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Nishant Kumar Sharma

Nishant Kumar Sharma

Pune

Summary

Technology leader with close to 13 years of experience in software engineering, technical architecture, and team management. Proven expertise in building and scaling .NET-based applications on Azure, leading crossfunctional teams, and aligning solutions with business goals. Adept at system design, stakeholder communication, Agile delivery, and mentoring engineering talent. A hybrid professional bridging the gap between Solution Architecture and Software Development Management. preparing technical proposals (RFI/RFP/RFQ), building POCs, and leading client walkthroughs and demo's.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Cloud-Native & DevOps Engineering

Self-Employed
03.2025 - Current

Cloud Solution Architect/Technical Support Manager

Persistent Systems
12.2023 - 02.2025

Automated Archival Platform | Dec 2023 – Feb 2025

Business Outcome:-

• Enabled enterprise-wide GDPR-compliant archival for SharePoint content, eliminating audit exposure caused by inconsistent retention and manual handling.

Operational Improvement:-

• Reduced manual archival effort by ~60% by automating previously human-dependent workflows, improving audit traceability and consistency across sites

Decision Ownership:-

• Defined Azure-native, retention-aware architecture to handle high-volume SharePoint data while ensuring scalability and regulatory compliance

• Established centralized observability standards, enabling faster issue detection and improved incident response for production workloads

Team Lead

SLK Software
12.2021 - 12.2023

Nepis Migration Project | Dec 2021- Dec 2023

Business Outcome:-

• Eliminated compliance and security risk by migrating from plaintext credential storage to centralized secret management, aligning with enterprise security and audit requirements
• Enabled secure, scalable cloud adoption by establishing API-driven secret access for microservices

Operational Improvement:-

• Removed manual secret handling and hardcoded credentials, improving audit readiness and reducing operational security exposure
• Enabled automated secret rotation and centralized visibility, improving reliability and reducing production incidents related to credential issues

Decision Ownership:-

• Defined end-to-end security architecture for NEPIS integration across microservices, ensuring consistency and scalability
• Selected AES-based encryption and TLS-secured communication to balance security strength, performance, and enterprise standards
• Collaborated with DevOps to standardize deployment, monitoring, and rotation policies, ensuring production-ready operations.

Technical Architect

Veritech Infosystems
06.2020 - 10.2020

COSAC Retail Financing Platform | Jun 2020 – Oct 2020


Business Outcome:-

• Enabled point-of-sale consumer financing for retail purchases, improving customer affordability and increasing conversion for high-value goods (e.g., furniture)
• Supported business expansion into financing-led retail, aligning technology with revenue and growth objectives.

Operational Improvement:-

• Standardized loan eligibility, approval, and transaction workflows, reducing manual intervention and processing delays
• Improved system reliability and consistency across retail transactions by centralizing core business logic.

Decision Ownership:-

• Designed modular, service-oriented architecture to separate retail transactions, loan processing, and integrations
• Defined secure transaction flows to handle financial data and customer information safely
• Established scalable application foundation to support future partners, stores, and financing products

Project Manager

Techzis Technologies
09.2018 - 12.2018
Travel Booking Platform

Project Manager | Techzis Technologies | Sept 2018 – Dec 2018


Business Outcome:-
• Enabled end-to-end digital travel booking (search → booking → payment), improving customer experience and booking efficiency

Decision Ownership:-
• Oversaw customer journey orchestration across flights, hotels, and packages, ensuring functional completeness and reliability
• Coordinated delivery across teams to meet time-bound business objectives

Technical Lead

Liquidhub Analytics(Capgemini Invent)
10.2017 - 09.2018

Enterprise Chatbot Platform

Technical Lead | Liquidhub Analytics (Capgemini Invent) | Oct 2017 – Sept 2018


Business Outcome:-
• Improved customer engagement and response efficiency through conversational automation

Decision Ownership:-
• Defined chatbot interaction flows and backend integration strategy
• Ensured scalable design to support multiple use cases and user volumes

Senior Assosiate

Petro IT
06.2016 - 10.2017

Pipetrack Platform

Senior Associate | Petro IT | Jun 2016 – Oct 2017


Business Outcome:-
• Supported pipeline tracking and operational visibility for enterprise oil & gas workflows

Decision Ownership:-
• Contributed to system design ensuring data consistency and reliability across operational pipelines
• Enabled structured data flow to support reporting and operational decision-making

Senior Software Engineer

Systweak
10.2014 - 05.2016

Browser Cleaner Utility

Senior Software Engineer | Systweak | Oct 2014 – May 2016


Business Outcome:-
• Improved end-user system performance and stability through automated cleanup utilities

Decision Ownership:-
• Designed modular components to ensure safe execution and maintainability
• Balanced performance optimization with user system safety

Software Developer

Winrogs
03.2010 - 02.2014
Veripfy – Fund Administration Platform

Software Developer | Winrogs | Mar 2010 – Feb 2014


Business Outcome:-
• Supported fund administration and hedge fund operations, enabling accurate financial data management

Decision Ownership:-
• Contributed to core system modules handling sensitive financial workflows
• Ensured data integrity and reliability for long-running financial processes

Education

B.E. -

University Of Rajasthan
09.2009

Skills

* Essential Skills (Core Identity):-

  • NET Core, C#, Microservices
  • Azure (AKS, App Services, Functions, Blob, Key Vault)
  • Cloud Security & Compliance
  • CI/CD & DevOps Strategy
  • Event-driven Architecture

* Additional / Supporting Skills:-

  • Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
  • Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub
  • Prometheus, Grafana, App Insights
  • Angular, React, Blazor
  • GraphQL
  • TFVC, SVN

Awards

Technical excellence reward, Designed and developed scalable microservices for the legacy Application, SLK excellence award, Designed and developed the Financial Project., Persistent Star Award, handled the team of 8 Members and Worked as a Individual Contributer as well

Leadership & Management Competencies

  • Project & Budget Management: Skilled in project planning, resource allocation, and cost optimization for large-scale enterprise solutions.
  • Risk & Compliance Management: Proactively manage technical and operational risks, ensuring alignment with security and compliance (GDPR, ISO).
  • Agile Execution: Expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release orchestration.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Bridge between engineering, product, QA, and business stakeholders for aligned technical execution.
  • Team Leadership & Mentoring: Led teams of 10–15 engineers, established coding best practices, and Product Development Leadership & Management Competencies mentored mid/junior developers.

Timeline

Cloud-Native & DevOps Engineering

Self-Employed
03.2025 - Current

Cloud Solution Architect/Technical Support Manager

Persistent Systems
12.2023 - 02.2025

Team Lead

SLK Software
12.2021 - 12.2023

Technical Architect

Veritech Infosystems
06.2020 - 10.2020

Project Manager

Techzis Technologies
09.2018 - 12.2018

Technical Lead

Liquidhub Analytics(Capgemini Invent)
10.2017 - 09.2018

Senior Assosiate

Petro IT
06.2016 - 10.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Systweak
10.2014 - 05.2016

Software Developer

Winrogs
03.2010 - 02.2014

B.E. -

University Of Rajasthan
Nishant Kumar Sharma