Karthikeyan Nithiyanandam
Anchor Engineer at Ford Credit
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKarthikeyan Nithiyanandam is an Anchor Engineer with over 17 years in IT and eight years focused on senior engineering and architecture roles across automotive and banking domains. He currently supports Ford Bank GmbH and previously led product and microservice development for Ford, Oracle, Cognizant and Rabobank, delivering scalable Spring Boot-based systems and refactoring monoliths into cloud-native services. He specializes in Java (8–11), Spring ecosystem, microservices, PCF/Azure deployments and automated CI/CD pipelines, and has deep exposure to financial messaging (SWIFT) and EV subscription integrations. Known for pairing hands-on coding with mentoring, he drives quality via TDD, integration tests and observability (Grafana, Dynatrace). Colocated in Cologne, he blends enterprise-grade engineering with a product-minded approach—scheduling regular knowledge-sharing sessions and dedicating time for continuous improvement. A pragmatic problem-solver, he combines legacy modernization experience with cloud-native practices to deliver reliable, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Applications - MCA, 8.01, Master's degree, Computer Applications - MCA, 8.01 at Bishop Heber CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 68.8 (First Grade), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 68.8 (First Grade) at St. Joseph's College
English, Tamil, German
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Github Skills (27)
pcf8
h2-database8
spring-integration-jms8
spring-boot7
mysql-database7
rabbitmq6
cli5
jwt-authentication5
mysql4
spring-aop4
spring-security4
spring-data4
java4
spring4
h23
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karthikeyan-ng/deploy-apps-to-pcf
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
This repository mainly concentrate on pushing Spring Boot Applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
Contributions:49 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
clicloudcloud-connectorh2h2-database
karthikeyan-ng/spring-boot-demo
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Explorer Spring concepts and created some sample code on each topics.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
spring-aopspring-bootspring-datajava7spring-core
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