About

Rakesh Kumar B is a Technical Advisor at Microsoft with over 9 years of diverse technical experience in multiple technologies including Azure Cloud Services, Azure Kubernetes Service, Linux administration, Teradata Aster, Networking, and Security. He is a strong problem solver, critical thinker, listener, learner, and detail freak. Rakesh is currently working in the Azure Containers team, responsible for providing critical resolution and assistance in issues for deep troubleshooting, problem-solving, performance, documentation, and scoping any kind of severe issues. He combines both strong hands-on and practical experience for reliable solutions. Rakesh is a passionate learner on the latest technologies with hands-on experience for continually improving skills-set through self-study outside work. He specializes in Linux Administration, Containers, Cloud, Monitoring, Web Proxy, Service Mesh, Networking, Database, and Go Lang. His focus areas include Site Reliability Engineering, Deep dive into ISTIO, Observability, Go Lang, and Webasm. Rakesh has proven ability on technologies by certified as Azure Solution Architect, Azure Network Engineer, CKA, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, Certified Istio Administrator. He has worked in Teradata as a Product Support Engineer and in eLogic as a System Engineer. Rakesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. He has a TechStack that includes Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Golang, SRE, Big Data, Senior Software Engineer, Web, Research Scientist, Hadoop, DevOps, Terraform, test, MySQL, Microservices, Postgres, Mobile, infra, and Apache Hive. Rakesh has 10.45 years of relevant experience.