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

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      Schooling Mathematics
    • University of Cologne Business School

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      Executive MBA Business Administration and Management, General

      Executive 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

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      Executive MBA Business Administration and Management, General

      Executive 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

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      Summer Exchange Program FINTECH, AI AND THE DISRUPTION OF FINANCIAL SERVICE

      Student 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

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      Study Trip Turning Ideas into Startup

      Activities and Societies: Turning Ideas into Startups. Learning Startup culture in Greece.

    • BUNDELKHAND INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, JHANSI

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      B.Tech Information Technology

      B.Tech. (Honours)

  • Experience

    • HCLTech

      Aug 2010 - Jan 2013
      Specialist

      Worked 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 2015
      IT Analyst

      Worked 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 2018
      Senior Consultant

      Worked 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 2020
      IT Consultant

      Worked 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 - now

      I 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 - now
      • Senior Cloud Consultant, AWS Architect and Gitlab Product Owner

        Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
      • Senior Cloud Consultant and AWS Architect

        Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • DevOps Professional

    • ITIL Foundation

    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Sept 2022
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    • Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations

      LinkedIn
      Jan 2024
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    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jan 2022
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    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jan 2022
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    • Red Hat Certified Engineer

      Red Hat
    • SuSE Certified Linux Administrator

      Novell
    • Introduction to FOCUS

      FinOps Foundation
      Jan 2024
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    • Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap

      LinkedIn
      Jan 2024
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    • Introduction to FinOps

      FinOps Foundation
      Jan 2024
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    • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

      HashiCorp
      Sept 2020
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    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Aug 2019
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    • Product Management: Building a Product Strategy

      LinkedIn
      Jan 2024
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Vijay Verma
      B. 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 Verma
      Above 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.