Summary
Vikas Vijayakumar is a pragmatic enterprise AI and solution architect with over 20 years of technology experience and more than a decade in senior architecture roles, currently leading Fleet & CRT architecture for Shell's Business Mobility portfolio from Bengaluru. He architects large-scale cloud-native and hybrid solutions (Azure/AWS, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) for a payments platform that handles ~8 million cards and 400 million transactions annually across 50+ countries, while leading a 25-person architect and data team. Vikas blends hands-on individual contribution on complex programs with strategic roadmap work—assessing people, processes, data and systems to recommend buy/build/partner decisions and quantify architecture gaps and non-functional requirements. His background spans integration, event-driven and microservices platforms, IoT analytics and loyalty/retail ecosystems, demonstrating an ability to stitch together legacy, acquired and best-of-breed SaaS components into coherent enterprise solutions. He holds an MBA in Product Leadership and a BE in Information Technology, and is known for closing the feedback loop with enterprise teams to influence platform design rather than just delivering point solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Product Leadership, First class with distinction, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Product Leadership, First class with distinction at Institute of Product Leadership
Kendriya Vidyalaya CPCRI Kasaragod
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, India
English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu