Transformational Software Architect with 22+ years building enterprise-scale solutions that drive business growth.
Experience
2023 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
• Product-Engineering Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Managers to translate business vision into technical roadmaps, designing Generative AI system architecture that aligns with product strategy and market requirements.
• Engineering Leadership: Lead multidisciplinary engineering team of 8+ developers through full software development lifecycle, from architecture design to deployment, ensuring delivery excellence and team growth
• Architecture Innovation: Design and implement Generative AI system for intelligent catalog management, enabling Account Managers and future AI Agents to seamlessly integrate with Catalog Hub through natural language interfaces
• Enterprise Platform Leadership: Architected and delivered Core Enterprise Services (Catalog Hub) connecting disparate data sources, achieving 50% cost savings and dramatically improved system stability across the organization
• Executive Stakeholder Management: Present technical architecture and ROI analysis to C-level executives and Product leadership, securing buy-in for major platform transformations through compelling POCs and strategic blueprints
• Technical Architecture & Performance: Delivered 150x performance improvements through standardized SDKs and optimized microservices architecture, enabling seamless integration across 15+ business units
• System Innovation: Engineered distributed ID generation system handling billions of unique IDs monthly with 20% reduced memory footprint and significantly faster lookup times
• Team Development & Coaching: Mentor 12+ engineers across multiple teams in modern development practices, achieving 90% test coverage and consistent SLA compliance while fostering technical growth and career advancement
• Platform Architecture: Built centralized fine-grained authorization platform reducing integration complexity by 90%, enabling domain services to integrate within days rather than months
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
San Mateo, California, United States
Enhanced enterprise security across Guidewire's insurance platform suite serving 100K+ users.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Security Architecture: Developed enterprise-grade authorization service strengthening security and access control across multiple insurance applications
• Platform Modernization: Transformed Open Policy Agent (OPA) into high-performance real-time authorization engine, enabling dynamic policy updates and improving decision-making speed by 60%
• Cross-functional Leadership: Led architecture discussions with product and engineering teams, ensuring seamless client integration and driving platform-wide adoption through technical evangelism
• Client Integration: Streamlined platform architecture through POCs and cross-functional collaboration, accelerating client onboarding and system adoption
2017 — 2022
United States
Led enterprise-scale platform optimization serving millions of users across global HR and financial planning applications.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
• High-Performance Systems: Architected cache-based metadata service processing millions of queries daily, reducing lookup times by 90% and improving planning application responsiveness by 70%
• Database Migration Leadership: Successfully migrated critical systems from Oracle to PostgreSQL, eliminating 100% of premium database costs while maintaining query performance through automated testing frameworks
• Streaming Architecture: Implemented protobuf-based HTTP streaming for real-time data processing, enabling low-latency data retrieval for enterprise planning workflows serving global Fortune 500 clients
• Quality Engineering: Designed custom performance testing frameworks using Locust, ensuring SLA compliance and service reliability across multiple production environments
• Platform Optimization: Enhanced system performance through custom data structures and memory-intensive cache operations, enabling sub-second response times for complex planning calculations
2013 — 2017
2013 — 2017
Mountain View
Built scalable microservices and data infrastructure supporting millions of small business users across Intuit's financial platform ecosystem.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Microservices Architecture: Developed scalable contact data service using Cassandra, supporting millions of small business users with high availability and sub-100ms response times
• Business Intelligence Platform: Designed comprehensive data mart and reporting infrastructure tracking key business metrics (FCI, latency, SLAs, 12-week commits), enabling data-driven decision making for executive leadership across multiple product lines
• Real-time Data Pipeline: Architected robust ingestion framework streaming data from Splunk, New Relic, Jira, GitHub, and Jenkins to Hadoop, processing 1TB+ daily and reducing analytics latency from hours to minutes
• Enterprise Integration: Built high-performance data processing systems enabling faster analytics and improving operational efficiency across engineering and product teams
• Scalability Engineering: Delivered microservices architecture ensuring high availability and consistent performance for critical small business financial applications
2011 — 2013
2011 — 2013
Led high-impact software architecture initiatives for Fortune 500 clients including Apple, Ask.com, and Dictionary.com, delivering enterprise-scale data processing solutions.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Apple Platform Development: Architected Liger Platform automating ad-hoc business reports using Hadoop and advanced scripting, reducing manual report generation from days to hours and enabling self-service analytics for business users
• High-Performance Data Systems: Built scalable data processing framework for Ask.com and Dictionary.com capable of handling 1TB+ data volumes, transforming report SLAs from 2 days to near real-time delivery
• Technical Leadership: Mentored development teams across multiple client engagements, establishing best practices for large-scale data processing, system integration, and enterprise architecture patterns
• Client Delivery Excellence: Successfully delivered complex software solutions across diverse industries, building long-term client relationships and driving repeat business through technical innovation
• Enterprise Architecture: Designed and implemented scalable solutions for high-traffic web platforms, gaining deep expertise in performance optimization and distributed systems architecture
Education
CTM College of Arts and Sciences
BES
Sir Siva Swami Kalalaya