ANISH SAM VARGHESE

I am currently helping customers with migration of apps from on-premise to cloud, new application development, deployment and operationalization of solutions on AWS using AWS Well-Architected framework. Working on projects related to data analytics engineering, digital applications architecture and development, leveraging AWS & Azure technologies to execute data injestion, transformation, analytics and operational processing.

• Leading development projects as well as working on solution architecture of complex operational solution, creating technology architecture definition, as well as hands-on development of end-to-end solutions
• Created solution architecture and led the end-to-end implementation of solution for automated case processing that leveraged ML Algorithms and solutions for automated decisioning using AWS SageMaker, MLOps, AWS Textract, Comprehend, Step Functions, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Fuzzy Search and matching service exposed as REST API on ECS Fargate and API Gateway, PDF Services, S3, SQS, SNS, etc.
• Architected, developed and deployed solutions and data pipelines for primary data acquisition into Data Lake in AWS using cloud-based technologies like AWS Lambda with Python, AWS Glue Jobs, PySpark, Athena, SQL, Glue Data Catalogue, Glue Workflows, AWS S3, Step Functions, RedShift, CDK & CloudFormation, AWS Fargate and Docker, etc.
• Secured the solution using various AWS services like IAM Roles, Policies, S3 Bucket policies, WAF, AWS Config, CloudTrail, KMS, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, VPC, AWS PrivateLink and Subnets.
• Implemented compute, networking and storage components using VPCs and Subnets, EC2 instances, EBS, EFS and S3, ECS Fargate with Docker images in ECR registry, Load Balancer, etc.
• Created infrastructure in target accounts (Dev, Test and Prod) using AWS CDK, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild project and CodeCommit to perform automated deployment of infrastructure using CloudFormation stacks.
• Secured the solution using various AWS services like IAM Roles, Policies, S3 Bucket policies, WAF, AWS Config, CloudTrail, KMS, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager, VPC, AWS PrivateLink and Subnets.
• Improved DevOps and CI/CD capabilities of the team by following GitFlow strategy and tools like CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, SonarQube and Artifactory for automated continuous build and deployment.

Helped enterprises solve technology challenges related to cloud migration, application development and devops. I worked with PS clients on cloud-native application development, microservices and event-driven architectures.

• Managed and mentored high-performing engineering teams, fostering an environment of continuous learning and professional development.
• Developed technology strategy and roadmap for development of API and Data for a large Canadian bank for their Transaction Banking business.
• Created high level solution architecture, detailed designs of various microservices, and deployment & integration architecture.
• Implemented key components and services of the application using REST APIs, Java Spring Boot microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh using Istio, Docker on EKS, KMS, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateways, WAF, Application Load Balancer, etc.
• Deployed infrastructure components on AWS using AWS CloudFormation and DevOps pipelines to create various AWS components like EC2, EBS, ECS Fargate, ECR, IAM, etc with High Availability architecture and appropriate DR strategy implemenrted.

I led the software development team at Interac, responsible for development and maintenance of Interac eTransfer platform and related capabilities. I led a team of 25+ software development engineers who worked in agile scrum teams, and provide leadership for our systems capabilities by working closely with cross-functional teams as well as external financial institutions who integrate with Interac applications.

• Led a multidisciplinary team of engineers, managers and consultants to architect, design and develop systems that facilitate money movement in volumes of millions of transactions per day.
• Deeply involved in technology and code, providing hands-on guidance and support to team members to better understand possibilities and overcome technical challenges.
• Created new Agile development teams and implemented agile methodologies at scale, driving a culture of high performance, velocity and quality to deliver solutions into production.
• Collaborated with multiple cross-functional teams like product management, QA, platform teams, implementation teams, and others for successful collaborative solution delivery.
• Played a pivotal role in talent acquisition efforts, working closely with the Recruiting team to attract and onboard top-tier engineering talent to the team.
• Led the application modernization initiative to modernize legacy monolithic components to microservices using Domain-Driven design, Spring Boot apps and Docker.
• Leveraged and implemented microservices patterns like CQRS, Docker and Kubernetes, Service Mesh using Istio and Envoy, Event-Driven architecture, circuit breaker, Queueing using ActiveMQ and Kafka, etc., to modernize the eTransfer payment components.
• Improved DevOps, CI/CD and build process by automating manual steps, incorporating quality and security scanning into the build process and streamlined the automated deployment capabilities.

I worked as Senior Cloud Architect on AWS Professional Services team, helping AWS customers with new application development, cloud-native applications and migrations to cloud. Worked with clients to develop serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Kinesis, API Gateway, Cognito, AWS IoT, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, etc.

I worked as Senior Architect on Solutions and Enterprise Architecture team, defining best practices and standards for AWS, as well as helping migrate applications from on-prem to cloud. I was involved hands-on in several AWS and Microservices technologies, at the same time, providing thought leadership to cloud practice at Citco.

• Involved in the architecture, design and hands-on implementation of migration of multiple applications from on-premise data center to AWS, and architecture reviews using AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Architected and implemented Lift and Shift migration of on-premise COTS product called MarkitEDM which is a .NET-based application consisting of Windows and Linux servers, FTP Share, Oracle and SQL Server databases, shared file systems to Cloud on AWS.
• Created CloudFormation templates for automated provisioning of various AWS infrastructure services.
• Created High Availability and DR strategy architecture and implementation.
• Setup DevOps pipelines for cross-account deployment of infrasturcture using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, IAM, and AWS CodeDeploy.
• Migrated Windows and Linux based applications (COTS and custom) to AWS leveraging services like EC2 with EBS volumes, RDS, IAM, KMS, VPC, Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store, EFS, STS, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, Elastic LoadBalancer, DMS, Route53, AWS Batch and many other services
• Implemented shared file system using Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) on EC2 that uses Microsoft Active Directory authentication and supports NTFS, Samba and other protocols.
• Provided leadersip to applications architecture and development on full stack technologies including Microservices, Java EE, Spring Frameworks, Angular, NodeJS, Event-Driven architecture, etc.
• Researched new technologies, defined standards and best practices for several AWS Services for the organization. Reviewed application architectures using best practices and AWS Well-Architected Framework.