Sanal Kumar Somasundaran

As Solutions Architect at Solera Global Architecture team, primary responsibilities involve

• Driving project for Azure B2C as identity solution for all products across organization. Collaborate with product teams to define strategy for implementing Identity Experience Framework for using B2C solution. Also implementing PoCs and working samples for assisting teams to integrate with B2C.
• Building and maintaining common services for better product integration and reusability.
• DevOps implementation using tools like Azure DevOps, Concourse.
• Technical expertise in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid systems with focus on PaaS services like Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Functions, Azure Event Hubs, Logic Apps, AWS Lambda, AWS SES
• Documenting architectural designs using C4 model and UML
• Experimenting with new technologies to define
• Working with developers and engineers to realize technological solutions.
• Maintain current and in-depth understanding of business processes, needs and objectives.
• Provide architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions meeting customer and organizational goals.
• Define enterprise processes, best practices and tailor enterprise processes for applications.
• Author development guidelines and walk-throughs to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
• Interfaced directly with customers, stakeholders and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements use cases and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
• Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.

As Solution Architect for Manufacturing and Factory domain applications in Flex, I was responsible for handling design, architecture and solution management .

• Managing solution architecture, solution management and delivery of manufacturing and factory applications for more than 5 years.
• Responsible for designing systems & solutions to meet business needs, evaluating technical viability, and creating solutions with high level of performance, security, scalability and reusability.
• Infusing key development technologies and DevOps methodologies in projects as required. Development technologies involve web technologies like .NET, .NET Core, MVC, Web API, Angular, TypeScript, AngularJS, Node.js, GraphQL. Implementation of DevOps pipelines through Azure DevOps.
• Defining applications on cloud, on-premise and hybrid systems. Experienced with PaaS services like Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, AWS Lambda, AWS SES
• Created development guidelines to expedite application design through ready-made frameworks. Analyzed software architecture for weaknesses, recommending and designing improvements.
• Provided technical direction on projects and initiatives to other engineers, designers and technicians and drafted visual representations of software architecture design for presentation to stakeholders.
• Managed various stakeholders including customers and senior leaderships driving decisions collaboratively
• Managed projects in both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodology.
• Developed project roadmaps based on customer insights and technical knowledge and presented it to all stakeholders demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
• Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status and documentation and collaborated on all stages of systems development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to production releases.

• Design and development of Telecom domain applications related to network planning, simulation and optimization.
• Designed and developed Windows and web based applications on ASP.NET, MVC, VB.NET, VC++, MFC.
• Worked with complex algorithms like Genetic algorithm, modified Dijkstra's algorithm, Routing algorithms.
• Worked on projects based on Web Forms, Win Forms & MFC.
  Experienced in SQL Server, My-SQL, MS-Access databases.
• Gathered and defined customer requirements, derived estimates and created well-organized project plans using MS Project.
• Communicated technical development stages to businesses and other stakeholders.
• Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
• Managed team and provided on-time & successful deliveries more than 95% of time.
• Collaborated on all stages of systems development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to production releases.