Experienced Platform Architect with over 11 years in delivering secure, enterprise cloud solutions on Azure. Specialises in DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Zero Trust security architecture. Currently leads the Data and AI Platform at Daimler Truck Innovation Center India, driving hands-on delivery across Databricks and Azure OpenAI. Recognised for technical leadership and mentoring within cross-functional engineering teams.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Platform Architect & Product Owner
Daimler Trucks ((Mercedes-Benz)
Bangalore
11.2024 - 09.2026
Secure Azure Data & AI Platform: Designed shared, governed platform on Databricks, ADF, and Container Apps with Unity Catalog as the governance layer - enabling fine-grained access control, data lineage, and cross-domain data sharing.
AI Builder - GenAI & Agentic Platform: Architected centralised GenAI platform using Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry with APIM as shared gateway, enabling per-team usage tracking, API key auth, cost attribution, and PTU for production-grade throughput; integrated AI-assisted anomaly detection, drift analysis, and auto-remediation workflows into DevSecOps pipelines.
Zero Trust Security Architecture: Established Zero Trust foundations with custom RBAC roles, WAF policies, Azure Policy baselines, and least-privilege access controls - enforcing compliance guardrails at enterprise scale across all platform domains.
OnePaaS platform delivery: Led end-to-end platform delivery, defining architecture, governing cloud landing zone, generating backlog, facilitating sprints, and aligning stakeholders from engineers to senior leadership.
Observability, SRE & FinOps: Built cost governance and chargeback via APIM + Log Analytics; owned monitoring, alerting, and runbooks before every production rollout - underpinning platform reliability and cost accountability at enterprise scale.
Responsible AI governance: Championed responsible AI practices across platform, implementing usage guardrails, cost attribution, access controls, and AI policy enforcement to ensure secure, auditable AI enablement.
Senior Technical Architect
Blue Yonder
Bangalore
06.2024 - 10.2024
Led FinOps cost transformation for 20,000+ Azure VMs through utilisation analysis, rightsizing, and elimination of orphaned resources and over-provisioned workloads.
Achieved ~30% reduction in storage costs by implementing intelligent disk tiering (Premium SSD → Standard HDD) for DR/non-prod environments; developed Azure Workbooks dashboards, established enterprise tagging standards, and implemented subscription-level alerting.
Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
Managed complaints with calm, clear communication and problem-solving.
Maintained clean, safe working environments to eliminate accident risks.
Senior Consultant - IaC Engineer & Platform SRE
Daimler Truck Innovation Center India
Bangalore
05.2022 - 06.2024
Integrated ADLS, Databricks, ADF, Event Hubs, and Logic Apps to support event-driven Data Mesh architecture, implementing SRE practices such as proactive monitoring and automated scaling for improved reliability.
Developed reusable Azure Bicep module library - parameterised, environment-aware components eliminating config drift and significantly reducing domain onboarding time.
Developed custom RBAC model for least-privilege access across all domains, authored Azure Policy definitions, and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to enhance compliance and security.
Platform Foundation - Post-Separation Build: Established infrastructure foundation for Treasure Data platform post-Daimler Truck / Mercedes-Benz separation, designed according to Data Mesh principles.
Senior Engineer - DevOps & Cloud
L&T Technology Services (LTTS)
Bangalore
11.2020 - 03.2022
Developed Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Terraform IaC for Halliburton's Drilling Fluids platform, creating reusable YAML pipeline templates for hybrid cloud and field MSI delivery to streamline deployment processes.
Managed engineering projects from start to finish, ensuring work was carried out within set time and budgetary requirements.
Conducted regular team meetings to maintain up to date on project progress, work required to stay within targets and allocate tasks.
Mentored junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, technical skills development, and career progression within the engineering field.
Cloud Consultant - Infrastructure
Cloud4C Services
Hyderabad
04.2020 - 10.2020
Led full delivery lifecycle for 15+ enterprise client engagements, overseeing architecture, BOM/SOW, Azure deployment, and operational handover; developed repeatable ARM and DevOps pipeline frameworks to enhance deployment consistency.
Updated hardware and software requirements to navigate system-wide changes, preventing backlogs and inefficiencies.
Automated routine network maintenance tasks for higher efficiency and accuracy.
Senior Engineer - Cloud Consultant
Robert Bosch
Hyderabad
06.2019 - 03.2020
Led discovery, architecture design, and POC delivery across Azure and AWS, creating commercial documentation that facilitated blue-green deployments with AWS CodeDeploy.
Managed engineering projects from start to finish, ensuring work was carried out within set time and budgetary requirements.
Conducted regular team meetings to maintain up to date on project progress, work required to stay within targets and allocate tasks.
Mentored junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, technical skills development, and career progression within the engineering field.
Senior Engineer - Cloud Operations
Mindtree
Bangalore
04.2018 - 06.2019
Managed global Azure cloud operations for P&G, encompassing multi-region infrastructure, ITIL-governed change, ARM and DevOps pipelines, PowerShell runbook automation, and ServiceNow incident management to ensure efficient service delivery.
Managed engineering projects from start to finish, ensuring work was carried out within set time and budgetary requirements.
Conducted regular team meetings to maintain up to date on project progress, work required to stay within targets and allocate tasks.
Mentored junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, technical skills development, and career progression within the engineering field.
Analyst - Cloud & Infrastructure
HCL Technologies
India
06.2015 - 04.2018
Oversaw private cloud operations for Goldman Sachs, managing Linux systems, VMware virtualisation, and SAN storage while guaranteeing availability, security, and process discipline.
Utilised advanced Excel functions to manipulate large datasets for insightful reporting.
Implemented quality control measures for analytical processes, maintaining high standards.
Mentored junior analysts, providing guidance and support to foster professional development.
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
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