Jun 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Roles Highlights:
• Elevated to AVP – Technologies, recognizing deep architectural expertise, strategic leadership, and business impact.
• Developing and maintaining enterprise architecture strategies that align with business goals, ensuring scalability, security, and future readiness.
• Architecting innovative solutions to meet complex business needs while ensuring technical viability, performance, and successful deployments.
• Defining and driving application modernization strategies, including refactor, rearchitect, rewrite, and replatform approaches for legacy systems.
• Conducting Current State Assessments (CSA) to analyze existing systems and provide insights to create a technology modernization roadmap.
• Collaborating closely with the pre-sales team, providing technical expertise to identify and propose tailored solutions for customer challenges.
• Leading and supporting client engagements, presenting architectural recommendations and driving successful technical proposals.
• Tracking industry trends and emerging technologies, ensuring enterprise architecture remains innovative and aligned with future market demands.
• Providing technology leadership across cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between business, engineering, and operations.
• Overseeing comprehensive documentation, including architectural diagrams, technical specifications, and design documents, ensuring clarity and long-term maintainability.
• Driving strategic initiatives to enhance system efficiency, reduce technical debt, and improve enterprise-wide technology adoption.

Nov 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Heading the Microsoft Technologies Business Unit, driving innovation and excellence across multiple projects.
• Providing technology and architecture leadership across various projects, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 40+ engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Defining and driving technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and emerging industry trends.
• Collaborating with C-level executives, clients, and stakeholders to align technical strategies with business objectives.
• Driving innovation initiatives, evaluating emerging technologies, and recommending adoption strategies to enhance product capabilities.

May 2015 – Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

• Roles Highlights:
• Led system design and technical architecture, ensuring scalable, high-performing, and maintainable solutions.
• Ensured application code met high-quality standards, aligning with best practices and project-defined Definition of Done (DoD).
• Conducted comprehensive code reviews and mentoring, fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Conducted technical training sessions, upskilling team members on best practices, emerging technologies, and architectural principles.
• Owned release and iteration planning, ensuring efficient sprint execution and smooth feature rollouts.
• Conducted technical research spikes, evaluating and integrating new tools, frameworks, and best practices to improve development efficiency.
• Managed the entire Azure Cloud infrastructure for the project, ensuring security, scalability, and cost optimization (reducing cloud expenditure by 60%).
• Spearheaded DevOps transformation, automating deployment pipelines and optimizing CI/CD workflows for seamless releases.
• Took over full DevOps responsibility, improving deployment processes, reducing downtime, and enhancing system reliability.
• Acted as a bridge between development, DevOps, and cloud teams, streamlining operations and improving overall system performance.

Apr 2011 – May 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India · On-site

• Roles Highlights:
• Developed high-quality application code, adhering to coding standards, best practices, and project-defined guidelines.
• Designed system architectures in collaboration with architects, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Conducted code reviews and mentorship, fostering a high-performing development team and improving overall code quality.
• Led technical research spikes, evaluating and introducing new tools, frameworks, and best practices to enhance development efficiency.
• Served as an internal project auditor, ensuring quality compliance, process adherence, and best practices were followed across the team.
• Spearheaded the transformation of a critical live project, significantly improving application performance, maintainability, and stability.
• Led the development of a critical bulk booking application on Azure, streamlining airline reservation processes for clients. It reduced the efforts by 90%
• Initiated and led the migration of a legacy VB6 application to a modern web-based MVC application, enhancing scalability and user experience.
• Proactively identified performance bottlenecks and implemented optimizations that enhanced system efficiency.
• Facilitated cross-team collaboration, working closely with business analysts, QA engineers, and product owners to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Tech Lead, recognizing technical expertise, leadership skills, and contributions to critical projects.

Jul 2010 – Mar 2011 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• Role Highlights:
• Maintained and enhanced the legacy system for a leading global card payments company, ensuring stability, performance, and adherence to industry best practices.
• Gained a deep functional understanding of the system, including its architecture, workflow, and dependencies.
• Led knowledge transition efforts, conducting regular discussions with the previous vendor to ensure a smooth handover.
• Performed gap analysis to identify non-compliance issues with client standards and recommended corrective actions.
• Designed and developed new functionalities in alignment with business requirements and coding best practices.
• Implemented system upgrades, bug fixes, and performance optimizations while ensuring minimal downtime.
• Provided technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a knowledge-sharing culture.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including business analysts and QA, to refine requirements and deliver quality solutions.
• Ensured code quality, security compliance, and documentation for long-term maintainability.

Nov 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

• Role Highlights:
• Developed and maintained Windows-based applications using WinForms, .NET (C#/VB.NET), and SQL Server.
• Built data-driven applications to streamline operations for global NGOs and UN agencies.
• Designed intuitive and user-friendly UI/UX for desktop applications, ensuring smooth user experience.
• Integrated third-party APIs and services to enhance application functionality.
• Worked on performance optimization, debugging, and troubleshooting to improve system efficiency.
• Developed custom reporting solutions using Crystal Reports/SSRS for data visualization.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, gathering requirements and delivering solutions aligned with client needs.