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Senior Director - Cloud Engineering, JAPAC at Oracle | Focusing on Open-Source, DPG/DPI, Population scale platforms

About

A visionary leader with the infrastructure architectural skills, experience and insight to elevate applications, computing platform infrastructure or data operation to cloud. Successfully designed and managing secure Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure solutions to the major travel platform like Rezopia, World ventures. Earned a great reputation for designing cloud deployment strategies that mitigate risk while meeting infrastructure, employee, customer and budgetary needs. Great expertise on PCI-DSS v3.1 Security Compliance and certification. Heads the PCI task force responsible for PCI-DSS certification. Responsible for recommending security solutions, controls and best practices. More than 5 years’ experience in Amazon AWS Cloud with overall 18 years’ experience in Information Technology. Conducted POC in various cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and presented the white paper to management on the merits/demerits, cost studies, feasibility of different cloud platforms. Designed AWS cloud infrastructure for First Media to host their QoE probes on the cloud. And also helped them to build a cost effective test bed on Cloud. Co-founded Pricesbolo.com, one of first to build the location based price comparison portal in India. We are first to bring the market place concept in India and was chosen as Top 25 promising e-commerce companies in India by Smart Techie magazine. PricesBolo was also featured in Entrepreneur magazine (Network 18 Group) anniversary issue. I have worked in various Multinationals such as Xerox, Aspect Development, i2 Technologies and Wipro InfoTech and have extensive experience in managing teams of different sizes.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Senior Director | Cloud Engineering - Center of Excellence, Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle, Oct 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tech recruitment at I-Exceed Technologies Solution, Apr 2020 - Present · 6 y 6 mo, Bangalore

Director | Cloud Engineering - Center of Excellence, JAPAC at Oracle, Dec 2020 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Head - Technology Cloud Engineering Hub at Oracle, Jul 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Head - CloudOps & Cloud Architect at Sonata Software, Jun 2014 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore Area, India, 1. Conduct Systems design, feasibility, cost studies and recommend cost effective cloud solutions 2. Reduced the overhead and infrastructure cost by 37% by defining / adhering best practices in effective use of resources in cloud. 3. Go-Live Strategy for World ventures – Auto Scaling instances based on Load 4. Designing high available, cost efficient, fault tolerant systems in AWS cloud 5. Responsible for PCI-DSS v3.1 compliance and certification 6. Extensive expertise on VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, SQS, SNS, S3, Glacier, RDS in AWS cloud. 7. Implemented state of art monitoring tools like Splunk, Cloudwatch, Librato, Zabbix, NewRelic for continuous monitoring of cloud infrastructure. 8. Great expertise in setting up process for PCI DSS v3.2 compliance. Leads the PCI task force in Rezopia 9. Designing Disaster Recovery, Failover and backup strategies. 10. Implemented OSSEC – Intrusion detection system.& File integrity Monitoring 11. Implemented Nessus & OpenVAS – Vulnerability Assessment System. 12. Incident Management 13. Presented the whitepaper on the merits/demerits, costing, security etc. between the cloud platforms 14. Automation – Cloud Formation, Chef 15. Amazon AWS Account & security Management

Consultant at XYKA, Jan 2013 - May 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Area, India, 1. Migration of Rezopia Application from Rackspace to AWS cloud. 2. AWS cost analysis and Infrastructure architecture 3. Setting up monitoring & security tools 4. Setting up frame work for PCI compliance 5. Migration mybusmate.com (on premise) to AWS cloud 6. AWS Cloud Infrastructure Management

Director - Account Management at First Media India Pvt. Ltd, Jul 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos, 1. Manage Implementation & Support team in India and U.S 2. Product Management 3. Designing AWS infrastructure for QoE Probes deployment 4. Field Trial planning and execution 5. Implementation planning and execution 6. Test Bed on AWS cloud 7. Handling customers like Sprint telecom, AT&T, Frontier, Century link, Acision, Telus, Singtel

Co-Founder, Director (Board of Director) at Pricesbolo E-Services (India) Pvt. Ltd., Jan 2009 - May 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos, 1. Heading , mentoring Sales & Marketing team 2. Overseeing the Product roadmap & delivery 3. Product Management 4. Business plan & execution 5. Responsible for driving product definitions, requirements, design and delivery of PricesBolo offerings to customers 6. Merchant Relationship and deliverables 7. Building new business concepts to align with the market needs

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Information Systems, Alliance Business School

Electronics and Communications, NTTF Electronics Centre