Ajay Samant

About Ajay Samant

Worked in IT for past 26 yrs. Extensive experience in managing, architecting, and maintaining software applications and developing Analytics solutions.• Defining strategy for building analytical apps using AWS Services• Defining strategy for building apps (Machine Learning and Big Data) • Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems.• Enable GenAI Capabilities – enhance current ML platform to build and scale generative AI applications using AWS managed services like Bedrock and Sagemaker. • Work as part of a team, to design and develop cloud data solutions. Selecting appropriate cloud services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements.• Provide hands-on leadership for the design and development of data lakes using AWS Big Data ecosystem tools and technologies (AWS S3, AWS Glue, Spark on EMR)• For data analytics migrated on-premise enterprise data to cloud based scalable data lakes which led to cutting down local infrastructure for data storage • Implemented a self-service configuration based Big Data ETL portal using AWS serverless architecture and AWS managed services like Glue and Lambda Step Functions.• Migrated ETL jobs to fully managed serverless ETL architecture which led to massive cost savings in infrastructure and software licensing.• Provided technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams. • Migrated complex, multi-tier web applications on cloud using serverless platform (cloud storage for hosting web content and on-demand scalable compute layer for microservices) • Enabled data science community by providing resilient infrastructure that cater to their elastic demands for machine learning using AWS ML platform like Sagemaker and AI services layer.

Experience

1. Director (Platform Product Owner & Uc Solution Architect - Im Data Products)

   Novartis

   Jan 2022 — Present · US

Education

• Mumbai University Mumbai

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  1988 — 1992

• St. Thomas High School

  S.S.C

  1976 — 1986

• University of Mumbai

  BS, Computers

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Javascript
• Uml
• Integration
• .net
• Unix
• Eai
• Android
• Soap
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Architecture
• Agile Project Management
• Servlets
• Websphere
• Jms
• Soa
• Data Warehousing
• Sql
• Linux
• Asp.net
• Hibernate
• Jdbc
• Distributed Systems
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Struts
• Ajax
• Architecture
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Tomcat
• Business Intelligence
• Mobile Applications
• Jsp
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Db2
• Eclipse