Description

Ramasamy Panchavarnam rama@ramselcloud.com
+91 94448 55167 www.linkedin.com/in/ramasamypanchavarnam
22+ year of IT experience in Solaris, Linux, Aix, Clusters
11 + years of Cloud experience in AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
Good experience in Public Cloud Transition/Transformation/Operations
Delivered Public Webinars and Published articles on Tech Magazines
Delivered Corporate Trainings to Tech-M, TCS, ATOS, Cap Gemini

Pre-Sales/Solution Architect Role

  Provide multiple approaches for migration/deployment options and recommend best approach
  Work with product team to design cloud architecture for highly automated, scalable, and secure environment
  Multiple rounds of discussion with client on negotiations of technology approaches
  Designing and Architecting HA and DR architectures for applications and platform
  Validate the Architect Design is meeting cloud security baselines as per Industry Security best practices
  POC for multiple Cloud tools for Monitoring and Cost management.
  Design optimized design patterns and solutions for high availability and

disaster recovery
  Review the solutions to ensure technical/functional requirements are met
  Provide technical expertise support regard cloud architecture, deployment,

and operations
  Understanding customer requirements, and proposing/delivering custom

solutions
  Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS/Gcloud and participate in

deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful

deployment in the cloud
  Created Knowledgebase about real world implementation challenges and new

capabilities
  Working for large Public-Sector RFP’s
  Develop installation and configuration standards and populate to Operation

Team
  Analyze RFP with Sales team to check In scope and Out scope
  Do an internal review of all solutions provided bi-weekly.
  Created GTM brochure for new Service offerings
  Designed Multi-Cloud/Hybrid-cloud designs and Tools
  Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
Cloud Tools
CloudEndure, DoubleTake, Racemi, Actifio, Datadog, Nutanix Beam, CloudCheckr, Terraform, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible,
Other Tools
NewRelic, Splunk, Logstash, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas/Sun/Linux/SUSE Cluster, NetBackup, Data Protector, Big brother, HPOM, HPOV, LDAP, Unicenter, Service Now, Nagios, Spacewalk, OCS-NG, Python, Dynatrace, PowerBI
Databases
Oracle, Mysql and Informix
Servers/Storage
Sun fire Sun E10K, 15K, 25K, M4000, M9000, Fire 6800, V880, T5200, HP ProLiant series, Hitachi Servers, V- Block, EMC Symmetric/Clarion , HP 3PAR, IBM Arrays, Sun T series and A/D series, Open Filer
Certifications
Cloud – AWS, Google Cloud, HP Helion
Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue
Migrated Mainframe workload to Cloud by using Micro Focus
Migrate Win 2008/2003 to AWS by convert to Docker images
Managed container-based services like ECS, EKS
Designing and implementing data pipelines for processing and storing large

volumes of data on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Developing and deploying data integration solutions using GCP services

such as Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Dataflow, and BigQuery.
Collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and design optimal data architectures.
Building and maintaining data transformation and processing workflows using tools such as Apache Beam, Apache Spark, or Google Cloud Dataproc
Migrated servers from On-Prem to AWS/Google Cloud platform
Review findings from security audits and provide mitigations
Setup Polycloud approach for AWS/Azure/GCP
Automated setup of Landing Zone using Infrastructure As A Code approach
Setting up multi-tier infrastructure in various regions.
Automated updating AMI’s after every production release to keep auto scaling instances in sync with latest production builds.
Secured the cloud platform using cloud native security tools
Configured AWS SSO with Active Directory and customizing roles

permissions as per the requirement.
Configuring/Securing setup of new Linux EC2 instances in AWS as per requirement.
Setup/manage CI/CD Pipeline for infrastructure delivery
Experience in Query Optimization for Aurora & other SQL Databases
Good working experience in Jira and Confluence
Proficiency with Big data tools like Hive, Elastic Search, Google DataProc
Migrated on-prem databases to AWS RDS / Gcloud SQL services
Configured Redshift with Dynamo DB
Experience in Deploy Hadoop environment at On-Premise & AWS
Defined Operation excellence policy for AWS/Gcloud resources
Deployed servers using Terraform/CFT templates
Experience in stream-processing systems like Kafka, Spark-Streaming, etc.
Proficient with data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, ability

to manipulate raw data into effective visualization dashboards.

Operating System – Solaris, Linux, Aix, Windows
Transitioned UNIX support from onshore to Offshore.
Involved in Datacenter migration.
Certifications
• AWS Architect Professional • AWS Security Specialist
• Google Cloud Architect-Prof • Google Data engineer

• Google Digital Leader
• Architecting on Azure
• Red Hat OpenStack certified • VMware VCP 5 Professional • Symantec VXVM Specialist
• ITIL Certified
• Sun System Administrator
Education
• MBA
National Institute of Management, Pune

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems BITS, Pilani
Diploma in Electronics & Communication

Sri Nallalaghu Polytechnic, Chennai
Practice History
HCL Technologies

Pre-Sales Architect
2020-2022
Life science & Health,

Retail, and Insurance

Infosys Limited
Senior Tech. Architect
2019 – 2020
Retail, and Insurance

Sify Technologies
Senior Manager – Cloud Engineering /Cloud Architect
Oct 2016 to Jan 2019
Education, Telecom,
Retail, and Insurance
Practice History
Mphasis Limited

IT Infra. Manager
Sep 2009 to Oct 2016
Telecom, Banking, and

Semiconductor

Cambridge Solutions
Project Lead/Process Lead
July 2007 to July 2009 Practice History

Computer Sciences Corporation

Team Lead – NDC India SUN Team
Dec 2005 to June 2007

Birla software Ltd.
System Analyst
Oct 2004 – Dec 2005

Cadence Design Systems
UNIX Systems Administrator
March 2004 – Oct 2004

Micro Brain Solutions P Ltd
UNIX System Administrator.
July 2001 – Mar 2004

By-Tech Computers/Login System
Trainer / Hardware / Network Engr.
Oct 1995- Jun 2001
Integrated AD & NIS Authentication
Leaded 20+ support team which include UNIX/Windows, Helpdesk,

Domino and Oracle members.
Experience with Linux cluster and Veritas clusters
Experience with various flavors/releases of UNIX (Solaris, Linux (RHEL /

Oracle / SUSE) AIX)
Scripting knowledge in KSH and BASH shell.
Migrated OS from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11
Mentor & Training Junior/Senior Systems admins.
Validate the new build server and turn over to production.
Managed Oracle RAC setup
Managed Solaris 7,8,9,10 and Red hat/SUSE/Oracle Linux.
Installation and configuration FTP and SFTP for data uploading, transfer

Managed apps servers like Oracle, Informix, SAP, Domino, Web Sphere,

WebLogic, JBOSS
Managed & configured Nagios/Big brother Server/clients
Managed Samba Shares

Virtualization – LDom, Zone, VMware, Zen, Kvm
Good knowledge and Exposure on Solaris Zones
Worked on Sun LDOM
Worked on Oracle/Sun E/M domain Servers
Working knowledge in ESXi
Created VM’s and templates
Managed Linux Zen/KVM servers
Done online CPU/RAM/Disk addition on Linux VM’s
Managed VM’s through vSphere
Migrated 100+ servers from Physical to Virtual

Process – ITIL, ISO, Lean Knowledge in Six Sigma and PMP
Worked with QA to get Certified for ISO9001:2000 and 27001:2005
Having knowledge on CMMI certification Process
Implemented ITIL and make the team 100% aligned on

Incident/change/Problem Management.
Managed internal projects which required multi-team collaboration.
Got trained in Six-Sigma Green Belt.
Got Trained in PMP.
Part of Lean team to deploy the Lean process.

Webinars Published on Techgig: –
About AWS and Azure https://www.techgig.com/webinar/speaker/Ramasamy%20Panchavarnam

Articles Published on OFY Magazine: –
OCS-NG, SpaceWalk, Puppet, Opensource Cloud Tools. https://opensourceforu.com/author/panchavarnam-ramasamy/

Skills

  • AWS
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud migration
  • GCP