Enterprise Architect · Technology Leader

Sailesh Kyanam

Principal, Technology at Fannie Mae

Washington, DC–Baltimore Area

I bridge the gap between complex engineering and strategic business goals — building secure, resilient, and highly available infrastructure and platforms across cloud and enterprise.

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About

As a Senior Technology Leader and Enterprise Architect, I bridge the gap between complex engineering and strategic business goals across competitive industries like Finance and Publishing. I approach technology with a dual mindset: an unyielding technical curiosity to master complex systems, and an empathetic commitment to educate and elevate those around me.

Throughout my career, I have specialized in building secure, highly available, and automated modern infrastructure and platforms. My technical footprint spans comprehensive Public Cloud and web architectures, advanced Cyber Security frameworks (including PKI/SSL), and high-throughput messaging and data caching systems. Driven by a passion for operational excellence, I focus heavily on mastery in enterprise resiliency, proactive performance monitoring, and disaster recovery to ensure seamless business continuity.

Experience

A career in enterprise architecture

  1. Principal · Fannie Mae

    Aug 2003 — Present

    Reston, VA · 22+ yrs · Current

    Design and develop patterns and solutions for Fannie Mae infrastructure, platforms, and applications — both on-premises and in the cloud. Hands-on across a wide stack: cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, Cisco, SoftLayer), DNS, load balancers, single sign-on, web / proxy / application servers, messaging, API gateways, and digital certificates.

    • Lead Architect for Fannie Mae Cloud (current).
    • Lead Architect for Web, Application, Messaging & Enterprise BPM platforms — iPlanet, Sun One, Apache, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Lombardi, and IBM Business Process Manager.
    • Lead Architect for the vFabric Advanced suite — tc Server, GemFire, GemFire WAN Gateway, SQLFire, and Hyperic.
    • Lead Architect for Fannie Mae Disaster Recovery design & solution.
    • Designed, developed, and documented operational procedures for managing Verisign Managed PKI SSL/TLS certificates.

  2. Independent Consultant · Self Employed

    Mar 2003 — Jul 2003

    Washington, DC

    Independent consultant for Fannie Mae.

  3. Consultant · Sunrise Systems, Inc.

    Feb 1999 — Feb 2003

    United States

    Represented Sunrise Systems for multiple clients including Line One Tele Services (New Rochelle, NY), Rad Energy (White Plains, NY), ECS Network (Stamford, CT), Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ), and Lucent / Bell Labs (Murray Hill / Holmdel, NJ).

  4. Consultant · Lucent Technologies

    2001 — 2003

    Holmdel, NJ

    Managed Lucent.com websites and supporting infrastructure — load balancers, web / directory / application servers, PKI, multilingual search engines (English, Italian, Japanese), monitoring, databases, and DNS. Ran Lucent’s audio-visual media streaming services, encoding live and on-demand content via Real and Windows Media Servers with regional affinity relays and proxies for staff across locations.

  5. Consultant · Pearson Education

    1999 — 2001

    Upper Saddle River, NJ

    Managed Pearson Education websites and backend infrastructure — web, application and portal platforms, content management, and related technologies.

  6. Executive Systems Coordinator · The Times of India

    1995 — 1999

    Hyderabad, India

    Managed IT systems for the Times Group Hyderabad location — pre-press equipment, Cisco routers, advanced imaging devices and image setters, scanners, WAN / VSAT, Novell and Unix servers, publishing systems, and leased / ISDN links. Deployed one of the first web-based file-transfer solutions (homegrown).

  7. Associate · NIIT

    1992 — 1995

    Rajahmundry, India

    Trained students across NIIT course semesters — DOS, BASIC, COBOL, dBASE, word processing, UNIX, C, spreadsheets, OOPS, and SSAD. Set up and managed the lab, including a Novell NetWare network, workstations, and UNIX terminals.

Expertise

Skills & focus areas

Top skills

Digital CertificatesiPlanetSunOne

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudSalesforceCiscoSoftLayerDNSLoad BalancingSingle Sign-On

Web & Application Platforms

iPlanetSun OneApacheWebLogicWebSphereJBossTomcatProxy & Web Servers

Messaging & Data

GemFireGemFire WAN GatewaySQLFireAPI GatewaysData CachingHigh-Throughput MessagingTibcoIBM MQKafkaKinesis

Security & PKI

PKI / SSL / TLSVerisign Managed PKIDigital CertificatesCyber Security

Resiliency & Operations

Disaster RecoveryEnterprise ResiliencyPerformance MonitoringBusiness Continuity

Architecture & Process

Enterprise ArchitectureTOGAF
Credentials

Certifications & education

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

    https://bit.ly/skaws

  • AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

    https://bit.ly/skaws

  • TOGAF 9 Foundation

    The Open Group

Education

  • Ideal College

    1988 — 1991

    BSc — Computer Science, Mathematics & Physics

  • NIIT

    1991 — 1992

    PG Diploma in Systems Management, Computer Science

  • Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

    1983 — 1988

    12th Grade — Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Chemistry

Languages

EnglishTeluguHindiTamil
Contact

Let’s connect

Always glad to talk enterprise architecture, cloud, security, and building resilient infrastructure — or to help others grow along the way.

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