Technical Director
Y Architect
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Hands-on Architect & Project Manager with over 15+ years professional experience in IT space (DevSecOps, Salesforce/SAP/Adobe/Mulesoft/Solace - API/microservices/events, Infrastructure/Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Cyber Security/Identity). Involved in application design, implementation, delivery and support since 2004. In this period I have worked for major companies such as Samsung, Barclays, Deutsche Börse, Dyson, Hilti AG, N Brown Group, Triumph International, HSBC, Siemens, EE/Orange/BT, Coty, BAT, DigitasLBi, SAP/Hybris, Roche, research institute CERN. I worked across diverse business domains such as finance (front office trading, back office), fashion, retail, FMCG, pharma, online gaming, B2B/B2C ecommerce, telco, construction, physics/statistics. I value empathy, transparency, fun, lingua franca (ability to juggle business, tech, dev jargon).
2017 - 2023 Consulting Assignments (extended team)
Y Architect Ltd - PM/Architect (CyberSec, Solution, Enterprise) (Jan 2016 - Nov 2023)
Advising on the technical and business aspects across a number of large scale global digital transformation programs (in total 200+ developers, automation QAs, business analysts, PMOs, tech leads, architects).
SAP (Commerce, CX, Integration, Identity) & Salesforce (CX, Marketing, Commerce, Identity/Shield) Partner.
My day-to-day architect/advisor responsibilites vary. I wear many hats covering various aspects of the architecture (solution, data, information, infrastructure/cloud - Azure/GCP/AWS, security, integration, analytics, portofolio, business, technical, DevSecOps,...)
Manning Books (Nov 2019 - Nov 2023) - Tech Advisor/Reviewer . Books: Hacking cryptography, Azure Security (Defender, Sentinel); Multi-cloud Security (Containers, K8S, Docker); Data Lakes & Data Clouds; Practical Data Engineering on Azure; Inside Deep Learning; Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning
Live projects: Detecting Deepfakes with OpenCV and SVM (OpenCV, Image Processing/Recognition); Semi-Supervised Deep Learning with GANs for Melanoma Detection (Kubeflow, DeepOps, GPU/Nvidia/TPU, PyTorch); Authorship Identification with Text Mining and ML (scikit-learn) (since 2019)
Roche - Squad Architecture Lead (EMEA, Central Asia) EpiCX R&D (Oct 2020 - Nov 2022)
Part of PM group (Marketing & CRM platform) - CMG/Commercial section; Architecture & Emerging technologies group.
Overseeing and delivering overall E2E EpiCX (CX/marketing/regulatory/medical) architecture for northern EU, Middle East and Central Asia countries. Building tactical and long term architectures for Pharma International affiliates. Topics I cover span across solutioning, integration, data, analytics, security and portfolio of various platforms/products:
- Salesforce/SAP (Marketing/Sales/CMS/Commerce, Field Services, Multi-org/Multi-region deployments, personalizations, digital channels ...)
- MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud, Talend, ESBs, Solace (Event Mesh), Infra (Clusters, Kubernetes, Docker)
- Information, Data & Capabilities models (Sparx EA, BPM - Adonis NP, Collibra, Software AG, TOGAF)
- CMS (AEM, Veeva) – HCP/Patient/Clinical trials/Commerce/... Portals
- Identity/Governance/Security (Sailpoint, SAP Gigya/CDC, …)
- Data/Analytics (AWS Data Lake/Hub – Redshift, Glue, Athena, Snowflake; Data mesh; Blockchain)
- MDM (Reltio, RDM, OneKey, IQVIA) – HCP/HCO/Payer/Product/Molecule...
Addressing on a daily basis various affliate specific tech topics like local data residency regulations, data flows & migrations (eg consent), aligning analytics & data/solution views, capability gaps (business/tech), minimizing system risks (eg MFA, SSO for ext), MDM req (DCR & integration needs), evaluating tactical solution...
Dyson - CRM /ERP/Commerce/DevSecOps Architect & Product Owner (Apr 2018 - Feb 2020)
Part of digital delivery (reviewing/optimising technical landscape eg DevSecOps, Multi-Cloud, QA Automation) and design (solution architecture - TOGAF/ArchiMate) leadership/PM group within commercial/marketing group. In total around 200 people.
- DevSecOps/SRE (Jenkins CI/CD, K8S, Kubernetes/Containers/Clusters, Docker, F5 ADC, Gradle)
- Technology & platform roadmaps (various integrations eg payment, shipping providers/processors, frontend - PWA/Vue)
- Security tools (BlackDuck - SAST/DAST, Qualys, Akamai Bot Manager/Kona/WAF/DDoS, PKI/cryptography, Secrets Manager, CIS); Identity platform (ForgeRock IAM, AAD); PCI/ISO27000
- Infrastructure as Code/IaC/cloud setup reviews (Ansible/Terraform, Akamai CDN, Kubernetes, Helm, S/4HANA)
- Supply chain security (dependency managment eg frontend, Adobe, JS, HTML components)
- Co-chairing Design Authority Board (technical, solution and enterprise architecture)
- Mulesoft integrations (SaaS/iPaaS, OpenAPI/Swagger/RAML, DataWeave, ETL/ELT, S/4HANA)
- CRM/ERP data models & migrations (ETL/ELT/Data Lake & Warehouse, MDM)
2017 - 2023 Consulting Assignments (extended team)
Y Architect Ltd - PM/Architect (CyberSec, Solution, Enterprise) (Jan 2016 - Nov 2023)
Advising on the technical and business aspects across a number of large scale global digital transformation programs (in total 200+ developers, automation QAs, business analysts, PMOs, tech leads, architects).
SAP (Commerce, CX, Integration, Identity) & Salesforce (CX, Marketing, Commerce, Identity/Shield) Partner.
My day-to-day architect/advisor responsibilites vary. I wear many hats covering various aspects of the architecture (solution, data, information, infrastructure/cloud - Azure/GCP/AWS, security, integration, analytics, portofolio, business, technical, DevSecOps,...)
Manning Books (Nov 2019 - Nov 2023) - Tech Advisor/Reviewer . Books: Hacking cryptography, Azure Security (Defender, Sentinel); Multi-cloud Security (Containers, K8S, Docker); Data Lakes & Data Clouds; Practical Data Engineering on Azure; Inside Deep Learning; Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning
Live projects: Detecting Deepfakes with OpenCV and SVM (OpenCV, Image Processing/Recognition); Semi-Supervised Deep Learning with GANs for Melanoma Detection (Kubeflow, DeepOps, GPU/Nvidia/TPU, PyTorch); Authorship Identification with Text Mining and ML (scikit-learn) (since 2019)
Roche - Squad Architecture Lead (EMEA, Central Asia) EpiCX R&D (Oct 2020 - Nov 2022)
Part of PM group (Marketing & CRM platform) - CMG/Commercial section; Architecture & Emerging technologies group.
Overseeing and delivering overall E2E EpiCX (CX/marketing/regulatory/medical) architecture for northern EU, Middle East and Central Asia countries. Building tactical and long term architectures for Pharma International affiliates. Topics I cover span across solutioning, integration, data, analytics, security and portfolio of various platforms/products:
- Salesforce/SAP (Marketing/Sales/CMS/Commerce, Field Services, Multi-org/Multi-region deployments, personalizations, digital channels ...)
- MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud, Talend, ESBs, Solace (Event Mesh), Infra (Clusters, Kubernetes, Docker)
- Information, Data & Capabilities models (Sparx EA, BPM - Adonis NP, Collibra, Software AG, TOGAF)
- CMS (AEM, Veeva) – HCP/Patient/Clinical trials/Commerce/... Portals
- Identity/Governance/Security (Sailpoint, SAP Gigya/CDC, …)
- Data/Analytics (AWS Data Lake/Hub – Redshift, Glue, Athena, Snowflake; Data mesh; Blockchain)
- MDM (Reltio, RDM, OneKey, IQVIA) – HCP/HCO/Payer/Product/Molecule...
Addressing on a daily basis various affliate specific tech topics like local data residency regulations, data flows & migrations (eg consent), aligning analytics & data/solution views, capability gaps (business/tech), minimizing system risks (eg MFA, SSO for ext), MDM req (DCR & integration needs), evaluating tactical solution...
Dyson - CRM /ERP/Commerce/DevSecOps Architect & Product Owner (Apr 2018 - Feb 2020)
Part of digital delivery (reviewing/optimising technical landscape eg DevSecOps, Multi-Cloud, QA Automation) and design (solution architecture - TOGAF/ArchiMate) leadership/PM group within commercial/marketing group. In total around 200 people.
- DevSecOps/SRE (Jenkins CI/CD, K8S, Kubernetes/Containers/Clusters, Docker, F5 ADC, Gradle)
- Technology & platform roadmaps (various integrations eg payment, shipping providers/processors, frontend - PWA/Vue)
- Security tools (BlackDuck - SAST/DAST, Qualys, Akamai Bot Manager/Kona/WAF/DDoS, PKI/cryptography, Secrets Manager, CIS); Identity platform (ForgeRock IAM, AAD); PCI/ISO27000
- Infrastructure as Code/IaC/cloud setup reviews (Ansible/Terraform, Akamai CDN, Kubernetes, Helm, S/4HANA)
- Supply chain security (dependency managment eg frontend, Adobe, JS, HTML components)
- Co-chairing Design Authority Board (technical, solution and enterprise architecture)
- Mulesoft integrations (SaaS/iPaaS, OpenAPI/Swagger/RAML, DataWeave, ETL/ELT, S/4HANA)
- CRM/ERP data models & migrations (ETL/ELT/Data Lake & Warehouse, MDM)
Project history
08/2005
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Present
Feb 2019 - Manning Books
Tech Advisor/Reviewer
Books eg
- Multi-cloud Security (Containers, K8S)
- Data Lakes & Data Clouds
- Practical Data Engineering on Azure
- Inside Deep Learning
- Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning
Live projects eg
- Detecting Deepfakes with OpenCV and SVM (OpenCV, Python, Image Processing/Recognition)
- Semi-Supervised Deep Learning with GANs for Melanoma Detection (Kubeflow, DeepOps, GPU/Nvidia/TPU, PyTorch)
- Authorship Identification with Text Mining and Machine Learning (scikit-learn, data engineering, cross-validation)
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019 Dyson
CRM /ERP/Commerce/DevSecOps Architect & Product Owner
Part of digital delivery (reviewing/optimising technical landscape eg DevSecOps, Multi-Cloud, QA Automation) and design (solution architecture) leadership group within commercial/marketing group. In total around 200 people.
- DevSecOps/SRE (Jenkins CI/CD, K8S, Kubernetes/Containers/Clusters, Docker, F5 ADC, Gradle)
- Technology & platform roadmaps
- Security tools (BlackDuck - SAST/DAST, Qualys, Akamai Bot Manager/Kona/WAF/DDoS, PKI/cryptography, Secrets Manager, CIS); Identity platform (ForgeRock IAM, AAD)
- Infrastructure as Code/IaC/cloud setup reviews (Ansible/Terraform, Akamai CDN, Kubernetes, Helm, S/4HANA)
- SAP Commerce eg roadmaps – SaaS/Cloud/Kyma/OCC/Event driven, upgrades, reviews, coaching/trainings
- Adobe (CMS/Analytics/Marketing) integration/system reviews (AEM, Target, Launch)
- Co-chairing Design Authority Board (technical, solution and enterprise architecture)
- Big data/BI (Fivetran, Salesforce Big Objects & Wave/Analytics, Tableau, Cloud Data Platform)
- Mulesoft integrations (SaaS/iPaaS, OpenAPI/Swagger/RAML, DataWeave, ETL/ELT, S/4HANA)
- Salesforce CRM (Field Services, CPQ/Bundling, Apex, Azure AD integration, SFDC DX/scratch orgs)
- CRM/ERP data models & migrations (ETL/ELT/Data Lake & Warehouse, MDM)
Jan 2018 - Loben6
IoT Advisor
- Security/Networking (PLC, MIMO, Mesh)
- Solar/PV farm optimization (off-/on-grid, hybrid)
- Devices & Meters (Smart Meter, AMI, M-Bus/Meter-Bus, IIoT/IoT, sensors)
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018 Coty Inc
Solution Architect – B2B
Supporing and leading Accenture FR & Offshore (IN) delivery and design teams
- DevOps & cloud integrations (SAP/Azure/hCS env; setting up Jenkins pipelines/tuning, code coverage, static analysis)
- advising on SAP ECC integration with SAP Commerce Cloud (PIM/PCM/SmartEdit)
- data modelling (B2B assortment, contractual pricing - Redis, …)
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017 British American Tobacco
Solution Architect/Technical Owner – B2B
- E2E System/Process Reviews
- Introducing DevOps practises & roadmap (Jenkins/CI, Selenium, GitHub/Gitlab, Monitoring/Reporting/Governance)
- Implementing Code Quality standards (SAP SonarQube)
- Leading Perf testing team (Jmeter, Dynatrace)
- Advising on the future roadmap eg SAP ECC integration, SaaS (SAP Commerce Cloud - PIM/PCM/SmartEdit)
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017 Hilti AG
Solution Architect – B2B
Being part of a global cross-functional team (SAP ECC & Hybris). Maintaining and driving global E-commerce B2B platform landscape (rolled out in 25 countries, 5M customers).
- DevOps practises & roadmap (Bamboo/CI, Selenium, Monitoring/Kibana/Grafana)
- Driving future roadmap (SAP ERP, Hybris, Adobe CQ, Stibo, OpenText, Ariba/Punchout)
- NLP/Solr optimizations (tokenization/stemming/performance...)
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016 EE
Solution Architect – Telco (OSS, BSS)
Part of tactical team. Engaged to define platform upgrade approach (4.8 to 5.7), enable not fully utilized Hybris functionalities (eg bundle management) and minimize delivery risk. System reviews to define scope of Hybris customizations and verify business flows.
- System/Performance reviews
Nov 2012 - June 2015 DigitasLBi/Publicis Groupe
I was employed as an Architect (Technical PM)/consultant. Mentoring agile team (~10 people). Helping to apply best practices to deliver consistent, service oriented, highly transactional, resilient and scalable (multi-country/-catalog/-lang) commerce architectures. Working closely with clients to gather technical requirements, capture well defined use-cases, building Ops/DevSecOps practises/CoE. Participating in pre-sales/ POC activities/ hardware sizing.
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015 JD Williams
Architect
Participating in Oracle E-Business Suite & SAP Hybris Suite workshops. Defining with business and technical owners scope and IT landscape for the initial pilot phase(master data migration, catalogue organization, integrations). Working with implementation partner to establish models and transformations of E-commerce data including multi-country/multi-locale items.
- Reviewing and optimizing DevOps build/quality/automation processes
- Building and leading onshore/offshore Hybris team
Dec 2013 - Dec 2014 Samsung
Architect
Working together with the business on new features/use cases eg checkout improvements – configure, price, quote (CPQ). Defining with system owners business cases to fully utilize B2B, B2C, marketplace capabilities of Hybris Commerce eg. additional asset/media management (DAM) extensions.
Troubleshooting SAP ERP/PI integrations issues during country rollouts. Architecture lead for various dev streams including country expansion(NZ, AU, ES, IT, DE), advanced team (telco, B2B, guided selling) and prod support (perf testing for marketing campaigns)
04/2020
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Present
solution architect & tech advisor
pharma
(Pharmaceuticals and medical technology, >10.000 employees)
Oct 2020 - Bayer/Sanofi/Pfizer/GlaxoSmithKline/Roche/Novartis/IQVIA
Lead Integration/Portfolio Architect - Architecture Division
Part of digital delivery group (Marketing & CRM platform) and wider Emerging technologies chapter (eg blockchain in the
Pharma).
Follow the Sun, agile(Tribes, Squads, Chapters, Networks, Communities) work model (APAC->EMEA->NALA).
500+ people across the program and various Pharma units (GxP, PT, PD, PI, clinical, legal … ).
Topics covered:
- Salesforce (Marketing, IQVIA, Field Services, Multi-org/Multi-region deployments, ...)
- MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud, Talend, Axway, ESBs (WebMethods, Tibco), Solace (Event Mesh)
- Information & Data Architecture – Information, Data, Capabilities, … models. Sparx EA, Software AG (Alphabet), BPM
(Adonis NP), Colibra
- CMS (Veeva, AEM) – HCP/Patient/Clinical trials/Commerce/... Portals
- Identity Governance (Sailpoint, Gigya/CDC - OwnID/passwordless, …), PAM (CyberArk)
- Big Data (AWS Data Lake/Hub – EMR, Redshift, Glue, AppFlow, Athena) & Analytics (prescriptive/predictive)
- MDM (Reltio) – HCP/HCO/Payer/Product/...
Lead Integration/Portfolio Architect - Architecture Division
Part of digital delivery group (Marketing & CRM platform) and wider Emerging technologies chapter (eg blockchain in the
Pharma).
Follow the Sun, agile(Tribes, Squads, Chapters, Networks, Communities) work model (APAC->EMEA->NALA).
500+ people across the program and various Pharma units (GxP, PT, PD, PI, clinical, legal … ).
Topics covered:
- Salesforce (Marketing, IQVIA, Field Services, Multi-org/Multi-region deployments, ...)
- MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud, Talend, Axway, ESBs (WebMethods, Tibco), Solace (Event Mesh)
- Information & Data Architecture – Information, Data, Capabilities, … models. Sparx EA, Software AG (Alphabet), BPM
(Adonis NP), Colibra
- CMS (Veeva, AEM) – HCP/Patient/Clinical trials/Commerce/... Portals
- Identity Governance (Sailpoint, Gigya/CDC - OwnID/passwordless, …), PAM (CyberArk)
- Big Data (AWS Data Lake/Hub – EMR, Redshift, Glue, AppFlow, Athena) & Analytics (prescriptive/predictive)
- MDM (Reltio) – HCP/HCO/Payer/Product/...
02/2019
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Present
Tech Advisor
Manning
Feb 2019 - Manning Books (EU)
Tech Advisor
Books eg
- Functional and Reactive Domain Modelling
- Multi-cloud Security (Containers, K8S)
- Data Lakes & Data Clouds
- Knative in Action
Live projects eg
- Machine Learning (OpenCV, Deepfakes, Python, Image Processing/Recognition)
- Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Melanoma Detection (Kubeflow, DeepOps, GPU/Nvidia/TPU)
10/2020
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08/2022
architecture, pharma, cybersecurity, analytics, data
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022 Roche
Squad Architecture Lead (EMEA, Central Asia) - EpiCX R&D
Part of digital delivery group (Marketing & CRM platform) - CMG/Commercial section; Architecture & Emerging technologies group.
Overseeing and delivering overall E2E EpiCX (CX/marketing/regulatory/medical) architecture for northern EU, Middle East and Central Asia countries. Building tactical and long term architectures for Pharma International affiliates. Topics I cover span across solutioning, integration, data, analytics, security and portfolio of various platforms/products:
- Salesforce/SAP (Marketing/Sales/CMS/Commerce, Field Services, Multi-org/Multi-region deployments, ...)
- MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud, Talend, ESBs, Solace (Event Mesh)
- Information, Data & Capabilities models (Sparx EA, BPM - Adonis NP, Collibra)
- CMS (AEM, Veeva) – HCP/Patient/Clinical trials/Commerce/... Portals
- Identity/Governance/Security (Sailpoint, SAP Gigya/CDC, …)
- Data/Analytics (AWS Data Lake/Hub – Redshift, Glue, Athena, Snowflake; Data mesh; Blockchain)
- MDM (Reltio, RDM, OneKey, IQVIA) – HCP/HCO/Payer/Product/Molecule...
Addressing on a daily basis various affliate specific tech topics like local data residency regulations, data flows & migrations (eg consent), aligning analytics & data/solution views, capability gaps (business/tech), minimizing system risks (eg MFA, SSO for ext), MDM req (DCR & integration needs), evaluating tactical solution...
04/2018
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08/2019
Architect/Product Owner
Part of digital delivery & design leadership group. In total around 200 people (BAs, Architects, Automation QAs,
Developers, Tech Leads)
Topics covered:
- Co-chairing Design Authority Board
- AWS cloud setup reviews (Ansible/Terraform)
- Modelling (ArchiMate, Sparx EA)
- 3rdparty integrations (3DS2, Adyen, Klarna, Salescycle)
- EU rollouts
- security standards/policies (access/asset managment, encryption, audit logging, system/network security)
- Identity platform (ForgeRock upgrade)
- DevOps (Gradle Enterprise/SonarQube)
- Performance testing (JMeter, SmartBear)
- Salesforce/Mulesoft integrations (SaaS/iPaaS)
Developers, Tech Leads)
Topics covered:
- Co-chairing Design Authority Board
- AWS cloud setup reviews (Ansible/Terraform)
- Modelling (ArchiMate, Sparx EA)
- 3rdparty integrations (3DS2, Adyen, Klarna, Salescycle)
- EU rollouts
- security standards/policies (access/asset managment, encryption, audit logging, system/network security)
- Identity platform (ForgeRock upgrade)
- DevOps (Gradle Enterprise/SonarQube)
- Performance testing (JMeter, SmartBear)
- Salesforce/Mulesoft integrations (SaaS/iPaaS)
02/2017
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10/2017
Solution Architect/Technical Owner
- E2E System/Process Reviews
- Intoducing DevOps practises (Jenkins/CD, Selenium)
- Implementing Code Quality standards (SAP SonarQube)
- Leading Perf testing team (Jmeter, Dynatrace)
- Advising on the future roadmap (SAP ECC integration)
- Process improvements eg Cloud integration (Azure/hCS)
- Intoducing DevOps practises (Jenkins/CD, Selenium)
- Implementing Code Quality standards (SAP SonarQube)
- Leading Perf testing team (Jmeter, Dynatrace)
- Advising on the future roadmap (SAP ECC integration)
- Process improvements eg Cloud integration (Azure/hCS)
Local Availability
Open to travel worldwide
Other
Technologies: Istio/Service Mesh, K3s, K8s, Rancher, virtualization (kvm, xen, qemu, libvirt, hyper-v), cloud management platform (CMP), Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), CNCF, IIoT, IoT, Edge Computing, Nessus, WAF, SIEM, Splunk, Snowflake, Data Warehouse/Lake/Mart, MDM/ADA, Cloud Data Platform, Data Virtualization, CNI, CNCF, OPDBMS, DataOps, dbPaaS, Data/File Formats (Parquet/Avro/Orc/Lustre), NoOps, IGA, Concourse CI, Kubeflow
