Gopi Kalapaneni
Haslet,TX
Summary
Accomplished Senior Technical Architect and Delivery Lead, specializing in scalable architecture and cloud migration strategies. Extensive experience with AWS and Databricks, driving teams for successful project outcomes through technical leadership while mentoring the team. Passionate about AI and new technologies, optimizing processes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Architect
Impetus Technologies
Haslet, Texas
10.2018 - Current
- Managed the delivery of end-to-end cloud migrations, working closely with customer enterprise architects, product owners, alongside my architect team, and tech leads.
- Collaborated with diverse clients on multiple legacy technology stacks to facilitate migration to cloud platforms such as AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake.
- Mentored junior architects and developers on best practices in architecture design.
- Played a key role in drafting proposals, including estimations and migration plans.
- Designed scalable architectures tailored for complex enterprise applications.
- Collaborated with diverse teams to gather and define technical requirements effectively.
- Evaluated emerging technologies to optimize development processes across projects.
- Conducted architectural reviews to ensure alignment with overall business goals.
- Created detailed documentation for all architectural designs and implementation processes.
- Design and implement new utilities and tools on top of the Leap Logic product to support cloud migration activities.
- Implemented the latest Databricks features, such as Delta Live Tables, Pipelines, and Unity Catalog for data cataloging.
- Evaluation of cloud platforms, Azure, GCP, and AWS, on the success criteria and parameters.
- performed across diverse roles as Associate Technical Architect, Technical Architect, and Senior Technical Architect
Associate -Big Data senior consultant
Cognizant technologies
Plano, TX
11.2013 - 10.2018
- Led five-person advanced analytics team, managing deliverables for clients.
- Created Data Lake by ingesting data from SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, and Oracle into Hadoop using Sqoop.
- Developed incremental ingestion framework for RDBMS data into Hadoop with Spark for large tables.
- Migrated HIVE transformation jobs to Spark SQL to enhance processing efficiency.
- Designed data lakes and deployed HDInsight clusters, Azure Blob storage, and virtual network infrastructure.
- Conducted POCs on Azure ML Studio, Workbench, and Hindsight R clusters to optimize machine learning implementations.
- Migrated on-premises Hadoop projects to Azure cloud, fine-tuning application performance.
- Built automated Hive ETL process on NiFi and developed shell scripts for process automation.
Mainframe senior consultant
Mphasis An HP company
06.2008 - 11.2013
- I started as a fresher from campus interviews.
- Coding new procedures, programs, and enhancements for the existing elements according to the business need.
- Analyzing the problems from the client and preparing FRDs for the new processes.
- Performing code reviews.
- Performing end-to-end testing for the new processes.
- Learnt AS400 application as a challenge since project needed and acting as SME for the application.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
JNTUH - Sri Vidyanikethan College of Engineering
Tirupati , Andhra Pradesh, India 06-2008
Skills
- Leading delivery
- Architecture and design secure and scalable applications
- AWS Solutions Architect
- Project management from the technical side and delivery
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, CDK
- DevOps: CI/CD pipelines - GitLab, Jenkins
- Cloud Lakehouse platforms: Databricks, Snowflake
- Cloud architecture
- Cloud migration
- Data analytics
- Client collaboration
- Data modeling
- Gen AI implementation on AWS and Azure
Certification
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
• Hashicorp certified Terrafrom Developer
• Certified Cloudera Hadoop and spark Developer
• Certified Hortonworks Hadoop developer
• Certified AHIP - AHM 250
• Certified Azure Big Data Developer
• Hashicorp certified Terrafrom Developer
• Certified Cloudera Hadoop and spark Developer
• Certified Hortonworks Hadoop developer
• Certified AHIP - AHM 250
• Certified Azure Big Data Developer
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Professional
Telugu
Professional
Tamil
Limited
Accomplishments
Tranformational Performance Award
Timeline
Senior Technical Architect
Impetus Technologies
10.2018 - Current
Associate -Big Data senior consultant
Cognizant technologies
11.2013 - 10.2018
Mainframe senior consultant
Mphasis An HP company
06.2008 - 11.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
JNTUH - Sri Vidyanikethan College of Engineering