# Amol Chaudhari > Driving Scalable Cloud and AI Innovation | Technical Architect & Engineering Leader Location: Dublin, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amolchaudhari With 25 years of extensive experience in designing and developing enterprise cloud-native software products and solutions, specialize in driving innovation and leveraging modern architectures, including but not limited to open-source technologies. Proven track record of providing technical leadership that aligns with business objectives, utilizing fast-paced and agile development methodologies. Successfully reduced costs, improved system reliability, increased developer productivity, and delivered high-quality product features through the adoption of microservices architecture. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Principal Engineer | Technical Architect @ Splunk Jan 2025 – Present ### Principal Engineer | Technical Owner @ Splunk Jan 2021 – Present | San Jose, California, United States Responsible for architecting and spearheading development of incident management and on-call products for Splunk. Led a cross-functional technical team of 35 engineers to implement a new microservices oriented architecture. Spearheaded the architectural redesign of legacy monolith services to a modern, microservices API gateway architecture, achieving 100% autonomy, increasing developer productivity by > 50% and improved system reliability by 30%. Reduced operation costs by 20% and security vulnerabilities by 100% by leading a critical project of upgrading mission critical Elasticsearch clusters across all AWS and GCP production environments. Responsible for the design and implementation of Splunk Observability API services, collaborating across functional teams to ensure seamless integration and performance. Collaborated closely with product management to define the technical roadmap for the monitoring platform and application platform teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and future growth strategies. ### Director, Applications Architecture @ PACT Pharma Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | South San Francisco, California, United States Responsible and owner of PACT Pharma end to end applications architecture, Build highly scalable and data centric microservices architecture for various Cell Therapy laboratories within PACT Pharma. Architected and developed an Automated Study Report generation app for laboratory experiments to expedite data flow in an error free and efficient manner inturn reducing laborious efforts by almost 80%. Lead development efforts on enterprise data management platforms to interconnect various commercial as well as home grown services containing discrete datasets and formats. ### Architect | Senior Principal Engineer @ Hitachi Vantara Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for architecting & implementing highly scalable and secure enterprise Industrial IoT Applications specialized in Mining and Entertainment (Amusement parks) industries. Collaborated with Product Management and visited customers to understand their environment and use cases, resulting in huge clarity of scope and specific tech stacks requirements. Conducted code reviews and technical mentoring, leading to a 20% improvement in junior engineers coding standards Collaborated closely with UI architects and developers to design highly configurable micro front ends. Worked extensively with data scientists to help define machine learning models for anomaly detection use cases, ensuring accurate and effective solutions for real-time monitoring and predictive analytics. ### Principal Product Developer @ BMC Software Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, California Architected a huge monolith application into highly scalable and reliable microservices on kubernetes and AWS platform. Interact with different teams to evangelize the technology and promote cross functional teams collaboration. Containerized BMC Response microservices as well as the core monolith to deploy on Kubernetes cluster. Designed Pods and Services to effectively use balanced resources considering the existing architecture of the BMC Response services. Implemented Cloud Cost Control service to control AWS costs for Dev/QA setups. Designed & implemented rules engine to evaluate AWS resources and remediate them by taking action to reduce costs. Designed & Implemented Licensing and Metering microservice in Java considering deployment on AWS ECS. Designed, Implemented and Templated feature flag microservice to be used by any microservice for enabling / disabling features based on flags. Designed AWS deployment model for BMC Response service and implemented key components. Designed breaking BMC Response monolith architecture into microservices to deploy on AWS infrastructure. Implemented infrastructure libraries that help communicate between on-premise components and cloud services securely. Designed on-premise component using powershell scripts for supporting Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager as remediation engine in BMC Response solution. Worked with India offshore teams. Designed & implemented multi-tenancy model for SecOps Response solution Reduced dashboard load times from minutes to under 3 seconds by using aggregates in Elasticsearch Executed porting effort of OSGI framework built SecOps monolith to Spring Boot framework implementation. Designed & developed in-house DevOps solution. Pipeline as Code. Implemented various containerized microservices that executes devops pipelines to deploy applications in the target environment. Implemented JPA datastore for Cloud Lifecycle Management replacing the existing CMDB implementation. ### Lead Product Developer @ BMC Software Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Pune Area, India ● Designed & developed from scratch CLM foundation using OSGI framework. ● Implemented various OSGI services in Cloud Lifecycle Management ● Implemented Virtualization platforms support for CLM on MS Hyper-V, IBM LPAR and VMWare VCloud in addition to VMWare VCenter and AWS. ● Designed & developed the data storage service for CLM. ● Performance optimizations in various flows like provisioning, decommissioning & search requests from UI. ### Sr. Product Developer @ BMC Software Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | Pune Area, India ● Implemented use cases for Virtualization management solution & automation for various platforms like, VMWare, Solaris, IBM & Hyper-V. ● Designed and Developed Virtualization Sprawl Management within Bladelogic Server Automation. ● POC of Cloud Lifecycle management solution. ● Marimba Deployment Manager product feature development. ● Customer interactions to understand the issues and fix them in Marimba and Bladelogic product suites. ### Sr. Member of Technical Staff @ Extenprise Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Pune Area, India ● Requirement Analysis, Design & Development ● Developed VNC Proxy server for GE Medical ● Developed Web Sales planning business process for Reliance Polymer ● Performance improvements of various flows causing the web pages to load slower than expected. ### Sr System Analyst @ Maxwell Soft Park Ltd Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | Pune Area, India ● Requirement Analysis for Rail road software project "Conchart" ● Designed and developed real time charting software for trains across the routes. ● Developed various use cases in several products like, Marketing management, Inventory management ERP modules. ● Implemented ISO 9001-2000 in Maxwell for Software practices. ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Production Engineering North Maharashtra University ### Postgraduate Program in AI & Machine Learning The University of Texas at Austin ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amol-chaudhari-a134192 --- Source: https://flows.cv/amolchaudhari JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amolchaudhari/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12