Badal Kotecha

About Badal Kotecha

Leading team of 50+ cloud architects, engineers and DevOps engineers across multiple workstreams • Leading engineering and operations for multitenant, multi-cloud k8s platform managing 100+ clusters and 200+ tenants across GCP and Azure, with capabilities such as GitOps, Service Mesh, Zero-Trust architecture • Instrumented and optimized the tenant onboarding time for container based workloads up-to 95% • Lead google cloud engineering and operations team delivering 60+ enterprise ready terraform modules with InfoSec compliant policies, and DevOps Automation • Improved DevOps execution time by 50% for Terraform pipelines resulting in better feedback loop • Created multi-cloud FinOps strategy addressing customers cloud spend governance, budgeting, forecasting and cost-optimization • Anchored Cloud FinOps optimization generating 15% savings in infrastructure costs to the tune of 4 MM • Providing architecture guidance & thought leadership in D&A Infra Ops, EAI engineering, Cloud Engineering and K8s platform 2.0 (on VMWare Tanzu) initiatives • Received Mindtree\'s one of the topmost recognition in 2021- Crest award for delivery excellence, enablement and transformation & multiple spot awards as top performance over the years. • Lead learning and certification drive in the team resulting in 50% of the team members certified with cloud capabilities • Designed and developed kubernetes backup strategy in a multi-cloud environment using Velero providing capability to application teams to have better DR and BC for their workloads with application specific RPO and RTO NFR • Created 10+ blueprint reference architecture templates, accelerating cloud adoption and migration for standard applications • Designed and developed the K8s RBAC strategy considering administration, operations and application teams in mind • Engaged in multiple pre-sales and sales activities within and outside the current account, working with CoEs, service line sales, IG pre-sales, digital consulting & other cross-functional teams • Have been engaged in cloud and digital consulting creating technology PoVs and roadmaps for customers such as Intelligent Operations Command Center, Multi-cloud FinOps, Composable Enterprise • Has helped the account to recover from a critical situation addressing security vulnerabilities, learning PHP in 2 days and hand coding integration with Azure to remove hardcoded secrets • Re-defined digital presence platform & implemented the DevOps automation on Sitecore enabling fast pace delivery of 1400+ marketing websites

Experience

1. Cloud Consulting Partner

   Wipro

   Jan 2022 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   Led the cloud transformation of 900+ apps since 2022 through business value and platform transformation approaches, eliminating technical debt and maturing enterprise landscape towards cloud-native principles.• Led PCF decommissioning strategy, transforming apps to adopt serverless and cloud-native architectures• Currently leading Enterprise platform transformation strategy for 1500+ enterprise apps until 2027.• Created cloud-native maturity assessment framework to identify gaps and create backlog of improvements to mature application architectures.• As part of GCP program team, reviewed multiple architecture decisions by EA team for enterprise scale and adoption• Created migration playbooks, service decision guides, best practice documentations, enterprise patterns, knowledge bases• Re-architected 5 suite of business-critical applications on GCP, driving build and price experience for automotive customers, simplifying current architecture, saving 1 MM annually towards infrastructure costs.• Standardized the creation of future state architecture (FSA) definitions and created 50+ application FSAs across Industrial IT, Marketing, HR and Staffing applications• Implemented SRE by identifying business critical customer journeys, optimized availability & latency SLOs to 99.90%• Created app migration architecture process with cost optimization considerations, driving 30-70% cost savings in GCP compared to annual spend on-premise.• Worked with alliance team, Wipro’s internal practices and google as a partner to create multiple go to market strategies for the customer

Education

• Institute of Science, Nagpur

  M.Sc, Statistics

  1996 — 1998

• Institute of Science, Nagpur

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Statistics, Maths

  1993 — 1996

• ADCC Computing (CDAC-ACTS Center), Nagpur

  1) Diploma in Advance Computing (C-DAC), Computers

  1998 — 1999

Skills

• Cloud Broker
• Soa
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Windows Azure
• Application Architecture
• Spring
• Kubernetes
• Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Asp.net Mvc
• Architecture Consulting
• Microsoft Azure
• Wcf
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Service Bus
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Pre-Sales
• Saml 2.0
• Business Analysis
• Containerization
• Windows Communication Foundation (Wcf)
• Identity and Access Management
• Sql Azure
• Windows Identity Foundation
• Technical Architecture
• Software Development
• Azure Storage
• Esb
• Adfs 2.0
• Wif
• Docker
• Enterprise Architecture
• Saas
• Access Control Service (Acs)
• Change Management
• Asp.net