Oct 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Transforming data and analytics platforms supporting 43000 restaurants across 110 markets
• . Leading EDAA transformation globally
• Establishing McD AI hub with rapid prototyping and platform engineering
• . Building McD India GCC.
• Rebuilding architecture practices
• . Maturing high-performing teams
• .Leading high revenue growth initiatives driven by modern architecture, data and AI

Sep 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Kirkland, Washington, United States

Dec 2017 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• 1. Strategic Visioning and Innovation. Responsible for strategic planning and multi-year digitalization roadmap transforming legacy technology stacks & practices to highly adaptable and expandable enablement pillars with product-centric delivery practices. Leading new retail innovation ideation & realization for Lululemon's Chinese market.
• 2.Future State Architecture and Enterprise Governance. Driving the future state of digital transformation and it's architecture evolution with hybrid enablement model, Establishing an effective enterprise architecture governance process to enable agility and speed of delivery while ensuring adherence to architecture tenets, operational excellence, and security standards.
• 3. Integration Platform. Building integration platform capabilities with enterprise streaming data & API-led connectivities to accelerate rapid growth & innovations
• 4. Global Data and Analytics Platform.

Jun 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bellevue

• As the architecture owner of Visa small business payment platform, serving as trusted advisor for executive stakeholders, I am responsible for strategizing business initiatives with forward thinking technology evolutions, establishing multi-year platform transformation target state and it’s roadmap, leading product development in all facets from strategic to tactical implementation and from conception to post deployment.
• Key Responsibilities
• Drive platform transformation vision, strategy and architecture of Visa’s SMB payment services from traditional gateway to commerce
• Guide engineering team with research, design and hands on PoC to deliver innovative products using cutting edge technologies and practices
• Serve as an executive technical interface to technology partners and vendors
• Demonstrate and promote VISA’s innovative culture by continues trying, failing, learning and sharing

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr · Seattle

• Key Responsible Domains:
• Customer Identity and Access Management
• API Management
• Customer Data Accessing/Profiling
• Customer Care
• Highlights:
• Acted as trusted adviser for executive stakeholders at enterprise level, provides forward thinking consulting advice to stakeholders
• Became domain expert on the capability gap, organizational dependencies/obstacles for Customer and API domains
• Identified the executable opportunities by linking domain specific solution to broader enterprise key initiatives for short-term and long-term strategic alignment
• Established target architecture and roadmap for Customer Identity and API Management
• Took the ownership of early stage execution of CIAM and API initiatives, from PoC planning, vendor engagement, PoC deep exercise to stack holder communication
• Initiated and established EA blog as a simple communication channel for collaboration, inspiration and forward thinking
• Led by examples, with honest, open and genuine aptitude, constantly demonstrating and building high trust top performing collaborative team by trying, failing, learning and sharing

Aug 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bellevue,WA

• Key Responsibilities:
• Evangelize and drive the adoption and execution of the strategy and standards to break business silo.
• Establish and execute technology roadmaps, standards, patterns, usages and guidelines for enterprise application and data management
• Drive R&D , identify/PoC emerging technologies, and determine their potential impact and usage on the enterprise
• Responsible for key project design reviews as part of the methodology process to ensure application designs adhere to enterprise architecture guidelines
• Acted as principal architect and main driver for enterprise roadmap, PoC , architecting and leading the implementation of following systems:
• Logical Data Warehouse using Composite Data Virtualization Technology
• Enterprise Service Bus with Mule
• Graph Database (Neo4j, Titan)
• Auto-Classification and Taxonomy Management
• Master Data Management, Enterprise Logical Data Model

May 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Drugstore.com

• Acted as dev lead, architecting and leading the implementation of the following systems by using service oriented architecture (WCF RESTful Services) and MVC, MVVM patterns.
• Responsible for
• Conducting research, developing prototypes, and provide architect solutions.
• Providing guidance on costs, benefits and risks related to systems implementation.
• Providing expertise on best practices, methodology refinement, and solution validation.
• Liaison with other parts of IT to identify and address technical issues.
• Leading (hands on) the implementation of the solutions using SCRUM methodology
• Key Projects
• Project: CRM- Oracle RightNow Integration
• CRM-RightNow integration project is a multi-million dollar effort that integrates 8 million active users’ activities into the cloud based CRM SAAS solutions. System leverages RIghtNow ‘s CRM framework, created high performing and scalable service layer that bridges into existing Order
• Management System, WMS Fulfillment Systems, Catalog/Merchandise System and Order Audit Systems. Oracle PL/SQL Packages, WCF RESTful Services, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Managed Add-in Framework were used for the implementation.
• Project: Logistics Solution Platform
• Logistics shipping solution platform consists an array of systems that supports shipment of 120k packages daily across 3 distribution centers. The core component of the platform is the decision engine that takes “fuzzy” order information, predicts and recommends an optimal shipping solution based on various logistics restrictions and preferences. Oracle PL/SQL, LINQ Expression, Reactive Extensions, Task Parallel Library are heavily used in the architecture implementation

Jun 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Blade Games World

• Defined and implemented highly scalable OLTP database server infrastructure with growth and cost projection using Amazon Cloud Server and Storage Environment
• Acted as DBA and Main Data Modeler, solely responsible for data modeling, performance tuning , server monitoring and planning, and T-SQL coding
• Established cost based data replication, data backup, failover, disaster recovery infrastructure and processes using Amazon EC2 Virtual Server Environment and SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring, Transaction Log Shipping
• Established T-SQL Coding Standard and Best Practices, Hands on SQL programming for 85% of the backend systems

Jun 2003 – Apr 2009 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• Provide technical leadership for a group of developers and financial analysts
• Identify the most efficient and cost effective solutions through research and evaluation of alternatives; help business owners prioritize project scope based on budget, time and resource constraints
• System architecture design using various architecture patterns
• Led (Hands on) requirements gathering, design, development, database architecture, partitioning and performance tuning, data modeling, ETL, data/configuration driven business rules engine, workflow implementation and UI design using Agile software development methodologies
• Key participant in technical review board which develops, documents, communicates and enforces a policy for standardizing systems and software as necessary.

Jan 2003 – Apr 2009 · 6 yrs 3 mos

•  Lead Solution Architect/Project Lead for Business Lines
• Project Led:
• 1. Russell Global Index Research and RECON system
• 2. Portfolio Rebalance System for Institutional business
• 3. Trade Order Management System (Charles River) Integration
• 4. Security Master Data Management System
• 5. Inkinds Trading
• 6. Portfolio Holdings
• 7. SWIFT messaging system
•  Data and Information Architect for Enterprise

Nov 2001 – Apr 2003 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Worked as a lead developer, designing and developing financial databases and applications for Budget Division (DSHS Financial Department) which operates a $7 billion budget each year. Applications included: Web-based Help Desk Tracking/Support System; Web-based financial data charting system; DSHS constituent services tracking system; Finance service report system. ERWin and Visio was used for Data Model Design (Logical and Physical). ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, ASP, XML/XSL, and Crystal Report was used for the web frontend and middle tier. Backend support database is SQL 2000

Dec 2000 – Aug 2001 · 8 mos

• Developing and maintaining support automation infrastructure software on both Windows and Unix platforms. Acted as a lead developer in 3 major product releases; Designed and implemented new features including database encapsulation and optimization (SQL Server and Oracle); Implemented Database connection pooling feature in Java Bean; Designed and implemented message queuing feature using ASP/JSP/XML and Stored procedures (T-SQL); Designed and implemented the asynchronies support functionality, technologies included COM,VB, JAVA Servlet, JNI, ASP, JSP, ADO, JDBC.

Mar 2000 – Nov 2000 · 8 mos

• Lead in the analysis, design, development, testing an e-music application using J2EE specification, providing a component based, fully portable, scalable on-line music service. System configured with Apache web server, Weblogic Application Server, Oracle. Worked as a key developer with senior architect, involved in all phases of the product life cycle from conception through delivery. Technology such as HTML, DHTML,JSP, Servlets, EJB,VB, XML, JDBC, PL/SQL, Oracle were frequently used.

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr