About

Gurunath Rathod is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 3.5 years of relevant experience in working under on-premises infrastructure such as virtualization, networking, server, storage, and automation using Ansible. He graduated from PES Institute of Technology with a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. During his studies, he displayed exceptional self-motivation, organization, and capability to work under pressure while combining his studies with work and other commitments. Currently working at BHEL, Gurunath is part of the Naval Systems SBU under the Coastal Surveillance System (CSS) project, responsible for coastal surveillance covering 13,000km across mainland and island India. His work involves automation of configuration and up-gradation management using Ansible automation tool and containerization of applications using Docker-engine. He has also set up a VMware Software-Defined Data Centre in on-premise infrastructure and worked on VMware products like ESXi, VCenter, Vsan, Vreplication, Vmotion, HA, DRS, Standard and Distributed Switch, P2V, V2P, V2V. He has experience in server and storage configuration, monitoring, and management in the data center and has worked on Server HPE blade Chassis, IBM blade chassis, HPE server, and Dell Server. He has also worked on storage (IBM Storwize V7000, Dell EMC) and SAN storage configuration, alias for WWPN, zoning, zone set, and zone configuration. Prior to BHEL, Gurunath worked at Vivek Industries (VI) as a System Engineer. During his tenure, he achieved project goals by implementing server virtualization via VMware virtualization. He also worked on network elements Cisco, Juniper, Mellanox, and Brocade and programming solder paste printing machine, pick and place machine, AOI machine. Gurunath's tech stack includes Ansible, Software Engineer, infra, and Docker. He is a committed and valuable team member with excellent interpersonal skills and a commitment to excellence.