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Kalicharan Sooriyanarayanan

Minneapolis,United States

Summary

  • Over 10 years of Cloud Solution Architecture Experience and 20 years of professional IT experience
  • Possesses Master of Science degree and certified in CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) with emphases in Cyber & Cloud Security
  • Expert in Cloud architecture and design. Possesses certifications in Azure - Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and AWS - Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Business vertical expertise spans the Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail,
    Powersports/Auto and Manufacturing industries.
  • Strong hands on technical acumen, began career in Java/J2EE Software Engineering, pivoted into Web Application Server and Early adopter in event driven architecture leveraging message brokers.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Infrastructure Manager, Platform and Cloud

Polaris Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
07.2022 - Current

Polaris is one of the world’s largest Powersports companies. And in recent years, we’ve expanded beyond Powersports into adjacent markets, like commercial and military vehicles, where we can add value. Today, Polaris offers a diverse portfolio of best-in-class brand. Polaris adopted Cloud platform to enable more agility and increase customer experience. As part of this approach, Polaris started moving its on-premise resources to Microsoft Azure Cloud.

  • Building high-performing global teams to maintain Polaris's on-premise and cloud infrastructure
  • Contribute to multi cloud architecture design and engineering on AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Participate and assist the Group in setting the long term direction, roadmaps, and standards for technical architecture
  • Leveraging Agile methodologies to keep teams aligned with changing business and customer needs
  • Optimizing public cloud utilization and cost through automation and scalability

Platform/Cloud Architect

Polaris Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
04.2017 - 07.2022
  • Design and implement effective Cloud Solutions for API and Gateway Development
  • Performs coding and/or configuration to meet project needs, utilizing standards procedures and techniques
  • Setup and design centralized monitoring system for hybrid Cloud setup
  • Design new cloud patterns that will suffice business requirements

Senior Websphere Message Broker Developer

Polaris Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
06.2014 - 04.2017
  • Drive forward future-state vision for Integration tools, architecture, process, and best practices
  • Performs coding and/or configuration to meet project needs, utilizing standards procedures and techniques
  • Monitors the operating efficiency of existing application systems and provide for proactive maintenance
  • Leads technical design of new systems/applications for large and medium projects, working from functional specifications

Senior Websphere Message Broker Developer

Healthways
Franklin, TN
03.2012 - 06.2014
  • Design, develop, unit test and integrate Message Broker flows
  • Identify performance bottlenecks and improve flow processing speed and throughput
  • End to end development of Health Risk Assessment Message flows with the usage of Web Service calls using HTTP Request Nodes
  • Integrate the existing flows with centralized Error Handling Flows
  • Work on deployment of Message Broker flows across different environments. (Dev, QA, Performance, Stage, Production and Production Fix)
  • Work on post implementation defects fixes

Project Leader

Target Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
06.2010 - 01.2012
  • Business Requirement gathering/analyzing for the Client’s Customers
  • Co-ordinate with Release Management Team considering Quality and Change management activities
  • Work with Architects and System Analysts to understand technical and business needs.
  • Interacting with the Client’s customers and cross functional teams during the Project Life Cycle
  • Monitor the overall Project Status & ensure that the deadlines are met as per Client’s expectations
  • Work across multiple projects, allocate time appropriately as needed and meet project deadlines

Websphere Message Broker Developer/Siebel Administrator

Target Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
07.2006 - 05.2010
  • Performed Websphere Message Broker Configuration changes & message flow development as part of GuestConnect project
  • Responsible for design, develop, unit testing and integrate message flows
  • Also performed roles of Siebel Administrator and Unica Administrator.

SeeBeyond Developer/Support

Target Corporation
Chennai, India
06.2005 - 06.2006
  • This project was executed to achive interaction between desktop siebel application application and Total Systems using SeeBeyond eGate Integrator
  • Responsible for providing end user support.

Web Developer

Target Corporation
Chennai, India
08.2004 - 05.2005
  • Development, Maintenance, Enhancement and end user support for various web based applications using Java/J2EE
  • Performed analysis, development, testing and implementation of various modules.

Education

Master of Science - MS - Cybersecurity

EC-Council University
Albuquerque, New Mexico
12.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Tamilnadu, India
01.2004

High School - High School

Kendriya Vidyalaya
Tamilnadu, India
01-2000

Skills

  • Azure Architecture and Design
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Cybersecurity
  • DevOps CI/CD
  • Automation
  • Capacity Planning & Sizing
  • Cloud Cost Optimization and Lean Operations
  • Monitoring & Observability
  • AWS & GCP Administration
  • Team/Project Management

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert - Microsoft
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - Microsoft
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) - EC-Council
  • Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals - Microsoft
  • Splunk Certified User - Splunk
  • Splunk Certified Power User - Splunk
  • Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin - Splunk
  • Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.4
  • IBM Certified Websphere MQ v6.0 - System Administration & Solution Designer
  • IBM Websphere Message Broker v6.0/v8.0- System Administration & Solution Designer

Timeline

Infrastructure Manager, Platform and Cloud

Polaris Inc.
07.2022 - Current

Platform/Cloud Architect

Polaris Inc.
04.2017 - 07.2022

Senior Websphere Message Broker Developer

Polaris Inc.
06.2014 - 04.2017

Senior Websphere Message Broker Developer

Healthways
03.2012 - 06.2014

Project Leader

Target Corporation
06.2010 - 01.2012

Websphere Message Broker Developer/Siebel Administrator

Target Corporation
07.2006 - 05.2010

SeeBeyond Developer/Support

Target Corporation
06.2005 - 06.2006

Web Developer

Target Corporation
08.2004 - 05.2005

Master of Science - MS - Cybersecurity

EC-Council University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

High School - High School

Kendriya Vidyalaya
Kalicharan Sooriyanarayanan