I am currently working as Application Architect, Manager with Avanade US as part of the Direct Origination Team which is reponsible for Azure Modernitaion and Data Modernization Assessments, Technical Sales and Implementation.
I am an experienced IT professional with over 14 years of industry (8+ years Azure and 1+ years AWS) in delivering complete solutions and automations using Microsoft Technology Stack - Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office 365, .NET/SPFx/.NET Core Development Platform and Terraform Enterprise.
I cherish learning new stuff, validating learnings with certifications, automating processes & operations, being part of digital transformations, providing more self-serve capacity to end users & enhancing overall user experience by designing and implementing complex solutions using the latest technologies available. I have extensive experience in Cloud Technologies (Azure & AWS) including migrations from on-premises, modernization of applications and building cloud native applications/automations.
I aspire to build on the technical knowledge in other cloud spaces as well in order to evangelize digital transformations and cloud adaptation for clients and become a multi-cloud SME.
With a young family, the time away from work is mostly spent with family, listening or playing music, clicking photos, trying to stay fit and playing cricket.
This website is an attempt to showcases my overall work experience and highlight key skills that I have acquired over the years.Member of the Direct Origination Team which focuses on assisting clients with assessments for modernizing their app estates and providing them with possible solutions, architecture, roadblocks, pricing and plan for each application modernization. This role thrives on rapid assessments and solutioning to showcase the value that organizations will obtain by moving on the modernization path.
Skills: Process Automation, Azure, Terraform, Rapid PaaSification, PowerApps, Executive level engagement, Pre-Sales Technical Consulting, Microsoft Assessments (AFA, AMA, AIE)
Contracted to Chevron as an Application Architect for one of their platforms. Responsible for assisting the support team for around 300 apps in their technical issues and errands, working with the Product Line Architects from Chevron on new initiatives and driving modernization for applications, assessing existing application for improvement/modernization opportunities and creating architecture patters for reuse. One of the key modernizations worked on is for automating the build of product canvases using Power Platform, consolidation of product data and integration with ServiceNow for ITSM data. Other key projects included evaluation of replacements for Pingfed and Bentley Nevada's System 1 Upgrade & Migration.
Skills: Terraform, Azure DevOps, Azure DRaaS, PowerApps, Architecture, Design, Infrastructure, Cross-functional Team Leadership
Member of the Enterprise Architecture team at Baker Hughes that is overseeing all of the technical work for all the product companies. As part of this role, I was responsible for working with stakeholders and project team in order to complete the solution designing and presenting it to the Enterprise Architecture and Security Teams. Once the designs have been approved, then I work with the project teams during implementation phase and assist them with all of their technical issues. As part of the Enterprise Architecture Team at Baker Hughes (DT), responsible for designing solutions (cloud & on-premises), presenting solutions to get security sign offs and enterprise architecture sign offs, assisting project teams with their implementations and fixing technical problems during the course of implementation. This position provided lot of exposure to Enterprise Architecture purview.
Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architecture & Design, Apigee, Power Platform, SharePoint 2019/Online, Rally, Confluence, Microsoft Azure
As a Technology Architect, I was tasked to lead an automation team which will cut across multiple client accounts currently executing Azure projects to identify automation opportunities, architecting solutions for automating business processes, improving operations and enhance overall end user experience.
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform Enterprise, ARM Templates, Azure API Management, Azure App Services, Azure APIM, Azure Functions, ServiceNow, C#, .Net, HCL and PowerShell
In this customer facing role of Technology Lead, I was trusted with the responsiblity to lead the delivery of multiple projects involving multiple cloud migrations from on-premises to Azure IaaS, SharePoint 2013 application upgrades, identifying automation opportunities in SharePoint application and infrastructure support, designing and architecting solutions for automating business processes and enhancing overall end user experience. My roles and responsiblities included interfacing with business stakeholders, analyzing as-is processes, designing future state solutions, performing proof of concepts, presenting solutions to technical forums, writing code for automations etc.
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure DevOps, Azure Bot Framework, ARM Templates, Azure API Management, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Azure App Services, Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Microsoft SharePoint Online, ServiceNow, C#, .Net, .Net Core, JavaScript, REST API, PowerShell
In my first onsite assignment, I was responsible for leading a team of developers to develop a heavily customized Enterprise Document Management System on top of SharePoint 2010. My roles and responsiblities included designing, developing and testing custom SharePoint solutions, engaging with business stakeholders to gather requirements, facilitate User Acceptance Testing, lead data migration for various business regions around the world on to SharePoint 2010, providing ELS and steady state support and piloting the first SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 migration for client.
Skills: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2013, C#, .Net Framework, PowerShell, JavaScript
In this role, I was responsible for development, unit testing, integration testing, documentation, proof of concepts, user acceptance testing, bug fixes and production release of custom components for the heavily customized Enterprise Document Management system on SharePoint 2010.
Skills: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, C#, .Net Framework, JavaScript, SQL Server 2008 R2
As a senior developer in the team, I was tasked with developement & execution phase for multiple web-based applications developed on various vesions of .Net Framework along with assisting in designs. I was also engaged for developing custom reporting for the application.
Skills: C#, .Net Framework, Web Services, SQL Server 2008, AJAX
Being the youngest developer in the team, got a lot to learn about production programming and support during the projects. I was responsible for coding, debugging, bug fixing, minor enhancements and production support.
Skills: C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, AJAX, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g
The first IT job started with this role and a rigorous 6 month long training in .Net and Mainframes. The project that I was deployed to offerred me great opportunity to develop and enhance the custom data load solution and enhance its performance by fine tuning the database queries.
Skills: C#, ASP.NET, Oracle 10g
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Microsoft Azure
Analysis, Design & Solution
CICD & DevOps
Databases
Microsoft SharePoint (2010, 2013, SPO)
C# & .Net Framework
Chatbots, Digital Assistants & Automations
Comunication & Stakeholder Management
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Microsoft Azure, Terraform Enterprise, Azure DevOps, C#, Azure API Management, Azure Functions
As a Technical Architect for this engagement, I am responsible for designing and implementing automations and solutions that will help modernize the Azure Operations support. This client is in the process of moving and adapting Azure Cloud. The automation solutions will span various services across azure including monitoring, reporting, patching and alerting. Another critical part is the self service for end users which will be delivered via Terraform Enterprise orchestrations with ServiceNow offering catalog items to end users.
HTML5, CSS3, Materialize, JavaScript, jQuery, JavaScript Libraries, Web Design, GitHub
As part of personal project, I have created this portfolio website to showcases my work experience and skills.
Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Agile, C#, Microsoft Bot Framework, SharePoint 2013 (on Azure IaaS), SharePoint Online, Office 365, MS Flows, Remedy, ServiceNow, Logic Apps, APIs, API Management
As a product owner and architect for this project, I was responsible for analyzing the operations ticket trends, identifying potential use cases for automation, configuring CICD pipeline, designing orchestrations for each use case/support problems/savings opportunity, perform POCs and implement orchestration, design and implement custom Azure ChatBot using Bot Framework, QnA, guided conversation, LUIS, Logic Apps, App Insights, Azure Table Storage and Azure Functions to assist self-service of routine support requests by implementing end-to-end automations for Azure AD, SharePoint 2013 on Azure IaaS and SharePoint Online use cases, integrating with ITSM systems (Remedy/ServiceNow) for all automation orchestration and participating in technical discussions with BP architects.
Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Agile, C#, Microsoft Bot Framework, ServiceNow, SharePoint Online, Sales Force Integration
The project involves delivering multiple ChatBot implementations with customized use case automations for multiple business functions in BP - Human Resources (HR), Enterprise Project Capability (EPC) and BPX Energy operations. I was Architect & Developer for this engagement and was responsible for design, development, architecting flows, integrating with ITSM tools and Salesforce Live Chat and participating in architectural discussion & stakeholder management.
Microsoft Azure, SharePoint 2016, PowerShell, ARM Template, Agile Development
The project scope included manual and one-click automated build, setup and configuration of a new SharePoint 2016 farm using Azure IaaS, PowerShell Scripts, ARM Templates and Desired State Configurations for servers.
SharePoint Framework, SharePoint Online, Scrum, Office 365, PnP Framework, Agile
In this multi phased project delivered using Scrum Agile methodology, team was responsible for creating a lightweight document manaement solution on SharePoint Online. I was Technical Lead/Architect for this project and was part of the design and development of customized feature, defining the system architecture, automation of site provisioing and was also a product owner proxy for this project.
PowerShell, Microsoft Azure, SharePoint 2010, .Net
The project involved as-is analysis and designing to-be architecture, requirements gathering, performing POCs, setting up Azure PaaS search, provisioning resources in Azure, defining the migration strategy for data and application, performing admin function for the Azure subscription, setup DFS namespace configuration in Azure, define data validation strategy in compliance with legal team, develop ARM templates for provisioning IaaS and implementing the solutions defined. I was Technial Lead/Architect for this work.
SharePoint 2013, C#, PowerShell, Microsoft Azure
This development and migraiton project required team to upgrade the enterprise document management system being used by BP. We upgraded the DMS system from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 and hosted it on Azure IaaS. The functionaties were remediated to be compatible with SharePoint 2013. Once the application stabilized, the data migration was put in motion one region after the other migrating all of the SharePoint on-premises foot print to Azure IaaS. I was the Technology Lead/Developer for this project and handled this from client location.
PowerShell, Microsoft Azure
IaaS platform setup for the SharePoint 2013 farm from Azure Service Model (ASM) to Azure Resource Model (ARM). The project includes migration of entire workload for Azure SharePoint Service lines consisting of ~800 Servers, 500 Cloud Services and 300 Storage Accounts. I was the senior developer in the team trusted with this move.
C#, PowerShell, Microsoft Azure, .Net Core, MVC 5, JIRA, BitBucket
As implementer, I was involved in the requirements gathering, architecture design and laying the foundation of Database As a Service function for BP. I performed as-is analysis of existing AWS database procurement system, CI/CD using BitBucket integration with Visual Studio, POCs, documentation of the architecture of product, completing user stories for planning and requirements.
SharePoint 2010, Event & Feature Receivers, Timer Jobs, Managed Metadata, Document Management, JavaScript, Architecture, Document Migration, SharePoint 2010, C#, SQL Server
Design, setup and development of Enterprise Document Management System for BP. I was the Technology Lead/Developer for the development & migration track. Tasks include but not limited to proposal creation, technical estimations, use case creation, high level design, detailed level design, code development, code reviews, SIT/UAT review, defect tracking, issue resolutions, coordination, ELS etc.
ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX, Java Scripts, SQL-SERVER 2008
The development team was responsible for creating a robust system for Pfizer to handle the contests, awards and fulfilment. As a senior developer, I completed multiple enhancements, features and was also part of the SWAT team for the project.
ASP.NET, AJAX, Java Scripts, SQL-SERVER 2008, Oracle 10g, ADO.NET
I was part of the Pfizer support team, as a developer, that were responsible for supporting the production application and performing major/minor enhancements. I worked on multiple enhancements for applications like Key Account Relationship Management Application (KARMA), Health Care Exchange (HCXChange) and supported applications like MetaEdit, MyBioPharma, Wellness Inventory Reports, Amigos En Salud, eOrganizer, Display in a Box, Product Discontinuation Request Systems etc.
After being recruited for Infosys Limited, I was required to complete extended training in .Net for 4 months and Mainframe for 2 months before being deployed to industrial projects.
Completed my Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology with 73.78% from Medi-Caps University (formerly MITM) located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Cleared Higher Secondary with aggregate of 80% in CBSE Board from Saint John’s School in Kota, Rajasthan, India.
District Topper in CBSE Board with 89.8%. I completed Senior Secondary from St. Joseph’s Convent Senior Secondary School, Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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