Prasad Kalyanasundaram

Chief technology officer, communications and technology(platforms and services) at Cognizant

Frisco, Texas, United States

About Prasad Kalyanasundaram

Prasad Kalyanasundaram is Chief technology officer, communications and technology(platforms and services) at Cognizant. Location: Frisco, Texas, United States.

An enterprise architect with over 18 years of experience in software development, cloud migration, and enterprise architecture, infrastructure architecture, enterprise data modelling and consulting Enterprise architecture and IT strategy:Develop IT strategy and roadmap, engage with C level executives, IT and business to obtain strategy alignment. Develop business cases and drive capital planning in key architecture areas. Execute on identified strategy initiatives by weaving technology roadmaps into IT initiatives  Solution design/engineering consulting: Leading architects and development teams for technical deliverables of concurrent projects. Provide solution design/high level design specifications and delivery oversight to critical programs. Lead solution creation efforts and present technical solutions to customers, and ensure alignment in highly complex ecosystems. Create and deliver various artifacts, for solution design/engineering process diagrams and high level and detailed design documents  Enterprise Architecture consulting: Provide Consulting services to clients in areas of technology assessment, assessment for data center migrations, product selection, application portfolio assessment, application portfolio rationalization, architecture definition, business process analysis, architecture blueprint/roadmap definition, business value articulation, enterprise data modeling, service oriented architecture and architecture governance of large programs  Software development Expertise: Hands on implementation, design and architecture experience in Java /webservices development using application development frameworks and ETL tools. Hands on experience in containerization of enterprise applications and development of CI/CD pipelines for end to end orchestration of application software. Hands on experience in development of complex, scalable enterprise applications using RESTful microservices, SOA, enterprise architecture patterns, event driven architectures, enterprise messaging systems and various types of data bases. Hands on performance engineering experience analyzing application performance, with a proven track record of improving application performance on multiple occasions under known time pressure.

Skills

  • Solution Architecture
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Integration

Additional experience

  • Senior Director, enterprise architecture

    Cognizant

    Started November 2024

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
  • High school, Bharatiya vidya Bhavan