KAUSHIK Itagi
Dubai
Summary
Enterprise Chief Platform & Solution Architect with 9+ years of experience designing, governing, and scaling mission-critical distributed platforms across banking, enterprise SaaS, media, and platform ecosystems. TOGAF-certified architect specializing in enterprise architecture (current → transition → target state), platform modernization, multi-tenant systems, and event-driven, real-time architectures. Proven leader in aligning business capabilities, product strategy, and technology execution, establishing architecture standards, governance models, and long-term technology roadmaps.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Lead - Platform & Full-Stack Architecture
Emirates NBD
01.2023 - Current
- Leading platform and solution architecture for large-scale digital banking and wealth platforms in a Tier-1 regulated bank
- Defining current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures aligned with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements
- Architecting event-driven, cloud-native platforms supporting digital onboarding, account management, and wealth services
- Designing secure integration layers across identity, billing, APIs, middleware, and core banking systems
- Governing API contracts, data models, and system boundaries to ensure scalability and compliance
- Collaborating with product, compliance, security, and engineering leadership to align technology delivery with business strategy
- Mentoring senior engineers and guiding architectural decisions across multiple delivery teams
Senior Principal Software Engineer / Platform Architect
Stefanini
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Served as platform and solution architect for distributed enterprise systems spanning multiple products and regions
- Defined TOGAF-aligned target-state architectures supporting business growth and platform scalability
- Architected Kafka-based real-time telemetry pipelines supporting high-volume event ingestion
- Established enterprise standards for security, observability, reliability, and performance
- Led architecture reviews for high-risk initiatives and mentored senior engineers
Senior Software Engineer III
Conde Nast India
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Designed scalable backend services and data platforms using Golang
- Built data processing pipelines for analytics and reporting systems
- Improved report generation efficiency by 76% through architectural optimization and event-driven processing
Full Stack Developer
Conde Nast India
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Designed scalable backend services and data platforms using Golang
- Built data processing pipelines for analytics and reporting systems
- Improved report generation efficiency by 76% through architectural optimization and event-driven processing
Full Stack Developer
Microsoft
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Contributed to enterprise-scale distributed systems across multiple internal products
- Worked on secure backend services, API design, and cloud-native deployments
- Participated across the full software development lifecycle, collaborating with engineering, product, and QA teams
Software Engineer Lead
Vnaad Technologies
Bangalore, India
03.2014 - 05.2019
Full stack developer specializing in NodeJS, C#, React, Angular, and mobile development, focusing on GPS map development and EV system integration
- Coordinated with product managers to define clear project scopes, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
- Collaborated across technical and design teams to produce innovative software applications.
- Optimised existing software systems, achieving a notable improvement in performance and reliability.
- Developed standard procedures for testing and validating software.
- Led a team of software engineers in designing innovative software solutions, meeting tight deadlines and project specifications.
- Evaluated functionality and performance of existing software to best target new releases.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Davanagere2012
Skills
- Platform architecture
- Cloud-native design
- Data modeling
- API design
- Event-driven systems
- Compliance governance
- Technical leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Risk management
- Technical documentation
- Project planning software usage
- Integrated design
- Document review proficiency
My Expertise
- Defined current, transition, and target-state architectures using TOGAF ADM, driving capability mapping, architecture roadmaps, and reference architectures
- Owned end-to-end platform architecture for multi-product, multi-tenant ecosystems, including shared services (identity, billing, telemetry) and strict tenant isolation
- Architected domain-driven microservices and event-driven platforms using Kafka to enable real-time processing, scalability, and resilience
- Led API, security, and identity architecture, implementing IAM, RBAC, zero-trust principles, and regulatory-compliant data isolation
- Designed cloud-native platforms on AWS and Azure, leveraging Kubernetes, autoscaling, and progressive deployment strategies (blue-green, canary)
- Established reliability and observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs) to ensure high availability and operational excellence
- Standardized Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD governance, ensuring secure, auditable, and repeatable deployments across environments
Availability
Available ASAP, GST, Open to limited travel
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Certification
- TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner
Interests
- Playing chess
- Attending Hackathons
Timeline
Project Lead - Platform & Full-Stack Architecture
Emirates NBD
01.2023 - Current
Senior Principal Software Engineer / Platform Architect
Stefanini
01.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Software Engineer III
Conde Nast India
01.2021 - 01.2023
Full Stack Developer
Conde Nast India
01.2021 - 01.2023
Full Stack Developer
Microsoft
01.2019 - 01.2021
Software Engineer Lead
Vnaad Technologies
03.2014 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University