Kalash Sharma
Verified Expert in Engineering
Automation Solution Architect and Developer
Warwick, United Kingdom
Toptal member since January 1, 2026
Kalash is an intelligent automation (IA) expert with strong business analysis skills and hands-on experience delivering high-impact automation projects. A certified PRINCE2 practitioner and well-versed business analyst, he brings a structured and disciplined approach to project delivery. Kalash has worked across multiple sectors, including health, finance, insurance, automotive, energy and utilities, and construction, strengthening his ability to deliver impactful, business-focused solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
- Software Development - 18 years
- Business Analysis - 10 years
- Microsoft Power Automate - 3 years
- Microsoft Power Apps - 3 years
- Blue Prism - 2 years
- UiPath - 1 year
- n8n - 1 year
- Azure - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Microsoft Power Automate, Blue Prism, UiPath, Azure, n8n
The most amazing...
...solution I have developed supports pharmacists across a network of cancer hospitals by automating drug inventory updates and medication label printing.
Work Experience
Automation Solution Architect and Developer
Freelance Clients
- Oversaw the migration of critical patient data using concurrently running automation robots to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient transfer of diverse medical datasets.
- Designed a scalable solution architecture for an insurance fraud detection product, capturing requirements, documenting as-is and to-be data flows, and creating and developing the database, front-end, and integration layers.
- Guided quality assurance for automations delivered by a 3rd-party supplier, reviewed solutions to ensure alignment with business requirements and quality standards, and created checklists and guidance for business analysts and developers.
- Drove the architecture, design, and execution of a project delivering a solution that enabled pharmacists to perform medication dispensing and label printing.
- Developed automations to enable the automated review of finance credit applications.
- Built an automated solution for executing foreign currency trades.
- Delivered the migration of the automation environment from cloud to on-premises infrastructure.
- Improved and automated financial processes, including cash allocation, remittance matching, and invoice processing, using intelligent document processing.
- Architected scalable automations to streamline and optimize recruitment business processes.
- Automated banking business processes (integrating with core banking apps, Azure, APIs, SharePoint) using Power Platform apps and flows, incorporating AI, AI agent development (Copilot Studio), and advising the team on best practices and solutions.
Senior Consultant
IBM
- Performed quality assurance for multiple enhancement projects on the central human capital and payroll systems of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
- Delivered business intelligence enhancements, including new reports and ETL pipelines.
- Implemented interface upgrades to enable seamless data exchange with government systems.
- Developed web portals for employee self-service and enhancements to payroll processes to improve efficiency and user experience.
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
- Served as solution architect for multiple systems, including financial planning, service engineer hiring, employee performance review, and billing solutions.
- Captured requirements, designed business processes, and performed quality assurance for the implementation of a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management platform for National Grid, UK.
- Directed requirements gathering, analysis, and quality assurance to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the UK gas distribution billing system.
- Oversaw requirement capture and business process optimization to overhaul electricity asset management, improving data foundations and maintenance planning to reduce costs and minimize operational risks.
- Developed business cases and conducted options analysis for multiple projects.
- Designed and implemented the solution support model for the SCADA system to enhance control of the gas distribution network.
- Developed web-based solutions using ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, and SQL Server for multiple clients, including performance review systems used by employees and HR for appraisal cycles and an engineer hiring solution for a call center to manage work requests.
Experience
Insurance Fraud Detection Solution
Education
Bachelor of Technology Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology (NIT) - India
Certifications
Blue Prism Certified Professional Developer
BluePrism
UiPath Certified Professional Advanced RPA Developer
UiPath
PRINCE2 Practitioner
PeopleCert
Skills
Tools
Microsoft Power Apps, n8n, Google Docs, RabbitMQ, ChatGPT, Microsoft Power BI, Jira, Jira Xray, IBM Maximo, Claude Code
Languages
SQL, C#, XML, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), C#.NET, Python, JavaScript, Visual Basic
Frameworks
ASP.NET, .NET, ASP.NET MVC
Paradigms
Automation
Platforms
Microsoft Power Automate, Power Automate Desktop Flow, Azure, Microsoft Power Platform, Twilio, Microsoft Copilot Studio
Storage
Databases, SQL Server DBA, SQL Server 7, Microsoft SQL Server
Other
Blue Prism, UiPath, Software Development, Quality Assurance (QA), Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, GAP Analysis, Business Cases, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Computer Networking, Operating Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), API Integration, Mathematics, Data Structures, Digital Securities, Computer Architecture, Data Modeling, Programming Languages, Computer Graphics, Operations Research, Cost Accounting, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Oracle EBS, Data Warehousing, Payroll & Benefits, Web Portals, Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA), Electricity Transmission, Gas Distribution, Physical Asset Management, IT Project Management, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Human Resources (HR), SAP, Billing Systems, GRC, RainBird, Intelligent Character Recognition, APIs, Stakeholder Management, Architecture, RAG Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Call Centers, HR Tools, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Solution Architecture, Testing Strategy, Test Management, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), Decision Modeling, Decision Intelligence, rainbird, Fraud Detection, Electronic Patient Care Reporting (ePCR), Lorenzo, SystmOne, Credit Scores, Pharmacy, SAP Business One, gas distribution, electricity transmission, LiDAR, Workforce Management (WFM), PRINCE2 Project Management, ChatGPT API, Canvas Apps, cloud flows, power automate desktop flows, AI Agents
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