Ravi Midda

 Ravi Midda - - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-midda-3b69275/| Location: Ashburn, VA Executive Summary:  Executive AI & Cloud Transformation Leader | Strategy & Digital Innovation Advisor | GenAI Strategist | Author & Thought Leader Visionary AI and cloud transformation leader with 20+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale solutions across regulated industries, Finance, Healthcare & Governament. Proven expertise in GenAI systems (Glean, RAG, LLMs), AWS-native platforms spanning AI/ML, data engineering, orchestration, and secure infrastructure—designing scalable, intelligent pipelines from experimentation to production. Adept at stakeholder engagement, risk management, and cross-functional alignment to drive innovation at scale. Extensive consulting experience serving as a domain and portfolio architect, trusted advisor, and solution strategist for public sector and enterprise clients. Active thought leader—publishing insights on GenAI strategy, governance, and real-world AI enablement. Professional Experience Fannie Mae Nov2017-Apr2025 Advisor/Principle TPM, Multifamily Technology Portfolio Delivered portfolio-wide cloud migration, vulnerability remediation, and disaster recovery programs that reduced operational risk by 35% and improved platform resilience across all Multifamily applications. Led strategic rollout of AI/ML and GenAI solutions—including underwriting automation and fraud detection—resulting in a 20% increase in team productivity and faster, more accurate decision-making. Drove adoption of Shift-Left security practices and integrated CI/CD vulnerability scanning, reducing production issues by 50% and establishing a security-first engineering culture. Designed and deployed a GenAI-powered underwriting assistant using AWS SageMaker and Bedrock-hosted LLMs, cutting document review cycles by 40% and increasing output accuracy by 25%. Built scalable RAG-based GenAI applications by integrating Pinecone/FAISS vector stores with fine-tuned Hugging Face LLMs, enabling real-time knowledge retrieval and improving user satisfaction scores. Enhanced cross-team AI capabilities by delivering workshops and hands-on sessions on LLMOps, prompt engineering, and GenAI architecture, accelerating model deployment timelines. Launched a reusable prompt library and established internal best practices for GenAI development, reducing prototype-to-production time by 30%. Championed GenAI governance strategy and tooling evaluations, streamlining compliance and adoption across multiple business units. Led innovation efforts through internal hackathons and incubation tracks, transforming high-potential ideas into production-ready AI features adopted in the Multifamily product roadmap. Published thought leadership content on GenAI adoption and RAG architecture, establishing internal credibility and boosting external engagement across the AI community. CSRA (Client: Veteran Affairs) Jan2017- Oct2017 Solutions Architect Principal (Data Center Consolidation) Led strategy and execution for the VA’s national data center consolidation initiatives supporting the reduction of 400+ data centers while ensuring continuity, security, and scalability. Defined disposition strategies (rehost, refactor, retire) and drove shared services optimization across virtualization, storage, backup, and monitoring systems. Beacon Health Options | Oct2015–Nov2016 Director of IT Operations (Data Center Hosting & Infrastructure) Oversaw enterprise data center hosting, computer operations, and system administration and middleware across 5 national sites; led consolidation to 2 centers, saving $1.2M annually and improving DR readiness. Led a diverse IT team in network turn-ups, new process implementation, and infrastructure design, ensuring high availability, performance, and business continuity for critical enterprise systems. Directed vendor management, capacity planning, and risk mitigation, supporting a scalable and resilient IT infrastructure for mission-critical enterprise applications. CRGT | Dec2014–Sep2015 Lead Solutions Architect / Technical Advisor Directed a team within the Office of Innovation & Technology to craft transformative solutions and roadmaps for $500M+ in federal IT contracts. Led architecture and delivery of application and data migration strategies, enabling clients to modernize from waterfall to agile and DevOps-based cloud operations. Pragmatics | Oct2013–Apr2014 Database Operations Manager – Strategy & Innovation (Client: FDIC) Managed enterprise database operations across 2400+ Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server instances—reducing workload by 50% through automation and process optimization.eveloped and implemented database infrastructure policies, controls, and project governance to enhance platform performance and compliance. Wheeler Network Design | Mar2008–July2013 Director of Technical Services (Client: USCIS/DHS) Led cross-functional teams delivering IaaS across Windows, VMware, Unix, Citrix, Oracle, and multi-vendor storage platforms—supporting mission-critical DHS operations. Led infrastructure optimization at the Department of Homeland Security, consolidating underutilized V890 servers into clustered SPARC T5440 systems with centralized storage. Defined the modernization roadmap, aligned cross-functional teams, and improved scalability, availability, and operational efficiency while mitigating risk. Designed and executed enterprise-wide virtualization of RISC and CISC architectures, reducing server footprint by 80% and driving major savings in CapEx, power, and cooling. Education/Certifications Master of Science, Computer Applications, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Bachelor of Science, Computer Applications, AV College, Hyderabad, India Certifications & Training AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Working to reactivate) Generative AI for Business Leaders | Google, LinkedIn Learning Introduction to Generative AI | Google AI for Everyone | DeepLearning.ai MLOps: Monitoring Model Drift & Bias | LinkedIn Technical Skills Cloud & Platforms: AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, Step Functions, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Data Wrangler, Redshift) GenAI/LLM: LangChain, Hugging Face, Transformers, Vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS), Prompt Engineering , AutoGen, Agentic AI, MCP Languages: JAVA,Python, Bash, SQL Partner Enablement & Tools: Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Streamlit, Partner Certification Frameworks, Readiness Playbooks AI/ML Practices: PyTorch, MLOps, RAG Architecture, LLM Fine-tuning, Model Deployment, A/B Testing CI/CD & DevOps Toolchains: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Jupyter, Streamlit, VS Code Project & Program Management: Agile/Scrum, DevSecOps, MLOps, Jira, Stakeholder Alignment, Technical Escalation Management , Project Management, Risk Management, Change Management, Capacity Planning, Performance Metrics Process & Operations: ITIL Framework, Incident Lifecycle Management (Priority, Severity, RCA), Problem Management (Root Cause Analysis, Preventive Actions), Change Management (Impact Assessment, Rollback Planning), Knowledge Management (Runbooks, SOPs) Monitoring & Alerting Tools: Splunk, Dynatrac,Moogsoft, AppDynamics, ServiceNow