Let me introduce myself!
Guruprasad Balaji
Profile: Cloud Solutions Architect
Email: TalkToMe@guruprasad.me
Telegram: t.me/GuruprasadMe
Skills
Cloud Migration (On Premises and Muti-Region Cloud)
Storage Migration (SaS, HDD, Block Storage, Object Storage, Blobs)
Data Protection and Retention(Backup platforms and Cloud)
Automation (JSON, XML, ARM Templates & Powershell)
Databases (SQL Server, SQL Azure, MySQL)
Customer Assessment Onsite and Advicing with best practices
My Other Interests
1. Singing: This space has always been my area of Interest in exploring and always interest to “improvise” an existing version of a rendition, catch me up at Smule & YouTube.
2. Space Exploration: Space has ever been my area of free space to think/learn and understand the way of Universal facts about the celestial bodies (planets and stars) and possibility of survival, outside the earth’s atmosphere.
3. Web Designing: have been a Web Designer/Developer and upgraded to a Web Platform Evangelist, back since 2011. This area has given me lots of space to develop rich and tough designs and integrate web apps with one another and also customize frameworks in the Opensource front.
Who Am I?
I’m Guruprasad (a.k.a. GP) by people who knew me well.
What do I do (in general) ?
1. Helping customers at work, to transform their On-Premises workloads by planning, designing, architecting the technical landscape and help in migrating them with specific to limited time/cost and add value in helping them generate revenue.
2. Helping the customer’s development team in making decisions about moving their applications either by migrating or Refactoring, modernizing them, according to their needs.
3. Involve in business ideas in Technical Front, representing as a key stakeholder from the Center Of Excellence (CoE) in directing the customer in translating their ideas into implementations with less physical and more automation.
What can I do?
1. Technical Architecture & Implementation practices (based on the requirement).
2. Customer Advocacy in Technical and Business Transformation.
3. Modernizing App Deployments with Legacy and modern deployments practices.
Research and PoCs:
Ever since a decade and more, I’ve been involving in creating or helping create platforms, revenue generating ideas in the corporate businesses like,
1. Experimenting two or more platforms to aid a solution for better experiences.
2. Have customized, trial run solutions for Cloud Aggregation, Platform Integration for TelCos, have provided solution to implement Self-Service deployment of Virtual Workloads(VMs) using Hyper-V, VMware and integrated Unified Communication platforms for a domain or user specific deployments.
3. In the past, I have tried and helped run a digital radio station , VoIP based Internet telephonic solution for an SMB too.
Experience
Cloud Architect
As a technical architect and a technical advocate, helping the customer, design and implement Virtual workloads and Web Apps solution that meet their business needs and optimize their IT infrastructure.Also, also collaborate with other experts and stakeholders to ensure a smooth and successful implementation of the chosen solution.
Manager – Cloud Solutions Architect
As a Manager for Solution Architects, I lead a team of cloud solution architects who design and implement cloud-based solutions for our customer(s).
and responsible for guiding my teams (Development/Infra. provisioning and Migration) providing a shift for Brown & Greenfield deployments in developing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud architectures that meet our customer’s needs. Working inpar with Directors for innovation and automation, as required.
Platform Evangelist, Cloud Architect Consultant & Software Engineer
Working with Tech Mahindra Ltd. for more than 4yrs with different roles on Cloud solutions and Virtualizing OnPrem VMware and Hyper-V based workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud and Amazon Web Services and Cloud Brokerage based intuitive platforms to provide solution and migrate them on cloud, for the customers.
Support Engineer for a Global Backup Solution
Storage and Virtualization Analyst for Veritas(formerly known as Symantec)’s Backup Platform – Responsible in managing Servers and helping customers through researching up on backup issues with VMware, Hyper-V, Private Cloud and Storage systems like EMC, NetApp and Deduplication based storage appliances with a higher level of support.
Web Administrator
Arvita Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd (Formerly known as Emporis Software Solutions) – Web Developer – Complete End-to-End development of Planning, Designing and Developing of Web Application for business needs.
Web Administrator – Deployment, Managing Windows Servers for Web Hosting, Domain Servers too.
Working with Windows Hyper-V based machines and member servers.
Software Developer
Working at Vishwak Solutions Pvt. Ltd., as a Software Developer – Engineering the web applications in ASP.NET 3.5, Mobile Content Management Systems(CMS) for media and entertainment customers in modifying and customizing the features for their business needs.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology – an unit of Vinayaka Missions University, Chennai, India.
12th Grade
M.A.Krishnaswamy Matric.Hr.Sec.School, Chennai, TN, India.
10th Grade
M.A.Krishnaswamy Matric.Hr.Sec.School, Chennai, TN, India.