Technical Solution Architecture (Public & Private Cloud) Data Centre Projects & Migration

Cloud Computing Strategy Service & Business Continuity Planning IT Innovation & Standardization Security Strategy Development

Passionate, Azure Certified Cloud Solution Architect bringing 20 years of experience & knowledge from Azure Cloud, AWS, On-Premise Platform Services, Application Development domains. Knowledge of largescale computing solutions, including software design and development, database architectures, content distribution, networking, security, and performance tuning. Ability to work independently to identify new solutions to address client problems. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines, with proven expertise in managing large scale Solution delivery programs and expertly handling organizational needs. Good at Quality Assurance & Process Enhancements. Customer-oriented focused on increasing success and Service Improvements. Adaptive team leader and strategic thinker carrying experience across verticals like Transportation, Government Sector, Human Resources, Healthcare & Banking. Work History

2021-

On

Going

Azure Solution Architect - Neem Digital, Bangalore, Karnataka Client: Unilever, Bangalore

Design & Development of REST integrated tool to compare various conversational generative artificial intelligence LLM Models including Azure OpenAI (interfacing with Azure Cognitive Search), Google Bard & Llama2 on Databricks

Tool has been designed to take input prompts (single or bulk), and run these prompts against all integrated LLM models to get responses and other statistical insights like : o Tokens consumed

o Estimated cost per prompt query & completion

o Citations referred by the model

o Response time from each model

o Transparency vs Hallucination index (based on citation references)

End to end Architecture Design & Implementation of Data Access Management Framework to streamline Azure data lake access for users & applications. o Secured Unilever’s datalake environments that holds ~6PB of data across 3 primary layers.

o Streamlined data access by restricting over provisioning of data access and enabling audit & governance capabilities.

o Setting the foundation for Fine Grain Access Control, which will enforce Column level & Row level data security policies thru Semantic data layer. o Framework integrated with Azure Data lake Gen-2, Azure Active Directory, Saviynt

(Centralized access management solution) and Azure SQL (holds metadata to support framework).

Strategic Solution planning & Architecture Design for Data Lifecycle Framework to optimize storage consumption, support various file formats (including delta) and realize cost savings. o Reduced storage of 1 ADLS layer from 3PB to 800GB, resulting in ~ € 400K/year savings.

o Overall projected annual storage cost saving of ~ € 650K/year by implementing DLM framework across Unilever’s data lake environments. o Framework supports multiple file/object formats like csv, parquet, delta and custom retention policy at data/object level with no limitation on number of policies/rules.

Architecture Design & PoC for REST API based data sharing to consume external data and publish external & internal data for interested internal & external consumers. o Temporarily stage external data for all internal interested consumers (applications), reducing number of external calls and external data subscriptions. o Pub-Sub Deployment to track consumption of both external & internal APIs for security and cost distribution.

o APIs secured thru Azure AD integration and Subscription keys. [Additionally, mTLS can also be configured.]

2017-

2021

Principal Technical Solution Architect (Cloud & On-Premise Services) Conduent Business Services, Bangalore, Karnataka

Design & Implementation of Hub-Spoke-spoke Hybrid Network Architecture on Azure Cloud to meet Security & Compliance requirements for Government projects ensuring 99.95% SLAs.

Design and implementation of the 99.95% up-time REST API for the high-profile web application, that provided critical connectivity channel for distributed functionality and increased system cohesion keeping manageable code complexity.

Fully automated infrastructure and environments cloud provisioning related to the high-profile Child Support $100M project with 5x cost reduction in overall cloud hosting cost - Services & Processes that resulted in Performance Improvements, Resiliency & Cost efficiencies.

Created Public Cloud Adoption & Migration plan for Business Units to support Rapid Application Development & Deployment Model.

Alok Maheshwari

Technical Solution Architect

(Public & Private Cloud)

MCID: 990192886

Contact

Address

Bangalore, Karnataka, 560037

Phone

80-49584973 / 91-810*******

E-mail

adzh5n@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/in/alok-

maheshwari-tsa

Hard Skills

Customer Service Improvement

Technical Solution & Delivery

Strategic & Risk Mitigation

Planning

IT Security & Compliance

Process Innovation

IT Program Management

Operations Management

Collaborated with Information Security Office to put Standards for Cloud Deployment Security & Controls.

Created, validated & reviewed Solution & Effort Estimate for Data Center Migration to Azure cloud Environment by conducting Proof of Concept for few Azure Services like Azure Container Registry, Azure Kubernetes Services, API Management Service.

Prepared Security Plan with Information Security Office to implement Azure LogAnalytics & rollout Azure Sentinel for sensitive data environments.

Designed Disaster Recovery Solution & Successfully conducted DR Drill for Government Sector Projects with external integrations.

Worked in collaboration with Microsoft Subject Matter Experts to design Solution around DMVPN Tunnel configuration over ExpressRoute and MESH ExpressRoute Failover Topology using Border Gateway Protocol routing.

Collaborate with Senior Management to operationalize Azure IT Support Structure.

Collaborate with Global Team to resolve IT support issues.

Manage Team of 8 Technical Solution Architects in India and collaborate with Senior Management, Client & Business Teams in the US for Projects and Deliveries.

Collaborated with VMWare to conduct POC on Tanzu Advanced Platform for setting up Managed Cloud Agnostic On-Premise Container Deployment Platform. 2006-

2017

Manager/Lead - IT Architecture (Solution Architecture & Delivery) Xerox Business Services India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka

Provided strategic leadership to manage operational cost that lead to ~$2M saving in 1 year with ITO run.

Handled Large scale Technical Solution Design & Deployment for Premium Clients worth

+$150M deal in 1 financial year.

Implemented large scale technology solutions with year-on-year growth to ensure high customer satisfaction & meet business goals.

Architected IT Solutions spanning integration of multiple cross technology applications including IAM, Messaging Queues, Microservices and Third Party/SaaS Applications.

Collaborated with Sales Team & Enterprise Architects to support New Sales Prospects, Responses to RFP/RFI, Solution Design Proposals & Cost Modelling.

Designed IT Solutions to meet High Availability SLA & Recovery Objectives as per Clients contractual requirements.

Designed & Implemented Infrastructure Solutions to comply with PCI, HIPAA, HITRUST & NIST assessments & certifications.

Drive Organizational and Cultural change - Revitalize IT legacy and fragmented infrastructure, restructure job roles and responsibilities, and reengineer business and technical processes to align with organizational goals.

Designed Prescriptive Deployment & Delivery Model for New Infrastructure & Platform Project Implementations.

Collaborated & significantly contributed to define IT Intake Process & RACI Matrix for all IT Stakeholders for Solutioning & Deployment of New IT Projects. 2003 - 2006 Software Technical Lead - Xerox Business Services, Bangalore, Karnataka 2001 - 2003 Software Engineer - iGate Solutions Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka 2000 - 2001 Software Trainee – HCL Infosystems Ltd., Noida, UP Education

2003- 2007 Masters in Computer Applications – Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi

Relevant coursework – Computing Architecture & Design

Excelled in Programming Concepts.

Certifications

2021 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-303 & AZ-304) – Certification Number: H776-9994 2020 Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) - Certification Number: H492-5054 2013 Stepping up to Management- Harvard University 2010 ITIL V3

2006 SEI CCM Level 3 Certificate

Soft Skills

Positivity

Active Listening

Critical Lean Thinking

Responsibility

Empathetic Leadership

Flexibility

Trustworthiness

Organizational Skills

Accomplishments

Received prestigious "Star Performer Award" for outstanding Solution & Project delivery in 2019.

Managed overall $600M Solution Delivery Project Portfolio within the team in 2020.

By implementing Prescriptive Service Model & Templated Deployment Methodology, reduced overall Time to market by 70% for Infrastructure & Platform services.

Standardized IT Toolsets for Monitoring, Backups, Logging, Auditing (SIEM/FIM) & Threat Prevention.

Established Strong Business & Customer relationships resulting in great feedback from Client as being a Trusted Partner for them in their Technology pursuits for year 2022.

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