SUMMARY:

• With a total of 23 years plus experience in IT career spanned for almost 2 decades, experience ranging from Software Development, IT infrastructure Administration, Solution Architect to Director of IT, VP and Head of Cloud Practice.
• As Director, Chief Architect and Head of Cloud and DevOps Practice, my responsibilities include but not limited to technology strategy, execution, delivery. Accountable for Pre - sales, Technology Solution, operations, development, deployment, client enablement and support for the DevOps automation and orchestration platform.
• I have a deep understanding and hands-on experience with Cloud (AWS, Azure, Openstack, VMware, Confidential PaaS) with Hyper Converged IT Infrastructure for Hybrid Cloud Solution, Pre-Sales, program management of Cloud infrastructure Programs, Solution Design and Architecting, Application API Integration, OEM partner relationship management in large and complex global IT projects.
• My background and work made me a deep technical expert in architecting Public & Private Cloud, Cloud Native app development and architecture, Big Data Infrastructure, Account management, resource management for information technology infrastructures.

IT & SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Amazon (AWS) Cloud: EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, VPC, S3, RDS, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS EMR (Elastic Map Reduce), Kinesis, Redshift, Confidential Cloud Foundry PaaS on AWS

Microsoft Azure Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Resource Manager, VNet, Blueprints, Azure Containers Services (Kubernetes), Docker Registry, Azure API Gateway, Azure Service Bus, Azure Traffic Manager, HDInsight, ADLS Gen 2, Azure Container Service, Azure Service Fabric, Confidential Cloud Foundry PaaS on Azure.

Google Cloud: Compute, Google Kubernetes, Confidential PKS on Google Cloud.

Private Cloud: VMware Cloud Suite, OpenStack, Red Hat Cloud Form, Confidential Cloud Foundry on vSphere and Openstack.

Serverless & Container Technology: DCOS, Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, etc.

BigData IOT Technology: HDFS, Hive, Impala, HBase, Pig, Kafka, Spark, SparkSQL, MapReduce, YARN, Flume, Storm, Gluster, Ambari, Hadoop Cluster Setup & Administration, Cloud Era, Hortonworks, MapR, Confidential HD, Hadoop Integration, Data Integration, Application Integration with Informatica, Talend, Splunk, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Odroid SBCs.

Microservices Technology: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Netflix (Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Ribbon), Spring Cloud for Cloud foundry, Consul

Data Management Technology: SAP HANA, Cassandra, GemFire, SQLFire, Oracle Exadata, DB2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server

DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD: Azure Jenkins, Artifactory, Puppet, Chef, terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS OpsWorks, Log Management & Monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK),Veracode, SonarQube OWASP

VMware & EMC2 Technology: EMC FEHC, VMware vRealize Suite, VMware NSX, Isilon, ViPR, Confidential HD, Confidential GreenPlum DB, Confidential GemFire, VMware VSI Plugin, EMC Avamar.

Oracle Technology: Solaris 10, Sun Solaris Zones, LDOMS, Power VM.

Converged &Hyper Converged Infra: VCE's vBlock, VSPEX, Nutanix, IBM Pure Systems, Oracle Exadata, NetApp FlexPod.

Application Servers: Web Sphere, JBoss, Weblogic, Glassfish Web Space Server, Tomcat.

Programming Languages: C, C++, JAVA, NodeJS, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), Spring Boot Framework, Maven, Gradle, Struts, JSF, Python, Perl, Django, JavaScript, HTML.

Server Hardware: Cisco UCS, Dell, HP, IBM (x86 and Power), Sun (x86 and Sparc), Nutanix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As VP and head of Cloud & DevOps Practice, within 1st year of joining at Reliable Software I changed the face of the company from a purely staffing company to a System Integrator and product company in the space of Cloud and DevOps with my innovative Ideas, design and implementation of a DevOps & DevSecOps toolchain orchestration platform (RDOPS) i.e Reliable DevOps as a Service.
• Lead the Cloud, DevOps business opportunities with our GTM strategy, business case / ROI achievement for Private and Public Cloud technology adoption resulting in 25% growth for the company in the cloud and DevOps business,90% IT asset reutilization for clients and DevOps resource expenditure savings of over $1 Million in the first year.
• Achieved advanced Partnership with all the top Public cloud service providers, PaaS (Pivotal), DevOps and Docker container orchestrations platform like Kubernetes.
• Lead the Cloud Native Applications COE, Kubernetes COE using the 12-factor apps strategy in the space of Microservices development platform on Confidential Cloud Foundry.
• Created and participated in defining our GTM strategy for the AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and DevOps, Cloud Native application development and Internal training for our Consultants.
• Strong solution selling skills with the ability to sell at CxO level, down to technical level.
• Planned, Analysed and Migrated 100+ application on 5000+ VMware workload to AWS and Azure Cloud, VMware to OpenStack, OpenStack to OpenStack with the Cloud Factory framework.
• Established standardized IT models for program deliverables, increasing the accuracy of implementation costs and reducing the cycle time by over 50% for solution delivery.
• Architect, Designing Public IaaS (AWS, Azure, GCP) & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (VMware, Open stack), Confidential Cloud Foundry PaaS with DevOps and automation, Architected Server less Infrastructure.
• Enabled and trained more than 50 EMC partners across APAC for EMC’s VSPEX Cloud Reference Architecture.
• Delivered enterprise-wide technology solutions by achieving all milestones of projects ranging up-to $5M, orchestrating a skilled cross-functional team of 60+ professionals and multiple system integrators.
• Launched the first cross-domain, centralized IT focused competency center in the IT organization, delivering a highly efficient and scalable IT delivery model with rapid and repeatable deployments.
• Have presented at conferences and to clients on technologies around Cloud, BigData, Virtualization, and Open Solaris. Conducted Software Boot camps across India and APAC.
• Negotiated contracts and established system integration partners for key technology areas (custom development and DevOps) improving rate structure by 30% and increasing overall system integrator delivery performance.
• Initiated cost reduction initiatives within IT delivering cost savings of $1M+ moving to Platform as a Service and Software as a Service (SaaS) and lower cost-based models.
• Drove the adoption of the first ever curriculum-based training model for new technologies within IT resulting in a repeatable capability-based development program.

Sr. Director Cloud & DevOps

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• , Implementation Architect, Confidential Cloud Foundry on GCP