Director Of Architecture - Cloud, API, Container, DevOps and  Observability at Fidelity Investments

I lead a global cloud enablement team of Architects and Engineers who delivers:1. Strategic guidance and reusable components to accelerate cloud migration use cases for multi and hybrid cloud across the stacks.2. Cloud patterns to help match rationale with capabilities to shape optimum cloud migration strategy - using 6 Rs.3. API and integration strategy and reusable components to enable teams to firm’s API journey.I also oversee the overall progress towards Cloud migration KPI and manage CXO communication as well.In individual capacity I play key thought leader role for firm’s application architecture patterns and practices with focus in Microservices, Resiliency frameworks, infrastructure as Code and Datalake platform build out strategies. In summery, I bring in a mix of strong product building and app development background with container based platform engineering - and act as change agent for the firm in their cloud transformation.
    
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At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. 

Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.  

For our Terms and Conditions, please visit http://go.fidelity.com/LIterms

Fidelity Investments

1. Head Architecture practice for Corporate Technology Group in India reporting to CTO in US and CIO in India. Directly manage a 20+ member team of very senior Solutions and Platform Architects in India and US2. Drive global strategic initiatives around Infrastructure Optimization, Innovation, Internal Open Source and Technology Lifecycle Management.3. Drove global strategic initiatives around following areas:        ★  API strategy and implementation in a complex organization. Thought leadership around organization alignment around MicroServices        ★  Conversational system (ChatBOT) in Enterprise context utilizing Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Data Streaming.
    
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Product Owner & Javascript Architect for next-gen HTML5 based interface for Set Top Box and Companion Devices (Tablets and Mobiles). Led a team of 30+ engineers where I conceptualized and socialized product idea, drove market research,  built backlog (and priority), collaborate with End to End Architects and delivered the product. This also included building in-house JS MVW Framework (based on PureMVC) and on-boarding multiple product development initiatives in that. Built recommendation engine and social TV proof of concept using open source Graph Database (Neo4J). Also created reference architecture for notification framework companion devices using XMPP as a protocol implemented in native layer.
    
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About us

  Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. 

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. 

Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.


      Cisco
  

E-Commerce and Rewards is an interesting sector where technology can be used in multiple ways. Built end to end rewards and retail portal which is white labelled for multiple business customers covering >100K retailers and sales force. The technology architecture built ground up in AWS includes nodejs, golang,  AngularJS, .Net WebAPI, MongoDB, postgres and MySQL deployed in containers in kubernetes cluster in aws. Product is released through a development cycle of around 6 months with crowd sourced resource pull and now being extended into Mobile Platform using PhoneGap.
    
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annectoś Rewards & Retail Pvt. Ltd.

Part of ANZ Digital Channel COE, My responsibility revolves around building Mobility Architecture, Strategy, Guidelines and Solution Architecture for multiple in-flight and future ANZ mobile banking projects. Technology stack includes Hybrid mobile apps using PhoneGap, HTML5 and Javascript Frameworks for client and SAP Sybase 365 (Mobiliser). This is one of the key initiative of ANZ's "super regional" strategy around various financial markets in Asian countries and Australia.
    
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      ANZ IT
  

Prakat is a Software services startup that focuses on testing and technology services on cloud. The niche’ playing field for Prakat is essentially to introduce cloud based technology solutions to testing landscape that brings efficiency and produce a cost-effective solution for customer. I manage the technology aspect of the services business which is used to deliver operational efficiency to the customer In three years we grew from zero (bootstrapped) to over $1M in terms of revenue with >35% gross profit margin. We also successfully launched PrakatAFT – a cloud based test management product that integrates with various execution engines (presently Selenium Grid for web based applications and homegrown Python drivers for telecom) and allows the customers to manage their testing practice online over cloud with intuitive reporting capabilities.
    
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Prakat Solutions

I am responsible for running the shadow P&L of the SSP business for Unisys in transportation and financial services domain. As part of the job, I manage transition of Unisys Core products to India and own end to end delivery of support, services and strategic product road map. The install base is over 500 customers across various geographic location and depend on Unisys for running their mission critical applications using these products. Built a team of around 100+ in various technology skill levels to mid level managers.
    
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About us

  Unisys is a global information technology company that specializes in providing industry-focused solutions integrated with leading-edge security to clients in the government, financial services and commercial markets. Unisys offerings include security solutions, advanced data analytics, cloud and infrastructure services, application services and application and server software. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.


      Unisys
  

I was the Co-Program Owner for Channel Incentive Platform that was envisioned to be the single incentive platform to manage end to end incentive experience for partners/OEMs. It consists complex modeling of sales data for accrual, claim submission and verification, status reporting and finally automated disbursement to bank account. Key Responsibilities/Achievements include:•	Building a high energy team of 15 in India and 10 in Redmond to deliver the platform . •	Co-owning x-geo multi-year roadmap that included establishing and managing Multi-year strategic vision, budget, stakeholder V-Team, Operational Steering Committee, X-Geo/X-Discipline alignment rhythm, representing program in various CXO level briefings.•	Overseeing multiple parallel work-streams and ensure proper delivery in pre-defined cadence.•	Pioneering and led “User Centric Design” vision by introducing user scenario and use case modeling.•	Leading architecture optimization by introducing concepts like Rules Engine, Asynchronous data syndication and application load balancing on top of existing SOA (WCF) application architecture.I was also the Program  Owner for Partner Dashboard (https://partners.microsoft.com/partnerdashboard)  which acts as a "one page bank statement" for 400K+ Microsoft Partners. representing partner’s relationship with Microsoft.Key Responsibilities/Achievements include:•	Transitioning the program from Redmond to India, set up team and program management processes
    
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About us

  At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world. 

We do business in 170 countries and are made up of 114,000 passionate employees dedicated to fulfilling our mission of helping you and your organization achieve more.


      Microsoft
  

During my brief stay with Marketlive, I was driving the sustenence engineering for MML 5.0 E-Commerce productline which was outsourced to an offshore development facility in India. I was instrumental defining the processes, success matrix, resource and vendor management for that workstream.


About us

  Since 1995, MarketLive, Inc., has been the leading provider of eCommerce technology and services that help fast-growing companies successfully sell goods and services online. Designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers, the extensible MarketLive® Customer Driven Commerce technology and services solution integrates commerce across all channels, enabling merchants to enhance their customers’ experience online while dramatically improving acquisition, conversion, and retention rates.

The MarketLive platform is the most retail-targeted, fully featured, customizable Total Commerce solution on the market today. MarketLive powers many successful retail eCommerce sites, including Armani Exchange, Party City, Perricone MD, Sport Chalet, Sundance, Helzberg Diamonds, John Deere, Title Nine, Intermix and others.

MarketLive, Inc.

Worked in various projects in various capacities including Developer, Lead Developer, Software Architect, Project and Program Manager in Intel IT and product Groups. Highlights:1. Architect / Program Manager - Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Definition: •	Defined the SOA conceptual architecture that portrays SOA concepts like Virtual End Points (VEP), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Integrated Service and Policy Management etc. •	Owned Program Strategy, Roadmap and execution of the same through multiple Work streams.•	Drove the evaluation of products from industry leaders (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, BEA, IBM, Tibco) through a X-Geo/X-Group/X-Discipline V-Team.•	Managed vendor engagement through a formal RFP/RFQ process.•	Built POC using .Net Web Service Factory, BEA Aqualogic (ALSB), BEA Weblogic, SAP Netweaver and XI, SAP MDM, UDDI, Flashline for Service repository and Service Monitoring capabilities (e.g. Amberpoint) etc. Project Manager - Enterprise Metadata and Reuse Toolkit (EMART):  I was one of the key driver of Intel's award winning custom built metadata and reuse catalog. Key Responsibilities/Achievements:•	Started as Lead Architect and then assumed Program Management role. Managed Scope, schedule and cost (20+ x-geo resources) and delivered on time. Received Intel Divisional Award for the project execution.•	Owned and drove multi-year strategic roadmap for the reuse Program for Intel IT.•	Introduced Agile development methodology first time in the team. Adopted the new methodology, mentored team, introduced process changes (e.g. SCRUM, Sprint, Velocity Tracking, Burn down etc) and even drove the Intel IT PMO to include new XP Track for standard SDLC•	Drove CMMi compliance
    
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About us

  At Intel, building a better world is our business. Our mission is to utilize the power of Moore's Law to bring smart, connected devices to every person on earth while serving as a role model for how companies should operate.

We power amazing experiences through a diverse product line and exciting partnerships. Our strategy is a virtuous cycle of innovation—the cloud and the data center, the Internet of Things, memory and FPGAs all bound together by the goal of greater connectivity and enhanced performance. 

Our global team, over 107,000 strong across 58 countries, is a powerhouse of engineering and technological excellence that empowers solutions to the world's toughest problems while creating the technology of tomorrow. 

We are Intel, and Amazing Works Here.


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Contracting position in which worked closely with business users to develop User Interface for one of the flagship medical device from Boston Scientific.


Design and Develop Large scale Insurance Application for CIGNA



      HCL Technologies
  

Design and develop large scale editorial software for their publishing business


Stanford University is one of the world's leading research universities. Stanford is known for its entrepreneurial character, drawn from the legacy of its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford, and its relationship to Silicon Valley. Research and teaching stress interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Areas of excellence range from the humanities to social sciences to engineering and the sciences. Stanford is located in California's Bay Area, one of the most intellectually dynamic and culturally diverse areas of the nation.

Stanford University

In 1976, Dr. John Sperling, a Cambridge-educated economist, saw an opportunity: to create an accredited academic institution that accommodates the lives of busy working adults. Today, University of Phoenix is the largest private University in North America, offering over 20 undergraduate and graduate degree programs — online and locations nationwide.

University of Phoenix is a pioneer of many innovations that serve working students today, including:

•	Evening and online classes
•	Flexible scheduling
•	A digital library with more than 500,000 periodicals
•	A mobile app for anywhere, anytime learning
•	The PhoenixConnect® academic social-networking platform

Our curriculum focuses on academic and practical development across our five universal teaching platforms:

•	Disciplinary knowledge and real-world applications
•	Critical thinking and problem solving
•	Effective communication
•	Information utilization
•	Team collaboration

University of Phoenix

Study project on Electronic Color Printing using Digital Scanners

Jadavpur University

edX is the trusted platform for education and learning. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies. 

As a global nonprofit, edX is transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access. Fulfilling the demand for people to learn on their own terms, edX is reimagining the possibilities of education, providing the highest-quality, stackable learning experiences.

1. Soccer player for the class team2. Debate participant in multi-school debate competition


Director Of Architecture - Cloud, Container and DevsecOps at Fidelity Investments

Director Of Architecture - Cloud, Container and DevsecOps

Director of Architecture - Head architecture practice - India

Product Owner in Cisco Video (formerly NDS)

Enterpreneur - Technology Advisor (part time)

Solution Architecture - Mobility

Enterpreneur - Vice President Technology

Sr. Group Manager

Sr. Program Manager

Sr. Project Manager

Program/Project manager

Software Developer

Consultant

Asst. Manager

Machine Learning

Certificate Course

Technology management

MBA

Printing Engineering with Computer Application

BE

Introduction to Cloud Foundry and Cloud Native Software Architecture

cloud foundry

Science

Class 10