Akarsh Verma
Sr. Solution Architect
Bengaluru, India
Platform Architect with 12 years of experience in driving Architecture across domains and technology landscape enabling digital transformations. I am passionate about engineering challenges that have a large-scale impact. I add value by bringing in deep experience of Legacy and Modern Technology enablers like Cloud Native design, Kubernetes & ML/AI. I have expert knowledge of Enterprise Architecture and am TOGAF 9 Certified.
+91-9990243535 | [email protected]
Skills
Architecture
- Engineering/Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture
- System Design, API Design, REST, Middleware
- Lambda Architecture, Analytics Data Pipeline, Streaming Data Analytics
- Event Streams, Microservices, Service Bus, Managed File Transfer, Pub-Sub
- Product, Technology & Vendor Evaluation, Risk management
Process
- Enterprise Architecture Governance, Data Governance
- Technology Management, Stakeholder Management
- Quality & Compliance, System & Data Security
- Non Functional Requirement Management
- Product Planning and Designing Systems & Solution Architecture
- Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban
Technology
- Microsoft Azure, AWS Cloud, Google Cloud
- Containerization, Kubernetes
- Parallel, Distributed & High-Performance Computing
- Cloud-Native Design and Azure Data Lake, HD Insights
- Mainframe Systems, COBOL
- Python, Databricks, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow
- System Design, API Design, REST, Middleware
- Terraform, Pulumi, Argo
Work Experience
Sr. Solution Architect
Kimberly Clark, Data and Analytics • July 2022 - Current
- Lead Architect for MLOps Platform: In-house platform to support observability requirements for all Machine Learning use cases
Platform Architect
Thoucentric Labs • April 2021 - July 2022
- Designed & Deployed a Demand Forecasting Platform on Azure for a CPG major that enabled a directional shift towards using AI in a human-driven process
- Designed 2 SaaS Platforms within 1 year of the creation of the organization
- Designed Core Platform for Thoucentric Labs that enables AI at Scale which is currently used in 2 SaaS offerings along with Enterprise Deployments
- Designed the System for Pricevision.ai that provides commodity price forecasting capabilities for CPG organizations/Procurement Teams & Commodity Traders
Enterprise Architect
Home Credit Pvt. Ltd • October 2018 - April 2020
- Responsible for the Design and Implementation of Strategic Technology Initiatives to attract New-to-Credit Customers to Financial products to scale business operations
- Designed Ref-O-Earn Mobile Application which uses an Open Source ERP (Axelor) and REST APIs to generate new leads. Built on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure DevOps, and Azure Notification Hub, it supports 25000+ Sales Agents' daily lead generation activities.
- Define road-maps and plan integrations across different product lines, i.e. New Products, Customer Mobile Apps, New to Credit Loan Customer
Solution Architect
Ford Motor Company • September 2011 - October 2018
- Enabled Globalization of Terabyte Scale Data Warehousing Mainframe System by re-designing the Architecture to a Lambda Architecture that used Pivotal Cloud to deliver transactional capabilities while providing predictive analytics through Big-Data Platform
- Optimized & re-wrote Teradata SQL queries that provide 30% batch cycle improvement on mainframes & save $50-75k in consumption costs per year
- Lead all Service Application architecture (15+ Applications) by transforming the current fragmented and region-centric Solutions to a Unified Global contact center experience
Education & Certifications
Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading: EPAT
Quantinsti Pvt. ltd • Jan - June,2022
TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect
The Open Group • 2017
Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute
Computer Science • 2007 - 2011
