About me
An experienced IT specialist with over 20 years of experience in developing/enhancing enterprise software systems in banking and financial services. Extensive experience with building solution/application architecture, reusable frameworks/libraries, component design and development using Java/JEE/Mainframe technologies. Well versed with cloud technologies such as AWS, PCF, DevOps, DevOpsSec, Chaos Engineering, Software Configuration Management (SCM), Build and deployment automation, Continous Integration/Deployments (CI/CD) across various platforms. My specialties includes Solution Design, Infrastructure Design, Application Architecture, Business capacity assessment and devising the infrastructure specific requirements, Driving NFR testing strategies, Software cost estimation, Team building and Mentoring (In particular conducting training on latest technologies and tools).
Happy Clients almost 1000 clients/customers are using our applications in european region. This inludes major corporate, financial and lending customers in Germany, UK and Scotland
Applications almost 30 different applications are designed and hosted for financial and lending customers in Europe.
Years of experience almost 20 years in software architecture, design and implementation using various technologies to support financial and lending customers.
Awards honoured with almost 15 awards and recognition in my professional career so far. Looking forward to more wins in future journey.
Skills
I had an oppertunity to work with almost 30 odd applications in my career so far! These applications are designed and developed using industry leading technologies and offers all the business needs on daily basis. At a high level major technologies used within these applications and my comfort level with these tools are listed below. This is not a complete list but all the major ones at a high level.
Resume
Enterprise and IT Architect with over 15 years of leadership experience in designing innovative business solutions for public and private sector clients. Skilled in cloud computing, information management, application/framework development and virtualization. Demonstrated mastery in evaluating requirements for business application development, integration and service activation. Proven mentor and training with expertise in communicating across organizational levels and with cross-functional teams to drive shared vision and foster culture of excellence.
Summary
Lithesh Anargha
AWS solution architect with 7+ years of experience driving information management strategy. Strategized, designed, and deployed innovative and complete security architecture for enterprise applications in financial/banking domain. Focused to optimise enterprise systems by using Amazon Web Services global infrastructure and services to innovate and improve return on investements (ROI) to the business.
- Possess 20 years of overall experience in Banking and Financial Services Industry (Cash management and Leasing) domains.
- Proven expertise in documenting and maintaining enterprise architecture, solution design, component design, code, build, automation and framework/library etc.
- Developing and documenting current, segmented, future and stratgic enterprise architecture views.
- Expertise in documenting technology blueprints for the next generation IT systems.
- Responsible for assessment of technology/operational risks belongs to the applications and mitigating it from time to time.
- Responsible for analysing/evaluating the resource capacity issues/constraints and resloving them from time to time.
- Expertise in analysing the business cacpaity requirements and devising the infrastructure capacity/resource planning.
- Contributed towards many requirements analysis and solution design workshops related to product enhancements and developments.
- Proficient in Software Configuration Management (SCM) and administration.
- Proficient in automation of document, generation, scanning and indexing IT solutions belongs to business applications.
- Proficient in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) using AndroMDA and MagicDraw architecture/design tools.
- TOGAF 9 Certified professional in Enterprise Architecture (EA) and a practitioner in EA using ArchiMate.
- Key person in drafting/reviewing documents such as Problem Opportunity Statement, Solution Design, Infrastructure Design, Technical Design and Option Analysis.
- Responsible for creating/evaluating/recommending technology/framework selection for the projects based on option analysis.
- Drafted and published many white-papers on application architecture such as Streaming and piping, parallel processing, automated failure tracking/processing, scheduling on cloud infrastructure and automated workflow execution for cloud environments.
- Contributor for Infrastructure design review, business capacity planning, Fail Over Testing (FOT), Automated Scalability Testing (AST) and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) etc.
- Responsible or drafting, maintaining and optimising branching and merging strategies (SCM practices) used within the protfolio.
- Leading the architecture and design team belongs to the online and direct channel platforms.
Education
Master of Computer Application (MCA)
1997 - 2000
University of Madras, India
Bachelor of Chemistry (Bsc)
1994 - 1997
University of Pondicherry, India
Professional Experience
Lead Solution Architect
2021 - Present
NatWest Group India (formerly RBS India), RBS Services India Pvt Ltd
- Strategized, designed, and deployed innovative and enterprise architecture for the franchisee.
- Designed and edited blueprints for IT infrastructure and application architecture according to management’s demands.
- Monitored existing infrastructure and architectural frameworks for performance, and made changes and updates when necessary.
- Kept up to date with latest industry knowledge and news to maintain and improve enterprise and business platforms.
- Communicated target architectural plans and company roadmaps across all departments.
- Conducting security risk assessment and mitigating the same.
- Assisting third-party audits (SAS70, UK tax relief for R&D) throughDeloitte, PWC and KPMG etc.
Application Architect
2015 - 2021
NatWest Group India (formerly RBS India), RBS Services India Pvt Ltd
- Leading the design and development activities of online and direct systems belonsg to the franchisee.
- Leading the designing & development activities of application framework for the franchisee.
- Leading the design & development team for technology assistance and delivery.
- Addressing all the risks belongs to these systems from time to time.
- Conducting security risk assessment and mitigating the same.
Technical Lead
2010 - 2015
NatWest Group India (formerly RBS India), RBS Services India Pvt Ltd
- Designing & development of many IT applications using Java/Jee technologies.
- This IT landscape includes, direct and online banking systems.
- Designing & development of application framework for the franchisee.
- Leading the development team for technology assistance and delivery.
System Analyst
2004 - 2010
Hexaware Technologies India Pvt Ltd
- Designing & development of many IT systems for Deutsche Leasing, Germany.
- Designing & development of many IT applications using Java/Jee technologies.
Technical Consultant
2003 - 2004
JKV Software Solutions, India
- Worked as Technical Consultant and deputed in Hexaware Technologies, India.
- Designing and Development of many IT systems for Deutsche Leasing, Germany.
Testimonials
Here is what my ex-colleagues/co-workers and other stakeholders apeak about me! These references are taken out from my linkedin profile and you can still see these testimonials over there as well.
I've had the pleasure of working with Lithesh for almost 4 years. He is a proven expert in the field of Java enterprise software development in banking industry along with B2B/E2E integration. He was always focused to improve the quality and performance of system being developed using variety of tools and process. He is often focused to develop systems adhering the EA principles and keen to document the business processes and technology components. Lithesh has a very wide horizon of expertise and his solutions are always focused to bring the best reliability, scalability, and maintainability to the end product.
Karel Kubat
CEO e-tunity & ex-colleague
Lithesh has the unique ability to explain complicated situations accurately and simply, so that both commercial and technical colleagues understand them. He has a holistic understanding of the trade-offs between reliability, flexibility, performance, and ease of implementation and is he also very familiar with the spectrum of appropriate design choices, and can guide selection of the best to meet the requirements. He has been a catalyst in uniting the teams working on their projects, helping to drive a common vision and focus. Lithesh is quite exception because he is not bound by existing architectural models; Instead tracks innovations across the technologies, services and business models and approaches each project in this manner.
Venkat Tharagam
ex-colleague
Great and thoroughly inspiring craftsman! Working with Lithesh teaches everyone the power of experimentation, continuous learning and adapting to new ideas. A very straight forward and practical person to work with. An enjoyable experience with all the interactions I had with Lithesh. Working in such a dynamic, agile and complex work domain, having a mindset like Lithesh to keep exploring and continuously getting challenged is the only way to survive and excel. Blessed to have a senior architect like Lithesh for the program am currently engaged with! Thanks Lithesh for your continuous guidance and technical leadership!
Ravikumar
ex-colleague
Lithesh is very well oriented in the banking business, mainly in the Project management, Change management etc. He is very good team player strongly focused on the goal. Co-operation with him is always excellent!
Pavel Rebecc
ex-colleague
Lithesh is a solution design expert and excellent mentor who always educated team on JEE best practices and micro services design practices. This always helped team to deliver scalable, quality and robust applications. Lithesh has created many reusable artefacts for cross cutting concerns in applications which eliminated the need for developer to write boiler plate code. Solution Design documents from Lithesh has always been very clear and crisp without over-arching the actual requirements. This enabled the team to deliver quality products. Overall it was a great experience working with such a highly passionate and extremely professional person. Looking forward to work with you in future if possible! Thanks a lot for the support and guidance you provided as a mentor.
Arun
ex-colleague
Lithesh is an avid learner, great mentor and been instrumental in providing design solutions for complex business requirements. He has full ability in motivating staff to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment. He always analyze and suggest optimal tool and Framework appropriate for the use case instilling best practices of software development. I feel much comfortable working with him and also to learn from him.
Vinoth
co-worker
Lithesh is an expert solution architect with good experience in architecting highly scalable and highly available systems with cloud technologies. He is very good at understanding project needs, providing advice and delivering the right technology results.It was a really a very good experience working under Lithesh mentorship.He enlightened us with knowledge on best design and programming practices that helped us deliver quality software. He is a role model for us in terms of passion towards learning and implementing technology whom we always wanted to emulate.I would like to thank Lithesh for the guidance and support he provided in shaping my career.
Jithin
ex-colleague
Contact
Please reach me on the below email if you need any assistance or help related to IT architecture/design/developments. I am contributing towards few open source projects and looking forward to host open source applications (with nominal fee) in cloud post retirement from the job. I am also intrested in consulting and training areas as well and have some plans in near future.
Lithesh Anargha
Kamarajar Salai
Chennai IN 600118
litheshgopal@gmail.com