Vijai Ganapathy, IT Architect

Vijai Ganapathy

IT Architect

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

Location
United Arab Emirates - Al Ain
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications
Experience
15 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months

IT Architect at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
  • India
  • My current job since August 2015

IT Infra Architect working on cloud, virtualization, security area.

Infrastructure Manager at confidential
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2012

Working on Rackspace Cloud and Openstack private cloud implementation for the IT Production, Development Environment.

Design, Deploy IT Production and Development system for Karma Technologies on LAMP and JBoss Environment.

Scope includes IaaS, Linux, Apache, PHP, DNS, Security and etc.

Manager System Administration. at Zynga Games network India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2011 to April 2012

I was working as Manager System Administration and handled ZCloud project.

I have worked mainly on Cloudstack platform and involved in migration of zynga game application from physical environment to Zcloud cloudstack Virtual environment.

The project involved migration of about 800+ physical servers to zcloud cloudstack \[ private cloud \] virtual environment.

Managed one of the largest private cloud “ZCloud” having thousands of Virtual hosts based on Xen Cloud Server implementation by Cloustack Cloud Management platform. Also worked on managing AWS ec2 instances for various games platforms and migrated few games platforms from AWS ec2 instances to “Zcloud”.

Principal Engineer at yahoo software development india pvt ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2008 to November 2011

I was working as principal engineer handling internal security project.

Joined back in yahoo as Principal Engineer and was working on internal security Project.
I was Managing systems and working with dev team for product releases, product design / review / performance tuning and site up of the systems.
I was managing team of 8 people under infraops team. The responsibilities includes working with DEV and QA team on projects design, implementation and operations management of infraops/systools properties during DEV, QA and Production stages.

Most of the projects involved are back-end properties which are backbone of Yahoo Network wide system. As Individual contributor, I supported Internal Security Project which is a centralised firewall access control system, based on iptables rules, exclusively developed in yahoo for internal use.

People management responsibilities include, working with US team and delegating project based work with team members. Working closely with DEV Project Managers on New Projects, Project releases, QA team support and etc. Being Appraisal team member which includes my Senior Managers, Team members were evaluated based on their performance with help of 360 degree appraisal model.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications
  • at Dr. Bhakthavatsalam Polytechnic
  • May 1994

Bayt Tests

Linux Test
Score 78%

Specialties & Skills

Cloud Computing
VMware ESX
Solaris
Cloud Computing
Cloud Stack
openstack

Languages

English
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate

Memberships

Dubai Cloud Computing Conference
  • Memeber
  • February 2014

Training and Certifications

RedHat Certified Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2015
Valid Until:
November 2018
Redhat Certified Administrator in Redhat Openstack (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2015
Valid Until:
February 2018
Redhat Certified Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
December 2017
Fortinet Fortigate I 201 and Fortigate II 301 Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Fortinet Inc
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
40 hours
VMWARE Install, Configure, Manager Version 5.5 (Training)
Training Institute:
VMWARE Corporation
Date Attended:
March 2014
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • Books Reading
    Usually Read Books and Article on Technology and History.