Resume

Saifali Sankethathil

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

+91-8637690273
saif.ali40@gmail.com
Koppam, Palakkad, Kerala, India 679307
Professional Summary

Experienced Software Engineer with 9 years of expertise spanning product development at Full Creative (8+ years) and current platform engineering at adesso India. Proven track record in Java, Spring Boot, cloud platforms, and team leadership.

Key Skills
Java
Spring Boot
Quarkus
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
AWS
GitOps
Git
Docker
Tekton
Professional Experience

Senior Associate

adesso India

June 2024 - Present

Ecosphere as Service: adesso insurance solutions

Leading enterprise platform development for insurance solutions

Designed and implemented a Kubernetes-native internal platform supporting GitOps and CI/CD workflows
Part of Design and implementation of various platform tools for product teams to use including centralized batch, authentication, deployment tools
Worked on several tekton process for the product team to easier transition to the platform and deploy application on it
Created CRDs to support easier deployments of stateful and stateless applications, databases, caches and other services for the product to use
Make use of quarkus and fabric8 APIs to create custom reconcilers
Took part of creating a centralized authentication and authorization service to support centralized sign-in sign-outs
Worked on different deployment models to support product needs
Worked on adding mongodb to the platform

Internal Contributions:

Mentored juniors and interns and created ai based accident claim application (POC) which was using gemini ai internally
Supported internal project by providing technical and architectural helps

Software Engineer

Full Creative

April 2016 - June 2024

Multi-Product Portfolio: Setmore, SignMore, Anytime, AnswerForce, AnswerConnect

8+ years of hands-on experience in Java and Spring development, leveraging Google Cloud Platform expertise

Successfully designed, built, and maintained high-quality software systems, contributing to 20% increase in system efficiency and reduced latency
Implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipelines for 2 projects and several modules, leading to 20% reduction in deployment time and 80% reduction in bad deployments
Managed version control systems, ensuring codebase integrity across 2 projects
Maintained secrets in Cloud KMS, mitigating security breach risks across 2 projects
Conducted successful code reviews and mentored 10+ junior developers, fostering continuous improvement culture
Actively participated in agile ceremonies, contributing to effective project planning and retrospectives for 2 projects
Developed and maintained technical documentation for 2 projects, facilitating smooth onboarding and knowledge transfer
Implemented robust testing strategies for backend APIs, reducing production issues by 80%
Implemented rule engine to avoid code clutter and help business teams make decisions effectively
Stayed updated with industry trends, adopting new technologies and frameworks to enhance project efficiency
Certifications

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

Linux Foundation

License ID: LF-myndr8a7oa

Expires: May 19, 2027

Goethe German A1 Certificate

Goethe Institute

Languages
English
Fluent
95%
Malayalam
Native
100%
Tamil
Conversational
80%
German
Basic
25%
Other Contributions
Mentored 5 engineering students on building projects from scratch, including project management tools usage
Taught code writing, project setup and architecture using Golang, module federated frontend
Guided students on multiple cloud platforms implementation (GCP and Cloudflare)