Naresh Rajaram
Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Middletown,DE
Summary
Seasoned Leader with over 20 years of industry experience in technical consulting and client business management. Specialized in team management with strong experience in managing project lifecycle. Currently working as a Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect in AWS, Delaware.
Specialties:
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer • Docker Certified Associate • AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate and Architect Associate Certified • Technical Consulting • Business Consulting • Team Management • Project Execution and delivery • SQL • Java • GIT •Microservices • CloudFormation • Terraform
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
7
7
Certification
Work History
Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect
AWS
08.2021 - Current
- Owning architectural health of AWS customers
- Leading Mainframe modernization of a largest investment management financial institution
- Architecting complex AWS solutions and providing prescriptive guidance
- Guiding onshore and offshore resources daily
- Building POCs and solving unique customer problems
- Collaborate with customers to achieve their business and technical outcomes by working backwards
- Deliver architectural documentation and artifacts
Plan, design, and implementation of resilient Cloud Infrastructure with Multi-AZs or Multi-Regional deployment - Large-scale migrations of customers' workload to AWS Cloud
- Mentoring and coaching junior resources
- Conduct technical workshops for both internal and external audiences
- Collaborate with the account teams to provide any Sales Support
- Contributing to the internal initiatives, building artifacts and codes
Principal DevOps Engineer
FICO
02.2021 - 08.2021
- Collaborate in a DevOps environment, working closely with Product Managers, to develop and enhance and automate customer solutions on a highly available, redundant, public cloud infrastructure - IaaS and PaaS (Infrastructure and Platform as a service)
- Participate on initiatives supporting Cloud computing (private, public, hybrid), server virtualization, orchestration, automation, continuous integration, storage management and core computing services.
Principal Consultant
FICO
11.2017 - 02.2021
- Spearheaded the cloud initiative for a large financial organization to migrate their legacy customer origination platform to cloud platform (Consumer Lending and Credit Card implementations) - resulted in revenue increase over 30% YOY, Improved customer experience and reduced operational overheads significantly
- Managed an agile technical team of 20 people (direct/indirect) which includes Managers, Developers and QA resources for customer relationship with an annual revenue of 10+ million USD
- Worked with the executive team in defining road maps, project strategies, handled execution and delivery - resulted in a major client deal over 30 million dollars and numerous smaller deals
- Established processes to setup a new team for development and delivery - provided day-day mentorship and technical guidance
Senior Consultant
FICO
11.2015 - 11.2017
- Design and develop Enterprise solutions, provided Technical consulting for various Financial customers hosed on private and public cloud platforms
- Requirements Gathering, writing technical specifications, providing estimates, handling deployments, implementation support and handle go-live deployment activities in client environments
Lead Consultant
FICO
11.2011 - 11.2015
- Lead, design and develop rule based enterprise solutions for Financial customers hosted on FICO's private cloud platform
- Requirements Gathering, writing technical specifications, providing estimates, handling deployments, implementation support and handle go-live deployment activities in client environments
Solution Integration Consultant II
FICO
11.2009 - 10.2011
- Provided Technical Leadership in designing, developing and deploying rule-based Originations solutions for various Financial customers
- Built a tool to transform/load data from text files from various source systems to load into FICO's Debt Manager (Collection/Recovery) platform - got incorporated as part of the product and also resulted in getting nominated for Technology Innovation Award.
- Designed and developed web applications for ReMax - successfully handled various client relationship/escalations
- Led team of junior developers with their development and QA activities
Systems Integration Consultant I
FICO
02.2007 - 11.2009
- Developed enterprise applications using FICO products for Financial customers
- Provided deployment and implementation support
Senior Software Engineer
Business Objects
07.2006 - 02.2007
- Developed Process Tracker, an innovative product which helps in aligning business intelligence with business processes.
- Development support for Business Object’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Web Intelligence (WEBI)
Software Engineer
Ness Technologies
08.2004 - 06.2006
- Developed a POC ‘Intelligent Question Mobile’ – a web application for mobile users (Blackberry)
- Developed Intelligent Question for Business Objects, a web application that helps casual users access the information, they need to answer their most relevant business questions.
- Suggested improvements to team and project workflow.
Technical Associate
CDAC
01.2004 - 08.2004
- Facilitate technical workshops and lab activities.
- Design and developed JAVA/J2EE based rule engine for Indian Language Transliterations - provided language enablement for people in rural areas
- Localized Open Office, an Open source product from Sun MicroSystems into major Indian Languages (Hindi, Tamil and Kannada) - this was widely used by various NGOs to educate people to understand their basic rights
Technical Trainer
Kammavari Technologies
08.2003 - 12.2003
- Compiled IT training and assessment resources based on understanding of technical processes and skills-development needs.
- Led syllabus preparation based on detailed breakdowns of technical concepts.
- Created curricula, instructions, documents and written tests for various types of training courses.
- Facilitate JAVA/J2EE workshops and trainings
- Prepare Technical Presentations
Education
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics & Communications Engineering
St.Peter’s Engineering College
India04.2002
Skills
- Good communication
- Effective leader
- Customer service-oriented
- Staff training/development
- System Design
- Conflict resolution
- Team building / mentorship
- Project Management
- Cloud services
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer valid till 2024
- Certified Docker Associate valid till 2022
- AWS Solution Architect Associate valid till 2024
- AWS Certified Developer valid till 2024
- AWS Cloud Practitioner valid till 2024
- Certified Terraform Associate
- Professional Scrum Master I
Additional Information
- Honored with FICO CEO Impact Award consecutively for the year 2017 and 2018 towards excellent project delivery and execution
- Received 10+ FICO spot awards between 2011 till 2019 towards successful project deliveries
- Honored with FICO SMS Hall of Fame award for the year 2016 towards successfully migrating the customer to the FICO internal cloud platform
- Received FICO GTS gold coin award twice in 2015 for excellent partnership with the Global Technology Services team
Timeline
Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect
AWS
08.2021 - Current
Principal DevOps Engineer
FICO
02.2021 - 08.2021
Principal Consultant
FICO
11.2017 - 02.2021
Senior Consultant
FICO
11.2015 - 11.2017
Lead Consultant
FICO
11.2011 - 11.2015
Solution Integration Consultant II
FICO
11.2009 - 10.2011
Systems Integration Consultant I
FICO
02.2007 - 11.2009
Senior Software Engineer
Business Objects
07.2006 - 02.2007
Software Engineer
Ness Technologies
08.2004 - 06.2006
Technical Associate
CDAC
01.2004 - 08.2004
Technical Trainer
Kammavari Technologies
08.2003 - 12.2003
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics & Communications Engineering
St.Peter’s Engineering College
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