Amit Kumar
Cloud Presales Head
New Delhi
Summary
15+ years of overall IT experience, specifically in optimized cloud solution design, its implementation and management.
Performed 20+ large cloud migrations, DevOps Automation, Setup microservices, performed Disaster Recovery and created GenAI-based product on infra and application security.
Given talk at multiple forums about the best practices in cloud architecture, cost optimization techniques, improving overall system performance, etc.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
11
11
Certifications
2
2
Language
Work History
Technology Head
Tekrosta Cloud Private Limited
New Delhi, Delhi
10.2023 - Current
- Heads Technology at Tekrosta
- Performed large migration of two customers consisting of 100+ workloads under AWS MAP program
- Performed modernization for few customers by implementing Microservices on containers
- Created Automated ChatBot system with natural language response using AWS BedRock for Fintech customer
- Elevated Tekrosta to AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Tier
- Earned AWS Partner Storage competency badge, Earned Amazon EC2 for Windows Service Delivery badge
- Successfully Delivered 30+ projects on time
- Started Center of Excellence department that focus on product development and innovations
- Added new services in portfolio such as DevOps, Serverless, Modernization, Disaster Recovery, Data Analytics and AI/ML
- Streamlined process for Managed Services, projects, monitoring and ticketing
- Helped to increase organization revenue by 3X by technology advancement and showcasing Tekrosta presence in multiple service areas
- Given talks at multiple platforms about cloud services adoption & strategy
Senior Cloud Architect
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2022 - 10.2023
- Part of newly formed Digital Native Department of Oracle cloud that and focused on customer acquisition for India West Region,
- Handle Oracle cloud solutions for startups and SMB industries, Design optimized and cost-effective solution for customers across healthcare, Fintech, edutech, media and banking domains,
- Bagged couple of deals with deal value close to 1 million USD and average won deal size is 300K USD,
- Presented talks about cloud capabilities & features during CloudDay customer event,
- Select methods and techniques to design non-routine and very complex business solutions utilizing Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs,
- Implement, integrate and support cloud services (e.g., Compute, Network, Kubernetes, Database, etc), Engineer, architect, or support cloud IaaS/PaaS solutions,
- Provide solutions with respect to OCI distinctive services like APEX, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Analytics, MySQL HeatWave, Autonomous DB, etc,
- Execute discovery workshop with customer to capture their landscape, requirement and technical challenges, Presentation of infrastructure, network and security design to customers to address their requirements,
- Handle and manage the implementation/Integration activities based on executive solution designs,
- Align cloud partners to work on opportunity for cloud migration/implementation and managed services,
- Migrate applications using re-factor migration methodology where a monolithic application was translated into micro-service based architecture and hosted on oracle cloud
Senior Solutions Architect
Rapyder Cloud Solutions
10.2021 - 06.2022
- Heads Rapyder SMB Solution Architects team, Train and mentor team to create optimized and robust solution to cater customer's business needs, Submitted proposals for 50+ customers, Proposal to deal win ratio > 70%, Perform requirement gathering and workshop with customer, Design AWS solution to solve customer business problem, Solution presentation in front of IT heads, CXOs, SOW creation for migration, DevOps, Modernization, Managed Services etc, Carry out POCs to provide demonstration of AWS service capabilities for specific customer needs, Acquire certifications as per organization requirement, Involve in inter departmental key people to ensure smooth processing of cloud transactions, Migrated almost 200+ Servers and Database server using Cloud Endure, Server Migration Service & Database Migration Service, Drive the production deployment architecture, security and CI/CD design, Create bill of materials (BOM), Setup DR as per the customer requirement, Have hands-on experience on AWS Security Service: IAM, AWS Config, Cloud Trail, WAF, KMS, Create and manage EKS cluster, ECS clusters, Maintain Cloud security of customer Environment, Provide solutions for Migration (database, VM) from Cloud to cloud, On-prem to Cloud, Create case studies, blogs and upload it to Rapyder Portal, Create CI/CD pipeline and integrate with github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc repositories, Perform Well Architected Review (WAR) to optimize customer's environment according to AWS Five pillars of Well-Architected Framework
Cloud Architect - Presales
Wipro
03.2019 - 10.2021
- Performing on-prem to cloud migration; formulating plans, knowledge transferring, designing, implementing and supporting activities,
- Interface with project team articulating customer requirement to ensure smooth implementation of the solution,
- Create High Level and Low Level design to formulate implementation process followed by UAT for sign off,
- Understand pain areas and challenges where cloud solutions already implemented and tune them in order to use them to full of its capability,
- Create and deliver technical presentations internally and externally,
- Design Clouds Solution, Analyze business requirements, scope and converting to technical solutions via Proof of Concept (POC),
- Work on RFP/RPI for Cloud, Assessment of non-functional requirements from cloud perspective and providing recommendations as per best practices,
- Hands on experience architecting, deploying and managing cloud native solutions on AWS, Azure, Knowledge related to microservices architecture/framework /Cloud native Application,
- Automation of cloud Infrastructure through Terraform Scripts for AWS/Azure cloud providers,
- Design continuous integration and delivery pipelines using latest tools and platforms,
- Working knowledge of Monitoring Tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, EFK stack, Jaeger,
- Working Knowledge of deploying various Applications on Kubernetes and Istio (Service Mesh) via Jenkins
Cloud Architect - Presales
TCS
11.2012 - 03.2019
- Performing on-prem to AWS cloud migration; formulating plans, knowledge transferring, designing, implementing and supporting activities,
- Supervising architectural discussions with client for solution designing to cloud deployment; aiding in generating cloud architectural standards,
- Planning AWS system architecture & presenting to Executive Management, Identifying & deploying right AWS IaaS, PaaS & SaaS services as per the needs of the customers, Creating:
- NACLs, Route Tables, Security Groups, WAF as per cloud security standards
- Cloud formation stacks & store as template for infrastructure deployment
- Design Active Directory structure and integrating with AWS, Developing & applying cloud security standards by collaborating with individual teams,
- Creating service catalog for cloud resources,
- Applying principle of least privilege for AWS access; implementing API gateway to secure cross zone traffic and migrating Non-SAP e-commerce application to AWS,
- Providing & designing cost effective AWS solution through selection of right size services for capacity & forecast instance needs, utilization,
- Use spot market and archive less frequent used data to glacier,
- Interacting with potential clients to gather technical & business requirements in cloud space and mapping for respective services,
- Designing response to customer RFP proposals & communicating with Account Teams for submission, Executing EC2, ELB, S3, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda & Elastic BeanStalk AWS services,
- Implemented Security Audit Trails for API access in AWS, Service & Commitment Award in Nov 2015 & Nov 2017,
- Established highly available & scalable enterprise solution for a financial firm,
- Successfully using AWS migration tools such as Database Migration Service, Storage Gateway & third-party tool like CloudEndure to migrate data from on-prem to cloud,
- Smiles Award for Beyond Performance Awards in Jul 14, Oct 2014, Nov 2014, Jan 2015, May & July 2016 and Jan 2017
Education
B.Tech. - Information Technology
USIT, GGSIPU
PGDBM - Information Systems
IMT-CDL
Skills
Microservices Architecture
Cost Management
DevOps
Artificial Intelligence Principles
Problem-Solving
Technology Integration
Process Improvement
Disaster Recovery Planning
Certification
2024, AWS Security Specialty
Talks And Events
- 2024, CIO Conclave on AWS Migration & Modernization
- 2024, Webinar on AWS Serverless
- 2023, Session on Cloud Readiness & Adaptability
- 2023, CTO Talk on Benefits of Cloud Services
- 2023, Session on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Overview
- 2022, Talk on Cloud Security Posture
Personal Information
- Passport Number: G9198239 (Visa - Valid Visa of United Kingdom)
- Date of Birth: 08/29/87
Awards
- Under my technology leadership, Tekrosta earned best emerging partner of the year award
- Performance Award at Rapyder for Maximum number of Deals Won
- Best Tools Architect Award for successfully completion of Transition & Transformation program
- ENU Excellence Award Q2 & Q3 for outstanding contribution
- Received an achievement momento by an engineering college for presenting IT transformation ideas
- ACE award for successfully delivering monitoring project
- Employee of the quarter award for showcasing exemplary performance in project execution
Accomplishments
- Under my technology leadership, Tekrosta earned best emerging partner of the year award and moved to AWS Advanced Tier
- Performance Award at Rapyder for Maximum number of Deals Won
- Best Tools Architect Award for successfully completion of Transition & Transformation program
- ENU Excellence Award Q2 & Q3 for outstanding contribution
- Received an achievement momento by an engineering college for presenting IT transformation ideas
- ACE award for successfully delivering monitoring project
Employee of the quarter award for showcasing exemplary performance in project execution
Affiliations
- 2024: AWS Security Specialty
- 2024: AWS Developer Associate
- 2022: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Level Certification
- 2022: Migration Ambassador Foundations 2021
- 2021: AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation
- 2021: AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical)
- 2021: AWS Partner: Accreditation (Business)
- 2018: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level Certification
- 2018: Cloud Computing (General)_Foundation (Digital)
- 2018: Amazon Web Services - IT IS Advanced (Digital)
- 2013: ITIL 2011 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management Certification
Timeline
Technology Head
Tekrosta Cloud Private Limited
10.2023 - Current
Senior Cloud Architect
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2022 - 10.2023
Senior Solutions Architect
Rapyder Cloud Solutions
10.2021 - 06.2022
Cloud Architect - Presales
Wipro
03.2019 - 10.2021
Cloud Architect - Presales
TCS
11.2012 - 03.2019
B.Tech. - Information Technology
USIT, GGSIPU
PGDBM - Information Systems
IMT-CDL