Saurabh Srivastava

Consultant

Gurgaon, Haryana, India19 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 18 years of experience in cloud solutions.
  • Expert in technical sales and solution architecture.
  • Proven track record of closing multi-million dollar deals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Solutions Architect with expertise in Telecommunications and Infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution ArchitectureHybrid CloudCloud MigrationInfrastructure ModernisationCloud InfrastructureCloud SolutionsTelecommunicationsPublic Safety SolutionsNfv TestingSoftware DevelopmentNetwork Management

Other Skills

KubernetesPresalesArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud SecurityCloud ComputingCloud ApplicationsPrivate CloudsAmazon Web Services (AWS)LinuxSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Storage SolutionsApplication MigrationsRequirements AnalysisRFIProof of Concept

About

As a subject matter expert in Pre-Sales, Solution Consulting, Solution Selling, Architecture, Hybrid Clouds, Private Clouds, Public clouds, Telco Clouds, Infrastructure modernisation, Cloud Migration, I have over 18 years of experience providing technical assistance to sales teams and customers related to complex technical products and solutions. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated my ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including developers, business stakeholders, and C-level executives. In my most recent role, I played a key role in driving technical sales and support for a leading Public cloud provider, working closely with the sales team to identify new business opportunities and develop customised solutions for customers. I also led client-facing technical sales discussions and performed technical product demonstrations, successfully closing deals worth millions of dollars in revenue. As a passionate and lifelong learner, I am constantly researching and gaining knowledge on rapidly evolving product offerings, staying up-to-date on emerging trends and best practices. In my previous roles, I have also collaborated closely with product development teams to provide valuable feedback and insights from customers, helping to shape the direction of product roadmaps and drive product enhancements. As the voice of the customer, I have consistently advocated for product enhancements and new features to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Through my work, I have built strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders, earning a reputation as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert. I have rich experience in Cloud Infrastructure, Containers, Virtualisation, Networking and Telecom domain Specialties: Pre-Sales, Solution Architect (End to End), Proof of Concepts creation, RFI/RFQ, ETSI NFV , SDN, IaaS, Cloud, Kubernetes, Dockers, Containers, Hyper-converged Infrastructure, Software-defined data center, Software-defined storage, Openstack, AWS, Virtualisation, Python, PaaS, Data Center Infrastructure, Networking, Linux.

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Ibm

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect-Hybrid Cloud

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area · Hybrid

KubernetesPresalesArtificial Intelligence (AI)Solution ArchitectureHybrid CloudCloud Security+4

Amazon web services (aws)

Senior Solutions Architect

Aug 2022Jun 2023 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Pre-Sales Solution Architect for Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure Modernisation, Cloud Migration, Digital Transformation , Container adoption, Virtualisation, IaaS, PaaS, Infrastructure as code, Automation, Multi-cloud management, Linux , High Availability Clustering, Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Cloud Storage
  • Design and develop technical solutions/strategies for migration from private data center to hybrid/ public cloud/multi-cloud model. AWS adoption,Helping Customers in Modernising existing infrastructure and IT optimisation.
  • Demonstrating Products and building Proof-of-Concept (PoCs) for customers.
  • Conduct Solution Scoping/Discovery Workshops for customers.
  • Analyse business requirements to develop technical solutions and their framework.
  • Analysis and Design of overall solution HLD/LLD, Solution Use cases.
  • Prepare Bill of Materials, RFP/RFI/RFQ analysis and responses, Technical compliance, competitive analysis, price/performance analysis.
  • Help customers with ROI (Return on Investments), TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) calculations.
  • Create and present High quality technical (with high level commercial points) presentations.
  • Participate and represent the company at various Industry events.
  • Help Sales team in creating wining strategies for proposals.
  • Do root cause analysis for any lost deals and ensure that we win the business back.
  • End to end solutions architect for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS ( Platform as a Service).
  • Conduct knowledge sharing sessions & lead the discussions with engineering teams for product development.
  • Guide Program/Project Manager in overall pre-sales/post sales activities, planning and handover the accepted solution to delivery/deployment.
  • Assist and provide technical leadership to Deployment teams.
LinuxSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Storage SolutionsApplication MigrationsRequirements Analysis+7

Red hat

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect

Oct 2018Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Pre-Sales Solution Architect for Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure Modernisation, Cloud Migration, Digital Transformation , Container adoption, Virtualisation, IaaS, PaaS, Infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Dockers, CRIO, Ansible, Automation, Multi-cloud management, Openshift, OpenStack, ARO, ROSA, Linux , Ceph, High Availability Clustering, Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Cloud Storage
  • Design and develop technical solutions/strategies for migration from private data center to hybrid/ public cloud/multi-cloud model. Helping Customers in Modernising existing infrastructure and IT optimisation.
  • Demonstrating Products and building Proof-of-Concept (PoCs) for customers.
  • Conduct Solution Scoping/Discovery Workshops for customers.
  • Analyse business requirements to develop technical solutions and their framework.
  • Analysis and Design of overall solution HLD/LLD, Solution Use cases.
  • Prepare Bill of Materials, RFP/RFI/RFQ analysis and responses, Technical compliance, competitive analysis, price/performance analysis.
  • Help customers with ROI (Return on Investments), TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) calculations.
  • Create and present High quality technical (with high level commercial points) presentations.
  • Participate and represent the company at various Industry events.
  • Help Sales team in creating wining strategies for proposals.
  • Do root cause analysis for any lost deals and ensure that we win the business back.
  • End to end solutions architect for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS ( Platform as a Service).
  • Conduct knowledge sharing sessions & lead the discussions with engineering teams for product development.
  • Guide Program/Project Manager in overall pre-sales/post sales activities, planning and handover the accepted solution to delivery/deployment.
  • Assist and provide technical leadership to Deployment teams.
LinuxSoftware as a Service (SaaS)OpenStackStorage SolutionsApplication MigrationsRequirements Analysis+8

Ericsson

Solutions Architect

Nov 2015Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Pre-Sales Solution Architect for Cloud (Compute, Network, Storage), SDN, NFV, SR-IOV, DPDK-OVS, OpenStack, Ansible, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, OpenFlow, CORD, ONOS, ONF, RHEL KVM, Docker Containers, Kubernetes, Red Hat Ceph, Mirantis Cloudferry, High Availability Clustering, Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Cloud Storage
  • Demonstrating Products and building Proof-of-Concept (PoCs) for customers.
  • Analyze business requirements to develop technical solutions and their framework.
  • Analysis and Design of overall solution HLD/LLD, Solution Use cases.
  • Prepare Bill of Materials, RFP/RFI/RFQ analysis and responses, Technical compliance, competitive analysis, price/performance analysis.
  • Help customers with ROI (Return on Investments), TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) calculations.
  • Create and present High quality technical (with high level commercial points) presentations.
  • Participate and represent the company at various Industry events.
  • Help Sales team in creating wining strategies for proposals.
  • Do root cause analysis for any lost deals and ensure that we win the business back.
  • Design and develop technical solutions/strategies for migration from private data center to hybrid/ public cloud based data center.
  • End to end solutions architect for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS ( Platform as a Service).
  • Migration to AWS / Google Cloud platform.
  • Work with the product development team to conceptualize the product & help to develop detailed documentation for IPR & product development.
  • Conduct knowledge sharing sessions & lead the discussions with engineering teams for product development.
  • Guide Program/Project Manager in overall pre-sales/post sales activities, planning and handover the accepted solution to delivery/deployment.
  • Assist and provide technical leadership to Deployment teams.
LinuxSoftware as a Service (SaaS)OpenStackStorage SolutionsRequirements AnalysisRFI+7

Motorola solutions

Senior Systems Engineer

Mar 2015Nov 2015 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Pre Sales Systems Engineer for Motorola Solutions Public safety LTE products.
  • Prepare Bill of Materials, RFP/RFI/RFQ analysis and responses, Technical compliance for tenders, competitive analysis.
  • Focus on Airports, Police forces, Defense establishments, PSUs, Metro Train networks, Refineries
  • Complete ownership of the Design and Proposal for end customers.
  • Attending face to face customer meetings, educating customers about Public Safety LTE
LinuxStorage SolutionsRequirements AnalysisRFITelecommunicationsProof of Concept+4

Spirent communications

Technical Sales Lead

Dec 2012Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Pre-Sales, NFVI, VNF testing, validation, on-boarding
  • Solution Consulting with customers to gather test requirements and conduct product demonstrations and evaluations.
  • Design solutions using Spirent products and other open source tools to satisfy customer requirements for functional, performance and load testing of VNFs and NFV Infrastructure.
  • Create and deliver critical proof of concept (CPOC).
  • Support Technical Marketing Group and Product Managers, Act as the customer voice to influence future product design to meet customer needs
  • Assist customer in building test plans and provide escalation to resolve customer issues
  • Travel to visit potential and existing clients in order to establish new, and maintain existing, long-term relationships with customers.
  • Establish trusted advisory partnerships with key customers to define technology direction and adaptation of emerging technologies.
  • Perform effective technical opportunity analysis of accounts .
  • Perform detailed high quality presentations to technical and executive audiences
  • Thorough knowledge of own products, competitive products and market trends.
LinuxStorage SolutionsRequirements AnalysisRFITelecommunicationsProof of Concept+4

Cisco

Software Engineer II

Jul 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • LTE, EPC, Interoperability, conformance, eNodeB, Femto cells, RF, Access side, Security Gateways, S-GW, P-GW, MME, SGSN, GGSN, Cisco 7600, Cisco ASR 5000, 5500, 9000
  • Multi-Radio Management Entity (MRME)
  • The MRME is a critical control-plane network element for SaMOG (S2a Mobility over GTP) solution to provide EPC (Evolved Packet Core) services for Trusted non-3GPP network access UEs via WLC (Wireless LAN Controller). MRME performs functionalities of TWAP (Trusted WLAN AAA Proxy) in 3GPP. It terminates STa Interface towards 3GPP AAA Server or Proxy and also relays the AAA information.
  • Enhanced Packet Data Gateway (ePDG)
  • The ePDG (evolved Packet Data gateway) is a critical network element for the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) that allows interworking between EPC and fixed non-3gpp networks that requires secure access such as Wireless LAN. The ePDG provides a secure access to EPC and supports what LTE standards refers to as un-trusted non-3ggpp access through the SWu and S2b interfaces.
LinuxRequirements AnalysisTelecommunicationsProof of ConceptSoftware Development

Hewlett packard enterprise

Sr. Software Engineer

Dec 2009Jul 2010 · 7 mos

  • HP Open view OS and Network Management Software, OS Infrastructure, OS Security, Network Infrastructure, Network Security, I/O Infrastructure Storage HBA (SCSI, FC), Clustering (Hyperfabric) Compilers, Frameworks, and Storage Technologies
LinuxRequirements AnalysisTelecommunicationsNetwork Management

Nokia siemens networks

Software Engineer

Mar 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Flexi Node B, BTS, Research & Development of Telecom Platforms and protocols.
  • Clustered systems.Blade architecture. ATCA, DSP
LinuxRequirements AnalysisTelecommunicationsSoftware Development

Psi data systems

Software Engineer

Jan 2007Feb 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Embedded linux, C , BitBake , WLAN , Device Drivers
  • Responsibilities :
  • Participate in all phases of an agile, rapid-cycle software development life cycle, including design, product validation, documentation, and solving deployment issues.
  • Improve existing process and guidelines for owned modules/applications
  • Develop and support tools to improve the efficiency of the integration and release process
  • Design and develop in an embedded software development environment in C Language using BitBake .
Requirements Analysis

Education

Institute of Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering — Computer Science and Engineering

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