Venkat Kasuganti

Projects and Involvement
A. ANZ Banking Group Limited:
Through Capgemini I work for ANZ Bank (client) as IAM Tech lead overviewing multiple initiatives and accessing risk and Information security around IAM (ForgeRock) domain:
• Designed reliable and distributive system for authentication flow for ANZ app and internet banking.
• Designed ANZ mobile App  VISA Rewards portal OIDC based SSO to retrieve and redeem points.
• Participated & assisted closing gaps raised as part of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) cybersecurity audit.
• Implementing FIDO2 for passwordless authentication - acting as secure and alternative option for multi-factor authentication for ANZ commercial customers.

• Led the upgrade of IAM system (ForgeRock platform) and implementing Open Banking Solution, which includes:
• Solution to allow third-party financial service providers to access consumer banking, transaction, and other data from banks using CIBA specifications.
• Redesign IAM platform to perform major version upgrade of ForgeRock from 6.5 to 7.1.0
• To containerize ForgeRock 7.1.0 platform and migrate to cloud (AWS)

• Worked at Vodafone NZ as a permanent employee for about 2 years, prior to working as contractor for 2.5 years
• In about 4 years at Vodafone, worked across various stacks & technologies, my role ranging from developer & designer to Tech Lead (both FrontEnd & Backend) of Vodafones CMS, eCommerce (eShop) & IAM squads. Very open to challenges which helped me to have a very vast skillset, a glimpse as follows:
A. IAM Dev Lead & Designer - Business Self-Service Application:
I have completely owned the responsibility for development activities (coordinating with offshore team) and tech designs for Vodafones Business portal - ReadyHub throughout. Participated in full stack and IDM development for this portal (including micro services dev when necessary), for simplex and as most importantly complex products - some key highlights:
• SSO via SAML based Federation: ReadyHub with other Customer Active Directories (via ADFS) & various other domains.
• Multi-Factor Authentication via Security PIN & One Time Password to Email/SMS.
• Designed & developed composite login module leveraging Oracle OAM capabilities to logon to different applications (other than ReadyHub) via SAML based request.
• Provisioning of MS Azure AD users onto ReadyHub (OIM) via SCIM services.
• Automatic Bulk Data Migration (onto OIM) Utility for seamless customer onboard onto portal
• Implemented integration and end-to-end life cycle management (including JIT provisioning of users) for Readyhub  Globys (CDR & billing reporting system)
• Self-service application integration with CRM stack (SalesForce & Siebel) for Service Requests automation (Sim swap, connection name changes etc)
• Implemented Billing systems integration (via micro-services) for viewing bill copies
• Implemented incident management systems integration (iRemedy & eRemedy) with for Govt. customers to view/manage faults
• Implemented SSO (SAML2.0) of ReadyHub and Unified Communication portal
• Developing Auto-Provisioning Scheduler on OIM for ILM (Integrated Life-Cycle Management) process.
B. Tech. Lead - CMS & eCommerce Squads:
Recently I have been designated to lead eCommerce squads and quickly adapted to new technologies and processes:
• Lead & own strategy and implementation of CMS migration from on-prem (Oracle WCS) to cloud based
CMS (Brightspot)
• Guide setting up of CDN network - for efficient content delivery
• Part of implementing OIDC OAuth2.0 based integration for eCommerce support portal for agents & retail staff
• Participated and implemented digitizing paper-based process to new digital content manageable form for business which earned a great attention & NPS
• Technical owner for inventory Management system build on Python (BigCommerce)
• Improved our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for product pages to boost our online sales
• Implemented 3D secure (Windcave) payment integration with eShop
• Successfully implemented Google Analytics & Google Shop for our product/device journeys
• Google reCaptcha implementation to block DDoS attacks/brute forcing

• I hold Client management experiencefor about 3 years in most of projects I worked on at Virtusa (especially Vodafone New Zealand & Vodafone UK) including requirement understanding, design & development:
My work has been highly appreciated by Vodafone UK and NZ clients