Chakravarthi Manepalli

Project: Mobile Money Wallet [Client: ZedWallet, Zambia]

Role: Project Owner

• Managed end-to-end software development life-cycle, from initial requirements gathering to post-implementation support and maintenance.
• Deployed Onsite and achieved key project milestones for the Go-Live
• Facilitated seamless communication between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders by effectively translating complex concepts into understandable terms for all parties involved in projects.
• Delivered high-quality solutions on time and within budget through diligent adherence to project scope, timelines, and resource constraints.
• Delivered ISO 8583 based NFS implementation with Appreciation from the NFS Vendor for being the fastest vendor to integrate with them in shortest record time.

Project: Agency Banking [Client: CRDB Bank]

Role: Project Owner

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliverables.
• Streamlined processes for application integration, improving overall project delivery timelines resulting in the completion of the Go Live Sign off.

Project: Mobile Money Wallet [Client: Lyca Money, Uganda]

Role: Project Owner

• Spearheaded and completed a complex integration named Complycube, which is Digital identity Verification & AML Compliance to streamline Onboarding by dynamically computing the Risk of Customers Realtime.
• Designing and delivering the USSD Application & Backend API layer tailored according to the Business Needs of the Client.
• Designed and delivered complex schedulers to manage auto sweep in and sweep out of all the OVA Accounts of vendors for Reconciliation at the end of each business day.
• Creation of XML based Report Generation Engine to auto generate various AML reports for the Regulatory.

Project: Digital Onboarding [Client: City Bank, Bangladesh]

Role: Project Owner

• Delivered the Onboarding Platform where any customer can create a bank account within few minutes using the Mobile Application
• Have co-ordinated with client from Onsite location of Bangladesh for almost 2 months, by managing the Client requirements and achieving UAT sign off
• Developed backend design flows and APIs to manage Branch & Agent Web Portal Based Onboarding.
• Worked with clients post-implementation on user testing, debugging, support and maintenance.
• Implemented the Generation of Dynamic PDF generation with all necessary account related information post onboarding
• Integrated with NID platforms, Regula Biometric verification, Core banking platforms and Liability Workflow frameworks to accomplish the Account onboarding flow
• Successful Production deployment with over 50,000+ accounts onboarded
• Supervised deployments and provided troubleshooting and user support.

Project: Mobile Money Wallet [Client: Tuvalu, Australia]

Role: Project Owner

• Delivered the full scale platform in very short time i.e., in days
• Completed the Project and Received successful sign off with developing and meeting the tailored requirement provided from the customer
• Accelerated project delivery with effective management of cross-functional teams, adhering to agile methodologies and best practices.

Project: Mobile Money Backend Engine [Client: Latcom, Mexico, USA and Spain]

Role: Project Owner

• Mentored junior architects, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Appreciation from the Latcom Telephonica Client for the timely completion of Project and meeting the industry standards, in turn converting to the revenue growth of the Client

Project: Mobile Money Wallet [Client: ETH, Ethiopia]

Role: Project Owner

• Led architectural reviews to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Managed end-to-end software development life-cycle, from initial requirements gathering to post-implementation support and maintenance.
• Complete Platform Training to the Team at the offices of ETH in Ethiopia to provide the necessary knowledge to manage the Entire Platform.
• Completion of the Initial Phase of the Project according to the agreed timelines and achieving the necessary delivery timelines.
• Communicated with partners and clients to update product and implementation status at technical or functional level.
• Identified the Change Requirements needed leading to upsell of the product and increase in revenues.

Project: Letshego Wallet Backend API Engine [Client: LetSheGo at Ghana, Namibia and Mozambique]

• Provided API Backend Engine to letshego client to facilitate the transactions like P2P, VAS services, Cashout and Cashin flows
• Streamlined development processes by integrating Agile methodologies, enhancing team productivity.
• Conducted code reviews, ensuring adherence to quality standards and optimizing performance.
• Developed automated testing frameworks, improving software reliability and reducing bug rates.
• Successful deployments in multiple countries

Project : Cloud Network Management System [Client: HFCL, India]

• Django based development for data movement between various interfaces like Cassandra, Postgres (Timescale DB), RabbitMQ
• Stress testing TimeScale DB for optimizing the Time Series Data for supporting 1 Million devices using GO based Pipelines.

Project : Agent Monitoring System [Client: Samsung, South Korea]

• Collaborated and leading the cross-functional teams to gather requirements for the complete project.
• Implementing the Agent communication with various databases like Oracle, Tibero, DB2, MSSQL, MYSQL, SAP HANA, Postgres on Linux, Windows and Unix Platforms.
• Implementing C based Kafka Interface to communicate to the Backend server.
• Design of message flows, Agent image upgrade flows
• Developing Unit Test Framework and generating Code Coverage Reports

Project : Devops internal R&D Team

• R&D on tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, MongoDB etc.
• Implementation of HA Kubernetes cluster, both stacked and external etcd based clusters
• Setting up ONAP Kubernetes cluster over cassandra

Project : FPGA based Data Center Accelerator [Client: Microsoft]

• Implemented Spark Jobs on Microsoft BDC clusters, on both Bare VMs and on Kubernetes mode
• Setting up FPGA card in Kubernetes as a plugin and offload spark jobs to FPGA to accelerate the spark jobs

Project : Wireless LAN Controller [Client: HFCL India]

• Designed and stress tested complete Schema for WLC on NoSQL Database, Apache Cassandra, with 20k Access Points.
• Database Optimisation of 10k AP registrations from 10 min to less than 20 seconds.
• Designed and developed C based custom Database Migration Tool (Schema Versioning) for Apache Cassandra from scratch.
• Designs and Development for Custom 1+1 [Active-Active] WLC Redundancy Protocol.
• RabbitMQ Integration(design and development) for handling all event routing across multiple microservices.
• Code Reviewer/Approver for Database Module