Available for freelance & consulting

Cloud & AI architecture for regulated industries.

I help banks, insurers, and financial-services teams migrate core systems to the cloud, modernize legacy mainframe and COBOL workloads, and design AI & Agentic AI solutions that hold up under real regulatory and compliance demands.

Omkar Shukla
Now: Solution Architect · Helsinki Before: Global consultancies · Banking & Insurance Certified: Azure · AWS · IBM · Anthropic
What I do

How I help clients

Clients bring me in to solve specific, high-stakes problems -- not to produce slideware. Engagements scale from a focused assessment to hands-on design leadership across a full program.

01

Cloud migration to Azure

Move banking and insurance applications to scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures -- optimized for cost, resilience, and compliance from day one.

02

Legacy modernization

Define target-state designs and migration pathways for mainframe, COBOL, and AS/400 workloads, broken into modular microservices for safe, phased adoption.

03

AI & Agentic AI architecture

Design agent-based solutions and orchestration patterns -- built with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot -- that accelerate legacy code assessment and developer productivity.

04

Architecture advisory

Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders on cloud strategy, AI adoption, modernization roadmaps, and enterprise architecture standards.

Track record

Architecting financial systems

A career across global consultancies, focused throughout on Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance.

2025 -- Present

Solution Architect

Global technology consultancy · Helsinki, Finland

Lead cloud migration and modernization for a market-leading domestic bank -- transforming legacy core banking systems into secure, cloud-native architectures. Serve on the client's Core Architecture Committee and define the program's AI & Agentic AI architecture, building AI-assisted modernization frameworks that improve assessment accuracy and cut manual effort.

2021 -- 2025

Solution Architect

Global technology consultancy · Singapore

Led Azure migrations for banking and insurance clients and drove modernization of legacy AS/400 platforms. Architected Java microservices on Kubernetes, embedded DevOps and CI/CD practices, and owned full-SDLC delivery while mentoring 20+ developers.

2019 -- 2021

Lead Developer

Global financial-services firm · India

Transformed retirement-process workflows on a BPM platform, integrating mainframes, Salesforce, and RPA via REST APIs. Migrated legacy applications to containerized workloads on AWS/OpenShift and built secure Java microservices.

2016 -- 2019

Developer

Global technology consultancy · India & UAE

Built and supported Java integrations for core banking applications, modernized fraud-detection processes, and contributed to UI and process development within agile delivery teams.

Credentials

Certified & current

2026
Claude Certified Architect -- FoundationsAnthropic
2025
Azure Solutions ArchitectMicrosoft Certified
2024
Gen AI & Deep LearningAWS Certified
2023
Solution Architect -- Cloud Pak for Business AutomationIBM Certified
Core expertise
AI & Agentic AI Architecture Cloud Migration Legacy Modernization Azure AWS Microservices Containerization Enterprise Integration & APIs Claude Code GitHub Copilot DevOps & CI/CD Java Regulatory Compliance
Get in touch

Have a migration or AI program that needs an architect?

Whether you need an architecture assessment, a migration roadmap, or hands-on design leadership -- tell me the problem and I'll tell you honestly how I can help.