IT & Cloud Architect
With over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex IT infrastructures, I specialize in creating scalable, secure, and future-ready systems for enterprises. My expertise spans across virtualization, cloud migration, data center transformation, and hybrid architectures.
Currently pursuing a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, I am passionate about integrating intelligent decision-making into IT strategy and automation. From vendor management to solution delivery, I bring a hands-on, business-driven approach to technology.
I am passionate about leveraging my skills to help organizations optimize their IT infrastructure and achieve their cloud aspirations.
@ +966 - 536653454
Work Experience
Enterprise IT & Cloud Architect - Since 2016
SALAM - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Current)
VMware India - Bangalore (2015 - 2016) - Vmware & vdi engineer
VCE (Dell India) - Bangalore (2013-2015) - VCE vblock support engineer
tcs - chennai (2011-2013) - sytem engineer
• Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack, OpenStack, KVM, VMware VCD/VCF.
• Cloud Computing Services - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS (VPS (Citrix, VMWare, KVM), WebHosting (cPanel/Plesk), Virtual Firewall (Fortigate/PA, MS Hosted Exchange, Web
Security(zScaler), Backup As a Service (Commvault/Veeam/vProtect), ERP App hosting).
• Hypervisors/Virtualization: VMware vSphere, VMware NSX-T, VMware VCD, VMware Horizon View - VDI, KVM(Ovirt)-OLVM & RHVM, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix
AHV, Openstack KV,.VMware Aria Suite (Automation, Log Insight, Orchestrator, Network Insight). vSphere Replication, SRM, Dell etc.
• DevOps – Containers, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, Redhat Openshift
• Server Infrastructure: VCE VBLOCK, EMC VxRail, Cisco UCS & Rack servers, HP C7K, Huawei E9K & Dell MX-7K Blade chassis, Nutanix HCI, All Vendor server
hardware (Dell/HPE/Cisco/Huawei /Supermicro).
• Networking: Switching, Routing - Cisco CAT/Nexus, Huawei/HPE /ZTE/H3C
• Storage: EMC VNX/Unity/DataDomain/vPlex/RecoverPoint, Huawei Ocean/Dorado, HPE Alletra, PureStorage, Netapp, Synology
• Backup: EMC Networker/PPDM, Veeam Backup/Replication, Veeam Availability Suite, Acronis Backup/Restore, Commvault, vProtect.
• OS: Microsoft/Redhat/Oracle/Ubuntu/Centos/SUSE
• Infra Services: ADDS/DNS/DHCP/GP/RDS/NTP/SYSLOG/SMS etc
• Monitoring: ME-OpManager, Solarwinds, Grafana etc.
• Automation: Ansible/Ansible Tower/PowerCli. • SSL Certificate Management - Local/CA
• Databases - MSSQL/MySQL.
• Procurement processes (RFP/RTP/PO), Vendor & Partner engagements
• Project management and service delivery
• Migration of workloads between On-premises & Cloud Platforms(Carbonite, Veeam, P2V, V2V)
• Product Management, Evaluation, Launching etc.
• MVNO, 5G, Fixed Voice, Digital transformation solutions
• IT consultation services
• Opensource products
• End to end responsibility and coordination with multiple vendors/service providers/partners/stakeholders for their solution deployments and on boarding indulging
procuring Compute/Storage/Backup/Licenses.
• Capacity Planning, forecasting of Licensing/Subscription related to all HW vendors/OS/DB’s/Hypervisors etc.
Enterprise & Cloud Architect
My Projects
DataCenter Consolidations with multisites & Disaster Recovery strategy
Datacenter evacuation & Workload Migrations - On-Premise to/from Cloud platforms, On-Premise to Hyperscalers
Transforming businesses with scalable cloud architecture and services.
Product life cycle management for B2B services
Centralized, Unified compute and storage platform using multiple vendor solutions and tiered architectures
Migration of Virtual workloads between hypervisors - VMware, KVM, Nutanix, Proxmox, Hyper-v, Openstack etc.
Tech Refresh, Infrastrcture upgrades - Firmware, software release/code
Enterprise Digital Transformation exercises
IT Infra automation with cloud management portals
Integration of Cloud management tool with Enterprise OSS/BSS solutions
IT Infrastrcture core services revamp
Artificial Intelligence technology adoption for office collaborations and day-2 operations