Akeyless is the leading global scale SaaS-based Secrets Management Platform for securing credentials, certificates and keys in DevOps and hybrid/multi-cloud environments, empowering organizations to move fast, without sacrificing security. Responsible for supporting the sales team by providing expert-level technical advice, designing tailored solutions, and ensuring that customers and partners understand the value of Akeyless Security SaaS offerings. Working closely with sales executives, product teams, and clients to demonstrate how Akeyless solutions can address business challenges.

Own and manage the functional architecture for one or more Digital Technology Operations (DTO) domains and the functional decomposition of services and products to manageable Microservices. Specialize in Regulated Markets ServiceNow Gov. Cloud offerings and specific regulatory compliance initiatives in each market. Focus on enabling and driving transformation through architectural & systems design best practices. Determine technical feasibility, dependencies, and constraints - in delivering Microservices and products. Identify portfolio level capability gaps, propose new services, and/or recommend buy versus build. Actively participate in product planning and roadmap definition. Help resolve technical blocking issues, and coordinate solutions across multiple technical teams.

Lead several emerging solutions initiatives and prototypes across multiple product lines to improve platform capabilities in critical business focus areas like SRE, SLOs, Error Budgets, Modern Incident handling/Chat-Ops, follow-the-sun on-call, Incident Retrospectives, Chaos Testing, Security & DevOpsSec. Enabled Sales Consultants across all Geos through Workshops, on-line content, and direct enablement on technical subjects such as IaC, Kubernetes, Ci/Cd best practices, AI Ops & Security. Spearheaded AI GTM product launch delivered global SC enablement workshops and realistic environments and supported several customer engagements as an SME. Delivered several technology reviews for external M&A product lines and related GTM strategy studies.

Solution Architect for the DIA (U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency), a project utilizing RedHat OpenShift OKD to support 100+ Tenant Development teams. Increased awareness of PaaS through direct engagement, PoC’s, Webinars/Tutorials/Videos. Researched integrations with other systems such as the ServiceNow ITSM platform, Hybrid Cloud initiatives and migrations. Investigated charge-back-models/usage analytics to measure ROI for leadership.Technical Delivery Lead for a multi-agency implementation of ServiceNow ITSM & ITOM sponsored by the ODNI (U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence), integrations with Splunk & Cisco ACD for central Help Desk.Technical Delivery Lead for the DIA (U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency) and their Siebel system transition to ServiceNow, called Service Central. Designed Solution Architecture and external interfaces with Remedy. Led a team of 15 ServiceNow developers and completed migration in less than 6 months. Established development standards and CI/CD pipeline for ServiceNow. Prototyped ServiceNow emerging solutions that included: ServiceNow-to-ServiceNow integrations across multiple agencies using REST APIs and MuleSoft, Virtual Agent prototype using RASA AI NLU Libraries, Evaluation of ServiceNow & OpenShift container discovery and service monitoring. Research & Prototype of NLU Search.Led Design and Prototypes for the NGA (U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency) client Data Streaming Platform to ingest and process geo-spatial information using IaaS services like AWS Elastic Compute, Networking and Block storage available on AWS. Actively shaped and drove the platform architecture & vision. Presented findings to stakeholders and engaged technical and functional groups in the community.

Led a R&D Initiative for the AFRL (U.S. Air Force Research Laboraty) focused on standardized data exchange formats for secure cross-domain collaboration between different international entities. Designed Web and Mobile App prototypes using Apache Cordova, Adobe PhoneGap, CouchDB and deployed them to AWS for testing.Led a High Visibility R&D Project for JIATF-S (U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force South) sponsored by the ONR (U.S. Office of Naval Research) with emphasis on Mission Collaboration and Data-Mining technologies to interdict drug trafficking. Facilitated intra-agency data sharing & collaboration AWS Cloud Services. Coordinated delivery for multiple remote teams and promoted testing and documentation best practices.

Technical Lead on several projects delivering Jive SBS Collaboration Platform based systems for the DIA (U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency) and the World Bank. Implemented a full CI/CD automation pipeline using Jenkins and an innovative Model Driven Architecture approach to leverage UML to Code generators for Web Services. Implemented custom security PKI interfaces, connected to enterprise mail, integrated on-line chat features, implemented complex security DoD Access Controls, PDF Document Conversions, Reply by Mail connectivity and customized Look & Feel UX. Lead Architect for Ozone Widget Framework for the DIA (U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency), and responsible for overall Vision, Release Planning, Delivery and coordination with Stakeholders. Integrated platform with PKI Security, Elastic Search, Mongo DB and external Data Feeds. Task Lead for internal firm-wide Capability tasked to create, host and manage a multi-tenant suite of development tools & services (called Booz Allen SmartSuite) to overcome common delivery challenges for 200+ developers spread over 40 projects. Tool Suite consisted of Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Stash, Crowd SSO, Jabber Chat Services, JAMA for Requirements and Borland Silk for testing. Promoted service offering firm wide and provided web-based training.

Responsible for Architecture and vision for E-Commerce Platform for Latin American Consortium. Built interfaces to external systems using the WSO2 Service Bus, Oracle BPEL engine and integrations with Oracle E-Business Suite. Implemented real-time language translation and currency calculators using external services like Google, Yahoo and Systran. Implemented Amazon Merchant fulfillment using AWS APIs. Coordinated development with offshore engineering teams. Responsible for Architecture reviews at the USSS (U.S. Secret Service) for an Oracle E-Business Suite implementation and vetting new functional and technical requirements.

Designed ESB Architecture and delivered ESB pipelines for 15+ core Web Services. Designed unified API using Oracle Aqualogic ESB. Promoted the use of Automated Testing tools like Parasoft SOA Test for Web Service functionality testing & governance. Designed Asynchronous Metrics Module to measure API usage. Designed Service Registry and developed UML to code generators.

Designed Web Services platform for exposing Medical Research data to other CaBIG (Cancer Bio-Informatics Grid) service platform adopters. Investigated & prototyped the use of model driven architecture (MDA) code generation for Magic Draw and Enterprise Architect UML tools. Maintained several legacy JSP/Struts based Research Grant processing systems and one clinical-sample management Java Swing application.

Designed Fraud Detection System Architecture and a Corporate E-Filing system for the IRS (U.S. Internal Revenue Service). Guided overall implementation of J2EE Web Portal Application system using Oracle 10g Application Server clusters, Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Single Sign On (SSO) 10g Database with Oracle RACs, Jakarta Struts & Oracle BC4J/ADF for persistence. Leveraged latest Oracle XML Schema APIs and engineered an innovative multi-threaded cascading processing queue and a flexible rule-based software configuration approach.

Founder of International IT services firm. Provided in-country consulting and assistance to clients across Europe in various industries from Telecoms, Finance, Insurance and IT Startups. Promoted Engineering best practices and delivered on-site consulting and training services:International Patent Application & Document Management System World Intellectual Property Org., Geneva, SwitzerlandWeb Based Employer Insurance Policy Management Swiss Life, Zurich, SwitzerlandInternet Shopping Module for Content ManagementReef, Paris, FranceFlexible Billing System for Global Charge Cards France Telecom, Paris, FranceTelecom Billing Components CSC Ploenske, Munich, GermanyCommodity Futures Trading and ManagementCargill SA, Geneva, SwitzerlandTelecom Customer Care and Billing Romtelecom, Bucharest, RomaniaMobile Telecom Customer Care and Billing Eesti Mobil Telefon, Tallinn, Estonia