Ramesh Rangachari

+91 8197589659 ramran.r@gmail.com

Senior Cloud Architect / Consultant specialized in IT cloud infrastructure design, solutioning, infra-automation,
implementation, cost optimization, building central log management & monitoring tools. Delivering cloud/hybrid
solutions in AWS, Azure and Kubernetes driven through DevOps & DevSecOps practices. Overall, 21 years of experience
with Healthcare, Education, Video experience solutions, Insurance, windows OS & pipeline engineering

Experience Highlights
Senior Cloud Architect • Cloud architecting, adoption,
SYNAMEDIA INDIA PVT LTD 01/2020 to till the date migration, and optimization.
• Managing CloudOps and SRE team
• Providing technical & implementation guidance for cloud • Hands-on with IaC, deployment,
adoption/migration with suitable migration strategies, DevOps logs, metrics & monitoring tools
practices , deployment & upgrade process and automation development
• Design and build hybrid-cloud solutions with adapting cloud • Proficiency in automation, CI/CD,
principles, security, performance, and operational excellence. DevSecOps tools, Containers, and
• Design and implementing IaC to provision infra, app monitoring
deployment, patching, and upgrade. • Project management, client
• Optimized cloud spending by 60% and implemented various engagement, stakeholders, and
tools to monitor & manage cloud resources. people management
• Reduced ops support efforts from engineering by 80% with help • Product development, QA,
of building metrics, alarms, tracing workflow, logs aggregator implementation, and deployment
and dashboard for monitoring. • Center of Excellency
• Engage, influence, and evangelize SRE practices with • Presales, revenue & account growth
development, operational and product groups to meet SLO, SLA
and SLI
• Leading SRE & CloupOps team to build infra, automation tools Skills
to monitor & troubleshoot SaaS product.
• Leading POC’s to deliver cloud solutions, optimization, process • Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure,
improvements and enable new business opportunities Python, boto3, ARM template, CFT,
Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Helm,
Manager & Cloud Architect – Cloud practice Kubernetes (k3s & K8s), Jenkins &
HARMAN CONNECTED SERVICES 09/2017 to 12/2019 Maven
• Tools: Azure DevOps, Cloud Health,
Centrify, Splunk, NewRelic, DataDog,
• Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies and
Cloud Watch, ELK, Prometheus,
infrastructure components, and assessing migration feasibility
Grafana, JIRA, Confluence, BurpSuite
• Design and implement POC for cloud adoption and solutions for
and Git
infra-automation.
• Scripting & Framework: C#, Java,
• Understanding customer business use cases to deliver technical
CSS, JS script, Windows PowerShell,
architectural design, strategies and solutions adopting Well-
PERL, Golang, Pytest, Selenium,
Architected frameworks.
MAUI, RPF, CODEDUI, TestNG &
• Recommending best practices to optimize cloud spending and
JMeter
automate solutions to monitor.
• Guidelines on CI/CD implementation, deployment strategies,
upgrade process and quality checks
• Cloud assessment, migration strategies, deployment & upgrade
process, and quality checks
• Pre-sales support and building center of excellency.
 Ramesh Rangachari
+91 8197589659 ramran.r@gmail.com

Experience Education
Cloud Architect Master of Technology: Chemical
HARMAN CONNECTED SERVICES 10/2015 to 08/2017 Engineering- 2001
National Institute of Techology,
• Built centralized environment to collect and consolidate logs Trichy
and metrics with lightweight Kubernetes (K3S).
• Developed helm charts to create all required tools such as
promtail, loki, kibana, Prometheus and Grafana Employment
• Implemented security solutions to manage all pods under K3S
framework. • Synamedia (India) private
• Implemented single node & multi-node (HA) K3S setup to limited
deploy EDS application along with Elastic search, Prometheus Jan 2021 – till the date
and Grafana tools. • HARMAN Connected Services
• Developed CLI interface to install/uninstall K3S setup and to
Jun 2007 -Dec 2020
create all targeted containers.
• Wipro Technologies – Project
Lead
Technical Project Manager Mar 2004 – May 2007
HARMAN CONNECTED SERVICES 09/2014 to 09/2015 • Energy Solutions International
(India) - Project Engineer
• Collecting functional requirements from end customer, discuss Mar 2001 to Dec 2004
abilities to implement, conduct sprint planning, identify user
stores / backlogs, and manage all work items.
• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up
meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and
other Scrum-related meetings. Certification
• Driving scrum meeting with offshore team & vendors, track the
progress, identify risk involved and provide daily status to LT. • PMP Certified
• Publishing metrics like task burn down chart, productivity, • Wipro Certified Emerging
defects, Risk register, etc. Leadership Program
• Managing CR’s, prioritizing backlogs and defects considering
customer criticality & impact to the schedule.
• Performing SIT, Regression and UAT

Projects handled and contributed:

Name Team size Role Duration

Microsoft Azyxxi 8 Test Lead 2 yrs.
Microsoft Amalga 12 Project Manager 2 yrs.
Caradigm (Engineering) 6 - 18 Onsite coordinator 3 yrs.
Caradigm (Services & Implementation) 6 - 24 Onsite Project Manager 2 yrs.
Windows Sustain Engineering 12 SDET 2 yrs
Pipeline Application software 6 SDE 3 yrs