Manager Engineer

BAL KRISHAN CHAURASIYA

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SUMMARY

I am an accomplished IT professional with 15 years of progressive experience across both the entrepreneurial and large-

corporate industry landscape. I have a passion for aligning business and technology goals and have a strong record of success

in leading projects to advance IT infrastructures by developing and implementing cutting-edge technologies. I am a result

driven and detail oriented IT solution architect recognized for technical hands-on ability, problem-solving, boosting efficiency,

developing high performance teams, strategic planning, project management, implementing best practice and methodologies

and creating flexible solutions. I have the proven ability to manage mission critical projects, and adapt quickly to challenges

and changing environments to ensure bottom line success.

Emerging technologies – SMAC, SaaS, IaaS, XaaS, AWS/Cloud, BI and Data Visualization/Analytics, R

programming

Exposure to Latest cloud technologies, DevOps, BigData (MongoDB), Apache Hadoop technology stack,

MapReduce, HDFS, Pig, Hive, HBase, Zookeeper, Sqoop, Cloudera CDH, Amazon EMR

Good knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies including TOGAF

Expertise across business requirements management, design, development, testing, change management and

integration of technology solutions. Project management methodologies including waterfall, lean, Agile/Scrum, iterative

and TDD

Computing Skills including all flavors of Unix, RDBMS, web technologies, several programming and scripting

languages

CREDENTIALS:

Emerging Program Manager, Stanford University

Amazon Web Services certified Solution Architect

MongoDB certified BigData specialist

Certified PMP from PMI

Brainbench certification in Project Management, Managing People and Presentation

Post Graduate Diploma in Advance Computing from CDAC – ACTS, Hyderabad

Bachelor of Engineering - University of Rajasthan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA Sr. Cloud Architect, Cognizant Cloud (Feb 07 –Present)

• Founder member of Cognizant-AWS transformation center of excellence. Working with team of Cognizant and AWS

architects to develop and mature the Cloud practice with Amazon Web Services(AWS)

• Engaged in joint Cognizant-AWS large scale transformation programs that span across multiple industry verticals and

solution horizontals. Interfacing with other architects, product managers, SMEs and network engineers on cloud migration

strategy and approach and delivering cloud-based solutions

• Created multiple AWS EC2 instances across multiple AWS availability zones, and install/configure all components to

include OS patching and security handling, firewall (local OS) and Security Group(EC2) configuration, VPC multi-subnet

(Public/Private) network, VPN, Route53 and ELB configuration, Elastic Block Store Volume and Snapshot creation,

Baked AMI and instance Bootstrap configurations, Auto Scaling launch configuration and AS Group creations,

CloudWatch configuration of native and custom metrics and Auto Scaling alarm/triggers etc.

• Analyzing business and technology drivers and constraints, TCO & ROI, alignment with strategic objectives and

facilitating Cloud Transformation on AWS

• Architected and managed a huge performance test effort involving more than twenty complex interrelated IT applications.

Created a framework for the program, evaluated performance goals, provided infrastructure need for the program and

ensured readiness of the systems before execution of a huge cross application effort

• Managed technical projects and gained strong experience in architecting, developing and deploying enterprise solutions

and infrastructure. Designed cloud deployment strategies that mitigate risk while meeting Infrastructure, employee,

customer and budgetary needs

• Owned program dashboards, cost and P&L, resourcing, reviewing contracts and providing input to C-level executives

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• Acted as interface between business and technical teams and overseen functions for business analysis, enterprise IT

architecture, technology infrastructure and operations.

Practice development initiatives for Cognizant

• Created interest groups for Public and Hybrid Cloud migration, leading thought leadership & KM efforts

• Analyzed existing IT infrastructure, identified gaps, evaluated various workload scenarios and proposed Cloud

Transformation Road Map

• Competency/consulting skills development by reviewing profiles, identifying gaps, preparation of training /KT plans

• Crafted the strategy for Cloud Transformation center of excellence for Cognizant EBA Cloud, covering service offering,

business development, engagement delivery, thought leadership, training and performance management

• Conducted on site and virtual training sessions for competency development

Client: Comcast

• Played a role of program manager. Involved in setting up processes and procedures for the engagement, ensured a

successful transition and smooth operations as per MSA

• Coordinated the work request process with client to establish scope, execute, control and close projects

• Performed financial analysis, cost benefit and risk analysis. Evaluated resource requirements against strategic objectives

• Responsible for demand and capacity analysis, staff management and prioritization

Client: Invensys

Brought on following acquisition of Invensys India development center by Cognizant. Managed multiple in-flight and new

initiatives for Invensys’ Supervisory segment. Consolidated and streamlined business practices and processes for the engagement

Worked as onsite process and transformation consultant

1. Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related product development initiatives

incorporating strategic business direction

2. Managed onsite and offshore teams responsible for extremely fast paced development cycle in agile. Managed product

and release backlogs and coordinated user stories delivered in short sprint cycles of 3-4 weeks

3. Conducted sprint planning meetings and prioritized product and sprint backlogs

4. Worked closely with marketing to establish product specification and project scope. Conducted daily scrum meetings

5. Tracked the effort and completion using daily burndown chart and steered the team to remain on schedule on budget

6. Conducted sprint retrospective, captured lessons learned and applied in future sprints

7. Ensured smooth transition of in-flight projects being executed in “captive centre” model to onsite-offshore model while on

boarding resources from the Invensys captive centre to Cognizant

8. Prepared data collection templates, captured staffing details, ramp-up requests, operational procedure, risks and roadmap

for the on-going projects

9. Served as client manager and prepared governance structure, detailed roles and responsibility per RASCI

Client: JP Morgan Chase

Onsite Delivery Manager

Initiated, managed and closed application development and maintenance projects worth USD 4 million per annum for JPMC IB in

the area of Market Risk.

10. Initiated, analysed, and collaborated with client to establish scope of work, execute, control and close broad range

of technology project and initiatives

11. Presented status report to management, tracked contract progress as well as developed proposals for new

applications, new leads, and new business opportunities

12. Coordinated staffing with offshore managers, established performance measures for team members, and

evaluated training requirements for team members

13. Built high-performance teams, coached and mentored team members guide them to leadership roles, and trained,

evaluated, and counselled team members

14. Consistently received exceptional ratings and feedback in all areas (client and performance), which include being

rated as one of the best off-shoring experience ever by the client

15. Streamlined procedures and processes in MRT to increase system stability and also provided technical documents

and cost effective solutions as a value addition

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16. Established a high offshore ratio, kept operating margins above in a challenging business environment

Projects: Executed multiple MRT BAU projects for the engagement as well as Managed Services Infrastructure upgrade

Keane Inc. Senior Consultant (May 06 – Feb 2007)

Client: Goldman Sachs

Manager, Consulting and System Analyst

Projects: DCP: Maintained and enhanced firm wide Credit Risk infrastructure for Goldman. DCP measures accurate risk for

complex deals across various business areas through simulation of various market movements. I was responsible for a

small portfolio of projects executed by Keane in Goldman’s credit risk division

Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA System Analyst (Nov. 03 to May 06)

Client: JP Morgan Chase

Tech Lead

Projects: Designed, developed, maintained and enhanced JPM credit risk reporting systems built in C/C++ on Solaris and AIX

platforms. Also led migration projects from one platform to another. Responsibilities included Object oriented

analysis, high level design preparation, detailed design review, coding, testing, coordinating and monitoring the

construction effort. Core projects like SALIS, Mosaic, Country Stress Engine and GMRD

Lionbridge Inc, US Sr. Software Engineer(Feb.03– Nov. 03)

Client: NCS Learn

Tech Lead and Developer

Projects: SUCCESSMAKER: Developed courseware drivers for a popular e-learning product "SuccessMaker". Was involved

in all phases of migration of course drivers from msvc 1.5 to Visual Studio 6.0

Environment: Mac OS 8, C/C++, Sybase, Code Warrior 6.0/10

Exact-Solutions, India Sr. Software Engineer (Jul.00 – Feb.03)

Client: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley

Tech Lead

Served as a lead Programmer for a number of projects around Exact’s performance monitoring tool iWatch. Acquired unique

skills of building up the entire India development lab of Exact including installing various OS, LAN creation on hubs and

switches, database installations, setting up source code repository, creating VPN connections, development, testing and

customer support. Also led whole development team consists of ten developers and testers and was responsible for the

delivery, quality assurance and support of company’s network monitoring tool iWatch and it’s supported modules to various

clients

Instrumentation Ltd, India Project Engineer (Jul. 99 – Jul. 00)

Served as a quality assurance lead for firm’s procurement and vendor management division. Instrumentation Ltd is an Enterprise of

Central Government of India.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Architecture Design, Network Architecture Design, High Availability solutions

Programming Languages: C, C++, VC++, VB, Java, .Net, python, Javascript, R

Technologies: UNIX Shell Scripts, SOA, XML, JSON, HTML, VBScript, TCP/IP

Tools: Purify, Sniffer Pro 4.5, Ethereal, Sun Forte, SunStudio 8, Exceed, VNC, Code Warrior, Business Objects, M/S

Visio, Microstrategy, Cygwin, Autosys, Clearcase, TFS, Git

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HPUX, Mac OS

Design Tools and Methodology: UML, Data Structures, BI Tools, Data Analytics, Hadoop, MapReduce

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Above and Beyond Award from the BU

• Key lead on ‘2013 Global Project of the Year’ Cognizant

• Merit Scholarship holder. (Board of Secondary. Education of state)

• Third language (Sanskrit) scholarship. (Board of Sec. Education of state)

• University Scholarship in B.E. (University of Rajasthan)

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