Software Engineer Solutions Architect

SUMAN PRABHALA

210-***-**** ️ *************@*****.*** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/suprabhala

SUMMARY

Results-driven technology leader with over 18+ years of experience in engineering and consulting across international and domestic private sector clients. Demonstrated success in leading full project life cycles across diverse roles including Solutions Architect, Software Engineer, and Project Lead. Specialized in cloud strategy, modernization, and hybrid cloud solutions, with deep hands-on expertise in Microservices, Serverless frameworks, and CI/CD automation.

Led in designing and developing Data Hub on AWS as a centralized platform using multiple AWS services to collect, store, manage, and share data across teams or systems. Well experience in supporting financial and healthcare clients with secure, scalable cloud transformations, including petabyte-scale data migrations across S3. Skilled in building infrastructure automation frameworks and developing tools to generate reusable Terraform modules that accelerate and standardize cloud provisioning. A strong advocate of infrastructure as code (IaC), DevOps best practices, and scalable, cost-effective AWS architectures

CORE COMPETENCIES

- Cloud Platforms: AWS core 50+ services

- Languages: Python, NodeJS, Shell Scripting, SQL

- Databases: RDBMS, NoSQL, Warehouse DB’s

- ETL: Datastage

- IaC & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK

- Observability & Monitoring: Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana

- Containers & Orchestration: ECS, EKS, ECR

- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Code Pipeline, Cloud bees

- Leadership: SRE practices, Team building, Incident response, DevOps culture scaling

- Domains: Banking, Ecommerce, Health, Insurance, Retail, Enterprise SaaS

IMPLEMENTATIONS

- Designed centralized Data Hubs on AWS, integrating multiple services — a key capability for building data warehouses.

- Cloud Migrations from on-perm, Mainframe, Salesforce and AWS to AWS

- Migrated Peta bytes of Data from on perm to AWS

- Worked with data movement, batch/event-driven flows, and integration patterns — critical in data pipelines and ETL/ELT architecture.

- Deep knowledge in S3, Snowflake, Redshift, Dynamo DB, RDS, Lambda, Glue, and Terraform, all foundational to cloud-native data warehousing.

- Hands-on with encryption (KMS, TLS, S3 encryption), monitoring (CloudWatch, X-Ray), and DevOps automation (Terraform, Code Pipeline).

- Well experience in supporting financial and healthcare clients with secure, scalable cloud transformations, including petabytes-scale data migrations across S3.

- Middleware, Saas applications

- Build 2 enterprise level applications from scratch

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Application Middle Ware TIAA(DELOITTE) Dallas, TX Jun 2024 – till date

-Middleware service between client Internal applications and external applications in all means of traffic Batch, Online and Event based

- Design the overall architecture for the 3-tier application.

- Maintain well-structured diagrams, operational guides, and recovery procedures.

- Decide on compute models: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda based on scalability, latency, and cost needs.

- Implement KMS for encryption, enforce TLS, secure S3 buckets, and use RDS encryption.

- Implement caching at multiple layers (CloudFront, ElastiCache, application-level).

- Use CloudWatch metrics, X-Ray traces, and RDS Performance Insights to optimize.

- Prefer serverless or spot instances where appropriate.

- Integrate Blue/Green or Canary deployments via Code Deploy or third-party tools.

- Present architecture trade-offs clearly to product teams.

Mainframe Modernization Architect JPM Chase (DELOITTE) Dallas, TX Jul 2023 – Apr 2024

-Migrating Mainframe application to Cloud Application, need to migrate from Legacy to AWS Cloud with more structured, Automated, CICD setup and more security guidelines.

-Define the overall migration strategy from mainframe to AWS.

-Design the target AWS architecture using services like Lambda, S3, Step Functions, Glue, etc.

-Convert mainframe-specific formats to cloud-compatible formats (e.g., EBCDIC to ASCII, COBOL to JSON/Parquet).

-Design and develop ETL pipelines using AWS Glue or custom scripts run by AWS Lambda

-Store staging/intermediate data in Amazon S3 and Dynamo DB

-Orchestrate ETL workflows using AWS Step Functions.

-Implement data validation and reconciliation processes to ensure integrity.

-Design state machines to orchestrate ETL steps.

-Handle task coordination, retries, and error handling using Step Functions.

-Integrate Lambda, S3 events, SNS notifications, etc.

-Monitor and troubleshoot state transitions.

Cloud Migration Architect Anthem (DELOITTE) Dallas, TX Jan 2022 – Jun 2023

-200+ Cloud Applications of Anthem need to migrate from Legacy AWS cloud to New AWS Account with more structured, Automated, CICD setup and more security guidelines.

Cloud Platform Engineer Eli Lilly Co (DELOITTE) Indianapolis, IN Jun 2019 – Jan 2022

-As part of the Lilly Digital Health Cloud Team, we were responsible for supporting, Architecting AWS across Lilly Digital Health. This support included the support of common enterprise services across multiple projects and teams.

Cloud Solutions Architect TIAA (COGNIZANT) Charlotte, NC Jan 2017 – Dec 2018

-Cloud Solutions Architect supporting Client projects providing guidance, support, and technical oversight of the organization’s

Cloudera Hadoop Led TIAA (COGNIZANT) Charlotte, NC Jun 2015 – Dec 2016

-Helping clients to Build Active-Active Data Centers to support customers real time applications

Big Data Engineer Optum Technologies (COGNIZANT) Minneapolis, MN Jan 2015 – May 2015

- Supporting Internal Claim Engine and Customer Data Analysis along with Provider Ratings.

DataStage Lead Optum Technologies (COGNIZANT) Minneapolis, MN Jun 2014 – Jan 2015

-As ETL lead helped customer for R3 Federal reporting system and helped in building EDW for Optum Technologies.

Senior Datastage Developer Safeway and Gap (INFOSYS) Pleasanton, CA Oct 2013 – Jun 2014

-Experienced Data Warehouse Developer expertise in designing, developing ETL solutions using IBM DataStage.

Datastage Developer USAA (TCS) San Antonio, TX Aug 2012 – Oct 2013

-Provided technical leadership on ETL methodologies including requirements analysis, ETL design, job development, code reviews, and integration testing using DataStage.

Mainframe Developer BOA (TCS) Hyderabad, India Sep 2010 – Aug 2012

-Design, code, test, and debug applications on mainframe platforms using technologies like COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM.

Mainframe Developer Cigna (Satyam) Hyderabad, India Aug 2006 – Sep 2010

-Developing, and maintaining enterprise-scale applications. Hands-on experience supporting systems like Claim Engine

EDUCATION (MASTER OF STATISTICS)

2006 University of Osmania Hyderabad, Telangana

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