Sunil Kanaad

About

Bridging vision and implementation

I'm a Strategy Consultant and Enterprise Architect who drives AI evolution — bridging the gap between vision and implementation while transforming legacy systems into high-velocity intelligent ecosystems. My engagements span financial and capital markets (Northern Trust, Fidelity, TIAA, John Hancock), healthcare and insurance (BlueCross BlueShield, Farmers, Voya, Sanofi), technology and consulting (Dell-EMC, Cognizant, Deloitte), commercial real estate (CBRE, Avalon Bay), and critical infrastructure (PSEG Nuclear, AT&T).

On the business side: Enterprise architecture assessment, governance frameworks (TOGAF, CMMI), MLOps, FinOps, risk and compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and the stakeholder management that makes multi-year modernization roadmaps actually land.

On the technical side: AI and RAG engineering, Agentic workflows with human-in-the-loop oversight, event-driven microservices, and multi-cloud architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

These days I advise CxOs and government leaders as a consultant, own the AI execution roadmap end-to-end, design Information pipelines across value-chain, establish Guardrails, and still find time to build and ship: spec-driven, vibe-coded, loop-engineered, business-context embedded, decoupled, distributed, event-driven SaaS platforms while folding AI coding assistants and agent harnesses into modern delivery pipelines.

Select client engagements

Financial & Capital Markets

Northern Trust, M&T Bank, Fidelity Investments, John Hancock, TIAA, ACI

Focus: High-volume transaction systems, master data management, banking compliance frameworks, global operations

Information Technology & Consulting

DELL-EMC, Cognizant, Deloitte

Focus: Strategic assessment, legacy modernization, hybrid-cloud migration

Healthcare & Insurance

BlueCross BlueShield, Farmers Insurance, Voya, TIAA, Sanofi-Aventis

Focus: GDPR/CCPA preference management, secure information architecture

Commercial Real Estate & Retail

CBRE, Avalon Bay, 7-Eleven, NetJets

Focus: Personalizing customer experience, global infrastructure sizing, real-time logistics

Industry, Telecom & Energy

PSEG Nuclear Power, AT&T, McGraw-Hill, LUTRON, Carrier, AERCO

Focus: Engineering product consumer ecosystems, critical alert systems

Education

Toolkit

What I work with

Business Strategy & Consulting

Strategy ConsultingEnterprise Solution DevelopmentEnterprise Architecture AssessmentBusiness Process OptimizationThought LeadershipStrategic Thinking & RoadmappingStakeholder ManagementProduct ManagementProduct Operating ModelDesign ThinkingGap AnalysisCross-Functional CollaborationMentor Architect Community

Governance, Risk & Delivery

TOGAF / CMMIStandards & Governance FrameworksAI Security & Prompt GuardrailsFinOps & Resource AllocationDependency, Risk & Compliance MgmtGDPR / CCPALeanIX APMEventStormingSAFe AgileCybersecurity StrategyObservability & SREInnovation Labs & IncubationPoC / Lighthouse Projects

AI Strategy & Orchestration

AI EngineeringRAG & Vector EmbeddingsLLM & SLM IntegrationAgentic WorkflowsVibe & Loop EngineeringSpec-Driven DevelopmentRapid B2B & B2C SaaSAI Voice AppsHuman-in-the-Loop (HITL) Harnesses

Autonomous AI Agents/Tools

Claude CodeOpenAI CodexDevin, Google AntigravityOpenClawHermes & DeepSeek AgentGrokQdrant, MilvusTextract OCRLangChain / LangGraphPydantic AI

Architecture & Cloud

Enterprise & Information ArchitectureEvent-Driven ArchitectureDomain-Driven DesignRESTful MicroservicesMicro FrontendsTest-Driven DevelopmentApache KafkaDockerKubernetes / Istio / OpenShiftCI/CD & MLOpsAWS / GCP / AzureBlockchain

Languages & Frameworks

PythonJavaScript / TypeScriptC#RustJavaNext.jsNode.jsTailwindMobile App Development

Data & Intelligence

Data Lakes & WarehousingCanonical Data ModelingMaster Data ManagementDecision Support SystemsBusiness IntelligencePostgreSQL / Oracle / SQL Server / MySQLQdrant / Milvus / MongoDB / CassandraElastic Stack (ELK)Informatica / MuleSoftTableau / Power BI

Platforms & Domains

ERP — SAPCRM — SalesforceITSM — ServiceNowGuidewire / Duck CreekFIS / FiservReal-Time TransactionsInfrastructure SizingCustomer Experience Personalization