CAREER SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Senior Cloud Architect and Engineering Leader with a unique blend of Customer engagement experience and strong engineering background of 17 years solving complex business and technical problems using Agile and Lean Methodologies in areas ranging from Operating Systems to Cloud Platforms & Solutions.
• Deep knowledge of over 6 years in various public cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), private cloud platforms (OpenStack, Microsoft and VMWare) and solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS etc.) and experience implementing cloud - first and hybrid cloud solutions and migrations. Hands on exposure to complete cloud stacks from Infrastructure (Compute, Networking and Storage), Hypervisors to various workloads.
• Experience creating Vision, building roadmaps and architecting scalable technical solutions for complex business problems with best solutions technology has to offer reducing TCO and increasing ROI in both Greenfield and Brownfield implementations in DevOps environments.
• Deep understanding of Security, Compliance, Privacy, Business Continuity and Disaster recovery and other critical requirements for a Cloud first, Mobile first solutions.
• Experience working with fortune 500 customers directly and handing RFPs, MSAs, and MBAs etc. Good success rate converting proposals to projects. Experience in working with large PMOs and setting up governance of large projects (USD 15 Million +)
• Shipped multiple, high visibility products/services with Schedule, Quality and Cost adherence. Proficient in key Management skills including (but not limited to) Defining Vision, Planning strategic roadmaps, driving Agile Execution, Customer Management Cross Team/Function Collaboration, Stakeholder Management, Relationship Building, Market Analysis etc. with strong customer focus.
• Experience in driving high worth projects with Global teams. Successful execution of projects in Offshore/Onsite/Near shore and Hybrids Models using traditional, Agile and Lean methodologies. Worked with Company Leadership team (both technical and business)directly on some of the key organization-wide initiatives
• Led teams with engineers, managers and architects with different skills and experiences and handled multiple projects simultaneously. Responsibility included People Management Resource Management, Project management (project planning, tracking, risk handling, execution) and Customer, Partner and Vendor Engagement.
• Experienced public speaker in Technology Events with Developers/Partners/Customers Evangelizing SDKs, Tools and technologies. Also, experience interacting with various Government agencies on legal compliance, project execution and deliverables
• Strong team player and mentor, creative, self-motivated with high energy approach and hands on paying attention to details. Possess good communication and interpersonal skills with zeal and ability to ramp up on new tools and technologies
• Good record of accomplishments and successful track record of excellent customer satisfaction with consistent satisfaction scores of over 90%. Won many awards such as Feather in my Cap, Program Champion etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Windows NT to Windows10/20012 R2 on Intel x86/x64, IA 64 and ARM based Systems. Exposure to UNIX/Linux based systems (CentOS and Ubuntu)

Hypervisors: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare, Citrix Xen

Public Clouds: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud

Private Cloud Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Suite, Open Stack, Azure Pack

Cloud Automation, Configuration and Continuous Integration Tools: Azure Automation, Azure PowerShell, Chef, Git, Mercurial

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server, DocDB and various versions of nosql.

Development/Productivity Tools and Web Technologies: Platform SDK, .NET SDK, Visual Studio 6 /. NET 2002 to 2015, Spec Explorer, Azure SDK and REST API, Amazon REST API, SOA, ASP.NET/MVC, COM/+, WPF, WCF, XML, WSDL, Web Services (SOAP & REST)

Programming Languages, Scripting: C#, Visual Basic, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Node.JS, Spec #, PowerShell etc.

Software Engineering Methodologies/Tools/Technologies: SEI CMM, CMMI, Six Sigma, Agile, SCRUM, LEAN, OOAD, UML, Software Model Development Tools and Microsoft Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Own overall architecture of the platform
• Pioneered DevOps and CI (Continuous Integration) model
• As a key member of leadership team, provide oversight and guidance to development team on Architectural patterns and implementations
• Guide leadership and partners on key clouds trends and technologies
• Work very closely with product management and Cutomer leadership on overall technology vision to create Cloud first solutions and Migrate existing brownfield solutions to cloud
• Develop POCs and lead incubation projects

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Own SDL, Compliance and API Standards areas for continuous delivery using Agile Methodology
• Designed Azure Cloud integration system with continuous release pipeline.
• Collaborated with key stakeholder/partner teams (Engineering, Compliance, Security etc.) to drive requirements and processes in pipeline to ensure they adhere to compliance requirements and audits (FedRamp, SOC, ISO etc.) without impacting Product teams with this additional effort by eliminating bottlenecks
• Designed solutions that significantly enhance efficiency and code velocity of Services
• Drove changes to the infrastructure to facilitate integration of Git (e.g.: facilitation of pull requests) and other tools to facilitate continuous (24x7) delivery
• On boarded various security tools (e.g. static analysis) that significantly reduced production issues
• Defined SOPs and workflows to adhere to all audit requirements both Government and Industry Standards (FedRamp, SOC, ISO etc.)

Confidential

Senior Cloud Architect and Engineering Leader

Responsibilities:

• Owned Design and Architecture of Azure Confidential software stack for current and next generation Data Center Design
• Designed a scalable and efficient system by collaborating with a large stakeholder team (Engineering, Support, Security, Data Center Engineering, Operations, Security, /Compliance and Legal) on Requirements, Design, and Capacity Planning etc.
• Achieved reduction of over 30% in COGS and more importantly, enabled engineer self-serve enhancing code velocity maintaining availability of over 99.95%
• Brought Confidential under the purview of Azure Compliance and Security
• Significantly enhanced security by Enabling Scalable JIT based, Role based Access Control
• Designed and implemented technology alternatives to physical ‘Jump Boxes’

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Championed Code Health initiative across Azure Platform and REST API Standards across Azure and Microsoft.
• Drove REST, Client Library API Design guidelines and tools with a v-team of technical leadership (‘Distinguished Engineers’ and ‘Technical Fellows’)
• Standardized over 35 Azure Services (both Azure Core and Application Services)
• Collaborated with teams across Azure and wider Microsoft to standardize REST Guidelines and also adopt various client library generation frameworks (PEF, Hydra etc.)
• Designed tools and process for consistent API Inventory and Documentation.

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Architect and Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Played key role in the Cloud Center of Excellence and multiple Programs in the Cloud Business unit from setting up DC Infrastructure to hands- on contributions to TCO, ROI calculations, Scaling and Quality of Service.
• Drove the Proof of Concept and R&D for WDaaS stack using Agile and Lean Methodologies, implemented Charge back, management layers.
• Extensive contribution to Product Management and Pre-Sales creating BRD, Personas, User Scenarios. Evaluating various implementation Stacks and platforms from Microsoft, Citrix and VMware
• Driving Technical discussion with Customer/Partner Architecture and PM teams for Requirements and Market Analysis
• Instrumental in Setting up a POC and demo labs for the customers
• Designing Performance Suite for the entire stack including setting up performance matrix, performance benchmarks, designing datacenter control
• Benchmarking performance on various IaaS providers
• Defining multiple Business Scenarios for Universities, Enterprises and specific industry verticals
• Microsoft developed and extended many proprietary communication protocols across its various operating systems and it has distributed licenses to third party vendors. Protocol compliance tools help third party protocol implementers to validate their implementation against Microsoft Implementation. Most of these tools use synthetic protocol clients using PEF SDK and Spec Explorer instead of using the Windows Stack.

  Contribution/Achievements:

• Owned complete Program delivery using Agile and Lean Methodologies, owned Scenario Backlog and Sprint Cycles.
• Collaborated with a team of over 200 Engineers, Architects, Managers, Protocol Experts, Reviewers, Partners and Product Groups located across various geographies such as India, China,
• Owned Protocol Suite delivery to partners, visited partner locations and collected key feedback from partners.
• Played vital role in Customer Relations, Participating in Monthly Business reviews, reporting program status to the customer Management on a weekly basis.
• Provided key inputs and feedback on the technical issues, models and processes and contributed to the specifications for various tools developed within and across the team
• Drove and released Protocol Suite and SDK to Microsoft Partners and general Public..
• Engaging government authorities (DoJ/TC) and licensees, driving Customer centric events and reporting to them on the program status
• Innovated many new methodologies such as remote Lab for Licensees using Microsoft Hyper-V Technology
• Played major role on guiding team on various vendor specific events (Plug fest / Interoperability Labs); responsible for resolving technical blockers, interacting with various Product Groups, Architects and Senior Management Confidential on issue resolutions.
• Microsoft awarded esteemed Microsoft Certified Reviewer certification for this program

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Owned the APIs in various areas on Peer to Peer (P2P) API Development and Testing in Windows Confidential OS; notably the Collaboration Platform.
• Designed and developed automation framework for the APIs called PRIDE (Peer Regression and Integration Distribution Engine).
• Was completely responsible for the Test Development of the Collaboration Platform (Set of about 48 APIs) using Model Based Testing (MBT) approach, significantly improving the efficiency and maintainability of code and finding 100s of difficult to catch bugs.
• Drove Fuzz, Security, Privacy, Model, Functional, BVT, Network Topology and other areas of testing the platform. One of the first groups within Microsoft to adopt Model Based Development and Testing Methodology Also held the responsibility of the Modeler for the Collaboration Test suite.
• Initiated many knowledge sharing initiatives within the team such as Tech Sessions that helped to groom team’s overall potential.

Confidential

Windows Sustenance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Sever level Application compatibility of the operating system with various servers such as SQL Server, BizTalk Server and many other Microsoft and third party server applications.
• Led Automation development efforts in the group and was responsible for innovating and developing tools such as MTC (Microsoft Test Client) an add-on to the WTT (Windows Test Technology) Framework.
• Followed 6 week cycles and 2 week sprints. Played role of Scrum Master
• Wrote automation to test C# and VB.NET Compilers
• Migrated SDK tools from 32 but to 64 BIT platform
• Wrote code snippets/ samples for demonstrating functionality of new BCL features that were published on MSDN and TechNet

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ported a major module (SM Server) onto the .NET platform to support multithreading of the State Machine component of Confidential .
• Developed an XML based application (CCMT) for controlling the configuration of testing environment that enhanced performance over 800%
• Lead a small team of 2 members as a Technical Lead. The configuration application developed by the team helped the productivity at client’s place and was appreciated by the client
• Primarily involved in setting up of 32bit and 64 bit test environments
• Ported arious tools from 32-bit environment to 64-bit environment.
• Testing Visual Basic 6.0 on 64-bit platform using the test bed.