About

Thirumalai Gobu is a professional Software Developer with over 4 years of experience in building fault-tolerant, high-scalable backend applications. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from TCE. His key interests revolve around applying core computer science concepts in solving customer-centric challenges employing best practices in the industry. Thirumalai is currently working as a Senior Software Development Engineer - Java at BNY Mellon, where he is a key member of the core technology team responsible for rethinking and reshaping the operating strategy of Global Segregation Tech empowering the Services Oriented Architectural(SOA) Design Pattern. He participates in design discussions, builds scalable/robust backend systems, CI-CD pipelines and mentors Junior developers within the team. He recently completed implementing an end-to-end file processing flow pipeline under the SOA model for the Uncleared Margin Rule-Phase 5 Program, a high priority regulatory initiative for 2021, leveraging Java, Apache Camel, and Oracle. Around 40 clients covering a wide array of file processing use cases were onboarded successfully into the flow within a span of 6 months, thereby enabling them to stay regulatory compliant. Thirumalai has contributed to building distributed systems, enhancing customer-facing products by including new features, code reviews, and object-oriented design improvements in almost 90% of the projects inside BNY's Collateral Segregation Tech team. His technical specialties include a good understanding of deliverable functional requirements, writing commendable clean testable code in Java/Oracle, ability to adapt to a new technology on demand, working in an agile environment, and building continuous integration and delivery pipelines. Besides contributing to regular functional use cases, he self-initiated and developed around 5 reusable Java SDKs, which reduced technical debts in projects within BNY Segregation Tech team by almost 45%. Thirumalai's past experience includes working as a Software Development Engineer - Java at BNY Mellon, where he was involved in designing, developing, testing, deployment, and maintenance of Collateral Segregation Reporting Platform as a part of the bank's strategic Greenfield Migration Program using Java, Spring-Boot, Camel on top of Docker interfacing Jasper Reporting and Oracle. For the first time in the world of Collateral Segregation Technology, a 24/7 fault-tolerant, highly scalable distributed system with cloud-native microservices architecture was implemented resulting in approximately 20x times higher throughput with a latency less than