Prasanna Ravichandran Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer at FICO, I drive cloud cost management and governance initiatives, ensuring financial transparency and operational excellence across AWS. I work strategically with cross-functional teams—including Engineering, Finance, and Operations—to optimize cloud costs, provide real-time insights, and implement governance policies aligned with FICO’s business objectives.Key Contributions:Strategic Automation & Tooling: Led automation of FinOps tools, streamlining cost management processes, improving financial visibility, and empowering data-driven decision-making.Proactive Cost Anomalies Resolution: Developed strategic frameworks to detect and resolve cloud cost anomalies, ensuring proactive cost control and reducing unnecessary cloud expenditures.Insightful Reporting & Analytics: Established real-time and predictive analytics systems, providing leadership with actionable insights on cloud usage trends and forecasting future expenses to support long-term planning.Cost Governance Leadership: Defined and enforced cloud governance policies, driving AWS resource efficiency and accountability across teams, ensuring financial discipline.Collaborative Leadership: Partnered with stakeholders across Engineering, Finance, and Operations to translate technical decisions into strategic financial insights, influencing cloud strategies and ensuring cost-effective resource utilization.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Senior Cloud Architect & FinOps Lead, I architected scalable cloud solutions on Azure and GCP, ensuring compliance, cost optimization, and operational excellence. I led Cloud FinOps initiatives, driving financial transparency and optimizing cloud expenditure across the organization.Key Contributions:Cloud Architecture: Designed compliant, scalable cloud solutions on Azure and GCP, implementing DevOps best practices for cloud-first business units.FinOps Leadership: Implemented cross-billing strategies and automated tagging for chargeback, reducing cloud costs and improving financial transparency.Cost Management: Conducted cost analysis and forecasting, identifying savings opportunities and driving continuous improvement in cloud spending.Optimization: Executed provider recommendations and third-party tools to maximize ROI and minimize resource wastage.Reporting & Insights: Developed dashboards to track cloud spending, enabling proactive cost management and data-driven decisions.Policy Leadership: Updated FinOps policies to align with business needs and evolving technologies.Strategic Advisory: Advised senior leadership on cloud billing optimization and DevSecOps adoption, ensuring alignment with business goals.DevSecOps: Led adoption of security and compliance toolsets, including Checkov, Sonarqube, and Wiz, ensuring robust infrastructure security.Resilience: Optimized high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies for enhanced resilience.Education & Culture: Fostered cost-consciousness through training sessions, workshops, and “Ask Anything about Cloud” initiatives.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Cloud Architect - DevOps Engineer at Bosch, I successfully implemented DevOps practices on a global scale, automating cloud infrastructure and contributing to the growth of the Cloud/DevOps practice within the Center of Excellence (CoE).Key Contributions:Global DevOps Implementation: Led the successful implementation of DevOps practices globally, driving automation and operational efficiency across cloud environments.Infrastructure Automation: Automated cloud infrastructure using Terraform, enabling scalable and reliable cloud deployments across multiple projects.CoE Leadership: Played a key role in developing the Cloud/DevOps practice within Bosch’s Center of Excellence, establishing best practices and driving innovation.Mentorship & Guidance: Mentored and guided DevOps engineers across various projects, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the team.

As a Solutions Architect Associate at CSG, I developed scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud solutions, while playing a key role in driving technical initiatives and mentoring teams to align with architectural goals.Key Contributions:Architected Scalable Solutions: Designed reliable, available, and maintainable cloud architectures that prioritized security, observability, and fault tolerance across multiple projects.Leadership in Technical Initiatives: Contributed to major technical initiatives, collaborating on architecture strategy and ensuring alignment across product delivery teams.Mentorship: Mentored junior architects and delivery teams, guiding them in aligning solutions with the overarching architectural vision and best practices.Global Collaboration: Worked closely with the Global DevOps team to drive key initiatives, mentoring team members in AWS infrastructure deployments and ensuring efficient cloud operations.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Publicis Sapient, I designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines on AWS, automated cloud infrastructure, and drove DevOps best practices across the organization.Key Contributions:CI/CD Implementation: Designed and deployed Continuous Integration pipelines using Jenkins, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, and Git on AWS, streamlining development and deployment processes.Cloud Automation: Automated cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation and Salt Stack, leveraging Jenkins Pipeline as Code to ensure scalability and reliability in cloud deployments.Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business requirements, developing reusable and efficient solutions tailored to meet operational needs.Operational Strategy: Developed and implemented strategies for cloud applications and infrastructure, ensuring SLA achievement and operational excellence.Guidance & Mentorship: Guided development and product teams in building code pipelines and resolving CI/CD pipeline issues, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.DevOps Leadership: Initiated and implemented DevOps best practices across the organization, providing training to new team members and ensuring consistent adherence to industry standards.

Bengaluru Area, India

As a Cloud Solution Architect and Blockchain Consultant at Bosch, I was responsible for driving cloud infrastructure consultations and leading next-gen technology integration across geographies, with a focus on Cloud, IoT, and Security. Additionally, I designed and deployed Blockchain applications, providing end-to-end solutions for customers.Key Contributions:Cloud Architecture & Consultation: Led infrastructure consultations for CloudIoT projects, collaborating with customers to simplify their journey through disruptive technologies such as Cloud, IoT, and Security, while ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions on AWS and BICS.Customer Engagement: Worked closely with strategic customers, providing expert guidance on cloud platforms (AWS and BICS), ensuring successful implementation of scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure systems.Team Leadership: Grew and led a team of technical specialists, providing education, mentorship, and technical thought leadership, fostering innovation and operational excellence across multiple regions.Blockchain Consultant:Blockchain Application Design: Designed and implemented a private, permissioned Blockchain application on AWS, utilizing the Quorum platform to deliver secure and decentralized solutions.Smart Contracts Deployment: Deployed smart contracts using Solidity programming on the Blockchain network, leveraging the Truffle framework for deployment and testing, ensuring robust performance and security.

Stuttgart Area, Germany

As an Infrastructure Consultant at Bosch Germany, I was responsible for implementing and managing IoT infrastructure on the Bosch IoT Cloud Service (BICS), focusing on VMaas, DBaaS, and other IoT-related components.Key Contributions:IoT Infrastructure Implementation: Led the implementation and management of IoT infrastructure on Bosch IoT Cloud Service (BICS), including VMaas, DBaaS, and key IoT components.IoT Operations: Managed the operations of IoT infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance across all services.MongoDB Administration: Administered MongoDB, ensuring efficient database management and optimized performance for IoT applications.Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Monitored IoT components, web servers, and VMaas logs using Splunk, providing real-time insights and resolving operational issues proactively.Docker Implementation: Implemented Docker and Docker-Compose for containerized infrastructure, enhancing scalability and streamlining deployments.

Bengaluru Area, India

As a Senior Software Engineer at Bosch India, I specialized in MongoDB administration, focusing on high availability, data management, and database migration across large-scale infrastructure.Key Contributions:MongoDB Sharding Cluster Management: Administered a 7-node sharding cluster, ensuring optimal performance and data distribution.Authentication & Security: Enabled authentication mechanisms for MongoDB users, strengthening security and access control.High Availability: Configured and monitored MongoDB replica sets, ensuring continuous availability and fault tolerance.Data Management: Managed data export and import processes using mongoexport and mongoimport for documents in CSV/JSON formats.Backup Automation: Implemented daily backup processes through Ops Manager, ensuring data integrity and recoverability.Version Upgrades: Successfully upgraded MongoDB servers to newer versions, enhancing performance and security.Database Migration: Led key database migration activities, ensuring seamless transitions and minimal downtime.Issue Resolution & Documentation: Played a critical role in troubleshooting technical issues and maintaining comprehensive documentation.

Chennai Area, India

As a Database Administrator at Renault Nissan, I was responsible for managing large-scale database infrastructure, focusing on MongoDB and MySQL administration, performance optimization, and security implementation.Key Contributions:MongoDB Cluster Setup: Successfully installed and managed a 12-node MongoDB cluster with sharding, ensuring scalability and high availability.MySQL Administration: Administered MySQL databases, ensuring efficient performance and reliable operations across environments.Operational Management: Maintained operational and configuration procedures, ensuring smooth database operations and system reliability.Performance Reporting & Capacity Planning: Conducted periodic performance reporting to support long-term capacity planning and system optimization.Backup & Recovery: Managed backup and recovery processes, ensuring data protection and quick restoration in case of failures.Database Security: Designed and implemented robust security protocols for databases, enhancing data integrity and protection.Linux Deployment: Deployed and maintained Linux environments for UAT and production, ensuring stable operations.Technical Issue Resolution: Played a key role in troubleshooting and resolving critical technical issues, ensuring minimal downtime and operational continuity.

Chennai

As a Database Administrator at C2IL, I specialized in Oracle database administration, focusing on installation, configuration, performance optimization, and backup/recovery strategies across Windows and Linux platforms.Key Contributions:Database Administration: Managed database operations including undo, redo, space, and memory management, ensuring optimal performance.Installation & Upgrades: Expertly installed, upgraded, and patched Oracle databases on both Windows and Linux platforms.Oracle Data Guard & Streams: Configured and administered Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Streams, ensuring high availability and data replication.Backup & Recovery: Performed advanced backup and recovery using RMAN, and handled logical backups with export/import for data protection.Schema Management: Created and managed Oracle database schemas and various database objects such as sequences, tables, indexes, views, and synonyms.Database Creation: Created Oracle databases manually and using DBCA, ensuring efficient and secure setups.Data Management: Loaded and uploaded data using Export-Import and SQL*LOADER from multiple data sources.Enterprise Manager: Installed and maintained Oracle Grid Control Enterprise Manager 10g, 11g, and 12c, providing effective database monitoring and management.Linux & Scripting: Applied strong Linux skills and shell scripting for task automation and system management.