Saravanan S

Chief Architect | Leader – Cloud Migration and Modernization Practise

Technical Executive | Architect | Multi-Cloud | DevOps | Inventor | Mentoring

Versatile Chief Architect with extensive experience in end-to-end design, solution, and implementation of effective
client solutions. Decisive leadership with excellent communication and conflict resolutions skills. Offering around 20 years
of experience with deep expertise in managing several Fortune500 clients. Technical executive with forward-thinking
mindset to make positive impact on long-term vision of an organization. Have constantly evolved to technical demands
and played numerous roles including but not limited to Lead Architect, Consulting Architect, Delivery Architect, Cloud
Adoption Leader and Cloud Transformation Leader. Worked for the clients from deal inception to final transformation
delivery.

Contact Work History

Address 2010-10 - Chief Architect |CMM Leader - IBM India

Chennai, TN 600110 Current  Supporting clients for E2E modernization for AWS more than

Phone 1000 applications in leading design of the application and

7338828116 migration of the application using the DevOps

methodology
E-mail
 Being part of engineering, setting up delivery for
Saranshan.com@gmail.com
Modernization of applications
 Lead the design of the automation tool called SDMM for
Goals the migration and modernization delivery
 Architect Guild leader performing digital transformation of
 Programming languages
client's business & journey to cloud initiatives. Technical
 Python coding
Leadership to 50+ architects.
 TOGAF
 Won the 15 days design and architecture challenge for
Tata Steel Ltd that earned a Multi-Billion-dollar deal for IBM.
Skills  Took active part in the Merger and Acquisition of Gravitant
into IBM and played a major role in the re-architecting of
IT Landscape
cloud brokerage tool in IBM Cloud.
Transformation
 Responsible for end-to-end implementation of several

Discovery and critical migrations of client environment to datacentre or

Migration Tooling cloud

 Leading the PMI client for Application discovery ,
Designing the Application design , and migration using Terraform/Ansible
Architecture and DevOps implementation
 Providing technical thought leadership for Cloud Migration
DevOps
and Modernization Practice.
  Spearhead innovative migration methodologies using
Agile
DevOps practices. Pipeline design and build using Jenkins,

Power P series Terraform and Ansible.

and AIX  Introduced Application Design and Migration
technologies methodologies into the Cloud Migration and Modernization
practise
Offerings  Strategized a vision to build Migration capability in GTS
Development
India. Ramped up team size from 50 to 800+ members pan
India.
Architect Client
Solutions  Designed and implemented Agile Shared services model
(Squads, Guilds, Chapter, Tribe) to achieve seamless
Management integration with technology and client delivery.
and Leadership  Led skill development of Cloud and various DB migration
 Drafted conceptual and logical data models for high-level
Mentoring and
system planning tasks, optimizing each model to customers'
Coaching
needs and budgets.

Project Planning  Designed internal process improvements to automate

and repetitive tasks, shortening data delivery times and improve
Management customer NPS score.
 Led overall modernization of legacy datacentre thereby
Recruitment and reducing costs and enhancing efficiency
Hiring
 Created new and innovative approaches to problems and
discussed strategies with project managers.
New Strategies
with tactical  Developed cost and business case for multiple offerings

approaches (Cloud and On-premise) to enable competitive migration

opportunities for IBM
Terraform  Have been instrumental in arriving with new thought
Automation leadership for the real needs of the market.
 Led multiple escalated and de-railed projects. Created
Virtualization
tactical and strategical approach to turn projects to green

Enterprise and achieve desired outcomes.

Architecture  Led the offering enablement of new offerings to the sellers
for go-to-market. Supported the client discussions to win
Cloud multiple deals for IBM
Architecture  Mentoring Cloud Migration and Modernization methods for
Design
100s of practitioners in the organization.
 As IBM Global and India SME for AIX technology to operate,
Leadership
communications played critical role for all escalated and technical issues in
the organization
 Have played a Technical Leadership role in leading the
Education UNIX delivery for multiple customers in different stages of
Diploma: Electrical and career, Clients Handled: Anthem, AT & T , Broadridge,
Electronic Engineering Weatherford UKPN, TSL, Macy's, TD Bank, Weather Ford,

IRT Polytechnic -Chennai Sony, RSA, Etc.,

Bachelor of Business 2008-11 - Senior Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Administration 2010-10 Mphasis Ind Ltd
 Clients Handled : AVIVA General Insurance - Norwich
Madras University - Chennai
Union, East Hub (Combination of multiple clients ).
 Played roles as Technical leader for setting the delivery
Inventions &
centre for AVIVA client
Publications  Rolled out 24 X 7 work pattern to the East Hub delivery
teams with a lot passion to the people working for the
 "Robotic Shopper" patent
customer delivery
approved with search 3
 Delivered build and run support for multiple clients
status
 Delivery Manager leading 20+ members for Unix delivery.
 "Cognitive Broadcast
Invites" patent approved for 2007-09 - Project Lead
publications 2008-11 Satyam computers LTD
 2 more patent in review  Led Unix delivery for Caterpillar customer
status  Brought new delivery aspects for the client from the AIX
and Unix servers' perspective
 Led a team of more than 10 members

2006-06 - System Operation Lead Specialist

2007-09 IBM India Private Limited
 Supported Excel Energy clients as a Unix SME
 Supported multiple servers as part of BAU team
 Supported Pseries servers , Sun Solaris , Redhat Linux and
Other Linux

2004-05 - Customer Engineer

2006-07 CMS Computer Ltd
 Supported Unix based backend machines for the IOB ATM
 Supported Sco-Unix and AIX Operating system

2001-08 - Maintenance Engineer

2004-05 Kores India Ltd
 Supported multiple banks in maintaining the banking
machines
 Have handled SCO-Unix nodes
 Have handled many other banking machines for the
multiple banks
Technical Knowledge

Cloud: IBM Cloud, AWS , Azure and GCP

Platform: AIX on Pseries, Redhat , Solaris
Migration Tools : VMware HCX, Zerto, Carbonite Migrate, AWS SMS ,
Cloudendure, Velostrata, Azure Migrate, StorageX
DevOps : Jenkins, Github, Terraform Enterprise, Azure DevOps
Discovery and Planning : Cloudscape, ALDM, Transition Manager,
Manual discovery methods
Orchestration Platform: IBM Cloud Orchestrator, VRealize Automation
Automation : Terraform , Azure ARM templates ( POC Level), Shell
scripting
Database (Design) : MSSQL, MySQL , Oracle
Project Management : Agile Project Planning , Estimation , Scheduling,
Project Tracking
Agile: Scrum Leadership, Sprint Planning, Sprint retrospective, Daily
Stand-up’s

Certifications & Accreditations

 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

 Open Group Certified Architect and Technical Specialist
 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Certified
 VMware Certified Professional 6.2 - Network Virtualization
 HashiCorp Certified : Terraform Associate
 Microsoft Certified Trainer
 Azure Architect Expert
 IBM Certified Specialist eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and
Support for AIX 5L V5.3
 IBM System p5 Virtualization Technical Support

Awards & Recognitions

 "IBM CHAIRMAN EQUITY AWARD" in 2019 for successfully leading CMM

 "Hall of Fame award" in 2013 and 2019 for handling crit-sit projects
 "Service means IBM award" in 2013 from IBM for driving new initiatives
 "Nakshatra award" in 2013 from IBM for resolving a major customer
issues saving penalty for IBM
 "Outstanding Leadership " from Mphasis an HP Company for leading
people successfully
 "Pat on the back" from Satyam computer for bringing new business
 Manager Choice award multiple times for many leadership instances