VIRAL KAMDAR
Demonstrated excellence as a Cloud Native and DevOps Architect with capability in building and designing scalable
products from ground up at Enterprise Level; served as a Polyglot Developer extensive use of Golang, Java Languages
Scaling new heights of success and leaving a mark of excellence, targeting techno-managerial / Solution Architect roles in DevOps | Cloud
Infrastructure preferably in IT industry; preferably in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai
viral.kamdar@gmail.com
+91 6363135853
Bangalore, India
https://in.linkedin.com/viralkamdar
CORE COMPETENCIES
Strategic Project / Product
Management
Requirement Gathering & Analysis
AWS Cloud Architecture
Solution Architecture/ DevOps
Cloud Migration
Cloud Infrastructure Management
Stakeholder Management
Proof-of-Concept
Kubernetes & Micro services
Software Development Framework
Technical / Functional Specification
SOFT SKILLS
PROFILE SUMMARY
 AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional and an enterprising IT professional with
high integrity offering over 20 years of experience in understanding the business
requirement, analyzing the technical requirement and architecting end-to-end cloud
solutions
 An accomplished Principle Software Engineer and an enterprising IT professional with
extensive experience in heading Application Development, Project & Delivery Management
of large projects, distinguished by commended performance
 Presently, spearheading the Cloud Edge Team at Acquia Inc., rendering assistance to
design the placement of products like Load Balancers, Kubernetes Ingress Controllers,
External DNS, Certificate Manager
 Worked on GoLang based agent collecting various DB metrics for self-correction and
automated healing
 Skilled in overall software development life-cycle; managing complete engineering
operations involving requirement analysis, finalization of specifications, designing,
testing using TDD and BDD, server set up & deployment in compliance to relevant
standards
 Hands-on experience Kubernets, Microservices, Python, SRE, Golang and AWS Cloud/
DevOps
 Excels in providing Technical Design and Architectural Leadership to multiple teams to
help ensure products are integrated and adhered to stated architectural and design
principles & standards
 Stakeholder Management: gathering and understanding requirements of clients & other
multiple stakeholders, followed by translation into functional specifications and providing
suitable solutions
 Rich exposure in leading end-to-end product delivery using Agile-Scrum Product
Development Methodologies
 Significant experience of working with customers, and technical teams for securing &
executing concurrent projects; envisioning usage of new technology and tailoring its usage
for achieving desired results
 Cloud Expert recognized at industry level with proven contributions in devising scalable
solutions on AWS cloud
 Track record of cloud migration across a no. of large scale IT programmes, taking
ownership of the cloud architecture & design activities and outputs; successfully migrated
the legacy systems from on-prem to AWS
 Displayed resourcefulness in performing Infrastructure automation on Cloud using Cloud
Formation & Terraform
 Insightful experience in ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized
for high availability and disaster recovery
 Thought leadership and team-building skills, and capability to collaborate effectively with
a group of high performing individuals
CAREER TIMELINE
 Communicator

Collaborator

Team Leader

Change Agent

Interpersonal Skills

Motivator

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: GoLang, Java, Shell Scripting, Cert Manager, Spring Boot, React, Angular
Kubernetes, Docker, Kubernetes Operator, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kubernetes Ingress Controllers (Nginx and Traefik),
Cloud Native:
Kubernetes, External DNS, Kubernetes Certificate Manager, Istio Service Mesh
DevOps Tools: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Swagger
Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Agile Development: Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, GIT, GitLab, Jenkins (CI/CD), Slack, Miro
Database: MySQL

WORK EXPERIENCE

Since Apr’21 with Acquia Inc., Bangalore, India (Remote) as Principal Software Engineer
Apr’04 to Apr’21 with Oracle India Private Limited, Bangalore, India as Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Dec’03 to Mar’04 with Accenture, Mumbai, India as Software Engineer
Jun’03 to Dec’03 with L&T Infotech, Mumbai, India as Software Engineer
Key Responsibilities :
 Acting as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for organization’s cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS and other providers,
networking, provisioning, and management
 Providing thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business
requirements
 Defining and delivering the appropriate cloud solution architecture and strategic approaches to support various cloud native, hybrid, non-hybrid
and migration engagements
 Defining optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications
 Supporting an Agile Team with responsibilities varying from creating and demonstrating Proof of Concepts (PoC); developing reference
architectures and coding best practices for performing a variety of architecture analyses, and evaluating leading-edge technologies for use in the
enterprise
 Heading the implementation phase by designing innovative project plans, planning resources and administering issues arising due to scope creep
or other unforeseen situations
 Working as a SPOC for extending support to the clients on numerous projects and technical issues
 Shouldering the responsibility of designing, developing and testing applications
 Participating in software development activities including design, development & troubleshooting of applications; conducting gap analysis
including validation of needs in conjunction with onsite & offsite teams
 Facilitating implementation of the product involving documentation and execution of varying sizes of customizations, implementation of standard
processes and maintenance & up-grading existing product
 Undertaking development & testing, defect & issue management for software applications; conducting reviews of codes & test cases and analyzing
change requests / enhancements
 Interfacing with clients to gather business requirements; conducting system analysis and finalizing technical / functional specifications & high level
design documents for the project
 Using industrial coding practices to ensure high quality deliverables with minimal defects
 Administering iterative application development projects using Agile and Scrum methodologies
 Driving efforts towards maintaining software development practices; adhering to company standards for coding and unit/functional test coverage
 Implementing best practices for software development realizing improvements in efficiencies and less business interruptions

CERTIFICATIONS

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

https://www.credly.com/ badges/095533e3-1637-4 de1-9ca9-cf2bf262e285/ public_url
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
https://www.credly.com/ba dges/6b1ecc46-2426-4285a886-551b56f59893
The Open Group Certified: TOGAF® 9 Certified
https://www.credly.com/ba dges/f74abcbd-8c2e-423dbb46-45784efa6057

EDUCATION
 B. E. (Computer Science) – Faculty of Technology and Engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India, 1999
 ANNEXURE
Project Cloud Edge Management
Technologies Docker, Kubernetes, GoLang, Jenkins,ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, Nginx, Ingress Controllers, Helm, AWS Load Balancers,
AWS EC2, AWS Route 53, SumoLogic, Prometheus
Designation Technical Lead

Key Result Areas:

 Monitoring the design and development of the Kubernetes operator needed to change the external addresses of Kubernetes resources by
sending messages to the message broker
 Implementing and administrating of infrastructure necessary for the Kubernetes operator and related services on AWS using Terraform and
Ansible
 Designing the Kubernetes deployment procedure from scratch
 Worked on the architecture, design, and deployment process of Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller in AWS; managed Elastic Kubernetes
Cluster (EKS) serving thousands of requests per second
 Playing a significant role in planning the migration of their applications from Traefik Ingress Controller to Nginx Ingress Controller with
other technical leaders
 Acting as our group's technical spokesperson in discussions and agreements with other groups
 Offering recommendations teams best practices for Kubernetes
 Operating as a mentor to the team's young and senior engineers, fostering a positive work environment, and contributing to the formation of
the team itself by conducting interviews with potential new members

Project SRE Sauron – OCI managed Logging and Monitoring Solution

Technologies Docker, Kubernetes, GoLang, Python, Java, Spring Boot, React, Swagger, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Key Result Areas:

 Directed a team of for design and development of the Sauron project based on Kubernetes and deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
 Engaged with various stakeholders for system study, requirement gathering, analysis, and implementation and testing of the product
 Served as an Architect for design and development of various components of the product, starting from scoping, development and
maintenance of the project
 Managed coding, reviewing, debugging and troubleshooting of the application
 Facilitated backend operations using Spring Boot and frontend operations using React
 Performed smooth implementation and testing of application

Project Oracle Identity Management

Technologies Oracle Adaptive Access Manager (OAAM), Oracle Access Manager (OAM), LDAP (OID/OVD/OUD), OPSS, Oracle Mobile
Security Suite
Designation Principal Solutions Architect

Key Result Areas:

 Worked in collaboration with product managers and development teams and offered appropriate architectures for customer’s requirements
 Designed Proof of Concepts for Oracle’s Identity Management Products to support Business Development
 Directed initiative as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and primary point-of-contact to the customers for any escalations in Oracle’s security
products
 Managed top level escalations of the customers

Project Oracle Fusion Middleware

Technologies Java, J2EE, EJB, JTA, JMX, BPEL, Human Workflow
Designation Principal Software Engineer

Key Result Areas:

 Strategized and developed BPEL, a part of Oracle SOA suite
 Created and developed EJB and JMX libraries of OC4J and WebLogic