Ramnath Devulapalli

About Ramnath Devulapalli

A forward-thinking IT leader with 20 years of experience and with excellent problem-solving skills to identify prudent, innovative and cost-effective solutions to business problems.• An accomplished senior enterprise architect able to formulate vision, set direction and formulate the technology strategy and build a scalable, performing IT platform as a competitive advantage.• A results-oriented leader who takes initiative, personal responsibility and ownership of work, and is highly committed to overall success.• A trusted business / IT liaison that maintains strong client-relationships and is committed to ensure that IT solutions deliver enhanced business value.• A successful program / project architect with extensive experience in all facets of project life cycle, from initial feasibility analysis, architecture and design, through implementation and deployment.• A seasoned IT manager with comprehensive experience in establishing high standards and building high performance teams.Specialties: Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architeture,Cloud Computing, Enterprise Integration, Master Data Management,CRM (SalesForce, SAGE), Enterprsie Content Management, Data Architecture, Application Architecture and Development

Experience

1. Chief Architect, Senior Director, Solution Architecture

   The Standard

   Jul 2014 — Present

   Planning, Coordination and execution of Legacy Systems Modernization across multiple LOBs – this is a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative that aims to modernize the mainframe and other legacy systems and unsupported platforms to enable faster product delivery and strategic growth into new markets. The modernization is executed through portfolio projects which are aligned to the future state architecture roadmap for the different Lines of Business (LOB).• Data strategy and Data architecture to enable the BI and Analytical capabilities – this initiative also encompasses data retention, archival. Leveraging Azure Data Lake and BI capabilities.• Hybrid cloud architecture and modernization of the web and application architecture platforms – driving towards a micro services architecture with open source technologies and frameworks.• Application security remediation and vulnerability resolution (OWASP Top 10) leading to a more secure application eco system.• Modernization of the dev, build, deploy toolset to enable continuous integration and continuous deployment.• Managing a team of 30 across architecture and engineering including 10 Senior Enterprise architects, 2 Directors.• Accountable for managing a budget and Enterprise platforms portfolio of $3million.• Built high performance architecture and engineering teams and strengthened the engineering discipline talent acquisition, design guidance and collaboration

Education

• Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

  Master of Science, Physics

  1980 — 1987

Skills

• Architectures
• Data Warehousing
• Master Data Management
• Business Intelligence
• Technical Architecture
• Data Architecture
• Architecture
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Etl
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Integration
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Web Services
• Data Modeling
• Eai
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• IT Strategy
• Software Development
• Requirements Gathering
• Websphere
• Integration