Nithin Ravanikar

Experience

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  VXL INSTRUMENTS LIMITED

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2004

  Systems Engineer, IT Manager

  VXL INSTRUMENTS, Bangalore, India, IT Manager, 2000-2004. Supervised team of five. Managed data center, including DNS, email, cache proxy, DHCP, Windows terminal server, and Citrix metaframe. Designed and implemented strategies for security, backup/archive, version control, VPN, and monitoring. Provided support for corporate, including development teams. Maintained IT support for three clients in Singapore.EUROLINK, New Delhi, India, Systems Engineer, 1997-2000. Served as Windows administrator managing branch office in Bangalore, India. Worked as IT support team member in HQ (New Delhi, India). Show less

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  Cognizant

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2016

  Senior Cloud Manager for Enterprises, Enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect, Product Manager

  • Managed team in successfully hosting life sciences client’s proprietary application on sandbox environment in Verizon Terremark Enterprise private cloud.• Acted as AWS migration and implementation specialist lead for Hertz, managing six-member team.• Served as enterprise cloud solutions architect directly supporting all cloud vertical single points of contact for bid defense by providing architectural solutions on different cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform).• Cloud Steps framework for assess and plan, setup, migrate and manage. Assess and plan included cloud fitment assessment, migration viability assessment and roadmap.• Served as enterprise cloud solutions architect in Cloud360 group for techno-commercial pre-sales/business development. Key person directly reporting to Director and Venture Leader of Cloud Computing. • Acted as operations manager for Ask.com, overseeing team of 15 people (three on-site and 12 offshore) and supporting 250 AWS EC2 instances on AWS, including Ad platform hosting and analytics environment.• Played product manager roles.• Acted as capacity manager for IndyMac Bank, delivering capacity reports/forecasts on wide array of technologies: WAN capacity, WAN devices, storage, telecom, data center, Citrix, VMware, and systems that helped the IT team to provision infrastructure proactively for future business needs.• Worked in various consulting roles for Liberty Mutual, WaMu, and AAA.• Acted as on-site and offshore lead for MetLife, managing a team delivering application monitoring and performance analysis reports as well as capacity forecasting for 2000 distributed applications. Designed ACE capacity tool. Show less

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  Spirent Communications

  Oct 2016 - Jan 2018

  Senior Product Manager

  • Managed Cloud Portfolio.• Involved with market research on competing products.• Worked with industry analyst’s reports, strategic planning, and roadmaps.• Documented use cases and MRDs.• Defined licensing models.• Ensured sound decisions for prioritizing feature requests, enhancement requests, and bug fixes list with all stakeholders (marketing, product owners/dev, PV, and UI mockups review).• Worked in Agile iterations: feature-driven development and Scrum Sprints project management model.• Administered quarterly bugs scrub.• Standardized quick-start guides, release notes, what’s new, and known issues documents. • Coordinated MVP releases and delivered 100% of committed list to business. • Created marketing collaterals: AppNotes, datasheets, email sheets, solution briefs, and deployment diagrams.• Ensured cross BU product integration was completed to increase scope for revenue recognition. • Defined and presented AWS solution use cases with demo at 2017 AWS Re: Invent.• Worked with sales/customers for product demo and supported PoCs.• Realized $1,000,000 revenue within one year. Show less

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  TECH MAHINDRA AMERICAS INC.

  Mar 2018 - Jan 2020

  Enterprise Architect – Cloud, 2018

  • Responsible to increase Cloud business for US West coast SBU.• Successfully completed GCP courses - Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation, Core Services, Scaling and Automation, Containers and Services.• Successfully completed GCP Champion Immersion Program.• Google: Worked as TechM Team lead for partner onboarding to GCP marketplace.

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  Dexian IT Solutions

  Jan 2020 - now

  Director - Cloud Practice