Niladri Podder

11 years of extensive experience in IoT & IIOT, providing architectural solutions using various platforms along with industry verticals. Responsible for handling AWS India Partner for IoT and IIoT solutions, building GTM roadmap and deploy industry standard use cases. Recognized consistently for excellent performance and contributions to success in advancement of new technology.

Excellent reputation for resolving problems and driving new business requirement with IoT, AI, ML, RPA, and other innovation services on cloud.

Senior Solution Architect

Amazon Web Services India Pvt. Ltd., Aug,2022 - Present

• Responsible for working with AWS India Partner (GSI and SI) and APJ Partner on building repeatable solutions and define GTM strategies.
• Delivered 8 solutions along with Partners for manufacturing and CPG domain.
• Working with partners on AWS IoT and AWS Cloud service enablement, showcasing Demo and POC of the proposed solutions.
• Delivered IoT Roadshows, Webinars, Workshop to 1000+ attendees.
• Providing demonstration to focused partners and customers which includes POC, Managing SI Partnership, providing solutions to Customers.
• Helps in new partner onboarding journey to AWS India Partner by assessing their capabilities and market presence.
• Got nominated for Hannover Messe, 23, AWS India Summit, AWS China Summit and Dev-Day for delivering Tech-Talks on IoT and other advanced technologies.

Solution Architect

SAP Labs, 2019 - 2022

• Understanding Problem Statement, Preparing the Solution Approach, Key Features, Projected Benefits, Value Propositions, Delivery Strategy, Team composition and Functional/ Non- Functional scope definitions.
• Providing Customer Demonstrations which includes POC, Managing SI Partnership, Providing solutions to Customers.
• Designed and deployed a solution for Solar farming (first in India) that includes real-time monitoring, critical alerts, and notifications from power unit to the mobile app. Implemented future trend chart on historic data to provide an assumption of power generation month-wise. Designed the analytics dashboard by integrating output from ML inference.
• Sealed a deal of € 540K and adding another OEM provider license to support SAP IoT Edge.
• Deployed IoT Edge service for Plant Maintenance and Asset management. Real-time monitoring of assets on oil rig. Designed the architecture for sending data over Satellite having minimum data loss, and storing the data on edge to add to predict the fatigue in infrastructure using ML.
• Delivered AI/ML and IoT solutions in India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, and US.
• Automated HR Insurance document processing for Germany using BOCR API, DOX, Doc Classification and integrated with SAP IRPA. Technologies include OCR, NLP, and TensorFlow
• Designed a chat bot using CAI to integrate with SAP Success Factor APIs for registering employee leaves for one of the leading automotive customers.
• Preparing and Presenting Cost Estimations, Project timelines, Staffing and Pyramid, Team structure

British Telecom, 2017 - 2019

• Designed and developed the device management system and Protocol Adapter for building BT’s own IoT platform using open source. Able to seal a deal of £ 4M for Intelligent Asset Tracking, connecting 1500 Tracker to BT IoT Platform.
• Understanding the Business Requirement & Defining High-Level Functional, Technical and Integration scope.
• Responding to RFP, RFI & RFQ, demonstrating the proposed solution and design to customer.
• Designed and implemented custom-built drones, added sensors and cameras with Deep Learning models to capture faces of individuals and car numberplate.
• Developing the Solution Design Blueprint which includes Reference Architecture, Application Architecture, Component Diagrams, Deployment Strategy, Security considerations and Infrastructure needs.
• Solved problems related to Traffic Density, Air-Quality Monitoring, Waste Management, and City Parking Space Availability. Leading a diversified and high performant team of multiskilled resources to deliver solutions at scale.
• Defining Scope, Objective, Risks, Issues, Assumptions, high level, and component level estimation including resource cost, license cost, deployment cost, support cost and Infrastructure cost.
• Implemented BT IoT Platform across 3 Datacenters, to solve Server meltdown and breakdown due to overheating and irregular maintenance activity. Able to save around £ 90k on efficient use of the HVAC and AHU system. Technologies include ML for prediction scenario, AWS SNS for notifications and Kafka for handling the messaging server.
• Implemented Azure IoT solution for Digital Supply Chain use case.

Tata Consultancy Services, 2011 - 2017

• Part of Innovation Labs for developing in-house IoT platform and showcase the use of home automation using IoT.
• Integrated 3rd Party Payment Gateway system for Citibank.
• Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
• Awarded for developing and structuring the IoT platform using all open-source technology in TCS for leading telecom provider.

Bachelor of Engineering (B. E): Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering