Raj Lakamana

About Raj Lakamana

Over 25+ years of experience as Architect, Technical Lead & Support Specialist specializing in AI implementations and securing LLM models, automation, cloud computing, and virtualization, Service Management, Mobility, Big data, Enterprise Service gateways, Service Oriented Architecture, DEVOPS tools, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Document Management, Oracle database architecture and administration, infrastructure services and middleware technologies.Broad range of experience and technical abilities working with customers in federal government, financial, Medical, Insurance, and technology sectors.Specialties: Automation, Infrastructure Automation, AWS Services, GenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon MQ, Apigee, Control-M, VMWare Tools, VMC, VRO, VRA, VCO, VCOPS, VROPS, ServiceNow, Layer7, IBM DataPower, ISTIO, SOA, WS-*, SOAP, REST, XML, WSDL, XACML, SAML, UDDI, ECM, EDMS, WCMMiddleware – ESG, WSG, ESB, Oracle Fusion MW, SOA Suite, OSB, BPEL, BPM, BAM, IBM LWWC, Filenet P8, Workplace XT, WCI, WebLogic, Websphere, Websphere Portal, DataPower, Layer7, Tomcat, Apache, TIM, TAM, JMS, MQ and HP SystinetDatabase – Oracle(RAC), RDS, Postgres, MongoDB, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, ETL and Data Integration, SSIS, Performance Tuning, Backup and Recovery, ReplicationOther - J2EE and other Java, J2EEWeb and application development related frameworks

Experience

1. Cloud Automation Technical Lead

   Freddie Mac

   Sep 2012 — Present · DC, US

   Led and delivered AI implementations, securing AI models through gateway-based solutions. Implemented and secured OpenAI (up to GPT‑5.2), Anthropic Claude (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku), and Cohere Command.Designed, developed, and delivered automation tools and applications for IT customers to simplify operations—automating environment provisioning and infrastructure processes to accelerate delivery, reduce manual errors, and minimize operational bureaucracy.Specialize in cloud automation on AWS, including CloudFormation (CFT), Lambda, YAML, and Ansible, integrated with ServiceNow. Integrated Apigee API Management with AWS Bedrock, LLM/GenAI services, HashiCorp Vault, and Ping, and delivered advanced API services in Apigee.Built automated deployment and migration of Apigee APIs across environments using apigeetool, apigeeapi, the developer portal, and Jenkins pipelines. Designed the ISRA model to automate Amazon MQ destination deployments and developed Python scripts to generate ESS dashboards to address metric limitations.Led the creation of a fully automated infrastructure delivery portal using ServiceNow as the front end (multi-catalogs, order guides, workflows, approvals), integrating VMware orchestration and provisioning via workflows, blueprints, and templates.Directed automation for infrastructure maintenance (DBCopy/Refresh, server maintenance tooling, comparison portals, dashboards) and provide Middleware Enterprise Engineering support to development teams.

Education

• Andhra University

  Bachelor's degree, Accountancy

  1987 — 1990

• Andhra University

  Master's degree, Accountancy

  1991 — 1993

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Soap
• Wcm
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Etl
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Platforms
• Data Modeling
• Data Warehousing
• Ecm
• Java
• Tomcat
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Content Management
• Xml
• Rest
• Esb
• Filenet P8 Platform 5.0
• Db2
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Scrum
• Websphere
• Jms
• Soa
• Weblogic
• Middleware
• Spring
• Oracle Soa Suite
• Ibm Content Manager
• Web Services
• Layer7
• Databases
• Ibm Wcm
• Integration
• Document Management
• Agile Project Management