VINOD H

• Enterprise Azure Architecture: Designed secure Hub & Spoke topology with Azure Firewall for Aldar's multi-business unit cloud environment spanning Construction, Hospitality, and Education sectors.
• Infrastructure Automation: Automated Azure Landing Zones provisioning using Terraform and Bicep, ensuring consistent and compliant deployments across all business units.
• SRE & BC/DR Strategy: Architected multi-region business continuity plan for critical applications in Azure UAE North & Central using ASR and Traffic Manager, achieving sub-2-hour RTO.
• API Management: Implemented Azure API Management for securing and analyzing APIs for customer-facing applications including 'Darna' and 'Hellow Aldar'.
• DevSecOps Integration: Integrated Veracode SAST/DAST scanning into Azure Pipelines, reducing pre-production vulnerabilities by 40%.
• Centralized Package Management: Established Azure Artifacts feeds for NuGet, NPM, Python, and Maven packages, streamlining dependency management.
• Database Automation: Introduced Liquibase for automated database schema management within CI/CD pipeline.
• Client: Aldar

• Azure PoC Development: Conducted technical proof-of-concept comparing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. App Service Environments for internal containerized applications.
• Cost Optimization: Developed comprehensive cost-optimization analysis for existing Azure subscriptions, identifying 15% potential savings through resource cleanup and reservations.

• AD Consolidation Leadership: Led Active Directory consolidation project post-TiVo merger, integrating multiple AD forests in hybrid environment, reducing administrative overhead by 40%.
• Legacy Migration: Migrated monolithic on-premises media processing applications to microservices architecture on AKS, improving processing speed by 50%.
• API Gateway Implementation: Deployed Kong API Gateway on AKS for managing and securing microservices across newly migrated media platforms.
• SRE & High Availability: Engineered multi-region disaster recovery solution using Azure Site Recovery for critical imaging and audio services, reducing RTO by 90%.

• Pre-Sales Leadership: Led technical architecture for Merrill Lynch's datacenter exit strategy, designing winning proposal for 200+ mission-critical financial applications migration to Azure IaaS.
• Hybrid Connectivity: Architected secure, low-latency hybrid cloud model using Azure ExpressRoute for critical trading platforms.
• Early Cloud Pioneer: Led first large-scale "lift-and-shift" migrations to Azure for non-production financial workloads.
• Automation Transformation: Transitioned from manual server builds to automated provisioning using PowerShell DSC and Ansible, reducing setup time from weeks to days.
• DevOps Implementation: Established first CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (VSTS) for key financial applications.
• SRE for Banking: Architected DR and HA solutions meeting sub-4-hour RTO requirements for Tier-1 financial applications.
• VMware Management: Managed large-scale VMware vSphere environment (500+ VMs) ensuring high uptime and performance.

Note: Employed by AndorTech (India) Pvt. Ltd. from Sep 2011 to Mar 2012 under a BOT model as Sr. Windows Administrator for the CenturyLink engagement.