Solutions Architect Cloud

Kamal Telagathoti

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LinkedIn: Ashburn, VA AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

SUMMARY

Results-driven IT professional with 18 years of experience in enterprise-level IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, and system engineering. Over 5 years of proven expertise as an AWS Solutions Architect, designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions. Adept at cloud migrations, cost optimization, and DevOps best practices. Recognized for strategic thinking, problem-solving skills, and stakeholder communication.

- AWS Cloud Architecture & Strategy

- Cloud Migration & Hybrid Environments

- Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform, CloudFormation

- DevOps: CI/CD (CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab)

- Microservices & Serverless Architectures

- Security & Compliance (IAM, KMS, SCPs, GuardDuty)

- Monitoring & Cost Optimization (CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, Datadog, ELK)

- Containers (ECS, EKS, Docker, Kubernetes)

- Design and Build SaaS Chatbots/NLP (Genesis DX, eGain, Salesforce)

- AI/ML exposure (AI models, LLM, RAG, Agentic AI)

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAAC03)

AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIFC01)

Certified ITILV4 Foundation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Solutions Architect/Advisor Fannie Mae, Reston, VA Nov 2019 – Present

Led the architecture and deployment of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions for 10+ enterprise clients.

Led the architecture, design, develop and customize enterprise-wide NLP based AI chatbots, voice bots, and virtual assistants using eGain, Salesforce and Genesys DX.

Act as the primary technical advisor (SME ) to stakeholders, Developers, top level leadership, Business Analysts, Testers, and Production Support Engineers to understand their business challenges and translating them into effective, high-value solutions.

Lead the implementation of the strategic plan, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.

Led modernization efforts, including containerization (Docker, ECS), AWS Lambda, microservices, APIs, and serverless architectures.

Designed serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and DynamoDB.

Conducted Well-Architected Reviews and improved security posture and performance across client systems.

Champion the adoption of DevOps best practices, ensuring automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including CI/CD pipelines, testing, monitoring, and deployment.

Creating a roadmap to production for your product in a phased approach, considering legacy system decommissioning

Overseeing project construction, reviewing pull requests, ensuring test coverage, maintaining high quality code, mentoring developers, removing blockers, and presenting your team’s product to various stakeholders.

Promote infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation for scalable and repeatable deployments.

Develop a comprehensive strategic roadmap to enhance the development platform that includes Serverless, Microservices, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, and AWS Code Pipeline), source code repositories, AWS ECS, databases, Jira, Confluence and GitLab.

Design,implement and migrate scalable, secure, and cost-effective architecture on AWS.

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development and testing teams to optimize the use of tools and technologies.

Develop and maintain design, technical documentation, and architecture diagrams

Migrating legacy applications to microservices based architecture deployed to the cloud

Migrated legacy applications to AWS, reducing operational costs by 30% and improving application performance by 40%.

Conduct regular reviews and assessments of the current development platform, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary changes.

Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including IT, security, and operations, to ensure holistic and integrated solutions.

Identify risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns

Active participation in Agile ceremonies, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.

Establish the best practices and standards for development, deployment, and maintenance of the platform.

Design, develop, and implement contact center solutions using Genesys Cloud CX, DX.

Key Achievements:

- Reduced annual AWS costs for a Fannie Mae by $250,000 using Trusted Advisor, S3 lifecycle policies, and instance right-sizing.

- Led ECS adoption (ECS) for a SaaS client, enhancing deployment frequency by 60%.

- Led NLP platforms to design and build custom Chatbots and virtual assistance, increased customer satisfaction by 20% and revenue increase by 10-15% and resolve up to 80% of routine customer inquiries without human intervention for Fannie Mae.

Sr Software Engineer Technical Lead Fannie Mae, Reston, VA Aug 2014 – Nov 2019

- Championed the company's digital transformation journey, leading cloud migration initiatives to AWS.

- Deployed hybrid cloud architectures integrating on-premises VMware workloads with AWS using AWS Direct Connect and VPN.

- Implemented secure cloud storage and backup using S3, Glacier, and AWS Backup.

- Developed disaster recovery and business continuity strategies using Route 53 failover and AWS multi-region designs.

Senior Software Engineer Freddie Mac, McLean, VA Feb 2014 – July 2014

Environment: Java/J2EE, Oracle, WebLogic, REST, Maven, Jenkins

- Developed and supported large-scale web applications using Java EE, JFS, JMS, REST APIs, and PL/SQL.

- Implemented coaching and multi-threaded processing to reduce API response times by 45%.

- Designed reusable service components for financial modules integrated with third-party APIs and SOA backend systems.

Senior Software Engineer DOT, Washinton, DC Aug 2013 – Jan 2014

- Planning and executing the development work, helping to build development teams, providing the highest level of technical guidance and support, partnering with the Quality Engineering team, interfacing closely with the architects, designers, and testing.

- Design and development of software applications in JAVA, Java Full stack, Webservices.

Senior Software Engineer SEC, Washinton, DC May 2011 – July 2013

EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) application is Java, J2EE based enterprise application, which is developed based on agile development approach. The EDGAR system has developed various SEC forms like MA, MA-I, MA-W and TA.

TCR (Tips, Complaints and Referrals) application is Oracle ADF based questionnaire (Question-Answer) based enterprise J2EE application for SEC external and internal users. The technology we used JSP, Spring, Hibernate, ADF Faces, SOA, Web Service based web application on Oracle11g database.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: AWS(EC2,S3,RDS,Lambda,VPC,IAM,Route 53,CloudFront,CloudWatch,SageMaker)

IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK

AI/ML : Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, TensorFlow

DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CodePipeline, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)

Languages: : Java,Python, Bash, YAML, JSON, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Junit

Databases: Aurora Postgres, Oracle 12C, MS Sql, Dynamo DB, and RDS, Vector database

Methodology: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence

Monitoring: CloudWatch, ELK, Datadog

Security: IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, AWS Config

EDUCATION

MCA (Master of Computer Applications) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India.

BS (bachelor’s in science - Mathematics) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India

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