Work Experience

With over 17 years of rich and varied experience in IT Infrastructure, I enable enterprises with thought leadership and technical expertise to efficiently manage their IT enterprise infrastructure by establishing roadmaps, strategies, platform standards, policies, and adoption programs.

I have extensive exposure in technical presales for large deals to ensure that customers get solutions that are tailored to their needs and those that really matter to them.

My diversified expertise covers:

  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Technical Pre Sales
  • Transition & Transformation
  • Managed Services
  • Public Cloud Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • DevOps
  • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
  • Datacenter Consolidations & Migrations
  • Services Automation
Since Mar 2023
Principal Architect (Infrastructure & Cloud)
Cognizant
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Sr. Manager (Consulting)
Deloitte
May 2012 - Apr 2022
Sr. Architect (COE Lead)
Cognizant
Jan 2010 - May 2012
Systems Administrator
Birla Institute of Technology IC
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Education

Masters Degree (2008)
Graduated with a Masters Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Halmstad University, Sweden specializing in Parallel Computing, Distributed Real Time Systems and Concurrent Programming. My thesis focussed on the creation of a software library that can be used in the creation of network protocols.
Bachelors Degree (2004)
Graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, India specializing in Communication Systems, Integrated Circuits and Computational Mathematics. My thesis focussed on the creation of a DTMF based signalling system for railroad crossings.

Certifications

  • The Open Group Certified: TOGAF® 9 Certified
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator
  • Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Publications

Affliations

  • Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)
  • Microsoft Association of Practicing Architects (MAPA)
  • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)