SUMMARY

• Sr. Director/Chief Enterprise (Solutions) Architect for Cloud - Native Applications development and delivery using underlying Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS) (e.g. Google Could Platform)
• Over 20 years of involvement in all facets of software engineering includes requirement gathering, design, Architecture Review Board, EA Governance and Solutions Architect and Consulting for Onsite / Offshore engagements for global cloud solution delivery
• Over 10 years of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and EA governance experience. Thought leadership in IT - Cloud strategy, Business / IT alignment and Cloud Migration Architecture best-practices
• Lately, my focus has been on helping larger Enterprises to build and deploy cloud native applications in the most effective manner. I bring to the table my expertise in cloud migration and dependency management practices
• Developed an integrated view of Client’s business capabilities and process using a repeatable approach, and available architecture framework and industry standard techniques
• Specializing in: Modernization, Standardization and Enterprise System Integration of legacy Systems and Platforms using Event-Driven / Domain Driven Micro Services based Architecture
• Responsible for providing the business with a plan and alternatives for enabling IT to deliver business outcomes in support of business strategy and goals - perform Buy vs. Build analysis
• Conduct workshops for the customers to identify potential areas for Proof of Concept (PoC) development and design / architect for healthy production grade application, drive PoC and Proof of Technology (PoT) evaluation on Cloud PaaS and IaaS Platform
• In-depth understanding of Domain Drive Design and 12-Factor applications for building and deploying cloud native applications
• Seasoned Enterprise (Solutions) Architect works closely with the IT domain / architects ensuring that needed business capabilities are met by enabling IT by most efficient and effective use of IT Strategy and IT Solutions
• Extensive leadership and mentoring of cross-disciplinary teams in analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of critical business services and applications
• Provide the thought leadership and strategic assessment to the Client’s CTO organization for selecting and evaluating industry’s best Cloud Service Provider for PaaS (Platform as a Service), iPaaS (integration- Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) to migrate enterprise On-premise’s B2B and B2C production applications and other data center workloads.
• Responsible for defining and publishing a future state and cloud reference architecture for client LOB organization
• Responsible for developing industry best Cloud migration standards, guidelines, best practices, Cloud implementation approach and implementation plan for Cloud based software development environments.
• Responsible for defining and publishing Cloud Reference Architecture and Cloud Federation Architecture (including Micro-services) for client CTO organization. Address and incorporate all security, compliance, and governance design principles associated with the cloud solutions
• B2B and B2C (Online Consumer facing) exposure in the following, but not limited to: banking, finance, insurance, telecommunications, mfg.& high tech, healthcare &life Science, retail & consumer Goods (RCG), public sector & government, pharmaceutical and the mortgage domain
• Assisting delivery Team / field teams / Pre-sales team when pursuing new business or additional business at existing clients through RFP response, proposal or SOW generation
• Extensive experienced with TOGAF 8 and 9 -The Open Group Architecture Framework
• Prior to joining Perficient’s Cloud Practice- Confidential, Hiten Desai served and performed different roles like Sr. Technologist / Chief Enterprise Architect, Principal Cloud Platform Solutions Architect, Principal ITaaS Architect, Sr. Technical Architect; as he worked for leading consulting firms and served their Fortune 500 / 1000 clients located in North and South America

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Digital Business / Technology: Digital Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Workspace for tomorrow, Customer Experience, SMCAIT (Social Media, Mobile, Community Cloud, Analytics and IoT), and Cross Functional Collaboration

EA Framework and Tools: TOGAF, Zachman, TROUX, IBM RSA, Mega International and ArchiMate Modelling tool

Software Design Methods: SOA Architecture, Micro-service Architecture (Domain Driven) and Other Micro-service Architecture related design Patterns

API Gateway / Framework: Google’s Apigee for Pivotal CF, Red Hat, DellBoomi, MuleSoft

Service Framework: ITIL (ITSM) - Best Practices for managing services

Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS): Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure and Azure Stack (Hybrid Cloud Platform), OpenStack, IBM SoftLayer and Oracle Cloud Platform

Cloud-Native App (PaaS): Pivotal‘s Cloud Foundry, Redhat’s OpenShift, Google App Engine, Google Container Engine (GKE), IBM Bluemix, Oracle PaaS, SFDC’ Heroku, and AWS’s Elastic Beanstalk

Cloud Integration (iPaaS): Dell Boomi AtomSphere, IBM Cast Iron, Oracle ICS, SAP HCI, Microsoft BizTalk and MuleSoft

Cloud SaaS Integration: Salesforce’s UI, Business logic and Data integration. Salesforce-SAP Integration & Salesforce-iPaaS

Container / Orchestration / Scheduler: Docker, Docker Swarm, Cloud Foundry’s Diego, Apache’s Mesos, Google’s Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and Azure ACS

Cloud DevOps Tools: SCM - Git, GitHub, GitLab, CI- Jenkins (aka Hudson), Bamboo and CM -Puppet, Chef and Ansible and other DevOps tools chain

Big Data and Analytics Platforms: No-SQL (e.g. MongoDB, Apache’s Cassandra), Apache’s Spark and Hadoop Framework (HDFS and MapReduce), Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR

ECMS / CMS: Adobe AEM / Adobe WEM-CQ5 (formerly Day WCMS), HP Autonomy (formerly Team Site Interwoven), Vignette (part of Open text now), Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Oracle UCM (formerly Stellent)

SDLC Methodologies: SAFE (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum / Agile, Kanban, Iterative (RUP) and Waterfall

App Framework (Open Source): Spring / Spring Boot Platform, Eclipse, NetBeans and JDeveloper and Apache Projects

J2EE Technologies: JEE, JCA, EJB, Servlets, JSP, XML, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, Java Security and Java Swings

Scripting Language: Python, JavaScript, Unix Shell Script (bash)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Practice Director/Principal Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage Cloud-Native Platform(Solutions) Practice using underline Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (e.g. Google Cloud Platform)
• Responsible for advisory, go-to-market strategy and end-to-end Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Native Platform consulting solutions
• Helping Perficient’s clients to achieve business outcomes by enabling and delivering IT solutions across the enterprise architecture in any consumption & delivery model
• Application migration architecture using open source PaaS
• Mapping the current client’s data center environment services with Google Cloud Platform from the - Compute, Storage, Network, Security, Identity and Access Management services perspective
• Set up a Google Cloud Platform(GCP) foundation for an enterprise account
• Installation and configuration of Pivotal Cloud Foundry on GCP
• Cloud Native Platform Applications Delivery - Develop an echo Systems tool chain for an entire Software Delivery Lifecycle using DevOps practices (New Application Development and Migration Delivery Model for automation).
• Pilot/PoC to deploy sample Cloud-Native Application on PCF-GCP environment for end-to-end testing (e.g. Data service, containerization, CI pipeline, auto-scaling, logging, monitoring and security framework)
• PaaS/iPaaS - Pivotal CF, Redhat’s OpenShift and other iPaaS technology (For Application development/migration and Integration)-Focus Areas:
• DevOps (Maturity - Process and Toolchains) and Cloud Automation (using Open Source IT tools)
• Containerization
• Micro Service Architecture (Its Domain Driven Architecture. Converting all Monolithic Apps into micro service based)
• CI/CD Pipeline (creating CI/CD pipeline for lower level of environments, Forking, Branching and Versioning Strategy)
• Google Cloud Platform- Focus Areas:
• Compute: Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine (aka GKE)
• Storage and Data Bases: Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Data Store
• Big Data: BigQuery, Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Datalab
• Identity and Security: Cloud IAM and Cloud Key Management Service
• Management Tools: Logging, Monitoring, Cloud Deployment Manager and Stackdriver
• Google Functions - Serverless environment to build and connect cloud services

Confidential

Sr. Director - Cloud Platform Solutions /Cloud-Native Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Helps SAIT's Fortune 500/1000 customers achieve business outcomes by enabling IT & delivering IT solutions across the enterprise architecture in any consumption and delivery model.
• Enterprise Business Architect Solutions includes IT Digital Transformation Confidential and Strategic Assessment and Road-map
• Application Placement and Cloud Readiness; Next Generation Data Center Model, Digital Transformation Maturity; and From Containers to Microservices
• Legacy Modernization with Cloud Computing, Application Portfolio Rationalization, Microservice Architecture, Cloud Migration Strategy for migrating workloads into PaaS and IaaS using Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud deployment.
• Defining DevOps Strategy, CI/CD Pipeline for their lower and higher environments
• Migrating a Digital Mobile Platform to Google Cloud Infrastructure
• Migration Architecture based on Google’s Kubernetes as orchestration and Micro services
• DevOps strategy / CI-CD pipeline for lower and higher environments
• Google Container Engine (GKE) implementation Roadmap
• Develop and Publish Google Cloud design for POC and PROD environment

Confidential

Chief Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• LA County needs to cut their licensing fees, centralize the departments workflows / processes
• Lead migration of 40+ websites written in different languages / technologies (PHP, Java, Python, Ruby and WordPress) from IBM WebSphere (legacy technology) to Open Source solution - Cloud PaaS- RedHat OpenShift Enterprise (OSE) Platform (Docker or Kubernetes) environment/framework
• Standardize the DevOps tool chains to manage and migrate LA County's departments 40+ Websites
• Lead the set up and framework configuration using OpenShift PaaS Platform containers for the migration of those departmental websites
• Lead and develop the DevOps Strategy for migration of those websites on OpenShift PaaS Platform
• Establish client (County's 35 + department) requirements, design a blueprint / roadmap and documentation for the DevOps Engineers to implement this new migration project
• Assessment of 40+ Web sites to understand the tools and technology used by those departmental websites to be migrated on Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS Platform
• Application Placement & Cloud Readiness (APCR) Assessment along with Application Portfolio Rationalization (APR)
• Lead to Develop and establish different templates required to migrate those applications on PaaS / IaaS
• Lead to develop the complete automation workflow for on boarding those applications on OpenShift PaaS Platform with IaaS
• Define Architecture considerations for non-functional requirements including Scalability, Availability, Security and Performance
• Lead to develop and publish the complete Onboarding documentation includes automation process flow and OSE PaaS platform supported tools and technologies
• Create and communicate OSE PaaS Platform Architecture artifacts, Standards and Best practices for Onboarding those departmental web sites
• Create and communicate end-to-end DevOps activities includes DevOps Toolchain and its Maturity
• Define the roles and responsibilities for both IT DEV team and IT Operation / Release team
• Create and communicate current state and future state documentation for the IaaS / PaaS
• Build distributed systems or running infrastructure at scale
• Deliver presentation to upper management and end-users regarding on boarding automation work flow, DevOps and CI/CD pipeline strategy

Dimension Data Americas

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Cloud Computing and Big Data Practice and responsible for advisory, go-to-market strategy and end-to-end ITaaS (IT-as-a-Service) for Digital Transformation & Innovation Confidential . Also responsible for Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) Strategy includes Data Center Development Model (DCDM), Hybrid Cloud and Data Center Strategy, SI Services Strategy, Big Data Analytics Service (AaaS) and Business Cloud Advisory with Application Placement and Cloud Readiness (APCR) Assessment
• Helped Dimension Data’s clients to achieve business outcomes by enabling and delivering IT solutions across the enterprise architecture in any consumption & delivery model
• Helped Dimension Data clients to achieve their digital transformation ambition by conducting Digital Day workshop on site and helped accelerate their digital business
• Led Enterprise Architecture Practice and contributed to the Client’s CTO organization for their Enterprise IT Strategy initiatives and its roadmap, digital strategy, middleware implementations blueprint, application architecture and design, and leveraging overall technical architecture solution across multiple line of business
• Led in Transformational Consulting to assist the Fortune 500 clients in assessing their legacy application landscape, defining the target state application and technology landscape (architecture), and producing the business case and roadmap to optimize and modernize the architectures after performing APR (application portfolio rationalization). As a Chief Architect, managing and providing overall technical architecture solution; especially B2B and B2C exposure (Online Web based) consumer facing Wipro’s key delivery accounts
• Led DevOps (Cloud) Automation Strategy

Confidential

Sr. Director / Chief Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Being a seasoned Enterprise Architect, led the cloud consulting practice had defined their various IT Confidential including EA Consulting, Legacy Modernization, Application Portfolio Rationalization, SOA Architecture, Portal Architecture, Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) and IT Operation automation -CI and CD.
• Led portal practice and defined various portal technology related deign patterns and industry best guide lines to solve the portal integration, Inter-Portlet Communications, portal security, CMS and other federated portal related issues
• Developed and published portal reference architecture and Portal Governance model for their fortune 100/500 clients
• Implemented Prototypes / Proof-of-Concepts and validated end-to-end testing of all portal feature functionality
• Worked as Oracle / BEA Portal Architect / Consultant onsite and help Oracle’s clients for defining, designing, developing and deploying IT projects using Portal and SOA solution
• Extensive experience on implementing various Oracle (BEA) Portal right from BEA Portal platform 4.0 through Oracle Portal platform 9 and 10 and Oracle SOA Suite 10gR3/11g
• Developed and published portal reference architecture and Portal Governance model for their fortune 100 / 500 clients
• Implemented Prototypes / Proof-of-Concepts and validated end-to-end testing of feature functionality