Gokulnath Raghavan Raghavan - AWS Solution Architect

Summary

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner with 15+ years of experience designing and implementing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions on AWS
Expertise in leveraging AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, EMR, and more to build data-driven applications
Skilled in architecting data lakes, data warehouses, and ETL pipelines to enable analytics and insights
Proven track record of successfully delivering complex cloud migration and modernization projects for global clients
Strong communicator able to translate business requirements into technical solutions and drive stakeholder alignment
Experienced in executing projects using on-site/offshore model and implementing end-to-end ETL, data warehouse, and DevOps projects.
Performed benchmarking on Hadoop and HPCC systems and independently set up Nagios in CentOS 6.3.
Knowledge of analytical models like regression, artificial neural networks, Poisson distribution, classical multiplication model, and ARIMA for time series data.
Currently focusing on AWS solution architecting, Kubernetes, prompt engineering, DevOps, and Spark.

Overview

16

years of professional experience

3

Certifications

2

Languages

Work History

AWS Solution Architect

IBM India Pvt Ltd

Lead AWS Solution Architect for Merck Control Tower project

Electronic Permit Administrative System (EPAS)

Leading provider of innovative products, services, and solutions in the healthcare, life science, and performance materials sectors across globe (3 months)

Kite Pharma

Lead cloud architect for Kite Pharma's data-driven SaaS platform on AWS, serving 10,000+ users globally

Infosys Technologies Limited

Data Lake on AWS (6 months)

Infosys Technologies Limited

Cloudbees Flow setup on GCP (6 months)

Infosys Technologies Limited

Disaster recovery for MariaDB (6 months)

Infosys Technologies Limited

Data Reactor (12 months)

Infosys Technologies Limited

YARN stats Analysis (2 years and 6 months)

HCL Technologies

Innovation Group - phase2 (3 months)

HCL Technologies

Innovation Group - phase1 (2 months)

HCL Technologies

HPC Center of Excellence (2 months)

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Distributed data processing and HPCC (14 months)

Tata Consultancy Services

New Generation Customer Relationship Management (NGCRM) Release1 (12 months)

Tata Consultancy Services

Merchandizing and Assortment Planning (12 months)

Tata Consultancy Services

Distribution Platform (4 months)

Tata Consultancy Services

ADMI OS TOOL (18 months)

AWS Solutions Architect

IBM India Pvt Ltd

04.2022 - Current

Lead architect for IQVIA Japan Data Curation project, enabling analytics on pharmaceutical sales data

Cloud Data Architect

Infosys Technologies Limited

03.2015 - 04.2022

Data Driven Enterprise Platform (7 months)

Cloud and Big Data Architect

HCL Technologies

01.2014 - 03.2015

Flight Science Datamart (3 months)

Senior Hadoop Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions

01.2011 - 11.2013

Monitoring Services and Process using Nagios (10 months)

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services

06.2008 - 12.2010

PubSubHub Client APIs (6 months)

Education

B.E. Computer Science - undefined

PSG College of Technology

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Skills

AWS Services: EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, EMR, Redshift, QuickSight, CodePipeline, CodeBuildData Processing: Spark, Hive, Pig, Hadoop, Kafka, Kinesis, AirflowDatabases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, HBase, MongoDB, RedshiftProgramming: Python, Java, Scala, Shell Scripting, PySparkIaC: CloudFormation, Terraform, CDKContainers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Accomplishments

Received the Oscar of the Month award in June 2013 for delivering a bug-free quality product and earning client recognition
Received the Bright Spark Q1 2013 award for being proactive and providing a recommendation for a client in selecting high-performance clustered computing versus Hadoop
Won various corporate badminton and table tennis tournaments
Received rewards for regularly representing Cognizant for Badminton in Corporate Olympiads
Received the TCS GEMS for excellent performance and being proactive

Timeline

AWS Solutions Architect

IBM India Pvt Ltd

04.2022 - Current

Cloud Data Architect

Infosys Technologies Limited

03.2015 - 04.2022

Cloud and Big Data Architect

HCL Technologies

01.2014 - 03.2015

Senior Hadoop Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions

01.2011 - 11.2013

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services

06.2008 - 12.2010

AWS Solution Architect

IBM India Pvt Ltd

Electronic Permit Administrative System (EPAS)

Kite Pharma

Infosys Technologies Limited

HCL Technologies

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Tata Consultancy Services

B.E. Computer Science - undefined

PSG College of Technology