Data Center Application Developer

Kapil P. Bawane

Professional Summary

Highly experienced AWS Solution Architect with over 15 years in the IT industry, specializing in designing, deploying, and managing scalable cloud architectures. Proficient in translating complex business requirements into effective cloud solutions using AWS services. Certified AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, SysOps Administrator, and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, with a strong focus on infrastructure as code (IaC), DevOps practices, and cost optimization. Adept at leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative cloud solutions that drive business success.

Brief Overall Profile

15 Years of experience across Pre-sales, Data Center Design, Cloud Infrastructure Architecture, Network and Security and Vendor Management

Designed a multi-tenant virtual solution to provide IaaS/SaaS service for customers.

Design Public Cloud Infrastructure – AWS, Azure, GCP

Hybrid Cloud design and deployment – including Openstack integration

Container Orchestration platform – Kubernetes and Redhat Openshift

Provided technical consulting for an assessment of global cloud service providers

Provided strategic technology vision to executives to forecast growth and allocations against projected company revenues and initiatives for various global customers

Created high-level design and provided architectural oversight and governance for new data center environment using latest technology to support migration from legacy data center

Cloud Architecture: AWS Architecture Design, Multi-Cloud Solutions, Hybrid Cloud Deployments, Serverless Architectures

DevOps: CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), Automation (Ansible, Jenkins)

Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices Architecture

Security: IAM, VPC, Security Groups, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Encryption (KMS)

Networking: VPC Design, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), CloudFront, Direct Connect

Database: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora, NoSQL

Cost Optimization: AWS Cost Explorer, Reserved Instances, Auto Scaling, Right-Sizing

Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana

Google Cloud Certified- Professional Cloud Architect

AWS Certified Solution Architecture – Professional

AWS Certified Solution Architecture – Associate

AWS Certified Sysops Administrator – Associate

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Data Center - #52340

Work History

Solution Principal – Cloud and DC Infrastructure Services, 03/2023 to Current

HCLTech, Americas, Atlanta, GA

Roles and Responsibilities

Design of client’s Cloud environments with a focus on Azure and AWS and demonstrate Technical Cloud Architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructures running in 24x7 environments.

Business Architecture and Technology Strategic leader responsible for the company's business and technology strategy and execution.

Led the design and deployment of multi-tiered cloud environments using AWS services, enhancing scalability, availability, and performance for enterprise applications.

Architected and implemented CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, and Terraform, reducing deployment time by 40% and increasing release frequency.

Managed containerized applications using Kubernetes and AWS EKS, enabling seamless scaling and reducing operational overhead.

Optimized cloud infrastructure costs by 30% through reserved instances, right-sizing, and auto-scaling, aligning cloud expenditures with business needs.

Developed and enforced security best practices, including IAM policies, VPC configurations, and data encryption strategies, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Provided architectural guidance and mentoring to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Enterprise Solutions Architect – Cloud and DC Infrastructure Services, 12/2017 to 03/2023

Microland Limited, Atlanta, GA

Roles and Responsibilities

Designed and deployed robust cloud solutions for clients in various industries, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical requirements.

Migrated legacy on-premises applications to AWS, leveraging services such as EC2, S3, and RDS, resulting in improved performance and reduced operational costs.

Implemented disaster recovery and business continuity strategies using AWS Backup, Glacier, and cross-region replication, ensuring high availability and data integrity.

Collaborated with development teams to refactor monolithic applications into microservices architectures, improving agility and maintainability.

Conducted training sessions and workshops on AWS best practices and cloud adoption strategies, empowering clients to maximize their use of cloud technologies.

Senior Practice Manager, 09/2012 to 12/2017

Wipro Technologies

Producing multi-tier, high-availability infrastructure architectures in an Enterprise & cloud environment adhering to DR, Business Continuity and availability best practice

Planning, Design, Road maps, POC implementations for AWS Cloud technologies

Hybrid Cloud solutions and experienced in integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery models

Experience with automation technologies like CloudFormation and Elasticbeanstalk

Working closely with business to understand and incorporate non-functional requirements in the application and infrastructure architecture

Providing Public and Private Cloud Connectivity Solution – such AWS Direct Connect or Azure Direct Connect

Cloud Infrastructure Security – design the solution as per customers/Industry standard security requirements

Responding to RFP/RFI/RFQ for Cloud Solutions requirement

Cloud Solution architecture, crafting, and Integrating new Solutions in a large scale enterprise of highly distributed applications

To build POV for a customer scenario considering all aspects of the solution like Infrastructure, Application Footprint and provide the best direction to the customer to drive lower TCO, improve organization agility and improving customers revenue ennoblement journey

Network and Security Solution Architect – Roles and Responsibilities

Designing and leading transformation initiatives in products, pre-sales & post-sales support and service delivery functions and implementing state-of-the-art solutions for carrier & enterprise clients

Network planning, design, installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting.

Design High Availability Solution for Global Data Center

Evaluating and developing new products & services in emerging technologies.

Presales & solution engineering support - organization and supporting global customer delivery.

Executing the entire project management activities right from inception until implementation and Ensuring deliverables within assigned time, quality, scope and budgetary parameters.

Benchmarking IT performance against global standards and developing plans for continuous improvements to enhance customer experience and support different service portfolios.

Collaborated with the sales, marketing and support teams to launch products on time and within budget.

Analyzed market trends and the competitive landscape to understand opportunities and potential value.

Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product requirements and use cases.

Tested and implemented new technology-based global projects such as building Private Cloud Data Center

Solution Consultant, 05/2011 to 09/2012

Cable and Wireless Worldwide

Proposing and designing solutions to meet customer requirements.

To identify business opportunities for prioritized products and closely work with Sales team.

To present and defend your solution to all levels of a customer's organization; from end user to CXO.

Response to RFP/RFI/Tender.

Take proactive role in developing opportunities to gain an understanding of the customer's business requirements and service issues, persuasively articulate the C&W solutions and build customer confidence by demonstrating why C&W is best placed to be trusted with business critical networks.

Create high-level design documentation for each customer and engage with design team for a specific design documents.

Make significant contributions to the account development plan and help account teams with their plans to pitch additional services to customers.

Use regular design reviews and other meetings to identify customers' current business issues and demands.

Analyze the implications for business & service requirements, recognizing opportunities for improvement, or cross selling.

Data Center Design - Network Infrastructure.

Revenue growth and retention.

Customer satisfaction based on CSAT ratings, Accolades or Complaints.

Total revenues for services supplied to the nominated customer.

Business opportunities identified and developed jointly with Account Manager.

Business Unit Head - Networking, 01/2010 to 05/2011

The Copy Cat Ltd – Nairobi, Kenya

Proposing and designing solutions to meet customer requirements.

Data Center Design - Network Infrastructure.

Unified Communication Solution Design.

Defines scope, design criteria, BOM and high-level design.

Translates client business requirements into specific deliverables.

Prepare detail technical solution and Proposal - solution architecture, resource efforts, Network High level design diagram.

Prepare Commercial Proposal.

Prepare Service Level Agreements (SLA) documents for the customer.

Solution handover to internal Post sales team for implementation.

Responsible for End-to-End solution.

Collaborated with the marketing team to translate product features into customer value propositions to be used in consumer messaging.

Collaborated with the marketing team to translate product features into customer value propositions to be used in consumer messaging.

Assistance Manager Solution Designer, 06/2008 to 01/2010

Mphasis an HP company

Developing a quality, integrated, cost-effective solution that meets the client's requirements by focusing on

solution quality and delivery feasibility, risk mitigation, financials, and alignment of client requirements to EDS services

Define the components of the solution - technical and Financial.

Create a detailed end - to- end Design of the solution Solution Development.

Create all components, by focus area, of the client solution, including necessary cost and price components information within the context of the defined solution strategy and Price-to-Win.

Define and design Network Architecture according to the customer requirement.

Customer Data center design.

Helping sales executives by making technical presentations, answering technical questions and managing customer trial through r-mail, phone and on-site visits.

Assists and participates in developing RFI, RFP and RFQ responses.

Support build of integrated business solution and finalizes cost/price with Solution Team spread across different regions (US, EMEA and APAC).

Education

Bachelor of Engineering: Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, 2001

S.S.G.M.C.E. Shegaon, Amravati University – Maharashtra

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