Ashok Kumar Rapaka

I approach my work with a highly logical and pragmatic mindset, driven by a relentless pursuit of mastery and a strong sense of accountability. With nearly two decades of experience, I thrive in environments that empower me with the autonomy and independence to architect robust solutions and deliver impactful results.

Experience

Associate Principal

LTIMindtree · May 2024 – Jun 2026

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• Designed a cloud-based dynamic document platform for Deloitte's audit services, replacing static, non-portable audit documents and cutting document turnaround from 2+ days to under 1 day for 100-1,200 auditors.
• Architected a high-throughput, event-driven streaming pipeline using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, enabling real-time event publishing and reliable event streaming across dependent audit PODs to eliminate manual sync checks and automate background file processing.
• Integrated Azure Service Bus alongside Apache Kafka to handle decoupled pub/sub messaging and transactional workflows, ensuring fault-tolerant data exchange across distributed audit services.
• Centralized secrets and credential management using Azure Key Vault and AD/MSAL with a 6-month rotation cycle, securing Kafka broker connection strings and application credentials while removing hardcoded secrets across all environments.
• Refactored the platform to Clean Architecture on .NET 10 / ASP.NET Core, decoupling tightly-bound business logic into modular Kafka consumer/producer services, reducing development effort by 15% and bug-fix time by 10%.
• Introduced test automation (Playwright, MSTest) from scratch for a team with no prior automation experience, automating 60–70% of test cases (including end-to-end Kafka event verification) and reducing production defects by 40-50%.
• Diagnosed throughput bottlenecks under load testing at 3,000 concurrent users; optimized Kafka partition keys and consumer group processing alongside a CQRS data layer redesign, cutting operation times from 10-30 seconds to under 3 seconds.
• Drove team-wide adoption of GitHub Copilot for user story implementation, standardizing AI-assisted development practices; additionally prototyped OpenAI LLM integrations with Kafka, RabbitMQ, event streams within .NET to lay the foundation for agentic document-processing workflows.

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Senior Technical Architect

Mouritech Tech Limited · Mar 2019 – Apr 2024

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• Migrated authentication for 30,000 users from Windows LDAP to Azure AD (Entra ID), eliminating up to a 1-week wait for access/privilege changes and enabling near-real-time provisioning.
• Architected secure API access using OAuth 2.0, RBAC, and App Registrations, automating role-based permissions and eliminating manual per-user role assignment previously done in LDAP.
• Delivered a multilingual (Arabic/English) attendance, salary, and leave-tracking system for 30,000 employees across 4 countries, improving usability via a redesigned responsive UI.
• Automated CI/CD deployments using Azure DevOps pipelines, replacing scheduled Friday-holiday downtime windows (half-day to full-day) with deployments completing in minutes to an hour.

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Senior Software Engineer

Launch Ship Technologies · Sep 2017 – Mar 2019

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• Co-designed, with engineering management, a client-segregated ownership model - moving from developers working across all clients ad hoc to dedicated per-client ownership - improving product familiarity and enabling faster, more consistent customization delivery per account.
• Owned end-to-end delivery for 2 dedicated US-based vendor client accounts under this model, managing feature customization, deployments across UNIT/SIT/SAT via TFS, and client-reported bug fixes for assigned accounts.

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Developer II

RealPage India · Sep 2014 – Sep 2017

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• Redesigned UI/UX and content across 32 pages within the first month of joining, earning recognition for improved look-and-feel on a platform run by the second-largest online leasing provider in the US, serving hundreds of thousands of customers.
• Delivered new features via multi-tier deployments using TFS on an existing enterprise leasing platform.

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Program Analyst

Bodhtree Consulting · Feb 2007 – Aug 2014

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• Owned end-to-end delivery, as sole point of contact, of wage-calculation and in/out-time-based overtime logic for 10,000 employees across 5 locations, building a configurable UI that let admins adjust wage logic without code changes.
• Led the project transition from TCS to Bodhtree independently, managing full delivery in-house with only remote advisory support from TCS.
• Owned end-to-end academic lifecycle workflows spanning onboarding, hostel allotment, course registration, exam scheduling, and alumni management, sustaining 100% uptime for 2,000 students per intake cycle.
• Delivered modular enhancements to the platform, enabling a 50% reduction in internal admin staffing through automation.

What drives their work

The Architect

Structures complex systems for resilience and cost-effectiveness.

Ashok's superpower

You excel at translating complex business problems into well-designed, efficient, and cost-optimized cloud architectures.

How Ashok works

You are best suited for roles that require a blend of hands-on technical expertise and strategic architectural design, with a focus on building scalable and efficient systems.