About

Ashwani Kumar is a strategic leader with over 15 years of rich experience in strengthening business opportunities through strategic planning, enterprise roadmap, and providing strategic direction on technology/technical architecture selection and evaluation. He is currently working as a Technology Architect at Cognizant, where he is responsible for strategizing migration of on-premises applications to Azure by selecting appropriate services to fulfill scalability, elasticity, security, fault tolerance, and optimum cost requirement. He has expertise in Azure, Microservices, Web APIs, Logic Apps, Docker, Kubernetes Storages, Blob, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure Function, APIM, SpecFlow, NUnit, PowerShell, C#, Python, AWS, Terraform, Istio, etc. Ashwani has architected web-based solutions for modular design, predictable and reproducible packaging using Docker Kubernetes. He has also architected Access and Identify Management using Managed identity, Azure Active directory, Policies, Resource-based policies, IAM Permission boundaries. Ashwani has architected identity federation taking into consideration present state and target state using appropriate services – SAML 2.0, Custom Identity broker, Single Sign-on. He has also architected notification for abnormal activities in a cloud environment by making use of Azure Monitor and workflow. He has utilized Azure Key Vault and its key rotation policy in tightening security by encrypting data in Azure blob, etc. Ashwani has implemented infrastructure as code using Terraform, ARM template, and architected defense in depth by utilizing Security Groups, NSG, IAM Roles, Security certificates, Managed Identity, WAF, Certificates, encryption of data at rest and data in transit. He has also architected Continuous Integration and Delivery by Azure DevOps, Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline services. Ashwani has identified and implemented 19 stability and performance improvement changes for a retail client. This reduced ~57% incidents in a year, 38% decrease in CPU, and 28 % reduction in memory. He has also compiled quality gate-check lists to standardized Processes, KT, Deployments and validated solutions against Well Architecture Framework. Ashwani has worked with companies like Cognizant and Capgemini in the past and has a relevant experience of 16.03 years. He holds a BE degree from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and completed his 12th from Kendriya Vidyalaya. He has expertise in Senior Software Engineering