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Aravind Kothandaraman

Lead Software Engineer

Henrico, VA • 802-777-1255 • aravind.pk@hotmail.com

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Professional Summary

Skills

  • C#, .NET ★★★★★
  • Pythonic: Python, Django, Flask and FastAPI ★★★☆☆
  • REST API, Microservices Architecture, SOA ★★★★☆
  • SPA: Angular, Blazor WA ★★★★☆
  • Application Security: OAuth integrations (Auth0, Okta) ★★★★☆
  • RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle ★★★★☆
  • RDBMS: PostgreSQL ★★★☆☆
  • NoSql: MongoDb, Redis (for Caching, Session Store) ★★★★☆
  • Testing Frameworks: NUnit, XUnit, Moq, Mocha ★★★★☆
  • DevOps with Docker, Kubernetes ★★★★★
  • Messaging - Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS ★★★★☆
  • Logging and Instrumentation: ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana with Serilog, NLog ★★★☆☆
  • ORMs: Entity Framework, Dapper, SQLAlchemy ★★★★☆
  • Technical Leadership, Mentoring, System and Enterprise Architecture ★★★★☆

Experience Summary

S&P Global — Lead Software Engineer 
Sep 2019 – Present, Richmond VA
  • Architected scalable solutions and led cloud-native app development
  • Reduced technical debt by 50% and optimized data collection runtime
  • Mentored team, standardized DevOps cycles, and led tech innovation
Cognizant Technology Solutions — Senior Software Engineer 
Aug 2007 – Sep 2019 (Vermont / Virginia / India)
  • Developed enterprise applications using .NET, C#, and SQL Server along with early career experience in Java and Oracle
  • Led software projects and improved team efficiency and performance
  • Mentored junior engineers and delivered innovative solutions

Education

  • Master of Computer Applications — Anna University, 2004–2007
  • Bachelors in Computer Science — University of Madras, 2001–2004

Projects

IRS 990 Visualizer

Oct 2025 – Present

This is a personal interest, .net Aspire based project started as learning but with a real world application scope as a goal to accomplish. The app would download the 990 filings made publicly available by IRS and renders an intuitive web UI displaying the every year filings Data.

.NET Core, C#, Aspire, Redis with (mongo/Postgres Yet to be integrated)

Visa Bulletin Reader web app

Mar 2024 – Present

This will read the USCIS visa bulletin page and provide the key dates by visa type and country. Renders on a nice Web app to display the dates with options to select. Having next set of road maps to this.

Python with WebScraping and Flask with elementary Html for web

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