Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Technical Publications And Certifications
Summary Of Expertise
Certification
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Ramamohan Kandula

Lake Mary,FL

Summary

Over 15 years of IT experience as Solutions Architect involving in design, architect, and implementation of enterprise database, storage, and cloud solutions on Enterprise Hyper-Converged, Converged and Bare-metal Infrastructure for optimal performance and availability.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Solutions Architect

Konduru Consulting Services
09.2023 - Current
  • Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.

Principal Solutions Architect

Dell EMC
07.2009 - 09.2023
  • Lead Storage and Database and Cloud Solutions Architect
  • Installed and configured different Storage arrays in Datacenter and monitored and maintained continuously
  • Conducted different performance benchmarking on storages and researched storage best practices and implemented
  • Built end to end database and cloud solutions on Dell Infrastructure including Servers, Storage, Network and Backup
  • Documented reference architectures and configuration best practices as white papers
  • Build and manage Hyper-converged infrastructure solution Dell APEX on VxRail
  • Explored and researched performance practices for Oracle solution at each layer including BIOS, Storage, Network, OS and Database
  • Architected storage performance centric Oracle Ready solutions on DellEMC PowerFlex and PowerMax which will focus on Oracle customer pain points related to storage performance on DellEMC platforms
  • Researched storage performance best practices and implemented in the reference architectures and released as whitepapers
  • Involved in meetings with Sales and Tech Marketing to understand customer needs in a holistic view
  • Coached and lead the team in implementing and documenting these ready solutions
  • Hands on experience in consolidating database workloads on Dell EMC APEX environment
  • Explored and did proactive research on emerging technologies like Docker containers and Kubernetes
  • Architected end-to-end Oracle database ready solution and lead the entire reference architecture implementation with Docker and Kubernetes on DellEMC hyper-converged appliance PowerFlex using CSI Plugin
  • Built storage replication use cases using EMC AppSync
  • Configured necessary VMware infrastructure like installing ESXi, Creating VMs, creating datastores and map to the ESXi clusters/hosts and configuring Raw Device Mappings etc
  • Involved in showcasing DellEMC Database Solutions in several Internal and External forums and demos
  • Interacted with Dell Sales& Marketing for customer presentations, Demos and Sales Deals etc
  • Installed and configured Oracle 12c Multitenant container and pluggable databases with Flex Cluster and Flex ASM
  • Implemented different host-based caching technologies like Dell Fluid Cache/Fusion IO to improve Oracle database performance
  • Involved in performance tuning and testing of Oracle OLTP and OLAP databases
  • Explored different storage Backup and recovery features and used them in building complete Oracle Database disaster recovery site
  • Involved in setting up Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Database as a Service (DBaaS) using Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
  • Involved in installing, configuring, and tuning of Dell Hardware components
  • Exhibited engineering rigor to continuously test the Oracle RAC solution with the latest version of OS, OS kernel updates, driver updates and Oracle patch-sets to verify continuous functionality of Oracle RAC Solutions
  • Collaborated with Dell partner Oracle and certified Dell hardware with Oracle Linux tool kit (OLT) and Hardware certification List (HCL)
  • Evaluated performance of Oracle Solutions using Industry Standard Benchmarking Tools (TPC-C, TPC-E, TPC-H).

Software Engineer

Servion Global Solutions
06.2007 - 07.2008
  • Team Member
  • Worked on the product called 'MEDIUS' which is an outbound dialer mostly used in call centers
  • Developed frontend applications and Agent Screen pop applications and deployed the same on different hardware
  • Involved in tuning the hardware based on the load of Agents
  • Implemented this product at various sites and handled different issues
  • Designed queries in SQL to generate different load.

Education

Mater of Technology - Computer Engineering

National Institute of Technology
06.2010

Master of Science - Mathematics And Computer Science

Pondicherry University
05.2007

Skills

  • DellEMC x86 Servers: PowerEdge Rack and Modular both Intel and AMD
  • Dell EMC Storages: PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity, XtremIO, Data Domain, Compellent and Power Vault
  • Networking: Switches (Brocade, Cisco, Dell PowerConnect, InfiniBand, and Force 10), Network Cards (Intel, Broadcom), HBAs (QLogic, Emulex and Brocade)
  • Converged/Hyper-Converged Appliances: Dell PowerFlex, VxBlock,VxRail, VxRack , Dell FX2, Dell MX7000,Dell EMC ECS, PowerOne and Cisco UCS
  • VMware Experience

Accomplishments

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Technical Publications And Certifications

  • Author of Solution Guides and Reference architecture - [here](http://infohub.delltechnologies.com/t/solutions/oracle/)
  • Dell Compellent Certified Storage Architect
  • Associate - Information Storage and Management Version 3.0
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

Summary Of Expertise

  • Excellent expertise in the Deployment and Performance characterization of End-to- End Oracle Database configurations
  • Expertise in installing, configuring, managing, and monitoring of different servers, storage and network components
  • Benchmark and validate enterprise infrastructure such as Dell EMC Enterprise Servers, Storages and Appliances including hyper converged infrastructure (HCI)
  • Developing the best practice documents, white papers, and Reference architectures for database workloads on Dell Technologies infrastructure
  • Strong domain expertise in SAN storage technologies FC and iSCSI
  • Excellent experience in building solutions on Hyper-Converged Infrastructure such as VxRail, vSAN, PowerFlex and Nutanix.
  • Expertise and extensive hands-on experience in VMWare ESXi and vSphere
  • Extensive knowledge in using Benchmarking tools including HammerDB, Benchmark factory, SLOB, SwingBench etc.
  • Experience in consolidating multiple databases such as Oracle, MS SQL Server and MySQL
  • Expertise in assisting sales teams with pre-sales technical consultations, solution architecture design recommendations, proof of concepts, benchmarking & lab tours
  • Frequent speaker at Global and Local technical forums which includes Oracle Open World (OOW’15), San Francisco.

Certification

Azure

Timeline

Cloud Solutions Architect

Konduru Consulting Services
09.2023 - Current

Principal Solutions Architect

Dell EMC
07.2009 - 09.2023

Software Engineer

Servion Global Solutions
06.2007 - 07.2008

Mater of Technology - Computer Engineering

National Institute of Technology

Master of Science - Mathematics And Computer Science

Pondicherry University
Ramamohan Kandula