Pawan Deora

I architect the systems that make technology scale.

I’m Pawan Deora, a Senior Technical Architect and seasoned engineering leader. I lead architecture across enterprise AI, applications, platforms, hybrid cloud and production engineering—aligning strategy, teams and customer outcomes.

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Pawan Deora, Senior Technical Architect
Enterprise architecture from strategy to production AI, cloud & platforms engineered as one system Global advisory across customers and field teams

Architecture, end to end

Depth across every layer.

One accountable architecture.

From strategy and system design to production operations, my work connects business intent with engineered reality.

Product architecture

Production-grade AI, beyond the prototype.

Architecture for agentic AI, RAG and LLM platforms—designed with multi-tenancy, observability, security and enterprise operations built in.

Current focus: Beacon, KPIT’s agentic AI platform for automotive engineering.

  • Agentic AI
  • RAG
  • LLM platforms
  • Python APIs
  • AI observability

Selected impact

Systems built for real-world scale.

01 · Beacon · Enterprise agentic AI

A secure multi-tenant platform, from application to infrastructure.

Leading end-to-end architecture across application design, Azure landing zones, platform engineering, DevOps, security, observability, capacity planning and architecture governance.

02 · Automotive virtual validation

Kubernetes engineered for high-concurrency simulation.

Architected the platform and a custom scheduling approach for reliable, resource-aware execution across multiple production clusters.

200+parallel simulations
2,000+containers

03 · Nutanix · Customer architectures

Infrastructure outcomes shaped around the customer.

Discovery, solution architecture, sizing and adoption guidance across HCI, Kubernetes, OpenShift, database services and infrastructure automation.

  • Growth-stage platformsDatabase provisioning, lifecycle automation and Day-2 operations.
  • Regulated enterprisesDay-2 infrastructure automation for banking environments.
  • Secure applicationsKubernetes deployment architectures for security-sensitive workloads.

Global customer advisory

Built in the field, not just on paper.

The strongest architecture work happens in the room—with customers, product teams, partners and field organizations.

Customer partnerships

Customer conversations that shape the system.

Architecture discovery and technical engagement across global automotive and enterprise customers, translating complex needs into platform capabilities.

Industry forums

Technology showcases with an engineering lens.

Represented platform capabilities in international technology forums, connecting product vision with practical enterprise architecture.

Field enablement

Enabling the field through technical storytelling.

Presented cloud-native, automation and platform perspectives to distributed pre-sales and consulting teams.

Leadership trajectory

Engineering depth, expanded into enterprise leadership.

From hands-on software and DevOps engineering to enterprise architecture and technical leadership.

  1. Current leadership

    Senior Technical Architect

    KPIT Technologies

    Lead architecture for Beacon across enterprise AI, applications, platform engineering, cloud, security, DevOps and observability.

  2. Enterprise AI

    Solutions Architect

    KPIT Technologies

    Founding AI-organization work spanning hybrid AI infrastructure, GenAI delivery systems, customer onboarding and adoption workshops.

  3. Customer architecture

    Portfolio Specialist → Senior Portfolio Specialist

    Nutanix

    Customer-facing pre-sales and solution architecture across cloud-native infrastructure, automation, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Day-2 operations.

  4. Platform leadership

    Technical Lead → Senior Technical Lead

    KPIT Technologies

    Led production cloud platforms, organization-wide CI/CD and a Kubernetes-based automotive virtual-validation architecture.

  5. Engineering foundations

    Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

    KPIT Technologies

    Built a foundation in software, DevOps, container platforms, CI/CD automation, Python and Java.

Credentials & working style

Technical depth. Executive clarity.

Current

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Valid through July 2027

Specialized learning

Azure AI Fundamentals + NVIDIA LLM development

Enterprise AI foundations and rapid LLM application development

Established expertise

5× Nutanix certified

Master and Professional credentials · expired

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Current: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (through Jul 2027); Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals; NVIDIA Rapid Application Development with LLMs.

Earlier credentials, now expired: NCM-MCI, NCP-MCI, NCP-MCA, NCP-US, NCP-DB, Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, Red Hat Sales Engineer Specialist — Container Platform, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate.

Education

B.Tech, Mechatronics Engineering
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES)

Build the next system

Let’s turn technology strategy into engineering systems that scale.

Enterprise AI · Platform engineering · Hybrid cloud · Solution advisory

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