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Associate Google Cloud Engineer, Leadership Google
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Lakshay Munjal

Lakshay Munjal

GCP Cloud Consultant/Product Manager

Summary

Strongly talented and experienced with 8 years of experience and vast knowledge in Google Cloud Platform, PostgreSQL and NoSQL database management systems. Dedicated Cloud Consultant with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

GCP Product Manager

KRONOS INCORPORATED, UKG
01.2020 - Current
  • Define and manage SaaS product platform requirement for Kronos Workforce Dimensions. Own product features and roadmap from conceptualization to release and manage communication channel across different stakeholders
  • Create detailed requirements artefacts like business cases, Product requirement documents (PRD), user stories and tasks for development team in Atlassian JIRA
  • Work with product architects and development managers, conduct product demonstrations to stakeholders including cross functional teams like Professional Services, Marketing, Solution Consultants, Development, and sales partners like ADP, etc
  • Work with cross-functional teams (including Support, Services, Sales and Marketing) to define clear requirements and readiness deliverables that ensure an exceptional SaaS customer experience
  • Define and implement metrics and alerts for my services to drive best customer experience and supportability
  • Working with multiple project teams (Technology, UI/UX, QA etc) to design, develop, test and implement high quality functional solutions
  • Managed team of employees, overseeing hiring, training and professional growth of employees.
  • Root-cause analysis using Splunk monitoring tool to fetch GCP logs
  • Reduce downtime risk of Customer applications by proactively updating hosting instance configurations such as disks, storage space, memory and others
  • Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
  • Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
  • Spearheaded collaborative efforts to bring products to market.
  • Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
  • Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
  • Consulted with buyers to determine projected demand for products and services.
  • Reviewed new opportunities to drive business strategy at planning sessions.

Cloud SQL

KRONOS INCORPORATED, UKG
02.2018 - Current
  • Designed a four node PostgreSQL cluster on Cloud SQL which was running on a three-nodes cluster base
  • Introduced a node which will be 24 hours behind the master node, keeping the synch as well as asynch as it is
  • Helped solve the customer pain point and the in-house problem where the master node goes off, but the data can still be retrieved from the 24 hours behind node
  • Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations with ease.
  • Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins.
  • Manage the DR nodes linked with every Production database of each region, respectively
  • Creating the virtual machines via Compute engine according to the client requirements, using Cloud Storage to upload and download the files as per the customer needs
  • Using Cloud Storage snapshots to fetch out the backup taken for Cloud SQL instances according to different customer and projects
  • Reduce downtime risk of Customer applications by proactively updating hosting instance configurations such as disks, storage space, memory and others
  • Creating buckets under the Cloud Storage be it JPEG and others, or Linux requirements as per customer needs

GCP Data Migration

UKG
02.2018 - Current

Migrated the data from on-prem to GCP for the fortune 500 companies of the world.

Assess, plan and migrate applications from on-prem to Google Cloud

Create documents of prioritization of what needs to move from on prem to GCP

Use GCP startazone to assess the on-premises infrastructure

Take dumps of data on premise and create a link for there migrations

Create buckets and new Cloud SQL instances for the data to migrated from on-prem to GCP.


BigQuery Engineer

KRONOS INCORPORATED, UKG
02.2019 - Current
  • Designed a 6 then 12 and now a 24 nodes cluster of Cassandra
  • Designed it to support the punches we received for every customer
  • The Big-table database or this no-SQL database is so high performing that using it with the application
  • Spark made us save any kind of data be it punches be it normal or be it digital data of the customer and that too on a speed which only a 24 nodes cluster can handle it
  • Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
  • Manage the six node of Cassandra Database cluster (in some case 12 and even 24 node each) hosted across the world (i.e., US, Canada, Australia, Europe) for various customers

Senior Analyst

HCL TECHNOLOGIES
08.2014 - 01.2017
  • Collaborated with client/business stakeholders for Requirements walk through session
  • Analysed the requirements, Identified & prepared functional scenarios of the requirement
  • Designed test cases along with creation of test data for testing the functionality and Execution of the test cases of the entire configuration and its integrated systems
  • Worked with development team and business partners to discuss and solve issues
  • Interacted with client/business stakeholders for daily status reporting/weekly status reporting
  • Prepared training material and documentation related to the projects and supplied a post- delivery demo session to the clients

Education

Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronics & Communication

Chitkara University, Chandigarh, India
06.2010 - 05.2014

Skills

PostgreSQL

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Associate Google Cloud Engineer, Leadership Google

  • Fortune 500 Migration
  • Migrated the data of several fortune 500 customers from on-prem to GCP
  • Assessed data using Google stratozone to get more clarity as well as priority to which service and data needs to be moved first
  • Taken dumps on the on-prem side and then moved them to the cloud side by creating buckets on the cloud
  • Imported the data at their respective Cloud SQL instance., Lead a team of 6 Cloud ability people (especially Cloud SQL)
  • Created SOPs for them which were praised by the senior leadership and used firm wide till today itself
  • Lead 3 independent projects designed them, and show cased it to the senior leadership and stakeholders
  • Trained even my level up people on the technical aspects of how the tech works in our environment
  • Demonstrated experience of conducing onsite business process reviews and requirement gathering sessions with client sponsors and stakeholders in India, USA, Australia, Canada, Europe region.

Timeline

GCP Product Manager - KRONOS INCORPORATED, UKG
01.2020 - Current
BigQuery Engineer - KRONOS INCORPORATED, UKG
02.2019 - Current
Cloud SQL - KRONOS INCORPORATED, UKG
02.2018 - Current
GCP Data Migration - UKG
02.2018 - Current
Senior Analyst - HCL TECHNOLOGIES
08.2014 - 01.2017
Chitkara University - Bachelor of Engineering Technology, Electronics & Communication
06.2010 - 05.2014
Lakshay MunjalGCP Cloud Consultant/Product Manager