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title: "Pratik Sharma - Sr. Cloud Solution Architect in Greater Seattle Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Pratik Sharma, Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft based in Greater Seattle Area. AI stack includes antigravity, cursor, and opencode."
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# Pratik Sharma on Tal

## Headline

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

antigravity

cursor

opencode

## 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

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