Arjun Shoghikaran

Technically minded and highly motivated professional with a First Class Honours MEng in Mechanical Engineering and over six years of Java software development experience. Recently completed two full-time, instructor-led and assessed UK Government Skills Bootcamps: a Level 3 Cybersecurity and Networking and a Level 2 Cybersecurity, Networking and IT Technical Support. Training covered access control, network management, network threats and vulnerabilities, project management and IT technical and customer support.

A proactive and adaptable learner with strong communication, customer service and problem-solving skills, developed through software engineering experience and extensive use of JIRA Service Desk to manage user support requests. Proficient at explaining technical issues, supporting users, working collaboratively and learning new technologies. Committed to continuous professional development and keen to build on existing software skills and cloud experience while developing skills in IT support, cloud computing and digital infrastructure.

Software Engineer at Kobalt Music Group - Music Publishing (2016-02 – 2020-04)

• Java Developer for Kobalt’s Publishing Core team, who are responsible for a number of key areas in Kobalt’s Publishing domain, including the validation and registration of musical works for Kobalt related artists and organisations.
• Development primarily involved Java 8+ services communicating with Oracle SQL.
• Agile scrum incorporating sprints, daily stand up, sprint planning, retrospectives and backlog refinement.
• Developed test cases using JUnit and collaborated with QA for branch and release testing.
• Provided technical customer and user support for in house software through JIRA Service Desk.
• Wrote technical documentation and business user guides through Confluence wiki pages.
• Key projects and responsibilities:
• Registration Rewrite Projects: Redesigned musical work registration generation and validation systems by decoupling components from a legacy monolith into microservice-orientated architecture, automating processes and delivering faster, more reliable modular operations.
• Impact: The Copyright team reported an approximate 30% increase in throughput following deployment.
• Developed tools, improvements, bug fixes and provided user support for Kobalt’s SAX system, which is used by the internal business to process client and business data, including royalty processing, agreement deals, onboarding etc.

Junior Software Engineer at Misys (now Finastra) - Fintech (2013-02 – 2015-12)

• Java Developer for Misys' Fusion Fabric Connect team.
• Fusion Fabric Connect (FFC) is an integration tool based on message queue architecture. It is used to interface connectivity between products, both internal and external to the company.
• Key projects:
• Bloomberg FXGO Kondor+ Interface: Developed scripts used to extract data from several Foreign Exchange deal types sent from Bloomberg FTP server, transforming this data into a format that can be sent to Kondor+ through FFC.
• Swap Execution Facility (SEF) Interface: Developed interface to allow connectivity between Bloomberg and TradeWeb FIX server and Summit via IBM WebSphere MQ to handle FIX messages and FpML extraction.

Level 3 Cybersecurity and Networking in Cybersecurity and Networking – Leep Talent (2026-09 – 2026-10)

Level 2 Digital and IT Skills and Level 1 Cybersecurity in Digital and IT Skills and Cybersecurity – Leep Talent (2026-08 – 2026-09)

MEng Mechanical Engineering - First-Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering – King’s College London (2008-09 – 2012-06)