Ramin Arvand

About Ramin Arvand

As a technical professional with over 15 years of experience, I deliver critical skills and expertise in data protection, disaster recovery planning and cloud technologies. I also bring a wealth of knowledge to the design and deployment of on-premises, virtualized and cloud data protection infrastructures.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Architect

   Cohesity

   Dec 2024 — Present

   Architected and Delivered Enterprise-Scale Solutions: Designed high-availability storage and data protection architectures for high-profile global entities leveraging SAN, virtualization, and multi-site appliance deployments to ensure mission-critical business continuity.Engineered Multi-Tier Cloud Strategies: Orchestrated large-scale migrations of mission-critical long-term retention (LTR) workloads from legacy tape systems to secure, immutable architectures across AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage.Deployed Advanced Cloud Gateways: Utilized Veritas Alta Recovery Vault and MSDP-C (Cloud Tiering) to facilitate high-performance data movement and deduplication to public cloud providers while ensuring data immutability through S3 Object Lock and Azure Immutable Storage.Spearheaded Global-Scale Infrastructure: Architected one of the world\'s largest NetBackup Flex Scale deployments, delivering 94 high-performance nodes across 7 clusters (56 Primary / 38 DR) with a total storage capacity exceeding 9.5 PB.Architected Hardened Ransomware-Resilient Frameworks: Designed Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE) and implemented physically immutable WORM storage in Compliance Mode to guarantee absolute data integrity.Directed Strategic Cyber Resilience Initiatives: Led enterprise-level ransomware resiliency workshops and produced architectural roadmaps and technical specifications to remediate security gaps within backup infrastructures.Designed Automated Disaster Recovery Frameworks: Implemented Auto-Image Replication (AIR) and Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) to enable seamless, bi-directional data movement and failover capability across geographically dispersed data centers.Strategic Technical Consulting & Governance: Served as Lead Technical Architect for mission-critical engagements, defining functional requirements, conducting stakeholder planning, and establishing rigorous Design Acceptance Criteria.

Education

• University of Maryland

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2025 — 2036

Skills

• High Availability
• Data Loss Protection
• Disaster Recovery
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data Center
• Data Centre Architecture
• San
• System Administration
• Veritas Cluster Server
• Unix
• Hp-UX
• Risk Assessment
• Ndmp
• Team Leadership
• Backup Solutions
• Sun
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Integration
• Performance Tuning
• Storage Area Networks
• Storage Management
• Sql
• Visio
• Virtualization
• Replication
• Cloud Computing
• Seminars
• Nas
• Emc Storage
• Storage Solutions
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Global Distribution Systems
• Business Continuity
• Operating Systems
• Webcasting
• 10g Ethernet
• Aix