Pavan Kumar Nayakanti

About Pavan Kumar Nayakanti

I’m a competent leader with rich experience in cloud engineering, platform modernization, DevOps, MLOps, RPA and automation—primarily focused on the financial services domain. At IRIS Software, I lead cloud transformation and platform engineering initiatives, delivering secure, scalable, and compliant systems for world-class banking and financial institutions.My expertise lies in designing scalable, secure, and compliant infrastructure solutions aligned with business outcomes and regulatory standards.I have a strong background in leading DevOps, SRE, platform engineering and full-stack engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions across banking, wealth management, trading, and risk domains. My work involves modernizing legacy systems, migrating applications to cloud-native architectures, and implementing robust automation frameworks that reduce delivery cycles and operational overhead.As a senior specialist in IRIS Software’s Cloud Practice, I play a key role in driving presales engagements, defining solution architectures, and building reusable assets like PoVs, accelerators, and maturity models. I’ve successfully supported large-scale delivery programs while enabling secure deployments aligned with SOX, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance mandates.With a passion for continuous learning and enablement, I also lead enterprise training programs and contribute as a hands-on engineer building APIs, infrastructure stacks, and end-to-end deployment pipelines.Looking ahead, I remain focused on scaling digital transformation across cloud, automation, and engineering excellence—fostering innovation and agility in highly regulated enterprise environments.

Experience

1. Sr Specialist Cloud Practice

   Iris Software Inc.

   Oct 2020 — Present · Noida, IN

   As a Solution Specialist at IRIS Software, I lead large-scale cloud modernization and engineering transformation initiatives for mission-critical systems in the financial domain. I’m responsible for building cross-functional engineering teams, shaping architecture strategies, and driving delivery excellence across infrastructure, DevOps, and application engineering layers.With a strong background in automation and platform engineering, I’ve designed reusable deployment frameworks and maturity models that reduced release cycles from weeks to hours, significantly improving resilience and delivery throughput.I ensure all solutions meet stringent banking compliance standards including SOX, PCI DSS, and GDPR—enforcing secure access, full audit trails, and data privacy across automation and infrastructure.I support pre-sales efforts end-to-end, including opportunity qualification, solutioning, proposal creation, RFP/RFI responses, estimations, PoCs, and customer presentations—translating business needs into scalable, secure engineering solutions.I have led key initiatives enabling cloud adoption, enhancing observability, and integrating enterprise authentication across hybrid systems—successfully connecting 30+ components between cloud and on-premise environments.Previously, I built and scaled SRE and platform teams across multiple geographies, delivering automation pipelines capable of handling 200+ deployments per hour, reducing manual effort by 90%.As a hands-on technologist, I contribute to infrastructure-as-code, API development, and microservices architecture, and am transitioning into full-stack roles to broaden delivery ownership.I also lead enterprise-wide training efforts, conducting multiple week long sessions per quarter for audiences of 200+, helping teams adopt best practices in cloud, DevOps, and automation.

Education

• Osmania University

  MSc, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• Indian School of Business

  General Management Program, Business Administration, Management and Operations

• Woolf

  Masters, Computer Science

• Kakatiya University

  Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Computer Sciences

  1997 — 2000

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Business Intelligence
• Integration Testing
• Sap Hana
• Mortgage Banking
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Xml
• Ssis
• IT Operations
• Databases
• Windows Azure
• User Acceptance Testing
• Continous Deployment
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Ci/Cd
• Tfs
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Planning
• Test Cases
• Data Migration
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Incident Management
• Tableau
• Performance Testing
• Enterprise Software
• Sdlc
• Sql Server Integration Services (Ssis)
• Sql
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Software Engineering
• Risk Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• C#
• .net