$80

Hourly Consulting Rate

Manna Akpan

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Computer Software/Engineering

Location Supported

Canada

Nigeria

United States

Zambia

Languages Supported

English

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Programming
  • Application development

Product Specialization

  • Mulesoft Anypoint Platform
  • Amazon Web Services

About

A Certified MuleSoft Integration Architect and Developer. My specialty involves designing and developing production-ready integration applications using the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. Proficient in Mule 3.x and Mule 4.x. I'm a MuleSoft Meetup Co-organizer, growing the developer community in Winnipeg.

Top Project Highlights

Bank Account Validation

A cutomer facing insurance billing system (Guidewire) used to manage the billing information and processes pertaining to policy holders; needed a validation mechanism put in-place, to validate bank information details for policy holders and thereby ensure quality information stored in the billing system.

My project was to design and develop a mule integration application REST api, which will be invoked by the billing system to validate a bank information against an Oracle database. This mule application was also expected to synchronize the latest bank information into the Oracle database with a file from Payment Canada sFTP. This project was completed on time and within budget.

Technical Skills In-Use:

  • File Handling/Processing (xFLAT).
  • RAML Design/Specification
  • JNDI integration with Billing System.
  • Dataweave, MEL
  • IBM Cronacle for implementation of batch processing.
  • Mule 3.x
  • Database, File Connectors
  • Realtime processing.
  • Deployment Pattern: Customer Hosted (Hybrid) Runtimes

Claim Center General Ledger Integration

The project was to convert and migrate an existing ESB integration previously written on a backend Java technology platform Sonic (by Aurea).This integration provided connectivity between a Guidewire (ClaimCenter) source system and a PeopleSoft back end system. I was tasked to implement the conversion of this ESB application from Sonic to MuleSoft Anypoint 3.x. This involved conversion of complex XSLT transformation into dataweave, architecting an API led connectivity pattern into the conversion.

Technical Skills In-Use:

  • Mule 3.x
  • RAML Design & Implementation
  • XSLT transformations
  • MEL, Dataweave 1.0
  • JMS Transport with ActiveMQ
  • Designing & Implementing for Reliability (zero message loss)
  • Transaction processing in Mule
  • Caching scopes

Payment Processing with (Chase)

I designed, developed and managed a payment processing integration application in Mule 3.x. This application is triggered by a cron job, picks up a payment file dropped on a fileshare server, reads the file using xFLAT in Mule, transforms the file using Dataweave, and XSLT processor, splits the file into multiple files, and outputs these files on a schedule to be picked up by a different mainfram process system. Went through the whole SDLC process with this application, from requirement gathering with the vendors up until production.

Technical Skills In-Use:

  • Mule 3.x
  • xFLAT file procesing
  • RAML Design and Implementation
  • SOAP Web Services orchestrations.
  • Dataweave, MEL
  • XSLT transformations

 

 

Employment

Integration Application Developer

2019 - Present
    • Led the migration and conversion of various integration ESB applications, formerly developed using Sonic Infrastructure into the Mulesoft API led platform.
    • Actively engage in consulting and enabling other software development teams, in administering proper API design patterns, performance for improvement of ESB applications in the runtime.
    • Built CI/CD capabilities into mule applications.

Application Developer (Guidewire)

2018 - 2019
    • Using agile practices, worked to deliver application solutions iteratively to business end users.
    • Engaged in enhancing our Policy Center and Billing Center core products, by delivering solutions to existing application defects, implementing enhancements to support business needs, optimizing and tuning the back-end layer of our guidewire business application to ensure good performance, coordinating successful deployments of our GIS application infrastructure and its dependencies.
    • Served to mentor and acted as a resource to disseminate knowledge on the ESB integration layer, amongst other team members.

Integration ESB Developer (Sonic)

2016 - 2017
    • Designed, developed and tested a host of business applications within the integration layer using the Sonic & Mule platforms, which was vital in enhancing Wawanesa Insurance business processes.
    • Architect and implemented prototype cloudhub applications using Mulesoft Anypoint Platform to demonstrate business improvements for digitization.
    • Implemented and managed multiple cron jobs using Cronacle.
    • Orchestrated multiple REST endpoints using Mulesoft Anypoint Platform.
    • Sonic ESB for writing container-based integration applications.
    • Created CI/CD using TeamCity and Nexus.

Mobile Software Developer

2016 - 2016
    • Designed, developed and shipped android mobile applications, to aid a Rheumatoid Arthritis research for the Health Sciences lab.
    • Worked in a research team to engage clients all through the SDLC phase, until product was delivered.

SharePoint Developer

2014 - 2014
    • Engineered web applications within Microsoft SharePoint 2010 using JavaScript.
    • Designed and implemented end-user interfaces within SharePoint sites.

Education

B.Sc Computer Science
2011-2016

Specializations in Databases, Web-based Systems, Human Computer Interaction

DIPLOMA IN INFORMATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
2006-2008

Certification

MCD - Integration and API Associate
2020-Present
MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect
2020-Present

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