Shan Narayanan
Enterprise Architect
Atlanta, GA
Enterprise Architect and Technologist driving technical excellence
Architecting secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure and cloud-native applications across private and public cloud environments for organizations of all sizes.
About Me
I am a hands-on technology leader with 15+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating mission-critical infrastructure and cloud-native platforms across public cloud (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) and private cloud/on-premises environments. My expertise spans multi-region, multi-cloud, and hybrid architectures, with a focus on designing resilient, secure, and highly available platforms that power enterprise-scale applications.
I specialize in platform engineering, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, observability, and modern cloud architectures. Throughout my career, I have led the design and implementation of enterprise platforms from the ground up, including large-scale Kubernetes environments, virtualization platforms based on Nutanix, and highly available infrastructure supporting real-time analytics, transactional systems, and business-critical workloads.
My background extends beyond infrastructure into software engineering. I have designed and developed scalable, high-performance full-stack applications using Scala, Java/J2EE, Python, and JavaScript, enabling me to bridge the gap between application development and platform engineering. This combination allows me to build platforms that improve developer productivity, operational excellence, reliability, and scalability.
I enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, mentoring teams, and driving technology modernization initiatives. I am passionate about building cloud-native platforms, advancing infrastructure automation, and helping organizations deliver secure, resilient, and scalable technology solutions that accelerate business outcomes.
Skills & Expertise
Cloud and Container Orchestration Platforms
Kubernetes Frameworks
Infrastructure
Languages
Databases
Messaging
Observability & Monitoring
Loadbalancer/CDN
Frameworks
Application/Web Servers
Operating Systems
Leadership & Process & Tools
Professional Experience
Cloud Infrastructure Architect / Platform Architect
- •Architected and led the implementation of enterprise private cloud platforms based on Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), designing and provisioning 15+ production Kubernetes clusters across geographically separated data centers with high availability, disaster recovery, and automated lifecycle management.
- •Designed and built multi-region cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) from the ground up, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Python, Azure/OCI SDKs) and fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to deliver secure, repeatable enterprise platform deployments.
- •Architected, deployed, and administered enterprise Kubernetes platforms, including Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Red Hat OpenShift on OCI and Azure, implementing standardized platform services, security controls, networking, storage, monitoring, and operational best practices.
- •Led infrastructure architecture reviews for enterprise initiatives, identifying security, networking, resiliency, and scalability gaps while defining reference architectures and engineering standards adopted across multiple projects.
- •Collaborated with enterprise security, networking, and application teams to design cloud platforms that met stringent governance, compliance, and operational requirements while enabling modern application delivery and platform engineering practices.
- •Architected a unified enterprise observability strategy spanning infrastructure, Kubernetes, and applications, evaluating open-source and commercial technologies to improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- •Led the architecture, proof of concept, and technical evaluation for replacing SolarWinds with an enterprise monitoring platform based on Icinga, designing a scalable multi-datacenter monitoring architecture with distributed satellites, centralized management, high availability, automation, and integration with enterprise observability tooling.
- •Designed infrastructure automation frameworks that significantly reduced manual provisioning effort and improved deployment consistency across cloud and on-premises environments through Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
Distinguished Engineer
- •Architected and modernized the Enterprise Energy Management System (EMS) product line, including integration with Ecobee smart devices to enable intelligent building automation and energy optimization.
- •Designed and built a cloud-native big data analytics platform from the ground up using Apache Spark (streaming and batch), Kafka, Cassandra, and MongoDB to process and analyze large-scale IoT telemetry in real time.
- •Led infrastructure architecture, automation, and operations for residential and commercial SaaS platforms, implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud-native operational practices across AWS using Chef, Jenkins, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, Zookeeper, MongoDB, Spark, and Nagios.
- •Architected and developed the Jarvis commercial energy management platform, delivering a containerized microservices architecture with Flask-based backend services, advanced analytics using Pandas and NumPy, and Niagara Framework integration, consistently achieving sub-second response times in production.
- •Designed and implemented core RESTful services for metrics, reporting, hierarchical asset modeling, weather intelligence, and aggregated analytics using Scala and the Play Framework, enabling scalable enterprise reporting and analytics capabilities.
- •Enhanced the Intelligent Resource Optimization Management (IROM) platform with real-time event processing, automated customer notifications (email and SMS), and enterprise integrations with Salesforce, LendLease, SMUD Demand Response, and other strategic partner ecosystems.
Director - Backend Development
- •Joined the company as the 4th member of the product engineering team and advanced to Director of Backoffice (Core) Development, leading architecture and engineering for flagship product initiatives and numerous successful enterprise client implementations.
- •Co-architected and led development of Alchemy, a highly scalable enterprise loyalty platform serving retail, financial services, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming, and telecommunications industries.
- •Designed and implemented the Alchemy Campaign Engine, enabling highly granular, rules-driven campaign creation, optimization, and real-time execution.
- •Led the platform re-architecture, including database sharding for high availability and horizontal scalability, major user interface modernization, and application platform upgrades to WildFly (JBoss).
- •Architected and implemented real-time Enterprise Data Warehouse integration, a high-performance rules-based decisioning and discount engine, and centralized messaging infrastructure capable of processing high transaction volumes.
- •Served as the principal engineering consultant for strategic customer implementations, providing architectural guidance, performance optimization, and technical leadership throughout project delivery.
- •Engineered the platform to consistently achieve sub-80 ms average response times for real-time Point-of-Sale (POS) transactions under peak production workloads.
- •Played a key technical leadership role in delivering the AMC Stubs loyalty platform, supporting more than 350 theaters and 5,000+ POS terminals, recognized as one of the industry's most successful and sophisticated enterprise loyalty implementations.
- •Contributed to product and customer success that increased company revenue by 6× and supported 3× organizational growth during tenure.
Education & Certifications
Masters in Science(Computer Applications)
Theoretical disciplines of Computer Science with Mathematical foundations as well as applied Fields.
Bachelors in Mathematics
Focus on Mathematics and Statistics
Let's Connect
I am always interested in hearing about new opportunities, collaborations, or just chatting about technology. Feel free to reach out!