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Senior Solutions Architect - APAC @ TiDB

About

Senior Solutions Architect with nearly 15 years of experience in distributed databases, cloud-native platforms, modern data architectures, and DevOps. I help enterprises across AI/Agentic AI, FinTech, Web3, SaaS, and data-intensive industries design and deploy scalable, highly available solutions for mission-critical workloads. My expertise spans distributed databases, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), AWS, GCP, Azure, cloud-native data platforms, Cloud Lake/Lakehouse architectures, data warehousing, dbt, data integration and transformation, analytics workloads, and AI-ready data platforms. I also specialize in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, cloud migrations, database modernization, observability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization. I enjoy partnering with customers, architects, and engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges, modernize data platforms, and build resilient, high-performance architectures that support real-time applications, analytics, and AI workloads while accelerating business growth.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Solutions Architect - APAC at TiDB, powered by PingCAP, Nov 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, India, • Collaborate with customers to identify their scalability, performance, and reliability challenges. • Design and implement distributed SQL architectures tailored for diverse industries including FinTech and SaaS. • Enable enterprises to deploy and scale TiDB for OLTP and real-time analytics, ensuring high availability and seamless growth.

Principal Devops Engineer at VerSe Innovation, Jul 2025 - Nov 2025 · 5 mos, On-site, • Set the technical direction for DevOps and platform strategy, defining standards for infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation. • Led the design of a self-service internal platform, enabling product teams to provision infrastructure independently. • Drove the adoption of GitOps and progressive delivery practices, significantly reducing release risk across services.

Senior Presale Consultant at QuarkWiz, Jan 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, • Led consultative presales engagements for enterprise customers, focusing on cloud migration and SaaS solutions. • Collaborated with CTOs and engineering leaders to understand technical requirements and recommend tailored solutions. • Conducted hands-on workshops and technical demonstrations, translating complex technologies into practical business outcomes. • Developed comprehensive technical content, including architecture diagrams and migration recommendations, enhancing customer decision-making.

Lead DevOps Engineer at VerSe Innovation, Oct 2021 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Architected and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab CI) across multiple environments, cutting deployment time and reducing manual release effort. Used Terraform and Ansible to codify infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP), enabling repeatable, version-controlled deployments and reducing environment drift. Containerized and orchestrated services using Docker and Kubernetes, standardizing deployment patterns across dev, staging, and production clusters. Built and maintained observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK) for centralized logging, metrics, and alerting, improving mean-time-to-detection for production incidents. Implemented GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux) to manage declarative infrastructure and application state, improving deployment consistency and rollback speed. Designed and enforced IAM policies, network segmentation, and secrets management (Vault/AWS Secrets Manager) across cloud accounts to strengthen security posture. Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management at scale, reducing manual ops overhead and standardizing server/service baselines across teams. Led capacity planning and cost-optimization initiatives across multi-cloud infrastructure, right-sizing compute and storage resources to reduce monthly spend. Drove incident response and on-call processes, authoring runbooks and post-incident reviews to reduce recurrence of production issues. Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering teams to define platform SLAs/SLOs and improve developer self-service through internal tooling and templated infra modules. Managed and optimized cloud-hosted databases (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL) across environments, including executing zero-downtime migrations to improve performance and reliability with no service disruption.

Software Engineer at SAP Labs India, May 2017 - Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, • Contributed to the development of a PaaS solution on SAP Cloud Platform, focusing on DBaaS offerings. • Developed and maintained Python-based APIs for service instance management on Cloud Foundry. • Executed seamless database migrations across multiple cloud providers, ensuring data integrity.

MongoDB Administrator at Datavail, May 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, • Managed and monitored MySQL and MongoDB databases for multiple North American clients, ensuring high performance and reliability. • Designed MongoDB architectures with sharding and replication strategies to enhance scalability. • Automated routine tasks using shell scripts and Python, significantly streamlining operations.

Education

Master of Computer Applications, Computational Science, St. Joseph's College (Autonomous)

Bachelor's Degree, Physics, St. Joseph's College (Autonomous)