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Shantanu

AVP - Cloud Infra and Security Services

Summary

Results-driven IT executive with 20+ years of experience leading cloud architecture, infrastructure optimization, and digital transformation initiatives. Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing large-scale cloud migration strategies, optimizing IT operations, and managing high-performance global teams. Specializes in leveraging AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure to deliver innovative, secure, and cost-effective solutions that drive business growth and operational excellence. Continuously stays updated with the latest technology trends to ensure a deep understanding of industry advancements.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

AVP - Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services

CDL
12.2021 - Current
  • Built a team for a large organization to drive cloud-first adoption, with a 30% improvement in adoption rate and increased the velocity considerably.
  • Led a modernization program leveraging Azure-based solution and serverless architectures, enhancing application scalability and reliability.
  • Leading a cross-functional team of 40+ cloud professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, and helping to increase solution delivery.
  • Developed and implemented comprehensive cloud governance frameworks, ensuring compliance and optimization of cloud spend by more than 20% across multi-cloud environments.
  • Established strategic partnerships with major cloud providers and led the alliance for AWS and GCP.

Delivery Head - Cloud and Infra Services - EMEA

Tech Mahindra Ltd
  • Spearheaded the migration of 100+ applications to AWS, Azure, and GCP for multiple enterprise clients.
  • Designed and implemented a PCIDSS v3.2 compliant platform on AWS for a major airline, reducing compliance-related issues and enhancing overall security posture.
  • Built a cloud center of excellence team for standardizing best practices and improving the quality of services delivered across the organization.
  • Led a program to modernize the application into a container-based architecture using AWS EKS and GCP GKE, and improved the application deployment efficiency by 40%, while reducing time-to-market by 50%.
  • Enabled application teams to leverage the target architecture using cloud-native services.
  • Managed a group of program managers, 15+ cloud architects, and 100+ engineers across EMEA, consistently delivering projects within the budget and schedule.
  • Led the program to design, build, and migrate Landing Zone Architecture to enable cloud adoption acceleration for a large telecom customer.


Head of Platform Operations and SRE - Large Learning and Publishing.

  • As the head of Platform Operations and SRE for a large learning management platform on Cloud, he played a key part in transitioning the support Operations and streamlining the support process and technology solutions.
  • Built the team from scratch for this program and successfully transformed the operations and automation/deployment process.
  • Enabled the team to envisage solutions that reduce the time to release the solutions to production.
  • Has been instrumental in defining the Blue Green Deployment model for few of the supported applications.
  • Actively involved in governance of the large SRE/DevOps team.
  • Proactively brought in various optimization approaches to help the team achieve its goal.

Senior Technology Architect & Delivery Lead

Infosys Technologies
03.2013 - 09.2016
  • Played the role of lead Cloud Infra Architect in solution design and implementation of a Digital Marketing Platform for one of the largest retail companies, which includes setting up infrastructure for its core Marketing Platform.
  • Led the Cloud Migration track to migrate the application to AWS Cloud.
    o More than 180 applications were migrated over a period of 6 Months.
    o Led the team in transitioning the deployed solution to the Managed Services Team.
  • Designed and implemented a digital marketing platform on AWS China for a leading healthcare provider.
  • Led the Cloud Migration track to migrate the application to AWS Cloud.
    o More than 20 applications were migrated over a period of 2 Months.
  • Played the role of Cloud Infrastructure Architect for a Large Integrated Real Estate Group in Australia. As part of the program, Current State of the Infrastructure was assessed for Optimization and Cloud adoption. Future State Architecture was developed in tandem with application requirements and business requirements.
  • Established and defined Solution on Cloud (Azure) with a clear roadmap for prioritizing the future infrastructure and cloud implementation.
  • Played a significant role in migrating on-premise environment to AWS Cloud for a large Australian Wealth Management Company.
    o Part of Design and Build Team to develop a highly available and scalable architecture to address the requirements of multiple business units.
    o Developed a strategic approach and a framework for the customer's existing IT Landscape and defined a methodology to map it to AWS Cloud services and solutions.
    o Designed the target infrastructure to address the operational efficiency of the target platform.
    o Worked closely with third party solution providers to deploy disaster recovery solution spread across AWS and Private Cloud Services.
  • Led a team of Cloud and Infrastructure Consultant to deploy highly sensitive and complex solution on AWS & Azure.
  • Played an advisory role by mentoring the team members on public cloud (Azure and AWS).

Solution and Delivery Lead

Logica Pvt Ltd. (Now Part of CGI)
  • In this role as a 'Delivery Head for LPC,' he held the responsibility of providing technical guidance to the Logica Private Cloud core group members.
  • Engage in key strategic decisions around the technical aspects and technical deliverables across the Logica Private Cloud.
  • One of the key result areas of this role is to improve customer experience and increase efficiency, driving down the cost of ownership for IT services for LPC and Logica.
  • Played a vital role in analyzing public cloud solutions and scenarios for customers hosted in third-party DCs.
  • Owned technical solutions and delivery of the solution to various projects hosted within the Datacenter and Private Cloud Infrastructure. Established the entire DC Systems and LAN components for Chennai Location.
  • Support the Finance manager in reviewing the overall costing and to arrive at the charges for each service that are offered.
    Conducted regular technical workshops to identify ongoing technical issues and arrive at a solution.
  • Provided solution to customers in shaping up the right infrastructure sizing and provided key inputs to define the overall solution.
  • Involved in upgrading the IT infrastructure and related components (Compute, Storage, and Network) within the Private Cloud.
  • Designed and demonstrated server consolidation of the critical servers for Logica, India.

ITA - Infrastructure Development and Services

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
08.2004 - 01.2009
  • Managed a team of 16 Engineers who provided end to end support services for End users, Servers in Datacenter, Network components (L2/L3 switches, Firewall and Routers)
  • Managed the server provisioning and coordinating with the multiple technical streams for ongoing support operations
  • Planned and consolidated more than 70 physical Servers to 20 Servers in span of 3 months
  • Helped internal IT department in planning and consolidating 110 servers to 36 Servers using VMWARE Virtual infrastructure
  • Established Support services for many projects and departments with an efficient ecosystem in alignment with ITIL process.

Early Career

IT Services Company
12.2002 - 08.2004

Education

Bachelor of Engineering from University of Madras

Skills

IT Infrastructure and Security Services

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Solution Architect - Professional

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Shantanu AVP - Cloud Infra and Security Services