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Hi, I’m

Banuchandar E

Customer Engineer 2
Hyderabad,TG
Banuchandar E

Summary

Seasoned IT professional with over 14 years of experience in Azure cloud technologies, specializing in solution design and seamless migrations from on-premise to Azure cloud environments. Demonstrated expertise in ensuring load balancing, high availability, and robust security measures. Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Azure Data Technologies including MS-SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Proven track record of success working with top multinational corporations including Wipro, Mindtree, Tata Consultancy Services, and currently contributing as a key member of the Engineering team at Microsoft. Adept at driving innovative solutions and delivering exceptional results in dynamic and fast-paced environments.

Overview

15
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education
4
Certifications

Work History

Microsoft

Customer Engineer 2
3 2020 - Current

Job overview

  • At Microsoft, being a part of Azure Engineering team.
  • My job is to improve Azure products and supportability.
  • Involved into various technolgies such as Azure Compute, Storage, Networking, Azure DevOps(CI/CD), Azure Data (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
  • Identified multiple product bugs and worked with core product developers for a fix.
  • Hands on experience with Linux distributed Operating systems such as RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu.
  • Interacting with stakeholders and customers for the Design, Assessment and Review calls to prepare a plan
  • Consulting customers with Cloud adoption and Cloud optimization frameworks.

TATA Consultancy Services

Azure Architect
05.2018 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Leading a Disaster Recovery Project as an Azure Solution Architect, offering solutions on Design and Implementation
  • Defining cloud network architecture using Azure virtual networks, VPN and express route to establish connectivity between on premise and cloud
  • Conducting current state assessment of infrastructure framework to identify gaps and recommend solutions, leveraging assessment results to enhance existing framework designed strategic solutions for owners and preparing design documents
  • Preparing in depth cost analysis and estimated target time to achieve the project goals, and explaining them to client and internal counterparts for Proposal/SOW discussions
  • Developing PowerShell scripts/runbooks to automate the human interventions.

Mindtree

Technical Expert
09.2014 - 05.2018

Job overview

  • Worked as a Subject Matter Expert and Mentor to a team with 70+ associates and Offered solutions to global customers on behalf of Microsoft in resolving their issues on Azure Cloud
  • Extremely good at Performance(Storage) tuning, VM Migrations, Designing Scale-sets and AV Sets, troubleshooting VM RDP issues, Network design, NSG and Load Balancing
  • Basic Automation using PowerShell, DSC extensions, Custom Script Extension and JSON
  • Expert in Storage(Managed Disks, Storage accounts, FileShare services, AzCopy, Storage Explorer, IOPS calculation & Optimization), Networking(Vnet/Subnetting, Site-2-Site and Point-2-Site, Load balancing, NSG, and Traffic Manager), VMs and Deployments(Scale-sets, Availability-sets, VM Customization/Generalization, Alert Configuring and Monitoring, and HUB), Migrations(Azure to Azure, ASM (Classic) to ARM, Manual Migration using AzCopy/PowerShell, ASR Migrations), Other tools(RBAC custom rules, KeyVaults, VM Encryption, Azure AD, JSON, Power-CLI, and Azure APIs).

Sify Technologies

Systems Engineer
05.2012 - 09.2014

Job overview

  • Designed and implemented VMware clusters, DRS/HA, vMotion, vSwitches, RDM, FC iSCSI data stores
  • Implemented and monitored fault tolerance utilizing High Availability HA , Distributed Resource Scheduling DRS
  • Troubleshooting AD, DNS and DHCP issue
  • Configuring Windows Failover Clustering
  • Patching all the Machines using Shavlik Tool.

PrimeAccess Technologies

Desktop Support Engineer
12.2009 - 05.2012

Job overview

  • Taking care of all Data Centre Operations as a site engineer at client location “WIPRO Technologies”
  • Mounting, Deploying, Configuring and Hardening the servers
  • Participating and Performing Disaster Recovery Operations
  • Taking care of Site Security compliance for the entire site of 5000 computers and handles 35+ Symantec Anti-Virus Servers and attending all internal audits.

Education

Kakatiya University, Karimnagar
Karimnagar, India

Bachelor of Science
08.2005 - 05.2008

Skills

Azure: Design, Migrations, Planning, Consulting and Advisory

Certification

Certified in 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Accomplishments

Received honorable award of 'The Best Performer of the Year' at Mindtree

Languages

English
Telugu
Hindi

Timeline

Azure Architect

TATA Consultancy Services
05.2018 - 03.2020

Technical Expert

Mindtree
09.2014 - 05.2018

Systems Engineer

Sify Technologies
05.2012 - 09.2014

Desktop Support Engineer

PrimeAccess Technologies
12.2009 - 05.2012

Kakatiya University, Karimnagar

Bachelor of Science
08.2005 - 05.2008

Customer Engineer 2

Microsoft
3 2020 - Current
Banuchandar ECustomer Engineer 2