Mohana Murali Gurunathan
Independent Consultant and Guest Faculty (BITS Pilani WILP)
Bengaluru
Summary
29+ years of experience in the tech industry. Excelling in challenging assignments and transforming possibilities into realities through close collaboration. As a former Technical Director, have led the implementation of cloud and big data technologies to drive innovation and operational excellence, resulting in customized solutions for clients. The track record includes successfully orchestrating end-to-end ML Ops strategies and leading process changes to establish robust platforms and pioneer cloud migrations. Throughout the career, innovation has remained a central focus and continuously seeking improvement and pushing boundaries.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Independent Consultant
Trigent
Bengaluru
01.2024 - Current
- Assisted clients in identifying opportunities to make the usage of SaaS apps more compelling and easier. This also included utilizing LLMs to take the customer experience to the next level.
- Enabled Clients to harness the data available in Google reviews to their actionable insights dashboards.
- Created DevOps pipelines for DB Promotions making the process easier.
- Realizing cost efficiencies for cloud environments by continuous improvements - have achieved 50% cost reduction for clients.
Technical Director
Trigent
Bengaluru
01.2021 - 12.2023
- Leveraged cloud and big data technologies to drive innovation and operational excellence.
- Acted as a Subject Matter Expert for data warehouse modernizations and cost savings in Cloud leading to more efficient, scalable platforms. Reduced the wait time for actionable insights from week to just 6 hours.
- Enhanced product engineering through strategic solutions consulting.
- Led successful efforts to have a pipeline of DevOps team members to take on assignments and enabling them for getting the relevant certifications in different clouds and areas of expertise.
- Evaluated technologies for potential integration into existing systems.
- Mentored Junior DevOps team members, Created a pipeline of DevOps Teams, enabled them to achieve certifications in different areas and clouds. This was a Win-Win as it contributed to their professional development and the company had a superior talent pipeline and revenue generation potential became almost 100% when compared to an earlier achievement of 10% - 15%
- Handled confidential customer business and operational information.
Independent Consultant
SBX, Trigent and Others
Bengaluru
01.2020 - 12.2020
- Solutioning for a US client to enable customers to prepare their financial dashboard, reports and compliance management.
- Architecting the end-to-end ML Ops strategy for a Recommendation Engine on AWS for a social networking application for Japanese Customers. The customer satisfaction or success rate was improved by 80%+
- DevOps Strategy for a Client that was testing the waters in developing smart contracts focusing on real estate and also planning to go ahead with ICO.
Engineering/Architecture Planning Manager
Honeywell Technology Solutions
Bengaluru
05.2019 - 12.2019
- Main responsibility was to bring the Data Stack platform (Big Data Platform) to a working platform with whatever it can take to make it a possibility in six months.
- Finalized the MVP in a month and got the implementation in the next six months.
- There was a complete chaos for the platform was being built for 3 years without a clear vision or not able to get the approval of all the relevant stake holders.
- Road shows with internal customers, discussions with tech partners, collaboratively leading the team providing technical guidance and goals to the team members.
- Worked closely with the technical architect, the Product owner and various internal groups to align the interests of everyone and releasing it in six months.
- Released the first version of Forge Insights/Data Stack - BigData Platform which was planned to cater for the Analytics needs of the entire organization
Lead Consultant, Principal Consultant - Cloud & Data Platform
Wipro Technologies
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 05.2019
- Platform Evangelist for a Big Data Analytics platform.
- The platform was planned to become the IP that can be used to create custom environments/products serving the big data needs of various clients.
- Lead and delivered the first release of the Big Data as a Service solution.
- Was given the mandate and total responsibility to realize the idea and get the first version of Big Data as a Service) to be released in a year.
- This was most challenging with building everything from the scratch - Team selection, whiteboarding, Backlogs, User Stories, Backlog grooming, Team grooming, Technical help & guidance to team.
- Drove the roadmap and customization initiatives for two customers in the first year of release which definitely improved the profit margins.
- Part of the core team in winning a large deal for the second customization with contributions towards RFI, RFP, RFQ.
- At one point in time, had to manage more than 30+ team members for the second customization exercise.
Solutions Architect
Wipro Technologies
Bengaluru
02.2012 - 06.2015
- Solution architect for a leading 9/11 Service provider in US to define the authentication and authorization capabilities.
- Code Enhancement for a leading VoIP provider and to realize getting two new models to the market on time. Interacted with the stake holder teams in various Geographies for finalizing the functionalities and getting them realized. One of the challenging exercises with zero documentation of the legacy code. Daily sessions with the team to divide and conquer the learning and knowledge sharing.
- The entire code base work had to function after modifications for the new features/models and the old models too.
- Developed comprehensive documentation for technical specifications and Dev Wikis for future enhancements.
- Evaluated emerging technologies in particular Hadoop to stay current on industry trends, making informed decisions for technology adoption.
Education
ME - Computer Science & Engineering
MSU
Tirunelveli, India 05.2024 - 10.2025
Expertise
- New Products/Solutions - Ideation to realization
- Cloud Based Big Data Analytic Solutions
- Creating Big Data Platforms
- AWS & Azure
- DevOps Automation
- Architecture & Design
- Agile based deployments
- HDP & Hadoop Ecosystem
- Cloud Migrations
- Storage, Printers & Multi Function Peripherals
- MLOps
- Blockchain (in the process of gaining expertise)
Publications
Deploying Patterns: The IT Organization Perspective, Cutter IT Journal, 08/01/00
Accomplishments
- Wipro Fab League awards
- Coursera – Machine Learning
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate (expired)
- Etching the name in the Golden Book of World Records for yogasana and proving the adage that age is just a number!
Timeline
ME - Computer Science & Engineering
MSU
05.2024 - 10.2025
Independent Consultant
Trigent
01.2024 - Current
Technical Director
Trigent
01.2021 - 12.2023
Independent Consultant
SBX, Trigent and Others
01.2020 - 12.2020
Engineering/Architecture Planning Manager
Honeywell Technology Solutions
05.2019 - 12.2019
Lead Consultant, Principal Consultant - Cloud & Data Platform
Wipro Technologies
07.2015 - 05.2019
Solutions Architect
Wipro Technologies
02.2012 - 06.2015
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