Gobalakrishnan Velou

Product Manager

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India10 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering.
  • Expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP cost management.
  • FinOps Certified Professional with a focus on AI initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Engineer specializing in FinOps and DevOps within the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud Financial ManagementCloud OptimizationAi For FinopsCloud AutomationCi/cd ManagementAutomationCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

AWSAzureGCPCost ManagementDevOpsFinOpsAIAWS Cost ExplorerAzure Cost ManagementGCP Cost ManagementAzure OpenAICost AnalysisGovernanceCI/CDJenkins

About

I am a Cloud engineer also AWS certified Solution Architect with an experience of 10+ years in IT industry. Predominantly worked on AWS on compute, storage, DB, IAM, Serverless and other significant services in meeting the delivery requirements. Fond of infrastructure automation operations using Python. DevOps routine dealing with CICD pipelines ( specifically CircleCI and Jenkins), monitoring, performance tunning, IAC and deployments. FinOps Analyst with expertise in managing cloud cost on AWS, Azure, and GCP. I am also a FinOps Certified Professional, demonstrating my in-depth knowledge of the financial aspects of cloud services. - My career began as a VMware engineer and I have since transitioned to specialize in AWS cloud services. - Deployed and managed significant AWS services solving complex customer problems in cloud. - Worked on various devops engagements dealing with efficient deployment pipelines. - I too utilize my skills in automation using Python, PowerShell, and PowerCLI which involved in low cost optimization and business themes . - I am passionate about optimizing cloud services to reduce costs and increase efficiency. I continuously seek to learn new technologies and best practices in this field. - Focusing on FinOps for AI initiatives especially on Azure AI services and AI for FinOps on governance and optimization. The best thing I could feel is that I worked on a Physical server in Datacentre, later on Virtual Machine in VMWARE and now on public cloud. Happy to be sailed on various generation of Infrastructure. Thank you for visiting my profile, and please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or opportunities for collaboration.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Finops foundation

Foundation Member

May 2023Present · 3 yrs · Remote

  • FinOps Foundation Member | Working Group Contributor
  • Passionate about driving innovation in the FinOps discipline, I am an active member of the Linux FinOps Foundation. Proudly contributing to the community as part of the esteemed "Working Group," I collaborate with industry professionals to shape the future of financial operations.

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Cloud Solution Architect - Manager

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

  • AWS Solutions Architect | Cloud DevOps | FinOps Lead | AWS, Azure & GCP Cost Management | FinOps for AI | AI for FinOps
  • Experienced in Cloud Financial Management with expertise in AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, and GCP Cost Management. I lead organization-wide sandbox environments across global regions and support cloud optimization initiatives on various client engagements. My contributions include RFP responses, FinOps dashboard development, maturity assessments, and reusable assets around tagging, CSP hierarchy, and cost optimization.
  • Accounting and Optimizing AI costs by aligning infrastructure usage, model efficiency, and spend visibility.
  • Worked as FinOps SME for developing Azure OpenAI chatbot delivering prompt-driven insights on cost analysis, governance, compliance, and optimization.
  • As an AWS Engineer, I’ve managed infrastructure services, implemented serverless solutions, led cloud automation efforts, designed cost-efficient architectures, and handled OIDC based IAM implementations.
  • I also specialize in DevOps engineering, with deep expertise in CircleCI for end-to-end CI/CD pipeline configuration. My work spans:
  • Automating serverless and container deployments,
  • Integrating SonarCloud for code quality checks,
  • Building monitoring into pipelines for stability and performance,
  • Solving complex DevOps challenges across cloud-native environments.
  • Bridging FinOps and DevOps, I deliver scalable, automated, and cost-effective cloud solutions across AWS and multi-cloud environments.
AWSAzureGCPCost ManagementDevOpsFinOps+3

Hcl technologies

Lead Engineer

Jun 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

  • Results-driven AWS Engineer | Automation Expert
  • Experienced in developing low-cost automation solutions for on-premises manual processes, resulting in increased FTE and cost benefits. Proficient in implementing efficient automation solutions and managing CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins.
  • Skilled in configuring and managing AWS services, including server, storage, and networking components. Successfully designed and maintained Jenkins jobs, Terraform as IAC for provisioning Cloud services. Leveraged AWS lambda functions and developed many infra automations.
  • Proven track record of engaging in client interactions, presenting solutions, and implementing changes based on feedback. Via Python performed data extraction and distribution, and implemented OCR automation for improved accuracy.
AWSAutomationCI/CDJenkinsTerraformCloud Automation+1

Cognizant

Technical Lead

Jun 2015Jun 2019 · 4 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Cloud/Automation Engineer:
  • Efficient Cloud engineer proficient in managing key AWS cloud services, IAM , and automation scripting. Aligned to organization's Automations adaptiveness , developed many PowerShell/PowerCLI and python scripts. Resulted in attaining stabilized environment, deceased handling repetitive tasks, cost optimization and Infra monitoring & Reporting .
  • VMware/Windows Engineer:
  • Proficient VMware/Windows Engineer with expertise in ESXi host management, vCentre and VDI infrastructure. Worked in Nutanix hyper converged host, troubleshooting Esxi and vCentre issues, planned changes\maintenance and decommissioning virtual/physical servers.
  • Experienced in managing Windows servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, firewall configurations and other administration tasks. Proficient in server monitoring tools such as SCOM and Splunk, and adept at utilizing PowerShell scripts for server administration tasks.
AWSPowerShellVMwareWindows ServerCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Luminen service for excellence

Trainer [Part Time - During College Studies]

Nov 2014Jun 2015 · 7 mos · Puducherry, India · On-site

  • A part time trainer during my college studies in reputed colleges which includes training them in
  • Aptitude concepts
  • Reasoning abilities
  • Communications
  • Interview oriented aspects

Education

Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jun 2011Jun 2015

Petit Seminaire Higher Secondary School

Computer Science

Jan 1997Jan 2011

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