SUMMARY

• A passionate hands - on technology leader with over 15 years of IT experience and focusing in architecture and delivery of private cloud platform with private and public cloud technology stacks
• More than 10 years of experience planning, architecting, and engineering distributed cloud platform solutions
• Proven track record in leading and managing diverse team in fast-paced and high pressure environment
• Experience in deploying large robust private cloud platform that spans across multiple global geographic locations with resiliency, high-availability and Continuous availability
• Experience in implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Currently working on converting an OpenStack Cloud Platform to a Containerized Cloud Platform using Kubernetes, Docker, Caligo for CNI, Ceph for SDS, and Contrail for SDN.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Cloud Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• CI/CD, Automation, Orchestration
• Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud
• IaaS, PaaS
• REST
• Web services
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Negotiation
• Technical Presentation
• Strategic planning
• Technology Roadmap
• Vendor Management
• Resiliency
• Disaster Recovery and Continuous Availability

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud and Container Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, VMWare, VCE vBlock.

Networking: Container Networking using Caligo, Cloud Networking using OpenStack Neutron, Open Vswitch (OVS), SDN using Juniper Contrail, NFV, Spine/Leaf using Juniper MX, Arista and Cisco switches, VLAN, VXLAN.

Automation Tools: Ansible

Storage: Ceph, SDS, SAN, NAS, Object storage, NetApp, SolidFire, HP MSA, Pure, EMC, IBM XIV

Hypervisor: KVM, ESXi

OS: Linux, UNIX, AIX, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Principal Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for converting the AIC Platform to a Containerized Cloud Platform with Kubernetes, Docker, Caligo, Antifactory and Ceph.
• Collaborate with Application Delivery, Network and Infrastructure teams to come with a hardware profile for different types of lab sites, document and present to different stakeholders for their consent.
• Provide architectural and design leadership for migrating Confidential & Confidential on-premise non-telco applications to AWS
• Collaborate with DevOps, Development, and CI/CD team to provide a Continuous Deployment Platform (CDP) for Confidential & Confidential Container Platform (CP).
• Prepare architectural and design document, review with stake holders and publish the approved document for different stake holder for reference.
• Conduct PoC and present the technological solutions to upper leadership for helping them to make right technological decision for the benefit of the company.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Consult with Business Owners of Confidential & Confidential units to gather their platform requirements, and work with Developers, and Deployment Engineers to deploy the private cloud platform for Confidential & Confidential using OpenStack, and Juniper Contrail for SDN.
• Provide thought leadership to Confidential & Confidential Business Owners for Cloud Platform deployments.
• Design and architect performance enablers for AIC 3.0 by introducing DPDK, SRIOV, NUMA and CPU Pinning and Huge Space memory to improve the latency of critical AIC sites.
• Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for cloud platform deployment and Hotfixes by integrating the automation processes with Code Cloud, Gerrit, Jenkins, Puppet, Mirantis Fuel, and Ansible.
• As a Sr. Cloud Consultant, mentor system engineers and deployment engineer by design review, technical presentation, and brainstorm discussion.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Development, CI/CD, and Deployment teams to setup up automation processes for cloud platform deployment using OpenStack and Confidential & Confidential home grown tools.
• Work with different teams of AIC and leadership team to drive a common strategy and setup roadmap.
• Prepared Architectural documents and presented to various stake holders of AIC for socializing and adopting the new architecture.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Solution Consultant Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Conducted PoC with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) on VCE vBlock IaaS platform as a pilot PaaS platform for Confidential .
• Architected and executed a private cloud IaaS platform using VCE vBlock for Confidential .
• Lead a team of Cloud Consultants to provide leadership and direction for high priority projects undertaken by the business units within Confidential regions and influence them to use enterprise private IaaS platform for their application hosting.
• Provide architectural guidance for different Business Units for hosting their applications on to private cloud.
• Conduct Proof of Technology for providing Business Units and IT Managements to provide appropriate technology alternatives.
• Provided cloud consulting services in align with architectural guidance set by Enterprise Architects to different software development teams and guided them to adopt enterprise technology standards.
• Increased the cloud adoption by 60% in six months by providing the cloud suitability assessment for the applications.
• Provided thought leadership and prepare strategic technology roadmap for Cloud and Virtualization technologies and helped leadership team to make an informed decision on technology choices.
• Lead cloud application designing sessions with business partners to evaluating benefits, trade-offs, and risks for implementing applications on cloud or virtualized environments.
• Setup Disaster Recovery for Cloud Infrastructure with Site Recovery Manager between two Data Centers and enabled the application hosting in DR infrastructure.
• Setup Cloud infrastructure data replication using EMC Avamar and enabled the application hosting in DR infrastructure.
• Architected and lead team of system engineers to implement Health Information Exchange platform that spans across multiple data centers with resiliency, high-availability and disaster recovery by using virtual infrastructure, DataPower, WSRR, Splunk, Mirth Appliances, Oracle RAC, Golden Gate, Web Services, RESTful Service, Nagios, and Jericho, bigIP GTM and LTM load balancers.
• Architected and designed the end-to-end monitoring, and reporting solutions for Health Information Exchange Confidential and increased the availability HIE platform and incident free.
• Prepared roadmap for technology solution for Health Information Exchange Confidential .
• Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture and Care Delivery team and make recommendation about software solution for Health Information Exchange Confidential .
• Architected and designed Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) solution for Confidential with IBM InfoSphere MDM, Oracle RAC, Oracle Golden Gate in multiple data centers on IBM Power 7 frames with High Availability and Disaster Recovery to manage 140 million patient data.
• Implemented end-to-end monitoring of EMPI system Confidential OS level, JVM level, and Confidential Application level using IBM Tivoli monitoring.

Confidential

Service Oriented Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a resilient and highly available SOA platform with DataPower, WPS, WAS, WMB, WSRR, SOA Software, ITCAM for SOA and achieved 99.99% system availability for Service Oriented Infrastructure.
• Developed the process and tools for SOA adoption for applications, and decreased the SOA adoption time from 40 Hours to 2 hours and SOA adoption changes incident free.
• Partnered with vendors to acquire new technologies and implementing in Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) Confidential .
• Lead the team for developing SOA pattern and implemented the IT Governance process for Service Providers and Consumers.
• Motivated and mentored the team in fast-paced and high pressure environment.
• Implemented release management process for system changes and SOA application changes.

Confidential

Technical Lead Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with different vendors for conducting Proof of Technology for integrating mainframe applications to ESB and recommended for solution for it.
• Lead the team for adopting ESB for different applications Confidential .
• Provided Level 2 support for ESB solutions.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Technical Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team for implementing SOA and ESB patterns by using WMB, JMS, and WebSphere MQ in distributed mainframe environment.
• Drove RRBus system adoption by liaising with multiple application groups and serving as technical advisor for RRBus and Messaging Bus users.
• Earned recognition by winning 2004 Excellence in Service Award for Messaging Bus Group leadership in banking project.