Engineering & Technology leader with proven track record of innovation, strategy, execution and customer success. Experienced in building highly performant & successful geo-distributed teams of diverse & top talents. 25+ years of experience spanning startups, large companies and hyper-scalers with deep expertise in Public and Private cloud infrastructure, Building & Operating Mission critical Cloud Native services, Application and Network Security, Application delivery & Load balancers, Service Mesh, Distributed Systems, Hybrid cloud connectivity – ExpressRoute, SDN Controllers, Cloud Management/Orchestration systems, Micro-services, Kubernetes and Networking technologies for Enterprises and Service Provider segments.Specialties:- Public and Private Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)- Azure Application Delivery : L4-L7 Load balancers, Web Application Firewall, L7 DDoS- Azure Cloud native Firewall : Application and Network security- Azure Hybrid Cloud Access & Architecture: Express Route- Datacenter & Cloud Networking Architecture and Design (Azure, Cisco ACI)- Multi-Tenant SDN Controller & Multi-Tenant Management Systems (ACI/APIC, Azure)- Highly scalable Distributed Systems (APIC/ACI, Azure)- Orchestrator, Cloud Management Platform Integration and Plugin development (vRealize)- Self Service Multi-Tenant Portal for compute and network (ACI, VMware vSphere, vRealize)- Customer centric SLI/SLOs and Building Self-Healing Systems - Kubernetes and Container technologies- Service Mesh & its ecosystem (Istio, Open Service Mesh, Envoy)- Config Management using Declarative Models- Model driven frameworks/REST/SOAP- ACI Virtualization integration with VMware vCenter/vSphere/ESXi/NSX- ACI + vRealize : L4-L7 integration (LB, FW) - VPC and Shared Infra Models- Network Overlay Virtualization (NVO, vxlan, nvgre)- Datacenter Interconnect (Cisco, Microsoft)- Routing and Switching platforms (CRS-1, Catalyst 6500, 7600)- L3 forwarding & services (IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, L3VPN, Multicast+Unicast, ACLs/QoS)- L2 forwarding & services (Multicast, EoMPLS, L2VPN, VPLS, MC-LAG, FAT-PW)- Service Provider & Enterprise segments : Routing and Switching (Architecture, Data plane and Management Plane)- Distributed File Systems & RDBMS- Golang, C++, Java, Python- Elasticsearch, Kafka, Etcd GitHub: https://github.com/vramakrishnan https://github.com/the-gophers/gophercon-2021/blob/main/gophers.md#vijayan-ramakrishnan