and developed from scratch using a suite of tools including PhP/MySQL/jQuery/Ajax/HTML5/CSS3/LESS to name a few. It has seen a steady growth and developed into a multi-tenant application handling polls, political campaigns spanning over 100 million registered voters across US. It gave me an ample chance to grow as an Architect and Developer handling a project of such magnitude.

BI-LO, LLC

Apr 2006 - Apr 2012

Lead, Application Development & Architecture

Lead for the BI-LO Interactive Technologies team responsible for Design, Development and Implementation of BI-LO Digital Marketing. Responsible for Technology and Resource selection and management.

SC Department of Disabilities Special Needs

Aug 2005 - Mar 2006

Sr. Developer

Key developer in the SC Sate Dept. of Disabilities and Special Needs ‘Consumer Data Support and Enrollment System’ project. Project Involved interaction with SC State Super Computer and a Central Server farm.

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

Jun 2003 - Aug 2005

Developer

Developed interactive interfaces for Medical and Dental portals for BCBS customers. Built several J2EE Applications with Web Interfaces to replace the Mainframe green screens used previously. BCBS Customer Service Claims and Membership applications design and development.

Ohio University - Enterprise Finance Project

Jun 2002 - May 2003

Developer

2EE based custom web interface and application development for ORACLE 11i HRMS/Financials modules of ORACLE 9i/8i database implementation and maintenance.

Skills
Education

Ohio University

May 2002

MS Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ohio University

May 2000

MS Physics - Semiconductor Materials

Osmania University

April 1997

Integrated Electronics & Physics