Balaji Thadagam Kandavel — Cox Automotive Inc. - Senior Cloud Engineer

Software Developer with 17 years of working experience in retail and automotive industry. Skilled in developing microservices, serverless and LLM apps using Java, Typescript, Python and AWS. Strong engineering professional with Bachelor of Engineering focused on Computer Science. 

 

Senior Cloud Engineer Cox Automotive Jan 2015- Till Date 

  • 17 years of experience in Software Analysis, Design, Development of Applications using Java, Typescript.
  • Experience in designing, implementing cloud-native and serverless architectures
  • Experience in developing backend applications based on event driven architecture and cloud infrastructure optimization
  • Experience in building Restful/GraphQL APIs using NodeJS and Typescript and deploy them in AWS lambda.
  • Experience creating Pipelines using CDK for serverless deployments.

 

Senior Cloud Engineer Home depot Summer 2012- Jan 2015 

  • Strong experience in Software Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing of Object-Oriented Applications and Web based Enterprise Applications using Java/J2EE.
  • Designed and Developed 8 applications that interact with each other for various data flow and forms The Repair System for The Home Depot.
  • Worked in Java, and RESTful webservices for the development of these web applications.
  • Awarded the best grade for two consecutive years as I volunteered in providing trainings along with on-time defect free delivery.

 

Developer Home depot Fall 2009 – Spring 2012 

  • Successfully delivered many applications which had critical timeline and design constraints.
  • Quickly learned Flex for developing these web applications.
  • Designed and Developed 4 Java/J2EE applications that interact with each other for various data flow and forms The Centralized Return to Vendor System for The Home Depot.
  • Implemented MVC and Singleton design patterns in these applications.

Developer Tata Consultancy Services Fall 2007- Summer 2009 

  • Designed UI and Java services for Point-of-sale application.
  • Developed Point of Sale (POS) system including scanner and printer interfaces.
  • Recognized as POS SME and as a lead developer for this system.