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Databricks Solutions Architect Champion | Leading AI-Driven Data Solutions | Certifications: 10xAzure, 4xDatabricks, 2xK8s, GitHub Copilot

About

Data Architect | Databricks Champion | Cloud & AI-Driven Data Solutions I bring 20 years of IT experience, with the last 7 years specializing in cloud data engineering and Databricks solutions. As a Databricks Champion, I hold 3 Databricks certifications, 10 Azure certifications, and have deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevOps. What I Do • Lead data modernization & Lakehouse implementations • Optimize performance & cost efficiency (achieved 20-30% cost savings) • Architect scalable, high-performance data platforms • Drive AI & analytics adoption for business impact Current Role As a Data Architect, I lead data engineering teams for a sustainability initiative at a major chemical manufacturer. My work focuses on Delta Lakehouse optimization, cost reduction, and automation, helping businesses unlock the full potential of their data. Beyond Work 💡 Tech Blogger on Medium, sharing insights on Databricks, AI, and cloud data engineering 🤝 Community Contributor, engaging with Databricks Champions, SMEs, and MVPs 📖 Continuous Learner, passionate about emerging data & AI technologies Let’s Connect! I’m always open to discussing data-driven innovation, Databricks, and AI applications. Feel free to connect and start a conversation!

Location

Coimbatore

AI stack

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Work experience

Digital Platform Arch Principal at Accenture in India, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Cloud Solutions Architect (major chemical manufacturer) | 09/2025 – Present Accenture, Coimbatore | India 1. Serving as the lead architect for multiple projects under the client’s Gen AI Lighthouse Program, contributing across infrastructure, application architecture, scalability, security, AI solutions, and data strategy. 2. Defined and implemented a secured, scalable Azure landing zone to support Gen AI application delivery, with automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform. 3. Designed, architected, and delivered multiple Gen AI agents as part of the Smart Bot Factory initiative, leveraging Azure OpenAI services. 4. Provided technical leadership and hands-on guidance to a team of three developers, while closely collaborating with business stakeholders, product owners, infrastructure, and security teams. 5. Led DevOps initiatives, establishing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure as code (IaC) and data pipelines, driving automation and deployment efficiency. 6. Ensured enterprise-grade security, scalability, and reliability across all Gen AI solutions, aligning with best practices and client-specific compliance standards. 7. Actively engaged with client leadership to align technical solutions with business goals, fostering innovation and adoption of Gen AI capabilities.

Cloud Solutions Architect at Avanade, Feb 2020 - Jan 2025 · 5 yrs, Germany, Cloud Data Platform Architect (major chemical manufacturer) | 04/2022 –08/2024 Created highly secured, reliable, scalable Azure landing zone definition and automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform Spearheaded the design and implementation of Customer Intelligent Data Platform that delivers valuable insights about customers, helping in increase of sales by 15% Engineered data pipelines to create a scalable data platform, leveraging Databricks Unity catalogue and Lakehouse architecture. Implemented 12 factor app principles to data engineering Collaboration across different functions with business users, product owners, infra & security team, data engineering Led comprehensive DevOps initiatives, implementing deployment pipelines for IaC Cloud Platform Architect (Major energy trading company) | 02/2021 - 03/2022 Architected and implemented Enterprise Conversational AI bot framework using Azure Kubernetes service and Cognitive services Containerization of Node JS, .NET microservices and deployment to Kubernetes Implemented 12 factor app principle to standardize microservices Automated infrastructure using Terraform and Pulumi, enhancing deployment efficiency Established DevOps (CI CD) pipelines for packaging and deploying microservices using Implemented robust alerting mechanisms to monitor microservices performance, cost reporting and resource utilization using Prometheus, Grafana, Event hub, Functions Cloud Data platform Architect (major chemical manufacturer) | 02/2020 - 01/2021 Designed and implemented data engineering solutions across business units, adhering to Azure well-architected and Cloud adoption frameworks Led a multidisciplinary team of data engineers to drive project success Conceptualized and designed data lake and developed front-end to data lake leveraging Azure app services Successfully moved workloads from sandbox environment to production grade Azure subscriptions defining scalable and secure landing zone

Architect at Infosys, Jan 2011 - Jan 2020 · 9 yrs 1 mo, Mysuru Area, India, Data Platform Architect (Major energy trading company) | 01/2018 - 01/2020 Infosys, Germany | Dusseldorf, NRW • Established scalable corporate data lake and cloud data platform, enabling efficient data management and analytics • Architected & implemented a mobile app for traders to access real-time market data, enhancing decision-making capabilities. • Led the migration of legacy workloads to cloud-based data pipelines using Azure services and Snowflake cloud warehouse. • Designed near-real-time data pipelines to help traders get view of their positions as and when the trade is booked in clients legacy ETRM systems • Designed interactive dashboards for monitoring data pipelines and to monitor access permissions Technical Architect (For a major oil and gas company in UK) | 06/2016 - 06/2018 Infosys | UK • Deputed at onsite as a technical architect, responsible to do Solutioning, designing & architecture to modernize client’s HR Information systems leveraging SharePoint, Azure • Re-architecture and migration of heavily customized on-premises SharePoint HR portals onto Azure using SharePoint Client Object model, Typescript, React JS, Azure services • Creation of an integrated learning platform aggregating all of clients learning systems (internal and external apps) leveraging Azure Search services, Cosmos DB, SharePoint, and other supporting Azure services • Recommended clients not to procure a legacy third-party solution and saved costs delivering in-house developed search solution • Performance improvement to increase intranet portal page load time, response leveraging Redis cache, CDN and optimizing code

Module Lead at Mindtree, Dec 2007 - Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Leading teams, As a SharePoint Center Of Excellence member, my task was to learn, explore and implement SharePoint RTM features, develop components for reuse, development, design, Enable teams on SharePoint competency by taking training and providing guidance

Naethra Technologies at Naethra Technologies Private Limited, Dec 2005 - Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, As a Senior programmer, I was responsible to work on multiple projects as a solo team member starting from analysis, design, development and implementation for Delphi TVS client. I worked on technologies like Visual basic, Oracle.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science, St Josephs College Arts Science

Bachelor's degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Kongu Engineering college