Amit Agarwal
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solutions Architect and Developer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since April 2, 2026
Amit is a solutions architect with 18 years of expertise in .NET architecture, the last 10 on cloud architecture and delivery. Azure Certified, he excels in designing microservices platforms, event-driven systems, and CI/CD frameworks. Amit turns around troubled programs, notably building a CNCF data platform on bare-metal Kubernetes for Denmark's public sector and reducing a 90-day tax SLA to 40 minutes on Azure. Currently, he is building AI development workflows with Claude Code and Copilot.
Portfolio
Experience
- C# - 15 years
- Azure PaaS - 10 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 10 years
- Azure Key Vault - 10 years
- Incident Management - 10 years
- Azure DevOps Services - 8 years
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM) - 8 years
- Azure Storage - 6 years
Preferred Environment
Windows
The most amazing...
...best work I've done is turn a 90-day tax process into 40 minutes and build a data platform on bare-metal Kubernetes for Denmark's public sector.
Work Experience
Solutions Architect
Nous Infosystems
- Designed end-to-end CI/CD architecture and delivered production-grade ADO YAML pipelines across 6 environments (feature, development, QA, stage, pre-production, and production) for 2 platform modules.
- Co-authored HLD and LLD with the principal architect. Led architecture reviews, customer design discussions, and sign-off sessions for platform components.
- Delivered architecture for a cloud-agnostic, vendor-neutral insurance platform on a timeline compressed from 22 months to 6 months using AI-assisted development.
- Built an AI-assisted development framework for the team—golden repositories, standardized prompts, LLM model evaluation, and AI-powered code review processes.
Senior Technical Delivery Lead
Applied Materials
- Stabilized a delayed program in 3 months—introduced environment separation (development, QA, staging, production), branch protection, PR review processes, and CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
- Architected an enterprise video/learning platform using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Video Indexer—and enabled voice search and semantic content discovery.
- Planned and led the migration of on-premise applications to Azure AKS with supporting services (Storage, Key Vault, Queues). Managed a delivery team of 15.
- Transformed team culture from waterfall habits to practical Agile—introduced sprint discipline, environment governance, and structured delivery metrics.
Senior Architect
Brillio
- Delivered 2 of 3 modules end-to-end for a tax verification automation platform. Built on Azure Logic Apps, Functions, Storage, and PDF/image rendering services.
- Reduced tax filing verification turnaround from 90-day manual SLA to 40 minutes best case and 36 hours worst case through full workflow automation.
- Produced complete architecture documentation—HLD, LLD, network topology diagrams, integration patterns, and workflow orchestration design specifications.
Technical Architect
NEC Software Solutions UK
- Replaced legacy ETL pipelines (SSIS/SSRS) with event-driven data streaming. Cut data availability from 24-hour batch cycles to near real-time for public sector consumers.
- Built a platform entirely on CNCF graduated tools on Hetzner cloud—self-managed Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, OData—with zero Azure dependency.
- Proposed and implemented Keycloak as an identity platform from scratch—replacing Azure AD dependency. Designed a full IDP architecture for the organization.
- Grew the engineering team from 2 to 28 across multiple Scrum teams. Handled hiring, performance management, mentoring, and architecture governance.
- Performed daily architecture reviews, infrastructure and app code reviews, POCs on new technologies, and technical sessions on .NET, cloud, and distributed systems.
Technical Manager
Tech Mahindra
- Co-architected a GDPR-compliant multitenant platform selling reusable services on a subscription basis to Danish government departments. Built on Azure and .NET.
- Designed API governance and subscription management using Azure API Management. Implemented secure storage, encryption, and identity management for GDPR.
- Led a 14-member engineering team delivering platform capabilities across multiple government department integrations.
Support Engineer
Microsoft
- Guided enterprise architects on Azure PaaS internals, new service offerings (Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus), and production issue root-cause analysis.
- Served as first responder for P1 incidents and architecture consultations for Microsoft's premium enterprise customers across global environments.
- Hand-picked within 1 year for a 20-person premium support team covering all Microsoft cloud offerings—the only representative selected from Azure PaaS.
Software Engineering Team Lead
Accenture
- Designed and delivered an automated SQL Server upgrade solution for Hilton Hotels—2,000 servers across global locations using PowerShell and CMD automation.
- Built a real-time monitoring dashboard feeding upgrade logs to the central DB—providing the client and management with live visibility into upgrade progress across all locations.
- Progressed from fresher to Team Lead in 8 years across enterprise .NET projects, advancing from Associate Software Engineer to Software Engineer in 1 year, Senior Software Engineer in 2 years, and Team Lead in 3 years.
- Managed teams of 10-14 engineers across development and support activities. Produced architecture artifacts (HLD/LLD) for enterprise application design.
Experience
AI Code Review
In addition to SAST, this makes the pipeline smart enough to catch issues that are undetectable using Sonar.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh Technical University - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Cloud Platform
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Azure API Management, React
Tools
Azure Key Vault, Azure DevOps Services, Azure Logic Apps, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA), Claude Code, Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure App Service, Azure OpenAI Service
Frameworks
.NET, OAuth 2
Paradigms
DevOps, Azure DevOps, Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
Platforms
Azure PaaS, Azure, Kubernetes, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Functions, Windows
Languages
C#, Bash, Python
Storage
Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, PostgreSQL, Azure Active Directory
Other
Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Workflow Automation, Serverless Architecture, Solution Architecture, HLD, LLD, PDF Processing, Document Intelligence, Incident Management, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Microsoft Azure, APIs, YAML Pipelines, Monitoring, GitOps, Azure Service Bus, ARM, Cloud Architecture, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Artifacts, GitHub Copilot Chat, Cloud, Azure, AKS, .NET 10, React, Electron, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, YAML Pipelines, APIM, Key Vault, Azure Storage, SonarQube, Snyk, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Microservices, Solution Architecture, HLD, LLD, Azure, AKS, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Video Indexer, .NET, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Key Vault, Azure Storage, Agile, Delivery Management, Solution Architecture, .NET, C#, SQL Server, WCF, Entity Framework, PowerShell, Windows Server, Team Management, HLD, LLD, Application Development, GDPR, GitHub Actions, API Gateways, Migration, Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Keycloak, OData, .NET, CNCF, Hetzner Cloud, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Identity Management, Solution Architecture, Team Leadership, Agentic AI
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