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Pooja Rai

Pooja Rai

Bangalore

Summary

An experienced Cloud Engineer with over five years of expertise. Proficient in Cloud FinOps, AWS services and pricing models, cloud economy, and spend optimization. Skilled in budget control, analyzing large datasets, Python, SQL queries, create complex spreadsheets in Excel. Knowledgeable with GCP console, AWS Quicksight, and cloud intelligence dashboards. Seeking to leverage these skills in a collaborative team.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer

Tec Mahindra
10.2021 - Current
  • Monitor cloud spend day to day and prepare weekly & monthly reports for review of Cloud spend
  • Collaborate, analyze, and prioritize cloud optimization recommendations and calculate potential savings
  • Provide expert knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies (e.g., rightsizing, power scheduling)
  • Ensuring optimization recommendations go through the appropriate governance process and get auctioned
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to implement cost optimization recommendations and best practices
  • Monitoring in Quick sight of Cost increase across the Account
  • Sending an alert notification mail of Account Owner Cost Anomaly Detection
  • Giving Cost Optimization recommendation to Account Owner in the bi-weekly call
  • Review coverage report of RDS instances and recommend to management on decision making for purchase of RDS instances
  • Preparing a forecast on Quarterly basis and follow-up with the Stakeholder asking the PO process initiation
  • Suggesting finance Team in invoicing process after receiving the PO from the stakeholders
  • Getting a predefined big-query and same run on GCP console to pull the data
  • Monitoring the GCP usage of service on weekly basis
  • Sending an alert notification to the Account Owner on Cost Anomaly Detection.

Customer Associate

Accenture
Bangalore
01.2019 - 09.2021

• AWS infrastructure monitoring within cloud team

• Managed daily cloud spending and drafted periodic reports

• Developed real-time cost anomaly detection system for account owners

• Configured alarms, alerts and dashboards on Cloud Watch

Education

B. Com -

Shri Sahjanand Arts and Commerce College from Gujarat University

MBA -

Sikkim Manipal University

Skills

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • SQL
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Team Collaboration
  • Customer-Centric Approach
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Efficient Data Management
  • Big Query
  • Window
  • Linux

Certification

AWS certified cloud practitioner Foundational

Personal Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Marital Status: Married

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Accomplishments

  • 3x Pat on the Back (Quarterly Award) Winner at Tech Mahindra
  • Achieving quarterly savings of 100k (20% above target)
  • Automating multiple weekly & monthly reports on excel.
  • Reducing annual compute cost by 17% by CSP & RI’s

Hobbies

  • Chess
  • Music
  • Guitar
  • Cooking
  • Travelling

Timeline

Software Engineer

Tec Mahindra
10.2021 - Current

Customer Associate

Accenture
01.2019 - 09.2021

B. Com -

Shri Sahjanand Arts and Commerce College from Gujarat University

MBA -

Sikkim Manipal University
Pooja Rai