Vineeth Cherayi

Accomplished Software & Enterprise Architect with 17+ years of experience leading continuous technology transformations—from low-level system engineering (C++/Win32/iOS) to enterprise cloud-native. Strategic, hands-on leader skilled at architecting resilient Azure PaaS microservices, and driving full-lifecycle cloud migrations for global enterprise clients. Proven track record of blending high-level architectural design with 70%+ hands-on execution while mentoring multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

Associate Consultant / Solutions Architect at TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS) (2012-04 – 2026-03)

• Enterprise Architecture & Strategy: Architected and delivered scalable, secure cloud-native and mobile/IoT solutions across insurance, airline, telecom, and retail domains while writing 70%+ of critical code for core infrastructure projects.
• Legacy-to-Cloud Modernization (Sanlam Insurance): Led the middleware modernization for the SmartServe Claims Program, re-platforming legacy on-premise systems to an Azure PaaS architecture (App Services, Container Apps, Azure SQL, Service Bus), significantly accelerating claim processing times and reducing operational infrastructure costs.
• Event-Driven Loyalty Management (.NET 8 / Azure - Virgin Atlantic): Designed an event-driven architecture using.NET 8, CQRS, GraphQL, REST, and Azure PaaS to modernize legacy Siebel loyalty systems, integrating disparate data sources including Snowflake.
• Mass-Scale IoT & Container Tracking (Maersk): Spearheaded an IoT tracking solution for ~4 million shipping containers utilizing Azure IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Cosmos DB, and optimized wire protocols (Protobuf/CBOR) over Wirepas mesh networks.
• Technical Pre-Sales & Leadership: Served as an iOS/Mobility Subject Matter Expert (SME), developing prototypes, technical defense proposals, and estimation models that directly won high-value digitalization contracts.

Senior Software Engineer at QUEST GLOBAL (NeST Software) (2010-12 – 2012-05)

• Engineered core modules for Windows-based clinical ultrasound diagnostic software using C++, VC++, and MFC.
• Executed feasibility studies and rapid PoC prototyping for embedded medical software, including initial ECG signal processing modules.

Senior Software Engineer at MICROOBJECTS (P) LTD (2010-10 – 2012-12)

• Engineered native iOS applications utilizing Swift/Objective-C for overseas commercial clients.

Technical Lead – R&D at SOURCEBITS TECHNOLOGIES (2008-07 – 2010-09)

• Knocking™ Live Video: Led R&D and back-end socket communication design for the world's first direct phone-to-phone live video broadcasting application, scaling the product to over 3 million downloads and earning an Apple Store "Staff Favorite" feature.
• Symantec Enterprise Vault (Mac): Led the on-site R&D effort to port Symantec's Enterprise Vault client to Mac OS X using Cocoa/Carbon.

Software Engineer at IndyGenius Technologies (2007-12 – 2008-07)

• Built Win32 security applications, low-level copy protection mechanisms, DLL injection, and file-system hooking algorithms in C++.

R&D Intern at Atheeva Technologies

• Researched real-time UDP header compression (RFC 2508) for low-bandwidth socket communications.

Master of Science in Computer Science