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Ramesh Chandar K C

Ramesh Chandar K C

Chennai

Summary

As an accomplished and highly driven Technology Leader with 20 years’ experience in designing, developing and architecting various Enterprise Applications, I possess extensive expertise and leadership skills in a variety of fields. I'm passionate about leveraging my proven abilities and experience to help organizations to achieve their business goals through the use of the latest technologies, cloud technologies, automation, site reliability, and other advanced solutions.

Through my extensive experience, I can provide C-level guidance and leadership on a broad range of complex technical areas, including Cloud Computing, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Data Architecture, and IT Security. As a result of my vast knowledge and experience across multiple domains and technology stacks, I can guide and mentor clients and team members on technical best practices, and assist in creating a comprehensive IT strategy to help achieve their objectives.

In addition, I hold various industry certifications, including Azure Solution Architect Expert, AWS Solution Architect Professional, TOGAF, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator. These certifications demonstrate my in-depth knowledge and experience for designing, developing, and deploying sophisticated technical solutions.

Ultimately, my proven track record of delivering results, driving innovation, and providing leadership and guidance to diverse teams makes me an ideal candidate for organizations looking for a technology leader to drive their IT strategy to the next level.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head of Enterprise Architecture

Wall Street English
07.2019 - Current
  • Defining strategies for the Enterprise Architecture
  • Establishing the Architecture Vision
  • Owning the Cloud Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology Architecture
  • Keeping the Enterprise Repository up-to-date
  • Establishing Architecture Governance Framework
  • Owning the Multi-Cloud Platform Architecture with focus on Scalability and Optimized Cost
  • Enhancing the Platform and Cloud Security
  • Owning up, and defining and driving the platform architecture, blueprints and architecture and design decisions that aligns to the business needs, platform and technology strategy of the organization
  • Review the Cloud Architectures (AWS and Azure) and opt the services that suit the business needs, cost and scalability
  • Guide the DevOps leads on IAAC
  • Agile leader, owns up architecture runway, follows agile practices and closely works with agile teams, bring them onboard on the big picture architecture and strategy, coaches them on the architectural decisions on the subsystems, guides them on design decisions, works on business, technology and time tradeoffs
  • Demonstrates leadership on the architecture domain, builds internet-scale architecture, with the focus on quality attributes such as performance, scale and security.

Chief Architect

MSC Technology India Pvt. Ltd
08.2016 - 06.2019
  • Set the Vision and Roadmap of Enterprise Architecture
  • Definition of Architecture Principles, and Guidelines
  • Application Framework Review and Hand Over to Development Teams
  • Own the Architecture across Business. Application, Data and Technical
  • Build System architecture from ground up to meet changing business needs.
  • Set team direction and strategic plans
  • Determined best practice strategies to control costs, optimize performance and meet demands.

Solutions Architect

Changepond Technologies
02.2013 - 07.2016
  • Lead Architect playing important role in architecture/design reviews, proposing relevant Microsoft technology suite of business solutions based on business requirements and strategic goals
  • Arrive on the business value by reviewing risk, strategic fit of solution, resource availability, and cost requirements
  • Meeting with internal and external stakeholders on prioritizing solution deliverables by reviewing business value
  • Translate business requirements into detailed architectures and designs
  • Document all technical requirements and design technical solutions utilizing architecture best practices
  • Develop solution cost structure by identifying all cost points including labor, software and hardware
  • Architecture modelling based on different stakeholder viewpoints
  • Work with functional analysts, developers and development managers to ensure that all solutions are deployed within agreed timelines and supported after delivery
  • Guide junior developers
  • Achievements:
  • Successfully oversaw the solution alignment towards the strategic direction of business for a major Telecomm company - Upgrade to latest Technology Infrastructure, Upgrade of User Interface to Latest Trends
  • DevOps evangelist reviewing various Projects and proposing recommendations to take it further to next level
  • Substantially implemented project management practices and communication between software development teams, leading to smoother and more efficient implementation and better utilization of time and budgets - Rally Dev adoption, Guiding team for Agile Methodology
  • Mentored Organization by conducting sessions on Customer Communication

Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2011 - 01.2013
  • Led a team, consisting of senior developers, that deals with innovative ideas by analyzing latest emerging Microsoft technologies
  • Led agile team in the end to end delivery of technical systems and components
  • Ensured on-time, quality delivery of projects
  • Technical mentoring to development teams
  • Working under the guidance of Senior Architects in the design of applications that best meets the business requirements
  • Worked closely with business stakeholders to determine product prototypes
  • Achievements:
  • Customer engagement for a week at Chennai facility for a group of senior customer representatives from London
  • Delivery of SharePoint solutions in a short time frame of 3 weeks by effectively planning, motivating the team, and reviewing and selecting apt tools to migrate from MS-Excel oriented reporting and management towards SharePoint Portal reporting and management
  • Architecture of application for a Legal client from Region specific solution towards Region agnostic Generic solution

Technology Lead

Infosys
02.2003 - 03.2011
  • Led development team at Offshore for the delivery of solutions for Aerospace customer
  • Successfully led migration of legacy VB6 application to VB.net
  • Performed the role of Functional Analyst for more than a year - led to close interaction with Customers and understanding the way the requirements are derived from Senior Stakeholders
  • Developed and delivered efficient and cost-effective technical solutions to meet customer business requirements
  • Have been part of system enhancement team
  • Provided business analysis support and technical support and guidance to customers
  • Provided quotes for estimated development time and costs for clients
  • Created deployment packages using Microsoft Technologies and Open Source Tools

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E -

Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Periyar University
04.2002

Skills

  • Vendor Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Team Building
  • System Design
  • Training and Mentoring
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Multi Cloud Architecture
  • Cloud Native Architecture
  • Data Architecture in Azure and AWS
  • Machine Learning
  • DevOps and SRE
  • Net core, C#, ASPNET MVC, Node JS, React JS, Python, Mobile App, BizTalk server

Certification

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate 2021

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional 2021

Amazon Web Services

Azure Solution Architect Expert 2020

Microsoft

TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect 2016

The Open Group

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator 2021

The Linux Foundation

Certified SAFe 4 Agilist (Expired) 2020

Scaled Agile Inc.

Timeline

Head of Enterprise Architecture

Wall Street English
07.2019 - Current

Chief Architect

MSC Technology India Pvt. Ltd
08.2016 - 06.2019

Solutions Architect

Changepond Technologies
02.2013 - 07.2016

Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2011 - 01.2013

Technology Lead

Infosys
02.2003 - 03.2011

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E -

Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Periyar University

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