Raghav Viswanathan
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced IT professional with over 10 years of industry expertise in Data Protection Architecture and Consulting. Skilled in providing strategic consulting services to optimize client business operations. Proficient in designing and implementing complex data protection and recovery solutions, as well as DevOps tools and processes. Seeking a position within the Information Technology Industry to leverage skills and abilities, with a focus on professional growth, resourcefulness, innovation, and adaptability.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consultant
Dell Technologies
01.2021 - Current
- Setting up on-prem Kubernetes clusters with accelerators for HPC/Gen-AI workloads - OpenShift/Vanilla K8s, Nvidia BCM, EKS-Anywhere
- Set up monitoring/observability stack - Prometheus/Grafana, ELK Stack
- Setting up service mesh (Istio) on Kubernetes along with Kiali/Jaeger for distributed tracing and observability
- Instrumenting applications using Open Telemetry (Python)
- Implementing Gitops based approach to manage infrastructure and deployments to Kubernetes using ArgoCD
- Helping customers implement auto-scaling using KEDA for scaling based on custom metrics
- Securing and Hardening Kubernetes clusters - CIS Benchmarking, Kubebench, Kyverno for automating cluster governance/compliance
- Designing and implementing Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions for the enterprise
Principal Engineer
Dell Technologies
01.2013 - 01.2021
- Prepare exhaustive runbooks/SoP for planned/unplanned disaster recovery drills and assist carry out Dr drills in coordination with various teams using RP4VM
- Networker Server Deployment, Upgrade and Migration
- Performing Deployment of Data Domain and Integration with backup software
- Avamar, Power Protect Appliance (IDPA) design, Power Protect Data Manager (PPDM) implementation for SQL/Oracle/Kubernetes workloads
- Backup configuration for various application like ORACLE, MSSQL, Microsoft Exchange, SAP, NDMP Integration with VMware Infra for VM Image level backups
- Troubleshooting backup failures and recovery operations
- Performance tuning of backups to improve backup window
- Preparing design documents and runbooks for customers
- Design and deploy Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) for object storage
- Perform migrations from legacy Dell Centera to Dell ECS, ECS to ECS object migrations
- Design and Implement Dell Cyber Recovery Solutions leveraging Cyber Recovery and Cyber Sense software
- Deploying and Integrating Data Protection advisor with various backup software's for reporting/alerting
Customer Service
Ace Data Devices Pvt. Ltd.
06.2012 - 01.2013
- Focused in providing complete backup and recovery solution to customers through Asigra, a cloud -based backup and recovery solution
- Responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting day to day backup activities and preparing reports for the same
- Met customer service expectations through problem resolution, daily communication, and follow-up, boosting customer service scores
Education
B. TECH - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu01.2012
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Data Protection
- Git
- CI/CD
- Ansible
Certification
- Post graduate Program in Devops (Edureka/Purdue)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- VMware Certified Professional
- Avamar Implementation Expert
- Information Storage & Management
Languages
English
Hindi
Tamil
Awards
- Dell Implementation Champion
- Game Changer Award
- APJ Field Services Award
- APJ Deployment Award
Timeline
Consultant
Dell Technologies
01.2021 - Current
Principal Engineer
Dell Technologies
01.2013 - 01.2021
Customer Service
Ace Data Devices Pvt. Ltd.
06.2012 - 01.2013
B. TECH - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
AMRITA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
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