Techi - Athlete - Blithesome

A seasoned Cloud Architect with over 16 years of experience, I specialize in designing and optimizing both cloud and on-premises infrastructure. My expertise spans public and hybrid cloud solutions, encompassing architecture design, cloud operations (CloudOps, DevOps, and SecOps), technical support, and consulting.

Outside of the tech world, I’m also a NSNIS certified field hockey coach with 8 years of experience.

Education and Certifications

BCA, Bharathiar University

Google Cloud Certified 'Professional Cloud Architect'

AWS Certified 'Solutions Architect – Associate'

Work Experience

April, 2017 to Present: Rappit (Formally Vanenburg Software), Coimbatore as “Sr. Principal Cloud Architect”

• Architect cloud landing zones that incorporate security, compliance, scale and governance enabling quick & easy cloud migration and application modernization in the cloud.
• Implementing automation and orchestration of cloud operations using Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD systems
• Optimize cloud resources to minimize costs and improve efficiency while meeting performance and capacity requirements
• Implement and maintain GRC (CIS, SOC2) and Security best practices

August, 2016 to April 2017: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Bangalore as “ITO Svc Delivery Cons III”

• Deploy products in different infrastructure such as Jboss, Tomcat, WebSphere, Weblogic, Apache, IIS etc
• Automate Deployment and Maintenance process using Puppet, Shell and Ansible
• Performance tuning and high availability support

January, 2011 to July 2016: Exterro R&D Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore as “Sr. Infrastructure and Deployment Engineer”

• Design and Deploy secure and scalable Hybrid Cloud infrastructure
• Deploy and manage middleware tools such as Jboss, Tomcat, WebSphere, Weblogic, Apache, IIS etc.
• Performance and Security tuning in Web / App servers
• Implementation and maintenance of SaaS Product in AWS Cloud using PaaS and IaaS products
• Two times awarded as “Employee of the Quarter”
• Successful integration of SAML with SaaS product to support multi tenancy
• Received multiple awards from client for successful efficient implementations

August, 2010 to January, 2011: Aumega Networks Pvt Ltd., Bangalore as “Production Support Engineer”

• Install, configure and maintained the secure Windows and Linux file web and mail servers in AWS Cloud
• Installed and Configured media server in AWS Cloud
• Monitor, Patch and Upgrade Linux servers in On-Perm and AWS

May, 2008 to August, 2010: Planettutor Learning Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore as “Network Administrator”

• Configured, deployed, maintained Secure Wired and wireless Network using Routers, Modems, and Switches
• Install, configure and maintained the secure Windows and Linux file web and mail server in On-perm and VPS Hosting
• Assembled, Installed, configured and maintained Windows and Linux desktops