Siddhartha Sood, CTO Distribution Sector, India at IBM
Siddhartha has been in client facing delivery and technical leadership roles throughout his career. He demonstrates proven expertise in understanding & managing client expectations for large complex engagements helping his clients in areas of Agentic AI, product centric Modernization, cloud transformations, legacy Modernization, cloud native build, hybrid cloud, cloud competency Center and journey to cloud. He is a trusted adviser helping co-create and shape enterprise architecture capabilities with many clients.
He is also a LinkedIn top cloud computing voice. Siddhartha is a Travel & Transportation SME with focus on airline, freight & logistics industries and continues to work with some of the largest global supply chain enterprise(s) and airline(s) Within supply chain he expertises in digital, reverse logistics, revenue mgmt., network planning, package operations, hub/sort operations, supply chain, freight, air cargo, shipment visibility, automotive & warehousing Within Airlines, he led modernization for strategic areas such as digital experiences, service recovery, baggage management, passenger movement, flight operations, enterprise servicing/messaging/eventing, retail/ordering.
As an Executive architect, Siddhartha collaborates with client technology leadership teams on both strategy and execution. Strategic areas include setting technology directions, building technology/transformation roadmaps, product centric transformations, co-creating patterns for target operating model transformation. On execution he leads defining Architectures, executing multi dependency roadmaps, and providing technical leadership on transformational/FOAK engagements(build/modernize) on public and hybrid cloud. He specialises on AWS, GCP, Red Hat Openshift, legacy Modernization and mainframe Modernization.
Over the years, Siddhartha has led several IBM technical communities within delivery, travel and transportation industry, distribution sector, technology service lines, with a focus on developing next gen software engineering practices, reference architectures, codified patterns, Point of Views, assets, tooling through thought leadership, collaboration and sharing knowledge.
Siddhartha is ‘The Open Group’ Certified Distinguished Architect, An IBM Master inventor and Member of IBM Academy of technology. He gets excited when setting technical vision for complex IT solutions that requires collaborating & innovating across organization matrix to delivering unique client value. He is also passionate about mentoring his colleagues and shows personal interest in their growth.
