Machine Learning Solution Architect

AKINDOYIN Akinbiyi, PhD

Email: ********.*********@*****.***

Mobile Number: +1-713-***-****

PROFILE

Accomplished Cloud Architect and Engineer with over 10 years of hands-on experience in cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Proven track record of designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and high- performance cloud infrastructures. Strong leadership abilities, effective communication skills, and a deep understanding of cloud-native applications and DevOps principles

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

2023 GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer (re-certified) 2023 AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 2023 HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

2022 GCP Certified Machine Learning Engineer

2022 GCP Certified Digital Leader

2021 TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect

2021 GCP Certified Professional Architect

2020 AWS SME in Solution Architecture and Security 2020 Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

2020 AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty

2020 AWS Certified Big Data Specialty

2020 AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional 2019 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2019 Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) 2019 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

2019 AWS Certified Security Specialty

2019 GCP Certified Associate Engineer

2018 AWS Certified Developer – Associate

2018 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

2017 AWS Certified Solution Architect– Associate

2017 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions – Microsoft Certified Professional (70-533). 2017 ITIL V3 Foundation

2015 Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert Data Center 350-080 (CCIE – written). 2010 Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Network (BCMSN) 2010 Microsoft Certified Technologist (MCTS) – SQL Server Database Developer (70-433) 2009 Microsoft Certified Technologist Specialist (MCTS) – Window Server 2008 Network Configuring (70-642). 2008 Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 640-802. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

• IaC Provisioning Tools: Terraform, ARM, Ansible, CloudFormation

• OS Level Administration: Linux, Windows

• Build Orchestration Tools: Jenkins, Bamboo

• Deployment Tools: CD/RO, Ansible, Azure DevOps

• Source Control Management: GitHub, SVN, BitBucket

• Scripting Languages: Python, Bash, JavaScript

• Container Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes

• DevOps Principles: CI/CD tools like CloudBees/Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

Thesis: “Uncertainties and Antenna Array geometry Selection”. Industrial Research Collaboration with National Instrument.

Dissertation: Spiral: Uncertainties and array geometry selection (imperial.ac.uk) Master of Science, Broadband Wireless and Optical Communications, University of Leeds (Distinction: 86%).

Ranked Top 1% in the class of 70 students.

Dissertation: “M.Sc. Thesis on: Physical Layer Security Using Artificial Noise and Spatial Beamforming”. Available on Semantic Scholars via: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dddd/9fb972a0182e3b50ad81cee6476ac9bbdde4.pdf Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University (First Class Honors – 4.7/5.0).

Best Graduating Student out of a Class of 160.

Dissertation: An Unpublished B.Sc. Thesis on Development of a Local Content ISM Band Helical Antenna for Rural Internet Development”.

WORK EXPERIENCE

July 2022 – Date Senior Manager – Cloud Architect Ernst & Young. Project: Senior Cloud Security Architect

• Provided technical guidance and support to development teams, ensuring adherence to secure coding practices.

• Worked collaboratively with engineering teams to identify and implement optimal cloud-based solutions for US Health care clients.

• Guided and coached junior engineers to develop their skills within the Cloud Engineering space.

• Designed and implemented cloud infrastructure solutions aligning with business requirements and IT strategy.

• Developed and maintained cloud provisioning templates and CI/CD pipelines to ensure adherence to security, compliance, and performance standards.

• Ensured application performance, uptime, and scalability while maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design.

• Participated in all aspects of the SDLC for cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.

• Provided technical leadership in the deployment and operational management of cloud solutions.

• Led training and information-sharing meetings with the Cloud Engineering team.

• Oversaw and supported production deployments during major release activities.

• Conducted internal security assessments, audits, and vulnerability testing, identifying potential security risks and implementing effective mitigation strategies.

• Developed and maintained supporting documentation for all automated processes.

• Troubleshot incidents, identified root causes, and implemented preventive measures to ensure business productivity. Key Achievements:

• Successfully launched multiple cybersecurity products that significantly improved customer satisfaction and market share.

• Implemented a data-driven approach to product management, resulting in a 30% increase in product efficiency and user engagement.

Project – Senior Cloud Engineer for Financial Service Client

• Ensured compliance with security standards and policies in cloud provisioning and application deployment.

• Served as a subject matter expert in committees pertaining to Cloud Governance and Architecture.

• Utilized Python to extract data via APIs to support reporting, enhancing the accuracy and timeliness of security data analysis.

• Designed, built, and deployed cloud applications, including large-scale data processing and advanced analytics.

• Worked closely with production and non-production environment owners to develop and maintain role-based workflows.

• Conducted comprehensive security assessments and vulnerability scans, implementing effective risk mitigation strategies.

• Collaborated with development teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.

• Developed and maintained security policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

• Led initiatives to balance security with business needs, making informed trade-offs to support organizational goals. Key Achievements:

• Spearheaded the migration of critical business applications to the cloud, enhancing performance and reliability.

• Established and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, facilitating seamless cloud adoption and integration.

• Implemented robust security measures and compliance frameworks for cloud environments Project – Cloud Solutions Architect

• Designed and implemented cloud solutions for various business applications, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

• Designed and optimized data storage solutions using BigQuery Storage.

• Collaborated with data engineers and analysts to ensure efficient data processing and analysis, resulting in faster query performance and reduced storage costs.

• Collaborated with development teams to integrate cloud solutions into existing workflows and processes.

• Conducted technical discovery sessions and developed detailed technical proposals and presentations.

• Provided technical guidance and support to customers during the sales cycle, including POCs and pilot projects. Project: Enterprise Architect

• Designed and implemented enterprise-level application architectures, focusing on scalability, reliability, and security.

• Collaborated with application development teams to ensure architectural alignment and support throughout the project lifecycle.

• Developed specifications for new IT products and services, ensuring compatibility and integration with existing architectures.

• Provided leadership and guidance in developing the enterprise's technical and architectural staff. Key Achievements:

• Successfully delivered multiple large-scale technology transformation programs, enhancing the enterprise's technology landscape.

• Improved architectural governance processes, ensuring compliance with industry best practices and standards. Project – ForgeRock IAM Architect for a Financial Service Client

Created a forge rock IAM industry standard service pattern and auth flow for user journeys.

Designed and implemented ForgeRock-based IAM solutions for a financial service client, resulting in improved security and streamlined access management.

Collaborated with project teams and stakeholders to identify IAM requirements and provided technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle.

Developed technical standards and best practices for IAM projects, ensuring consistency and quality across projects. Project – Lead Solutions Architect for Annuities Insurance Platform (INSIS) Modernization Programme

Leading the architecture practice and responsible for the overall technical vision for achieving the business objectives.

Responsible for the overall solution design and orchestrating integration across all the technical components.

Define technical requirements, specifications that fits into the overall solution.

Led the analysis of intricate business requirements and formulated multiple architecture and design options to address these requirements effectively.

Worked closely with the company's Enterprise Architecture team to align with architectural guidelines and ensure their enforcement within the project team.

Conducted regular design reviews, recommended design changes, and ensured adherence to architecture guidelines and non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as data freshness and performance. July 2021 – July 2022 Group Enterprise Cloud Architect, Lloyds Banking Group

Define strategic roadmaps, provide guidance for shaping strategies, design and influence investment prioritisation for public cloud adoption.

Conducted regular vulnerability assessments and ensured compliance with SOC2, ISO 27001, and other regulatory requirements.

Maintain architecture repository at the enterprise level and ensuring consolidation & accuracy at the detail level of various team’s architecture artefacts.

Triaging large programs of work to identify broad stroke enterprise architecture impact and effort

Reviewing and assisting teams and line architects in their local architecture strategy and roadmap to ensure they align and are cohesive when they come together.

Thoroughly documented program-level design decisions and open items, sharing them with key stakeholders to maintain transparency and alignment.

Successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams such as Platform, Cloud, Security, and Architecture, ensuring that project deadlines and business requirements were met. March 2019 – July 2021 Lead Cloud Architect, HSBC.

Develop/Design Cloud security patterns for adoption by cross functional teams enabling seamless migration of workloads to public cloud.

Proof of concept development of automations to enable cloud native services in a manner compliant with security, operational and financial best practices.

Implementing DevOps practices such as IaC (using terraform and cloud formation), continuous integration and automated deployment (CI/CD)

Container orchestration (Kubernetes) deployment both on AWS EKS and GCP GKE.

Implement and manage continuous integration and delivery systems and methodologies.

Implement, and automate security controls, governance processes (SAB, SDD, EHC, COMET, etc), and compliance frameworks/validation.

Provide technical input and know-how to architecture governance processes and forums for new cloud services (GCP and AWS)

Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging cloud systems.

Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing for digital cloud data platforms ensuring alignment with global defined patterns/blueprints (AWS and GCP WAF policies)

Delivered products currently in production – NodeJS application migration to AWS, Container Scanning Solution, Service Hosted Platform, Automated AMI Bakery, Digital Splunk on AWS.

Product presentation at KubeSec Europe 2020 - https://kubesec.aquasec.com/2020_eu/agenda October 2018 – March 2019 Technical Architect (Ops), Kainos Software Ltd, London.

Project: Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Engine – Built a consistent infrastructure solution in a designated AWS account and distribute these solutions to other AWS project account in an automated way.

Developed architecture blueprints and detailed documentation, building Service Catalog. Create bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as AWS EC2, AWS S3 etc.) and tools.

Created blueprints to establish, communicate and promote best practices with alignment with cloud security team to ensure compliance.

Build new SharePoint sites and Microsoft Teams to meet the varied requirements of different customers April 2018 – August 2018 Big Data Engineer/Scientist, Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP, London.

Creating and maintaining an optimal AWS data pipeline (using python).

Working with big data tools on cloud such as AWS EMR, Hive, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Snowflakes, Kinesis streams, ApacheSpark, DynamoDB, AWS Sage maker, etc

Developed and trained ML models using AWS sage maker.

Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re- designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

Automate the generation and deletion of EC2 AMI, provisioning and creating lifecycle policies for S3 and AWS RDS.

Integrate AWS RDS (Postgresql) with MS Power BI to build analytics tools to obtain actionable insights from data. March 2017 – April 2018 Digital Technology Consultant, Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP. Project: Credit Risk Report Automation.

Role: Developer

Worked on internal and external opportunities that include document/text ingestion, NLP and NLG, knowledge representation and automated report generation.

Analytical problem-solving tasks, including the application of supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods. Project: Microsoft Azure/AWS/ GCP Cloud Migration Strategist. Role: Cloud Migration Consultant

Designed cloud migration strategies; defining delivery architecture, creating the migration plans, designing the orchestration plans, and executing of migration run books.

Identify and evangelise appropriate use of AWS and GCP architectural best practices

Designing and deploying scalable, highly available and resilient solutions on GCP and AWS

Mapping business requirements to actual solutions and able to develop outline business case to capture return on investment and cost of change

Project: Central Securities Depositories Regulations (CSDR) project. Role: Quantitative Analyst

Working with market risk managers to test; and assist model validation to facilitate their independent review.

Involve in regulatory related analysis on market risk models using Python

Provide support to risk managers to help them better understand the behaviour of the models when applied to their specific portfolios.

CSDR Implementation – develop models (using Excel, VBA, Access, and SQL) to estimate P&L impact of T2S and buy-in penaltiesfor different asset classes.

FRTB Implementation - develop models and implement a FRTB risk calculations framework including calculation modules, and data analysis tools (including Qlik, Alteryxand Tableau). Project: SAP S4/HANA Proof of Concept Implementation. Role: SAP consultant

Designed of the PwC SAP S4/HANA Landscape.

Installation and configuration of SAP Web dispatcher and Mobile Fiori VPN Connectivity.

TSL/SSL Digital certificate installation and configuration on SAP web dispatcher (Linux environment).

Configuration and integration of BPC with S4/HANA.

Installation of SAP Cloud connector and integration with S4/HANA.

Installation and configuration of Hybris B2C Commerce and SAP Netweaver AS JAVA Stack on RedHat Linux Server. December 2016 – March 2017 Quantitative Analyst, GAM UK Ltd, United Kingdom.

Automates the generation of daily and monthly investment risk report (including risk exposures, leverages and VaR) for different portfolios.

Manage data exchange between GAM and Risk Metrics ensuring that fund assets are correctly modelled and configured.

Production of scheduled fund performance and risk analytics within agreed schedules.

Working with Technology team to automate and schedule reporting. Summer 2014 J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. (4 months contract).

Comprehensive IO analysis of the VSI/PSI interfaces.

Developed a web application to automate the generation of Autosys JIL files for the IPD Web team.

Implemented a SQL query used for host/VM billing system.

Developed a SharePoint webportal for the IPD Web team. November 2010 – September 2011 Data Communication Engineer Huawei Technologies Co. Nigeria Ltd, Adeola Odeku, VI, Lagos State. (Airtel Managed Services Project 2ndLine Support on Windows and Linux Platform)

Support BO Engineer on all HW-Datacomms Nodes on the Airtel’s MPBN Nodes.

Maintaining and administering perimeter security systems such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems.

Involved and assisted HW Delivery Team in the implementation of HW-CEtoE\\PEconnectivity. PUBLICATIONS

[1]. A. Akindoyin, M. Willerton and A. Manikas. Localization and Array Shape Estimation Using Software Defined Radio Array Test Bed. Proceedings of the Eight IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM), June 2014, Corunda, Spain.

[2]. T. Gabillard, V. Sridhar, A. Akindoyin, A. Manikas. Comparative Study of 2D Grid Antenna Array Geometries for Massive Array Systems. Proceedings IEEE GlobeComm, Dec. 2015, San Diego USA.

[3]. A. Akindoyin. Modelling and Estimation of Carrier Frequency and Phase Uncertainties in Large Aperture Arrays. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications, June 2015, London, UK.

[4]. A. Ilori, A. Akindoyin, Z. Tang, J He. Subframe resource optimization for massive machine device access in LTE networks, https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07966, March 2019.

[5] A. Akindoyin. Recent Capital One Data Breach - Technical Analysis and Lessons Learnt, Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/recent-capital-one-data-breach-technical-analysis-akindoyin-ph-d-/, August 2019.

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