I possess a cumulative experience of 15 years in the IT industry, holding roles such as Technology leader, Cloud Solution Architect, Continuous Delivery Consultant, Speaker, Blogger, and Author.
My focus lies in delivering results-oriented technical evangelism, ensuring the delivery of innovative and high-quality products that drive customer satisfaction and business outcomes. I am passionate about building, motivating, and leading high-performing teams of varying sizes, ultimately delivering customer success.
I have extensive real-world experience in assessing the technical landscape to determine the feasibility of migrating to the cloud. This involves grouping and prioritizing applications and servers, defining solution architectures and reference architectures, with a specific emphasis on cloud technologies, Microsoft Azure and AWS.
In addition, I provide expert advice and solutions in selecting migration methodologies and tools for workload migration to the cloud. This includes designing networks for on-premises and cloud connectivity, defining connectivity rules, and transforming existing IT landscapes into IaaS, PaaS, or cloud-native models.
As a strategic thinker, I possess a deep understanding of the product life cycle and expertise in software development methodologies such as Scrum, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, and DevSecOps.
Furthermore, I am a hands-on, technical evangelist focused on building web scale, cloud-native applications.
I have a special interest in event-driven and distributed architectures, Microservices, and serverless computing.
My experience also extends to managing and leading both small and large implementations, including those employing offshore development models with geographically distributed teams. I have had the opportunity to provide guest lectures in top universities in the Netherlands, sharing insights on distributed software engineering and addressing challenges in offshoring models through effective development practices and communication strategies.
I am a regular speaker at numerous technology conferences and have authored courses on Reactive Microservices in .NET Core and Continuous Delivery with VSTS & PowerShell DSC, which have been published by Packt.
Skills
Azure, AWS
Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker
ASP.NET Core, .NET
Azure DevOps, Helm, Octopus Deploy
Scrum, XP, Web Scale IT
Specification By Example, SpecFlow
Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing
MongoDB, PostgreSQL
PowerShell
EFK, ELK, Istio, Prometheus
Orleans, Akka.NET
Work
experience
Country Lead Architect, NL
June 2023 - Present
I play a vital role in aligning European architectural guidelines with regional product teams. This involves spearheading initiatives related to application modernization, digital transformation, and the consolidation of multiple products into a unified platform. By closely collaborating with European leadership, teams, and business stakeholders, I ensure the successful achievement of their objectives.
With expertise in microservices and AWS, I bring deep technical knowledge and skills to the organization, establishing myself as a specialist in cloud technologies. Leveraging this expertise, I drive the development and implementation of innovative solutions that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our tax and accounting products.
By applying my technical acumen and staying attuned to industry trends, I shape the future of our tax and accounting products, ensuring their continued prominence within the industry. Committed to excellence, I consistently push boundaries and foster a culture of innovation within the organization.
Sr. Technology Architect
May 2022 - June 2023
Played a pivotal role in driving IT transformation focused on cloud adoption and application modernization to Azure. As a seasoned senior cloud architect, I provide invaluable guidance and direction to multidisciplinary teams, ensuring the seamless integration and successful implementation of Microsoft Azure. Through the provision of industry best practices, strategic architectural guidance, and the development of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) in Azure and application development domains, I foster a culture of excellence and achievement.
I spearhead the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and industry-leading practices, paving the way for a leading bank's digital transformation journey. By leveraging Azure's robust capabilities and my expertise in cloud architecture, I empower the organization to unlock new levels of operational efficiency, enhance security measures, and deliver superior customer experiences. With an unwavering commitment to excellence and a focus on innovation, I am dedicated to shaping the bank's technological landscape and driving its continued success in a rapidly evolving digital era.
Head of Platform & Operations (Human Total Care)
June 2020 - May 2022
Strategy and management for the platform and infrastructure at IT&Care. Sub-teams include: compute platforms (public cloud, platform orchestration tools and platform services), Storage (object storage, time series, cloud and databases, Software Development Lifecycle, Services Engineering, CI/ CD as well as all product management for these areas. Oversight for the Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure organization.
In role as head of platform and operations, serve in the group of senior engineering executives that oversee all parts of talent and organizational leadership for engineering including: recruiting, hiring, promotions, compensation, DEI, and technology strategy.
Cloud Solution Architect (Info Support)
July 2016 - May 2020
Designed and developed large scale applications and innovation projects aligning the customer on the modernizing business landscape. Worked closely with Azure specialists, CNCF partners to land and coordinate the plans, strategies and design to successfully help our customers to build their application modernization and software strategy on Azure. Delivered excellent results by leveraging best practices, innovative tools, thought technology leadership and giving guidance during the application migration and development phases.
Worked closely with customers to assess the knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support them through a structured learning plan and ensure delivery and completeness of the overall solution.
Provide technical leadership for customers in their effort to migrate from a monolithic code base to microservices. Developed strategies for improving and implementing continuous delivery. Develop the strategy for microservices deployment, testing and provide guidance and direction for internal API development and consumption.
Continuous Delivery Consultant (Prowareness)
Aug 2010 - June 2016
Worked as an active driver for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) based application development. Designed, proposed and facilitated organizational and process improvements as needed for supporting automation and DevSecOps. Lead the cloud orchestration leveraging Infrastructure as code practices to provide self servicing capabilities to IT teams in order to transform application delivery for cloud in an agile fashion
Provide technical consulting for companies implementing Continuous Delivery. Worked on changes in the software infrastructure, architecture and development practices and helped teams develop strong agile engineering practices
Technical Lead (Mphasis)
Aug 2005 - Aug 2010
Worked in a team of more than 500 developers for a Tax and Accounting software in US and an onsite coordinator for the development team in India. Involved in developing projects for clients like Microsoft, CCH and Tyco Electronics etc.
Languages
English
Dutch (Basic - A2)
Hindi
Malayalam
Education
Master in Computer Applications - IGNOU
2000 - 2004
The program emphasizes the application of software technology to solve mathematical, computing, communications/networking and commercial problems. Programming languages were Pascal, COBOL, Java, VB etc.
As part of my education, I had to work 6 months on a project to create an Encrypted File System in C.
Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) - Calicut University
1997 - 2000