Indika Wasala Email & Phone Number

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Heading Cloud Engineering Team.

Sri Lanka

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Senior Pre-sales Consultant for data-center practice. o Data Center Modernization and Transformation. o Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) Solutions including Hyper Converged Infrastructure. o Hybrid Cloud Solutions..
• Technology Stack: o Cisco: Data Center and SD-WAN (UCS, Hyperflex, Intersight, CWOM, AppDynamics, MDS, Nexus, ACI, Nexus, SD-WAN) o DELL EMC: Compute and Storage (Unity, PowerStore, PowerEdge, VXRAIL, Datadomain.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Pre-sales team-lead for data - center and cloud technologies (Server/Storage/HCI/SAP HANA/Virtualization/VDI/Cloud).o Customer requirement gatheringo RFP Creationo Solution designingo Creating BOQs and Design.
• VDI Performance optimization consultation to SriLankan Airlines VDI with over 2000 virtual desktops.o Issue: Slow logon performance and intermittent performance issues.o Performance optimizations with user profile.
• Technical consultation for SriLankan Airlines VDI operationso Technical consultation to onsite VDI operations team on ongoing maintenance activities, process improvements (change management) and upgrades.o Operational.
• Datacenter Network upgrade (as part of total DC upgrade) implementation in LOLC.o Involved from pre-sales stage through implementation till project closure with various capacities.o Involved in UCS and Nexus.

Qatar

• VCE (VMware, Cisco, and EMC) project implementations in more than 10 corporate clients in Qatar covering following technologies:o Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), VMware Vsphere, EMC storage, Nexus 1000v, Cisco.
• VMware View and Citrix Xen Desktop comparison POC. (Cisco UCS/VMware View/Citrix Xen Desktop/VMware Vsphere/NVidia Grid K2/ Cisco vNAM).
• Citrix VDI solution with GPU Acceleration in MOI Telecom Qatar (Cisco UCS/Citrix XenDesktop/VMware Vsphere/NVidia Grid K2/EMC Storage).
• Active-Active (VMware stretched cluster/EMC Vplex/Cisco UCS) and Active-Passive (VMware SRM, EMC Recover Point/Cisco UCS) Datacenter implementations (MOI Telecom, Oryx GTL and Ministry of Economy and Commerce Qatar).
• Implementation Automation using UCS Power tools. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNIwbyHXZk8)
• Cisco UCS, VMware, and SAN (Cisco MDS) Support.

• Member of the server virtualization and consolidation project which reduced server farm by 57% (About 140 servers reduced to 60).
• Revamped the SriLankan Airlines intranet using Microsoft SharePoint 2007 with rich media capabilities which resulted in 100% increase in hits.
• Microsoft infrastructure migration of about 4000 mailboxes and 8000 Active Directory objects across 26 geographical sites from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010; and from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008. Automated exchange.
• Migrated Tokyo and Singapore sites from Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 to Windows 2008/Exchange 2010 on Hyper-V.
• Microsoft Infrastructure Administration (AD, DNS, DHCP, File/Print Servers, SharePoint, Exchange)
• Member of the ISO 27001 Task Force and a key contributor to the project.

• Managed a team of 3 administrators; IS infrastructure with 200 computers; and 20 servers to provide 99% critical service uptime to the software development team.
• Established a mission for the team; designed and maintained the internal processes in accordance with the mission and the ISO 9000 - 2000 requirements.
• Introduction of cloud services to the organization.

• Saved company license costs by introducing open-source alternatives to commercial products. (e.g., Migrated Exchange infrastructure to Qmail, Open-source code versioning systems, open-source time management platforms.)
• Significant bandwidth savings achieved through the implementation of open-source bandwidth optimization tools (IPtables, MRTG, Squid, Lightsquid), backed by the IT security policy.
• Migration of physical IT Infrastructure from one location to another within 3 days.
• Corporate security infrastructure administration (iptables firewall/Fortigate Firewall)
• Microsoft/Linux infrastructure administration.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Engineering

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Gpa: 3.75, A+ For The Research Thesis: