Discover & define
Requirements and business-process analysis, solution tradeoffs, reference architectures, roadmaps, proofs of concept, and implementation planning.
Senior Solutions Architect
Architecture that turns complexity into momentum.
I’m Dharma Dhandapani, a technical leader with 20+ years of experience shaping enterprise applications, data platforms, AI capabilities, and cloud modernization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
AI & GenAI · Data & Integration · Cloud Modernization · Enterprise Architecture
Architecture across the enterprise
25%increase in developer productivity through Copilot adoption
20%reduction in Power BI reporting errors through CDC architecture
10%reduction in customer support call volume through Miabot
01 / Focus
From strategy to working systems.
I partner with business, product, engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to make sound technology choices—and carry those choices through implementation and operational readiness.
Design & modernize
Microservices, REST APIs, event-driven integration, data models, serverless patterns, cloud platforms, and modernization of complex legacy estates.
Govern & deliver
Architecture standards, design reviews, security collaboration, CI/CD strategy, observability, resiliency, testing support, and production readiness.
02 / Selected work
AI with enterprise guardrails.
Recent work focuses on making AI capabilities useful, governable, observable, and ready for integration across the enterprise.
Enterprise AI Gateway
One governed path to multiple LLM providers.
Designed an Azure API Management gateway that unified enterprise AI access across providers, centralizing security, monitoring, cost controls, model routing, and provider failover while reducing fragmented implementation code.
Intelligent documents
Architected title, credit narrative, and document-processing capabilities, including a Google Document AI wrapper for splitting lending documents and extracting financial metadata.
Agentic AI direction
Evaluated CrewAI, LangChain, and LangGraph for multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, workflow governance, observability, and enterprise integration.
03 / Experience
Enterprise change, across industries.
Architecture and engineering leadership spanning financial services, public-sector systems, transportation, insurance, and telecommunications.
Senior Solutions Architect
Led solution architecture for AgDirect lending, loan processing, and credit resolution platforms.
- Defined Azure microservices, Kubernetes, and .NET/C# API patterns serving applications and internal and external clients.
- Established architecture standards across applications, integration, data, cloud, security, scalability, and resiliency.
- Designed API-first and event-driven strategies with Apigee and Kafka, plus CDC architecture using Qlik Replicate, SQL Server, and Snowflake.
- Connected strategy, capabilities, processes, applications, data, and technology through Capsifi business architecture views.
Environment: Azure, APIM, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, .NET/C#, Angular, Kafka, Apigee, SQL Server, Snowflake, Azure OpenAI, Google Document AI, New Relic
Solutions Architect
Led shared-services architecture for pricing, tax, foreign exchange, notifications, customer care, and enterprise integrations.
- Created solution designs, prototypes, data models, and hosting plans across AWS and GCP.
- Designed Miabot to automate answers to frequently asked questions and reduce customer support call volume.
- Implemented sentiment analysis for customer–representative chats and designed OCR extraction for deposited check images.
Environment: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, AWS EKS and Lambda, GCP GKE and BigQuery, Kafka, Couchbase, Amazon Lex, Comprehend, Textract, Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Applications Architect
Guided modernization across U.S. Treasury debt financing, Shared National Credit, Federal Reserve e-filing, and consumer complaint systems.
- Translated domain analysis and business processes into solution designs, prototypes, data models, and hosting plans across multiple agile teams.
- Led REST API specification and lifecycle governance; guided monolith decomposition and cloud-first technology evaluation.
- Developed AWS serverless infrastructure patterns, reusable Docker images, Terraform solutions, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Supported build-versus-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, RFPs, POCs, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
Environment: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Python, AWS Fargate, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Lambda, MSK, Docker, OpenShift, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MuleSoft, Dynatrace
Applications Architect / Systems Engineer / Tech Lead
Led application architecture and engineering for train operations, pricing, accessorial charges, and shipment services.
- Modernized WebLogic estates, decomposed monoliths, and refactored legacy J2EE/EJB applications into Spring-based implementations.
- Redesigned demurrage and rating engines and architected an AngularJS/REST mobile payment system.
- Contributed to NetControl, a $300 million, 10-year modernization of the Transportation Control System into distributed microservices.
- Led code reviews, CI adoption, production troubleshooting, distributed teams, and mentoring in Java and Enterprise Spring.
Environment: Java, Spring, J2EE/EJB, REST, AngularJS, JMS, Hibernate, Oracle, PL/SQL, WebLogic, Tomcat, Jenkins, AppDynamics, Informatica, Teradata
GE Insurance Solutions · 2001–2005
Senior Developer — Developed enterprise applications for commercial claims, vendor management, and electronic accounts payable. Created technical designs, service interfaces, conceptual data models, and prototypes; established coding standards and led reviews, releases, training, and mentoring.
iGate Global Systems · 1999–2001
Developer — Built and maintained Bell Canada 1-900 billing applications using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, and VSAM, including Year 2000 renovation, unit testing, and system testing.
04 / Toolkit
A broad technical range.
Hands-on engineering depth paired with architecture-level decision making across cloud, data, integration, and delivery.
Cloud & platform
AWS · Azure · GCP · Kubernetes · Docker · OpenShift · Terraform · Serverless
Architecture
Microservices · REST/API governance · Event-driven systems · Reference architectures · Resiliency · Security collaboration
AI & GenAI
Azure OpenAI · Amazon Bedrock · Lex · Comprehend · Textract · Google Document AI · LangChain · LangGraph · CrewAI
Engineering
Java · Spring Boot · Python · Node.js · TypeScript · Angular · .NET/C# · SQL · PL/SQL
Data & integration
Kafka · Apigee · MuleSoft · Informatica · SQL Server · Oracle · PostgreSQL · Snowflake · DynamoDB · Couchbase
Delivery & operations
Azure DevOps · GitLab · Jenkins · CI/CD · DevSecOps · New Relic · Dynatrace · AppDynamics
05 / Credentials
Technical depth, business perspective.
Formal business and engineering education, complemented by cloud, agile, Java, AI, and data-platform training.
Certifications & training
- AWS Certified Solution Architect
- SAFe Certification for Teams
- Sun Certified Java Programmer
- AI-CCORE, University of Nebraska
- Confluent Kafka Fundamentals
- Insurance Producer License — Life & Health, Nebraska (Inactive)
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA)Information Systems focus · University of Nebraska, Omaha · December 2012
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and EngineeringBharathiar University · May 1997
Let’s design the next system thoughtfully.
For conversations about enterprise architecture, AI enablement, data integration, or cloud modernization, get in touch directly.