- Helping AWS customers by architecting and delivering highly scalable, flexible, resilient and secure cloud infrastructure solutions, addressing customer business problems and accelerating AWS adoption.- Working with Senior IT leaders, infrastructure teams, security teams and development teams to help them build new workloads, re-architect existing workloads and design applications with cloud-first in mind.- Leading teams of infrastructure architects and dev-ops engineers on customer engagements ensuring on time delivery, resolving blockers and providing technical and leadership guidance.- Delivering best practices to enterprise architects, developers and other IT leaders- Coaching Customer and Partner teams to be self-sufficient after successful engagements.

- Worked with senior leadership overseeing vendor/partner relationships, contracts, SLAs etc. to manage expectations and provide project execution and scope.- Responsible for Data and Infrastructure migration to Amazon.com stack, including internal IT and production stack. Worked closely with tech team leads and managers starting from design/planning phase to ensure timely execution and delivery of projects.- Responsible for IT and AWS infrastructure budget for Kindle Comics. Implemented various cost saving initiatives to reduce AWS spend.- Responsible for Application and infrastructure security. Worked with multiple security teams within Amazon (InfoSec, DigiSec, SubSec) to ensure security remains a top priority. Implemented various security, monitoring and mitigation tools. Involved with application design review and security reviews. Completed multiple 3rd party security reviews (EPSA)- Led Comixology pre and post-acquisition tech discovery, security implementation and future roadmap for integrating Comixology services with Amazon. Successfully completed multiple migrations and integrations like Email migration, AWS account migrations, Corporate network and office buildout, PHP migration.- Responsible for building and growing systems and tech teams. Actively involved with hiring, interviewing and referring highly talented professionals. Helped build systems, BI, QA and dev teams.

- Reporting to the CTO, responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting cloud-based infrastructure and its solutions, ensuring smooth delivery of services and service level agreements.- Worked with senior leadership overseeing vendor/partner relationships, contracts, SLAs etc. to manage expectations and provide project execution and scope.- Responsible for Data and Infrastructure migration to Amazon.com stack, including internal IT and production stack. Worked closely with tech team leads and managers starting from design/planning phase to ensure timely execution and delivery of projects.- Responsible for IT and AWS infrastructure budget for Comixology. Implemented various cost saving initiatives to reduce AWS spend.- Responsible for Application and infrastructure security. Implemented various security, monitoring and mitigation tools. Involved with application design review and security reviews. Completed multiple 3rd party security reviews (EPSA)- Responsible for building and growing systems and tech teams. Actively involved with hiring, interviewing and referring highly talented professionals. Helped build systems, BI, QA and dev teams.

* Reporting to the SVP/CTO, managing IT and Support operations. Oversee all IT functions including data center management, vendor relationships, technical support, application development and disaster recovery planning. Manage operating budget and direct activities team members. Responsible for ensuring smooth delivery of Information Technology services and service level agreements* Manage IT Operations and Engineering support teams at multiple locations ensuring 24/7 monitoring and uptime of services including IT infrastructure and Production applications. * Designed and implemented complete migration of Production applications, systems and services to the Cloud, cutting costs significantly. Implemented various technologies for reliability, redundancy, speed, failover, security and scalability using Rackspace Cloud and Amazon AWS (EC2, S3 and RDS).* Reduced hardware and management costs and enhanced ability to test new software releases by deploying virtual server technology (VMware and Microsoft HyperV) and Cloud based servers in development, QA and staging environments.* Implemented various open source build tools (Hudson and Anthill) to streamline and expedite manual and automated application builds from source repositories.* Designed and built internal corporate infrastructure to support collaboration, source control, incident tracking, document management, customer support and monitoring. (CVS, Exchange, Sharepoint, Helpdesk, CloudKick)* Worked closely with the development team in designing and implementing various Database, APIs, Websites and software application platform* Collaborated with the Marketing, Sales and Technology departments to develop and implement company and product websites* Followed Agile and Kanban methodology for processing IT and Support tasks, improving team’s throughput.* Lead effort to migrate services like Exchange (2010), Microsoft Lync server, Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server to the Cloud.

• Operations and management of internal windows 2003/2008 and Redhat based network including web servers, database servers, mail servers, and others including blogs, wiki, cvs, file servers, bugzilla, helpdesk etc • Operations and management of Scanlife.com infrastructure including load balancers, apache servers, tomcat servers, mysql clusters, etc• Design and Implementation of new technologies• Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle Administration• Network Operations and connectivity management at multiple locations including New York and Shanghai .

• Configuring and Supporting Linux /Windows 2000/2003 Servers and Networks, Windows 2000/XP/Vista Workstations. • Implementing and administering DNS, DHCP, DFS servers. • Active Directory design and administration with implementation of Group Policies.• IIS 5 and IIS 6 Web Administration.• Tomcat and Weblogic Configurations and Management • SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Implementation and Administration.• ISA Server 2000/2004/2006 setup, Configuration and Administration.• Exchange Server 2003 Administration• Data Backup and Restore using Veritas Backup Exec • VPN configurations, Remote Office connectivity. Site to Site VPN and Dial in VPN configurations.• Server Monitoring and configuration Tools.• RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5 configuration.• Roaming profiles, Quota management.• Router/Switch setup, CAT5e cabling with patch panels • Remote Administration using Terminal Services, GoToMyPC, pcAnywhere, NetOP Remote Control.

• Installation and configuration of Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 8.0 servers.• Designed and setup the network. Used KVM switches to utilize a small work space.• Compilation and installation of Gaussian 98 (Chemical simulation software).• Monitored data communications network to ensure that network was available to all system users and resolved data communications problems.• Recommended and planed layout for type of computers and peripheral equipment that will provide capability for proposed project or work load, efficient operation, and effective use of allotted space. Placed orders for hardware and equipment purchase.• Used and managed VNC as remote desktop tool for windows 2000 machines to be accessed over the Internet.Carried out data backups.