SAI KRISHNA
East Orange, NJ ***** 913-***-**** ***********@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/sairkrishna
Director Sr Vice President Enterprise Product Architecture Data Management
Enterprise Data Cloud Native Domain Driven Solution Innovation Engineering Global R&D Teams
Strategic Software Engineer, Product Management and Applications, Enterprise Architect with over 20+ years of experience driving cloud adoption, application modernization, and innovative solutions. Proven ability to lead and mentor teams, manage vendors, and deliver business value through cloud-native architectures
Expert in cloud-native and edge computing models, enterprise data management, microservices, and DevOps. Proven track record in leading global teams to innovate scalable, cost-effective solutions. Seasoned Database and Analytics Platform Lead with a proven track record of driving successful cloud migrations and implementing data governance strategies. Experienced in leading global teams and optimizing database operations for cost and performance.
Supported the C-level executes in consulting organizations leading a team of employees, pods, overseeing Enterprise Architecture and Application designs. Managed projects with KPIs, metrics based governance, focused on cost reduction by improving business processes and re-engineering designs in large organizations.
SKILLS
Product & Solution Innovation Enterprise Data Models Data Architecture Domain Driven Designs Cloud Native Architecture CI/CD and DEVOPS Enterprise Integration Design Business Analysis and Processing Engineering Global Team Leadership Distributed Data Architecture Microservices Architecture AI/ML Integrations C Smalltalk Java Python SQL NOSQL Unix Scripts JSON YAML TOGAF Product Management People Management Agile Data Monetization Design Patterns Road Mapping Leader for DBA and Data governance Indexing and Fine tuning Data Quality and Compliance Data Migration Cost Reduction Performance improvements
EXPERIENCE
BNY Mellon Pershing Jersey City, NJ
Sr. VP, Principal Domain Architect 06/2023—Present
Driving key architecture decisions to data sharing initiatives for BNY Mellon’s clients, via cloud native solutions, big data analytics and cloud financial services platforms.
●Led the design and implementation of cloud-native solutions for data sharing initiatives, resulting in improved client service and operational efficiency.
●Directed key architecture decisions for real-time and batch data sharing using Azure Snowflake on AWS Kafka Pentaho Oracle Teradata and Goldengate platforms. Integration with Salesforce Financial.
●Reworked existing enterprise data models for cloud-native platforms, enabling high availability and efficient data governance.
●Facilitate in streamlining architecture review process to lean-agile practices for various enterprise integration solutions, cloud native migration, and enterprise data strategies.
●Significant contributor to Enterprise and Solution Architecture governance board reviews and processes.
Cognizant Technologies Overland Park, KS
Director Principal Architect 05/2020—05/2023
Architected and developed scalable, secure microservices-based solutions for enterprise clients, leading to cost reduction and improved performance, cloud-native solution engineering, mobile app integration for enterprise clients to reduce costs, improve scalability, enhance quality and efficiency, and boost security. Clients include Tractor Supply Company, Save-a-Lot, and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Chase, Wells-Fargo.
●Drive delivery of end-to-end solutions for various Cognizant projects interacting with discovery team business stakeholders, CIOs/CTOs for banking clients, quality of service drivers, and impacting improved business outcomes.
●Led engineering teams in integrating mobile and back-end retail systems for national retail chains, applying microservices-based CI/CD processes using Jenkins and Bitbucket to improve DEVSECOPS and reduce overhead costs.
●Secured a contract worth over $1M for the creation and implementation of a cloud middleware payments system on a serverless architecture for the world's largest hotel company, supporting synchronous payment processing on AWS Lambda.
●Designed a data pipeline model for global financial services companies, enabling 300M payment transactions per day for analytics and reporting.
●Managed a large identity migration initiative for half a million merchants to seamlessly migrate to a fintech private cloud.
●Directed a significant Microservices and MFE initiative with Domain Driven Design for a major fintech client on a fintech private cloud.
●Led a healthcare initiative to migrate from AWS to Azure and utilized Confluent Kafka to process near real-time provider data shared with the Azure FHIR repository, restructuring data management.
●Significant contributor to review technical resumes, conduct interviews to recruit highly technical candidates to Cognizant.
Akamai Technologies Santa Clara, CA
Senior Product Architect 09/2017—04/2020
Oversaw product and process re-engineering for a $3B global content delivery and cloud services company. Thought leader for engineering services innovation in enterprise architecture, software engineering, and enterprise solution / product development and management. Directed redesign of key cloud / IAM migration product.
●Directed roadmaps for product and program management office, to drive the new architecture initiatives for Akamai Portal re-engineering and enterprise business process models, with multiple business units and stakeholders from customer, marketing, support and development teams.
●Restructured the services model to separate portal access from networks and enable cloud migration of IAM and resource governance and provisioning for faster service using microservices and domain-driven design.
●Dramatically improved security and access control by analyzing policy gaps and implementing formalized role-based access, meeting industry standards within enterprise systems, cloud, and edge networks.
●Designed and architected an industry-standard, message-driven framework for sharing accounts, users, and provisioning contracts information, allowing real-time delivery for 1M customer accounts in Salesforce and Siebel.
●Transformed non-standard solutions architecture for more efficient customer onboarding and integration by deeply analyzing inefficiencies and aligning processes to business needs via microservices architecture.
●Reengineered solutions to save millions of dollars in operating costs while improving resource access, management, and governance tools for more efficient workflows and optimized data pipelining and processing.
Optum Overland Park, KS
Sr Manager - Solution Architecture 04/2013—08/2017
Technology service division of United Healthcare to lead multiple product engineering teams in redesigning pipeline for terabytes of data, and transforming solutions architecture to dramatically accelerate data flow for faster visualization, reduced latency, and lower operational costs.
●Conducted essential architecture reviews of all enterprise applications to evaluate effects on security, performance, availability, disaster recovery, and scalability, ensuring compliance with ISO quality guidelines.
●Developed reference architecture for common component resources with cross-enterprise access control to improve reuse, scalability, and efficiency for better data redundancy and system performance and availability.
●Authored REST-API standards and authorization processes for microservices within a portfolio of dependent enterprise applications to improve data access controls without significant cost increases.
●Saved $1.5M per year in infrastructure costs by analyzing system use patterns and identifying and decommissioning unused resources, including unnecessary licensing costs.
Mediware Information Systems Overland Park, KS
Technical Engineering Manager 01/2012—04/2013
Managed technical teams of up to 10 product engineers to deliver KPI dashboard services to deliver quality enhancements, continuous integration, and DevOps improvements for hospital operations and accounting solutions.
●Led product design and development initiatives to improve the application of KPI metrics, enhancing the quality of new healthcare solutions, including improvements to data needs analysis and data management.
●Directed design and troubleshooting for key product development initiatives to improve scaling of large and continuous time series datasets, aggregation, concurrency, and reporting.
●Provided thought leadership and directed a team of 10 in developing and delivering KPIs for a critical healthcare dashboard, ensuring quality and meeting time-to-market requirements.
Federal Reserve Bank, KS Kansas City, KS
Senior Full Stack Engineer 2010 — 2011
USDA, KS Kansas City, KS
Software Consultant Lead/Manager 2006 — 2009
Applied Reasoning, KS Kansas City, KS
Senior Software Engineer 1998 — 2006
Education
Master of Science Information Technology Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Physics, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Postgraduate Diploma in Software Technology, NCST, CDAC, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Technical Expertise
Language: Java J2EE Unix Shell Python C++ Smalltalk C SQL
Tools & Models: IBM Rational Sparx EA Microsoft CI/CD Git ERWin IDEs Object Oriented
Platforms:
AWS Azure and GCP Unix Windows macOS VMWare Docker Kubernetes;
Database Oracle DB2 SQL Server MySQL MongoDB OrientDB HyperGraphDB Cassandra
Salesforce Snowflake Oracle Teradata Apache Kafka Pulsar Pentaho Goldengate Spring Boot
Tableau PowerBI Jira Confluence Spark AWS Redshift Glue Aerospike
Methodology Engineering: Lean Agile with SDLC and PLM XP TOGAF UML Zachman EA Cloud Native Engineering and Serverless computing Domain Driven Designs and Microservices.
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 1NV4M8CLHB44QTWE
SAFe® Agilist (SA) 6.0
(Working on TOGAF, AWS and Azure Architecture Certification)
Enterprise Architecture Cloud Native Engineering