Siddharth Prasad
Atlanta,GA
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
7
7
Certificates
Work History
Lead Solution Architect
Cox Automotive
, USA
05.2022 - Current
- Architected and implemented report catalog application using Generative AI
- Extracted metadata from databases, documents and other unstructured data and trained GPT4 model using this metadata
- Architected and implemented Embedded Power BI application in Azure for business users
- As part of this implementation performed multiple PoC on power app and power automate
- Architected different data pipelines to migrate data from on-prem/cloud data sources to Snowflake
- These pipelines were then set up as common patterns to be leveraged by different teams
- Performed PoC to replace Informatica with Kafka/Precisely CDC tool
- Architect and implement BI reporting tool Jaspersoft on AWS using Kubernetes (EKS) platform
- Analyzed and initiated cloud cost reduction initiatives saving overall AWS cost of approximate $15000 per month
- Made recommendation to refactor application to contribute towards more cost saving with reduction in tech debt and improvising performance
- Implemented Well architected framework across multiple workloads in the release train
Senior Cloud and SAS Solution Architect
Accenture
, USA
03.2017 - 05.2022
- Design, architect, and implement migration of SAS Grid from on-prem to AWS for mortgage firm Fannie Mae
- Led the application migration team involving AWS professional services resources
- This migration involved migration of about 6k SAS jobs and migration of 1.2 PB of data from IBM Spectrum Scale to AWS Fsx for Lustre
- Setup a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, terraform, ansible
- Configuration of alerts and notification on Splunk using integration with AWS cloudwatch
- Designed and implemented SAS Viya 4 on Kubernetes on Azure Kubernetes Service for Certegy
- Built a deployment pipeline using code repository and Jenkins
- Designed and led the migration of Analytical solution for Cox Auto from on-prem to AWS
- As part of this SAS migration, we re-architected the analytical infrastructure to create a highly available, performant, and elastic cloud-based solution to enable:
- Real-time transactional API services
- An analytical platform for ad-hoc explorations and predictive modeling for data scientists
- Built/designed a cloud-based analytical solution in AWS that senses market demands in real-time and assortment decisions on billions of SKU-Store combinations
- We built an enterprise data lake in S3 comprising of hundreds of daily feeds of inventory, sales invoices, product lookups, and master data from dozens of disparate and disconnected enterprise systems
- Architect migration of Analytical solution for BNY Mellon from on-prem to Azure cloud infrastructure
- The analytical solution consisted of Hadoop/SAS technologies
- Designed and developed Azure quick starts for SAS Grid and SAS Viya 3.5
- Led the team of 5 in setting up of a new analytical platform for Orlando Magic to help basketball data science team to build models
- We migrated their SAS analytical workload to AWS and during this we also migrated their SQL data warehouse to Snowflake.S3 and setup analytical environment using serverless technologies as well as EC2 instances
- Designed migration of analytical workload from on-prem to AWS for VF Corp
- As part of the migration, we also moved the ETL jobs which were running in SAS to AWS Lambda and AWS Glue
- Also used the DMS tool to migrate from Oracle to Redshift
- Designed and architected migration of 100 SAS workstation users to AWS for Progressive Insurance
- This migration also involved optimization of the SAS workload and adopting the usage of server-based architecture from workstation-based architecture
- Installation and configuration of alerts and notification on Splunk using integration with AWS cloudwatch
Cloud and SAS Solution Architect
CoreCompete
, UK
08.2014 - 02.2017
- Designed and led setting up an AWS analytical platform for Travis Perkins
- We solved the inventory optimization problem for them using our AWS architecture
- Led a team of 10 to set up a SAS infrastructure for Deutsche bank
- We had set up the investment banking’s reporting application using SAS Visual analytics
SAS Consultant
Allianz Managed Operation and Services
, India
06.2013 - 07.2014
- Designed and set up a SAS Grid environment for the insurance company to execute their SAS workloads
Senior Software Engineer
SAS R&D
, India
02.2010 - 05.2013
- Build deployment architecture for SAS products on different operating systems
- Write code in groovy and ANT to set up the deployment of the SAS products
- Setup hyperic tool for monitoring of the SAS services
Platform Build/Design Engineer
Tech Mahindra
, India
10.2006 - 01.2010
- As part of the data center migration, we built the platform for ecommerce application BT.COM
- Use Java Spring/hibernate to develop the ecommerce application to order services such as phone line/broadband/TV etc
- Production support of the application once the application was live for the customers
Education
B. Tech - Computer Engineering
Pune University
Pune, India05.2006
Skills
- Proficient in AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Power BI Data Visualization
- Skilled in Python Programming
- Artificial intelligence implementation/Innovation
- Container Orchestration Expertise/Kubernetes implementation
- Machine learning integration
- Serverless architecture
- Cybersecurity best practices
- Infrastructure automation/CI/CD
- Data Analysis with SAS/R
- Nodejs Application Design
- C/C Programming
- Hadoop Proficiency
- ANT
- Groovy
Certification
- AWS Certified AI practitioner
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate
- BASE SAS Certified
- SAS 9.4 Platform Administrator Certified
Timeline
Lead Solution Architect
Cox Automotive
05.2022 - Current
Senior Cloud and SAS Solution Architect
Accenture
03.2017 - 05.2022
Cloud and SAS Solution Architect
CoreCompete
08.2014 - 02.2017
SAS Consultant
Allianz Managed Operation and Services
06.2013 - 07.2014
Senior Software Engineer
SAS R&D
02.2010 - 05.2013
Platform Build/Design Engineer
Tech Mahindra
10.2006 - 01.2010
B. Tech - Computer Engineering
Pune University
Hobbies and Interests
- Trekking
- Hiking
- Playing Tennis
- Soccer
- Table tennis
- Chess
Languages
- English, Professional proficiency
- Hindi, Professional proficiency
- German, Professional proficiency
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