KRISHNA KURKAL
Houston,TX
Summary
SENIOR IT MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE: Seasoned Technical Leadership, IT Solution Architecture & Cloud Strategist & Project Lead Recognized as a Cloud Solutions Evangelist for cloud management business units with rich experience in steering external IT service providers and leading IT Projects. Technology Lead for hosted applications in large datacenter and production environments for big brands including Aspect Software, Electronic Arts, Vist Intl, The Home Depot, ADP, GE Healthcare, FDA, USDA, Compuware Corp, Reed Elsevier, ServiceMesh Inc., mPortal Inc. and more Recorded vast improvements in new technology capabilities development, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hosted Applications, IT Infrastructure, Applications Management (mission critical), Fraud and Performance Management with world-renowned organizations. Techno-Managerial skills in orchestrating cross-functional teams and setting common agendas in 'IT Strategy Development', Planning and 'Decisions'. Over 25 years of expertise across: Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization, Hosted Applications, IT Infrastructure, Business Consulting & Solutioning, Product Strategy & Brainstorming & Roadmap, Change Management, Applications Management, Systems Monitoring, Requirements Elicitation, Fraud and Performance Management, Traceability Matrix, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1994
1994
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
CTO
Unisys
05.2024 - 11.2024
- Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure Group
- Working in the CTO office of Unisys’s Cloud Consulting line of business and as a Senior Enterprise Architect for its customers, responsibilities included architectural oversight of all cloud infrastructure and operations, along with automated provisioning and secure deployment of cloud-provisioned resources and collaborating with business system partners and managing business stakeholders
- Primary responsibilities involved determining client’s needs and expectations, drafting RFx responses in collaboration with other teams, identifying critical aspects of their cloud initiatives, ensuring security and compliance needs are met and converting their requirements into well designed Hybrid
- Public & Private Cloud Migration solutions for offshore implementation teams to execute
- Other projects included scoping the effort involved in migrating VMWare resources to AWS under the AWS MAP program and bringing unmanaged and non-compliant AWS resources under client managed environment
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments were built in Azure using AVD for different agencies upon request and based on their specific requirements
- Clients managing were Omnicom and Globelife
- Customer cloud environments included AWS, Azure, Google Cloud cloud providers and VDI initiatives using AVD and AWS Workspaces.
Enterprise Architect
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2022 - 05.2024
- Cloud Technology Portfolio, EA & Cloud Advisory Unit, CMI-NA
- Lead for a short-term Cloud Migration Assessment project for a specific LOB at UHG where multiple portfolios of applications were assessed for suitability of migrating to the Azure Cloud, avenues for modernization to use cloud-native services wherever feasible and estimate the Azure consumption costs and migration costs for all the applications deemed to be in scope
- Applications were typically Java based apps and microservices and open source platforms
- Responsible for developing Cloud Advisory material for TCS’s CMI customers and making presentations and implementing advisory recommendations for the customer
- Areas of focus primarily include Cloud Optimize (FinOps Cost Optimization), Cloud Orchestrate (Purpose-fit Multi-cloud Mgmt) and Cloud
- Refresh (App Modernization)
- Initial implementation of Cloud Optimize at T-Mobile helped identify $1.5M of sustainable annual cost savings
- Led the cloud infrastructure design and implementation at Thomson Reuters for their SAP cloud migration project targeting AWS cloud, which leveraged a proprietary tool called ‘Cloud_Iac’ designed to deploy infrastructure as code using CI/CD principles, Github and Terraform
- High Availability and Disaster
- Recovery design were both key parts of the considerations to ensure Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency and costs were optimized
- Project lead for a consulting project with Wolters Kluwer where they needed to be advised on the quality of their internal Technical and Architectural
- Standards by closely inspecting their corporate standards and documentation and making qualitative recommendations based on our collective experiences.
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect
ASRC Federal
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at ASRC Federal, responsible for overseeing the Cloud Migration project for FPAC-NRCS mission area within the US
- Department of Agriculture (USDA) and guiding and mentoring the team from a technical perspective in achieving the set targets in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment
- Currently, we have successfully migrated USDA’s first wave of early adopter applications to the AWS Cloud using the Lift & Shift model and are now focused on migrating the more complex applications which involve re-factoring, re-platforming or leveraging cloud native services
- Responsible for overall architectural design, setting priorities and tasking for the migration team and representing NRCS mission area and ASRC Federal in
- Scrum of Scrums calls with the customer (FPAC) and all other interactions with the application teams and other 3rd party teams in making key decisions
- Also responsible for new cloud initiatives and working with the CTO office to design cloud solutions for their current and prospective Federal and non-Govt clients for selecting the tools for CI/CD pipelines for different cloud provider environments, designing applications using the AWS Well-Architected
- Framework, forming a Cloud Center of Excellence group within ASRC and helping ASRC achieving Premier level partner status with AWS.
Principal Consultant, Cloud Business Consultant
Param Solutions
07.2019 - 06.2021
- At Param Solutions on different phases of proposal development and project implementation for prospective clients to help grow Param’s line of
- Cloud Consulting business
- Directly involved in determining client’s needs and expectations, drafting RFP responses, identifying critical aspects of their
- Cloud projects and converting their requirements into well designed Hybrid Public & Private Cloud Migration solutions for implementation teams to execute
- Customer cloud environments included AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Openstack based private clouds.
Director of Infrastructure
ADP India Private Ltd
08.2018 - 04.2019
- For APAC Region
- Infrastructure Leader for APAC region, responsible for Compute, Storage, Networking and Cloud Computing capabilities
- Led teams responsible for managing remote datacenters located in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, China, Singapore and the Philippines.
Education
MS - Computer Science
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LAMS - Petroleum Engineering
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LABS - Chemical Engineering
National Institute of Technology
Durgapur, West BengalSkills
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Virtualization
Hosted Applications
IT Infrastructure
Business Consulting & Solutioning
Product Strategy & Brainstorming & Roadmap
Change Management
Applications Management
Systems Monitoring
Requirements Elicitation
Fraud and Performance Management
Traceability Matrix
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Gaming
SAN Storage
Financial Services
ERP
CRM
HealthCare
Oil & Gas
Mobile & e-Commerce
Hybrid Cloud Management
Falcon Fraud Manager Implementation
Oracle 11i CRM
Clarify CRM Software
Corporate Web Sites / Intranets
Visa DPS Applications
NetApp Filers
Open Source
Java Apps
Hybrid Clouds (Servicemesh Agility Platform)
Private Clouds (OpenQRM, Eucalyptus, Abiquo, OpenStack)
Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, RackSpace)
RightScale, Scalr
VMWare Virtual Infrastructure
Automation (Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
IaaS/CaaS, PaaS & SaaS
Containers & Kubernetes
JIRA, ServiceNOW, Rally, Bugzilla
Project Management: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Waterfall
Security Assessments
SSH and SFTP Protocols Management
SSL Implementation - Web Servers
PGP Encryption
Firewalls (RedHat IPTables)
Virus Protection Software
PCI Compliance
SOX Standards
Installation & Configuration of VMWare's
Virtual Infrastructure vSphere v5
vCloud Director v15 (ESX/ESXi, DRS, HA, VMotion)
Xen & KVM hypervisors
C
C
C#
NET
Java J2EE
Perl
Python
JavaScript
Oracle
Sybase
MySQL
MSSQL
RDS
DynamoDB
RedShift
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Domainexposure
- Gaming
- SAN Storage
- Financial Services
- ERP
- CRM
- HealthCare
- Oil & Gas
- Mobile & e-Commerce
Awards
- Received award for migrating more than 300 apps & exceeding target for FY2017
- Received recognition for productizing TivoliPlus module for EcoTOOLS
Personal Information
Citizenship: US Citizen
Timeline
CTO
Unisys
05.2024 - 11.2024
Enterprise Architect
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2022 - 05.2024
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect
ASRC Federal
07.2021 - 07.2022
Principal Consultant, Cloud Business Consultant
Param Solutions
07.2019 - 06.2021
Director of Infrastructure
ADP India Private Ltd
08.2018 - 04.2019
MS - Petroleum Engineering
Louisiana State University
BS - Chemical Engineering
National Institute of Technology
MS - Computer Science
Louisiana State University