About

Yokesh Shanmugam is a highly experienced Solutions Architect with over 16 years of experience in the Airline, Insurance, and Retail industries. He is currently working as a Senior Azure and AWS Solutions Hands on Architect with an insurance client at Cognizant. Yokesh is skilled in a wide range of technologies including AWS Lambda, Fargate, Cloud Formation, Azure DevOps, ASP.Net MVC5, ASP.Net Core, Azure PAAS, Azure ADB2C, Typescript, and IT Strategy. He has worked extensively in AWS Lambda Serverless API and Fargate for implementing microservices architecture. He has also provided enterprise AWS PaaS solutions for an insurance client and automated AWS Deployment using CloudFormation template. Yokesh has expertise in Atlassian products and has leveraged them for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment capabilities with DevOps strategy. He has also worked in Azure DevOps automation by writing custom extension orchestrated tasks in Powershell. He recommends architectural enhancements to current PaaS implementation and works with a core group of architects to improve the processes for technical collaboration of ideas and technology best practices. Yokesh has experience in building innovative and reusable solutions using Microsoft Azure. He has expertise in project scope and estimation, coaching project and people on Microsoft Azure, and working with Agile (Scrum), Test-Driven Development models, Continuous Integration, Cloud-based architecture, build and deployment utilities. He collaborates with other architects and developers to come up with the design and architectural approach for the use cases in the project. Yokesh has worked with Royal London as a Senior Solutions Architect and with HM as a Solutions Architect. At Royal London, he worked in Microsoft Azure PaaS Solutioning with Hybrid Connections and Azure B2C. He has also worked in Azure SQL, Azure Blob, and Message Queue with SAS security. At HM, he led the organization in exploiting technology and used knowledge of IT solutions to drive organizational change and support business process design. Yokesh holds a B.Tech degree in Instrumentation and Control and Electronics Instrumentation from Anna University. His tech stack includes AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Integration, DevOps, SQL, dotNET, ASP.NET, Typescript, test, Microservices, and AngularJS. With his vast experience and expertise, Yokesh brings a unique perspective to any project he works on and is a valuable asset to any team.