Chetan Ghodasara

Lead Software Engineer

Rakuten•  October 2016 - Present

Architecting a transaction management system for Rakuten travel (Reservation, Modification, Cancellation) • Architecting microservices for Reservation and Payment systems - using Domain-driven design & transaction patterns • Leading the development of quality microservices – REST APIs, interface/database design, reactive programming • Coaching-empowering developers, leading a team of 6+ developers from multiple regions • Collaborating with product managers, front-end/automated testing/manual testing/DevOps/platform engineers, Rakuten Group team members (e.g., Payment, Point, Membership) • Improving architecture, performance analysis/tuning, code reviews, troubleshooting- debugging-investigating problems • Experimenting and learning Event Driven Architecture Scratch development of back end system for a new Rakuten Travel Web & Mobile applications. • Development, UT/IT, maintenance, code reviews of new REST APIs - Java, Spring Boot technologies • Experience on RabbitMQ message broker solutions – by scratch design, deployment, maintenance, improvement • Rakuten Travel Tech MVP awards for Aug 2018 & May 2019.

Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters•  July 2012 - August 2014

Development of different state taxation modules for two websites. • Requirements gathering, analysis, development, and maintenance of different state tax modules • Individually handled process improvement research projects – XML reverse processing, automatic code generation (improved process by 58%), providing data for automatic testing team • Performed a role of team coordinator (team of 20 developers) for bridging a gap between Core and module developers • Interacting with U.S. State governments for the various approval process • C#.net, VB6, Silverlight, MVVM architecture, XML