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Salil Gandhi

Software technology professional with 19+ years experience performing diverse leadership roles in Architecture, engineering development and team management. Active Innovator with 13x patents & 27x technical ideas published on ip.com

Key Skills

Software Architecture
Java & Spring
Innovation
Design patterns
Microservice Architectures
Database designs (SQL & NoSQL)
Kafka / Streaming tools
Team management and technical leadership
Machine / Deep learning
AWS

Professional Experience

Apr 2017
Present
Sr. Architect (Enterprise Architecture)
CDK Global India Pvt Ltd Pune, IN
Key responsibilities and work initiatives –
  • Modernization of Legacy system into Cloud native microservice based architecture
  • Work closely with Product, Senior leadership and development team to provide technical leadership for CDK Product development
  • Define Architecture Standards for CDK
  • Define cloud migration strategies and plans for CDK
  • Define DR strategies and architectures for multiple CDK products and platforms
  • Define and implement Architecture maturity model (consisting of Scalability, Resiliency, etc.) across CDK Global
  • Technology evaluations/selection for CDK (including PoCs for distributed caching, Key management solution, AWS technologies, NoSQL databases, etc.)
  • Mentor budding architects and senior engineers (Defined and ran a well defined program for mentoring architects)
  • Assist in CDK Global divestitures with dependency & impact analysis
Major Technologies used:
AWS, Java / JEE, Spring, Hibernate, ReactJs, NodeJs, Redis, Postgres, Oracle, DynamoDB
May 2013
Mar 2017
Software Architect and Engineering Manager
Avaya India Pvt. Ltd Pune, IN
Responsibilities include:
Product architecture, Product ownership, roadmap planning , delivery/execution, technical guidance, people management, partner management
Key Contributions:
  • Provided Architecture support for million dollar project for Dynamic Routing to Vodafone India and delivered with high quality
  • Performed architecture, product ownership and people management for 5+ products completely owned from India
  • Mentoring engineers
Major Technologies used:
AWS, Java / JEE, Spring, Hibernate, EhCache
Jan 2011
Apr 2013
Sr. Product Developer
BMC Software Pune, IN
Architecture, design and code for various BMC products like Cloud and Foundation platform.
Major Technologies used: Java, Spring, OSGI, Virgo, Hibernate, EclipseLink, Restful Webservices, EhCache, ORMs etc.
Aug 2004
Jan 2011
Staff Software Engineer
IBM India Software Labs Pune, IN
Organization wide initiatives like creation of Intellectual Property for IBM, mentoring, Process Improvement, interview panellist. Product responsibilities like software design, development, root cause analysis, business impact analysis, etc
Worked on multiple products including modernization from legacy Java thick clients to web based Java applications.
Major Technologies Used:
Java, Structs 2, Javascript, Oracle
Feb 2002
Jul 2004
Software Engineer
CMC Ltd. Pune, IN
Various projects on Java, JEE technology like Finger Print Analysis & Tracing System (FACTS) sold to various govt. organizations.
Dec 2001
Jan 2002
Software Engineer
National Informatics Center Pune, IN
Project on Java, JEE technology

Education

Jan 2021
Feb 2021
Deep Learning Speciality Certification in By Andrew Ng
Coursera
Jan 2020
Mar 2021
Machine Learning Certification course by Andrew Ng in COURSERA
Stanford University
May 1997
May 2001
Bachelor of Engineering in Sinhgad College of Engineering
Pune

Certifications

2019
AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
AWS
2018
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
AWS
2015
TOGAF 9 Certified Architect
TOGAF
2021
Deep Learning Specialization
COURSERA
2011
ITIL V3 Foundation
ITIL
2007
Sun Certified Web Component Developer 1.4
Sun
2004
Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.4
Sun

Achievements

Innovation
  • 13x Patents
  • 27x Idea Publications


Awards
  • 5 IBM Plateau Awards for Extraordinary Innovation
  • Bravo Award 2009 for Extraordinary innovation Contribution to IBM
  • Multiple Bravo Award (2005, 2007) for Extraordinary Technical Contribution to Product in IBM
  • Spot Award for technical contributions in BMC in 2012
  • CEO Quality Champions Award (team award) in Avaya for the delivery of Vodafone Dynamic Routing project with high quality
  • Multiple spotlight and A-Team awards in CDK Global for product execution and mentoring

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