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Sailendru (Sam) Mathia

East Brunswick,NJ

Summary

Dynamic Senior Solution Architect with extensive experience at Amazon Web Services, specializing in cloud architecture and site reliability engineering. Proven track record of optimizing AWS services, achieving a 50% cost reduction, and enhancing architectural performance. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and driving innovative solutions in high-pressure environments.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Solution Architect | FSI - Capital Markets

Amazon Web Services
New York City, NY
11.2023 - Current
  • Developed scalable architecture solutions to meet client requirements and industry standards.
  • Conducted research on industry trends to improve existing architectures.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to establish project scope and technical specifications.
  • Provided technical leadership for implementation of enterprise-wide business solutions.
  • Advised on technology strategies to enhance architectural performance.
  • Created detailed designs from high-level architectures for effective system implementations.
  • Performed cost-benefit analyses comparing proposed solutions to existing systems.

Head of Cloud Team

Bridgewater Associates, LP
Westport, CT
06.2013 - 03.2023
  • Managed and coached a team of SREs, Architects, consultants for successfully delivering many cloud engineering projects for the dept as well as running 24/7 operations for the cloud platform.
  • Built monitoring dashboards using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus for application and infrastructure.
  • Engineered actionable alerts and integrated to PagerDuty for alerting the correct person on call.
  • Responsible for maintaining key metrics measuring SLO, SLI for ensuring 99.99 % uptime for internet facing website applications used by global investment leaders and internal business teams.
  • Developed and maintained a multiyear roadmap moving towards the north star of the cloud platform to improve several services for 20+ applications managed by a team of 50 developers.
  • Owned multi-million-dollar AWS Budgets and Software spend for the department and successfully optimized AWS services usage and improved costs by 50% in 2022-2023.
  • Managed multiple vendor relationships and leveraged expertise and added value to solution delivery.
  • Partnered with networking, security, identity, and productivity teams to deliver projects on data center exit, identity management, continuous security monitoring and remediations etc.
  • Planned and executed Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans regularly, improving High Availability of applications leading to zero downtime deployments on the platform.
  • Continuously improved security posture of docker images, EKS platform, EC2 instances by keeping up with upgrades thereby resolving several vulnerabilities as discovered by security monitoring tools.
  • Designed DMZ architecture in AWS cloud to host Kubernetes platform running several web applications with defense in depth for internet facing websites sealed off appropriately from internal networks.
  • Led implementation and adoption of a self-hosted remote dev platform for developers using Coder leading to improved productivity for developers and reduced cost.

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Bridgewater Associates, LP
Westport, CT
01.2016 - 12.2018
  • Took ownership of cloud development and infrastructure and built a team to support Kubernetes, AWS as well as ForgeRock identity Management solutions.
  • Interviewed & Hired 4 interns and mentored them in the infrastructure and cloud domain.
  • Instituted infrastructure as code using ansible and terraform and rebuilt the platform with CoreOS on K8s reducing risk for the k8s upgrade process and making upgrades faster for vulnerability remediation.
  • Improved monitoring & alerting for web applications using splunk, prometheus, grafana, pager duty, Site24x7 global monitors to ensure maximum uptime of the client facing websites.
  • Provided tech talks in the company for cloud first platform on kubernetes and related cloud first stack.
  • Setup automation for backups & restore for all persistent data improving RPO, RTO within 15 mins.
  • Migrated on prem database services to AWS Cloud using RDS Postgres Aurora improving db availability, performance, and scalability.
  • Partnered with central technology team and productionalized a scalable container platform using Marathon on Mesos enabling the business teams to scale clients by 10x.

Software Configuration Lead

Bridgewater Associates, LP
Westport, CT
06.2013 - 12.2015
  • Owned and operated the infrastructure for the department in multiple data centers.
  • Built servers (app, web, db.) for new applications.
  • Managed an ops team and created processes for ensuring compliance and patching for existing infrastructure for internet and intranet applications.
  • Implemented and managed silk tools, Jira, confluence, antifactoy, Jenkins for the team.
  • Represented the department for any cross-department infrastructure projects and needs.
  • Owned firewall rules for DMZ and non-DMZ environments for internet facing portals.

Sr. Software Architect

Nokia (Alcatel Lucent)
09.2010 - 05.2013
  • Member of the software research and development team, providing expertise in integration of LTE (Long Term Evolution) software components through build automation, Continuous integration (CI) framework and configuration management for a global user community using IBM Rational Tools.

Managing Consultant/Sr. Advisor

Black Diamond Software (IBM Partner)
05.2007 - 09.2010
  • Grew a consulting practice focused on IBM Rational skill set by delivering Services and Intellectual Property implementing solutions across the SDLC for various clients in change and configuration management, requirements management, build and release automation, providing technical leadership and primary on the ground execution.

Director, Software Engineering Process

NBC Universal (GE)
04.2005 - 05.2007
  • Provided organizational change from a siloed to centralized group while solving complex technical issues such as existing installs, performance, configuration errors, and rapidly expanding staff size. Provided leadership in software development process creation, implementation, adherence, and owned tools support across organization.

Education

Master of Science (MS) - Information Systems, Quantitative Software Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ

Skills

  • Practices: Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Identity Management, Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Terraform, Helm, Python, Bash, Linux
  • Tools: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Site24x7, PagerDuty
  • Database: RDS Aurora Postgresql, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongo DB
  • Security: Prisma Cloud Compute, Wizio, AWS Advanced Shield, AWS Guard Duty, AWS WAF etc
  • AI/ML: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, RAG, Knowledgebases, Vector DBs, Sagemaker AI, Kendra
  • Networking: Amazon CloudWAN, VPC Lattice, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, Gateways, VPCs, Direct Connect, VPNs etc

Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

AWS AI Practitioner (Early Adopter)

Timeline

Senior Solution Architect | FSI - Capital Markets

Amazon Web Services
11.2023 - Current

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Bridgewater Associates, LP
01.2016 - 12.2018

Head of Cloud Team

Bridgewater Associates, LP
06.2013 - 03.2023

Software Configuration Lead

Bridgewater Associates, LP
06.2013 - 12.2015

Sr. Software Architect

Nokia (Alcatel Lucent)
09.2010 - 05.2013

Managing Consultant/Sr. Advisor

Black Diamond Software (IBM Partner)
05.2007 - 09.2010

Director, Software Engineering Process

NBC Universal (GE)
04.2005 - 05.2007

Master of Science (MS) - Information Systems, Quantitative Software Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology

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