Sashikanth Pisupati

IT Architecture with 23 years of overall experience in IT industry and worked in multiple areas of application development, re-engineering, maintenance, operations and support. Strong technical background on Data Integration, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Middleware and the recent Big Data, NoSQL, Data Engineering, Data Science and other tools and technologies. Worked on AWS cloud based solutions providing architecture and design. Good team leader guiding a strong community of technical and solution architects in various projects and programs. Strong domain background on Pharmaceutical and Health sciences domain. Extensive domain knowledge on Drug Development Life cycle. Is a certified CBIP (Certified Business Intelligence Professional) & CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional), good knowledge & worked on Big Data tools and technologies: Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Apache Spark and Kafka. Also a trained resource on AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.

• Infosys Technologies Limited, India, July 2000 to Jan 2011, Technology Architect.
• AstraZeneca, Manchester
• NAB ( National Australian Bank)
• Weatherford, Huston
• NAGP GR S&T division of BP
• APS ( Arizona Public Services)
• Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka
• National Commercial Bank, Jamaica
• Canara Bank , India
• SCE ( Southern California Edison), California
• Apple Computers Inc, Cupertino

Domain Architect, supporting Key initiatives across TRD., Leading a team of Solution architects and technical SME to support the portfolio., Providing the road map and strategy for the key platforms, TIMS, TRD data strategy and Digi connect labs, Part of the larger Enterprise architecture team, and bringing the industry best practices across the enterprise and TRD., Technically focused and key consultant in driving the solution and architecture across multiple projects under TRD., May 2020 – Till date.

Data42, Engineering Lead – Use Cases, A strategic initiative by Novartis for teams who want to undertake cutting-edge, exploratory R&D data science today – including collaboration with 3rd parties, the Use Case Enablement team offers a tailored, end-to-end facilitation service, that will support you to get to work faster, with access to the various data sets you need in a secured and governed environment suited to your analytical requirements. Where the current data42 offering requires specialist expertise to get started, our service is provided by an experienced team who will collaborate with you and other relevant teams throughout the journey, from understanding your requirements, to designing the appropriate solution, to hand-holding your users as they get to work., Solution Architect supporting AWS cloud, Infrastructure Architecture, Application Architecture, Design & Integration, Vendor product assessment/evaluation. Technical SME in the area of advanced analytics to help support engagements in the area of languages (R, Python, etc.), IDEs (SAS, R Studio, Databricks, etc.) and technical libraries., Played the role of product owner for Shared collaboration environment (SCE) on AWS., Team lead for a group of Solution Design Experts within the program and guiding then on the technical aspects, Key stakeholder for the Public cloud team and driving the enhancements and changes on the cloud Infrastructure., May 2019 – April 2020.

Nerve, TRDRC & TRD Genius, DevIT-Architecture - TAD, Nerve is a strategic platform built to support critical decisions on clinical studies affecting time, cost, quality, effort and performance based on the historical and current clinical data. It allows users to view and analyze the current trends and historical parameters, compare performance across entities and identify key performance drivers for the future. It comprises a cloud-based infrastructure to support web-based accessible front-end, and analytics back-end platform and an integrated data layer which automatically pulls data on an ongoing basis from relevant Novartis and external systems. The Nerve Live Module Resource Cockpit focuses on leveraging past data to quantitatively forecast the resource need (FTE and cost) for any new TRD (Technical Research & Development) project. The main objectives are: - Real-time resource allocation by LF, forecast demand based on historical data. - Optimize resource allocation at the project/activity level (strategic plan) - Simulate scenario to model different resource allocations on-the-fly, Solution Architect, AWS cloud engineer, Application Architecture & Design, Integration architecture, CI/CD deployment, Solution concept for IAM, SME in implementing IAM-Webgate, Containerization - Apache Mesos cluster, Jenkins, Docker, APIGW, Open API and other architectural components., Sep 2018 – June 2019

TAD DevIT-Architecture, CDH-Clinical Data Hub, A strategic re-engineering program to modernize the entire legacy platform (LSH) and leveraging the market leaders and the strategic vendors and partners to adapt to brand new breed of SAS (Software as a Service) based solutions for its enhanced Drug Development Life cycle process., Solution Architecture supporting Technical/Infrastructure Architect & set-up, Application Architecture, Design, Integration architecture patterns and design, Code development, Requirements gathering, , Vendor product assessment/evaluation and use case implementation and support., Sep 2017 – Sep 2018

DevIT, STRIDE, DataHub, The project deals with introducing new Data Platform for Data Integration, Persistence, Virtualization and Presentation to seamlessly integrate with all the applications and platforms, provide de-coupling point to shield other applications from the future changes ,create the basis for simplified continuous innovation and scalability and extensibility, facilitate fast and seamless flows of high quality data in and out of applications to boost the performance of R&D processes, provide transparency on actual trial progress based on consistent data., Solution Architect, Application Architecture, Design, Code development, Requirements gathering, Infrastructure consultation, Vendor product assessment/evaluation, Integration architecture and design., June 2015 – Sep 2017 DevIT, Advance Program, The project deals with introducing Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub (LSH), Oracle Clinical applications to Novartis and customizing the existing interfaces and making the Oracle LSH application as the single repository for all clinical trials data repository., Lead Solutions /Technical Architect, Application Architecture, Design, Code review, Requirements gathering, Participate in Client meetings and Workshops, Conducting product road shows, Change management and application support., Jan 2011 – Jun 2015