About

Suman Chakraborty is a Senior Cloud Native Architect at VMware with over 13 years of experience in the field of cloud and DevOps technologies. He is a professional technocrat with high aspirations in his career and a passion for accepting complex challenges and seeking knowledge both inside and outside his domain. He is currently seeking a position as an SME role and technical consultant, where he can utilize his extensive knowledge and experience to contribute to the growth and development of an organization. Suman has experience in automation and building large-scale enterprise infrastructure architecture on various cloud platforms such as Openstack, GCP, AWS, Azure, and VMware. He is proficient in Cloud Foundry, Docker, and Kubernetes and has worked profoundly in DevOps, CI/CD, Observability, and DevSecOps space. He is a certified Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Red Hat, Google Cloud, Docker, and Jenkins professional. Suman is currently associated with VMware as a Senior Cloud Native Architect, where he is helping customers in their app modernization journey with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes platform. He is driving platform features based on common application patterns and cloud-native 12 factors principles and is a trusted advisor for Tanzu family products that include Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Services. He is working together with customers to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the platform and implementing best practices monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace. He is also implementing security and supply chain capabilities using Cloud Native tools Synk, Grype, Sigstore, and Cartographer. In his past roles at SAP, Capgemini, Ericsson, and Nokia, Suman worked on building and developing automation frameworks on PaaS technologies that include Cloud Foundry, Docker, and Kubernetes on a Multi-Cloud platform. He has experience in implementing DevOps on ABAP Platform running on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes and managing Bosh releases across deployments. He has also delivered internal workshops on Microservice-based architecture using Kubernetes to development teams. Suman holds a B-Tech degree in Electronics & Communication from West Bengal University of Technology and has completed his Bachelor of Science from St. Thomas Boys' School. He is proficient in Kubernetes, Senior Software Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Azure, GCP, infra, and Microservices. He has excellent interpersonal skills in team management, mentoring, and training.