Panchaleswar Nayak’s Profile Summary

 

  I am an enterprise cloud architect specialised with Cloud and Big Data infrastructure with more than 17 years of experience in IT industry in Cloud(AWS, Azure, Openstack, VMware), Big Data with Converged IT Infrastructure (VCE’s VBlocks) related Pre-Sales engagements, program management of Prestigious  Converged Cloud infrastructure Programs, Solution Design and Architecting of Cloud ,Big Data, Hadoop Integration, Data Integration, Application Integration ,partner relationship management of in large and complex global IT projects. During the explosive growth of Virtualization, I managed a large specialist team and solution architects for datacentre transformation in the field of Cloud and Big Data.

 

My background and work made me a deep technical expert in cloud and big data architecture, Desktop and Enterprise hardware, Account management, resource management for information technology infrastructures, Architecting Public & Private Cloud, Big Data Infrastructure, Virtualisation, Consolidation.

 

In recent years I have used this expertise to translate technology changes into business opportunity. I have done this as a trusted adviser in my employer's largest account. And also by guiding partner's specialist teams for assisting customer's ambitious IT projects for global corporations involving IT systems implementations of IaaS, PaaS, Backup as a Service, Storage as a Service.

 

 I enjoy technology and its impact on business and individuals. I am delighted to have the opportunity to present on stage and I love being the first person to present a new technology to individuals. I like leading from the front and getting my hands dirty on new toys, both hardware and software. I believe the internet is the greatest electronics accomplishment in my lifetime but Big Data will change and surprise all of us again.

 

Summary of Qualifications

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·   Strong solution selling skills with the ability to sell at CxO level, down to technical level.

·   Architect, Designing Public (AWS, Azure) & Private Cloud Infrastructure (VMware, Openstack), DevOps, automation with Puppet & Jenkins.

·   Architected Serverless Infrastructure using Container technology including Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, AWS Lambda etc.

·   Architect, Design Big Data application and Infrastructure i.e Hadoop Cluster with EMR (Elastic Map reduce), Kinesis, Redshift, HDInsight, CloudrEra, Hortonworks, MapR products Hadoop Integration, Data Integration, Application Integration, Cassandra Distributed Database Server, with Ganglia, Nagios, Ambari etc.

·   Architecting Automation of Disaster Recovery of IT infrastructure with AWS, VMware’s SRM, EMC’s vPlex and other Software and Storage solutions, collaborate with a project team, interface with clients, and use technology to build successful solutions for clients.

·   Rich hands on Experience (VCP5, VTSP5) with VMware vSphere, Windows and Linux and Solaris, VMware vCloud Suite, OpenStack, Citrix Xen, Oracle VM, Hyper-V, Sun Solaris 10, Veritas Cluster, Windows Cluster, AD, MS SQL Server, MS Exchange and EMC Storage Technologies, Software Development Experience with C, C++, Java, JavaEE, WebLogic, WebSphere, Web Services (REST, SOAP, WSDL, SOA, BPEL, ESB).

·   Creation of Education Cloud with VSPEX and Moodle and other Applications like OpenSIS.

·   Solution Architecting of Enterprise Middleware Software (Oracle Middleware Stack), Sun Middleware Stack.

·   Lead a team of software engineers, in the Solaris software development team in Sun Microsystems India for System and Sun Server management tools (SunMC, N1SM, xVM Ops Center, Tivoli add-on, Unicenter add-on) in Solaris environment with C, Java and Java EE Technology.

·   Good Understanding with Hands-on Experience of Desktop Virtualization, VMware VDI, XenDesktop. Worked in BFSI, Telco, Retail, and Government verticals.

·   Have presented at conferences and to clients on technologies around Virtualization, Solaris, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, Java. Conducted Software Boot camps across India for VMware and Sun Server Virtualization and VDI Technologies.

IT & Software Skills – Expertise in Key Technologies in IT

 

Cloud Technology	Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, RedHat CloudForm, VMware Cloud Suite, PaaS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Heroku, SDN, NFV.
Serverless & Container Technology	MESOS, Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda etc
Big Data & IOT Technology	EMR (Elastic Map reduce), Kinesis, Redshift, HDInsight, DS, HDFS, Hive, Hbase, Pig, MapReduce, YARN, Flume, Storm, Gluster, Ambari, Hadoop Cluster Setup & Administration, CloudEra, Hortonworks, MapR, Hadoop Integration, Data Integration, Application Integration with Informatica, Talend, Splunk, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Odroid SBCs.
Data Management Technology	SAP HANA, Cassandra, vFabric GemFire, SQLFire, Oracle ExaData, DB2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server
DevOps	Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, AWS Cloud Formation
Oracle Technology	Solaris 10, Sun Solaris Zones, LDOMS, Power VM.
Citrix Technology	Xen Server, Xen Desktop
EMC2 Technology	EMC VNX Unified Storage, Isilon, Atmos, GreenPlum, VMware VSI Plugin, EMC Storage Integrator for Windows.
Converged Infrastructure	VCE's vBlock, VSPEX, IBM PureSystems, Oracle ExaData, NetApp FlexPod.
Programming Languages	C, C++, JAVA, Python, Perl, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), Struts, JSF, Django, JavaScript, HTML.
Distributed Web Services	EJB, CORBA, SOAP, WSDL, BPEL, ESB, SOA, Spring Framework.
Server Hardware	Cisco UCS, Dell, HP, IBM (x86 and Power), Sun (x86 and Sparc), Nutanix
System/Network/Enterprise Management Tools	Veritas Cluster, SunMC (RMI, SNMP), N1SM (JMX), xVM Ops Center, CA’s TNG Unicenter, IBM’s Tivoli.
Storage Administration	Sun Unified Storage, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, VERITAS Volume Manager, NexentaStor, and OpenFiler.
Linux & Solaris Internals	IPC, POSIX Thread, Device Driver, Dtrace, ZFS, Zones, SMF, GNU tools (gcc, g++, gdb, Makefile), Shell Script, Perl.
Application Servers	Weblogic, Web Sphere, JBoss, Glassfish Web Space Server, Tomcat.

 

Certification & Training

Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),2015 (mitprofessionalx.mit.edu)

 

Certifications	Trainings Attended
Mirantis Certified Administrator for Openstack	Architecting and Designing VCE's VBlock Based Solution
MapR Hadoop Cluster Administrator	Microsoft Hyper –V Administration and Configuration.
VMware Certified professional 5 (VCP 5)	AWS Technical Professional
VMware Technical Sales Professional 5 (VTSP 5)	EMC Virtualization Infrastructure and Cloud Specialist.
VMware Sales Professional (VSP 5)	Oracle VM – Administration and Configuration.
EMC Proven Professional. a.Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) b.VNX Solution Design for Technology Architects (EMCTA)	VNX Unified Storage Deployment and Management.
Isilon Certified SE Associate certification (ICSEA)
Isilon Certified Sales Associate certification (ICSA).

 

 

 

 

Relevant Work Experience

 

T-Mobile (Seattle), Sr Systems Architect, Cloud Architecture, Aug 2015 – Till Date.

 

Working at T-Mobile as a Hybrid Cloud Systems Architect with AWS Cloud Infrastructure Services and Openstack, worked with AWS, Openstack Private Cloud, Serverless Architecture with Hyper Converged Infrastructure from Nutanix and Simplivity, Mesos, Docker Containers, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, SDN, NFV, Spark, HDFS, I created the Splunk architecture on AWS.

 

Worked on T-Mobile Internal Application architecture which uses AWS services like EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, VPC, S3, RDS, EMR (Elastic Map reduce), Kinesis, Redshift, ElasticSearch etc. Worked on the AWS Automation and DevOps track to build T-Mobile’s Cloud Automation Framework using Jenkins, BitBucket, Puppet, Cloud Formation.

 

Created, Presented the Hybrid Cloud Solution Compared the TCO, ROI between AWS public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud with the help of Hyper Converged Infrastructure to the Client Management team at T-Mobile.

 

 

Syntel Inc, Principal Consultant, Cloud Practice, June 2014 – Aug 2015.

 

Working with Customers (American Express, PayPal)

Worked closely with customers on the technical requirements to provide technical solutions for various Cloud (VMware, Openstack, CloudForm, Azure) and BigData (MapR) infrastructure – Identified requirements. Migrated workload from VMware to Openstack, part of the cloud factory team which migrate the workload from private cloud to the Azure Public Cloud. I managed the Cisco relationship for Hybrid Cloud Solution (Intercloud fabric, application Centric Infrastructure). Deployed, developed and managed these infrastructures with strong relationships with strategic clients and industry partners.

 

Hadoop MapR Distribution and other Big Data technology like Hive, Hbase, Sqoop, Flume, Spark, Hadoop Integration, Data Integration, Application Integration with Splunk and Virtual Networking technology including SDN, OPNFV and DevOps.

 

Working with Sales and Marketing Teams:

Worked with the sales team to develop selling strategy within the target accounts, Create the GTM strategy from Syntel’s perspective, Created and delivered effective presentations and sales tools for the sales team.

Work with regional sales managers to provide pre/post-sales support – Worked with the sales team to design, propose, and close new deals/opportunities with customers.

Key Initiatives and Achievements:

 

Solution Architecture/designed some of the most complex solutions using the latest technology in the field of Cloud, Cloud automation including Puppet Chef, Ansible etc. Attended industry trade shows, exhibitions, seminars and training sessions to promote products and services.

 

Experis IT, Sr. Cloud Consultant, October 2013 – May 2014.

 

Infrastructure Design and Engineering Architect, Clients - Best Buy, United Health Care.

 

 I was responsible for the Overall Solution and Design Cloud and Big Data projects on Nutanix Converged Infrastructure. Responsibilities include Solution Validation, Implementation of Hadoop (Horton works) and related technologies, defining Standards, Roadmaps for the upcoming projects related to Cloud, Big Data.

 

 As a Solution Architect, I was Responsible for Solution Architecting of Private Cloud based on VMware vSphere, vCAC,vCO, Datacentre Consolidation, Server Consolidation, implementation design of Server Virtualization P2V and V2V.I was also engaged in the capacity planning exercise at client side.

 

 Also, I worked on architecting OpenStack based cloud solution for a client of Experis, I was engaged in pre-sales activities for experis for openstack.

 

Founder, BigOpenCloud.com, April 2013 – Sept 2013.

 

I founded and started working for my own company BigOpenCloud.com, here we I tried to have my own openstack distribution and Hadoop distro I created our own free and open source based Cloud and Big Data products to run on low cost commodity hardware. I dedicatedly worked on these two products.

 

  1. There was no direct GUI installer for Open stack, so I tried to create an OpenStack GUI Installer and also a Openstack distro on a pen drive so that it can be just used to boot openstack on a server. 

 

  2. A distro for creating Hadoop cluster, I created my own Virtual Appliance for Hadoop cluster which can be installed on any hypervisor and low cost hardware.

 

EMC², New Delhi, India ,Sr. Technology Consultant (vSpecialist) , October  2011 – March 2013.

 

·   As vSpecialist for EMC², India, I was Responsible for Solution Architecting of Public and Private Cloud and Big Data Solutions with VMware and VCE vBlocks.

·   I was the VCE’s representative for India for vBlocks, was involved in front ending vBlocks for customers wish to setup cloud, I was also involved in Big Data related engagements with EMC’s GreenPlum & Isilon Products, Managed Key accounts for EMC India including Top MNCs, Telecom Service providers and Govt of India.

·   Worked with Different ISV partners like CISCO, SAP to create solutions for SAP HANA.

·   As a program manager for VSPEX in India from Pre-Sales point of View created VSPEX Cloud Architecture bundles along with other Server and Technology OEM Vendor Partners, Responsible for...

·                     Awareness and Education of India Sales team (Sales + Presales), Competency building of PTC team.

·                     Driving enablement of Partner Community with help of PTC teams, Creation of vLabs Templates in a cloud environment for the VSPEX Reference architectures published.

·   Introduced VCE's vBlock for Public Cloud Service offering and Business Model for operating cost saving for a data centre for leading Telecom Operator in India, Introduced Big Data storage for an MNC.

·   Successfully persuaded govt's and universities to consider cloud model for their Education system.

·   Successfully conducted the VSPEX Private Cloud program for India which resulted in India 2nd Best in APJ. This involves creating cloud infra bundles, creating Reference Architecture, enabling Partners, Creating Demo Lab for VSPEX.

·   Enabled and trained more than 50 EMC partners in India around Cloud, vBlock and VSPEX.

·   Involved in many IT Strategy workshops; providing Cloud Related Subject Matter benefits demonstrating ROI, TCO, CAPEX, OPEX, technical benefits, road map examples etc to IT Directors with Private, Public Cloud and Enterprise Virtual Desktop as a Service(VDI)

·   Pre-Sales Demonstrations & POC: Set up of Cisco and EMC Cloud Lab for complete Cloud solution that includes, Cisco UCS Blades, EMC VNX, VMWare Cloud Suite. Setup and Demo of EMC, Cisco, VMware and Microsoft Cloud Products at EMC's vLab for VBlock, VSPEX, EMC BigData products like Isilon and GreenPlum and deliver these to Potential Customers peer SE’s, Sales and Channel partners and to develop and maintain own skills in EMC's Products.

·   Engagement with Government of India: I was involved with the Government of India on various projects on VMware, EMC and openstack based cloud platform. This includes leading the creation of a Education Cloud, developed technical POC for Education Cloud for Various State Govts and Universities.

 

HCL Technologies, Sr.Global Cloud & Virtualization Consultant , Feb  2010 – Sept 2011.

 

·   I was HCL’s Cloud Consultant for the Client’s in North America and APAC. Represented HCL for Cloud transformation projects in response to RFPs or RFIs.

·   Introduced operating cost saving for a data centre consolidation, IT as a Service Model, DBaaS with ExaData and "As a Service" Business Model for a leading Investment Bank in Australia, Retail chain in India and USA and many other customers across world.

·   As a Technical Solution Architect I worked with Big Global customers like E&Y Singapore Stock Exchange, Wipro, Tata Technologies, Persistent Systems, BMC Software, Commonwealth Bank of Australia for Virtualizing and transforming their Datacentres towards Cloud Computing.

·   Created Cloud POC Environment for HCL Clients. Lead the vBlock Initiative from HCL.

·   As OEM Partner Manager I negotiated with OEM Partners to Provide Hardware for HCLs POC environment.

·   Lead the cloud initiative and VCE vBlock from HCL to have a global POC and Demo infrastructure site based on VCE vBlock in association with VMware, Cisco UCS, EMC and NetApp.

·   Worked on the SAP HANA Architecture and Solution for HCL Customers with the Help of OEM partners like Cisco, EMC, NetApp.

·   Architecting and Creating PaaS with Spring, vFabric (tc Server, GemFire) Cloud Application Platform and VMware Cloud Foundry as a PaaS for Enterprise Cloud Application Platform.

·   Technical Implementation Architect, E&Y, SGX, Mecom etc which includes, Planning of P2V Migration. Assist in Providing Management, Monitoring and Automation solution for DC Server Migration. Assist in create backup solution/strategy. Assist in Provide server management solution. Interfacing between HCL project team and Client team from Delivery point of View. Review and provide technical Gap analysis.

·   Helping the Global Sales team to prepare and respond to RFPs for Virtualization and Cloud.

            Conducing POC for the Different VMware Products which includes vSphere 4, vCloud Director, Chargeback,

            VMware View 4(VDI), Citrix XenDesktop, Celerra, Ionix.VCE vBlocks.

·   Managing the HCL partnership with VMware, Microsoft, Cisco, EMC, Redhat at a global level.

·   Interviewing and hiring Technical Architects, L3 Level Administrators, Project Managers across the world for Virtualization, Cloud in Wintel, Linux and Solaris platform for our onsite Projects.

 

VMWARE India Pvt Ltd, Sr. Virtualization Solution Architect, July 2009 – Jan 2010.

 

·   Introduced an average 40% infrastructure cost saving to IT environment via the introduction of VMware, Oracle VM to blue chip clients.

·   Architecting Server Consolidation, Administration and Sizing for VMware's vSphere 4.0, Storage Administration and Sizing, Architecting VMware View(VDI) solution.

·   Technical Solution Architect, VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP), Support to Sales and Marketing, VMware Sales Professional(VSP)

·   Engagement with Partners, presented at Conferences, Conducted Technical Workshops, POCs for vSphere, VMware View, ThinApp and other VMware products.

 

SUN Microsystems India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, Oct 2004 -March 2009. Sr. Solution Architect

 

·   Part of Sun Software practice and Sun VDI Solution Architect, I was responsible for whole India Sun VDI Customers, Products including Sun Rays, SSGD, xVM portfolio (xVM Server, LDOM, xVM Ops Center, Virtual Box) Middleware Software Stack (Portal Server, Java CAPS a and MySQL. Conducted more than 35 POCs in a year on Sun VDI Solutions out of which 3 Big (more than 5000 Desktops) and 7 medium size (more than 500 desktops) deals were owned by Sun Microsystems.

·   Engagement with Government of India.

I was involved with the Government of India projects sponsored from Sun. Lead a small team to carry out development of sample applications on OpenSolaris and OpenOffice to showcase Sun Technology.

·   Engagement with Universities to Create Communities on Sun technology.

As an Open Source evangelist I speak regularly to Students at Indian Universities on Sun University-Days About Open Source Initiative from Sun particularly OpenSolaris and OpenOffice and NetBeans. Taught Solaris system programming in VTU-EDUSAT (satellite education) program from Sun. Conducted and participated in the FOSS from Sun, Sun Tech-Days.

      As Member Technical Staff: (Team Lead, Solaris OS Software Development)

 

Lead a team of software engineers, in the Solaris team in Sun India for Implementing enhancements, Code Level Bugs Fixing, Creating & Releasing Patches, handling alerts, performance tuning, imparting product knowledge to PTS and Customer facing engineers. Products Includes SunMC,N1SM,xVM Ops Center, SunMC connection modules for IBM's Tivoli and CA's Unicenter. Java GUI to manage the Solaris Containers (Zones), Open Solaris Project, SIP stack for Solaris.

Syntax Soft-Tech (i-Flex Solutions), Sr. Software Engineer,        April 2004 - Sept 2004

Technology used Java,J2EE, EJB, XML,JMS, Message Driven Bean, and struts, factory, proxy, singleton, Value Object, DAO, Solaris and Windows/Oracle 9i/ Websphere 5.1 App Sever.

 

Lecturer, K.S Institute of Technology                                                                May 2001 to March 2004

·               Taught and Implementation Student’s Project of the A web based Internet telephony SIP client using C++, Java and Servlet.

·               This period of time I also worked as Guest Lecturer to BMS college of Engineering, Bangalore where I Taught Operating System, OOPS using C++, Java, Computer Communication network to Students.

Apara Enterprise Solutions, Bangalore, India, Software Engineer,         Oct 2000 – April 2001

Technology Used Java, JSP, Servlets, EJBs.

Tele-Tech, Baroda, India, Software Engineer,        June 1999 – July 2000

 

 Technology Used Java Servlets and JAVA comm. API.

PHIC Telecom, Chennai, India, Trainee computer hardware Engineer,                                 Feb 1998 –June 1998

 

Educations, Publications, Presentations & Awards

·               Master of Engineering (M.E), Industrial Electronics,1999 (www.msubaroda.ac.in)

·               B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engg,1997 (www.ieindia.org)

·               Diploma in Computer Hardware Servicing and Maintenance.

·  Blogs:

https://blogs.oracle.com/pnayak/

http://panchaleswar.wordpress.com/

http://www.bigopencloud.org/blogs/

 

·  Publications :

·  Cloud

·              Installing Openstack on a Single VM using packstack ( http://www.bigopencloud.org/blogs/?p=56 )

·              How to Mount a S3 Bucket to an AWS Instance ( http://www.bigopencloud.org/blogs/?p=104 )

·              Cloud Computing Simplified. ( http://www.bigopencloud.org/blogs/?p=74 )

·              Top Threats In Public Cloud https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-threats-public-cloud-panchaleswar-nayak             

·              Learn Openstack for Free https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-openstack-free-panchaleswar-nayak

·              Creating Hadoop Plugin for Eclipse https://panchaleswar.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/creating-hadoop-2-2-0-plugin-for-eclipse/

·              CloudEra QuickStart VM vs Hortonworks Sandbox https://panchaleswar.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/clouderas-quickstart-vm-vs-hortonworks-sandbox/

·  You Tube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/PanchaleswarNayak

·  Excellence Award from Sun Microsystems