Anil Chakravorthy

About Anil Chakravorthy

Director of Platform services, experienced leadership of global teams responsible for the transformation, integration, and ongoing operations management of customer infrastructures such as Storage (40+ PB), Hypervisor, Wintel, On-Prem Private cloud, SDDC, Backup appliances and managed service offerings. Systems managed include EMC, NetApp, Nexenta, IBM, HP, Dell Compellent, VMware ESXi, vSphere (5.5, 6.0, 6.7, 7.x), Nutanix, VxRail, Veeam, Actifio in both external customer and internal company data centers. Have successfully built offshore operations team managing storage, virtualization and backup infrastructure, led strategic initiatives to drive operational excellence, cost savings and storage optimization. Extensive leadership experience in all areas of delivery including Customer Services, Professional Services, and Managed Services.Specialties: Leadership, Managed Services, Customer Satisfaction, Data Storage, Storage Solutions, VMware solutions, Software Defined Storage, Data Migration, Data Center, Hyper Converged solutions, On-Prem Private Cloud, Data Backup and Protection, Software Defined Data Center, Healthcare Services, Financial Management, Automation Adoption.

Experience

1. Head of Infrastructure

   IDFC FIRST Bank

   Sep 2024 — Present

   Head of IT Infrastructure driving enterprise-scale Data Center, Network, Security, and End User ecosystems across PAN India banking operations. Accountable for mission-critical infrastructure strategy, cyber resilience, regulatory compliance, and large-scale distributed IT environments within highly regulated BFSI frameworks.Core ownership includes end-to-end Data Center architecture, enterprise virtualization, Windows/Linux platforms, storage, backup, middleware, and high-availability data processing environments. Leading modernization initiatives across SDN, SD-WAN, Zero Trust (ZTNA), and software-defined Data Center architectures including Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure.Driving enterprise security posture across Perimeter Security (NGFW, NIPS, WAF), DLP, MFA, VPN, DDI, Proxy, Micro-Segmentation and advanced threat protection frameworks aligned with RBI CSITE guidelines and regulatory compliance mandates.Managing large-scale network services including Core Routing & Switching, MPLS, P2P, ILL, WiFi/WAP, IPAM and multi-site WAN environments supporting nationwide branch operations.

Education

• Sreenidi Institute of Science &Technology

  Engineer’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Compellent
• Cisco Mds San Switches
• Leadership
• Enterprise Storage
• San
• Ibm San
• Emc San Administration
• Delivery Operations
• IT Operations
• Transition Management
• Netapp Filers
• Itil
• Brocade Fibre Switches
• Team Management
• Nas
• Vmware
• IT Service Management
• Vendor Management
• Storage Architecture
• Service Delivery
• Solution Architecture
• IT Service Delivery
• Training
• Integration
• Data Center
• Management
• Team Building
• Unix
• Virtualization
• Emc Storage