Chanderkant Sharma

Principal Architect with 25 years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native data platforms for high-volume analytics, telemetry, and enterprise intelligence workloads. Deep expertise in distributed data systems, streaming ingestion, large-scale analytics pipelines, and modern lakehouse architectures. Experienced in defining platform architecture strategy, modernizing legacy systems into reliable and secure cloud architectures, and influencing engineering teams across organizations.

Known for driving reliability, observability, governance, and performance improvements across mission-critical data platforms.

Principal Architect - Optum - Noida

(2019-01)

• Own platform architecture for enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms supporting regulated healthcare workloads.
• Led architecture of a Databricks Lakehouse platform enabling ingestion and analytics of more than 300+ TB of healthcare data.
• Designed distributed streaming pipelines enabling low-latency analytics and operational insights across enterprise systems.
• Built telemetry ingestion and analytics pipelines enabling monitoring, anomaly detection, and operational intelligence.
• Architected scalable analytics and detection pipelines processing high-volume enterprise data streams.
• Implemented batch and streaming processing architectures using distributed compute frameworks.
• Introduced orchestration and monitoring frameworks improving pipeline reliability and reducing operational incidents.
• Defined enterprise data architecture standards covering schema design, governance, lineage, and access control.
• Acted as technical advisor across engineering teams, guiding architecture reviews and long-term platform strategy.
• Mentored senior engineers and architects across multiple platform initiatives.

Consulting Member of Technical Staff - Oracle - Bangalore

(2018-01 - 2019-12)

• Designed Kubernetes-based platforms supporting Oracle Identity Cloud Services.
• Led migration of services from OCI Classic to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure improving scalability.
• Architected distributed data integration patterns using SQL, NoSQL and event-driven systems.
• Defined cloud platform reference architectures improving resilience and operational standards.

Principal Architect - Verizon - Hyderabad

(2017-01 - 2018-12)

• Led cloud modernization initiatives for customer-facing digital platforms.
• Implemented observability frameworks improving reliability and operational visibility.
• Defined microservices and event-driven architectural standards.

Senior Solution Architect - Ericsson - Noida

(2015-01 - 2017-12)

• Designed Ericsson Managed Enterprise Cloud, a multi-tenant SaaS platform on OpenStack.
• Integrated enterprise collaboration platforms with identity and SSO systems.
• Managed deployments across VM infrastructure, Cloud Foundry, and AWS environments.

Associate Consultant - TCS

(2003-01 - 2015-12)

Software Developer - Infonet ECOM

(2000-01 - 2003-12)

MCA - H.P. University, Shimla (2000-06)