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Enterprise Architect | Industrial Digital Transformation | OT Security, DataOps & Smart Manufacturing | Industrial AI and Sustainable Factories

About

I am an Enterprise Architect at Collins Aerospace with nearly 17 years of experience driving industrial digital transformation across diverse manufacturing intensive industries, including automotive, power generation, heavy engineering, steel, oil & gas and chemical processing, with a current focus on the aerospace domain. I began my career in industrial automation, working hands-on with PLCs, SCADA, DCS, field instrumentation, and plant commissioning. With experience and natural progression, my focus expanded toward industrial digital transformation, where I now lead enterprise architecture and roadmap definition across Industrial DataOps, OT security and smart factory platforms, including Industrial IoT, edge computing and digital twins. My work sits at the intersection of manufacturing, data and security. I lead and contribute to enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, shaping scalable, resilient and secure digital foundations across both greenfield and brownfield environments. My responsibilities span strategy, architecture and execution, ensuring strong alignment between business objectives, manufacturing operations, and technology platforms. A core area of my expertise is ICS/OT security, with a strong focus on factory and industrial control system security. I apply Purdue Model aligned architectures and zero-trust principles to enable secure OT–IT convergence while preserving manufacturing reliability and safety. I serve as the Lead Architect representing Collins Aerospace for the DECADE-X initiative, a collaborative digital ecosystem bringing together the aerospace and defence industry to enable trusted, secure and interoperable data exchange across the value chain. I am a deeply hands-on architect, actively involved in PoCs, MVPs and pilot deployments, ensuring architectural decisions are grounded in real-world plant constraints, cybersecurity realities and measurable business outcomes. Beyond traditional Industry 4.0, I am actively exploring and contributing to sustainable, green, and circular manufacturing initiatives. I am particularly interested in how data, industrial AI and digital platforms can drive energy optimization, waste reduction, lifecycle transparency and responsible manufacturing outcomes. I am also involved in Industrial AI use cases for manufacturing, with a focus on practical, value-driven applications rather than experimentation in isolation. Expertise: 1. Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing 2. Industrial DataOps & Manufacturing Data Platforms 3. Enterprise Architecture 4. Digital Twin 5. OT / ICS Cybersecurity

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

gemini

mcp

openai

Work experience

Senior Principal Enterprise Architect - Industrial DataOps at Collins Aerospace, Sep 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru

Principal - Industrial IoT at LTIMindtree, Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Industrial IoT Solutions Architect (Industry 4.0) at Kyndryl, Sep 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Architecting and solutioning Industry 4.0 Solutions for manufacturing industries • Responsible for the solution conceptualization and design of Industrial IOT related projects. • Understanding business requirements and participating in the system architecture of IIoT system, preparing control logic, workflows, and data flows based on customer business requirements • Assessing the manufacturer’s industry 4.0 readiness or maturity • Creating Proof of Concept and Proof of Value for industry solutions • Connecting all the elements of the IoT stack to a unified namespace • Experience in designing solutions for both green field and brownfield manufacturing plants • Functional consultation to achieve better productivity OEE, determining KPIs and OPIs, reducing downtime, scheduling preventive maintenance

Product Owner at Siemens Technology India, Jan 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate Consultant at Siemens Technology India, Aug 2013 - Dec 2017 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Industrial Automation Engineer at Prodesign Engineering Services Pvt Ltd, Aug 2009 - Jul 2013 · 4 yrs, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, • PLC, SCADA & DCS software development using LAD, STL, Charts, C and VB script • Plant configuration design, commissioning & troubleshooting • Preparing project related Bill of Materials, Proposing Software and hardware, IO list preparation, Creating control flow charts • Co-ordination & Interaction with control panel production team & monitoring project related panel build activities • Conducting FAT, SAT & Commissioning Major plants programmed and commissioned: 1. Solid Waste Management – DSWMC, Qatar ---> Hot Redundant Fail-Safe System control and monitoring using Siemens DCS (Programmed over 10,000 IOs) 2. Automobile Industry – Ford Thailand and Ford India ---> Remote Plant Operation Monitoring using OPC (Collecting data from around 110 PLCs and sending data over OPC) 3 Iron and Steel – IISCO, Burnpur --> Pusher Car and Door Cleaning System 4 Power Plant – Chhattisgarh State Power, Korba ---> Coal and ash handling plant 5 Fail-Safe Emergency Shutdown system – Qatar and UAE ---> ESD System in Fujairah Oil refinery, UAE ---> HVAC ESD Control System at QAFCO, Qatar ---> ESD and Control system at New Doha International Airport for runway and underground tunnel Subway

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Cyber Security, REVA Academy for Corporate Excellence - RACE, REVA University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electricals and Electronics, Anna University, Chennai