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Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft

About

I excel in leveraging technology to develop solutions and products that set new industry standards. With over a decade of experience, I specialize in meeting customers' needs in Enterprise Architecture, Scale, and Security. • Subject matter expert in Kubernetes, AKS, Containers, registries, K8s & Azure networking, DevOps, PaaS, and IaaS services in Azure • Understand industry trends for kubernetes and OSS to prioritize feature development or have new features developed based on Enterprise customer requirements by partnering with engineering teams. • Share customer pain points and gaps in Microsoft’s AKS offerings with Senior CVP leadership to strengthen Microsoft Kubernetes strategy and position AKS as top contender among other kubernetes offerings. • Currently having discussions with engineering teams to improve AKS’s security, networking and observability capabilities. • Work with AKS community and innovations team to drive reference architecture implementations of AKS using the best Microsoft as well as Open-source tools. • Cloud native and open-source advocate and instrumental in promoting cloud native technologies and open-source solutions with customers as well in AKS community. • Increasing AKS adoption across new and existing customers. • Customer communication and handling under different circumstances. • Gather customer requirements and design AKS based solutions by taking decisions objectively on approach, using internal vs 3rd party vs Open-source tools. • Thorough understanding of K8s concepts including networking, storage, ingress, service mesh, container registries, GitOps, network policy, Admission controllers, auto-scaling etc. • Programming / Scripting Languages: C#, ASP.NET, PowerShell, Bicep, ARM, Ruby, Python, Bash etc. • Azure Certifications: 70-532, 70-533, 70-534, 70-535, AZ-102, AZ-302, AZ-400, AZ-500

Location

Greater Seattle Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Redmond, Washington, United States, • Working with strategic Microsoft customers to help build their AKS based solutions as per Enterprise grade scale and security by understanding the application / solution architecture and their requirements. • Understand customer requirements and drive discussions with engineering teams to either prioritize an in-development feature or take in new feature requests for strategic Microsoft customers. • Increasing AKS adoption across new and existing customers by reviewing their application / solution architecture and overall requirements. • Work with internal innovations team to drive AKS community-based reference architecture implementations for AKS. • Provide guidance to customers in the form of reactive support in case of issues with AKS and supporting services with the help of Product Group and CSS • Customers handled: EY, GAP, NBA, FedEx, Navy Federal, GM, Nielsen etc.

Consultant at Microsoft, Mar 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Vienna, Virginia, United States, • Ground up design and implementation of Kubernetes microservices based architecture for multiple enterprise customers. • Design and implement next generation DevOps automation to improve ease of deployment and maintenance of customer applications. • Working with organizations on their digital transformation journey • Working with customers to make their IT infrastructure more robust, resilient, and secure. • Architecting solutions with enterprise scale and security for customer requirements • Working with customers in resolving priority incidents in their IT infrastructure and thus helping reduce overall downtime for their public facing applications. • Customers handled: Walgreens, Navy Federal, GAP, Genesys, ATT etc.

Azure Consultant at Accenture, Nov 2013 - Mar 2019 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Pune Area, India, • Thorough understanding of networking on the cloud, Active Directory, cloud storage and database management, automation, scaling and centralized monitoring and management. • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using Team Services (VSTS – Now Azure DevOps) • Creating intuitive reports in Power BI using complex queries to gather data from multiple sources and merging them in a single dashboard. • Developing enterprise Integration between multiple systems viz. VSTS, SharePoint, Azure, Service now etc. using logic apps, Microsoft flow etc. for both ways asynchronous connection/update. • Architecting infrastructure for highly available applications. • Developing robust and performance optimized applications using .Net, Web Role, Worker Role, Web Jobs, Table storage, SQL Azure, and Cloud Messaging service. • Customers handled: Shell, Saudi Aramco, Exxon Mobil, Chevron etc.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, University of Mumbai