About

Kaviraj Gunjal is a Vice President of Technology Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering at EXL Service, with over 28 years of experience in IT. He has expertise in data center build, transformation, software delivered data centers, private cloud, DC management, system administration, network and infrastructure management, technical support, IT consultancy, account management, DC tools implementation, and strong project management skills. Kaviraj has a customer and process (ITIL) centric approach in leveraging business and IT alignment. Kaviraj has a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and partnering with business and vendors to implement virtualization, cloud, storage, business continuity, and infrastructure solutions with a strong ROI and TCO. He specializes in next-gen data center build, SDDC, private cloud, data center management, global IT delivery and operations, procurement, vendor management, negotiations, contract management, MSA/SLA/SOW finalization, managing IT budget and cost control, risk management, preparing BCP & DR plans, infrastructure project management, business service management (BSM), setting up satellite data centers using cloud service - AWS, cloud lifecycle management, virtualization/lab consolidation, presales support, RFP/POC/SOW finalization, expertise in implementing data center management tools, and building high-performance teams from scratch. Kaviraj's current role is as Group Practice Head, System Integration, Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Tech Mahindra. He is responsible for data center build and data center transformation projects delivery for USA, Europe, UK, Australia, NZ region. He is involved in building competency, supporting pre-sales and solution teams, vendor management, CSAT, ESAT & end-to-end project delivery. In his past roles, Kaviraj has worked with Infosys and BMC Software. At Infosys, he was leading the tools implementation practice under IMS and responsible for the development and implementation of Infosys Infrastructure Management platform. At BMC Software, he was involved in setting up data centers for BMC India and setting up a global support team from India to support BMC global data centers. Kaviraj has a degree in MDBA from IMDR Pune, a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Cusrow Wadia Institute of Technology Pune, and additional certifications in MCSE, CCNA, RHCT, ITIL, IBM, SCSA, PMP. His tech stack includes infra, AWS, AI, Azure, GCP, and integration.