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Ravi (Kishore) Kalepu

Lead System Architect

Ravi Kalepu
Bedford, United Kingdom

Experience

Apr 2025 - Present
1 year

Lead System Architect

LTIMindtree

  • Pega CLM/KYC being chosen as the Global KYC tool, Nordea needed to define and configure the taxonomy and organisational structure in the application.

  • Defining the taxonomy and organisational structure links the standard organizational structure with work groups and work baskets, providing the ability to associate departments and work queues to each operational level and making it easy and unambiguous to manage and route work.

  • Controls how and what products the operators can access based on their association to a given operational level.

  • General developer roles.

  • Design analysis and code reviews.

  • Functional and technical analysis.

  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.

  • Sprint planning and tracking tasks.

  • Managing the sprint release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA and UAT signoffs.

  • Handling postproduction support and knowledge transfer sessions for the Prod support team.

  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles.

  • Observing PDC alerts on a regular basis.

  • Maintaining regular sessions with teams on ways of improving the design.

Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
3 months

Lead System Architect

Mercator Group

  • Cross-cutting managed platform support for HMRC’s Customer & Record Management team.

  • Follow the design pattern and create a secure workflow for business areas that require customers to be segregated for discrete units.

  • Creation of RBAC model for production service of Data Insights, and dev and test environments that plug into the client’s SSO infrastructure.

  • Supporting the acceleration of a single centralised repository for common React modules, working with the existing React development team to create this.

  • Contributed to the reduction of React technical debt.

  • Supported the code optimisation roadmap to ensure goals to reduce enduring costs related to external supplier reliance were met.

Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
1 year 9 months

Lead System Architect

LTIMindtree

  • Pega CLM/KYC being chosen as the Global KYC tool, Nordea needed to define and configure the taxonomy and organisational structure in the application.

  • Defining the taxonomy and organisational structure links the standard organizational structure with work groups and work baskets, providing the ability to associate departments and work queues to each operational level and making it easy and unambiguous to manage and route work.

  • Controls how and what products the operators can access based on their association to a given operational level.

  • General developer roles.

  • Design analysis and code reviews.

  • Functional and technical analysis.

  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.

  • Sprint planning and tracking tasks.

  • Managing the sprint release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA and UAT signoffs.

  • Handling postproduction support and knowledge transfer sessions for the Prod support team.

  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles.

  • Observing PDC alerts on a regular basis.

  • Maintaining regular sessions with teams on ways of improving the design.

Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
1 year 1 month

Lead System Architect

Virtusa

  • CDD In-Life Management is a key part of the bank’s priority to move its overall controls in financial crime from a current CEC rating of ‘4’ to a rating of ‘2’, accompanied by regulatory attestations and commitments to do so.

  • The solution approach was reset in Q4 2019 with clear outcomes established to achieve the bank’s regulatory commitments over 3 years, including the design and implementation of a scalable, sustainable and efficient In-Life solution and operating model for the current Commercial & Business book and further expanding to Private and Personal book.

  • General developer roles.

  • Design analysis and code reviews.

  • Functional and technical analysis.

  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.

  • Sprint planning and tracking tasks.

  • Managing the sprint release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA and UAT signoffs.

  • Handling postproduction support and knowledge transfer sessions for the Prod support team.

  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles.

  • Observing PDC alerts on a regular basis.

  • Handling pre and three-amigo sessions with BAs.

  • Maintaining regular sessions with teams on ways of improving the design.

Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
2 years 8 months

LSA/LDA

Coforge

  • NEOBrain is the omni-channel decisioning platform. It’s a centralized campaigns strategy framework designed to serve both inbound channels (mobile, online banking, NEOCrm) and outbound channels (email, outbound calls).

  • Before NEOBrain there wasn’t an automated campaign platform, and campaigns activity was based on manual selections for both inbound and outbound channels with limitations in scalability, channel connectivity, efficiency and relevancy of communications to customers.

  • NEOBrain platform brought enhanced capabilities in terms of customer data, decisioning rules (including self-learning models), automation, productivity and channels connectivity/orchestration.

  • General developer roles.

  • Design analysis and code reviews.

  • Functional and technical analysis.

  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.

  • Assisting campaign development team on a daily basis.

  • Responsible for technical deliverables.

  • Code and design reviews.

  • Main liaison between client and Coforge.

  • Managing the application release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA and UAT signoffs.

  • Handling postproduction support and knowledge transfer sessions for the users.

  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles.

  • Observing Kibana logs for potential errors.

  • Creating and maintaining seed customers and model office props for strategy and campaign testing.

Jan 2019 - May 2019
5 months

Lead System Architect

Coforge

  • QBE Insurance uses Pega to handle insurance for multiple lines of business.

  • New business and renewal insurance tasks and their workflow are handled using Underwriting Workbench application in Pega Cloud.

  • The project aimed to streamline the transaction capture and approval process to improve consistency and accuracy of data supplied to approvers and regulators.

  • Analyzed business requirements.

  • Provided project estimates and timelines.

  • Understood workflow processes.

  • Responsible for technical deliverables.

  • Code and design reviews.

  • Main liaison between client and Coforge.

  • Managing the application release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA and UAT signoffs.

  • Handling postproduction support and knowledge transfer sessions for the users.

  • Monitoring code deployments in pre-prod and prod.

  • Maintaining six cloud environments provided by Pega and three nodes for each environment.

  • Verifying daily health check reports provided by Pega.

  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles.

  • Observing Kibana logs for potential errors.

  • Deploying code in production and performing post-deployment checks.

Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 7 months

Senior Pega Developer/Production Support Analyst

Synechron

  • Mobile insurance application for clients like KPN, 3UK, Tesco, Virgin, Rogers and Fido across the globe.

  • The end user is the agent processing and maintaining mobile insurance claims for Asurion-insured customers.

  • Managed the Asurion EU Pega division.

  • Coordinated with leads in Asurion, USA.

  • Improved application code quality by following best practices.

  • Performed code reviews and documented solutions to share across teams.

  • Trained the team on new functionalities as needed.

  • Provided technical support to the product owner for better view of the final product.

  • Worked with teams across clients to maintain common code base and make the application robust.

  • Provided technical support during production deployments and fixed production issues using logs, tracer, clipboard and other tools.

  • Achieved successful Go-Live of KPN and 3UK clients.

Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
5 months

Lead System Architect

BNY Mellon

  • Financial Data Management application provides a workflow process to create cases for a third-party system 'MAF' to process the case.
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
1 year 1 month

Lead System Architect/Business Architect

Mindtree Ltd

  • Internal Account Control application provides a workflow to create, amend and close internal account processes for all house, control and finance accounts.
Feb 2012 - Feb 2014
2 years 1 month

Senior Pega Developer

Mindtree Ltd

  • Managed location-based risk in insurance business via the Enterprise Risk Management/Global Exposure System project.

  • Enabled Chartis to recover from competitive disadvantage and improve loss ratio and overall profitability.

Feb 2012 - Aug 2012
7 months

Senior Pega Developer

Mindtree Ltd

  • Developed Omega, the first Pega project by Mindtree for Global Markets, using Pega 5.2.

  • Addressed database space issue for uploaded documents by implementing DGB CMS V5 web service to upload and retrieve documents.

Oct 2011 - Jan 2012
4 months

Associate Consultant/Module Lead

IBM

  • Implemented the Fraud Dispute Services Portal (FDSP) for American Express as a single interface for managing fraud cases.

  • Simplified complex processes like chargeback for operations and minimized step out to other systems while processing cases.

  • Leveraged existing DSP architecture to provide web interface and enable future portal expansion.

  • Utilized Pega as middleware and rule-based engine to implement complex business processes and rules for flexibility, reusability and efficiency.

  • Achieved reusability of technical and application components.

  • Enhanced operational efficiency through a single interface for case review and processing operations.

Jun 2010 - Sep 2011
1 year 4 months

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys

  • Built a web-based Credit Estimates solution to support the end-to-end S&P credit estimate process for unrated assets in given CDO portfolios.

  • External corporate clients submit requests to perform credit estimates and internal S&P team submits requests on behalf of external users.

  • Managers allocate unrated CE requests to appropriate analysts and analysts perform the credit estimates.

Aug 2008 - May 2010
1 year 10 months

Senior Software Engineer

Virtusa

  • Automated manual corporate identification badge changes by developing a Pega-based solution for location changes and additional security clearances requests.
Jul 2007 - Jul 2008
1 year 1 month

Module Developer

Virtusa

  • Developed the Authoring – Unified Admin Toolkit Version1 for FIS, a modular toolkit for banking platform releases that simulates and tests client-authored changes prior to production deployment.

  • Enabled creation of reusable workflows consisting of steps and pages, with optional groups for specific operations.

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Banking and Finance (9 years), Insurance (6 years), and Information Technology (5.5 years).

Banking and Finance
Insurance
Information Technology

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Information Technology (18.5 years), Project Management (6.5 years), Quality Assurance (5 years), Product Development (4.5 years), Marketing (2.5 years), and Finance (2.5 years).

Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Product Development
Marketing
Finance

Summary

Dynamic and seasoned Certified Lead System Architect with over 17 years of hands-on experience in PEGA BPM tool across various versions, specializing in the Banking and Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) domain. Proven track record in project management, Agile Scrum methodology, and client engagement. Proficient in Pega Marketing 7.2.2, CLM/KYC framework, and adept at managing large-scale programs. Skilled in onsite-offshore delivery models, version control systems, DevOps, and Java environments.

Skills

  • Pega Bpm Tool: Prpc 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Versions
  • Banking And Financial Services & Insurance (Bfsi) Domain Expertise
  • Pega Marketing 7.2.2 And Clm/kyc Framework
  • Agile Scrum Methodology
  • Multi-vendor Client Engagements
  • Onsite-offshore Delivery Models
  • Large Program Management
  • Client Engagement Excellence
  • Version Control Systems: Github, Svn
  • Pega Automation Test Framework
  • Devops And Cicd Pipelines
  • Java Environment: Core Java, J2ee
  • Unix, Oracle Db, Sql Server, And Weblogic

Languages

English
Native
Telugu
Advanced

Certifications & licenses

Certified Lead System Architect

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Where is Ravi based?

Ravi is based in Bedford, United Kingdom.

What languages does Ravi speak?

Ravi speaks the following languages: English (Native), Telugu (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Ravi have?

Ravi has at least 18 years of experience. During this time, Ravi has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 9 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months. Note that Ravi may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Ravi be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Ravi would be well-suited for roles such as: Lead System Architect, LSA/LDA, Senior Pega Developer/Production Support Analyst.

What is Ravi's latest experience?

Ravi's most recent position is Lead System Architect at LTIMindtree.

What companies has Ravi worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ravi has worked for LTIMindtree, Mercator Group, Virtusa, and Coforge.

Which industries is Ravi most experienced in?

Ravi is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance, Insurance, and Information Technology (IT). Ravi also has some experience in Government and Public Administration.

Which business areas is Ravi most experienced in?

Ravi is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Quality Assurance (QA). Ravi also has some experience in Product Development, Marketing, and Finance.

Which industries has Ravi worked in recently?

Ravi has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Information Technology (IT), and Government and Public Administration.

Which business areas has Ravi worked in recently?

Ravi has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Marketing.

Does Ravi have any certificates?

Ravi has 1 certificate: Certified Lead System Architect.

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