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Certification
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AARAV CHOPRA

Technical Lead
Pathankot,Punjab
AARAV CHOPRA

Summary

Dynamic, Creative and Results-driven Technical Lead with 12+ years’ experience & excellent communication and problem-solving skills. Ability to keep abreast with emerging trends in the changing field of Information Technology. Demonstrated ingenuity in troubleshooting technological issues with the resources at hand in timely manner. Ability to work independently and as part of a team along with superior multi-tasking skills. Looking towards contributing to society in Field of Virtualization and Cloud Support.

Overview

12
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education
6
Certifications
3
Languages

Work History

Tech Mahindra
Pathankot, PB

Project Lead
09.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Implemented best practices in documentation management systems that improved efficiency, accessibility, and security of project-related information.
  • Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
  • Reported regularly to managers on project progress and technical problems.
  • Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, Consultants, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end Infrastructure delivery process.
  • Mentored junior developers, providing guidance and support to accelerate their professional growth.
  • Oversaw migration of legacy systems to modern platforms, enhancing system scalability and performance.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
  • Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
  • Validate powershell scripts created for Automating workflow by going through the code to find any improvements areas and suggest.

Cohesity Storage India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
07.2022 - 07.2023

Job overview

  • Worked on Cohesity Backup, Restore and Archival Solutions like Data Protection, Cloud Backups, Smartfiles & Site Continuity for DR sites.
  • Worked on Hardware replacements of the Nodes and its components along with upgrading the firmware and Cohesity Software.
  • Cloud platforms has been leveraged to do Cloud Data Archival using Smartfiles in Cohesity. Along with popular on-prem HCI solutions connected with Vmware and Nutanix.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment maintaining respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
  • Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility closing 40+ cases monthly with NPS of more than 96%.
  • Identified issues via microservices details, analyzed error logs and provided solutions to problems taking advantage of tools like Siren, Putty, Terminal, Vi Editor, Cloud Helios Analytics.
  • Worked directly with Engineering team leading to issue solutions and bug findings after which providing RCA and Hotfixes to resolve issues.
  • Hands On Experience using Jira, Confluence, Slack, Salesforce Lightning.
  • Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • Provided professional services and support in dynamic work environment.

Citrix R & D India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore

Lead Citrix Support Engineer
04.2014 - 06.2022

Job overview

  • Work on Citrix ADC Netscaler Gateway and Load Balancing issues.
  • Work on Citrix Cloud CAVD issues.
  • Floor Support, Training and Mentoring Engineers and create KB articles.
  • Worked on 8-10 cases per day with 50% FCR resulting with NPS 90+%
  • Worked on Citrix Cloud Services, FAS, SAML Authentication.
  • Worked on Citrix Provisioning and MCS Environments.
  • Design small medium environments for customers.
  • Implement installation and configuring All Citrix Products.
  • Configuring/Troubleshooting Citrix Policies, Profiles, Printers, PVS, Performance related issues..
  • Worked on Active Directory, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP, Network Drives, Remote Desktop Services/ Licensing Issues.
  • Established New AD Environments for Small Medium Enterprise.
  • Creation/Troubleshooting on Certificates/SSL/Security/Site Management.
  • Worked on Windows Networking issues with Slow Performance.


Convergys (Now Concentrix) India Pvt. Ltd.
Gurugram

System Engineer
02.2012 - 06.2013

Job overview


  • Worked on Active Directory, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP, Network Drives, Trusts Remote Desktop Services/ Licensing Issues.
  • Established New AD Environments for Small Medium Enterprise. Managed 7-10 cases per day and resolving approximately 50% FCR.
  • Training & Mentoring new engineers as floor support.
  • Performed Backup and Recovery for servers.
  • Worked on Windows Networking issues with Slow Performance.
  • Analyzed High CPU, Memory, Disk Usage on servers. Troubleshoot Issues to find RCA and Implement it on Environment to Prevent it from occurring again in future.

iYogi Technical Services Pvt. Ltd.
Gurugram

Technical Sales Executive
05.2011 - 12.2011

Job overview

  • Worked in Dell on Call (DOC) Process.
  • Helped home users of Dell PC and Laptops with technical issues.
  • Worked on Selling Subscriptions for Support on yearly basis.
  • Helped in giving the first hand experience to the new Laptop owners by explaining them with how to use the product.

Education

Lovely Professional University
Jalandhar, India

Bachelors' of Technology from Computer Science
08.2006 - 08.2010

University Overview

GPA: 6.8/10

Skills

Azure Cloud IAM

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Certification

• Azure Identity Access Management Certified (SC-300)

Accomplishments

  • Received Scholarship for EC-Council C|CT
  • Received Performance Awards in multiple years
  • Completed 5 Years Citrix Award
  • Promoted as Lead Citrix Engineer in 2018
  • Promoted as Senior Citrix Engineer in 2016

Software

Citrix CDF Control

Microsoft Sys-internals

Wireshark

Putty

WinSCP

MS Office

MacOS

Vi Editor

Salesforce Lightning

Atlassian Jira

Zoom/Teams/Slack/WebEx

Interests

• Solo Travelling

• Watching Informative Videos

• Hitting Gym

Timeline

Project Lead

Tech Mahindra
09.2023 - Current

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cohesity Storage India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2022 - 07.2023

Lead Citrix Support Engineer

Citrix R & D India Pvt. Ltd
04.2014 - 06.2022

System Engineer

Convergys (Now Concentrix) India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2012 - 06.2013

Technical Sales Executive

iYogi Technical Services Pvt. Ltd.
05.2011 - 12.2011

Lovely Professional University

Bachelors' of Technology from Computer Science
08.2006 - 08.2010
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