Dinesh Katariya
Verified Expert in Engineering
Enterprise Architect and Developer
San Francisco, United States
Toptal member since May 2, 2023
Dinesh is a seasoned technology executive with 25+ years of experience developing essential cloud adoption capabilities and implementing solutions to overcome business challenges. He has a proven track record of delivering cost savings and improvements through simplification, automation, and technical debt reduction. He's adept at creating and maintaining DevSecOps roadmaps and leveraging his extensive information security and enterprise architecture expertise to enhance tech stacks.
Portfolio
Experience
- Identity & Access Management (IAM) - 20 years
- Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure - 10 years
- AWS Cloud Architecture - 9 years
- Cloud Security - 9 years
- Enterprise Architecture - 9 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- Microservices Architecture - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Azure Cloud Services, AWS Cloud Architecture, Networking, SOC Compliance, NIST, Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a secure landing zone for AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud in less than four months.
Work Experience
Chief Enterprise Architect | CIO Office
Citrix
- Achieved approximately $6 million in operating expenses and security incident savings through simplification, automation, and reduction of technical debt in AWS, Azure, and GCP spending by implementing a landing zone.
- Teamed up with the CISO organization to implement controls based on CIS and NIST 800-171 frameworks and achieved SOC 2 and FedRAMP compliance.
- Spearheaded the implementation of Kubernetes for application orchestration and management, resulting in a 50% reduction in deployment time and improved scalability across the enterprise.
- Developed and maintained a comprehensive architecture framework, including principles, roadmaps, reference architecture, and technology stacks, to guide technology decisions and drive alignment across the organization.
- Spearheaded the enterprise application domain transformation, which included application security based on a software assurance maturity model to identify broken access, security misconfigurations, vulnerability management, and threat modeling.
- Led DevOps automation practices, established standards, and incorporated security controls while aligning with the IT organization's goal to simplify solutions through automation, enhance security posture, and drive cost-effectiveness.
Head of Cloud Infrastructure and Security
Forcepoint
- Spearheaded a hybrid cloud platform initiative with a focus on enhancing the company's efficiency, agility, and innovation by creating a standardized, secure, compliant, and scalable cloud platform using infrastructure as code.
- Created landing zones for AWS using infrastructure as code. Focused on networking, IAM, security and compliance, governance, and audit logging, resulting in a cloud operating platform that meets ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS, NIST, and FedRAMP requirements.
- Implemented security controls for identity, devices, applications, infrastructure, and data using zero-trust principles.
Founder and President
Kloudforce
- Facilitated the swift, efficient, and secure adoption of cloud technologies by customers, with a focus on governance at scale. Established the company's foundation by emphasizing human capital, operational procedures, and cutting-edge technology.
- Ensured business growth by fostering MSP partnerships with industry-leading companies, including Rubrik and DarkTrace, and expanding the business through an alliance with a DevOps-focused startup in Romania.
- Acted as a service integrator by prioritizing enterprise architecture, cloud security, and hybrid cloud design and implementation for the company.
- Directed various security and compliance projects, including secure cloud workloads on AWS, identity, access management designs, and single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) implementations.
Chief Architect
Medivation
- Built a highly efficient statistical analysis system on the Red Hat GFS2 cluster, with integrated identity access management and 100+ cloud and on-premises applications utilizing SAML technology.
- Developed and executed a robust data security initiative, including categorizing confidential information, implementing data labeling and policies, and establishing DLP controls for data administration and oversight.
- Implemented Okta integration with 100+ SaaS applications for the SSO and MFA.
Experience
eCommerce Platform
• Front end – A JavaScript framework like React or Angular is used to build the user interface of the eCommerce platform.
• API gateway – Kubernetes is used as an API gateway to manage traffic and requests between the front-end and back-end services.
• Product catalog service – Java programming language and Spring Framework are used to build a service that handles eCommerce platform's product catalog.
• Order management service – Python programming language and Flask framework are used to build a service that manages orders on the eCommerce platform.
• Payment processing service – Stripe or PayPal are used as payment gateways to manage credit card processing for the eCommerce platform.
• Shipping service – FedEx or UPS are used as shipping carriers to handle shipping for the eCommerce platform.
• User authentication service – OAuth 2 protocol handles user authentication and authorization for the eCommerce platform.
• Search service – Elasticsearch is used to build a service that handles product search functionality for the eCommerce platform.
• Analytics – Kafka and Spark are used to build a service that collects and analyzes data from different back-end services and provides insights into the performance.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Pune - Pune, Maharashtra, India
Certifications
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
Scaled Agile
Certified Cloud Security Professional
(ISC)²
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
ITIL v3 Certified Professional
PeopleCert
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Microsoft
Skills
Tools
Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub, Istio, NGINX
Storage
Azure Active Directory, Azure Cloud Services, Data Centers
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, Serverless Framework, OAuth 2, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Paradigms
Microservices Architecture, DevOps, Enterprise Application Architecture, Serverless Architecture, ITIL
Languages
Python 3, YAML
Platforms
Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure IaaS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Ubuntu 16.04, Apache Kafka
Other
Enterprise Architecture, Application Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Communication, Troubleshooting, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Virtualization Technology, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Cloud Architecture, Networking, SOC Compliance, NIST, Software Development, Algorithms, IP Networks, Coding, Hardware Design, Cloud Security, IT Systems Engineering, Enterprise System Design, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls), FedRAMP, Okta, ServiceNow, Workday, Secure Containers, JScript, Cloud Design
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