Enterprise Data Architect with **+ years of experience in empowering clients in their data strategy and IT asset maturity enhancement. Expert in value-based optimization of data-centric workloads in hybrid cloud topology (on-prem, AWS, GCP, Azure and IBM cloud). Worked with global matrix team and 6+ years in the USA across diverse client locations.

Key Accomplishments

Extensive experience in defining data strategy and implementing solution to simplify legacy data flows using multi-tenant data lake solutions. Compressed the Total turnaround Time (TOT) from months to days from the idea-to-analytics-Insight, delivering business value. Expert in, IAM and RBAC based security implementation.

Skilled in leading Design Thinking workshops to clarify requirements, define a value-driven MVP, and build a technology roadmap that aligns IT strategy with business goals.

Transformed legacy data-centric applications into efficient hybrid cloud and containerized/Kubernetes based solutions with high resilience and availability that resulted in 30+% in OpEx saving.

Lead proof-of-concepts (POCs) initiatives to validate Cloud vendors' offerings and ensure its’ fit for purpose. Including cost-analysis-based recommendations.

Significant involvement in orchestrating IT system mergers and consolidations within prominent enterprises such as Thomson with Routers, as well as JP Morgan with Chase Manhattan bank.

US Patent filed (P202300017US01-US - 18/228401): HEURISTIC DATA PIPELINE SCHEDULING

Education and Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

GCP Professional cloud database Engineer

IBM Design Thinking Practitioner

IBM Enterprise IT Transformation Advisor Level 4

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology, NCST Mumbai, India, (www.ncst.ernet.in).

Bachelor of Technology, at University of Calicut, India

From

To

Role

Work /Client Location

Nov 2016

Present

Enterprise Architect (Data & AI)

Kyndryl Solutions (Heritage IBM - GTS Labs), Bangalore

Feb 2007

Nov 2016

Information Architect

Thomson Reuters (TRM), Bangalore

Jan 2003

Jan 2007

Senior database consultant, PM

Wipro Technologies, Bangalore.

Client: D&B USA

Dec 1999

Dec 2002

Senior Sybase Consultant, DBA

JP Morgan Chase, New York (USA) *

May 1997

Dec 1999

Production and development support DBA

Various Intermedia Group’s Clients in USA

Hyperscaler/platforms

AWS

Azure

GCP

IBM cloud

On-prem

Docker

Kubernetes

Red hat, AIX

IBM Watson

Development Tools

Helm chart

Terraform

Git Actions

CI/CD tools

Ansible

Prometheus, Loki

Splunk, Grafana

Dynatrace

Python / Golang

MS Visio, Draw.io

Hadoop, ELK

Airflow

FreeIPA,

KeyCloak

Environment

HP Unix, Linux

MS SQL server

RMDS

Elektron (Market data streaming)

Solace VRS 32 XML based message router

Development Tools

Java, Python

Unix shell scripts

Stream Base

Ab initio

MS Visio, Erwin

Environment

Sun OS, Windows NT

Sybase IQ 12.5

Sybase ASE 12.5

Oracle 9i,10g

DB2 UDB 7.2

MySQL

Development tools

Eclipse, J2EE, XML

Unix shell script

TOAD, DBArtisan

T-SQL, PL/SQL 9i

Microsoft Project

Rational Rose

Estimation tools

DSM tools

Environment

Sun OS, Windows NT

Sybase ASE 12.5

Development tools

IBM Web Sphere

Unix shell script

TOAD, DBArtisan

AllFusion ERwin

Java

PVCS

SQL-Backtrack

BMC patrol

Control-M

Kyndryl (heritage-IBM-GTS Labs) Sep 2021 to Present (2 years 4 month)

As an Enterprise Architect, defined architecture, polices and build AWS Lake formation based multi-tenant data lake with LF-Tag and IAM based security.

Collaborated with stakeholders and integrated brown/green filed application with minimal disruption.

Enabled a low friction, secure and guard-railed data access and MLOps process for EDA and ML workloads, that comply with IAM, GDPR other PI data governance policies. Supported tenant specific encryption key, adhering Zero trust security policies.

Fast insights: Reduced "idea/raw data to insight" time from months to days/hours.

Build a Kafka based near real time data ingestion and subscription system.

Build a (Patent pending P202300017US01-US) automatic heuristic-based data pipeline optimization system.

Security lake: Integrated security data (in OCSF format) after tokenizing /detokenizing for PI data protection and then integrated with other data sources like ITSM and event, APM, Change management, deployment logs for an enriched insight building.

Mainframe Modernization: Ingest near real time data from Mainframe DB2 to AWS data lake using Precisely connect for analytics and MLOps workload.

Led design thinking workshop to define data migration and consolidation options across legacy applications, that enabled driving stakeholder commitment and better clarity of the problem space as a collective team.

Led design thinking workshop to define and align with Data science team for a low friction access workflow that ensures data security and governance.

Identified technical risk and completed various POC to validate solutions and baseline performance benchmark across hyperscaler AWS, GCP, azure, on-prem.

Portable solution: Developed a data lake offering deployable across multiple cloud platforms AWS, GCP, Azure and on-premises, with a value driven trade off.

IBM - GTS labs (Nov 2016 - Sep 2021) (4 years 10 months)

As an Enterprise Architect for Multi-Cloud-Multiplatform-AIOPS offering,

Defined architecture and build Helm chart base multi zone, multi-tenant ELK Stack, that can be deployed in AWS, GCP, IBM cloud or On-prem.

Enabled senior leadership to achieve the business goals and contributed to Architect Review Board in identifying technical risks and mitigations, reviewed solutions and made architectural decisions (AD).

Led design thinking workshop with various stakeholders like, product team in defining road map by triaging requirements and translate business requirements to technical specifications and NFR.

As an Enterprise Architect for Big-Data as a Common Service (BDACS),

Build a multi-tenant Hadoop Big data system with Keycloak based IAM and FreeIPA based TLS certificate and Kerberos key management.

Validated the helm chart to support multi- availability zone and configuration driven deployments.

As an Enterprise Architect for Technical Health Check as a service (THCas),

Performed Enterprise health check for 30+ companies (like AWS well architected framework review)

Build automated health check using digital exhausts from ITSM, logs, Change management, events, CMDB, Service-Now, Remedy etc.

Build AI model for health check scoring based on various raw metrics collected from IT Service management operation data.

Leveraged IBM Watson to build an expert system that optimizes IT governance, aligning KPIs with the COBIT framework for improved transparency and performance.

Thomson Reuters– Feb 2007 to Nov 2016 (10 years 9 months)

As Information Architect in CAO Team of TRM division

Collaborated in developing standards, principles, Tech-Radar, road map and guidelines to effectively manage information asset in TRM.

Provide independent technology and security risk assessment and recommendations to the business on various database technology dependent propositions.

Involved in Data Distribution Framework development, focusing on near-real time Change Data Capture (CDC) and distribution.

Conducted a successful POC on XML based hardware appliance (solace VRS 32 router). The POC proved the viability of Near-Real time CDC from various data sources, transforming and distribution it in XML format to targets.

Led Grow Architect Program (GAP) initiative that identified and trained aspiring architects within various business groups.

Wipro Technology – Jan 2003 to Jan 2007 (4 years)

Client: Dun & Bradstreet (New Jersey/Bangalore ODC)

Managed various data and application migration projects with 4+ Terabyte of data impacting 100+ applications and delivered them on schedule. Saved upto 15% of effort by successfully executing Lean-project as a productivity improvement initiative.

Identified key performance impact points in application and addressed performance and design challenges.

Setup and led ‘Center of Excellence’ (COE) for database with a team of 8 database consultants. Conducted training on various database topics.

Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC)– Dec 1999 to Dec 2002 (3 years)

Client: JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY:

Project: Migrated legacy Self-Directed Investment application (OLTP) from Smalltalk to Java. Consolidate the heritage Chase and JPM databases.

Project: Performance Enhancement of an online Trade capturing system

Performed impact analysis of various supporting applications and developed integration strategies.

Deployed the application in various regions across 15 countries.

Improved the average response time of the application from 70 seconds to 20 seconds by isolating and resolving key performance issues.

US WEST Dex Omaha, NE, – Oct 1998 to Dec 1999 (14 months)

A telephone directory publishing company.

Project: Sybase DBA for production integrated testing and tuning (ITT) environment servers.

Supported 70+ Sybase ASE and 2 Sybase IQ 12.4 servers.

Automated various Day 2 monitoring and operations tasks.

RELIASTAR Co., Minneapolis, MN – Jan 1998 to Sept 1998 (8 months)

An insurance company with centralized information management department.

Project: Sybase DBA for production, QA, and development servers.

Supported 10+ Sybase and 4 MS SQL database server.

Mentored development team on performance tuning and the best practices in SQL coding.

Standardized disaster recovery and business continuity plan

TRANSACTIVE Co, Austin, TX – May 1997 to Jan 1998 (9 months)

This company manages the hunting and fishing license issue system for ‘Texas state park and wildlife department’.

Project: Develop and maintain hunting and fishing license issue system.

Worked as a database consultant.

Optimized stored procedure and implemented software change requests.

Involved in software release and various report developments

FUNCTIONAL ROLES

Enterprise Architect (Data & AI)

Information Architect

Production support DBA

Design Thinking Practitioner

Scrum Master

Mentor / Trainer

SKILLS

Data Analytics

DevOps/ AIOps/ MLOps

Storage Lifecycle Management

Master Data Management

IAM / Security & Data Governance

CI/CD Automation

DR/BCP Risk Assessments.

Observability, Tracing, APM

Cloud cost analysis

Program Management

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Terraform, helm chart, ansible,

Git Action, CI/CD tools,

K8, Serverless deployments,

GCP Big query, Vertex-AI,

Airflow, Keylock, FreeIPA,

Service Now, Dynatrace, Splunk,

Python, Pyspark, Pandas, NumPy,

Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow,

Mural, Draw.io, MS Visio

DOMAINS

IT-Service Management

Brokerage (financial)

Insurance

Material management system (Manufacture)

Information service

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