Sakthivel Nachimuthu Architect - Data & AI

Forward-thinking consultant and technologist with 17+ years of experience, driving next-level performance in the digital-age for Fortune X companies through innovation and systems architecture.

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About Me

Driving innovation through data and AI solutions

I am a relentless solution creator, weaving together existing business/technology practices with new capabilities in Big Data, Data Science, and Cloud-based technologies to create a data-driven customer-focused culture.

With international, cross-industry experience in defining cloud-based solution architecture across retail, manufacturing, banking, utility, agriculture, infrastructure, semiconductor, and public sector organizations at multiple geographies including Singapore, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and India.

Global Experience

Worked across 5 countries with Fortune X companies

Enterprise Solutions

Walmart, Sam's, Apple, Toyota, Microsoft & more

Cloud Architecture

Azure, GCP, and multi-cloud solutions

Professional Experience

Building the future of data and AI

October 2021 - Present

Microsoft

Architect (EAG - Data & AI) @ Microsoft, Asia

Singapore

Leading enterprise architecture for Data & AI solutions across Asia-Pacific region.

April 2019 - October 2021

Sembcorp Industries Ltd

Enterprise Big Data Solution Architect & Data Science

Singapore

Architected enterprise-wide big data and data science solutions for sustainable energy and infrastructure.

2009 - 2019

Cognizant

Enterprise Cloud Architect & Senior Big Data Consultant @ Sam's Club

Mississauga, Canada

Cloud Architect & Senior Big Data Consultant @ Walmart

Arkansas, United States

Solution Architect @ GlobalFoundries

Singapore

Solution Architect @ Marks & Spencer

India & United Kingdom

Senior Developer @ Toyota

Chennai, India

2008 - 2009

Amazon

Analyst @ Amazon Development Center

Chennai, India

2007 - 2008

Satyam Computer Services Ltd

Associate Trainee

Chennai, India

Technical Expertise

Comprehensive technology stack mastery

Data Management

Data Quality & Governance Metadata Management & MDM Data Security Streaming & Micro-services Informatica EDC, IICS & AXON Azure Data Catalog Delta Lake (Databricks) Microsoft Purview Microsoft Fabric OneLake

Data Stores

Synapse Analytics SQL Database, Data Warehouse Delta & Data Lake Cosmos DB & MongoDB Google BigQuery & Bigtable Teradata, MariaDB & Postgres Blob & S3 Storage DB2, Oracle & MySQL ADLS, HDFS, OneLake, DBFS & ABFS

Technology

Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Enterprise Architecture Hortonworks/Cloudera Big Data & Cloud Migration Data Lake Analytics - USql/Python Databricks and Spark Azure ML - SparkML & TensorFlow MSBI Stack Scala, Java, Node JS & .Net Airflow, NiFi & Data Factory KNIME & Argo Data Lakehouse & Warehouse Kubernetes & Docker

Analytics

Azure Analysis Services Power BI, Tableau & Qlik ThoughtSpot, Druid & atScale Big Query, SQL & NLP Azure Synapse Analytics Social Media & NLP Analytics Databricks & Qubole MLib & Azure ML KNIME & Alteryx Plotly Dash & Webapp Kubernetes & Docker Grafana & Redash Zeppelin & Jupyter Microsoft Fabric

DevOps

GitHub, Git, TFVC & SVN Azure DevOps, TFS & JIRA DockerHub & ACR PyPI, Maven, NPM, NuGet, Node GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines & Jenkins WhiteSource (SCA) SonarCloud & SonarQube (SAST)

AI

OpenAI & Azure OpenAI Azure AI LLM/SLM - GenAI Agentic AI Copilot AutoGen Semantic Kernel Azure ML Microsoft Fabric LLMOps & MLOps DeepSeek Mosaic AI Google Gemini

Professional Certifications

20+ industry-recognized certifications

Microsoft Azure Expert Level

Azure Solution Architect (Expert)

Cybersecurity Architect (Expert)

DevOps Engineer (Expert)

Microsoft Azure Associate Level

Fabric Analytics Engineer

Azure Data Engineer

Azure Data Scientist

Data Analyst

Azure Database Administrator

Azure Security Engineer

Azure Developer

Azure Administrator

Additional Certifications

ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)

IBM Certified Solution Designer

IBM Certified Solution Developer

Education

Academic foundation for technical excellence

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Computer Applications

SRM University, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

3 years

Master of Commerce (M.Com)

Business/Commerce

Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

2 years

Bachelor of Commerce & Computer Applications

B.Com (CA), Computer Applications

Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, India

Kangeyam, Tamil Nadu

3 years

Let's Connect

Ready to drive innovation together

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Location

Singapore

Current Role

Architect (EAG - Data & AI) @ Microsoft

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