Prasanna Rajayya N
Associate Principal - Architecture
Bangalore
Summary
Visionary Cloud & Technology Leader with over 15 years of experience driving enterprise cloud strategy, architecture, and digital transformation. A proven people-centric leader, adept at building and mentoring high-performing teams, fostering innovation, and aligning cloud solutions with business growth objectives. Extensive experience working with Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to establish governance frameworks, best practices, and cloud adoption strategies across enterprises. Expertise in Cloud Governance and Enterprise Architecture, with a strong track record of engaging C-level executives to shape and execute technology roadmaps. Passionate about optimizing cloud investments, driving operational excellence, and accelerating cloud adoption for Fortune 500 clients.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Associate Principal - Architecture
LTIMindtree
Bangalore
01.2018 - Current
- Cloud Practitioner & Expertise in driving the deployment of the customers’ workloads into Azure and increasing their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting the development of the customers’ cloud transformation initiatives, by providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers
- Composed holistic Cloud solutions, Service offerings addressing the business and technical challenges for various domains and supported the governance needed to implement them.
- Responsible for positioning, architecting, and guiding the implementation of technology solutions on Microsoft Azure, enterprise customer portfolio on Public Cloud with hybrid environment.
- Delivering technical sales engagements, Leading Architectural Design Sessions (ADS) and Proof-of-Concepts (POC).
- Design infrastructure architecture with best cloud design practices such as Design for Failover, Scalability, High Availability and Security
- Worked with Fortune 500 companies and managed relationships with CXOs, Senior Executives, Enterprise Architects and Senior Managers.
- Worked on several Cloud Opportunities – Proactive & Reactive responses and contributed to solutions for deals.
- Responsible for performance management, talent development, succession planning, coaching, and engagement for support team
- Holding Weekly/Monthly performance status reporting and conducting daily standup meets
- Led and mentored a team of cloud engineers and architects, fostering a high-performance culture by providing training on emerging technologies. Successfully enhanced team efficiency and innovation, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and business outcomes.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with good analytical skills in solving problem and delivering Design and Development services in a highly stressful environment.
- Managing transitions for New Projects in stabilizing them and passing it to the BAU teams.
- Successfully managed and deployed cloud infrastructure for leading Airline customer, including the design and implementation architecture.
- Led the assessment and migration of workloads to Azure, utilizing tools such as Azure Migrate, PowerShell, Zerto, Azure NetApp Files to ensure a seamless transition.
- Automated Day to Day operational tasks and established governance policies aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architect Framework.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including IT, security, and cloud services, to achieve project milestones and ensure smooth operations.
Support Engineer
Microsoft Research and Development India PVT LTD
Bangalore
07.2013 - 01.2018
- Work with Microsoft's CSS team and represent Microsoft to the customers, some of Microsoft's Enterprise customers and Gold Certified Partners, for resolving their mission critical problems.
- Have in-depth knowledge and deep technical troubleshooting skills on all versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft data Platform.
- Worked on Microsoft Networking Technologies and Protocols like DNS, TCP/IP and have troubleshooting acumen on Windows Networking.
- Work with Escalation engineers and Product team of Microsoft for resolving complex issues and identifying areas of improvement.
- Delivered timely and high-quality solutions to complex customer issues involving various cloud capabilities (Microsoft Azure, IaaS, SQL Azure, etc.), while addressing service availability, connectivity, quality, outage management, performance degradation, usage correlation, and cost-efficient solution architecture.
- Collaboration with Account and Program managers to improve customer experience Handling Premier customers from BFSI,Health and Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, Oil & Gas, telecom, Aerospace, etc. Industries across the globe while adhering to Critical Service level agreements.
- Acted as a consulting engineer for advisory cases, helping customers with architectural design questions while on Azure Data Platform.
- Mentoring fellow engineers while continuing to write articles, blogs for internal support teams.
ITDO SVC Consultant II
HP Global Soft
Chennai
01.2011 - 07.2013
- Proposed database changes to ease monitoring and administrative effort.
- Provided resources and skill sets to support DBA functions for applications.
- Established working relationships across various departments to understand existing and emerging IT requirements.
- Participated in situation management of incidents to support database operations.
- Starting/Stopping of RAC system and databases for OS Upgrading.
- Migration from older oracle version to Newer Version.
- Planning & implementation of new projects / builds.
- Refreshing VALIDATION with Production DBs.
- Daily monitoring the growth of Tables spaces on production DBs.
- Performance review of databases.
- Recovery of the database in case of corruption, instance failure, disk failure, human errors.
- Formulate & implement effective backup and Recovery strategies encompassing failover
- Interaction and Co-ordination with clients.
- Participate in customer review meetings.
- Managing the Clustered environment.
- Backup & recovery through RMAN.
- Responsibilities include monitoring information about user access, managing profiles, privileges.
- Handling user queries and issues.
Assistant System Engineer
CSS Corp PVT LTD
Chennai
03.2010 - 01.2011
- Optimized server performance by conducting regular maintenance checks and applying necessary updates or fixes.
- Stayed abreast of emerging trends in information technology.
Installed, configured, tested and maintained Database Systems. - Established backup protocols for critical data, minimizing potential losses due to unforeseen events or failures.
- Maintained accurate documentation on system configurations, policies, and procedures for future reference and troubleshooting purposes.
- Reduced downtime by proactively monitoring and addressing potential system issues.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
SRM Arts And Science College
Chennai, India 04.2001 -
P.G.D.M - Human Resources Management
Singapore Institute of Commerce
SingaporeSkills
Enterprise Cloud Strategy & Architecture: Public-cloud adoption, hybrid cloud models, digital transformation
Leadership & Advisory: Technical pre-sales, executive stakeholder engagement, team mentorship, large-scale cloud migrations
Cloud Governance & FinOps: Cost optimization, regulatory compliance, Well-Architected Framework, enterprise cloud policies
Azure Infrastructure & Compute:Virtual Machines, App Services, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage Accounts, etc
Networking & Global Connectivity:Azure Virtual Network (VNet), ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Private Link, Azure Traffic Manager
Security & Compliance Leadership: Azure Active Directory, RBAC, Zero Trust Architecture, Sentinel, Defender for Cloud
Timeline
Associate Principal - Architecture
LTIMindtree
01.2018 - Current
Support Engineer
Microsoft Research and Development India PVT LTD
07.2013 - 01.2018
ITDO SVC Consultant II
HP Global Soft
01.2011 - 07.2013
Assistant System Engineer
CSS Corp PVT LTD
03.2010 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
SRM Arts And Science College
04.2001 -
P.G.D.M - Human Resources Management
Singapore Institute of Commerce
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