- Collaborated with clients to define and align enterprise-level strategies with business objectives.- Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive architecture roadmaps to optimize IT systems and enhance organizational efficiency.- Designed and delivered robust, scalable solutions tailored to meet clients' unique business requirements.- Conducted in-depth analysis of existing systems and applications, identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.- Spearheaded end-to-end DevOps initiatives, streamlining development pipelines and ensuring continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).- Implemented and configured DevOps tools and practices to enhance collaboration between development and operations teams.- Cultivated strong, trust-based relationships with clients by providing expert guidance on technology solutions and best practices.- Acted as a bridge between technical teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and understanding of project objectives.- Led cross-functional teams in the successful execution of complex IT projects, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.- Mentored team members on industry best practices, architectural principles, and DevOps methodologies.

DevOps Leadership:Led implementation of DevOps projects across various applications and business groupsEnsured zero-downtime deployments with Blue-Green strategyImplemented pipelines and observability tools tailored to application needsArchitecture & Design:Provided solutions to complex technical and business challengesImplemented N-Tier/SOA/Microservices for cloud and on-premisesDocumented existing business processes and technical architecturesManaged vendor relationshipsMade decisions on "build vs buy," staff augmentation, and cost optimizationProject Management:Managed scope, schedule, and budget for projects up to 300+ man-months (30 resources for 1 year)Led weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings with CEOs, VPs, and other teamsTechnical Program Management:Collaborated with Chief Architect, Solution Management, and Project Managers to integrate technical debt into release cyclesWorked with Release Management to identify production issues for future sprintsLed vendor architects to ensure technical delivery aligned with platform roadmapManaged .NET framework/ASP.NET upgrades, application migration from Webforms to MVC, and maintained 85%+ code coverageEstablished daily build validation framework for early issue detection, reduced rework costs, and improved governance

Key Responsibilities· Development Management · Lead - Architecture Board· Pre-Sales Support. · People Management· Re-architected disparate applications to micro-services for a large European client, clients learning platform has more than 20K user per day. Worked with Client architects and architects from other vendors to implement the CIO roadmap. Provide client with fit-gap analysis of various tools and technologies. Established DevOps Role and required infrastructure for the role. · Provided Architecture for a predictive maintenance application using Azure Platform by working along with Customer Data Scientists and Data Architects. Specifically contributed in replace disconnected PLC data capture model to IOT based data capture model.· Enabled technical quality governance model for multiple clients, led team of architects to audit projects on a Six point scale to assess over technical quality of projects, this reduced technical debt for the client and higher client satisfaction· Owner for Internal technical debt, Best practices, Reference Architectures for entire Microsoft Practice internal applications

· Solution Architecture Development· Project Management. · People Mentoring· SPOC for Technical TrainingsKey Accomplishments· Architected, Designed, Developed Risk assessment tool that would operate in SaaS model. Application leverages third party databases. Provided patterns to help application to be developed in an Agile delivery model. Ensured high quality deliver through implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.· Fully owned the Data, Front-end and Integration layers of the application. Provide Design adhering to SOLID design principles. Fully owned and led the reviews to ensure all standards, guidelines were followed during the development process.

Key Responsibilities· Technical Program Management· Vendor Management· Strategy & road map · Team building· Stake holder management· Communication Channel Incentive for Partners Program• Was key contributor in building a Platform to host multiple Channel Partner Incentive Applications that were working in isolation. These applications would payout several hundred millions per year. All the Application were owned by different business groups, build with different architectures leveraging disparate data sources. Building a single Platform provided functionally consistency, greater control over checks and balances. Technically it provided scalability, high-performance, reliability and reduced cost of maintenance• Worked hand-in-hand with Chief Architect, Solutions Management to build a single platform that would abstract the commonly used functionality, provide flexible opportunity to implement business group specific logic.• Led large group of Vendor Architects to ensure that technical delivery was met as per platform roadmap, worked with Project Managers to factor all the technical debt into different release cycles, worked with Release Management to understand production issues and factor them in future sprints• Was responsible to .NET framework, ASP.NET upgrades, moving application from Traditional Webforms to MVC Design. Maintenance of 85+% of code coverage. • Established a Daily build validation framework that helped identify early code issues, reducing the cost of rework. It also helped in easy tactical governance. • Fully owned Dog-fooding Migration to Cloud on Azure. Moving reporting and communication components to Azure, this helped address peak-time issues

Instrumental in Analysis, Design and development of a Fraud detection system (Chargeback and Reconciliation) for AMEX Middel-East and North Africa, that helped bank identify habitual defaulters.Instrumental in Analysis, Design and development of a Direct Credit System, that helped faster Payouts to Merchants. this helps increased Merchant satification and indirectly increases the card usage .