About

Sandeep Agarwal is a highly motivated and experienced leader within the IT industry, currently serving as the Principal Lead at Ameriprise Financial Services. With a passion for leadership and a broad skill set covering detailed IT engineering delivery to the business, Sandeep has built a reputation for building engaged and highly motivated teams of skilled individuals to produce rapid, meaningful results for organizations. Sandeep’s adaptability and array of skills allow him to tackle any business challenge, and he enjoys pushing others to push their boundaries of success as far as possible. Sandeep’s technology stack includes Kubernetes & Redhat Openshift, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Docker & CRI-O containers, Infrastructure as a code using Terraform, Automation and configuration management using Python and Ansible, and many more. Sandeep holds several accolades, including being a Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Associate - Cloud Architect, SAFe Certified Scrum Master, and Microsoft Certified - Professional / Architect / ITP. He is also Redhat Certified - Engineer / Cloud Architect / Hybrid Cloud Engineer / PaaS CoE - Openshift / Ansible, and certified on many other technologies, including Jenkins / Python Scripting / CCNA / Symantec / SUSE / CompTIA. Sandeep has a strong ability to bridge the gap between business and technology organizations to develop innovative solutions that propel performance improvement. He is adept at crafting comprehensive IT strategy and technology infrastructure road maps for enterprise modernization, private/hybrid cloud, and data center consolidation projects. His core soft skills include Scrum Management, Scrum/Team Leadership, Project Management, and Team building. In his current role at Ameriprise Financial Services, Sandeep leads the Cloud Engineering team in India and is responsible for managing Post Prem Cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS & Azure. He is also automating routine jobs using Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins workflow management, and contributing to technical feasibility assessments of proposed cloud solutions. Sandeep is experienced in implementing architectural governance and proactively managing issues and risks throughout the delivery life cycle. Sandeep holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from ignou and a BCA from ignou. He is currently pursuing a Business Management degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, which he is set to complete in 2022.