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S. Ahamad Ali

S. Ahamad Ali

Hyderabad

Summary

Seasoned IT Director offering 20 years of experience expertly managing technology solutions. Aiding company productivity and profitability through smart strategy, persuasive negotiations and exemplary leadership. Expert in providing Cloud, AI, Data solutions.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Principal/Associate Director

LTIMindtree
Hyderabad
07.2022 - Current
  • About Canvas Ai - Enterprise Gen Ai platform for the organizations to leverage the Foundation Models or Large Language Models(LLMs) with the capabilities such as FinOps, Moderation, Dynamic Model Selection, Enterprises can build Chatbot/Apps in time with a single click which utilize RAG/Advanced RAG/ Agentic RAG architectures. Built for organizations to use with FinOps in mind, organizations can charge back the cost of Foundation models to the verticals/horizontals. This enterprise application is enriched by advanced technologies like Python, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, Java Spring Boot 3.2, React 18, Angular, Chroma DB, Mongo DB, Graph DB(neo4j), Airflow DAGs, Kafka
  • Chat Apps - Chat apps that communicate with different llms
  • Doc Chat - Chat with documents with RAG facility connecting to various llms
  • Doc Builder - Autonomously build documents based on the user prompts
  • Enterprise Search - Search through the documents of enterprise connecting to sharepoint etc.
  • Obligation App - App for enterprise to build analytics for Sales and marketing teams, get to know about obligations and dead lines based on the proposals and SOWs
  • Ask Me Health Care - App for getting information from the health care documents
  • Health Care Batch Runner - App to build documents extracting information based on the prompts and building documents for perusal

SKILLS

  • Leader - Responsible for Building Canvas Ai, a renowned Enterprise Gen Ai platform for the organizations to leverage the Foundation Models or Large Language Models(LLMs) with the capabilities such as FinOps, Moderation, Dynamic Model Selection, Observability, Metrics, Evaluation with BERT, BLEU. Built natively for AWS, Azure clouds and on On-Prem Kubernetes platform utilizing microservices architecture.
  • Customer Demos - Responsible for leading the demos with prospective customers, clients, verticals and onboard the various applications on to our platform
  • People Management - Global team management, Cross team communication, Appraisals, Goal settings, Reviews
  • Process - Implement the right process for the needs of the project. Expert in SCRUM, SAFE Agile methodologies
  • CI & CD - Work towards continuous integration and continuous deployment using the tools like Git, Jenkins. Building the right pipelines for CICD
  • Technology - Rest Services, Design Patterns, Web Applications, Micro Services, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Python, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, Java Spring Boot 3.2, React 18, Angular, Chroma DB, Mongo DB, Graph DB(neo4j), Airflow DAGs, Kafka
  • Advisory, Consulting & Presales - Work with various prospective customers/Lead customers to provide guidance, consulting and architecture for the migration of on prem to various clouds like AZURE, AWS and google etc. Provide solutions for the data and machine learning problems(LLMs). Build POCs to prove the concepts. Preparation of SOW, Work Orders(WO), Change Orders(CO) and liaison with clients for the work to be done. Spear-headed the project worth 5 million dollars in the recent prospect.

Sr Manager – Delivery

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad
06.2021 - 07.2022
  • Lead Delivery of Cargill Business Unit’s ANH DevOps program with 50+ Associates and a budget of 5 million Dollars per year
  • Deliver products in On-Site and Off-Shore model with a stream lined process of Safe-Agile and ITIL/ITSM
  • Build Project plan, Costing and Budgeting, Resource plan, Hiring, training and Mentoring
  • Identify Risks, mitigate, RACI and RASCI
  • Respond to customer queries, RFPs , RFIs and SOW preparation and approvals
  • Approve Architecture, Design, implement best practices within teams
  • Oversee the team performance, monitoring, appraisals and team career planning

Delivery Manager

EPAM Systems
Hyderabad
01.2019 - 06.2021
  • Responsible for delivery and Technical leadership of E-Commerce application called Prowess using c#.net, asp.net mvc, angular, css, jquerym kendo ui and sql server
  • Migrated traditional asp.net application to .net core
  • Built AWS Data pipelines
  • Worked on AWS ETL
  • Worked on AWS S3 buckets, AWS CloudFront CDN
  • Lead the delivery of Thatcher Technology LLC
  • Lead the team of 11 members.

Technical Manager

EPIQ System/Aeries
Hyderabad
05.2017 - 01.2019
  • Technical Manager for a team of 20 members
  • Responsible for enhancement of the application
  • Responsible for end to end dilivery
  • Responsible for design and architecture of the web based LINK application
  • Worked on Legal Solutions application – LINK using c#.net, angular, ext.net.

Technical Architect

Motivity Labs
Hyderabad
08.2014 - 04.2017
  • Designed and built Web Apis in insurance domain using Microsoft Asp.Net WebApi
  • Migrated traditional windows LOB application to Multi server Web Api architecture
  • Worked on OData Apis
  • Built Single Sign On using SAML tokens.

Technical Architect

coMakeIt
Hyderabasd
06.2013 - 07.2014
  • Defined technical integration strategy and developed integration plans.
  • Managed cross-functional teams in the execution of architectural projects, ensuring timely delivery.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of projects within budget constraints.

Sr Engineer

Cognizant
Hyderabad
01.2008 - 04.2014
  • Built CLASS workbench
  • Responsible for the design and development of CLASS.
  • Responsible for the design and implementation of the database.

IT Engineer

CMC Ltd(TCS)
Hyderabad
05.2005 - 01.2008
  • Built Automatic Software Tester and Interrogator for Automotive domain

Education

MCA -

Andhra University
Visakhapatnam

Advanced Certificate Course in AI & ML -

IIIT
Hyderabad

Skills

  • Machine Learning & Data Science – Python, CNN, RNN, LSTM, Feature Extraction, Feature Engineering etc, Foundation Models, RAG, Cache-Chroma DB, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Azure DataBricks, Azure DataFactory, Azure Datalake
  • Application programming - Java, Spring Boot, Net, MVC, Web Api, OData, WCF, WPF
  • Web - Java Script, jQuery, React & Angular
  • Architecture - Micro services, Kubernetes, Docker etc
  • Cloud - Azure Cloud, AWS Cloud – Azure mentor at EPAM
  • CI/CD – Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Databases - Sql Server, Oracle, MongoDB
  • Testing - Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Test Driven Development(TDD), Behavior Driven Development
  • EngX - Code Quality – Sonar
  • Program Management, Project Management, Delivery Management, MSA, SOW
  • People Management
  • Hiring, On-boarding, Retention, People development
  • Governance – WSR, PPT Presentations, Excel, MPP, Invoices, Billing Splits
  • Collaborate with Business, IT and Project Management teams
  • Scrum Of Scrums
  • Lean Agile Development, Scrum/Kanban Delivery, PI planning
  • Define milestones
  • Risks, Issues
  • Assumptions, Constraints, Dependencies
  • RACI
  • Estimation – Pert, Use Case, Function Point, T-shirt sizing
  • Cost Profit Analysis
  • Time Sheet Approvals

Certification

  • Data Science and Machine Learning from IIIT - Hyderabad
  • AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
  • Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
  • EPAM DM School
  • EPAM Delivery Manager Development Program(First Batch)

Accomplishments

  • Best innovation project for year 2021-22 from Cognizant
  • Performer of the year 2021-2022 from Cognizant
  • Best project award from EPAM – Eagle
  • Best employee from Motivity Labs
  • Best project of year from Cognizant - Workbench
  • Employee excellence award from Invensys

Timeline

Associate Principal/Associate Director

LTIMindtree
07.2022 - Current

Sr Manager – Delivery

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2021 - 07.2022

Delivery Manager

EPAM Systems
01.2019 - 06.2021

Technical Manager

EPIQ System/Aeries
05.2017 - 01.2019

Technical Architect

Motivity Labs
08.2014 - 04.2017

Technical Architect

coMakeIt
06.2013 - 07.2014

Sr Engineer

Cognizant
01.2008 - 04.2014

IT Engineer

CMC Ltd(TCS)
05.2005 - 01.2008

MCA -

Andhra University

Advanced Certificate Course in AI & ML -

IIIT
S. Ahamad Ali