Accomplished Solution Architect with 23 years of experience in the IT industry. Specialized in Solution Architecture, Identity and Access Management, Client Engagement, Team Management/Mentoring, Application Development, Cross-functional Coordination, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management. Demonstrated proficiency in building and delivering reliable and scalable IT applications. Strong leadership skills contributed to the successful delivery of projects. Excellent track record.
Passed with distinction ( 76% )
● Third party API integrations with Elastic stack – Design API integration strategies and build various integration packages for Elastic stack (ELK) to search, analyze and visualize data in real time.
● Cloud Migration Strategy & Design: Successfully developed and implemented a comprehensive migration strategy and end-to-end designs for British Telecom (BT) legacy applications, transitioning them to Azure and AWS cloud platforms. This included the adoption of modern authentication frameworks such as IDAM, OIDC/OAUTH2, and Azure AD B2C, all within a short timeframe.
● Implementation Experience: Extensive experience in mid to large-scale implementations across various industries, including Security, Finance, Retail, Telecommunications, and Avionics, effectively modernizing and migrating applications for BT.
● Awards & Recognition: Received the ‘BT Super Star’ award for leading solution designs for migrating BT apps to AWS cloud.
● Authentication Expertise: In-depth knowledge of authentication standards, frameworks, lifecycle management, and technologies such as MFA, SSO, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and customer identity platforms like Azure AD B2C, Okta, and Ping Identity.
● Leadership & Competency Building: Successfully built and led a .NET competency group, participating in various client engagement initiatives to generate new opportunities.
● Pre-Sales & RFP/RFI Creation: Worked with pre-sales teams to create RFPs/RFIs for new project proposals, contributing to solution architecture, effort estimates, POC development and client presentations.
● Process Automation: Reduced average audit effort from 2 hours to 15 minutes by automating complex financial report updates for Thomson Reuters, minimizing manual errors and efforts.
● Application Scaling: Scaled the PTW (PushToWeb) application to support 40 financial reporting entities (up from 4), enhancing user experience and reducing user intervention. Scaled Vertafore’s ProposalBuilder app to support 50% more load.
● Certifications & Awards: Certified IAM specialist (SC-300) by Microsoft, engaged in SCRUM activities, and received the SPOT award five times for technical expertise.
● AI & Business Optimization: Applied Artificial Intelligence for business optimization in retail, with solid knowledge of supply chain and retail domain products.
● Cloud & Security Proficiency: Proficient in cloud technologies (Azure, AWS), solution architecture design, and application-level security, excelling in generating performance reports and possessing strong communication and collaboration skills.
● GenAI Solutions: Experience with GenAI solutions using OpenAI C++, Azure OpenAI services, Copilot, and ChatGPT.
● Quality Improvement: Achieved a 40% overall quality improvement by enabling a quality gateway for code quality, regularly reviewing and tracking deliverables.
● Technical Contributions: Performed estimations, application security audits, customer presentations, and proof of concepts. Delivered design diagrams using Artisan tool for Airbus 380 project (UK onsite).
● Technical Speaker& Hackathons: Technical speaker with experience in podcasts (2) and technical sessions (5). Participated in AI hackathons and achieved EngX certification for Thomson Reuters project.
● Global Support: Provided global support for .NET and VC++ products as a permanent employee at Microsoft Bangalore.
● Security Product Development: Received the Jolt award for developing an in-house Crypt32 security product and PKCS system based on OpenSSL standards.