Kris Unnikannan is a Senior Solution Architect with over a decade of experience designing secure, cloud-native and distributed systems for high-assurance clients including NASA JPL and the U.S. Department of Defense. He combines hands-on engineering—building a Hyperledger Fabric Rover-to-Base system that handled 2000+ TPS—with strategic architecture work across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and zero-trust security patterns. Kris has led teams through complex migrations and operational improvements (blue-green deployments, serverless circuit breakers, observability) that measurably reduced incidents and MTTR. His background spans enterprise data governance, real-time IoT/IoBT systems, and financial modernization, giving him a rare ability to translate rigorous security and performance requirements into practical, deployable designs. Based in Toronto, he pairs deep technical breadth with a pragmatic focus on delivery, automation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. An engineer at heart, he often bridges firmware, cloud, and data teams to deliver mission-critical outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Western Kentucky University
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Kris Unnikannan - Senior Solution Architect at Ares Networks