Balakrishnan Ramaswamy

About Balakrishnan Ramaswamy

A multi-skilled, multi-cloud \"Solution/Infrastructure/ Architect\" with a good all-round ability to handle IT projects and interdependent business processes. Over 20+ years of experience in Platform, Storage, Virtualization (ESXi), Data Protection and 7+ years experience in AWS and IBM Cloud and 1+ experience in Azure and GCP, Data Protection. Good knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Alibaba cloud Technologies. Disaster Recovery, Business continuity, and UNIX environments with various kinds of roles.Authored Technical whitepapers on Veeam, Commvault, Netbackup and Cohesity DataPlatform as a Technical Author. Hands-on experience on AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure and GCP environment, designed and build Cloud solutions. Experience in identifying and dealing with the client’s needs by translating them into appropriate technical solutions. Maintaining strategic relationships with partners/vendors, systems management, business continuity designs, disaster recovery, and consultancy service to enterprise clients.Looking for a challenging Infrastructure Architect, IBM Cloud Architect, Solution Architect / Technical Consultant / Technical Pre-Sales on Cloud, Storage, Backup, and Disaster recovery- which will make the best use of my existing skills and experience.Specialties: Infrastructure Architect, IBM Cloud Architect, Solution Architect, Storage, and Backup Architect.

Experience

1. Cloud Reference Architect

   IBM

   Dec 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Working as a Multi Cloud Reference Architect with a lot many AI initiatives.

Education

• Annamalai University

  BSc , Information Technologies

• Annamalai University

  B Sc, Information Technology

  2005 — 2008

• Eshwar Institute of Technologies

  Diploma, Diploma in Electronics

  1989 — 1991

• Accel Limited, Chennai

  Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering

Skills

• Storage Management
• Vmware Esx
• Solaris
• Vsphere
• Sun
• Computer Hardware
• Linux
• Virtualization
• Aix
• Clariion
• Disaster Recovery
• Cloud Computing
• Operating Systems
• Storage Architecture
• Vmware
• Ibm Aix
• Storage Area Networks
• San
• Technical Support
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Storage Virtualization
• Infrastructure
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Cluster
• Emc Storage
• Storage Solutions
• Solution Architecture
• Netbackup
• Brocade
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Unix
• Hardware
• Netapp
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Netapp Filers
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Servers
• Itil