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Arul Selvam

@arulselvam

Solution Architect leading cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-native B2B/B2C apps via Java, AWS/GCP & K8s. Driving digital transformation.

India

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What I'm looking for

Solutions Architect & Lead mapping business goals to scalable, secure GCP/AWS architectures using TOGAF/Zachman. Expert in Java delivery across banking, insurance, and supply chain. Proven track record driving digital transformation, leading architecture review boards, implementing FinOps to optimize TCO, and accelerating time-to-market via CI/CD.

To leverage technical expertise and cutting-edge solutions to drive digital transformation initiatives that maximize customer satisfaction, accelerate career growth, and deliver meaningful value in a dynamic organization.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Capgemini

Jun 2025 - Feb 2026 (8 months)

Architected a resilient hybrid multi-cloud ecosystem connecting Azure Dynamics 365, payment gateways, and legacy engines. Designed a Java 17/Kafka SAGA engine for 100% eventual consistency. Used Azure AD and GCP Apigee to secure private Amazon EKS clusters. Built an Apache Flink/Kafka streaming fabric, cutting latency to <200ms. Optimized sharded MongoDB to support 1,200 TPS audit trails.

Java Spring Boot Python API Integration API Development Kafka Streams Apache Kafka Apache Flink Amazon EKS AWS IAM AWS CloudFormation Apigee MongoDB Azure DevOps Azure AD

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE LEAD

Tata Consultancy Services

Nov 2022 - May 2025 (2 years 6 months)

Led Lloyds' hybrid data migration from on-prem Hadoop to GCP. Engineered IBM CDC from Core Banking with zero disruption. Built a Confluent Kafka/KStreams fabric for <200ms latency, powering fraud detection and balance alerts. Unified BigQuery ingestion with DSE Spark batch sync to ensure 100% consistency across Cassandra mesh. Implemented Dynatrace/Splunk observability and GitOps CI/CD.

Java Spring Boot Kafka Streams Confluent Platform Apache Kafka Debezium

INTEGRATION ARCHITECT

Tata Consultancy Services

Jun 2016 - Oct 2022 (6 years 4 months)

Led Lloyds' Insurance Dashboard & KYC microservices migration. Engineered high-throughput integration layers to cross-validate daily batch mutations against legacy Mainframes, automating demographic classification for CRS/FATCA compliance. Decoupled monolithic stateful frameworks into cloud-ready runtimes, scaling bandwidth by 25% while driving down operational infrastructure spend.

Spring Boot Kafka Kafka Streams Hadoop Ecosystem Spark Cassandra Dynatrace IBM DB2 IBM DataStage IBM DataPower Gateway Websphere Liberty GitHub Jenkins

Technical Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services

Aug 2010 - May 2016 (5 years 9 months)

Technical Consultant for Galaxy, a unified LTSB retail banking platform built on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Aligned enterprise architecture to maximize component reuse across Retail Banking, Mobile, and Security themes. Integrated the Channel Portal for engagement with Webseries for payment capture, delegating execution across the Strategic Online Channel infrastructure.