Ravindra Gudimella
Frisco,TX
Summary
Seasoned Architect with 15+ years of experience leading large-scale data, cloud, and platform modernization initiatives across banking and financial services. Proficiency in defining enterprise data strategy, reference architectures, and roadmaps aligned to business, risk, and regulatory objectives. Deep expertise in data migration, data governance, AI/ML enablement, and regulatory compliance. Trusted advisor to executives and line-of-business leaders, with a track record of transforming data into a strategic asset while reducing risk, complexity, and cost.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder/Technology Architect
GEMHS INC
Frisco, TX
06.2025 - Current
- Founder and Technology Architect of a fast-growing nonprofit organization focused on empowering girls through education, music, health, and social-impact programs. Provide strategic, operational, and technology leadership across governance, platforms, data, and partnerships while scaling the organization nationally
- Established and scaled a national nonprofit operating model, including governance, bylaws, financial controls, and compliance.
- Defined technology and data strategy supporting event operations, volunteer management, donor engagement, and digital content delivery.
- Built CMDB-lite asset and service inventory tracking AV equipment digital platforms licenses and integrations to enable impact analysis and capacity planning.
- Integrated ServiceNow-style intake and triage processes with productivity tools (email, forms, collaboration platforms) to centralize requests and standardize service delivery.
- Developed knowledge management practices to document operating procedures event runbooks technical playbooks and onboarding guides enabling scalable volunteer and chapter enablement.
- Established service KPIs and dashboards (request volume, resolution time, service availability, program support metrics) to provide leadership-level operational visibility and data-driven decision support.
- Enabled role-based access and workflow automation aligned with governance compliance and nonprofit audit requirements.
- Applied ITIL best practices to transition GEMHS from ad-hoc support to a structured repeatable service management operating model supporting national and international expansion.
- Designed end-to-end platforms and workflows for program scheduling, capacity planning, reporting, and transparency.
- Build cross-functional teams across operations, technology, finance, and community partnerships.
- Delivered data-driven insights to optimize program utilization, growth planning, and stakeholder reporting.
- Built a scalable roadmap for multi-chapter expansion across North America and India.
- Lead technology partnerships (AV, streaming, digital platforms, productivity tools) to deliver enterprise-grade quality with nonprofit cost discipline.
- Directed live production, streaming, and digital content strategy, delivering high-quality multimedia experiences and expanding national and international reach.
- Delivered full annual program capacity within first year and established a repeatable, scalable operating and governance model.
- Led content architecture and branding strategy aligned with GEMHS initiatives, ensuring cohesive storytelling across the organization resulting in 45K subscribers across the world under 1 year to amplify nonprofit visibility and reach.
Principle Architect
Bank of America
Plano, TX
07.2014 - 05.2025
- Seasoned architecture leader with strategic oversight across multiple banking business lines. Proven success in developing roadmaps, architectural blueprints, and actionable recommendations—while leading cross-functional teams, technology managers, and global vendors to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise vision and modernization goals.
- Defined and governed enterprise data architecture strategies, reference architectures, and roadmaps aligned to business objectives, cybersecurity standards, privacy mandates, and regulatory requirements.
- Identify SOR, SOO, ADS and map them to the Upstream/Downstream Applications.
- Onboard Applications to Strategic Data Platform aka Data Lake to consolidate Analytical and Reporting Platforms.
- Led architecture oversight for large-scale data platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant data foundations supporting analytics, automation, and decision intelligence.
- Established data-centric security architectures, partnering with GIS, risk, and governance teams to embed access controls, encryption, audit logging, and monitoring across the data lifecycle.
- Directed enterprise data modeling initiatives supporting operational risk, audit, compliance, and security analytics, aligning logical and physical models with enterprise control frameworks.
- Architected and governed enterprise observability frameworks across structured and unstructured data pipelines, enabling end-to-end monitoring, anomaly detection, forensic analysis, and audit readiness.
- Led the migration of mortgage servicing data to Black Knight MSP, ensuring regulatory compliance, audit readiness, data integrity, and seamless operational continuity.
- Invented and patented a Reusable Data Integration Pattern (CDPP) that standardized orchestration and integration across platforms, delivering approximately $12M in annual cost savings.
- Chaired architecture review boards and governance councils, addressing audit findings, regulatory remediation items, and systemic risk across the data and analytics portfolio.
- Built, led, and mentored global teams of architects and engineers, fostering consistent delivery, architectural discipline, and career growth at enterprise scale.
Data Architect
AT&T
TX
08.2013 - 06.2014
- Architected and delivered enterprise big data platforms, leading migration from Teradata to Hadoop and HP Vertica to support high-volume analytics workloads.
- Designed scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines with embedded logging, monitoring, and audit controls for large-scale call and messaging data.
- Supported security, privacy, and compliance requirements for sensitive customer and operational datasets across distributed platforms.
- Delivered $15M+ in cost savings while improving platform scalability, reliability, and governance.
ETL Architect
American Home Mortgage
Coppell, TX
08.2012 - 07.2013
- Architected and delivered a modern mortgage servicing data platform, eliminating costly third-party dependencies.
- Enabled scalable servicing operations including payments, escrow, and investor reporting through standardized, auditable data pipelines.
Data Architect
JC Penny
Plano, TX
03.2011 - 08.2012
- Led architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale ETL and analytics platforms, partnering with business, security, and infrastructure teams.
- Established governance, metadata management, and audit compliance frameworks across enterprise data assets.
- Mentored technical leads and drove consistent delivery across onshore and offshore teams.
ETL Architect
JP Morgan Chase
Coppell, TX
08.2010 - 02.2011
- Led architecture and delivery of the VERITY Data Warehouse, consolidating servicing data from EMC, WaMu, and Chase into a unified, regulation-compliant platform.
ETL Lead
PNC Bank
Cleveland, OH
06.2008 - 07.2010
ETL Architect
Nationwide
Columbus, OH
06.2006 - 05.2008
Datawarehouse Architect
HP Financial Services
08.2004 - 05.2006
ETL Architect
Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, IA
07.2003 - 07.2004
Education
Bachelors - Electronics
Osmania University
Hyderabad, IndiaMasters - Business Administration
Institute of computers and Business Management
Hyderabad, IndiaSkills
Enterprise Data Architecture
Target State & Transitional Architecture Roadmaps
Conceptual Data Modeling
Logical Data Modeling
Physical Data Modeling
ServiceNow ITSM
Enterprise Data Governance
Data Lineage
Metadata Management
Regulatory Reporting
Controls
Enterprise Risk Management Alignment
Executive Stakeholder Management
Architecture Governance
Communities of Practice
Vendor Selection
Technology Selection
Hybrid Cloud Platforms
Big Data Platforms
Data Governance
Data Lineage
Data Profiling
Compliance
Reverse Engineering Legacy Systems
Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement
Hybrid Modernization
Mainframe Modernization
Data Warehousing
OLTP
ODS
MDM
Analytical Platforms
ETL
ELT
Data Movement
Data Integration
SOO
SOR
ADS
SDP
Data Lake
BMH
MDX-ODS
Timeline
Founder/Technology Architect
GEMHS INC
06.2025 - Current
Principle Architect
Bank of America
07.2014 - 05.2025
Data Architect
AT&T
08.2013 - 06.2014
ETL Architect
American Home Mortgage
08.2012 - 07.2013
Data Architect
JC Penny
03.2011 - 08.2012
ETL Architect
JP Morgan Chase
08.2010 - 02.2011
ETL Lead
PNC Bank
06.2008 - 07.2010
ETL Architect
Nationwide
06.2006 - 05.2008
Datawarehouse Architect
HP Financial Services
08.2004 - 05.2006
ETL Architect
Principal Financial Group
07.2003 - 07.2004
Masters - Business Administration
Institute of computers and Business Management
Bachelors - Electronics
Osmania University
Professional Highlights
- Seasoned Architect with 15+ years of experience leading large-scale data, cloud, and platform modernization initiatives across banking and financial services.
- Proficiency in defining enterprise data strategy, reference architectures, and roadmaps aligned to business, risk, and regulatory objectives.
- Deep expertise in data migration, data governance, AI/ML enablement, and regulatory compliance.
- Trusted advisor to executives and line-of-business leaders, with a track record of transforming data into a strategic asset while reducing risk, complexity, and cost.
Patents
Reusable Data Integration Pattern (CDPP), U.S. Patent No. 11062246, Standardized workflow orchestration and integration across enterprise platforms, improving reliability and generating significant cost savings.