Arka Biswas

About Arka Biswas

Visionary Senior Solutions Architect with 20+ years of experience in designing, engineering, and delivering highly distributed, fault‑tolerant, and secure enterprise platforms across wearables, navigation, retail, CPG, pharmacy, healthcare and travel/hospitality. I translate business strategy into pragmatic architecture and lead hands‑on engineering—mentoring and guiding teams from prototyping and coding through deployment and operations—to build resilient platforms that scale, withstand failure, and meet strict compliance.My expertise spans cloud architecture (AWS, Azure), distributed computing, and domain‑driven microservices built with Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, NodeJS, and TypeScript. I modernize monoliths into cloud‑native ecosystems using Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Lambda, and Azure Functions, applying patterns such as CQRS, event sourcing, pub/sub, sagas, circuit breakers, bulkheads, sharding, caching, idempotency, autoscaling, immutable infrastructure, and blue/green or canary deployments to deliver resilient and cost‑efficient platforms.Key Achievements • Built a proprietary Authentication & Authorization platform serving 100M users, leveraging OIDC, SAML, CAS, OAuth2, distributed systems design, and cloud‑native scalability.• Led ground‑up digital transformation of complex business operations using microservices, event‑driven architecture, CI/CD automation, and cloud modernization.• Reduced operational costs 25–30% by re‑architecting legacy workloads into containerized microservices with autoscaling and FinOps.• Improved performance ~40% through telemetry‑driven tuning, caching, async processing, and distributed tracing.• Delivered resilient systems using chaos engineering, SRE practices, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and multi‑region DR.• Trusted advisor to ARB, COE, ITSM, and COP, shaping cloud strategy, API governance, and identity architecture.• Hands‑on engineering leader— architecting, prototyping, coding, and guiding teams to ensure solutions are pragmatic, testable, secure, and operable.I architect secure, observable, and automated systems using Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Tekton, GitHub Actions, and drive integration strategy with REST, GraphQL, API Gateway, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus. My observability stack includes OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, and AppDynamics, and I design with security at the core—IAM, SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, CAS, PKI, RBAC, Zero Trust, WAF, NIST/CIS. I accelerate delivery through AI‑assisted engineering, automation, and DevOps best practices.

Experience

1. Architect IT Applications - Garmin Consumer Sso & Customer Data Services Ecosystem

   Garmin

   Apr 2022 — Present · Kansas City, MO, US

   Achievements o Played the Pivotal Leading Role in the Design and Reimagination of the proprietary Consumer Identity Platform with over 100 million active userso Ground up Design and Implementation of SAML 2.0 and OIDC Authentication Protocols over proprietary Consumer Identity Platformo Design and Implementation of a Federated Hierarchical Access Model as an Extension to OAuth Access Frameworko Rearchitect and Build a Novel Integration Framework for Thick Clients (mobile apps and Desktop Apps) to interact with Consumer Identity Platformo Design and Ground-up Build of the Integration Adapter for Authenticator App adhering with Industry standard TOTP Protocol over proprietary Consumer Identity Platformo Honored with the Innovation Award for consecutive years 2024 and 2025 for Password less Authentication mechanism and Secure Video Streaming PlatformResponsibilitieso Assessment of existing ecosystem, creating technical roadmaps, ensure compliance and adherence to the industry recognized Security standards o Successfully partnering, leading and mentoring a Highly Skilled Engineering Team distributed across three distinct Geographic Locations (US, Romania, Taiwan) for application development and compliance with industry best practices o Establish partnership with business, functional teams and multi-disciplined development teamso Establish and maintain technical Roadmap while adhering to best practice and architectural standards at the same time ensuring short- and long-term functional vision of the associated product while partnering with internal customerso Conducting technical design and code implementations reviews for application implementation teams and contribute as well as needed.o Exercise significant degree of leadership to projects and programs those contribute directly to organizational objectives

Education

• West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

  B.Tech, Information Technology

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Web Services
• Tomcat
• Javascript
• Xml Schema Design
• Saml 2.0
• Federated Identity Management
• Ajax
• J2ee Application Development
• Soap
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Oauth
• Jsp
• Openshift
• Requirements Analysis
• Spring Framework
• Xml
• Jboss Application Server
• Node.js
• Rules Engines
• Sql
• Jms
• Jsp Development
• Sdlc
• Spring
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Core Java
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Microsoft Azure
• Weblogic
• Wsdl
• Ws-Trust
• Servlets