Karthik Chowdary Namburu
Indianapolis,United States
Summary
Enterprise Cloud architect with 15+ Years of proven experience in Cloud, Infrastructure Architecture and solutions delivery (Digital transformation, CCoE, cloud adoption, multi-cloud strategy execution, DevOps, Cloud automation, SRE, DC modernization, DR)
Other Roles Handled: Systems Engineering , IT Operations Manager, Technology Solutions & Management Consulting.
Extensive hands-on experience in designing, building cloud environments (GCP & Azure) and execute cloud adoption for global organizations.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cloud Architect - Global Cloud Engineering
The AES Corporation
02.2020 - Current
- Leading cultural change for cloud adoption and operating at scale
- Envision, design, build scalable and secure multi-cloud environments for AES to meet global digital transformation needs
- Developing multi-cloud strategy and effective adoption leveraging multi-cloud operating model
- Leading AES CCoE (Cloud center of excellence) 5
- Establish best practices for cloud adoption across company, selecting and adopting apt services
- As Enterprise cloud Architect @AES responsible to demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of immediate team and driving change
- Responsible for developing DevOps (IAC and App) process workflows using Gitlab,Terraform AzureDevOps, CloudBuild etc for Digital delivery and Operations Team
- Designing cloud-based architectures leveraging Google Cloud platform and Azure, provide oversight to solutions during delivery
- Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams
- Trusted cloud adviser to AES internal product teams by building trust, providing technical leadership and managing internal client relationships.
- Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules.
- Researched and understood emerging technologies and end-user needs.
- Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.
- Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks.
- Developed and documented system security authorization boundaries for cloud-based solutions and client applications within cloud service.
Infrastructure Architect
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
San Francisco, CA
10.2015 - 02.2020
- Wrote detailed architectural design plans, security requirements and specifications.
- Planned, designed and delivered diverse IT solutions.
- Design and build highly available cloud Infrastructure solutions (Active/Active, Active/Passive etc.) as part of DC/DR, Cloud Migration projects
- Participate in build of end to end private & public cloud Infrastructure as a code (Terraform and
- Diagnose and trouble-shoot Deployment and Operational Issues
- Adhere to engineering and architecture standards and participate in technical review meetings as required 5
- Participate in the evaluation, deployment and management of new technologies in alignment with other engineers
Sr Technical Consultant
Infosys
01.2013 - 01.2020
- Part of Global Consulting team
- Deputed across various client locations to carry out Digital transformation Initiatives
- Clients includ Singapore Telecom, SungardAS, Pacific Gas and Electric
- Extensive experience with Private and Public cloud migrations, DC/DR Modernisation, Consulting (End to End Infrastructure solutions)
- Collaborated with client and interdepartmental peers to transform client requirements into turnkey solutions.
- Recommended technology upgrades and complementary products to improve client security.
Solutions Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2013 - 12.2013
- Planned, designed and delivered turnkey IT solutions.
- Developed long-term strategies for different business segments.
- Worked closely with customers to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
- Wrote detailed architectural design plans, security requirements and specifications.
- Technically supported project planning team for development and implementation of proposals and solutions to address hardware and software problems and network emergencies.
Systems Consultant
Oracle
Bangalore
08.2010 - 07.2011
- Consulted with clients to align future software development with customer priorities.
- Prepared system diagrams and flow charts to support problem analysis.
- Operated within cross-functional environments, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to avoid redundancy and reduce dependencies.
- Served as technical expert on products at press events and conferences.
- Developed complex solutions to all business problems along with customer engagements by detailed analysis, negotiation and coordination with main decision makers.
Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems
Chennai
08.2008 - 07.2010
- Providing technical inputs, product posiitoning, BoM sizing & Configurations involving Entrylevel, Midrange & Enterprise class servers & storage
- Providing Technical inputs for Emerging Sun Microsystems Partners from South India.
Systems Engineer Trainee
Shell Networks and Solutions Limited
- Delivered technical sales presentations to prospects and presented benefits and value of products.
- Set up hardware and software in optimal configurations to meet client requirements.
- Delivered exceptionally high level of professionalism and support to each customer, upholding company's commitment to service.
Education
Executive MBA - Information Technology
UBI Business School
2013
Bachelors in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Osmania University
2007
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All saints high school
2001
Skills
- Define Architectural Standards
- Creating reference architectures
- Develop and Implement Multicloud Operating Model
- Extensive experience designing, building cloud environments for Global companies ground-up (GCP and Microsoft Azure)
- Implement Cloud automation leveraging DevOps tools and SRE principles
- Extensive experience implementing Cloud Self service (ServiceNow, Terraform Cloud, GitLab)
- Drive Cloud center of excellence
- Own Cloud Engineering and Operations
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Solution Development and Implementation
Certification
- Google cloud certified Cloud Digital Leader
- Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (70-533)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Cloud Computing Architecture V3
- VMware Certified Professional
- Zerto certified Professional
- PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner
- EMC certified Velocity Systems Engineer 2011 (Backup & Recovery)
- Hitachi Data Systems Enterprise Storage Admin
- Oracle Exadata 11g Specialist
- Sun certified System Administrator
Timeline
Senior Cloud Architect - Global Cloud Engineering
The AES Corporation
02.2020 - Current
Infrastructure Architect
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
10.2015 - 02.2020
Solutions Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2013 - 12.2013
Sr Technical Consultant
Infosys
01.2013 - 01.2020
Systems Consultant
Oracle
08.2010 - 07.2011
Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems
08.2008 - 07.2010
Systems Engineer Trainee
Shell Networks and Solutions Limited
Executive MBA - Information Technology
UBI Business School
Bachelors in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Osmania University
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All saints high school
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