Greater Toronto Area, Canada
I’m a transformation-focused architect with deep experience in enterprise, cloud, and solution architecture — specializing in helping organizations evolve from legacy, on-premise systems to agile, secure, and scalable cloud-first environments. Over the years, I’ve led the development of technology strategies and roadmaps that align directly with business capabilities and future growth. From setting architectural standards and principles to guiding large-scale migration initiatives across Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud, Oracle, and OpenShift — I’ve been at the core of delivering robust, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant cloud environments. My work bridges technical leadership and strategic foresight. I collaborate closely with business leaders and Lean Portfolio Management to shape enterprise portfolios, technology enablers, and business epics — all while ensuring architecture supports measurable business outcomes. 🔹 Extensive hands-on and strategic experience with IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures 🔹 Strong grounding in enterprise integration, process orchestration, master data management, and AI/analytics 🔹 Deep understanding of security practices across cloud and multi-tier application landscapes 🔹 Proficient in using frameworks like TOGAF and the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to drive architectural governance 🔹 Cleared with Reliability Enhanced Government Clearance (Canada) Whether I’m working with senior executives to shape enterprise cloud strategy or collaborating with engineering teams to implement modern, scalable platforms, I bring both technical credibility and business insight to the table.
• I am responsible for leading all solution consulting efforts at CloudXFN to deliver exceptional end-to-end business value to our customers. • I direct consultants toward technical and process excellence, as well as promoting a culture of innovation and tenacity in our approach. • I work hands-on with solution leads, regional directors, and consultants with customers to bring the best outcomes to every situation and the best solution to the table. • Worked as a thought leader, owning putting together solutions architecture for an end-to-end analytics platform (Fulcrum) that uses Azure Databricks, Azure Data factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL Managed Instance, RStudio Connect, RStudio Pro, also Azure CLI while meeting stringent security controls from identity and network perspective. • Worked with client for architecting, building a PHI analytics platform which is compliant with NIST 800-53,171, CIS, Protected B, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOX security and operational controls for doing financial, healthcare client engagements for their existing and future clients (with PHI data) in a totally secured AWS, Azure Cloud by enabling Network Level Isolation, Identity Level Isolation etc.…. • Worked on following AWS Components for enabling security controls across all control families enabled to be meet compliance requirements for PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, HIPAA, HITRUST, HI TECH : AWS Snowball, Amazon Direct Connect, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon S3, VPC Gateway, Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, AMI’s, Amazon Dynamo DB, Amazon EMR, Amazon Glacier, Amazon ECS, Amazon R53, AWS API Gateway, Amazon Analytical & Search Services(Quick Sight, EMR, Cloud Search, Elastic Search), Amazon EDW on Redshift etc...
Pythian (More than 50+ enterprise clients and 5+ federal clients) • Worked on enabling cloud computing for more than 55+ clients , enabled via DevOps etc.. • Worked on Data Catalog integration for operational data lineage and metadata tagging, PII scan and alerting (GCP), Data Zone templates for simple to complex functional isolation of teams and processes, Data Discovery to help facilitate a self-serve data model, Rule based engines to facilitate data standardization. • Worked on Deployable pipeline templates for faster innovation, well-formed architecture without duplication of processing or data, best of breed modern open-source data transformation languages so can easily find the experienced data engineers you need. • A Migration Path from existing data platform solutions, migrating entire ETL pipeline from Teradata or a custom processing tool, clearly defined end-state tools are available. • Establish business expectations for data products (reports, integrations, machine learning models, etc.) from Data Lake as well as any related KPIs set for those products, Identify teams and stakeholders for the EDL. Identify data pipelines starting from their data products and working backwards to their data sources. Construct a matrix of potential pipelines, transformations, and data sources. • As most of the ongoing work was in data processing, a common tool was important for critical workloads. As such Apache Beam running on Spark (on-premise) or Dataflow (GCP) was used for critical pipelines to avoid code duplication. • Provided ongoing support for the data pipelines and data lake. This includes: 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure, pipelines and transformation jobs, updates to data lake components, • Migrated from legacy data warehouse (Teradata) to Big Query, new enterprise data platform that delivers more use cases to more users and systems. • Built data pipelines, operationalize them, using DataOps/MLOps practices needed to manage our pipelines for the long term.
Project: Workbench • Provisioned highly scalable, available, and elastic solutions that implement industry best practices using cloud services. • Worked on implementing cloud network rule verification, monitoring toolkit for data security etc… • Created standard cloud reference architectures that apply industry best practices to deploying applications built around the existing standard solution stacks. • Automated Provisioning of the complex infrastructure using Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Cloud Services, and AzureSQL VM Servers. • Performed workload automation such as automated build \deploy process to Azure (Continuous Delivery for Cloud). • Configured Dev, QA, UAT, DR and Prod environments inAzure. • Managed 6 resources offshore, near shore and onshore. • Developed scripts/tools to ensure streamlined/automated application & infrastructure deployment (setting up an environment on demand, shutdown during non-business hours). • Worked on Deployment of end-to-end cloud solutions utilizing a variety of PaaS/IaaS technologies & supporting middleware/data tier technology stacks such as message queues, web/worker roles, database engines, enterprise search and accompanying monitoring solutions. • Worked on Development& implementation of backup and recovery best practices & technologies to ensure critical systems are protected from data loss & disasters. • Automated the configuration of environments using Chef, Ansible, and puppet for enabling Infrastructure as Code. • Worked on Development & implementation of automation solutions, processes and tools in support of the cloud lifecycle; including infrastructure & application uptime, availability, and performance monitoring (SCOM). • Worked on ensuring all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards (capacity planning). • Worked on setting VPN Connection, firewall rules, opening ports as needed on Azure on premise infrastructure components for connecting to local data center.
Financial Services Projects: - o Private cloud for hosting .NET3.5\4, JavaArch11, Web logic Portal, MQ, BOO, Data stage, Cadis o Capacity planning for shared infrastructure. o Datacenter Migration. o Decommissioning older applications. o TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 Migration. o Integrate TFS 2010 with SharePoint 2010, Project Server. Sports/Game Management Projects: o Prospect Management o Mobile Application Development o Architected and lead development of API that is consumed by client facing websites, IPhone Application, BlackBerry Application and Facebook Integration that is still being used 150,000+ users and 150+ college athletic advantage. o Automated provisioning of on-prem infrastructure to support ops & development, test environments. o Worked as an onshore technical lead for offshore project teams in India, Ukraine. o Worked on development/integration of outsourced projects with existing website, RESTFUL API. o Used VMware Workstation environments for setting up POC environments of new projects. o Generated SQL Server Performance reports, Dashboard using management studio and took necessary action to improve performance. Safety Inspection Clients Projects: Architect with Security, Operations and Automation Expertise (Consultant) o ARIA which has integrated more than forty separate customer portals into a central location and performs following functions o Master data management o Enterprise portal framework o Enterprise document management o Collaboration services (internal and external users. o Fulfillment Project: Initiative Analytics o Architect AWS solutions for cloud migration of custom and enterprise applications. o Architected AWS solutions for cloud migration of custom and enterprise applications. o Automated provisioning of cloud infrastructure to support the development organizations. o Designed, developed a configuration management strategy to enable rapid deployment of new stacks.
Projects: Cloud Based Locomotive Communication Project: The Locomotive Communications Data Project harnesses the power of web services and cloud technology to optimize locomotive communication data. By leveraging web services, it facilitates seamless data exchange and real-time communication between locomotives and centralized systems. The project utilizes cloud infrastructure to securely store and process large volumes of locomotive communication data, enabling advanced analytics and actionable insights for enhanced operational efficiency. •Architected, developed the solutions for their customers (Amtrak, BNSF, CN) with generic Web Services that provide all the information about the current status of the locomotive, text messages sent from/to the crew of the train from/to website or back office of Amtrak and to consume one of their Web Service which provides the physical information about the train that is led by a locomotive Cloud Based IoT Project: The Caterpillar IoT Project is an ambitious initiative aimed at collecting data from 2 million Cat equipment units deployed on the ground and transmitting it to the cloud. This enables seamless data sharing with joint venture companies. Through IoT technology, Caterpillar facilitates real-time data acquisition, storage, and analysis, enabling improved collaboration and informed decision-making among stakeholders. Health Management Solution: - Lead implementation of a cloud based solution (AWS) for effective health management and corporate fitness program, on boarded more than 24 clients in less than one year after the program was launched. Search Engine for Big Global Client: Lead implementation of a cloud-based solution providing advanced search capabilities for products certified by client , submission for certification using business process management to reduce certification time by 4 times and added $10M revenue as these capabilities are being provided to prospective clients as SAS etc…