SANKALP SHARMA
Burlington,ON
Summary
Proactive and meticulous Solutions Architect with 17+ years of extensive design and development experience to pursue new professional challenges. Demonstrated expertise in Big Data, analytics and monitoring of critical systems in banking, financial and Insurance sector. Adept at working and coordinating with various business stakeholders to enable and enhance technical development efforts and accomplish business goals.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Solutions Architect
Definity Insurance
09.2021 - Current
- Designed and lead development for securing data on cloud
- This involved dynamically identifying sensitive data within Lakehouse, tagging it and finally applying lifecycle policies on it
- Designed multiple frameworks for data movement into and within GCP Lakehouse
- Streamlined various processes within cloud to reduce cost and improve efficiency for SDP platform.
Senior Solutions Architect
Bank of Montreal
06.2019 - 08.2021
- Proposed and implemented the Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) layered design to help create abstractions around similar functionalities being grouped together for the ease of understanding and managing over 2 PB of data and processes
- Designed multiple frameworks for data movement into and within EDL while also taking into account stringent access controls and field level security (Streaming/Batch/Transformation/Export)
- Optimized the design of data migration patterns from on-prem to cloud (HDP/Netezza to AWS) making the processes efficient by 250%.
Solutions Architect
Sunlife
02.2017 - 06.2019
- Designed and led the development of in-house spark based batch ingestion framework (SLIDE)
- SLIDE won the most innovative product of year 2017 Sunlife worldwide
- Involved with other projects as a SME to help them overcome their Big Data challenges.
Data Engineer
ScotiaBank
10.2016 - 02.2017
- Designed and developed demos to highlight various types of data obfuscations to project stakeholders
- Researched on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected tools and identified the use cases they fit in.
Lead Engineer
Altisource
02.2014 - 09.2016
- Led the design and development of the Event Architecture Framework - an adapter between various disparate systems across the Altisource capable of handling huge chunks (full load/incremental load) of data from various sources.
Technical Consultant
Cisco - Varite
02.2013 - 01.2014
- Sole developer/designer for the Activiti [BPMN] Module for the CPS project - a platform that empowers customers and partners with online access to service resources and assets to help them achieve their desired business outcomes.
Team Lead
Accenture Tech Labs
07.2010 - 01.2013
- Led the design and development on Collaboration on the Spot (COTS) - [Published Patent with Accenture]: A mobile application that empowers the field engineers with the power of collaborating with the right set of experts on a real-time basis
- These experts can be both human as well as document [video walkthroughs, PDFs, docs, 3D animation, etc.]
- This app can be used in almost any field or industry
- Led the design and development on X-clusive ID (XID) - [Published Patent with Accenture]: A mobile application, which enables customers to check the authenticity of a product before buying.
Senior Software Engineer
Misys
07.2007 - 06.2010
- Involved in the development of the LoanIQ product - one of the leading syndicated loans products in the world
- Created a Java library on JAXB standards tailor-suited for LoanIQ specific requirements.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Computer Applications -
Institute of Management And Technology
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) -
Dyal Singh College (Delhi University)
Skills
- GCP – GCS/BigQuery/Cloud Functions/DLP/Dataplex
- AWS - S3/Redshift/Lambda/EMR/RDS
- Databricks
- J2SE
- Apache Spark
- Apache Kafka
- Activiti BPMN 20
- Cloudera/Hortonworks HDFS/Hive
- ReST Web Services
- Design Patterns
- XML/XSD/JSON/SAX/DOM
- JAXB
- Apache Velocity
- SQL
Certification
- Certified GCP Professional cloud Architect
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect
Accomplishments
- Successfully published Patents: https://www.google.com/patents/EP2717195A1?cl=un, https://www.google.ie/patents/US20130159200
- Won "The Most Innovative Product of the year 2017" (SLIDE) within Sunlife worldwide
- Won “MVP” [Most Valuable Player for the year] award for the efforts in Context on the Spot (COTS) Project at Accenture
- Won “Achiever of the month” award for development efforts in XID (X-clusive ID) project at Accenture
References
REFERENCES Available on request
Timeline
Senior Solutions Architect
Definity Insurance
09.2021 - Current
Senior Solutions Architect
Bank of Montreal
06.2019 - 08.2021
Solutions Architect
Sunlife
02.2017 - 06.2019
Data Engineer
ScotiaBank
10.2016 - 02.2017
Lead Engineer
Altisource
02.2014 - 09.2016
Technical Consultant
Cisco - Varite
02.2013 - 01.2014
Team Lead
Accenture Tech Labs
07.2010 - 01.2013
Senior Software Engineer
Misys
07.2007 - 06.2010
- Certified GCP Professional cloud Architect
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect
Post Graduate Diploma - Computer Applications -
Institute of Management And Technology
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) -
Dyal Singh College (Delhi University)
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