S Ravi Kumar

Hi, I'm S Ravi Kumar

Solutions Architect & Product Owner

I help enterprise .NET teams adopt agentic AI.

About

I help enterprise .NET teams adopt agentic AI — the messy, real version: guardrails, verification gates, RAG over your own data, and the process changes that decide whether the tooling actually gets used. 22+ years as an architect across managed cloud services, healthcare, insurance, travel, and HR. Today I own architecture and AI-adoption strategy for a multi-cloud management platform — driving discovery, reference architectures, and executive solution reviews, and running LLM workloads on Azure AI Foundry and AWS Bedrock inside enterprise security constraints. What I've learned the hard way: AI adoption fails on enablement, not capability. Rolling out an AI-first development process taught me that the framework is the easy half — onboarding, champions, and verification discipline are the half that decides the outcome. That lesson now shapes everything I build. In public: ► AI-First Development Playbook — a seven-phase agentic SDLC for teams, with verification gates and a command library ► TechieRag — a .NET RAG library (NuGet) ► TechieFlow — the solo-architect edition of the same philosophy Founder, NCR Cloud & Core Techies (500+ member developer community). C# Corner MVP. Conference speaker on .NET, cloud architecture, and AI application development. If you're a CTO, engineering leader, or architect trying to make agentic AI real inside a .NET estate — that's the conversation I want to have.

22+ Years of experience
18+ Speaking sessions
1.2 M+ Article reads
31+ Technical articles

Experience

Product Owner – Solutions Architect@ Noventiq (formerly Softline)
Jul 2025 - Present
Current
  • Own architecture and AI-adoption strategy for a multi-cloud management platform serving enterprise MSP clients — driving discovery, reference architecture, and executive solution reviews.
  • Define and drive the organization's agentic-AI adoption strategy: LLM deployment on Azure AI Foundry and AWS Bedrock, a secure internal AI assistant for code review, and AI-assisted technical screening adopted by HR.
  • Led enterprise-wide rollout of an AI coding assistant integrated with internally hosted LLMs - Securing security-team approval, coordinating infrastructure, and designing the enablement path for engineering teams.
  • Advise engineering leadership on where agentic patterns, RAG, and verification-gated AI workflows fit into the platform's architecture and delivery process.
  • Spearhead AI integration initiatives across the CMP team—deployed LLMs on Azure AI Foundry and AWS Bedrock, built an internal AI chat tool for secure code reviews, and created an AI-powered candidate assessment tool used by HR to automate technical screening.
  • Championed and drove adoption of OpenCode (AI coding assistant)
Team Lead – Solutions Architect@ Noventiq (formerly Softline)
Jul 2023 - Jun 2025

• Led a team of 5 engineers managing all cloud management platform integrations—including internal Noventiq service integrations, client onboarding workflows, and third-party connector development. • Designed scalable integration architecture for CMP modules, standardizing API contracts and data flows across multiple cloud providers

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ❖ Design software systems with various Microsoft technologies and ensure compliance to all architecture requirements. ❖ Coordinate with various departments and analyze requirements of architectural team. ❖ Develop solutions for various components and recommend changes for various customers. ❖ Design architecture for various different components and validate tools. ❖ Participate in architectural meetings and analyse all technical requirements ❖ Establish architectural methodology of all deliverables. ❖ Develop architectural principles and standards for team.

Software Architect@ Noventiq (formerly Softline)
May 2021 - Jun 2023

• Designed integration architecture for Netwatch Systems, enabling real-time monitoring data flow between edge devices and Azure cloud using ASP.NET Core, Docker, and MongoDB. • Established CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and mentored engineers on clean architecture and cloud-native design patterns.

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ❖ Design software systems with various Microsoft technologies and ensure compliance to all architecture requirements. ❖ Coordinate with various departments and analyze requirements of architectural team. ❖ Develop solutions for various components and recommend changes for various customers. ❖ Design architecture for various different components and validate tools. ❖ Participate in architectural meetings and analyze all technical requirements for Dot NET applications. ❖ Establish architectural methodology of all deliverables. ❖ Develop architectural principles and standards for various IT groups.

Principal Architect@ Ayukul Technologies
Apr 2020 - May 2021

Architected and launched Renteasly, a multi-tenant SaaS platform for residential and commercial property management (Blazor, ASP.NET Core, Azure SQL). Led a 6-person team from concept to production.

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ❖ Analyzing client's requirements ❖ Demonstrating the architectural implementation of client's requirements ❖ Developing POCs on latest technologies for client ❖ Perform architecture, design and code reviews. ❖ Provide Technical consultation to client & team members.

Technology Advisor@ Infogain India Pvt. Ltd.
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020

Advised a 40-member engineering team on Mitchell’s Smart Advisor (worker compensation SaaS), driving modernization from legacy WinForms to ASP.NET MVC and .NET Core microservices.

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ❖ Mentor Teams Technically ❖ Ensure teams follow the coding best practices. ❖ Guide the team throughout the sprints and review the completed work along with offshore leads. ❖ Provide direction and technical expertise in design, development and testing. ❖ Solve technical problems to provide an efficient environment at offshore ❖ Support in Identifying the resource requirements and/or talent refresh
❖ Provide technical training to teams when required and serve as a technical mentor to team members

Solutions Architect@ HCL Technologies
Nov 2012 - Mar 2018

Architected the Parker Tracking System (web + mobile) for Parker Hannifin—a cross-platform repair tracking solution using Xamarin.Forms with offline-first RealmDB, serving field technicians across geographies. Led a 12-member team.

Technical Architect@ Mercer India Pvt. Ltd.
Jul 2011 - Nov 2012

• Designed technical architecture for HR and benefits administration platforms in the insurance domain.

Associate Consultant / Technical Lead@ Infogain India Pvt. Ltd.
May 2007 - Jul 2011

Progressed from senior developer to Technical Lead, managing delivery of multiple client-facing web applications and mentoring junior developers.

Senior Software Engineer@ BirlaSoft
Oct 2006 - Apr 2007
Senior Developer@ Ishir Infotech
Oct 2002 - Oct 2006

Skills & Expertise

Languages

C#
SQL
TypeScript

Frameworks

ASP.NET Core
Blazor
Dapper

Data

PostgreSQL
MySql

Cloud and DevOps

Azure
Docker
GitHub Actions

Practices

Domain modelling
Observability

Contact

LinkedIn is the best way to reach me — I read every message.

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Location
Greater Noida, India
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