Shivshankar Kandavelu

Principal Software Architect at Syzygy Plasmonics
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  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Tamil Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Hindi Native or bilingual proficiency

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Dave Romney

Shiv is an amazing Tech Leader with the ability to manage & improve deeply complex applications, large DevSecOps teams and company culture. He is able to drive value throughout the entire Product Software Development Life Cycle from ground zero through to acquiring the first customer. I would encourage anyone to jump in his boat or ask him to captain your boat.

Mike Wangsmo

Shiv is a very talented technologist with a fantastic personality. Unique to Shiv among most technical people is his great interpersonal skills and his willingness to take on leadership activities. I asked Shiv on many occasions to lead group activities for his team members and he always came through without fail. I knew I could always count on him to handle the tasks above and beyond his normal work duties. In addition to his reliability as a leader, he would always shows up with an infectious smile and great sense of humor. I fully recommend Shiv for any role that he feels qualified for and know that he will be a substantial, well rounded additional to any team.

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Experience

    • United States
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Principal Software Architect
      • Sep 2022 - Present

      Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale industrial applications. Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale industrial applications.

    • Belgium
    • Graphic Design
    • Senior Principal Consultant
      • Feb 2022 - Sep 2022

      Working with pre-sales to understand the current client business architecture and process and map them to systems in the existing and proposed technical architecture. Conducting cloud journey workshop for clients and guiding them on best practices, CAF, PaaS and plan for next steps. Working with client and internal teams in putting together a proper cloud native solution using Azure/AWS PaaS, containers and moving systems from on-prem to cloud. Verifying the existing and proposed system architecture and helping the teams to think in terms of Performance, Security, DevOps and FinOps. Working with delivery teams to make sure the projects are getting executed as per technical design and they have the required staffing for a successful completion.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Sr. Director, Software Architecture and Engineering
      • Apr 2018 - Dec 2021

      Lead the onshore and offshore engineering team to develop new SaaS application. Lead the engineering team in planning for delivering all product release efforts including major, minor releases and patches Lead agile development teams and processes to deliver high quality software Establish software development processes in alignment with best practices for Continuous Integration / Continuous Development Provide regular high-level communication to the senior management team on the progress of development Drive decision making process based on consensus and ensure that steps are taken to actual implementation of roadmap Provide overall architectural vision and direction to build the multi-tenant software as a service platform Participate in strategic planning and design sessions with Product Management, Engineering Management, Architects, and Operations Be a change agent for improving processes both local to the team and more broadly across the organization Work closely with Product Management, Development teams, QA and DevOps teams to guide and implement the application. Identifying and working with software vendors and partners to evaluate technology and build a roadmap for future directions. Complete management responsibilities that include performance management, hiring and coaching the engineering team Provide career development, coaching and performance management for developers, team leads and devOps. Establish product development team structure and leading development team Instrumental in architecting the next gen platform to use most of the PaaS services available in Microsoft Azure and selecting services that are good fit but not part of Azure. Architected a mobile / kiosk solution using Raspberry Pi, Azure IoT and Android Things Responsible for building a connector architecture that will standardize the integration with third-party access control software

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • Big Data Architect and Advisor
      • Jan 2017 - Apr 2018

      Client: Just Energy, Sysco Enabling development teams deliver the solutions faster by adopting more modular and modern approaches like PAAS, Cloud Native and NoSQL. Building integration architecture / platform using existing patterns and industry standard technology using micro services, reactive architecture and APIs. Making APIs a first class citizen and moving the teams towards domain driven design. Mapping current state and create future road map that helps the senior management team to make more informed decisions. Stabilized the existing development and production Cassandra cluster. Redesigned some of the data model to adhere to the recommended Cassandra design pattern. Work closely with Infrastructure team to meet the Sarbanes - Oxley compliance and other internal security and risk management. Coaching team leads and developers on distributed computing, cloud strategies and real-time patterns. Training developers and team leads on Azure, Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch, Logstash and other big data technologies. Hosting internal technical brown bags and design sessions. Introduced Apache Spark for ad hoc and nightly analytics for demand forecasting. Introduced Elasticsearch for internal search requirements for retail and wholesale traders and to run some parts of the Analytics. Evangelizing big data technologies and training the team on the design and development on those technologies.

    • Chief Software Architect & CTO
      • Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

      Software technology startup that delivers predictive analytics for water availability in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. We aim to change how the world thinks about, and plans around, its most precious resource.​ Software technology startup that delivers predictive analytics for water availability in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. We aim to change how the world thinks about, and plans around, its most precious resource.​

    • Director of Technology ( Future platforms )
      • May 2014 - Jun 2016

      Brought in to provide solutions for the Oil and Gas vertical using existing platform, find product gaps and find solutions to close those gaps. Responsible for conceptualization and implementation of high scale data match and merge, de-duplication module in existing MDMCenter product. Evaluation of technology partners for OEM or adhoc integration and solutions. Core team member of the future platform group working to provide real-time analytics using big data stack. Additional responsibilities: Establishing hiring process protocols, interviewing candidates across the board, helping pre-sales team and other management activities.

    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Sr. Software Architect
      • May 2013 - Mar 2014

      Revamped the core architecture of the flagship product Salus. Initiated the transformation from Winform based UI to new UX paradigm using SOA, WPF and web technologies. Setup a training program to in house consultants and customers. Mentored team members and interns. Revamped the core architecture of the flagship product Salus. Initiated the transformation from Winform based UI to new UX paradigm using SOA, WPF and web technologies. Setup a training program to in house consultants and customers. Mentored team members and interns.

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Technical Architect
      • Jun 2012 - May 2013

      Client: Halliburton Developing cutting edge modelling and analysis tools for oil and gas well drilling services using Microsoft technology stack. Become a bridge person between the development team and the algorithmic team that develops the efficient extraction model in fracking for shale gas. For Perficient: Part of the core team that initiated and managed the knowledge sharing portal and brown bag lunches between teams working in different client location. Client: Halliburton Developing cutting edge modelling and analysis tools for oil and gas well drilling services using Microsoft technology stack. Become a bridge person between the development team and the algorithmic team that develops the efficient extraction model in fracking for shale gas. For Perficient: Part of the core team that initiated and managed the knowledge sharing portal and brown bag lunches between teams working in different client location.

    • Software Architect
      • May 2011 - May 2012

      Responsible for comprehensive overhaul of the UI for the next version of flagship ApolloDART client. Developed a new UI framework that allows monitoring well site data in various ways in real time. Creating UI controls to view complex data sets like curves, surveys, 2D plots for real time and non-real time for analysis purposes. Integrated with 3rd party oil well services software to view data from rigs. Created user interaction models, workflows and user interfaces. Translating usability and field research findings in to design improvements. Creating prototypes and authoring detailed interaction specifications. Successfully communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale. Traveled to customer sites to get requirements from end users, translating them and implementing them.

    • Brazil
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Associate
      • Sep 2009 - May 2011

      Integrated SolArc Right Angle to in house Risk Management System at Chevron. Improving the performance of Temenos Credit Risk management application deployment. Creating Business Design and Technical Design documents. Managing offshore team and client deliverables. Integrated SolArc Right Angle to in house Risk Management System at Chevron. Improving the performance of Temenos Credit Risk management application deployment. Creating Business Design and Technical Design documents. Managing offshore team and client deliverables.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Sr. Software Engineer
      • Sep 2002 - Sep 2009

      Managing the development and delivery of Change Monitoring product for windows file system and registry. Maintained and transitioned Active Directory Administration and Exchange Migrator product to development center in India. Designed and developed user provisioning product that can run on any browser and in Kiosks. Did a proof of concept to integrate it with 'Integrated Voice Response System' ( IVRs ). Managing the development and delivery of Change Monitoring product for windows file system and registry. Maintained and transitioned Active Directory Administration and Exchange Migrator product to development center in India. Designed and developed user provisioning product that can run on any browser and in Kiosks. Did a proof of concept to integrate it with 'Integrated Voice Response System' ( IVRs ).

    • Senior Systems Analyst
      • Feb 2002 - Aug 2002

      Provided a backend solution for deal settlement and invoicing by integrating data from SAP. Reduced the licensing fee to BEA by porting the trading engine from Weblogic to open source software Tomcat/JBoss. Increased the efficiency of the trading engine by implementing 'Caching and Object Pool' framework.. Provided a backend solution for deal settlement and invoicing by integrating data from SAP. Reduced the licensing fee to BEA by porting the trading engine from Weblogic to open source software Tomcat/JBoss. Increased the efficiency of the trading engine by implementing 'Caching and Object Pool' framework..

    • Oil and Gas
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Senior Systems Analyst
      • Apr 2001 - Feb 2002

      Design, develop and support commodity trading engine and applications for commodity trading. Created proof of concept to monitor server cluster to reduce the downtime of a server in fault tolerant systems. Design, develop and support commodity trading engine and applications for commodity trading. Created proof of concept to monitor server cluster to reduce the downtime of a server in fault tolerant systems.

    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • Sr. Technical Consultant ( Fin. Svcs )
      • May 1999 - Mar 2001

      Successfully created and deployed a Quota and Territory management product resulting in $20 million in business during the year. Customer management and up sell to make additional revenue from existing customer. Identify customer pain points, customize and deliver solutions to those pain ponits. Successfully created and deployed a Quota and Territory management product resulting in $20 million in business during the year. Customer management and up sell to make additional revenue from existing customer. Identify customer pain points, customize and deliver solutions to those pain ponits.

    • Libraries
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Sr. Developer
      • Jun 1998 - Apr 1999

      Developed application that interefaces with Lucent Speech Engine to give automated voice reponse to telephone callers. This application is precursor to present day IVRs. Developed application that interefaces with Lucent Speech Engine to give automated voice reponse to telephone callers. This application is precursor to present day IVRs.

Education

  • National Institute of Information Technology
    Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management, Computer Software Engineering
  • University of Madras
    Bachelor's degree, Chemistry

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