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Twitter @kishore1021

CERTIFIED CLOUD & ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT:

• TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect.
• AWS Cloud Certified Solutions Architect.
• Azure Cloud Certified Solutions Architect – 

• • Azure Exam AZ-300: Certified – Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
  • Azure Exam AZ-301: Certified – Microsoft Azure Architect Design; Azure Exam 532, 533, 535
  • MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
  • MCSA: Cloud Platform, Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
  • Azure Exam 473: Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
  • Azure Exam 475: Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions

CERTIFIED ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION AGILE COACH:

Scaled Agile :

• Certified SAFe Architect (ARCH)
• Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)
• Certified Leading SAFe (SA)
• Certified Implementing SAFe (SPC)
• Leading SAFe (SA)

Large Scale Scrum (LeSS):

• Certified Less Practitioner (CLP)

Scrum Appliance:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Advance Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
• Certified Agile Leadership I (CAL 1)

Scrum.org:

• Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM I)
• Professional Scrum Master 2 (PSM II)
• Professional Product Owner (PSPO)
• Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK)
• Professional Agile Leadership (PAL)

IC Agile:

• ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
•   ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)

Kanban:

• Kanban System Design (KMP 1)
• Kanban Management Professional (KMP 2)

Chicago State University:

• Certified Enterprise Agility Coach (CEAC)

Training from the Back of the Room:

• Certified Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) Trainer

BOOK:

Author of Azure Bot framework – https://www.amazon.com/Building-Bots-Microsoft-Bot-Framework-ebook/dp/B01M9JQ0U9

A Chief Cloud Architect & DevSecOps SME, Enterprise Architect, Agile Coach, Digital Transformation Leader, Presales & Tech Evangelist, Development Manager, Agilist, Mentor, Speaker and Author with over 19 years of “hands on” professional IT experience in defining cloud strategy, modern engineering practices, Agile-DevOps practices, technical pre-sales, architecture, software development and maintenance of Cloud, Mobile, Web, IoT, ML, AI, Bots and desktop apps using Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, ARM, DevOps, Big Data and Security.

With a well-rounded enterprise level business and cloud architecture acumen, understand the interests and language of customers, technical, creative, and business professionals, and bridge between them, instilling people with a vision for a company or its’ product. Adapt quickly to new environment and work in teams with a can-do ability to take charge when necessary and drive the work to completion. Trained as servant leader in Agile-DevOps Transformation, Digital Transformation, Cloud Transformation and Technology Leadership.

Hands-on in-depth IT experience in diverse industries – Retail, Finance, Logistics, Healthcare, EPC, Automation, Entertainment, Information Technology, Telecom, Energy, and Government of large scale and complex size.

As a Cloud Architect & DevSecOps SME, contributed to enterprise application architecture & development; developed and configured the following: end to end CI/CD/CM, Git Repos, Build and Release Pipelines, ARM Templates, Automation, Policies, Governance, Automated Testing, One-Click Rollback, DevSecOps, Cloud Security, HA, DR, Resiliency, Cost, Monitoring using Azure, VSTS/Azure DevOps, etc.

In the role of Enterprise Cloud Architect, contributed to corporate strategy of Digital Transformation (business, people, process, technology, roadmaps) and served as a solution visionary in Azure with hands-on assessment and migration of infrastructure and applications to Cloud in a global hybrid-cloud environment. I support global organizations as a Cloud SME.

As a seasoned Presales & Technology Evangelist created technical assets, authored a book, provided customer demos, and negotiated RFPs; additionally, participated in public speaking for Microsoft Azure Cloud & Azure DevOps resulting in a successful track record in strategy and new product development.

As an Principal Architect, oversaw the architecture, design, development and maintenance of various applications: Cloud, Mobile, Web, IoT, ML, AI, Bots, Desktop apps using Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, ARM, Terraform, DevOps, CI/CD, Machine Learning, Bot Framework, Big Data, .NET, XAML, VC++, AWS.

As an Agile Coach, and architectural Agilist, mentored, trained, and coached organizations on delivering value to their customers with the agile mindset

Certified expert knowledge in architectural design and development of enterprise IoT/Bot/Web applications using: Azure Security, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), MicroServices, Service Fabric, Cognitive Services, Redis cache, Bot framework, IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Logic App, Log Analytics, Big Data Technologies, Azure Web Apps, App service, Azure API Apps, Application Insights, API Management, Machine Learning, Azure SQL DB, Data Factory, Key Vault, Service Bus, Cosmos DB.

As a Startup executive, built engineering teams, developed Minimum Viable Products (MVP) and MMF with little to no supervision; comfortable at all layers of the startup people stack.

Possess strong business and software development methodologies/process knowledge including Test-Driven Development (TDD), Agile Scrum Software Development, Behavioral Driven Development (BDD), SAFe, etc.

Knowledge and experience in designing database programs using Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, etc.

Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, understand trends that ensure we are using the best techniques and tools; a love for mentoring and passion for sharing new technology with the dev community.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevSecOps:  Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Build Management, Release Management, Organizations, Security, Visual Studio Code, Azure Boards, Repos, Azure Artifacts, Azure Test Plans, DevTest Labs, Azure DevOps Extensions, CheckMarx, OWASP, SonarQube, Azure Monitor, Bitbucket, Microsoft Security Code Analysis, GitHub, WhiteSource, SAST, DAST, Container Security, Twistlock, Application Insights, Infrastructure/Platform/Application Telemetry, Octopus, ServiceNow.

Containers:  Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Service Fabric, Container Instance, Azure Functions, Container Registry, Web Apps, API Apps, Web App for Containers.

AI & Machine Learning:  Azure Bot Service, Bot Framework, Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, ML Studio, LUIS, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech Translation, Speech to Text.

Cloud Computing:  AWS, Virtual Machines, App Services, Batch, Cloud Services, Azure Stack, Windows Virtual Desktop, Logic Apps, Event Grid, API Management, Service Bus, Azure Security Center, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C (ADB2C), Azure Active Directory B2B (ADB2B), Media Services, , Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Azure DDoS Protection, Network Watcher, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Azure Bastion, Azure Firewall Manager, Web Application Firewall, Key Vault, Storage – Blobs, Files, Tables, Queue, Micro Services.

Databases: Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, Azure Database Migration Service.

Analytics:  Azure Databricks, Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Event Hubs, Data Share, Power BI Embedded, Analysis Services, Data Catalog, Data Lake Storage.

IoT:  Azure IoT Hub, Raspberry Pi, Intel, Azure IoT Central, IoT solution accelerators, Time Series Insights, Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, Digital Twins, Azure IoT Edge.

Management/Governance: Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Advisor, Scheduler, Automation, Traffic Manager, Network Watcher, Azure Service Health, Azure Policy, Cost Management + Billing, Azure Blueprints, Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM).

UI Technologies: XAML, MVVM, WPF, Swift, MVC, Visual C++, MFC, Silverlight, C++ XAML, Win Forms

Technology & Languages:  OOAD, UML, WinRT, PCL, C++, COM, VB, C#, WCF, MEF, LINQ, MVC, HTML5, VB.NET, RS-232, PL/SQL, App Center, Mobile Apps, Windows 10 UWP Apps.

Embedded: Embedded VC++, eVB, .NET Compact Framework, Pocket PC, .NET Smart Devices.

Industrial Automation: OPC, PLCs, SCADA, Embedded Systems development, CNC machines, Robotics.

Tools: Jira, Confluence, Quest, Visio, LucidChart, MS Visio, Enterprise Architect, MS Project.

PUBLISHED MICROSOFT AZURE & IoT PROJECTS:

• Applying Real-Time Analytics on IoT Data – Azure IoT Hub: https://www.hackster.io/Kishore10211/
• Raspberry Pi has featured my work on IoT at https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/build-smart-doorbell-windows-10
• Adafruit has published the IoT Research work at https://blog.adafruit.com/

PUBLISHED BOTS & ARCHITECTURE SHOWCASE

• Customer_sentiment_analysis_bot – https://join.skype.com/bot/bbc5aa9d-7ad7-4d28-a934-575d7b0dab93
• DeliveryTrackingBot – https://join.skype.com/bot/9def92a0-9471-4a91-9cfa-541f14e868db
• Encyclopedia Intent Processing – https://join.skype.com/bot/31dcc61e-3ab5-44bb-afc7-22bfec145600
• Facial Identification Bot – https://join.skype.com/bot/fbce89cb-d016-4293-acea-b252367313b1
• IntelligentBotWithIoT – https://join.skype.com/bot/6f375e48-bbbf-4d7d-844b-3d384dcfc1a3
• Natural Speech & Intent Processing – https://join.skype.com/bot/789444b1-6dfb-45c2-928e-a31fb5503070

PUBLIC SPEAKING:

• Microsoft Technology Center (Reston, Virginia), NOVA code camp – http://bit.ly/novacc12:
• Loyola University (Maryland, USA), CMAP 2012 Code camp – http://bit.ly/CMAP2012:

PUBLICATIONS:

• MSDN – My work on PCL in Visual Studio & .NET was featured on Channel 9 @ http://bit.ly/msdnchannel9
• Published articles on popular dev website @ http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/kishore-Gaddam#articles
• Blog http://www.kishore1021.wordpress.com/ is continuously referred by many popular technology websites.
• Contributor at MSDN and TechNet Wiki @ http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile/kishore%20gaddam/

He is so passionate about apps, consulting and training that he founded CoreKaizen, an Intel software partner, technology consultancy and software development firm that helps customers create great web, mobile and client experiences, and these apps are often powered by cloud services. Before starting CoreKaizen, Kishore worked for multiple startups leading their technology development from beginning through profitability. In each case he’s focused on translating enterprise-level performance and capabilities down to smaller companies. He is also the CTO of a startup Synapse IT Services LLC (A Microsoft BizSpark member) and COO of another startup SciTree.com (Stanford University – Venture Lab).

Kishore is the author of the popular Microsoft Technologies blog at http://www.kishore1021.wordpress.com and his work on Portable Class Library project in Visual Studio 2012– .NET 4.5 was featured on MSDN Channel 9 at http://bit.ly/msdnchannel9. Kishore enjoy helping people understand technical concepts that may initially seem complex and perform lot of Research & Development on emerging technologies to help solve some of the toughest customer issues. Kishore spends a lot of time teaching and mentoring developers to learn new technologies and to be better developers. He is a speaker at various code camps around Washington DC area, mainly at Microsoft Technology Center for NOVA code camp (http://bit.ly/novacc12), CMAP Code Camp Fall 2012 (http://bit.ly/CMAP2012), etc. The majority of his software development experience has centered on Microsoft technologies including VC++, MFC, COM, COM+, WCF, WPF, XAML, C#, .NET, WinRT, HTML5, Rest API and SQL Server.

Kishore has worked for several software product and technology consulting firms, and he now offers his expert software development and coaching talents to various organizations across the US and India through CoreKaizen. Teaching and leading software engineering teams are passions of Kishore. From small startups with less than 10 employees, to multi-national organizations with over 10,000 employees, Kishore and his clients, and peers find joy in his work. Over the last several years, Kishore earned the privilege to offer technical instruction on several classes for prestigious organizations like GE, Loyola University and Buchanan-Edwards.

For relaxation he is into listening Music, travelling, reading scientific American, MIT Technology Review, HBR, nasa.org, etc. while not at work, he finds interesting to do R & D on emerging technologies to develop some interesting applications. You can follow Kishore on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kishore1021. He can be reached on email at kishore1021AToutlook.com