Cloud Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, Noida/Bengaluru
- Incoming Solutions Architect at Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) group At AWS.
- Specializing in engagements with central government ministries, state and local governments, public sector units,
education institutions, EdTech startups including Unicorns, nonprofits, and healthcare.
Technical Consultant/Cloud Architect, Fidelity International, Gurugram
Architected and implemented enterprise-grade AWS cloud solutions for cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure platforms, driving migration roadmaps and legacy system modernization to enhance scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Flagship Project - Managed Database Service (MDS): Spearheading the design and delivery of a self-service platform enabling application teams to request, provision, and manage AWS RDS or Azure SQL DB through an in-house frontend built on the open-source Backstage platform. Led a team of developers to build and scale this solution.
MDS leverages orchestrated GitHub Actions workflows to validate, plan, and provision data stores, accelerating time-to-market while enforcing governance, security, and compliance policies.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and product ownership: Directing cross-functional teams, defining vision,
owning the roadmap, and driving the automation strategy for multiple cloud initiatives such as MDS, laying foundation for platform self-service, and developer enablement.
- Adopted AI-driven engineering: 80–90% of code authored using LLMs (GitHub Copilot, Claude, GPT), incorporating
MCP servers and context-aware integrations.
- Built foundational multi-cloud infrastructure using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, Service
Control Policies, AWS Config, and Azure Hub-Spoke networking for highly secure, available, and compliant environments.
- Orchestrated containers and Kubernetes across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
- Established and led the Cloud DevOps Enablement Team, owning vision and automation to accelerate infrastructure provisioning, minimize toil, and embed DevOps best practices across organization.
- Implemented observability platforms (Grafana, AWS CloudWatch) while applying AWS/Azure Well-Architected
Frameworks to maximize system reliability, operational excellence, and performance monitoring.
- Developed reusable Terraform modules for AWS RDS, Azure SQL, and other cloud resources, enabling automated,
secure, and scalable provisioning.
- Championed cloud TCO analysis/optimization with AWS Cost Explorer, Apptio Cloudability, and close collaboration with Cloud Center of Excellence, Governance, FinOps, and Security teams, achieving substantial cost savings and compliance wins.
- Strategic cloud leadership: Delivered migration of 80% of enterprise database platforms to AWS/Azure hybrid infrastructure by 2025.
- Architectural highlights: Security architecture for multi-cloud identity/access, disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical workloads, and automation pipelines for secrets/key lifecycle management.
- Advanced security: Embedded shift-left, DevSecOps, and end-to-end automation into all architectures and workflows.
Senior Cloud Database Administrator, Expedia Group, Gurugram
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- Drove architectural discussions with stakeholders, defining high-level (HLD) and low-level designs (LLD) for seamless cloud migrations and modernization on AWS and Azure.
- Evaluated legacy workloads against the 7 R’s migration strategy (Retire, Retain, Rehost, Replatform, Repurchase,
Refactor, Relocate) to select optimal modernization paths for each application and database.
- Led cloud migration initiatives—including lift-and-shift, rehosting, and refactoring—through strategic partnerships with program managers and AWS/Microsoft specialists.
- Managed end-to-end migration of 20+ SQL/NoSQL databases and oversight of over 2,100 on-prem/cloud data stores to optimize reliability and performance.
- Authored architectural playbooks and runbooks, unifying processes and accelerating cloud adoption for engineering teams.
- Directed data center and database consolidation, using cloud-first strategies to achieve significant cost reductions.
- Transformed customer requirements into robust, cloud-native architectures, aligning data solutions with DevOps and SRE best practices.
Support Engineer, Microsoft Inc., Bengaluru
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- Delivered advanced SQL Server support for top-tier clients across multiple industries under strict SLAs.
- Collaborated with program managers to enhance customer experience and platform stability.
- Advised on SQL Server and Azure architecture best practices.
- Mentored junior engineers; contributed technical knowledge content.
- Engaged in SQL Server community events and user groups.
Database Specialist, HCL Technologies, Noida
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- Managed production, development, and QA SQL Server environments for global clients including IMG, BMC, Saint
Gobain, Lantiq, and Great American Insurance Group.
- Performed end-to-end database administration, covering high availability and disaster recovery features such as
Mirroring, Replication, Log Shipping, and Clustering.
