NEWS

With over 19 years of experience, I, Ashish Gupta am a senior industry advisor and technology architect. Renowned for my exceptional skills in designing and building digital products, data centre modernization concepts, and technology infrastructure teams across diverse domains, my expertise transcends geographical boundaries, having worked extensively in North America, the United Kingdom, and Asia. A certified TOGAF®9 Professional holds mastery in Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, IT strategy, and planning.

I have got multiple accomplishments, including recognition from Kaiser Permanente for leading transformational efforts that significantly enhanced system efficiency. I possess a wealth of experience spanning customer-facing roles, IT solution design, consulting project transitions, and technology transformations. Proficient in digital solution along with AI and DevOps integration for multiple clients like Kaiser Permanente, Xerox, CIBC, Aviva and First Abhu dhabi Bank (FAB), I have proven my mettle in a variety of other initiatives.

I have been featured in prominent media outlets like TechBullion, Dataconomy, and HackRead, where I shared my expert opinions on digitalization and its impact across industries. My contributions have covered a range of topics, including blockchain development patterns, the role of digital transformation in unlocking healthcare and insurance solutions, the influence of artificial intelligence on modern healthcare, the importance of Infrastructure as Code in creating reliable IT environments, and the trends shaping the future of banking and financial sectors.

I have also been Featured in a published interview titled “Cloud’s role in shaping healthcare future.” By Dataconomy for sharing insight on how cloud adoption is slowly transforming the healthcare industry, existing challenges to address and benefit it brings to the patient care.

I have also been nominated for the prestigious position of Judge for the 2025 Globee Technology Awards, where I will evaluate and assess leading innovations.

I have led multiple initiatives in digital technology transformation by using DevOps and AI-based technologies. Successfully provided advisory and guidance to start-ups and ‘Non Profit organizations’ offering invaluable insights into product development, technology architecture, hosting patterns, and business planning.

In my current role as a Senior Advisor at IBM, I have contributed to the development of the GenAI product called WatsonX AI and Watson Data. My contributions have been useful in enabling large language modules like Granite Chat and Granite Instruct across different streams. Modified machine language models that have led to multiple new collaborations globally. As a Senior Advisor at IBM, I have also led the successful client assignment (SWG) for implementing discovery and AI tools in client data centres for DC transformation, generating an estimated revenue of $8 million over six months. Additionally, I am working on Data center and cloud migration program for Dubai base financial bank named First Abu Dhabi. The workload modernization include the discovery process with IBM Watson X AI capabilities along with DevOps automation pipeline for cloud migration.

I also planned and designed the data centre modernisation blueprint for Kaiser Permanente, a major US healthcare organisation. This was a five-year transformation program aimed at modernising KP's five data centres across the United States. 

Multiple DevOps methodologies were utilised to create different pipelines for all infrastructure migration and application modernization activities. AI-based data discovery tools (IBM WatsonX) were implemented to achieve 100% accuracy on infrastructure landscapes, leading to major cost savings for KP amounting to $55 million across three years. For this assignment, I was awarded an L2 VISA, which is only provided to individuals with specialised knowledge in a specific domain and industry.

As an expert advisor in healthcare products, I designed and implemented the Lab system (Cerner product). I designed real-time image transfer modules for pathology labs, which reduced the turnaround time by 38 %. This greatly assisted KP in effectively tackling the Lab tests workload. As a Senior Architect at DXC, I led the development workshop for the hospital management solution called eHIS. This DevOps-based cloud solution comprised six different modules. As the lead architect, I successfully implemented these solutions at Kaiser Permanente (USA). The scope of the project was to provide a cloud-enabled solution for hospital management along with DevOps methodologies. Developed and designed cloud-enabled APIs along with DevOps pipelines as per customer requirements, leading to revenue generation of $22 million.

As a technical manager at ING Vysya Bank, I led the initiative named "Sapphire" (Data centre modernization) program. As part of this program, I developed fully automated API gateways for bank payment systems connected to external and central banks. This digital enablement effort led to a reduction of 25 headcounts. Another major effort was implementing an enterprise-wide application monitoring solution, which provided a breakthrough in identifying potential issues well in advance, avoiding major outages and revenue loss. I was awarded by the management for single-handedly leading these efforts. Guided small entrepreneurs in local businesses by utilising digital platforms for product branding and launch strategies. Nittsy.com and modachales.com are two e-commerce platforms that I developed and designed for local manufacturers to launch their business products digitally. These strategies helped the concerned parties increase their customer base and led to a 30% increase in revenue generation over the last two years.