Abhishek Tripathi
Bengaluru
Summary
I am a senior technology leader and hands-on architect with a strong record of defining technical vision and building large-scale, business-critical platforms in complex, high-growth environments. I operate at senior staff and principal levels, translating ambiguity into clear system designs and production-grade execution through code.
My expertise spans cloud native and serverless architectures, distributed systems, and platform engineering, with deep hands-on development across AI-enabled systems, DevOps, security, and observability. I design and implement scalable services, automation, and data-driven platforms, applying pragmatic, production-ready AI with a focus on governance, reliability, and measurable outcomes that improve performance and developer velocity.
I have led and personally contributed to enterprise-wide modernization initiatives, transforming legacy systems into secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud platforms. I uphold engineering excellence through disciplined coding practices, rigorous CI/CD, SRE principles, and end-to-end observability. Alongside leadership, I remain close to the code, setting technical standards by example, mentoring senior engineers, and owning critical systems end to end to turn technology into sustained business advantage.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Principal Application & Product Architect
Wolters Kluwer
04.2025 - Current
- Lead the architectural design and execution of transformative initiatives within the Ovid platform, collaborating across geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Architected and delivered cloud-native, microservices-based platforms on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high availability, resilience, durability, and performance across multi-region deployments.
- Designed and validated platform solutions through rigorous proof of concepts, leveraging Azure services including API Management, Azure CDN, Functions, Web jobs, Service Fabric, Application Gateway, ARM templates, and Application Insights.
- Embedded security by design across the SDLC, institutionalizing threat modeling to proactively identify attack surfaces, trust boundaries, and systemic risks in distributed systems.
- Defined and enforced secure architecture standards spanning identity, access control, data protection, and zero trust principles to strengthen platform security posture at scale.
- Established and governed AI standards within the SDLC, enabling responsible adoption of AI assisted and agentic coding practices while maintaining code quality, security, and compliance.
- Led technology evaluation and decision making for specialized workloads, including selection of Neo4j over Azure Cosmos DB for graph based use cases based on performance and architectural fit.
- Governed CI CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using PowerShell and Azure ARM templates, improving deployment reliability and operational efficiency.
Lead Application and Product Architect
Wolters Kluwer
03.2018 - 04.2025
Senior Architect
HARMAN International
04.2016 - 02.2018
- Full time with Harman’s services division, working in varied technical and leadership roles across global client engagements.
- Delivered large scale, business critical platforms across travel, education, media, SaaS, and enterprise content management, progressing from Lead Developer to Senior Architect while driving architecture, execution, and delivery for global clients.
- Defined and led the architecture of a multi tenant, multi channel marketing and campaign platform for TUI, enabling customer engagement at scale across markets. Owned end to end solution design, core platform development, CI CD automation, code quality standards, and architecture governance.
- Led the re architecture of a complex legacy Win32 C++ system into a modern, high performance WPF platform for Civica, designing a metadata driven application with a custom scripting and execution engine. Drove deep performance optimization and enforced enterprise grade engineering and testing rigor.
- Modernized core financial and payment systems for Angie’s List, decomposing monolithic architectures into service oriented and REST based platforms. Led third party payment integrations, cross tier performance optimization, and major improvements in testability and reliability.
- Served as Technical Lead for Kaplan Test Prep, owning application architecture, cross shore delivery models, and early cloud integrations including Amazon S3, while advising senior stakeholders on technical strategy.
- Worked with MySpace, one of the largest social media platforms of its era, owning an internal global latency and performance monitoring platform. Designed systems measuring site and CDN performance across geographies, enabling network operations to rapidly detect and isolate regional delivery issues.
- Led development of Filetek’s TrustedEdge, a complex enterprise document retention platform integrating with SharePoint, enterprise storage systems, email clients, and OS level file system drivers.
Technical Architect
HARMAN International
11.2009 - 04.2016
Lead Engineer
HARMAN International
09.2008 - 10.2009
Senior Software Engineer
Tavant Technologies
08.2007 - 08.2008
- On-site
Software Developer
FCG India
02.2006 - 07.2007
- On-site
Education
Master's degree - Information Technology
Kuvempu University
Skills
- Enterprise and Product Architecture Design
- Technical Vision and Platform Strategy
- Architecture Governance and Decision Stewardship
- Cloud Native and Distributed Systems Architecture
- Large-Scale Systems Design and Scalability
- Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures
- Principal-Level Engineering Leadership
- Cross-Organization Technical Direction and Influence
- Cloud Security Architecture and Threat Modeling
- Applied Artificial Intelligence in Product Systems
- Observability, Reliability, and Operational Excellence
- Performance Engineering and Production Optimization
- Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Automation
- Modern Software Engineering and DevOps Practices
- Executive Communication and Technical Leadership
Certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft
- AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Microsoft
- AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Microsoft
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Microsoft
- Neo4j Certified Professional Neo4j
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeImportant To Me
Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hoursPersonal development programsHealthcare benefitsTeam Building / Company RetreatsPaid time offPaid sick leaveTimeline
Principal Application & Product Architect
Wolters Kluwer
04.2025 - Current
Lead Application and Product Architect
Wolters Kluwer
03.2018 - 04.2025
Senior Architect
HARMAN International
04.2016 - 02.2018
Technical Architect
HARMAN International
11.2009 - 04.2016
Lead Engineer
HARMAN International
09.2008 - 10.2009
Senior Software Engineer
Tavant Technologies
08.2007 - 08.2008
Software Developer
FCG India
02.2006 - 07.2007
Master's degree - Information Technology
Kuvempu University