Kiran Kharate — Director of Engineering
Experienced and result oriented IT Professional with strong Architecture and Leadership skills, currently working as Lead Enterprise Architect for Allstate's (Fortune 100 Company) Digital Transformation journey. In my current role, I am responsible for defining and driving Business and Technology Strategy/Roadmaps, Modernization of Allstate's Policy Admin System, Driving Migration Initiatives and Architecting Business initiatives towards Target State Architecture Blueprint with significant span of influence over 500+ Developer organization. I have over 17 years of experience in various domains - P&C Insurance, Savings & Retirement, Print Media & Advertising with proven track record of Architecting, Designing and implementing complex multi-tier Enterprise Distributed Systems which are highly secure, available, scalable and resilient. I'm energetic thought leader focused on simplification and modernization to build innovative enterprise solutions thereby increasing revenue and savings to the organization. My background with Allstate India and Yell Group also demonstrates my team/organization building skills, involved as first few members to join the MNC center in India (GCC's) and grow the offshore India team. Key Skills/Technologies/Tools - Enterprise Architecture, Solutions Architecture, Micro Services Architecture, Java/JEE, Enterprise Architecture Patterns, SOA, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Applications, Master Data Management(MDM) and Data Modeling, Spring Boot/Spring Cloud/Spring Batch, Struts, Web Services - SOAP & REST, API Management Platforms - APIGee, Layer7, Messaging platforms - JBOSS Messaging, ActiveMQ, Kafka, WebSphere Messaging, Rabbit MQ, JMS, UX Technologies - React, Angular and Node JS, Enterprise Architect SPARX, Decision Modeling - Sapiens, Rule Engine - Drools, Apache Camel, Enterprise Service Bus - Mule, AWS Lex, AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, AWS S3, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Hadoop, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Performance monitoring and Optimization - Dynatrace, Data Dog etc,
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Enterprise Architect with extensive experience in digital transformation and complex system design.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 18 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solutions Architecture
- Problem Solving
- Software Development Methodologies
Career Highlights
- 17 years of experience in IT and Architecture.
- Led Allstate's Digital Transformation initiatives.
- Expert in Enterprise and Solutions Architecture.
Work Experience
Allstate
Enterprise Architect - Senior Manager II (3 yrs)
Lead Solutions Architect - Senior Manager II (1 yr 2 mos)
Lead Solutions Architect (1 yr 6 mos)
Solutions Architect (2 yrs)
Principal Consultant (2 yrs 9 mos)
Solutions Designer (2 yrs 9 mos)
Yell Adworks Ltd
Technology Lead (8 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)
Fidelity Investments
Associate Software Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)
Education
Leading with Analytics at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
BE - Bachelor of Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology