Senior Solutions Architect │ AI Platforms
Cloud Platforms

Senior Solutions Architect with 15+ years across Banking, Telecom, Insurance, and Manufacturing — customer-facing from discovery to production.
Architect who still ships — hands-on in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Python, and .NET; PoCs, code reviews, and production code.
Solution design end-to-end: C4, ADR/RFC, quality attributes, API/integration contracts, DR, data flows, and delivery roadmaps.
AI Platform-as-a-Service: RAG/GraphRAG, LLM agents, agent infrastructure, and guardrails — plus a 4-15k TPS anti-fraud platform with a real-time ML model I built myself.
Measurable impact: time-to-market from ~3 months to ~3 weeks, 99.95% production availability by design, fraud protection for millions of users.
Remote-first, aligned to US & Canada business hours; English C1; AWS Solutions Architect – Professional; fluent with executives and clients.

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Main skills

Architecture & Design

Solution ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureC4ADR/RFCDDDEvent-DrivenMicroservicesDistributed SystemsTOGAF

Cloud & Platform

AWS Well-ArchitectedEKSLambdaS3IAMAzureKubernetesDockerCI/CDObservability

Data & AI

AI PlatformRAG/GraphRAGLLM AgentsVector SearchReal-time MLKafkaPostgreSQLRedis

Engineering

JavaScript/TypeScriptJavaPython.NETgRPCGraphQLNode.js

Leadership & Delivery

Stakeholder ManagementPre-SalesCustomer-FacingTCO / Cost OptimizationMentoringGovernance

Artifacts & Deliverables

C4 (L1–L2)ADR/RFCRACIQuality AttributesDR / BackupData FlowsNetwork TopologyAPI ContractsRelease PolicyRoadmaps

September 2025 - Present

Own solution design for a company-wide AI Platform-as-a-Service: multi-tenant cloud-native platform on Kubernetes with self-service onboarding, vector/RAG pipelines, LLM agent orchestration, responsible-AI guardrails, secure sandboxes, voice channels, and audit logging via API gateways and MCP - cut new-service time-to-market from ~3 months to ~3 weeks.
Applied AWS Well-Architected patterns to the platform: EKS-style cluster topology, IAM-bound tenancy and least-privilege access, and a full observability stack (CloudWatch-compatible metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for SLO-driven operations.
Modernized legacy systems with DDD and event-driven architecture (Kafka, Saga, CDC) and a Strangler Fig decomposition with backward-compatible contracts.
Established architecture governance — ADR/RFC decision records, design reviews, guardrails — and coached teams to document the "why" behind decisions, not just the "what".
Led discovery and POC/MVP cycles with B2B/B2G clients (C4 target-state, RACI, quality attributes, roadmaps) and designed availability-oriented architecture — resilience patterns, multi-region failover, SLO/SLI — that sustained 99.95% availability in production, validated with observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

April 2023 - September 2025

Architected and led delivery of a high-throughput (4-15k TPS) anti-fraud platform for SMS and voice, modernizing a core telecom service and protecting millions of subscribers.
Hands-on: personally built and deployed a real-time ML model for SMS traffic classification, strengthening the platform's core fraud-detection capability.
Designed an event-driven architecture (Kafka, DDD, Saga) with multi-region DR; led a monolith-to-microservices decomposition (Strangler Fig) and a migration from Diameter to gRPC on Kubernetes.
Presented migration options to executives (CTO, Principal Enterprise Architect) and won approval for a staged on-prem decomposition with canary and A/B testing; ran ADR/RFC design reviews and 24/7 SLO/SLI operations.

January 2011 - April 2023

12-year progression from senior engineer to Solutions Architect across financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and media — including client-facing delivery for North American enterprises (Toronto, Canada).
Participated in customer-facing pre-sales at EPAM (architecture workshops, RFI support, POC design) alongside delivery work — comfortable in technical discovery sessions, not a dedicated sales role.
SwissRE: Solutions Architect and architecture author for a cloud-native insurance platform (7 microservices); supported executive workshops for Clearing Manager in Zurich, cutting ~3 months of manual analyst work to near-instant validated output (hybrid Azure/on-prem).
Wolters Kluwer (Cloud Gate on AWS): architecture author and demo lead; drove adoption across 70+ teams in 10 departments and cut release lead time from ~6 months to ~3 weeks via automated cross-product dependency testing.
Hands-on engineering foundation: built core Cloud Gate components from scratch, established CI/CD and AWS deployment practices, and mentored engineers across the Canadian organization.