Hratch Soghomonian

Solutions architect AI & Security

Westmount, Quebec, Canada

About

Working as solutions architect with focus on security and AI to help organizations go through their digital transformation journeys. Solution Architecture - Identify business capabilities - Identify cloud and on-premise components - hybrid architecture - Produce solution architecture - Cost estimation - Help/lead cross functional delivery teams - Convey technical & non-technical concepts to stakeholders - Influence decision making Security Architecture - Produce security architecture - Ensure architecture is compliant with zero trust approach (segmented networks) - Compliance & Regulatory: Compliance with GDPR - Threat detection and response: SIEM and SOAR - Data Classification for attribute based access control (ABAC) Software Architecture - Design methodologies : domain driven design, SOLID, Micro services, Event driven design Automation / Orchestration - BPM: Business process management, workflows - Ipaas : Inter-platform backend processes - API Management: API design and governance - ETL : Automation for data - Low code / No code Artificial Intelligence - Ensure AI strategy align with existing enterprise architecture patterns - Enhance reference solution architecture guidelines to integrate AI components - Choose between local AI execution (for security & cost control) vs. cloud-based AI services. - Enforce sensitive data usage in secure networks when accessed by locally executing AI models - Design hybrid workflows that integrate AI with traditional software design. - Implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to enhance AI models with private data. - Design agentic AI systems with autonomous decision-making and multi-step task execution. - Leverage orchestration tools like Langchain, Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Cloud - Azure - Cloudflare Software Architecture & Development - Architecture : Domain Driven Design, SOLID practices, Micro-services - Languages: .NET, C#, ASP.NET Core, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS - Databases: SQL Server, SQLite, PostgreSQL (Pgvector) Tools IAM : KeyCloak (RedHat SSO), Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) API Gateway: Azure API Management Automation (Ipaas): Azure Logic App, Power Automate, Camunda Service Bus: Rabbit MQ, Amazon SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus Search & Analytics: Elastic, Kibana, Power BI, SSRS Microsoft 365: SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Pages, Dynamics 365 (CRM) Containerization: Docker AI libraries: python Langchain, Microsoft Symantec Kernel, Vector databases : chroma DB, Postgres pgvector AI Services: Ollama, OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI API

Experience

  • AI Solutions Architect at AI4Eyes
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Responsibilities: - Identify existent and non-existent business capabilities from the business requirements. - Participate in technical and financial feasibility of the project. - Solution Architecture: Boundaries, security, data entities, flows, integrations & AI Cloud. - Work with the AI researcher to architect needed services such as image repositories, and metadata - Help in designing the AI training pipelines. - Define Proof of Concepts. - Guide cross-functional agile product teams to implement components. - Convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. - Help with Software architecture. - Code and vulnerability review. - Influence decision-making. Project: Eye disease detection system This project involves the integration of a specialized camera into a computer where images of eyes are captured using software and saved in the cloud. These images and the corresponding metadata are fed to an AI service that will detect eyes diseases.

  • Solutions and Security Architect, IT consultant at Pratt & Whitney Canada
    Apr 2019 - Sep 2025 · 6 yrs 6 mos

    Responsibilities: - Identify existent and non-existent business capabilities - Participate in technical and financial feasibility studies - Solution Architecture: Boundaries, security, data entities & flows, integrations - Define Proof of Concepts - Help business in defining business processes - Participate in enterprise reference architecture building with the architecture panel - Guide cross-functional agile product teams to implement components with the right software architecture and security standards - Define all the technical enablers for developers - Enforce design patterns and best practices - Security Compliance analysis - Code and vulnerability reviews - Review security practices Projects: Engine Maintenance package management system This project converts a manual system to an automated one. Currently, the customer fills in a PDF file and email salespeople to enroll in engine maintenance plans. The project aims to create an online form where the customer easily submits the form, with a backend system where the salesperson can manage the forms. Customer on-boarding Provide the new customer with coherent on-boarding experience by integrating existing business operations and application together. Pratt and Whitney Canada has several manual business operations and applications with specific capabilities that work in separate silos to enroll new customers in the main systems such as customer portal, financial and customer relationship. Enterprise reference architecture Working with a group of solution and enterprise architects to define the overall strategy, architecture, governance and implementation goals of different topics mainly in AI capabilities and micro-services systems.

  • Solutions architect, Full stack developer, SharePoint developer, IT consultant at Bell Helicopter
    Sep 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Responsibilities: - Solution and Integration architecture - Software architecture - Full stack web development - SharePoint developer - DevOps Projects: Helicopter collaboration and support management system : - Solution architecture leveraging SharePoint, workflow engine and other data sources. - Define business processes between collaborating organizations. - Application architecture micro-frontend and backend micro-services - Angular (Latest) front end, and ASP.NET Core / SharePoint back end - Workflow engine integration and implementation for different Support Management processes - DevOps process to test and deploy the apps

  • Full stack developer, IT Consultant at Laurentian Bank of Canada
    Apr 2017 - Aug 2017 · 5 mos

    Responsibilities: - Full stack web development Projects: - Individual and commercial loan scoring system in asp.net MVC and KnockoutJS using TypeScript

  • Full stack developer, IT Consultant at CN
    Oct 2012 - Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Responsibilities: - Software architecture - Web development - Backend Development - Devops Projects: - Rail GIS data visualizer - Lotus notes migration to Exchange server - Contracting bidding system - Workforce training management system