Sandeep Kumar Gupta

• Experienced and hands-on IT professional with 18 years of expertise in technology, solution architecture, and software development, coupled with strong leadership in people and business management across diverse roles. Proven ability to design develops, and delivers scalable solutions while driving innovation and mentoring teams.
• Global Technical Program Leader with a proven track record of driving large- scale, complex programs and delivering transformative technology initiatives that reshape organizational practices and generate tangible and intangible benefits..
• Passionate technologist and innovator, driving long-term engineering vision, resource alignment, and delivery, supporting business growth, diversification, and cost optimization.
• Extensive experience in defining strategic direction and collaborating with global teams.
• Inspiring People Leader with expertise in building and leading globally distributed technical teams. Skilled at attracting top talent, fostering core skill development, and driving world-class performance.
• Passionate about Emerging Technologies, with proven experience in evaluating and presenting emerging technology solutions to senior leadership, including the GitHub Copilot, and Generative AI initiatives using Azure OpenAI and DB LLM (Llama & Gemini).

Title: Solution Architect | Engineering Manager | Cloud consultant | DevOps Consultant  | App Modernization Expert | Digital Transformation Though Leader

• Experienced, Innovative, and Inspirational IT Professional with robust, progressive leadership experience of 18 years in Technology, People and Business Management in diverse roles.
• Global Technical Program Leader, with the progressive history of driving large-scale & complex programs and executing significant technology initiatives, which gave new directions to organizational practices and brought tangible as well as intangible benefits to the organization.
• Passionate Technologist and Innovator responsible for implementing long-term engineering vision and plan, aligning resources, and delivery with ambitious business growth and diversification, whilst improving cost-effectiveness.
• Comprehensive experience in driving Strategic direction and working with global teams.
• Charismatic People Builder & Leader with the competency in forming & leading globally distributed diverse technical teams of industry experts by being a magnet for talent and developing their core skills to deliver world-class performance.
• Passionate about Emerging Technologies, with proven experience in evaluating and presenting new technology solutions to senior leadership, such as the SAP Integration Gateway,FASTAG.

• Transformation Evangelist, moved from legacy software to the latest ones; implemented modernize solutions; transformed team to Scaled Agile methodology, has transformed Alternative Investments Performance calculation and reduced statement and letter generation time.
• Engineering Team Leadership: Assembling and leading a team of “A” players, building a mutual trust, and setting clear expectations to offer members the freedom to innovate; managed 20 resources to deliver strategic Data as a Service (DaaS) based on real time data pipeline and automatic data validation.
• Reinvented existing operations, identified inefficient processes, and implemented reliable & cost-effective solutions to improve quality, ensure on-time delivery of release management deliverables and enhance department efficiencies.
• Cloud migration leader, Reviewed landing zone and cloud migration approach from Accenture, shared services migration, DevSecOps architecture, distributed computing, HDFS and data warehouse migration.

1. FASTag Rewrite (HDFC Bank)

• Led the modernization of the FASTag financial application ecosystem, designing and implementing cloud-agnostic, microservices-based architecture using Quarkus, Flutter Flow, Kubernetes, and Terraform.Migrated data from the Azure EFKON platform to Postgres RDS, ensuring high availability, data integrity, and compliance with banking audit requirements.Implemented DevSecOps automation through GitLab CI/CD, enabling continuous integration and secure deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure.Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline partner onboarding and system integration, resulting in a 40% improvement in scalability and system performance.

2. Hyperion Banking Portal Modernization (Currencies Direct)

• Spearheaded the breakdown of monolithic banking applications into scalable microservices to enhance modularity and deployment flexibility.Architected and implemented a real-time data processing pipeline using Kafka, Apache Flink, Pinot, and Trino, enabling sub-second currency conversion, fraud detection, and analytics.Achieved and 40% reduction in cloud compute cost while handling 100K+ transactions per second (TPS).

3. SAP Integration Gateway (Atos / TFGM Europe)

• Designed and delivered cloud-native plugins for SAP Integration Gateway to automate and secure equipment maintenance workflows.mplemented Kubernetes-based deployment patterns for scalability and seamless integration with enterprise systems.Enabled faster DevOps delivery through Spring Boot microservices and CI/CD pipelines on Azure and AWS.

4. Olympic Projects (Worldline / Atos)

• Served as Solution Architect and Engineering Manager for Tokyo and PyeongChang Olympics digital initiatives, delivering enterprise-grade, cloud-based applications for logistics and operations.Built collaborative Agile and DevOps frameworks under the Worldline UK&I CTO group, enabling global team coordination and faster release cycles.Received Accolade Awards for outstanding customer satisfaction and delivery excellence.

5. GitHub Copilot & AI-Assisted Coding POC

• Conducted a Proof of Concept (POC) on GitHub Copilot and competitor tools (Tabnine, Amazon CodeWhisperer) to assess AI-assisted development productivity.Evaluated code accuracy, integration feasibility, and enterprise security implications.

• Presented results to senior leadership, highlighting 25–30% productivity improvement and providing recommendations for enterprise-wide adoption.

• Sun Certified Programmer for Java2 Platform (SCIP 1.4)
• Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutio
• Certified SAFe Practioner

 Spot Excellence Award in 2022, Spot Excellence Award in 2017, Project champ in 2010.

• Generative AI: Presented uses cases and solution using Open AI for wallet Management
• Training Delivered: Microservices, Cloud Native Architecture, Reactive Systems, and Architecture.