Sunder K
Solution architect and digital transformation leader with 18+ years across enterprise architecture, cloud-native product engineering, and large-scale modernization in financial services. Currently focused on AI platform design — LLM integration, RAG pipelines, and vector-backed semantic search — with an emphasis on production readiness over hype.
2016 — present
Solution Architect & Product Engineering Leader · Cognizant Technology Solutions
Own architecture and technology decisions across full-stack platforms for major US insurance and financial services clients — React and Angular frontends, Node.js and Python (FastAPI) backends, event-driven microservices on GCP Cloud Run. Led AI-augmented product features from POC to stakeholder buy-in, and built the 55+ person offshore engineering organization that ships it all.
2011 — 2016
Product Delivery Lead, Quality Engineering & DevOps · Damco Solutions
Led RESTful API architecture on AWS and GCP for clients including DentaQuest, ThinkMoney UK, and Vertex Group, running end-to-end delivery across concurrent engagements. Built automated test frameworks from scratch across web, mobile, and API surfaces, establishing the BDD-driven quality gates the teams still run on.
2005 — 2010
Early career · Deloitte India, Ness Technologies, Melstar & Nelito Systems
Progressed through QA engineering, test automation, and delivery roles across financial services and enterprise IT — Selenium frameworks wired into Jenkins CI, and the foundational API and data-platform experience everything since is built on.
- Solution architecture & digital transformation
- Cloud-native microservices on GCP
- AI platform design & LLM integration
- RAG pipelines & vector search
- API governance & modernization
- Engineering team leadership
- React, Next.js, Angular
- Node.js (Express, Fastify), Python (FastAPI)
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
- GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks), AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- LLM APIs, RAG, vector DBs (Qdrant, Pinecone, pgvector), LangChain
- B.Com, Agra University
- GNIIT, Diploma in Computers — NIIT
- Financial services (insurance, banking & capital markets)
- Enterprise digital transformation