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HARINDAR REDDY

South Barrington,IL

Summary

Accomplished, visionary and dynamic senior IT leader with 15+ years of experience defining and driving business strategies forward with technology transformations that realized deep cost savings and enterprise level efficiencies. Proven record steering and delivering major projects, organizational transformations, and innovative technical solutions for global industry-leading organizations.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director of Architecture

KRAFT & HEINZ CO.
Chicago, IL
06.2018 - Current
  • Recruited to unify, standardize and update the Cloud platform, including managing $150M budget and leading the global architecture team, consisting of 8 global managers in delivering solutions
  • Led the Cloud implementation team
  • Lead the creation of Cloud technology framework and provided the technical leadership in support of Kraft initiative in cloud computing and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms
  • As a Cloud architect reports into the Engineering and architecture organization, but embedded into the CloudDevOps effort to provide architectural leadership and best practices
  • Responsible ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery
  • Led numerous solution development and project teams, including: Defined global architecture for several projects, including sales architecture for business groups in APAC, North America, LATAM, Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • Implemented real-time streaming using Kafka, Scala, Kafka connect (Confluent), K Streams and KSQL
  • Designed security architecture for the Hadoop data lake platform and a real-time steaming solution
  • Managed and administered Kafka Server by effectively partitioning and properly using offsets
  • Partitioning of Kafka messages and setting up replication factors in Kafka cluster
  • Implemented reprocesses of Kafka messages by using offset Id
  • Delivered cost-savings of approximately $7M+ by standardizing architecture across the enterprise-over the previous paradigm where each regional unit had its own enterprise solution
  • Built the Data Analytics Platform-transforming data management from a previous turnaround time of weeks to delivering real-time, Tableau-based data analytics dashboards, providing a singular source of truth, encompassing collaboration with all business teams to identify needs, and assessing existing technology to identify, evaluate vendors for cost/services
  • Generated $4M in cost savings by developing reference architecture documentation to standardize tools, ensuring alignment of all technology integrations with approved architecture, resulting in cost reductions by limiting the number of different tools being used
  • Delivered organizational first-time security architecture for logins, impacting 200K global users

Cloud /Big Data Solution Architect

TYSON FOODS, INC.
Springdale, AR
02.2017 - 05.2018
  • Recruited to move the applications onto Cloud Platform (AWS/Azure), reduce costs for data management, including building a data management platform
  • Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process
  • Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software
  • Develop and organize cloud systems
  • Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy
  • Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud
  • Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company
  • Successfully migrated on-premise Bigdata platform to Cloud (AWS)
  • Provided competitive edge technology and reduced technology costs 60% from $100M to $40M, by innovating real time, data streaming, analytical BI solutions-transitioning from ECC to big data Hadoop cluster platform with Kafka topics, using Spark streaming to simultaneously load data into HIVE, HBASE and SAP HANA
  • Real streaming using SAP HANA (SLT), Attunity, Kafka and Scala
  • Kafka cluster setup in Dev, Test and Prod environments
  • Defined strategy to migrate and deploy the Hadoop platform to Cloud platforms (AWS and Google)

Solution-Technology Architect

INFOSYS
Lisle, IL
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Led the team at various client places in migrating to Cloud platform(AWS/Azure)
  • Defined cloud strategy and road map to move to cloud
  • Client: United Health Group | 2016 to 2017
  • Led a data management solution project involving 50 source companies
  • Managed project with Agile methodology, led Scrum (SoS) meetings, and supported the DevOps team
  • Provided data management capabilities of a data fabric architecture (Hadoop cluster) with 200 nodes to build a data lake, enabling unifying raw data from 50 sources into a single source of information, and then data analysis and processing for delivery back to source companies
  • Big Data/HANA Solution Architect - Client: John Deere | 1/2016 to 5/2016
  • Led project to replace legacy system and transition to a big data platform, leveraging real-time data access and management
  • Designed architecture for a new Data Hub, impacting 70 manufacturing units across the US-resolving deficient data access from taking nearly a month to get a report and resolve discrepancies from different units to a big data platform, with standardized data, delivering instantaneous data availability
  • Defined SAP HANA Landscape for Production, Development and Testing environments and strategy for data loading from multiple sources onto Hadoop ecosystem
  • Designed and developed analytics dashboard on HANA-XS platform
  • Team Lead - Client: Allstate | 2014 to 2015
  • Led implementation team for an augmented data warehouse on Hadoop cluster in a transformation project of a 30-year legacy data management system
  • Delivered instant access to 30 years of data in a system with minimal maintenance costs
  • Project managed numerous elements, including defining development and ETL strategy for external and internal ORC tables and strategy to merge Claim and Premium files while retaining history files; developing Oozie workflows; writing HIVE and PIG scripts; and designing/developing Universes using IDT for Business Analytics

Chief Architect (SAP HANA/BigData Analytics)

SAP AMERICA
02.2014 - 10.2014
  • Managed a project to scale architecture for an SAP CRM product
  • Scaled an SAP CRM product to meet the global 1B customer demand-which was previously limited to just 20M customers
  • Defined scalable architecture, including integrated ADT (Audience Discovery Targeting), and the Big Data HANA analytics landscape
  • Wrote Java programs (user-defined functions), Pig Scripts (data validation, pre-processing and data loading into HDFS), and Hive programs (data analysis)
  • Migrated data with Sqoop, created data loading Oozie Workflows, and configured HANA, used HIVE for data extraction and analysis
  • Created data models (HANA Studio), RDD's (SparkSQL), and CE scripts

SAP HANA Architect/Hadoop

TCS
Chicago, IL
01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Delivered deep infrastructure cost-savings with a scalable data management solution-capable of managing 5PB of data simultaneously, including building the framework to load data into a Big Data platform without data leakage while volume exponentially increased
  • Created BO (Business Objects) universes and reports
  • Designed ETL architecture to load data into the EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) from Teradata to Hadoop

Chief Database Architect

CITY OF CHICAGO
Chicago, IL
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • Tapped to manage this $12M transformation project and lead a team of 12 in updating the data management platform and report building processes, and implement BI (Business Intelligence) applications
  • Delivered significant improvements to system speed-and cost savings of $1.5M by reducing the number of people required to maintain the system by 50%

Principal Architect

SAN DIEGO DATA PROCESSING CENTER (SDDPC)
San Diego, CA
01.2011 - 01.2012
  • Led a team of 6 and managed the entire BI application platform, to transition a legacy mainframe system to SAP HANA, transforming reporting including building business objects reporting
  • Improved billing system and increased revenue by identifying customers with overdue water department bills
  • Developed a database (Mongo) for the police department, enabling identification of how tickets were issued
  • Designed and developed universes (BO IDT), and implemented BIG DATA analytics

Database Consultant

CONSULTANT
San Ramon, CA
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Led a team for this $500K project involving managing and coordinating implementations for Data warehouse projects
  • Consolidated applications, reduced maintenance costs, and delivered first-time, automated, customized e-billing system, enabling selling the pricing model to other companies for a streamlined billing solution

Business Objects Architect

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Chicago, IL
01.2009 - 01.2010
  • Managed project to build dashboards and deliver a data warehouse
  • Delivered a data warehouse-based system with user portals for patients and physicians, facilitating provider selection by patients based on variable criteria

Education

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) - INFORMATION SYSTEMS (DATABASE SYSTEMS)

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Project Management
  • Budget Management
  • Business Transformation
  • Digital Transformation
  • SAP HANA
  • Data Services
  • Big Data Analysis
  • Data Design
  • Data Modeling
  • Cloud (AWS, Azure & Google)
  • Hadoop Ecosystem
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Agile
  • SDLC
  • Reporting
  • Analytics
  • Dashboards
  • Automation
  • Business Intelligence (BI)
  • System Improvements
  • Business Solutions
  • Cost Reductions
  • BI Applications
  • Health Care Systems
  • DevOps
  • SAP BO
  • BOBJ
  • SAP BW
  • SAP HANA studio
  • Tableau
  • OBIEE
  • EXADATA
  • Exalytics
  • Talend
  • HBASE
  • MONGO
  • Cassandra
  • Hadoop ecosystem (PIG, Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR, Hive, Hbase)
  • Spark SQL
  • SCALA
  • Python
  • Pentaho
  • Informatica Power Center
  • IBM Maximo
  • AWS
  • Amazon EMR
  • Amazon EC2
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • RDD
  • Dataframes
  • Datasets
  • RDBMS (Teradata, Netezza, RedShift, Greenplum)
  • Apache Kafka
  • Power BI

Accomplishments

  • Led the transformation of Global Technology Architecture organization to become quality service provider.
  • Established trusted relationships with business units 'CIO's and business leaders to understand their business challenges and create business solutions enabling Infrastructure and technology support.
  • Developed IT strategy and initiatives aligned with the company's vision, goals and objectives.

Technical Profile

  • DevOps
  • SAP BO/BOBJ
  • SAP BW
  • SAP HANA studio
  • Tableau
  • OBIEE
  • EXADATA
  • Exalytics
  • Talend
  • HBASE
  • MONGO
  • Cassandra
  • Hadoop ecosystem (PIG, Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR, Hive, and Hbase)
  • Spark SQL
  • SCALA
  • Python
  • Pentaho
  • Informatica Power Center
  • IBM Maximo/Anywhere
  • AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • Amazon EMR platform and Amazon EC2
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • RDD
  • Dataframes and Datasets
  • RDBMS (Teradata, Netezza, RedShift Greenplum)
  • Apache Kafka
  • Power BI
  • Agile/SDLC

Timeline

Associate Director of Architecture

KRAFT & HEINZ CO.
06.2018 - Current

Cloud /Big Data Solution Architect

TYSON FOODS, INC.
02.2017 - 05.2018

Chief Architect (SAP HANA/BigData Analytics)

SAP AMERICA
02.2014 - 10.2014

Solution-Technology Architect

INFOSYS
01.2014 - 01.2017

SAP HANA Architect/Hadoop

TCS
01.2013 - 01.2014

Chief Database Architect

CITY OF CHICAGO
01.2012 - 01.2013

Principal Architect

SAN DIEGO DATA PROCESSING CENTER (SDDPC)
01.2011 - 01.2012

Database Consultant

CONSULTANT
01.2010 - 01.2011

Business Objects Architect

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
01.2009 - 01.2010

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) - INFORMATION SYSTEMS (DATABASE SYSTEMS)

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

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