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
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
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
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
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
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
Bachelor of Engineering · Information Technology
2004 – 2008
Certifications
Professional Member
Singapore Computer Society
Jan 2023 – No expiry
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)