i Narayanan Pillai — CV

Narayanan Pillai

Sūtre Maṇigaṇā Iva · Like Beads on a String

Narayanan.Pillai@gmail.com +1 (631) 662-4927 strqst400 (Skype) www.tranzendata.org 942 Papen Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807

Summary

Senior Enterprise Application Integration Architect

Senior Software Architect with 20+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale integration architectures across the full SDLC. Deep expertise in EAI, SOA, and event-driven systems, with recent focus on EVM-based smart contract platforms and distributed system design. Extensive experience across Windows, Unix/Linux, and IBM i (AS/400) environments.

Recognized for bridging business and technology, partnering with stakeholders to deliver cost-effective, scalable solutions and communicating complex concepts to diverse audiences. Proven mentor and technical leader driving engineering excellence through best practices, coaching, risk management, and large-scale initiative delivery.

Skills

SOA EVM Enterprise Integration Patterns API Design API Gateway Application Integration Web Services SOAP REST Enterprise Canonical Object Models Enterprise Data Models MQ Series IBM IIB Mulesoft ESB JMS RMI Java Go Python C RPG Perl PHP JavaScript TypeScript Solidity Sencha jQuery DB2 DB2/400 MySQL MSSQL Server Oracle Derby Yugabyte J2EE JDBC JAX-WS JNDI JNI JCE XML Schema Spring Struts Spring MVC Apache Tomcat Apache httpd WebSphere JBoss Continuous Integration Cloud Computing UML TOGAF Design Patterns (GoF) TDD CRM Implementations Oracle ERP SAP JDEdwards ERP iOS Android RIM

Experience

Senior Systems Architect 2024 – Current
  • Conducted early-stage experiments with a UTXO-based model to evaluate its viability as an alternative to account-based balance management within an EVM-compatible environment.
  • Demonstrated that a smart contract-based balance system could reliably process ~27K TPS for balance transfers with zero observed errors under test conditions.
  • Developed an integration layer connecting IBM MQ with a custom EVM-based smart contract engine to enable seamless interaction between enterprise messaging systems and blockchain execution environments.
Application Architect Consultant Principal 2022 – 2024
  • Created and maintained the Current and Target State Architectures for three US Department of the Treasury applications, including one High Value Asset (HVA).
  • Consultant Architect for the Program Transition to AWS GovCloud and modernization of existing applications to Cloud Native Offerings.
National Integration Services Application Architect 2016 – 2022
ESB/SOA Architect Consultant 2013 – 2016
  • Led creation of a National Enterprise Service Bus and Integration Center of Excellence for the Federal Reserve System; served as ESB subject matter expert for the Strategic Transformation Group.
  • Created and maintained the Target State Reference Architecture and Vertical Reference Architecture.
  • Delivered IBM Integration Bus V9.0 PoC and architected the transformation of legacy rates applications to a SOA solution.
Senior Manager, Application Integration 2003 – 2013
  • Provided strategic leadership across 3 business units; managed cross-functional Application Development and Integration team (4 FTE, 4 LTE).
  • Delivered a fully integrated SugarCRM-based Sales Quoting platform for a $1B business unit (used by 1,000+ users across North America) with ROI achieved in days.
  • Consolidated point-to-point integrations into a standardized EAI solution; reduced new integration delivery cost by 40% through templating and reusable assets.
  • Created the Reference Architecture and Reference Implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus; managed full Mulesoft ESB lifecycle from CE 1.1 through EE 3.4.
  • Achieved up to 80% cost savings over COTS by institutionalizing enterprise-wide open-source technologies (Apache, Tomcat); saved 60% on mobile development via an internally built Blackberry sales-force application.
  • Architected a Web Service-based API for legacy ERP; provided input to the Architecture Review Board on hardware, deployment, and security architecture.
  • Trained and mentored developers in Java, Web Services, SOA, and integration; established a system-wide weekly "TechDev" series on current technologies and best practices.
Senior Programmer 1998 – 2003
  • Initiated Application Modernization and Process Improvement across IT and Data Entry.
  • Reduced manual data entry steps through code and process changes.
  • Created a LAN and migrated the operating core from SNA to TCP/IP.
Senior Programmer Analyst 1992 – 1998
Australia New Zealand Banking Group · Bangalore, India & Melbourne, Australia
Software Engineer 1991 – 1992
Nucleus Software · Chennai, India

Education

B.E. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering & M.Sc. (Hons) Physics · Pilani, India
B.E. focus: Automotive Engineering & Finite Element Analysis. M.Sc. focus: General Theory of Relativity — Robertson Walker Metric.

Publications

Heraclius: A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Database System with Potential for Modern Payments Systems

FEDS Research Publication · Federal Reserve Board · Oct 2023

Proposed a novel distributed BFT database architecture optimized for high-throughput retail payment systems, addressing latency and consistency trade-offs in financial infrastructure.