Krishna Kumar R.
Leadership | Large-Scale Implementation & Transformation | Realtime data integration & analytics | Rice MBA
- Role
- Senior Manager at PwC
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Krishna Kumar R.
25+ experience in digital technologies, having held diverse roles across software, platform, product engineering, architecture, integration, technical/product lead, experience spanning across multiple organizations in BP like trading and upstream, where I have led large-scale integrations and transformations with recent Rice executive MBA well positioned to move to the next level of my careerTechnical leader, leading large teams, strategic thinking, alignment and prioritization, fostering culture of continuous improvement, automation and operational excellence, delivering high quality solutions, multiple technical and cross functional team collaboration, stake holder management across multiple regions and cross-functional teams.Revolutionized/democratized real-time sensor/instrument data, managing technical team’s, roadmaps, delivery and support, strategically building in-house OSIsoft PI connector within the Azure IoT Edge framework, partnering with Microsoft, deployed as containerized modules publishing to IoT Hub, routed through Event Hubs and custom.NET functions for downstream analytical systems. Scaled globally across 8 regions and 50 offshore assets, this platform unlocked 2 billion sensor events driving analytics supporting major initiatives to optimizing oil production, remote plant operations, digital twin, and surveillance. Led Industry 4.0 digital architecture initiatives, implementing modern data acquisition using IIoT, MQTT, and connectivity technologies like Wi-Fi, LTE, and LoRaWAN, alongside advanced robotics. Innovation without disruption to existing SCADA and automation systems, adhering to Purdue model principles for secure network segregation in process control environments.Led enterprise-scale Realtime integration initiatives for BP upstream business, architecting sensor data pipelines from PI, PHD, and IP21 systems to data lakes, Palantir, and Hadoop. Built foundational infrastructure across data centers using windows, Linux, deploying resilient services transforming global upstream assets.Managed BP’s Integration Layer (IL) for the North American Gas & Power (NAGP) trading division ensuring 99.99% uptime for 400+ critical integration services/interfaces across 150+ servers and a dozen environments. Technical leadership driving platform engineering & excellence, automation, compliance, and strategic delivery of critical integration for trading applications across mega data centers. Transformed operations with robust deployment & infrastructure automation, monitoring, DR with federated databases with point-in-time recovery.
Experience
Senior Manager
Nov 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Education
Rice Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
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