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RAMA E Ph: 925-399-8517 Email: [email protected] SUMMARY Seasoned, hands-on, result-driven technical lead/architect with 24+ years of IT experience in Product/Software Development Life Cycle, Data Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and DevOps/Release Management. Experience in variety of industries, Financial, Health and Technology organizations in large scale, Agile, distributed, highly available enterprise applications, Services, Data Platforms and Infrastructure. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and passionate about creating solutions that meet customer needs. EXPERIENCE Sr. Solutions Architect | IBM | Dec 2021 May 2025 Building modern data platform, faster and efficient data pipelines, making data available for SOC for threat hunting, intrusion/malware detection and response, lowering Mean Time To Detect and Mean Time to Respond. Building Data Lakehouse/ icehouse platform with open-source technologies on IBM Kubernetes Engine using Kubernetes Operators, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, Cassandra, Kafka and NiFi/Minifi. Automated CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes using GitOps, Secrets manager, Flux, Kustomize, and IaC using Terraform Building data platform on Cloud and Migrating on-prem data platform and workloads to Cloud Data platform. Migrated python/hive/spark/MLops workloads and building new data pipelines. Managed Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) and Data Services by Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) and Cloudera Machine Learning (CML)/Cloudera AI built on Kubernetes. Built data pipelines using NiFi, Vector by Datadog and enrich the data by processors, sending to elasticsearch. Enabling and maintaining IBM security policies and standards for authc/authz/TLS/encryption in platform. Addressing security vulnerabilities in infrastructure and the platform and ensuring data integrity. Built AI agent using LLMs and Vector DB for reporting of incidents and vulnerabilities and their timelines. Evaluating data platforms and technologies like Databricks and snowflake, Cloudera Platform for data lake. Sr. Solutions Architect, Professional Services | Cloudera | Jul 2020 Mar 2022 Financial Client (Wells Fargo) Setting up Cloudera AI/ML service and working with team in building ML models and deploying in AI Building Gen AI applications using LLMs, Vector DBs for internal use cases. Migrating hive tables to iceberg tables Financial Client (Chase) Migrating Data Platforms and wordloads from on-prem datacenters to Public Cloud (Azure). Automation of creating CDP Compute clusters, configurations and Security using Python and REST API Automation of onboarding workflow and integrating with Chase tools for users/groups in CDP Public cloud Financial Client (Synchrony) Building Hybrid Data Platform/ LakeHouse in Public Cloud (AWS) and On-prem Clusters. Setting up Data Replication strategies/polices for data movement between data lake clusters. Migrated Delta Lake tables to Iceberg Setting up Data platform and automating the provisioning and the installation using terraform, ansible and RestAPI. Audit/Tax Client (PwC) Built Automation for self-provisioning of HDP clusters, HDF clusters on Azure using Cloudbreak. OS image hardening and using them in Cloudbreak Built-in Enterprise security with CA certs in recipes Building NiFi flows for ingesting data to platform Manager, BigData Platform | StubHub/ebay | Jan 2014 Aug 2020 Architecting and designing of platform for BigData Applications Setting up Databricks environment in Azure and migrating the Hadoop workloads to Databricks. Orchestrated the migration of legacy data warehouses to Databricks Lakehouse, resulting in a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 3x improvement in query performance for BI applications. Implemented Databricks Unity Catalog for centralized data governance, enhancing data security and compliance across 5 business units, and reducing audit preparation time by 70%. Setting up automation for Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) using Terraform. Responsible for capacity planning and managing Peta-byte data Hadoop clusters, their availability, data ingestion/consistency, defining and enforcing of processes and procedures to the Data Systems/Applications. Responsible for Hadoop/hbase data security and governance with IT security standards (encryption/masking/2FA authentication) and work with IT security for compliance/exemptions. Lead the efforts of embracing Bigdata/Hadoop ecosystem (Hortonworks) technologies in StubHub and guide/train the users for the familiarization/adaptation. Setup of Production clusters and the replication among them: 2 Hbase clusters for StubHub website applications and 2 Hadoop Batch clusters for Analytics. Additional 2 non-production Hadoop clusters. Adapting new open-source technologies for various project needs, configuring Spark, deploying web apps and dashboards using RStudio Server/Shiny Server and Spark jobs using Zeppelin, Livy Server. Defining and enforcing Release/change processes for the bigdata platform and applications/jobs, datascience models, that gets deployed to Ecosystem. Implementation of Data Security and Governance of TeraBytes of Data. Setting up data security using Apache Ranger and encryption/decryption of data while data in motion. Performed Hadoop cluster migration to another DataCenter and upgrades to Hadoop clusters/ Bigdata platform. Sr. Release Manager | StubHub/ebay | Jul 2011 Jan 2014 Responsible for availability of ecommerce site during the application/change deployment. Effectively communicating to stakeholders about the releases and the potential impact. Automated the deployment with a single command on any host in whole ecommerce. Lead the sysadmin and site operations to newly acquired business. DevOps Manager | Wells Fargo | Aug 2009 Jul 2011 Manage non-prod environments and automations for CI/CD pipelines for Java applications Consultant | Uniplus Consultants | Mar 2003 Nov 2009 Worked with various clients (FreddieMac, FannieMae, Medtronic, FINRA, BlueShield of California, NetApp and Macys.com) in various roles (Automation Engineer, Tools Administrator, Development Manager, Release Manager) Consultant | Citibank | Jan 2001 Mar 2003 Worked as a Java developer and application integrator for building and releasing the application to all environments. Manage non-prod environments and deployments for Java applications. EDUCATION M Tech in Aerospace Engineering | Indian Institute of Science, India | 1997 1999 B Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering |S.V.U College of Engineering, India | 1993 1997 SKILLS Data Platforms, Infrastructure Data Security and Governance Terraform/Ansible/IaC CI/CD, DevOps, SRE Iceberg/Cassandra/Redis Automation/Scripting, RestAPI AWS/Azure/IBM cloud Cloudera Data Platform Kubernetes Platform K8s Operators/Helm charts GitOps/Flux/Kustomize MLOps, Gen AI BigData/Hadoop Python/Scala/Spark Databricks Networking and Security Observability, Monitorting/Alerts Apache NiFi/Vector by Datadog Strimzi Kafka, Trino ElasticSearch/Kibana/OpenSearch HIPAA/EDI/X12/OCSF/GDPR/PCI ACTIVITIES USTA Tennis Tournaments (2024 USTA National Champions 3.0 Team Finalist) Traveling around the world Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment artificial intelligence machine learning business intelligence database information technology California