Experience

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  Clientlogic

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Support engineer
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  Hp

  May 2006 - May 2007

  Support engineer

  •IT support for Microsoft Internal Employees. Providing remote network support•Handled Networking, Operating system, Messaging (Exchange) issues•Networking - SSL VPN, LAN, and Wireless, Domain issues, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS issues, Remote Desktop issues, Downloading windows Updates, office updates and applying the latest security patches to servers•Operating System - General operating systems, file shares and Internet explorer, Remote Installation (RIS), file servers. Supported Windows Vista and Office 2007 Show less

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  Vmware

  May 2007 - Feb 2022

  * Provide design, architecture, and implementation guidance to customers based on the VMware Software-Defined Datacentre (SDDC) solution stack – Technologies including VMware vSphere, NSX, vSAN, VMware Log Insight, VMware vCloud Director, VMware Openstack, VMware SRM, VMware TKGi (PKS), vSphere with Kubernetes (Tanzu portfolio). * Implementing and integrating storage (CSI) and network (CNI) plugins with Tanzu Kubernetes* Container Networking solutions using NSX container networking (NCP) and open-source container networking solutions - VMware Project Antrea* Collaborate with Customer Success teams on defining customer success plans that take into consideration the customers business and technical priorities, identify gaps and risks, and deliver on tangible outcomes as the success criteria.* Run architecture/discovery workshops to determine current-state, business, and technical requirements and outcomes and define pathways to achieve desired outcomes* Provide VMware NSX Design/Implementation guidance to customers and partners with extensive experience delivering SDN solutions based on VMware NSX, network virtualization capabilities including distributed logical switching and routing, Load Balancers, L2/L3 VPN, and micro-segmentation with NSX distributed firewall * Build and deliver deep-dive ‘201/301’ enablement content around new product features* Delivery of VMware NSX enablement sessions to customers, partners and the VMware field teams in the APJ region* Provide guidance to customers on migrating from NSX-V to NSX-T* NSX automation with REST API, Terraform, Ansible and PowerShell. Solutions using Ansible and Terraform to deploy and build NSX logical topologies* VMworld sessions - Container Networking with Antrea (VMworld 2020) Show less - Subject matter expert for vSphere, vCloud Director, VMware SRM, NSX and VMware OpenStack- Develop and deliver deep dive training - Cross functional bridges lead for SRM, vCloud Director and NSX Plan Support Readiness Participate in release management meetings starting from Phase 0 of the product. Contribute supportability features to the product. Communicate customer/field pain points to product development and product management. Product trend analysis. Nominate customer critical bugs into product releases. - Analyze and troubleshoot existing vSphere implementations. Fine tune vSphere implementations for optimal performance.- Root cause analysis- Develop technical professional development programs- Report bugs and product enhancements to product engineering teams - Extensive participation in VMware Beta programs - Collaborate with field teams to deliver Proof-of-Concepts (POC) and Product Implementation Show less

  • Staff Solution Architect, Customer Success

    Feb 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Staff Solutions Architect, Advance Customer Engagement (ACE)

    May 2019 - Jan 2021

  • Sr. Staff Engineer, Global Services, Network & Security BU

    Dec 2016 - May 2019

  • Staff Engineer, Global Services, Network & Security BU

    Sept 2015 - Dec 2016

  • Staff Engineer, Global Services

    May 2007 - Aug 2015
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  Www.virtual-chronicles.com

  May 2014 - Dec 2021

  Blogger

  Virtual Chronicles is a personal blog with focus on DataCenter Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing. This blog is my attempt to chronicle the technology I work with, to share my thoughts and views on technology and also to learn from the community.

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  Aviatrix

  Feb 2022 - now

  Principal solutions architect

  • Design and Implement MultiCloud networking solutions.• Project Delivery - Project Scoping, Effort estimation, producing SOWs, conducting technical workshops, requirements gathering and delivering targeted outcomes. • Creating and delivering High Level and Low Level design documents • Produce design options and options papers based on customer requirements and target state|.• Migrate customers from cloud-native network & security solutions to Aviatrix MultiCloud network platform.• Manage production upgrades and network cutovers for customers• MultiCloud network observability and monitoring. • Automating deployment using IAC (Terraform), APIs, scripting• Integrating deployment into customer DevOps model. Integrating into their CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Terraform Cloud, Azure Devops, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild)• PaaS services networking (AKS, EKS, Azure App Service)• Public cloud cost analysisSkills - AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Automation, Azure Devops, AWS CodePipeline/Codebuild, Kubernetes Show less