New Delhi, Delhi, India
I architect for scale and defend for survival. With deep expertise across the full stack—from physical DataCenter Decommissioning to high-scale Multi-Cloud Orchestration—I specialize in building Secure-by-Design ecosystems that align technical resilience with business velocity. Core Pillars of My Practice: Security Architecture: I lead the transition to Zero-Trust (ZTA) and Identity & Access Management (IAM) frameworks. I specialize in SOC Governance and Cyber Resilience, ensuring that security is the foundation of the enterprise, not an afterthought. Enterprise Strategy: I chair Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and develop Strategic Roadmaps that drive TCO Reduction and simplify Hybrid-Cloud complexity across AWS, Azure, and OCI. Data & AI Innovation: I bridge the gap between engineering and AI by implementing LLMOps, AI Risk Management, and Event-Driven Architectures. DevSecOps & Modern Engineering: Championing a Shift-Left culture through API-First Design and high-performance development. Frameworks I have worked on all along my journey for different product and potfolios NIST, STRIDE, SASE, CMMC, HIPAA, Gxp, PCI DSS, GDPR, FedRAMP,MITRE ATT&CK, ISO\IEC, CIS, HITRUST, COBIT, Togaf, SOC2, OWASP, DAST, SAST My experience ranges from defining cloud governance policies and managing SOC operations to designing hybrid cloud strategies for Fortune 500 enterprises. Serving as an incident SME, I provide expert guidance to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and secure.
A highly strategic and technical role focused on designing, developing, and leading the deployment of robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions across multi-cloud environments, ensuring operational excellence and strategic alignment. Cloud Architecture & Design Leadership: Acted as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for end-to-end cloud architecture, specializing in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models. Collaborated with sales and customer teams to ideate and design technical solutions for migrating products to the cloud. Strategic Development & Documentation: Developed a library of deployable and documented cloud design patterns and a cloud reference architecture to standardize product deployment and ensure best practices organization-wide. Technical Consultation & Governance: Led scope definition, technical design, and requirements analysis, ensuring all delivered solutions met technical, functional, and non-functional requirements. Provided technical governance and ownership for issue diagnosis and resolution across cloud deployments. Operational Excellence: Focused on Service Delivery, actively working to improve customer satisfaction and minimize downtime. Ensured solution realization within committed timelines by managing scope and risk in conjunction with project sponsors. Thought Leadership & Mentoring: Provided thought leadership in complex business requirements, defining the cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective. Motivated, mentored, and managed cross-discipline coordination for project teams, promoting positive morale and cohesion.
Building custom enterprise architectures and roadmaps to achieve defined needs. Delivering strategic goals, IT reference architecture, IT Ecosystem and proposing relevant possible IT solutions for the organization. Communicating architecture to business, project managers, solution analysts, software engineers. Executing architectural impact analysis, technology assessments and propose solutions to ensure quality deliverables. Propose cost effective solutions without compromising functional and non-functional requirements by following TOGAF method. Supplying technical and firsthand guidance and support during major incidents & escalations as SME for multiple technologies. Collaborating consultations for new (greenfield) or modified (brownfield) Thoughtspot virtualized environments ensuring proposed solutions are technically sound and can be integrated into other Enterprise IT and cybersecurity products and services. Evangelize and support security controls customized for Thoughtspot environments to increase the security posture while minimizing unintended consequences.
(Go to guy for design & data flow challenges) Consultant for everything Microsoft\Azure. Handling & leading Microsoft products and solutions ranging from enterprise applications to CRM\ERP\SIEM. Providing strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, POCs, etc. Support the development and growth of SoftwareONE’s Cloud Services and Consulting Practices. Handling & leading the System center suite tools (SCCM, SCOM, SCORCH, Run books). Provide Azure technical expertise including strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, POCs, etc. Support the development and growth of SoftwareOne’s Cloud Services and Consulting Practice Looking after SSL protocols and certificate renewal process automation for various SSL embedded application hosted using IIS & Apache by both managing & configuring PKI & KMS solutions. Administrating & supporting tasks for various tools like SIEM (upgrading, publishing client package, updating virus definition, maintaining client version for non-Microsoft products). PKI (Public key Infrastructure) & KMS, managing CA(Root\Subordinate\Issuing), creating & renewing keys & certificates used by various in-house applications & tools as well as wildcard certificates for external users. Managing & deploying the CyberArk tools & products along with centralized logging with Splunk. Managing Azure AD-connect integrated with ADFS for SSO & MFA across public as well as private services & applications. Strong knowledge of Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF). Working on Web Services, API Gateways and application integration development and design.
(Acknowledged by pioneers as first to help resource) New Platform implementations\Product Integration Working as product integration engineer deploying & supporting various Verint patented products in the field of cyber security & intelligence. Scaling entire deployment & integration from hardware deployment assessment to product installation integration, testing & sanity. Working in between different developer teams and QA teams to deliver the time bound projects and getting the SAT (site acceptance test). Signing the handover to the customers globally & giving them firsthand training over the company products. Effectively designing and running lab simulations for multiple sites across different industries for product testing and debugging. Working as a product integration engineer deploying & supporting various Verint patented products in the field of cyber security & intelligence such as Reliant 12, Terabrite, TBOS, Stargate & many more. Scaling the entire deployment & integration from hardware deployment assessment to product installation integration & testing. Collaborating with Developers & QA to understand the need & requirement on the go & provide the required support & solution irrespective of underlying technology. Signing the handover to customers across the globe & giving them firsthand training over the company products & documenting the same as part of project documentation. Collaborated with diverse client base across the Europe & African continent including Telecom giants & Government bodies.
(Applauded with 3 High Five moment awards for performance, collaboration & innovation & several Lollypop awards for efficiency & learning). Evaluation/design/development/deployment of Kronos private cloud. Onboarding clients by working on solutions and strategic model, clearly defining the individual steps for the process. Managing and implementing SIEM solutions and controls for clients as per their compliance matrix and security controls. VMware Infrastructure 5.0vSphere installation & configuration planning & Designing VMware vSphere/ESXi 5.0 & VMware Virtual Center Installation, Configuration & maintenance of Hosted VMware products. Design, Implementation, Testing & Deployment of VMware Infrastructure Installation, Configuration & Administration of VM. Configuring Q-Radar for system Logs. Infoblox Grid DNS record entry & maintenance, MsSQL Installation account configuration & database creation, AD account handling & GPO enforcements. Adding devices & assets to Manage Engine application manager 11 configuring & applying monitor for various applications organizing application jobs & thresholds. Evaluation/design/development/deployment of additional technologies and automation for managed services on AWS. Investigate and debug issues in the Database and Services you create and work with QA & Data Analysts to ensure the highest quality within the system. Supporting the business development lifecycle methodology (Business Development, Capture, Solution Architect next migration path, cost optimization. Create and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broaden use of AWS within a wide range of customers and partners. Work with onboarding internal clients. Solutioning and designing for client opportunities in one or more AWS Competencies or general cloud managed services. Creating a lift and shift process model clearly defining the individual steps of the lift and shift process.