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Basavaraj Halasur

@basavarajhalasur

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Enterprise platform architect driving governance, resilience, and large-scale API/cloud modernization.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior platform leadership roles where I can define governance, drive large-scale API/cloud modernization, and ensure resilient, compliant operating models.

I am an enterprise-scale technology and platform leader with 15+ years of experience shaping platform strategy, governance, and large-scale modernization for banks and telecom organizations. I serve as a trusted advisor to CXOs and senior leadership on technology risk, business continuity, and operating models.

I have led consolidation and migration of large API and integration platforms, architected active-active resiliency for banking traffic, and scaled platform throughput while introducing SRE practices. My work includes cloud governance and enablement, regulatory-aligned architecture, and security-first platform designs.

I have delivered platform rationalization, microservices-driven modernization, and federated API strategies across multi-enterprise engagements, consistently improving performance, compliance, and operational control.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Principal Architect

SIDGS - ICICI Group

Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years)

Led consolidation and governance of enterprise API and integration platforms, migrating 1,200+ APIs and scaling throughput from ~2,000 TPS to ~10,000 TPS while implementing SRE practices and near-zero RTO active-active deployments.

API Gateway Integration Architecture SRE Cloud Migration Security Architecture Performance Optimization Disaster Recovery

Principal Architect

SIDGS - HDFC Bank

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 (11 months)

Designed a federated API gateway layer with semantic abstraction and cryptographic controls to unify authentication and meet regulatory compliance across heterogeneous backend gateways.

Security Architecture Authentication Cryptography Regulatory Compliance API Design Integration

Principal Architect

SIDGS - BDO Unibank

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year)

Re-architected a mobile retail payments platform, migrated API gateway to public cloud, introduced enterprise observability, and optimized microservices to improve latency and throughput for payment workloads.

Cloud Migration Observability Microservices Performance Tuning Cybersecurity API Gateway

Cloud Governance Lead

FirstLSI - Telstra

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

Designed enterprise cloud governance and automation frameworks, building automated account and infrastructure provisioning and enabling consistent, secure cloud modernization across dozens of application teams.

Cloud Governance Automation Observability Security Logging Tagging DNS

Principal Architect

DigitalApiCraft

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Led early API platform initiatives enabling external ecosystems and partner consumption of large-scale datasets, and architected API-centric access models for analytics and data-as-a-product use cases.

API Design Data Products Externally Consumable APIs Integration Analytics Enablement Platform Architecture

Technical Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 11 months)

Contributed to IoT Center of Excellence by defining solution architectures and POCs for high-volume telemetry ingestion and early analytics platforms across healthcare and smart infrastructure domains.

Event Driven Systems Telemetry Analytics Solution Architecture

Technical Lead

Wipro Infotech

Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 (3 years 11 months)

Led development of mission-critical enterprise systems for aviation logistics and government platforms, delivering distributed and microservices-based architectures under stringent availability and security constraints.

Microservices Distributed Systems Enterprise Integration & Security Logistics

Module Lead

Mindtree Limited

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 11 months)

Led design and integration of enterprise commerce and supply-chain platforms, including fraud detection and orchestration across ERP, banking, logistics, and partner systems.

Integration Supply Chain Fraud Detection ERP Integration Orchestration

Software Engineer

Collabera Inc.

Jan 2008 - Dec 2010 (2 years 11 months)

Contributed to analytics and data-platform applications for a Tier-1 bank, working on data warehouses, metadata management, and reporting systems to support enterprise reporting needs.