1. Shashidhar K Srinivasa
8/29/2016
4031 W Potter Drive, Glendale, AZ 85308
Mobile: 1 602 800 9409
shashidhar.adiga@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashidhar-karkada-srinivasa-42598548
Role: Senior Engineer / Lead Technical Architect
O B J E C T I V E S
With 15+ years of experience in the software solutions industry, 5+ years as an American Express
employee I am looking for a challenging opportunity to build, transform and lead a team, product, or
portfolio to deliver business value. Creative thinker, always looking for innovative solutions with special
focus on coaching skills to develop an energetic team while empathizing with the end users, customers and
business partners. Had played the acting director role in the current team (Team size 100+ with 15
employees) for a 2.5month period. This has given me great insights into the “Engineering Director” role,
responsibility and challenges. Proven track record of creating, delivering large initiatives, managing
business, security, compliance expectations with a clear understanding of Company vision, goal and
objectives and industry trends, best practices. Delivered results while working with multiple stakeholders,
third party integrations, cloud solutions, contract negotiations, portfolio financial management, excellent
communication, conflict resolution skills, situational leadership, people management and coaching.
As a Senior Engineer I have worked on many key components within American Express MYCA and outside
the portfolio which includes technical solutions for Card Member eStatement web applications, Statement
data cache (SDC) concept inception to implementation, Financial services, AR System interactions,
Corporate Expense Reports, Smart Expense Management Solutions, OPEN ReceiptMatch, QuickBooks
integration, Working Capital Terms, Online Disputes, Early Engagement and Lending experience.
Expertise in proposing optimum solution and managing that through delivery phases with appropriate risk
analysis and mitigations. Always questioned the status quo, looked for efficiency, scalability and
innovation.
S K I L L S
Design & Architect effective solutions using n-tier Java EE, Spring framework, Spring Batch, JAX-RS, REST
API, SOAP web services, NodeJS and browser side processing using JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, JQuery,
AngularJS. Unit testing used are JUnit, TestNG, EasyMock, Jasmine, Chai, Mocha with Build tools Gulp,
Jenikns, Maven and database technologies DB2 UDB, MongoDB and JMeter for Performance testing,
Selenium, Selenium Grid, SauceLabs, LISA virtualization, Simulate (Custom) for Testing Automation. Other
tools and products used include Swift for iOS App, Docker containers, AWS S3, Azure, Snowbound (OCR),
Voltage, Swagger, APIGEE, SOLACE, IBM MQ
E X P E R I E N C E
Senior Engineer | American Express | Aug 2010 - Current
Responsible for the technical roadmap of applications, code quality within the portfolio and platform,
providing consulting expertise, leveraging business and technical knowledge to support business strategies
and deliver business value. I am playing the solution architect, senior engineer, people leader (5
employees reporting) role in building and enhancing the infrastructure required to support the platform
and set of applications in terms of robustness, scalability, availability and efficiency. Working with
Technical and Business Architects to ensure developments support the business and IT strategic plan.
Achieved great success while working with ReceiptMatch, eStatement, QuickBooks integration, Lending
initiatives, which required third party integrations, cloud solutions, REST APIs, Contract negotiations,

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performance improvements at various stages of initiatives. I have been part of many transformation
journeys in adopting Agile Scrum, CI/CD implementation, Single Page Applications, REST API and
Company platform Blueprint Activities.
Associate Consultant | Tata Consultancy Services | Nov 1999 – Aug 2010
Consulting, programming, team management, technology solution proposal creation responsibilities with
assignments including American Express projects from Aug 2002 to Aug 2010. In this role I had worked
on eStatement, membership rewards, enterprise Java upgrades, Application redesigns, new feature
additions for Corporate Expense reports using Java EE technology stack and JavaScript, HTML, CSS for
user interface creation. I had also worked with the TCS-General Electric (GE) Corporate relationship from
2000-2002 for creating innovative solutions for business initiatives management, vehicle management
using VBScript, Lotus Notes, Java Enterprise Edition, SQL Server, Actuate, MicroStrategy and ETL.
A W A R D S A N D C E R T I F I C A T I O N S
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P A T E N T
UNITED STATES 201413626 (PJ/TECH) 11655.11600 (Filed on February 12, 2015) - Process for
Automated Transfer of enriched Credit Card Authorization data to the submitted record of charge.
E D U C A T I O N A N D I M M I G R A T I O N S T A T U S
National Institute of Technology (NIT/REC) Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
B Tech. Electronics and Communications Engineering -1995-1999
H1B Visa valid till March 2017 with GC processed by American Express and I-140 approved.
T R A I N I N G S
May 2016: Enterprise API Training – APIGEE.
Dec 2015: Agile Development with OpenShift Enterprise and Docker.
Nov 2015: Node.js/MEAN End-to-End Web Development.
Oct 2015: American Express People Leader Training series.
Oct 2014: AngularJS End-to-End SPA Development.
Nov 2012: Introduction to iOS Development
A B O U T M E
£ Hobbies include Bird Watching, Hiking, exploring new nature hideouts, gardening, fixing things,
watching sports, reading, playing with my daughter with creative toys and projects.
£ Some of the recent books read – Joy Inc., Change by design, The back of napkins, Guesstimation.
£ Always learning something new and experimenting. Participated in Hack-a-thons and learnt Swift
programming for Apple watch app creation, elastic search cloud solutions and sketch notes.