Principal Solutions Architect
Sangamesh
Hiremath
Enterprise Transformation · Digital Banking · Payments · AI Strategy · Technology Leadership
Technology transformation is, in the end, about trust. For 25+ years I've simplified complexity, modernized mission-critical platforms, and built teams that deliver lasting value.
Architecture is successful only when it earns the trust of the people who build it, operate it, and depend on it.
- 0125+ years transforming aviation, payments, fintech, and AI platforms.
- 02Leading Emirates' API-first, cloud-native airport-operations modernization.
- 03Drove PayPal Consumer Risk — $24B+ TPV, 20M+ transactions a year.
- 04Architecture governance across 25+ initiatives, 5,000+ story points.
- 05Trusted advisor to engineering, product, and business leaders.
- 06Delivered across UAE, USA, UK, Germany, Japan, and India.
- 07Advising a healthcare-AI startup on Vision AI and privacy-first design.
Domains of depth
Enterprise Transformation
Banking & Payments
Cloud & Modern Engineering
Security & Compliance
Artificial Intelligence
How I lead
Earn trust first
Transformation succeeds only when business and engineering trust the people leading it.
Simplify complexity
Architecture should reduce complexity and enable sustainable growth.
Technology with purpose
Every decision should deliver value while balancing security, scale, and resilience.
Build people, not just platforms
The strongest organizations are built by developing empowered teams.
Selected work
Principal Solutions Architect
Emirates Airlines Transformation Program · Dubai, UAE
Leading API-first, cloud-native modernization of Emirates' mission-critical airport-operations systems.
- Lead architecture for modernizing the Baggage Reconciliation System (BRS).
- Drive API-first, cloud-native, event-driven solutions for airport operations.
- Run Domain-Driven Design and Event Storming workshops to align teams.
- Integrate operational platforms with WorldTracer and baggage workflows.
- Mentor ~20 engineers; set architecture standards and governance.
// impact
- Accelerated architecture decisions through trusted cross-team partnerships.
- Strengthened governance across multiple modernization initiatives.
- Balanced innovation with stability in a mission-critical environment.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- React
- TypeScript
- OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- Couchbase
- Solace
- Event-Driven
- DDD
Software Development Manager
PayPal · Bengaluru, India
Led Consumer Risk engineering protecting digital payments at massive scale.
- Led Consumer Risk platforms for $24B+ TPV and ~20M transactions a year.
- Rebuilt a fragmented team into a high-performing org; five key hires.
- Delivered capabilities for PayPal Debit Card and wallet provisioning.
- Ran distributed microservices where reliability and security were non-negotiable.
- Championed API-first, cloud-native, CI/CD, and automated testing.
// impact
- Turned a struggling team into a delivery-focused organization.
- Raised stakeholder confidence across product, engineering, and business.
- Helped protect high-value payments for millions of customers.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- REST APIs
- CI/CD
- Consumer Risk
- Secure APIs
Principal AI Solutions Architect
Confidential Healthcare AI Startup · Freelance · Remote
Architecting a privacy-first medical-imaging platform for clinical decision support.
- Designed end-to-end architecture across Vision AI, LLMs, and RAG.
- Built secure, cloud-native pipelines for imaging, inference, and review.
- Evaluated multimodal models, vector databases, and semantic search.
- Set principles for patient privacy, explainability, and scalability.
// impact
- Established a scalable architecture before implementation.
- Reduced technical risk through early technology evaluation.
- Vision AI
- Generative AI
- LLMs
- RAG
- Vector Databases
- Cloud-Native
- Privacy-First
The road here
Director of Technology
Entropik
Led engineering for AI-driven customer-intelligence platforms.
Senior Technical Architect
Cropin
Cloud-native solutions for digital-agriculture platforms.
Solutions Architect
Taylor & Francis
Modernized digital-publishing platforms and cloud integration.
Solutions Architect
Xebia (Emirates Program)
Architecture for Emirates digital-transformation initiatives.
Expert Architect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Enterprise-scale cloud and infrastructure for global customers.
Senior Engineering & Architecture
PayPal · Fidelity · IGATE · Mindtree
Distributed systems, integration, and large-scale software.