Falak Ahmed

Principal Data & Analytics Architect, AI with Microservices on Aws Cloud


Falak is a seasoned technologist with career spanning two decades enabling large digital enterprise meet the demands of the new world. At GE Aviation, leads the Architecture & Cloud applications area with focus on portals, microservices & serverless AI driven insight delivery on AWS. Cloud, SDLC, SecDevOps, ML-Ops, scalability & enterprise design thinking mindset are his areas of expertise. He uses collborative practices with AWS Cloud teams to provide roadmaps for technology strategy, application blueprints, COTS selection & implementation across various products & solutions with HA & reliability.

Consulting
At IBM Consulting he gained rich experience in strategic consulting & provided technology roadmaps for large telecomunications, banking and retails giants. He has successfully advised, executed & delivered project using Enterprise & Integration Architectures & design patterns.

His recent success stories in delivering a hybrid cloud based AI/ML platforms powered by microservices for execution and insight delivery. These are used by customers using the portals to manage their 24/7 operations.

  • AI@geaviation
  • GE Aviation Portals

  • Professional Contributions in high value programs

    Professional Trainings

    1. Dec 2021 to Present: Data & AI Solutions Architect for Inspection Media based AI solutions
      • AWS based media (images, video, docs) ingestion, tagging, processing & media processing
      • AWS based real time processing engine for auto & manual tagging of the media for object detection & classification
    2. Jan 2018 to Dec 2021: Software Solutions Architect. GE Aviation Digital Technology, AWS, Microservices & Containerized Analytics as a Service
      • Cloud native AWS Solution to enable execution of streaming & big data batch analytics using AWS services, containers (ecs/eks), dataiku & Pyspark
      • Services driven Devops & MLOps strategy for deployment cycle time reduction in deployment of AI models, their versioning & cataloging of staged datasets
    3. May 2017 to Dec 2017: Senior Product Architect: GE Aviation Digital Engg CTO Office, Multiple Products
      • Solution Architecture & high performance tuning of commercial app for cloud scalability on AWS
      • SRE enablemenet of various web based internal facing portals
    4. Dec 2011 to April 2017: Senior Architect: GE Aviation IT, GE Aviation Customer Portals
    5. Portal based web2.0 Architecture using backbone & angular front end running on nodejs & apache, springboot based services running on elastic beanstalk & databases on RDS
    6. Integration Architecture based on Microservices using Java Springboot on AWS
    7. Secure SDLC & DevOps using Jenkins, code-build, Sonar & Checkmarx
    8. Jan 2010 to Dec 2011: IBM SWG Solution Architect, Integration Practice, Multiple Clients IBM SWG
      • Websphere Commerce Solution Delivery for multiple clients in Retail, Telecom & Banking
      • High Performance on Demand "HiPODS" solutions across customers
    9. Jan 2005 to Dec 2010: Advisory Technical Solution Architect integration, IBM Consulting, Telecommunication Practice, Multiple Clients IBM GBS
      • Application migration & modernization using latest secure technologies at Large telecom giants
      • Webservice based integration architectures at EMEA based Clients
    10. July 1999 to Dec 2004: Software Engineer, IBM Application Innvovation Services, Multiple Clients IBM AMS
      • Core and Enterprise Java developer proficient in xml based intergrations
    1. GE Crotonville Leadership {Nominated}
      • LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COURSE
      • FUNDAMENTALS FOR TECHNOLOGISTS
    2. IBM Technical Leadership {Nominated}
    3. Blockchain Developer from IBM
    4. Bluemix Essentials from IBM
    5. IBM Garage Method for Test Driven Development
    6. Pivotal Cloud Foundry immersion from Pivotal
    7. AWS Architect from Cloud Enabled
    8. 12 Factor Apps
    9. AWS Re:Invent 2019
    10. AWS Fargate with ECS & EKS
    11. AWS EMR & SageMaker
    12. AWS Developer Tools & Devops
    13. Azure Machine Learning
    14. Dataiku Data Science Studio & Analyst
    15. Databricks Unified Analytics Platform
    16. Design Thinking
    17. Blacksheep Unleashed leadership development
    18. Python & Apache Spark
    19. Openshift & Kubernetes

    Formal Education

    Technology Experience

    • Full Stack Software Programming & Development
      • Java, Springboot, Quarkas for REST, SOA & Event Driven
      • Clustered (EMR), Serverless (ECS, EKS) & Containerized (Docker, Rancher)
      • AWS techs, event-bridge, alb, step, lambda, ecs, eks, emr, rds, sqs, sns, kms, etc
    • Integration Architecture Patterns {MOM, EAI, SOA, Microservices, REST, MQ, SQS}
    • Data & Analytics {cqrs, ods, dw, marts, lakehouse, data mesh, mlops, streaming & batch}

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