Ilamurugu Veerappan
Plano
Summary
Experienced professional with over 20 years of experience in design & architecture in IT architecture and product transformation, expert in cloud architecture, enterprise solutions and distributed systems. With 12+ years of leading architecture team globally specialized in telecom domain with 15+ years. Key achievements include successfully leading a digital transformation project for a telecom company with an order volume of over 100 million customers, and architecting the re-engineering of over 30 legacy applications migrated to AWS, valued at ~ $500 million. Proficient in identifying customer needs, defining product requirements, and driving agile development processes. Adept at balancing technical and business priorities to deliver innovative solutions.
Knowledgeable [Desired Position] with solid foundation in designing and implementing scalable and robust technology solutions. Proven track record in driving architectural improvements and delivering high-performing systems. Demonstrated expertise in system integration and cloud computing, ensuring seamless operations and enhanced productivity.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Technology Architect
AT&T
01.2024 - Current
- Leading North America region architect team for telecom & media account of Infosys - driving open source adoption, cloud modernization, digital transformations
- Provides insights and recommendations to Executive Committee on strategic architectural opportunities
- Ensures Enterprise, Domain, Solutions Architectures are engaged and strategies are incorporated into target product area architectures
- Promotes consistent architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices across the architecture community. Stays current with industry architectures and best practices and influence enterprise technology strategy
- Provide PoCs, Architecture artifacts to application, solution & enterprise team with system components, data flow, network & deployment details
Principal Technology Architect
DIRECTV
03.2023 - 12.2023
- Chief Architected the DTV product launch for online, agent & indirect channels; led Cloud Assessment, API Management, DevSecOps, CyberSecurity, Digital Transformations.
- Led architecture & IT team for 5+ global projects annually, involving diverse teams across 3 countries; well-versed with nearshore/offshore/onsite model.
- Provided roadmaps for the technology consolidations, channel & product agnostic view of end-to-end systems roadmap for reduced footprint of SW systems.
- Partnered with business and IT leadership along with product area architects and partners to understand key business initiatives to ensure product area target architectures are aligned with enterprise architecture and industry strategies.
Principal Technology Architect
Verizon
07.2019 - 03.2022
- Successfully led & architected the legacy modernization of Consumer Ordering system into cloud with open source technology adoption.
- Led team with multiple vendors from geographically distributed teams for a successful development, testing and deployment.
- Managed a team of 40 architects, overseeing a system with over ~1M API transactions monthly, including IoT Subscriptions and orders.
- Translate the Mainframe business functionalities into business requirements to review in modern technology stack.
Senior Technology Architect
AT&T
01.2017 - 06.2019
- As application platform architect for the consumer order orchestration system, led the digital transformations of BPM, Event Driven arch, Cloud adoptions and distributed systems for multiple product types and diff customer experience channels.
- Created template arch type projects and created common workable frameworks for common implementations across the applications.
- Designed and developed the BPMN orchestration patterns for all types of services like wireless, wireline for consumer & SMB, CRU customers.
Technology Architect
AT&T
11.2003 - 12.2016
- Increased solution clarity by aligning development teams with a unified technical direction and partnership. Validate technology assumptions & alternatives.
- Establish critical NFRs at the solution level, participate in the definition of others.
- Participated in planning, definition, and high-level design of the system solution and explored alternatives.Developed the Architectural Runway in support of new business Features and Capabilities.
Education
Bachelors - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Government College of Engineering
05.2003
Skills
- Conceptual Skills
- Customer Experience & Integration Platforms, OSS/BSS, Agile, Digital Transformations, TMF Open API, Event Driven & Open Digital architecture,TOGAF, Microservices, Cloud FinOps, DevSecOps, Distributed Systems,Infrastructure Management, API Management, Global Team Management, Data Analytics,ML/AI, Multi Cloud - AWS, Azure,Hyperforce, IaaS&SaaS&PaaS, SRE, Cybersecurity-IAM, ILM,DIM; Data Engineering,Data Science
- Specific Technical Skills
- Java/Groovy/Python, Spring Boot/React REST, Angular, GraphQL, SQL/NoSQL - Cassandra/MongoDB/GraphDB, Kafka/ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, Redis/Hazelcast, Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK,Prometheus/Grafana, Git, Jira, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Camunda, Temporal, Salesforce (sales and marketing cloud), MuleSoft, AWS and Azure managed services, GenAI, DevSecOps JUnit, Mockito, Rest Assured, PACT, Soasta, BlackDuck and Fortify
Accomplishments
- Digital Transformation
- Architected and led implementation a digital transformation project for a telecom company ordering systems to handle 100M+ customers, projects valued over $~100M.
- Legacy Modernization
- Built the strategy and re-engineered 30+ business critical legacy applications and migrated to AWS cloud in a span of 30 months for a leading tier 1 telecom company handling the order volume of 150M+ customers, worth $~500M.
- Cloud migration
- Led successful implementation of eCommerce Platform into AWS cloud implementation $~60M worth portfolio for a leading media company.
- Technology Transfer Success
- Directed technology transfer projects with a 100% success rate, facilitating rapid product launches.
- Team Governance
- Head of Architect Digital Transformation group for Communication, Media, and Entertainment in North America and built the digital transformation team of 300+ people including 30+ architects and delivered reusable platform artifacts for enterprise wide.
- Telecom System Revamp
- Redesigned a telecom ordering system for 150M+ users, reducing system downtime by 30%.
- Ecommerce Platform Success
- Implemented eCommerce platform, transforming sales operations into Cloud infrastructure under 10 months.
Timeline
Principal Technology Architect
AT&T
01.2024 - Current
Principal Technology Architect
DIRECTV
03.2023 - 12.2023
Principal Technology Architect
Verizon
07.2019 - 03.2022
Senior Technology Architect
AT&T
01.2017 - 06.2019
Technology Architect
AT&T
11.2003 - 12.2016
Bachelors - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Government College of Engineering
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