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Pranay Samarth

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT
MD

Summary

Experienced and results-oriented Solution Architect with 10+ years of success designing and implementing secure, scalable, and high-performance solutions across cloud (AWS, Azure), hybrid, and on-premises environments. Adept at aligning enterprise IT strategy with business objectives, modernizing legacy platforms, and leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives. Deep expertise in cloud-native design, enterprise integrations, microservices, and GenAI-driven automation. Proficient in building event-driven and API-first architectures using modern DevOps, IaC, observability tools, and IAM frameworks. Strategic thinker with a strong focus on intelligent automation, cost optimization, and platform consolidation. Known for delivering impactful, business-aligned technology solutions across Finance, Logistics, Real Estate, and IT Operations domains.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Principal Architect

Cognizant
01.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Fortune 500 Enterprise
  • Led cloud platform migration initiative to a new AWS account as part of a strategic M&A consolidation effort, impacting 300+ Java & Node services and web apps. Delivered cloud-native architecture aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles across security, operations, performance, and cost optimization.
  • Fortune 500 Enterprise

Solution Architect

Cognizant
08.2023 - 12.2023
  • Company Overview: Fortune 500 Enterprise
  • Architected and delivered an event-driven compute event alerting system using Azure Resource Graph, Event Hub, Kafka, and Java microservices, enabling On-Request notifications for IT Ops, Platform, and Application teams.
  • Collaborated & Led discussions with Microsoft Platform Architect to understand Cloud Services Planned Maintenance notification process, Event data schema.
  • Identified Gaps in Event data Schema and enrichment required to map cloud resources to Enterprise applications services mapping.
  • Designed a metadata-driven rules engine to route alerts based on compute impacted services (VM, SQL DB, Kafka) and team-specific request configurations.
  • Developed integration modules to send contextual, enriched alerts to Slack and Microsoft Teams channels using secure APIs.
  • Built a SQL-based event tracking layer for historical reporting, SLA tracking, and auditing.
  • Led design reviews, mentored teams on Java/Kafka-based cloud-native patterns aligned architecture with enterprise security and compliance standards.
  • Designed Quartz based scheduler Framework to handle complex overlapping scheduling requirements.
  • Designed & Implemented Proof of Concept workflow to accept Teams Notification request rules and send Slack/Teams Notifications.
  • Step CI/CD pipelines and platform specific infrastructure.
  • Fortune 500 Enterprise

Solution Architect

Cognizant
03.2022 - 05.2023
  • Company Overview: Fortune 500 Enterprise
  • Defined end-to-end solution blueprint with the detailed process & data flow across Enterprise systems.
  • Designed high-availability architecture using Azure File Storage for secure invoice ingestion and Cosmos DB (MongoDb API) for JSON based Flexible Invoice Data structure.
  • Established file drop-based ingestion pipeline leveraging AS2 EDI set up, Azure File Share and event-based triggers.
  • Orchestrated multiple API integrations (e.g., tax, vendor, PO validation, currency exchange) using Node REST APIs to validate & enrich invoice metadata.
  • Delivered near real-time synchronization with SAP calls via EAI adapters.
  • Designed and implemented React Js custom tracking dashboard for end-to-end invoice lifecycle visibility.
  • Enabled telemetry and diagnostics using Dynatrace POD agents.
  • Established robust CI/CD pipelines using Proprietary tools for code, infra, and deployment automation on Kubernetes platform across environments.
  • Implemented RBAC, managed identities, and key vault integration to secure APIs and storage.
  • Ensured Enterprise compliance across data handling processes.
  • Fortune 500 Enterprise

Solution Architect

Cognizant
03.2020 - 02.2022
  • Company Overview: Fortune 500 Enterprise
  • Architected GenAI-based platform for intelligent document search and classification (e.g., invoices, BOLs, lease agreements) using Azure OpenAI and LangChain, with embeddings stored in Milvus and indexed in ElasticSearch for hybrid semantic search.
  • Designed and implemented auto-tagging and metadata enrichment using Azure Document Intelligence to extract structured fields, tables, and key-value pairs from diverse document types.
  • Established document versioning and lineage tracking using Blob Storage and Cosmos DB, supporting traceable processing flows and real-time chatbot context generation.
  • Implemented fine-grained RBAC using Azure AD and Ping Identity for secure access to documents, indexes, and APIs based on user roles and scopes.
  • Developed ingestion framework using custom microservices to collect documents via SFTP, SharePoint, email, and ERP APIs; normalized content (PDF, Excel, JSON) for downstream processing.
  • Defined embedding strategy for multilingual content using OpenAI Ada models; designed semantic chunking pipelines via LangChain.
  • Created and deployed scalable, versioned REST APIs for document search, chatbot interaction, and user feedback; enforced secure access with OAuth2 and token-based auth via Ping.
  • Containerized services and deployed on Kubernetes, ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure; implemented auto-scaling and monitoring hooks.
  • Provisioned cloud infrastructure including Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB, ElasticSearch, and App Services; secured secrets using HashiCorp Vault and Akeyless.
  • Delivered CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Terraform to manage API deployments, embedding updates, and environment configuration with automated rollback on failure.
  • Integrated real-time alerts and notifications into Slack and Microsoft Teams for ingestion success/failure, deployment events, and document processing status.
  • Fortune 500 Enterprise

Education

Bachelor - Mechanical Engineering

Nagpur University
India
07.1996 - 07.1999

Skills

Cloud

API design and management

Microservices architecture

Process analysis

DevOps implementation

Business solutions

Containerization technologies

Security and compliance

Systems design

Enterprise architecture design

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Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Accomplishments

  • M&A Integration - AWS Cloud Platform Migration
  • Led the migration of microservices and web apps from EC2 to containerized workloads, fronted by Apigee API Gateway.
  • Consolidated VPCs, unified security frameworks (WAF, firewall, Gateways) and refactored code for Okta IAM integration.
  • Implemented Terraform-based IaC, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Artifactory and ArgoCD, Integrated observability tools (Dynatrace, Datadog).
  • Achieved 30% cost reduction and zero downtime during migration.
  • GenAI-Powered Document Intelligence Platform (Azure)
  • Designed a multilingual (English/Spanish) chatbot leveraging GenAI and RAG architecture to process AP Invoices, BoLs, and Commercial RE lease documents.
  • Integrated OCR, Azure Document Intelligence, GPT-3.5 Turbo, Ada embeddings, and Milvus vector DB for semantic search.
  • Reduced manual processing time by 60% and contributed over $500K revenue generation through Solution Sales to multiple clients.
  • Invoice Processing Automation (Azure)
  • Architected an invoice ingestion pipeline using EDI feeds, Azure File Storage, Cosmos DB, and SAP/EAI data contracts.
  • Orchestrated system validation, enrichment, and posting via secure APIs; implemented a real-time SLA dashboard.
  • Eliminated expensive legacy systems, reduced maintenance and support costs by 50%, Timely payment processing improved Vendor Satisfaction.
  • Cloud Compute Outage Communication Platform
  • Built an event-driven platform using Azure Resource Graph, Event Grid, and Kafka to manage Azure maintenance alerts.
  • Developed Java microservices and batch jobs for formatted Email/Slack/Teams notifications to IT Ops and App Teams.
  • Automated change notifications, reducing manual effort by 50% and improving outage preparedness.

Timeline

Principal Architect

Cognizant
01.2024 - Current

Solution Architect

Cognizant
08.2023 - 12.2023

Solution Architect

Cognizant
03.2022 - 05.2023

Solution Architect

Cognizant
03.2020 - 02.2022

Bachelor - Mechanical Engineering

Nagpur University
07.1996 - 07.1999

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