Ganesh Pote

Associate Director - Cloud Solution Architect

• Leading Cloud Solutions and Architect team for ROW (South Asia region) for SMB markets and North America for healthcare domain customers
• Responsible to respond various RFP, RFI as a part of presales and solutions team to address Cloud Service Desk, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Migration and Automation, App Modernization
• Actively involved in various POC on Hybrid Cloud Management Platform using various open-source tools.
• As Technical Product Owner, driving cloud product development / accelerator for Hybrid Cloud Management Platform (HCMP) - Orchestration Layer to perform provisioning, decommission and L1/L2 (MACD) operational task automation on Azure, GCP, OpenStack, VMWare ESXi and RedHat OpenShift using Terraform, Ansible, and Python with configurable interface and distributed task processing
• Developed Centralized DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE platform to manage the application stack like Java, .NET, Angular, Python to improve the code quality, finding code vulnerabilities, Build and Release Dashboard, API testing using OSS tools like Jenkins, Jenkins-X, Sonar Cloud, Qualys, Nessus vulnerability, Container Scanning
• Participate the design and architecting cloud native solutions using IaaS, PaaS services on Azure and AWS Public Clouds
• Helping customers to perform the data center assessments using Cloud Physics, Device42, and Matilda cloud for migration workloads to cloud environments (Azure & AWS) using Cloud Migration Factory model
• Acting as technical point of contact for the cloud migration factory for cloud implementation for SMB customers
• Working with customers on cloud usage and cost optimizations using Cloudlytics and implement the recommendations

Senior Manager - Cloud Solution Architect

• Responsible to respond various RFP, RFI as a part of Pre-Sales and solution team to address DevOps, Cloud Migration and Automation
• Actively performing various POC on Hybrid Cloud Management Platform using various open source tools
• Solutions and Projects :
  • Driving Cloud Product Development for Hybrid Cloud Management Platform (HCMP) - Orchestration Automation :
    • Provisioning / Decommission and L1/L2 (MACD) operational task automation for Hybrid Cloud: Azure, GCP, OpenStack, VMWare ESXi and RedHat OpenShift using Terraform, Ansible, and Python with configurable interface and distributed task processing
    • Storage, Network and Firewall Automation using Python, Ansible and Terraform
  • Design and Develop Light Weight Monitoring (LWM) solution for performance monitoring from geo-locations using open source tools
    • Website Performance
    • Website URL,SSL,Server,Port & API Availability
    • Website Pen Testing
    • Reconnaissance Framework
  • Network Automation - DC entry traffic analysis and their patterns using ELK, Flask Python
  • Building On-Premise to Azure and Google Migration Accelerators
    • Cloud Cost Calculator
    • Migration Accelerators using tools like Cloud Endure, Zconverter
    • Application Migration Scheduler
    • Application Migration Inventory Discovery

Technical Solution Architect

• Responsible to respond various RFP, RFI as a part of Pre-Sales and solution team to address DevOps, Cloud Migration and Automation and ServiceNow improvement areas.
• Responsible to delivering Azure and AWS Cloud, DevOps, and Data Science projects for medical and insurance domain customers
• GTM Solutions and Projects :
  • Centralized monitoring using open source tools like Grafana, Prometheus with self-healing using Python, Terraform and ITSM tools integration like JIRA, ServiceNow
  • DevOps Management Portal : Using Angular, Java to find code quality, vulnerabilities, build and deployment reports
  • Service Desk Automation using Jenkins and ServiceNow

Senior Technical Delivery Manager, SDDC Cloud COE Lead

• Leading SDDC Automation COE within IMS business unit to deliver unique GTM Solutions for various customers to reduce manual efforts which includes :
  • Linux OS Patching and Scheduling Portal usnig Python and Angular
  • Service Desk Automation using Rundeck and ServiceNow
  • Self-Healing VMWare Alerts using Python and vRA/vRO
  • DevOps on Cloud
  • Web-based CloudX Self-Service Portal using Python and Angular to perform On-prem and public cloud L1/L2 operations
  • Out-of-box VMWare release management using Jenkins and vRO
• Generated additional $100K revenue via GTM solutions and SDDC Automation COE
• Participated in executive sponsor program to delivery business solution to address global Cloud GTM solution
• Worked on 15+ Cloud Automation Proposals and part of most of the winning deals including big customers
• Mentor of various Architects & Leads for project execution and solution designing.
• Responsible to respond various RFP, RFI as a part of Pre-Sales and solution team to address DevOps, Automation and ServiceNow improvement areas
• Automate tools Infrastructure, CI platform, application provisioning, deployment, and management with deep understanding and scaling of DevOps process and tooling to build stable products
• Worked on Data Center Migration and Transformation Cloud projects to provide automation solutions for cost optimization.
• Managing deliverables for Healthcare Domain Customers where primary responsibility to Setup Offshore team with new technologies, Managing Client Partners, develop automation capability within team/group and delivered the DevOps Automation projects.
• Delivered unique types of R&D with different orchestration, prototypes/POCs and solutions to identify customer’s road map relevant to new technologies
• Take part in the development and industrialisation of Cloud centric offerings including engineering and proof of technology
• Trained 50+ resources into automation technologies like VMWare, DevOps and AWS/Azure with scripting area like Python, Shell, PowerShell, Rundeck to form SDDC Automation COE
• Keeps abreast of key technology developments through collaboration with strategic vendors, attending industry events and working with Sr. Directors/VPs, disseminating the information to the wider technical community.
• Engage and manage partner resources as part of the development and industrialisation projects to ensure adherence to best practice

Project Lead

• Design, architect, and implement next generation system architecture and automation solutions
• Implement, maintain, and improve Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environments
• Own and lead initiatives to define, design, and implement DevOps solutions which includes reference architectures, estimates, and costing
• Design and Develop strategy to migrate .NET/Java based project CI/CD tooling to AWS Cloud environment like Jenkins, TFS, Build server, Microsoft Release Manager
• Setup and run DevOps support desk for delivery team across multiple business units
• Participated at organization level process improvement group to standardize process related .NET development/maintenance project and continuous integration to automate development, release and build process using tools
• Review and audit of existing solution, design & system architecture

System Analyst

• Design and Develop "Canopy Compose" product which offers complete lifecycle management of Cloud services, enabling you to take your existing applications and deploy them as Cloud services using VMWare stack
• Responsible for creating Cloud assessments framework, DevOps/automation initiative, Cloud migrations assessments to respond various RFP/RFI as a part of pre-sales and solution organisation
• Work closely with the chief architect, service architect and portfolio to execute product/services automation roadmaps
• Setup PaaS platform on AWS and vCloud Air
• Design, Orchestrate and Deploy various service blueprints using Automation to multiple Cloud environments like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Engine and OpenStack
• Acts as a technical liaison between clients, service engineering teams and support;
• Develop a RFP and POC migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises to Cloud
• Design integration with Service-now using API's
• Own and lead initiatives to define, design, and implement DevOps solutions which includes reference architectures, estimates, and costing

Lead Developer

• Responsible for implementation of change requests – investigation, design and resolution of issues and UAT support
• Responsible for preparation of project specific support documentation such as Technical design documents, Research and Analysis Documents with business solution, Release management documents, Impact analysis document (before implementation of CR), peer review document
• Responsible for understanding Business requirements and convert those into Low Level and High-level design documents for the development with technical assistance
• Responsible for estimations of new enhancements and development work As a Project Leader, responsible for assigning work to various team members,
• coordinating with business stockholders and testers for UAT, requirement analysis, impact analysis, preparation of weekly/monthly release plan, and knowledge transition for new team members
• Built and cemented relations with customers by effectively resolving their issues and addressing their queries based on system behaviour in production environment
• Utilising tracking tool for development and testing like (Service Now, clarity, TeamForge and BugZilla)
• Initiating Weekly status call with onshore/offshore project managers for Service Delivery and Development progress
• Involved in creating Rollout plan and rollback plan for every release of production
• Performed unit testing and deployment.
• Involved actively end user’s implementation and post production support.

Software Developer

• Involved in Requirement gathering, analysis, design and development
• Developed C# class, stored procedures as per business requirements
• Involved in working on the middle tier, creating C#.Net libraries to encapsulate the business logic
• Used Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to expose business logic as services and consumed those services from client applications
• Involved in creates the deployment scripts for production and Test environment;
• Perform unit testing, peer-review, application/code walk-through of other team members for errors and defects

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science