
Vijay Verma
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About me
Leadership | Cloud Advisory | Cloud FinOps Lead | Senior Cloud Consultant | AWS Architect | FinOps Product Owner | DevOps Tool Product Owner | Executive MBA | RSM & UoCBS
Education

D.A.V. Centenary Public School, Amlohri Project
-Schooling Mathematics
University of Cologne Business School
-Executive MBA Business Administration and Management, GeneralExecutive MBA with a focus on Leadership Development, Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and General ManagementMaster Thesis: "Future of Insurance in relation with autonomous driving vehicle"

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
-Executive MBA Business Administration and Management, GeneralExecutive MBA with a focus on Leadership Development, Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and General ManagementMaster Thesis: "Future of Insurance in relation with autonomous driving vehicle"

Ivey Business School at Western University
-Summer Exchange Program FINTECH, AI AND THE DISRUPTION OF FINANCIAL SERVICEStudent Exchange Program on FinTech Revolutions using IT Technologies.Won the competition (live case) to design the business strategy of "APIs in Financial Services" for Royal Bank of Canada (RBS)

Alba Graduate Business School
-Study Trip Turning Ideas into StartupActivities and Societies: Turning Ideas into Startups. Learning Startup culture in Greece.

BUNDELKHAND INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, JHANSI
-B.Tech Information TechnologyB.Tech. (Honours)
Experience

HCLTech
Aug 2010 - Jan 2013SpecialistWorked for E-TRADE (Financial Services) as a Server Administrator to manage 3000 RHEL servers. Single-handedly configured and implemented testing environments with 65 RHEL servers.

Tata Consultancy Services
Nov 2013 - Sept 2015IT AnalystWorked as Senior Server Administrator to manage 1500 SuSE Linux Servers across Production and Non-Production environments for Merck KGaA (Pharmaceutical), Germany

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018Senior ConsultantWorked for DevOps solution implementation, IT Platform Architect & Cloud Consultant for Daimler AG (Automobile), Germany.Saved € 25,000 by optimizing server resource utilization for a Project.ABCD (Above & Beyond Call of Duty) Award winner for the initiative of design & implementation of Automated DevOps Toolchain in IT Cloud. Project proposal with the potential to save € 0.1 Million per project per annum.

Evia
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020IT ConsultantWorked as DevOps and Agile Coach to implement DevOps Culture and methodologies in different projects.Worked as AWS Cloud Technical Consultant for the design and implementation of technical solutions.

GOSP - Generali Operations Service Platform
Aug 2020 - nowI work as a multi-cloud FinOps product lead & product owner, Senior cloud consultant, AWS cloud Architect, DevOps tooling Product Owner, to enrich customer cloud journeys by helping customers save costs and run optimized cloud workloads in AWS, Azure, and GCP.Working as a FinOps Lead to streamline Cloud Cost Accounting and Cost Optimization while managing multi-million $ cloud bills.Acting as Product Owner of FinOps Tooling and DevOps Tooling (GITLAB, and Sonatype Nexus). In addition to the role of Senior Cloud Consultant and AWS Architect, I took over the responsibilities of GITLAB and Sonatype Nexus applications as Product Owner.Main areas of work as Gitlab product owner was to drive the roadmap of GITLAB application across Generali to be used by 5k+ developers on the platform.Major activity was to redesign and migrate Gitlab application infra and hosting from on-prem to AWS without impacting development process. I worked as an AWS Architect and Senior Cloud Consultant to help customers with their cloud journey by consulting, designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS cloud solutions.Helping various customers with cloud infrastructure deployment as Code (IaaC) using terraform
Multi-cloud FinOps Lead, Senior Cloud Consultant/Architect & DevOps Tools Product Owner
Nov 2022 - nowSenior Cloud Consultant, AWS Architect and Gitlab Product Owner
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022Senior Cloud Consultant and AWS Architect
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Licenses & Certifications

DevOps Professional

ITIL Foundation
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
MicrosoftSept 2022 - View certificate

Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations
LinkedInJan 2024 - View certificate
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Jan 2022 - View certificate
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Jan 2022 
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat
SuSE Certified Linux Administrator
Novell- View certificate

Introduction to FOCUS
FinOps FoundationJan 2024 - View certificate

Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap
LinkedInJan 2024 - View certificate

Introduction to FinOps
FinOps FoundationJan 2024 - View certificate

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorpSept 2020 - View certificate
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Aug 2019 - View certificate

Product Management: Building a Product Strategy
LinkedInJan 2024
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Vijay VermaB. Tech. with Honors Uttar Pradesh Technical University Juni 2010 Awarded B.Tech. degree with Honors (76.62 %) in IT branch from Uttar Pradesh Technical University.
- Awarded to Vijay VermaAbove and Beyond Call of Duty (ABCD) - Awarded with ABCD award for outstanding performance in single handed development of DevOps Toolchain in Legacy Data Center and IBM PureApp cloud.
Languages
- enEnglish
- hiHindi
- geGerman
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