Srinivasa Rao Thumala
Austin
Summary
I am a Multi-Cloud certified professional with over 20 years of IT experience working across multiple Infrastructure technologies. My work includes several fortune 500 companies where I led several projects from inception to successful completion by maintaining high quality standards. I have excellent industry experience across Financial, Automotive, Semiconductor, ISVs, Telecommunications, Retail and Public sectors. I provided advocacy and strategic guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, and proactively keep customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy. I have experience in helping Customers migrate their workloads from on-prem to Azure and AWS.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Customer Engineer (Solution Architect)
Microsoft
01.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Microsoft is a leading global technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and devices
- Created a blog to guide Customers in choosing the right Azure Migrate appliance for migrating workloads
- Partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect and deliver complex infrastructure deployments and migrations for large enterprise customers
- Led architecture design and implementation for multiple ISV customers, driving innovation and scalability
- Work with customer application, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to define requirements, strategy, and processes for successful migrations
- Provide direct feedback from customers to Azure product engineering teams to drive product improvements or escalate blocking issues
- Partner with Azure Engineering domain experts to scope, build, and document customer solutions
- Maintain knowledge of the latest on Azure/Cloud innovations in order to conduct experiments, drive product improvement, and act as subject matter trainer for other specialists
- Interact daily with other FastTrack Engineers to provide technical action plans or take ownership of situations that require escalation
- Share knowledge with others through solution documents, engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions and create training
- Microsoft is a leading global technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and devices
Solution Architect - Migrations
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
- Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
Cloud Technical Account Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
09.2019 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
- Working closely with customers (C-Level Executives and Directors) and Partners in developing relationships that will allow them to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS
- Defining and executing on the technology migration strategy by engaging highly technical teams within AWS (other Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners)
- Assessing migration feasibility, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components
- Engaging with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations teams at a customer(ISVs) and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration
- Working with large scale networks, compute and storage architectures and assisting customers and other Solution Architects devise best practices
- Soliciting feedback from Enterprise customers and influencing future iterations of the AWS platform and Migration Acceleration Program
- Expert level technical acumen, including the ability to understand the customer or partner IT landscape, identify opportunities and overcome any technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of AWS platform in conjunction with business requirements
- As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications to the AWS platform
- Have educated customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Work closely with AWS product development teams to share customer feedback and influence roadmap
- Have provided detailed Management Business Reviews in doing Financial analysis, Operational Analysis and Case Metric analysis to customer leadership
- Working with customers / partners during their major launches as their single point of escalation for their technical issues
- Troubleshoot technical issues and drive issue escalation with AWS Service teams
- Provide Customers recommendations on how new AWS offerings fit in the company architecture
- Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
Azure Architect
IBM
01.2011 - 09.2019
- Company Overview: IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company, known for its hardware, software, cloud-based services, and cognitive computing
- Experience in architecture, design and development of complex solutions for enterprises
- Have experience in Architecting and implementing different VDI and Azure solutions for different customers
- Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer
- Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets
- Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DNS settings, security policies and routing
- Have experience in migrating Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008 / 2012
- Involved in documenting some key process such as Installing, configuration and troubleshooting
- Experience in Architecting VDI Solutions for customers
- Provide capacity planning, performance optimization design and implementation of new server requirements, server reduction initiatives
- Have used VB and PowerShell scripting for automating some manual tasks
- Designed, developed, implemented, troubleshooting, and managed large-scale, distributed applications
- Performed system administration in a Windows and Linux environment and conducted computer networking, scripting, and automation
- IBM is a multinational technology and consulting company, known for its hardware, software, cloud-based services, and cognitive computing
Sr. Citrix Administrator
CNSI
02.2009 - 02.2010
Citrix Consultant
Technologies Consultants
07.2008 - 01.2009
Windows System Administrator
Texas Instruments
02.2006 - 06.2008
Systems Engineer
Sify Limited
06.2005 - 02.2006
Windows System Administrator
St. Peters College
01.2003 - 01.2005
Education
Bachelors - Information Technology
University of Madras
Skills
- Azure VMs
- EC2
- RDS
- Azure Migrate
- Azure File Sync
- AWS Application Migration Service
- Active Directory services
- Azure AD
- AWS Managed AD
- Powershell
- CloudFormation
- Azure DNS
- Route53
- Azure Monitor
- CloudWatch
- Azure Backup
- ASR
- AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- Appsense
- Citrix Xendesktop
- AWS WorkSpaces
- AppStream
- VMware VirtualCenter
Certification
4, 2, AWS, Azure
Timeline
Sr. Customer Engineer (Solution Architect)
Microsoft
01.2022 - Current
Solution Architect - Migrations
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
06.2021 - 01.2022
Cloud Technical Account Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
09.2019 - 06.2021
Azure Architect
IBM
01.2011 - 09.2019
Sr. Citrix Administrator
CNSI
02.2009 - 02.2010
Citrix Consultant
Technologies Consultants
07.2008 - 01.2009
Windows System Administrator
Texas Instruments
02.2006 - 06.2008
Systems Engineer
Sify Limited
06.2005 - 02.2006
Windows System Administrator
St. Peters College
01.2003 - 01.2005
Bachelors - Information Technology
University of Madras
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