Summary
Overview
Education
Work History
Skills
Cloud Competency
Cloud Security
Architecting Skills
Software
Sporting Conquest
Incumbencies
Volunteer
Varun Singha

Varun Singha

Security Architect
Bengaluru

Summary

Ambitious Professional committed to formulating innovative solutions to challenges while optimizing processes. Polished in developing and implementing cloud Security and architecture procedures and developing strategies to respond and recover from security breaches. Logical and analytical leader with open eyes towards whats new in the Cloud ecosystem.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
5
5

Years of Team leading

20
20

Plus Projects Implemented

Education

Master of Engineering - Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Pilani
2007.12 - 2009.05

Master of Science - Political Science

Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Pilani
2003.08 - 2007.12

Work History

Software Architect

Siemens ADVANTA
Bangalore
2023.02 - 2023.07
  • Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.
  • Collaborated with dev-ops and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules.
  • Developed and documented system security authorization boundaries for cloud-based solutions.
  • Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.
  • Assessed under-performing software and developed actionable improvements.
  • Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.

Principal Solution Architect

SID Global
Bangalore
2022.08 - 2023.02
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
  • Applied established cloud deployment methodologies such as blue- green, canary and distributed systems to architecture design.
  • Participated in weekly meetings with client to discuss project direction and milestone achievement.
  • Wrote and maintained custom scripts which improved system efficiency by 50 % and latency reduced by 100ms.
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules.

Principal Cloud Architect

Xebia IT Architects
Bangalore
2020.12 - 2022.04
  • Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
  • Develop technical solutions to complex problems from POC until design and production
  • Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
  • Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions
  • Created policies and procedures for emerging security technologies and proposals.

Cloud Architect

Datafoundry
Bangalore
2017.11 - 2018.06
  • Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders in planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects
  • Develop and document procedures and policies for infrastructure architecture, design, implementation.
  • Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.
  • Redesigned customers' existing network architecture to enhance application performance

Senior Cloud Analyst

Alstom Transport
Paris
2016.09 - 2017.07
  • Design and implement cloud Architecture best fitting Alstom Business requirement.
  • Develop technical roadmaps for future AWS Cloud implementation.
  • Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks.
  • Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
  • Identified, assessed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.

Platform Architect

AT&T
Bangalore
2013.02 - 2016.05
  • Write detailed architectural design plans, security requirements and specifications
  • Managed installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for network engineers.
  • Created and managed technical order books for customers
  • Influenced AT&T stakeholders on best fit cloud journey for respective products
  • Managed and monitored installed systems for highest level of availability.

Unified Escalation Engineer

Patni Computers
Boston
2009.12 - 2013.02
  • Extensive experience testing, monitoring, RCA and Debugging EMC storage arrays (CX, mamba, VMAX).
  • Capacity planning for new deployed arrays and designing support schema based on SLA.
  • Acted as Data recovery consultant in situations of Data loss issues faced by customers and resolved them within SLA timeline.
  • Worked with software development team on reported errors and bugs on newly released software and assisted in deployment of release fixes.
  • Provided L1 support to Severity 1 users in 24/7 uptime environment, often worked double shifts to accommodate time zones.

Skills

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Cloud Competency

Kubernetes, GCP, Docker, Infrastructure modernization, Solution Architecture, Migration, DevOps, Jenkins, Microservices, Cloud Storage & DB, Virtual Environment designing, Cloud Management Solutions, Network Infrastructure, Data and cloud Security.

Cloud Security

ZTNA Pattern 

CNAAP, CASB, CSPM,CWPP, SIEM

Firewalls & Networks 

RSA/ Diffie-Hellman encryption

TLS/ MPLS

IAM Policies

Architecting Skills

Infrastructure Modernization

Security Modernization

Cloud Migration

Big Data

Microservices Design

Serverless & Event Driven

Software

Jenkins

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

JFrog

Sonar Cube

Prometheus & Grafana

Helm Charts

Jira

Confluence

Apache

Sporting Conquest

  • Represented India - Djarum badminton series Indonesia, 2009.
  • Running trophy Winner at corporate badminton tournament 2009- 2016.
  • Vice-Captain, BITS badminton 2004-05.
  • Represented SAI in Badminton Asia Championship 2012.



Incumbencies

Child Protection Volunteer - UNRWA (Syria)

TEDx- Organizer and Licensee.

KRAV MAGA P4 level practitioner.


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