Vikas Srivastava

Vikas Srivastava

Data & AI Architect at Cloudera

Singapore, Singapore

#OpenToWork

About

Data and AI Architect with 17+ years of experience leading client engagements, crafting technical strategies, and delivering complex big data and AI/ML solutions. Strong background in stakeholder management and PoC design. Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 clients across finance, government, and tech sectors, aligning solutions with business goals.

What I'm looking for

I am seeking remote opportunities where I can contribute my expertise in Big Data, Data Architecture, AI implementations, DevOps, and end-to-end solutioning. I aim to design and deliver scalable, high-impact data platforms and intelligent systems that drive business value. I am particularly interested in roles that allow me to work on complex data ecosystems, architect modern data solutions, implement AI-driven insights, and streamline operations

Experience

Cloudera inc

Senior Solutions Architect

Cloudera inc

Dec 2018 – Present

•Proven expertise in developing, fine-tuning, and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) for various applications, leveraging state-of-the-art architectures and optimization techniques. •Extensive hands-on experience in Generative AI and ML, leading end-to-end AI projects, including model training, inference, and integration into production systems. •Responsible for producing overall solution architecture design documents, managing changes to the overall technical solution, and designing solutions, Spark optimizations based on customer needs •Consulting for fortune 500 companies includes largest banks in Singapore/India, Gov Agencies, Tech, E-COM Companies •Architected secure Data Lakes, Mesh & Fabric on hybrid and public clouds (AWS, Azure, CDP). •Involve in PoC, Planning and strategic Design of Big-data platforms. •Collaborate with business, product R&D, and delivery teams to advance benchmark customers. •Implement end to end security solutions for customers. •Performance tuning, HealthCheck, and Monitoring along with the best practice of Big-data clusters.

Big Data ArchitectureGen AIAgentic AIAI AgentsMLOps
Optimum Solutions

BigData Application Lead

Optimum Solutions

Apr 2016 – Dec 2018

•Involved with Solution Architect to build EDMP (Enterprise data management platform) Using HDP 2.4. •Requirement gathering and providing End to end solutions. •Design of platforms involve multi-tier architecture with different technology stacks. •Involved in all phases of the SDLC including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of Hadoop cluster. •Implementation of Applications on Big Data System (HDP2). •Create / design the schema on hive and HBase according to requirement.

Hadoop AdministrationData ManagementSDLC ProcessesBigdata SolutionsBigdata Pipelines
HCL Technologies

Bigdata Lead

HCL Technologies

Dec 2014 – Apr 2016

•Handling a Team of 6 members, responsible for building the Best Data warehouse. •Providing End to End solution of Big-data Problems, real-time as well as Batch processing. •Involved in all phases of the SDLC including analysis, design, development, and deployment of the Hadoop cluster. •Develop Automation Scripts and design data processing flow.

Big Data SolutionsTeam LeadershipAutomation ScriptingPython Development
Tata Consultancy

Senior Hadoop Admin

Tata Consultancy

Apr 2012 – Dec 2014

•Extensive Experience is handling more 20 Cluster, cluster size between 600-800 Nodes. •Implementing Hortonworks distribution on all the clusters. •Installed and configured Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Developed multiple MapReduce jobs in java for data cleaning and preprocessing.

Hadoop MapReduceCluster ManagementHDFS ConfigurationTeam LeaderBigdata Admin
One97 Communication Ltd (payTM)

Software Engineer

One97 Communication Ltd (payTM)

Jan 2010 – Apr 2012

The Hive tables created as per requirement were internal or external tables Developed Map Reduce jobs in java for data cleansing and preprocessing Develop testing scripts in Python and prepare test procedures, analyze test results data and suggest improvements of the system and software

HadoopMapReduceBigdata

Education

Rajasthan University

Rajasthan University

Bachelor of Engineering · Information Technology

2004 – 2008

Certifications

Professional Member

Singapore Computer Society

Jan 2023 – No expiry

CDP Generalist

Cloudera

Automated Infrastructure on GCP with Terraform

Qwiklabs

AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator

Microsoft Azure

Modern Data Architecture

Cloudera Inc

Cloudera Data Platform: Security

Cloudera Inc

AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Azure

Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage

Qwiklabs

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Amazon Web Services

Skills

LLMs UsecaseCloud SecurityMLOpsAI AgentsAgentic AIGEN AIProject ManagementKnoxSecurity DesignLakeHouseDataLakeBig-data SolutionsMLopsAzureGCPAWSModern ArchitectureLambdaBatchStreaming

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)