Vikas Thakur

About Vikas Thakur

Almost 20 years of proven experience delivering comprehensive Digital solutions across diverse business domains, Demonstrated leadership and effective communication skills, fostering collaboration and driving project success. Deep expertise in full project lifecycles, from conceptualization to Go-Live, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall methodologies expertise, adapting to various project environments. Skilled Integration Architect specializing in API development, microservices, and ESB tools like IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, MuleSoft, and Spring Boot. Strong foundation in API Management, Microservices Architecture, cloud platforms, and solution architecture design. Proficient in Cloud Native Development driving digital transformation initiatives. Rich functional exposure contributing to effective project execution. Proven problem-solving and technical acumen combined with strong business understanding and confident decision-making.SKILLSET: API/SOA Governance: Solution Architecture including design principles, best practices, API guidelines & governance, policy enforcements, and review & approval of interfaces (API/SOA/Batch). API Design & Implementation: Design & implementation of RESTful APIs using Open API 3.0, 2.0, RAML. Expertise in handling JSON messages and implementing SOAP web-services with XSD, XSLT, X-Path & WSDL definitions. Digital Technologies: Reskilled in NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, along with Reactive Architecture with event-driven principles with Kafka & Couchbase. Cloud-Native Development: Proficient in cloud-native development, strong understanding of Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, and SpringBoot microservices. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration: Extensive experience with IBM API Connect, DataPower, Integration Bus, Transformation Extender, and Message Queues. Additional Tools: Swagger Editor, PlantUML, Draw.io, SoapUI, Postman, Jenkins, Git, SVN, Jira, MS Teams, Confluence, SonarQube, Splunk, Putty

Experience

1. Digital Solution Specialist

   Infosys

   Apr 2023 — Present · Chandigarh, IN

Education

• DAV Public School, Ambala City, Haryana

  Senior Secondary

  1998 — 2000

• M.M. Engg. College Mullana, Kurukshetra University

  Bachelor of Technology, Electrical

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Cobol
• Clearcase
• Wsdl
• J2ee
• Unix
• Eai
• Quality Center
• Ibm Websphere Datapower Xi50,
• Cics
• Ibm Rational Application Developer
• Soap
• Mq Suite
• Html
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Pl/Sql
• Xpath
• Xsd
• Qmf
• Web Services Security
• Soapui
• Web Services
• Enterprise Architecture and Framework
• Ibm Websphere Transformation Extender,
• Javascript
• Xslt
• Db2
• Websphere Mq
• Datapower
• Soap UI
• Ibm 390 Mainframe
• Xpeditor
• Jsp
• Java
• Xml Spy