Lead a team of about 15 architects and engineers to design and implement a scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure for a healthcare technology platform, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and HITRUST standards.Ensured the consistency, viability, reliability and scalability of all new Matrix business systems solutions. Designed and implemented a completely modern software stack with best-of-breed cloud-native technologies, while maintaining business continuity on Matrix's business. Responsible for driving the architecture design, and guiding the implementation of all project initiatives and external partner integrations.* API-First approach to the entire platform* Fifteen-Factor-Application compliance with containerized microservices* Kubernetes based cloud-native technologies on Openshift,* Fully automated CI/CD with integrated testing and static and dynamic scode canning.* Implementaton of OpenTelemetry for metrics, traces and logs.* Observability dashboard providing a "Single pane of glass" with alerting and monitoring* Successful REST-based and file-based integrations with multiple external partners.

Provided leadership to about 15 engineers and architects across several teams, to modernize the platform and to design and build robust integrations with clients as well as external partners.

With a deep passion for writing high-quality, maintainable code, I have authored and maintained several open-source libraries with over 25k downloads globally. I also provide consulting services, helping businesses solve complex software challenges, optimize workflows, and scale their applications.* Authored open source software facade libraries to abstract write-through/write-behind distributed caches, file stores, queues and databases (see https://github.com/orgs/Beztek-Software-Solutions/repositories).* Provided consulting services to various clients, ranging from startups to established companies, helping them implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable software solutions.* Software architecture and scalability consulting* Actively contributed to the open-source community, ensuring that the software I develop is freely available and continuously improved based on community feedback.* Technical mentorship and training

Cariad is the software subsidiary of Volkswagen. My role focuses on all aspects of the message and data handling proceeding from the vehicles including device integration, Intelligent Body and Cockpit, Autonomous Driving, Energy and Propulsion, and Service Platform for Cloud Delivered Mobility Services and Big Data.* Manage standards for cloud technologies, applying and inventing new and optimal architectural design patterns.* Collaborate with all stake-holders based on a secure architecture development method.* Recommend, gain approval & implement strategies for new technologies based on requirements.* Ensure architectural fit with the overall global Volkswagen platform architecture.* Provide leadership support for strategic products.* Determine the API surface area and service composability.* Define robust frameworks for APIs and services, data flows and management, and apps.* Design highly scalable and elastic data pipelines to process, store and share the multiple terabytes of data ingested daily.* Determine system-wide monitoring strategy.

Design and implementation of several high-visibility projects, as well as participation in weekly meetings with other architects, where architectural innovations are shared.* Designed and implemented an IoT management framework for a Fortune 500 company to manage the computers controlling medical instruments, including “over the air” software and firmware updates, and remote management even when they were within highly secure networks. This was an end-to-end enterprise solution beginning with hardware procurement, configuration, registration, deployment and software management.* Designed architecture to bid for a government project to manage street video cameras and cameras at remote sites, and to ingest, process and provide live scalable multimedia feeds for all the videos and pictures.* Designed the break-down and migration of a large legacy application for a well-known company into multiple micro-services, making it much more scalable.* Implemented smart recommendations of products based on usage using AWS Personalize Service

Architect providing technical direction in designing and implementing Bsquare's innovative DataV suite of IoT products.* Designed and implemented an end-to-end IOT management application with easily configurable workflows as a high-performance elastically auto-scaling, server. * Bsquare SAS product suite serves several enterprise customers.* Product infrastructure using Docker images containing multiple microservices with many state-of-the-art open-source technologies.* Applications are deployed on-premise or on the cloud (Azure or AWS).

Responsible for design and development of the entire product suite for FileDropVault, which is a system for secure transfer of files between professionals, their clients, and each other. It is based on state-of-the-art encryption technology that enables proof-of-delivery and “fingerprint” validation of file contents. Professionals have a record of what is sent and received.* Designed and implemented the secure web services.* Managed the development and distribution of the FDV client application for multiple platforms - Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. This has a similar look-and-feel to an email application.* Implemented payment processing for credit/debit cards and electronic checks by integrating with third party payment services.* Servers deployed on AWS infrastructure using the best security available.* Developed a simple web interface that professionals can use by pasting a small HTML snippet in their website, that facilitates users sending files securely to them through FDV.

Provide the best experience for third party developers through the AT&T developer portal (https://developer.att.com).. This includes integrating with multiple external services including WordPress, Lithium Forums, Twitter, etc., as well as several internal services including AT&T’s API Matrix, AT&T’s Payment Gateway, etc. Technology stack was deployed on AT&T’s internal cloud.* Provide leadership and direction to scrum teams with proof-of-concept solutions and best-practices.* Well-tuned agile teams executing on 2-week sprints.* Test-driven development, keeping track of code coverage and code quality.* Migrating out of legacy or commercial software such as ATG, Weblogic and Oracle to modern cutting-edge open-source technologies* Integrated WordPress blogs using the WP Rest API, and Lithium Forums using the Lithium Rest API

Drive innovation in the Digital Personal Video Cloud Service. Lead the architecture and innovation for RealTimes - a global personal video service platform - services include User management, Media file upload APIs, Encoding and Transcoding, Messaging/Notification services plus back-office tools to manage the service and users. Technology stack was Spring, MongoDB, JAXRS, Tomcat deployed on AWS.* Technology stack was Tomcat, MongoDB with REST Services using Spring Framework* Developed a partner-facing 3rd Party SDK for RealNetworks, exposing some of its REST APIs to external developers using 3Scale.* Designed and implemented a scheduler that could handle billing and notifications for over 10 million users in real time.* Designed and implemented real-time push notification for millions of users on multiple devices (tablets and smart phones) all the way to 4k HD TVs.* Integrated with several services from Twitter, Facebook and Google to provide a seamless user experience.

Took sole responsibility for the entire back-end design and implementation for all the clients using REST web-services, that were deployed using cloud security and infrastructure.* Implemented a cloud-monitor, which was able to create network diagrams of the deployed AWS infrastructure by introspection, with an easy-to-use wizard to customize the component labels.* Architected the design and implementation of a full-featured Content Management System for a major Fortune 500 company, utilizing the elasticity and unlimited storage and scalability of the Cloud.* Provided web services to support the installation and upgrades for a software product that has an installed base of over 150 million computers world-wide, to collect installation and usage data (sacled to 125TB of data per day).* Created processes for easy updates, upgrades and automatic deployment.

Responsible for all back-end server and reporting aspects of Intava’s Sphira Platform. This platform controls and provides web-based services and data for rich touch-screen applications deployed in thousands of locations across the country. It also has a feature rich web-based administrative interface.* Worked on several interactive terminals in Sprint retail stores, enabling shopping for Cellular phones, downloading content, simulating of games or applications, displaying coverage maps, running promotions, etc. Data was linked using SOA from several business units within Sprint and third-party Marketing companies, providing a seamless rich interactive experience. Other vendors preferred to use our data feeds to get Sprint data.* Managed the server-side development team.* Migrated application server from the commercial Weblogic to the free JBoss.* Migrated the database from the commercial SQLServer to the free MySQL.* Significantly tuned performance and scalability, including static content. Throughput was increased by 700%.* Implemented a modular plug-in framework to enable the platform to provide services to multiple customers. * ETL framework using OLAP technology to provide near real-time reports with several kinds of layouts and graphs.* Rapid development cycles.* Process automation to allow frequent deployments which could involve pushing over 0.5 Gigabyte of data to more than 2000 clients overnight in a controlled manner.* Deployment on both Linux and Windows platforms

Managed projects in two subdivisions within MSN, from conception to delivery.* Managed an internal data-warehousing application in MSN, that provided reports and metrics for subscription and other MSN services provided to Microsoft Internal Partners.* Managed a new “Partner Portal” that integrated security and acted as a one-stop shop of all resources for internal and external partners.* Part of the team that managed the integration partnership between Bell Canada and MSN.