About

Gaurav Pruthi is an experienced IT Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is skilled in managing Cloud Infra, Linux Systems, Virtualization, DNS, Databases, and Data Center. Gaurav holds a Master of Technology - MTech focused on Computing Systems and Infrastructure from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is currently working as Lead Cloud Infrastructure Administrator at VMware, where he is responsible for planning and designing virtualized environments for different projects, including hardware, storage, networking planning, and designing. Gaurav has expertise in designing and configuring VMware vSphere with Kubernetes, managing namespaces, clusters, pods, and helping application teams to deploy and manage containers. He has designed and implemented VMware Managed Cloud Services (VMC), On-Prem Infrastructure, migration across on-prem and cloud. Gaurav has designed DR Infrastructure using VMware SRM (VR and SAN based solutions). He has also designed and administered VMware NSX-v and NSX-t based environments and using micro-segmentation for east-west traffic. Gaurav has designed and managed VMware vSAN environment with encryption using native key providers across multiple clusters. Gaurav is a technical expert who provides briefings to help external customers design their virtualized data centers in green and brown fields. He performs performance analysis of customer environments and fixes issues related to performance. Gaurav has experience in using vRealize Operations to troubleshoot infra-related issues for on-prem and cloud setups, which includes vSAN and SAN based storage. He plans and coordinates with different teams to order Dell, HPE, and Cisco UCS hardware based on requirements. Gaurav automates the configuration of new/re-purposed hardware using iDRAC, OME, HPE iLO, and UCSM. He writes Python/Power-CLI scripts for reports and automation of tasks and uses vSphere REST API to interact with the vSphere layer. Gaurav has worked with Wipro as a Specialist Unix-Linux, where he supported the world’s #1 most visited networking web site, Cisco, innovating core Internet technologies. He has also worked with iSmart Panache as a Sr. Systems Administrator, where he set up Master-Master MySQL Replication having multiple MySQL instances at different geographic sites. Gaurav has a relevant experience of 5.87 years and is proficient in infra, Puppet, Python, DevOps, Web, Kubernetes, Senior