Kranthi Kumar Asike Parameshwar
Summary
Enterprise Senior Solutions Architect with 18+ years' experience with Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Microservices, APIs, AWS, Azure, Java, Python, SQL, Database, Migration, Network, Security, Systems, Authentication & Authorization, Big Data, CICD, Discovery & Research, Datacenter, VMware, ETL. Collaborate with business and technical teams and leadership to align and map the business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities, and functions. Designing the 3Rs and MVP, Reliability Scalability, and maintainability. Lead enterprise initiatives and guide as needed. Provides architectural support for application development, enhancements, and migrations. Using current standards, create and maintain documentation and architecture designs. Experienced in developing and modernizing applications on private/public cloud tech, using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and PaaS platforms. Experienced with cloud automation frameworks and tools, Migration experience moving on-premises applications to cloud environments using AWS. Deep domain expertise in cloud application development solutions like IaaS, Serverless, API Management, container orchestration using Kubernetes and continuous integration technologies (Jenkins, Spinnaker, AWS for DevOps, Chef, Puppet), Web Application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM). 10+ years of IT experience in Java, J2EE, RESTful API development, Microservices, Spring Boot, Java J2EE application, and web development on AWS Cloud with Spring Boot, Docker, and Microservices development. Support applications with various Enterprise Information Systems EIS, such as Kafka and DBs. Worked with enterprise and business architects to ensure the cloud infrastructure architecture was aligned with architectural standards, business goals, and strategies. Experienced with Technical Delivery in an Enterprise environment with applications that span multiple technology stacks, data centers, and different technology ecosystems, System architecture, CPU/GPU/Memory/Storage/Networking. Experienced in Architecting, Designing, and Implementing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses, utilizing tools from AWS cloud like AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, Kinesis, EMR, Redshift, Data Pipeline, Athena, and CloudWatch. 5+ years of experience in core AWS services (S3, EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, EBS, Route53, VPC, Auto scaling, etc.) and deployment services (Elastic Beanstalk, Ops Works and Cloud Formation) and security practices (IAM, Cloud watch and Cloud trail). Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, VPC, LDAP, VPN, RDB, Dynamo DB, SES, SQS, and SNS services in the AWS cloud. Exposure to all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including proposal, process engineering, design, development, testing, deployment, and support. Good understanding of Software Configuration Management (SCM) principles and best practices in Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies. Implemented critical system security using best-in-class cloud security solutions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect
Pan-American Life Insurance Group
07.2021 - Current
- Leading Solution design and architecture to build architectural specifications and artifacts
- Own solution design/architecture on business initiatives for large enterprise segments
- Contribute to Enterprise Architecture framework, patterns, practices, and principles
- Cultivate partnerships with the business team to gain domain knowledge to build the right solution
- Responsible for building and communicating architecture by creating design artifacts, diagrams, and lightweight documentation
- Experienced working with Data warehousing and tools like Informatica BDM, Snowflake, DBT, SQL, and Tableau
- Ability to participate as a hands-on developer during the development lifecycle, prototyping as needed
- Apply solutions with a strategic mindset
- Monitor and develop a plan to address architectural issues
- On-going personal and team development through continual learning, training, and technical reviews
- Implementing solutions designed according to enterprise architecture and security principles, Adhering to enterprise principles, design guidelines, standards, and methodologies
- Reviewing architectural metrics and implementing changes to increase stability and resiliency
- Worked on Leading, developing, and designing data projects, data Modelling, Informatica integration, Collibra, Metadata, Data Warehousing and Data Governance
- Designing and implementing cloud architecture, CI/CD practices, Build and Release Management
- Architecting, designing, and implementing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses utilizing AWS cloud tools such as S3, Lambda, EMR, EBS, Load balancing, IAM, Security Policy, ECS, ECR, EKS, EC2, Glue, Neptune, and DMS
- Implementing risk management controls and security protocols
- Developing break fixes and performing root cause analysis for system malfunctions
- Diagnosing and resolving complex network problems
- Providing recommendations for network standards and implementing Zero-Trust solutions using third-party tools (Zscaler, Skyhigh, Cisco, and CrowdStrike
- Designed and Developed B2B API using Python, AWS Developer Portal, AWS Cognito, RDS, AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and PIND Identity
- Experienced working with Identity and Access Management (IAM) (OAuth, SAML, PING)
- Strategizing, Planning, Prioritizing, Scheduling, and Partnering in the execution of infrastructure provisioning and configuration while focusing on maintaining or improving security, data integrity, programming logic integrity, and administration
- Participating in design reviews for new and existing services and platforms
- Partnered with various business owners, Architects, Engineering teams, Cloud Operations, Infrastructure, Security and Senior Executives
- Experienced leading top engineering talent and managing individual and team performance
- Demonstrated excellence with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
- Worked on Agile planning and execution processes for software and infrastructure delivery
- Managed vendor relationships and worked as an advisor in selecting tools, vendors, and contracting
- Deep experience working with modern software development tools such as DevOps tools, git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, and Metrics/Monitoring
- Built solid relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
Senior Cloud Architect
Freddie Mac
03.2020 - 07.2021
- Experienced designing, planning, and delivering large-scale cloud migration projects in enterprise environments
- Process analysis and design, identifying technology-driven improvements to core enterprise processes
- Designed and developed Kubernetes architecture using Docker, Service Mesh, Istio, HELM Charts, and Spinnaker
- Worked on deployment of Microservices applications using Jenkins CICD pipeline
- Designed and architecture of Spring Microservices applications on Cloud
- Automated deployment using YAML and Groovy scripting
- Experienced working on Java, Spring/Spring boot, and Restful web services
- Worked on Java Spring Microservices application migration from on-premises to AWS cloud
- Experienced working on Migration of Databases and Applications from on-premises to Cloud
- Involved in building deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Spinnaker, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Experienced working with Code Quality tools like SonarQube, CodeNarc, and Fortify
- Experience working with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes for building applications with Docker and seamlessly testing and deploying them
- Design and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Life Cycle using Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, and internal Docker registry
- Involved in building and maintaining highly available secure multi-zone AWS cloud infrastructure with Cloud Formation templates
- Proficiency in Networking concepts (HTTP/S, TCP/IP, DNS, Virtual Networks, Subnets, Routing, Firewalls, Network Security, triaging packet loss) and good knowledge of RESTful APIs
- Experience on minimal or near zero downtime deployments such as Blue-Green, Canary, and rolling upgrades
- Experienced working with Databases such as MSSQL, MYSQL, SYBASE, Oracle, and Postgres SQL
- Experienced working with Junit, Spock testing, and FitNesse testing
- Worked on monitoring tools like Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Worked with the Enterprise Monitoring team to optimize the Prometheus Grafana capabilities for better troubleshooting
- Experienced in delivering projects using Agile Methodology
- Design and implement new systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
- Experienced working with Remote teams during this COVID situation without any deviations
- Experienced in creating technical blueprints and designing Serverless and Service-Oriented Architecture
- Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure solutions, including enterprise directories, on-premises hosting platforms (vSphere/Hyper-V/physical), and data center storage and networking
- Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies.
Cloud Solutions/Data Architect
Aioi Insurance Services USA/Toyota Insurance
04.2019 - 03.2020
- Experienced and understanding of large-scale applications portfolio in the enterprise-wide environment, including migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud
- Experienced architecting and performing as technical lead on enterprise-scale applications
- Migrate Data Science applications from traditional hosted to cloud-based environments (AWS)
- Design and Develop ETL Processes in AWS Glue to migrate data from external sources like S3, ORC/Parquet/Text Files into AWS Redshift
- Experienced working on AWS Redshift database - performance tuning, clustering, and data allocation
- Experienced in Big data/Spark architecture against huge volume of datasets and expertise in ETL performance improvement tasks
- Experienced in AWS technologies such as EC2, Cloud formation, EMR Cluster, AWS S3, Glue, Athena, and AWS Analytics
- Strong Understanding of AWS, Cloud, Data Lake, and Data Modelling
- Designed and developed ETL/SQL/Python-based processes to perform complex data transformation processes
- Experienced working on microservices and API development using (Spring Boot, API, Microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes)
- Worked on containerized deployments through docker containers and orchestrated through Kubernetes
- Experience in deploying the J2EE and .Net applications, Environment setup, Middleware configuration, Application Server administration, Application infrastructure management, Analyzing and troubleshooting issues, and providing technical support to development/test/operations/production support teams
- Experience in Architecting Amazon Web Services solutions for SAAS-based, high-availability, reliable, and secure Infrastructure
- Experienced in Python development, especially pySpark in the AWS Cloud environment
- Experienced with AWS services, including but not limited to S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, EBS, RDS, EMR, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail
- Led an active integration effort to build out PaaS with Red Hat OpenShift and Dockers and worked with developers on application containerization
- Configured the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for High Availability, used multiple AZ (Availability Zones) and multi-region
- Performed Various system administration tasks for Linux and Windows servers
- Wrote shell/bat scripts to fulfill business requirements
- Experienced working on DevOps Automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, and VMware VRA
- Experienced working on Relational Database systems (MySQL, Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, Aurora)
- Experienced working on NoSQL systems DynamoDB and HBase.
Enterprise Cloud Architect
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
06.2018 - 04.2019
- Solutioning and Designing on Data Centre migration of applications from Data Centre to AWS Cloud using lift and shift strategy
- Analyzed the existing application to design the target cloud platform architecture
- Experienced in designing, documenting, and verifying technology solutions that meet business needs and technical requirements and follow enterprise-defined guardrails, governance, and security standards for cloud deployments
- I worked on setting up the AWS cloud security policy and am also well-versed in Ranger, Kerberos, and other security tools
- Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom-sized VPC, subnets, and NAT to deploy Web applications and database templates
- Designed roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM)
- Experienced in designing and deploying cloud-native enterprise applications in a public or private cloud
- Configured Jenkins with Windows, Linux, and Solaris slaves to automate the build for various languages like Java, Tibco, and .NET using build tools like Maven, ANT, and shell scripts
- Used Docker and Kubernetes to manage microservices for continuous integration and delivery development
- Experienced in transforming monolithic applications into microservices
- Implemented CI/CD (Continuous Integration /Continuous Delivery) framework using Jenkins, Maven, and Artifactory in a Linux environment and Integration of Maven/Nexus, Jenkins, Git, Confluence, and Jira
- Used Ansible to manage web applications, Environment configuration files, users, mount points, and packages
- Experienced working on NoSQL systems like Mango DB and Mark Logic
- Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, and manage Docker containers with multiple name-spaced versions
- Responsible for resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations
- Configured and administered Jenkins for managing weekly Build, Test, and Deploy chain, SVN/GIT with Dev/QA/Prod Branching Model for weekly releases
- Support Experience with automation testing tools like Selenium for Java Applications
- Worked on various activities and deployment of all the modules as part of the Integration Team
- Good experience with DevOps, Build and Release tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, PowerShell, AWS, Vagrant, ANT, Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, RunDeck, Terraform, GitHub, Subversion, SonarQube, Hadoop and HP Fortify SCA
- I worked on migrating Oracle schemas from the data center to AWS RDS Oracle.
Cloud Architect
World Bank Group
11.2016 - 06.2018
- Experienced designing, planning, and delivering large-scale cloud migration projects in enterprise environments
- Maintained deep knowledge of the market for cloud services, enterprise applications, business process management, advanced analytics, and integration software
- Developed enterprise custom applications on the ServiceNow platform
- Strong web application development with Java-based server environments such as Apache Tomcat
- Architect highly scalable cloud-based applications based on microservices, ensuring security is an integral component
- Responsible for using AWS Console and AWS CLI for deploying and operating AWS services
- Built S3 buckets, managed policies for S3 buckets, and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS
- Provisioned the highly available EC2 instances using Terraform and Cloud Formation CFT
- Experienced working with Amazon web services environment and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, cloud watch, elastic load balancers, and route 53
- Problem, change, and incident management; performed RCA on recurring issues
- Experience with maintaining an ASP.NET application written in .NET 3.5
- Knowledge of Visual Studio 2010 and a few .NET frameworks
- Able to lead onshore and offshore technical engineers & developers to ensure project and task completion and adherence to the organization's standards
- Experienced working on DevOps Automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, and VMware VRA
- Configuring the Docker containers and creating Docker files for different environments
- Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, GitHub, and AWS
- Worked on deployment in an OpenShift controller based on a user-defined template called a deployment configuration
- Experienced in developing, deploying, and monitoring in building large distributed and parallel systems using container technology, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Developed and maintained/improved the Applications Architecture framework
- Use OpenShift to improve application security by putting admin consoles on different Docker containers accessible only from unusual port numbers
- Hands-on work experience with implementations of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experienced in developing, deploying, and monitoring in building large distributed and parallel systems using container technology, including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, and Fargate
- Well versed with many concepts of Chef like Roles, Environments, Knife, Chef Server Admin/Organizations
- Worked in GIT(GitHub/Gitlab) implementation containing various Remote repositories for a single application
- Administered and Engineered Jenkins to manage weekly Build
- Provide highly durable and available data using S3 data store, CI/CD, versioning, and lifecycle policies, and create AMIs for mission-critical production servers for backup
- Used Chef to manage configuration on the connected server
- Developed CloudFormation script to automate the EC2 instances with JSON templates
- Setting alerts on instances using CloudWatch and using auto-launch configurations for better performances
- Implemented and designed AWS virtual servers using Ansible roles to ensure deployment
- Used MySQL, DynamoDB, and Elastic ache to perform basic database administration.
SRE Engineer
Accenture
07.2011 - 08.2014
- Handled operations and maintenance support for AWS cloud resources, including launching, maintaining, and troubleshooting EC2 instances and Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)
- Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS
- Designing cloud infrastructure, planning and testing better solutions, deploying and managing physical or cloud infrastructure, and performing efficiently under pressure in critical situations with Windows, Linux, and other environments
- Created detailed AWS Security Groups that behaved as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic and allowed it to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances
- Used Jenkins and AWS Code Deploy plug-in to deploy the application into the AWS cloud
- Configuring Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with subnets containing servers
- Setting Cloud Watch alerts for instances and utilizing Auto-scaling launch configurations for better performance
- NTP server and client configuration for synchronization of timing of the entire server with the NTP server
- Implementation and troubleshooting network services like NFS, FTP, SAMBA, SMTP, NTP, Telnet, and SSH
- Maintained a NIS environment for both QA and production
- Configure NIS clients and troubleshoot NIS-related problems
- Securing the Linux Server and Network Services using TCP/IP Wrapper and Net filter (iptables)
- Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production, corporate servers, and storage using AWS Cloud Watch for efficiency.
Senior Java Developer
Genpact
10.2008 - 07.2011
- Implemented Spring MVC framework for developing J2EE-based web applications and used various J2EE design patterns like DTO, DAO, and Singleton
- Experienced in application servers like Tomcat locally and Web logic to host it on the Linux server
- Used Java Message Service (JMS) for asynchronous exchange of information between systems
- Used Maven to build the application and deployed it on the Web Logic Application Server
- Used Spring MVC to implement the web layer of the application
- This includes developing Controllers, Views, and Validators
- Implemented Oracle stored procedures and SQL scripts for data loading.
Software Engineer
Hinduja TMT
12.2005 - 04.2008
- Involved in design implementation using vital phases of the Software development life cycle (SDLC), including Development, Testing, Implementation, and Maintenance Support
- Developed code for user interface by utilizing OOPS concepts like multithreading, inheritance, polymorphism, and collection API
- Worked on J2EE/JAVA, HTML, and web application
- Created user-friendly GUI interface and Web pages using HTML and JSP
- Worked with the QA team to validate the test cases to see if the test cases were meeting the business requirements
- Created and implemented PL/SQL queries, views stored procedures, and triggers
- Experienced in debugging the Java code with all the testing tools and logic flow using Eclipse UML plug-in and rational testing tools.
Education
Doctor of Business Administration - Information Systems
DeVoe School of Business, Technology and Leadership
08.2028
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Information Systems Management
Lamar University, College of Business
Beaumont, TX01.2016
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Vinayaka Missions University
Salem, India01.2005
Skills
- C, Java, J2EE, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, UML, CSS, C#, VBNET
- Windows, Linux (RHEL 69, 70, 72), CentOS
- Oracle 12c/ 11g, My SQL, MSSQL
- Tomcat, Nginx, HTTP, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, VMWare
- Shell Scripting, Python, Bash, Batch, Perl, PowerShell
- Nagios, Cloud Watch, Splunk, BMC Patrol
- HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, OSPF and BGP, SMTP, NFS and SIP
Activities
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
- CCNA
- Diploma in IT from NIIT
- SAP Certified Associate
- ITIL foundation certified
- Received Awards and Recognition from clients for good performance
- Received scholarship of instate tuition fee from Lamar University for my MBA program
- Attended the Global Enrichment program at Lamar University, including business visits to various Panama and Costa Rica companies
Timeline
Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect
Pan-American Life Insurance Group
07.2021 - Current
Senior Cloud Architect
Freddie Mac
03.2020 - 07.2021
Cloud Solutions/Data Architect
Aioi Insurance Services USA/Toyota Insurance
04.2019 - 03.2020
Enterprise Cloud Architect
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
06.2018 - 04.2019
Cloud Architect
World Bank Group
11.2016 - 06.2018
SRE Engineer
Accenture
07.2011 - 08.2014
Senior Java Developer
Genpact
10.2008 - 07.2011
Software Engineer
Hinduja TMT
12.2005 - 04.2008
Doctor of Business Administration - Information Systems
DeVoe School of Business, Technology and Leadership
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Information Systems Management
Lamar University, College of Business
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Vinayaka Missions University