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Prakash Adidam

Prakash Adidam

Principal Engineer / Architect

Hyderabad, Telangana
+91-9866218684
Telugu, Hindi, English

Background


About

About

Principal Engineer / Architect with over 24 years of hands-on experience in banking, media asset management, telecommunications, and mortgage systems. Proven expertise in designing, scaling, and modernizing enterprise-grade software solutions for start-ups and Fortune 500 clients across global markets.

Specialized in content and media management platforms, video streaming, and publishing solutions. Adept at conceptualizing and implementing enterprise architectures, developing PoCs, and translating business goals into robust, scalable technical designs. Skilled at defining non-functional requirements, performing architecture reviews, and guiding delivery teams to ensure engineering excellence.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Architect and deliver innovative enterprise solutions addressing complex business needs
  • Evaluate and mitigate technical risks through proactive design and implementation
  • Build prototypes and proofs-of-concept to demonstrate emerging solutions
  • Mentor and upskill teams on modern technologies and architectural best practices
  • Produce clear and comprehensive technical documentation and estimations
  • Collaborate across teams to ensure solution quality, scalability, and maintainability
Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Vice President

    Dec, 2019 - Present

    Leading enterprise-scale architecture and AI-driven banking solutions.

    • Built agentic solution to resolve CVE vunerabilities and to maintain software currency.

    • Delivered eSignature solution from ground up to sign pdf documents adhereing to eIDAS, ESIGN Act

  • Principal Architect / Senior Architect - Technology

    Nov, 2008 - Dec, 201911 years 1 month

    Architected and delivered enterprise solutions for Media and Publishing clients, including Digital Asset Management, content crawling, and AI-based analytics.

    • Modernized/Transformed legacy Cobol solutions to containerized clustered docker images.

    • Built text analytics and search solutions with abilities to extract topics and summarized text from freely available internet data

  • Partner / Solution Architect

    May, 2007 - Oct, 20081 year 5 months

    Provided architecture and development services for digital asset management and web applications.

    • Built various products to address domestic Construction business, regularized unorganized and adhoc customer requests to quick and easy bill of quantities to address builder accountability and handle cost regulation

    • Designed and developed an Alfresco CMS based Digital Asset Management system to manage and degitize creative assets of fasion firm

  • Tech Lead

    Apr, 2006 - May, 20071 year 1 month

    Developed telecom billing and payment gateway integration systems.

    • Designed and built a dynamic classloader to uniformly handle different payment gateway semantics that adhere to different non uniform eCommerce conventions for PCI DSS, processing, communications and settlement norms

  • Associate / Lead Software Developer

    Dec, 2003 - Apr, 20062 years 4 months

    Led Java/J2EE application development for multiple enterprise clients.

  • Senior Developer

    May, 2001 - Dec, 20032 years 7 months

    Developed loan origination systems and workflow automation for mortgage industry.

  • Senior Developer

    May, 2001 - Dec, 20032 years 7 months

    Core Java and XML/XSLT development for enterprise applications.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Agent Prototype

    - Present

    Prototyed an agent to resolve CVE vulnerabilties by extracting information and instructions by crawling vulnerabilty database and automatically perform required steps on binary upgrades and codebase updates with known tools and frameworks

    • Designed the solution

    • Built prototype

    • Organized code jam and demonstration of prototype.

  • eSignature tool

    Jul, 2023 - Jan, 20246 months

    Designed and Built eSignature utility from ground up with apach=pdfBox, to perform digital signatures of pdf documents with a react based web interface for preview and and signing interface apart from building an API based SDK for application integration and reuse

    • Designed the solution

    • Built reusable signing jar

    • Lead the web application and API integration development teams

  • OCR Tool

    Jan, 2024 - Jun, 20245 months

    Designed and initiated a prototype for Image Text extraction using tesseract-ocr and other open source tools such as ImageMagick, OpenCV to perform layout inferencing and text entity extracton

    • Solution inception

    • Match features with OpenText Captiva

    • Develop prototype

  • Fulfillment Delivery Engine

    Dec, 2023 - Jan, 202310 months

    Built a rule based letter routing and printing system for managing letter delivery to different print streams based on the nearest delivery location by zip. Built a workflow system and a kafka based async message processing system to aggregate and dispatch scheduled incoming letter processing requests.

    • iText for pdf creation

    • afp-lib for large volume print batch job processing of letters

    • manage inserts, attachments and folds with appropriate envelopes

  • Manual letter portal

    Feb, 2020 - Dec, 20222 years 10 months

    Built and maintained web application and workflow automation system with java, camunda and react, the application dispatches letters to customers from bank, which also adheres to WCAG norms for accessibility.

  • Accessibility enabler

    Dec, 2019 - Feb, 20202 months

    Designed and implemented an engine to transform print format letter content to WCAG compliant html & pdf-u/a, employing OpenText transform, iText, markdown and Machine Learning based scoring to assess layout and extract/guess texual content semantics and image alt tags

  • Kantar Media

    Dec, 2018 - Feb, 20171 year 9 months

    Designed and engieered a containerized deployment of legacy Cobol application to modern linux stack with Fujitsu NetCobol

    • Implemented TRP Ratings

    • Provided technical reviews and design options for developing tools for integrating and publishing educational content to online learning system.

    • Lead team to develop and maintain the various projects

    • Facilitate support operation and technical mentorship and guidance

  • Pearson

    Nov, 2016 - Feb, 20173 months

    Designed a sharable online solution to exchange documents between publishers, editors and authors for documents

    • Built Google App Script based solution for exporting and importing data into google docs

    • Provided technical reviews and design options for developing tools for integrating and publishing educational content to online learning system.

    • Lead team to develop and maintain the various projects

    • Facilitate support operation and technical mentorship and guidance

  • Oxford University Press (Atticus, PoolParty, Alfresco)

    Jul, 2015 - Nov, 20161 year 4 months

    Developed and maintained lexical systems, taxonomies, and digital asset platforms.

    • Supported and provided technical management on applications and services supporting internal and external applications managed by Oxford University Press.

    • Provided technical and architecture reviews and for product implementation

    • Lead team to develop and maintain the various projects

    • Facilitate support operation and technical mentorship and guidance

  • ALM

    Jul, 2015 - Nov, 20161 year 4 months

    Designed and implemented a crawler for legal data aggregation, from open internet web pages to scrape court cases published on well known web sites

    • Built scrapy based crawler for aggregating data and information from various sources in the internet and collate the data related to legal firms and lawyers on their expertise and other abilities

    • Built a POC and provided solution overview and design for a long term solution for their needs

    • Lead team to develop and maintain the project

    • Built different models and overarching solution for reporting and easy administration of the crawlers

  • CSaar

    Mar, 2014 - Jul, 20151 year 4 months

    Developed large-scale text content processing product to transform and repurpose content for producing print and domain reports for publising articles and information

    • Implemented text scraping

    • NER with stanford NLP

    • Topic extraction and summarization

    • Built text search with Solr

Skills

Skills

  • Architecture

    Enterprise Architecture

    Microservices Architecture

    TOGAF

    AWS

    Domain driven design

  • Machine Learning

    Machine Learning

    Deep Learning

    NLP Text Analytics

  • Search

    Solr

    Elastic search

  • Programming

    Java

    Spring

    Python

    REST APIs

    JavaScript

    XML

    XSLT

  • Cloud Technologies

    Amazon Web Services

    K8S

    Docker

  • Media Systems

    Digital Asset Management

    Content Management

    Alfresco

    Artesia (OTMM)

    OpenText

    H.262, Microsoft Smooth Streaming

    Telestream Flipfactory

    Microsoft PlayReady DRM

  • Leadership

    Technical Management

    Team Building

    Consulting

    Pre/Post-Sales & RFP Response

    Mentorship

Education

Education

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Post Graduate Diploma, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

    May, 2024 - Apr, 2025

  • Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Andhra University

    Mar, 1998 - Mar, 2000

  • Maths, Physics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Andhra University

    Mar, 1995 - Mar, 1998

Certificates

Certificates

Awards

Awards

  • Guardian of the fort , J. P. Morgan Chase & Co.

    Awarded on: Sep 15, 2021

    Awarded for handling large volume of techinical and scalabilty issues and addressed design and architecture of web application

  • Certificate of Appreciation , Cognizant Technology Soluitons

    Awarded on: Aug 14, 2017

    Outstanding contribuiton to Hyderabad Innovation Fare.

  • Lord of the wing , Cognizant Technology Soluitons

    Awarded on: Mar 31, 2010

    Outstanding performance delivering beyond expectation for project, in IME

  • Most Valued person , Cognizant Technology Soluitons

    Awarded on: Nov 01, 2010

    Outstanding contribuition for talent acquisition

Interests

Interests

  • Cricket

    BatterBowler
  • Science

    PhysicsPhilosophyQuantum PhysicsAstronomy
References

References

  • Yadavalli Venkateswarlu

    Friend and collegue we worked together for 10+ years at various companies

  • Mallela Subramanyam

    Manager I directly reported to.

  • Gundimeda Venugopal

    Manager I directly reported to.

  • Hari Behtanbhatla

    Friend and collegue we worked together for 10+ years

  • Praveen Koduganty

    Friend and collegue we worked together for 10+ years at various companies