Chris Krishnan

I am a principal software consultant working for my client who is in Los Angeles and Bangalore. I shuttle between these two places. I have more than 25 years of IT industrial experience in Banking,Retail,Healthcare,Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals and many other. I also wear the management hat from time to time responsible for project delivery, managing offshore team, outsourcing and recruitment.

I have worked in the complete software development life cycle from requirements, modeling,design,development,testing,deployment and maintenance. I have created solutions from scratch for major MNCs across the globe. I have worked in 8 countries including USA,Canada,France,Singapore and other European and middle east countries.

My strengths include R,Python,SAS,Scala,ETL(Datastage,Talend),Reporting(SAP BO,Tableau) , Datawarehousing, ,Machine Learning,Data Science, Social Media Analytics,Financial Analytics,Timeseries forecasting,Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning,Natural Language Processing,Hadoop,Spark,Cassandra,MongoDB,Streamsets,Openstack,AWS,GCP, Cyber Security ,RPA ( Robotic Process Automation ) , creating chatbot applications, Next Best Action and Blockchain.

Apart from my full time job, I do consulting (Solutioning, architecting,hire,mentor and hand-off) for three companies and I do mentoring for MNC teams and individuals.
I am also a consultant for outsourcing,offshoring,globalization and recruitment panel.