Shikha Saxena

About Shikha Saxena

Shikha is a seasoned Customer Engineer at Google Cloud India, specializing as a presales solution architect for enterprise clients in Healthcare and Retail & CPG. With 19+ years of experience, she\'s a cloud adoption and modernization expert, helping customers design and deploy scalable, cost-effective solutions on GCP.She collaborates with CXOs on cloud roadmaps, cost optimization, and impactful PoCs, addressing complex scaling and quality challenges. A thought leader, Shikha shares her expertise through blogs, architectures, and public speaking. Her strong domain knowledge in Healthcare and Retail & CPG is backed by proficiency in AWS, GCP, infrastructure, and virtualization. Holding multiple certifications, Shikha has received recognition for her outstanding contributions.

Experience

1. Customer Engineer -healthcare and Life Sciences

   Google

   Nov 2021 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN

   Leads Enterprise accounts in Healthcare and Retail and CPG space in India as a presales Solution Architect.Building a cloud adoption roadmap at CXO level. Problem solver- problems with scaling, right direction and quality of output. Stakeholder managementBuilding detailed modernized architecture on cloud - Retail & CPG, Manufacturing, IT/ITES Optimizing cloud costs -leveraging cloud optimization techniques and modernization leversRunning large and outcome-based proof of concepts with multiple teams(customer. Partner and Google Cloud)Domain Expertise in Retail and CPG Space. ONDC enablement for the customers. Thought leadership- blog, reference architecture, white papers, public speakingMentoring people into Google Cloud solution domains

Education

• Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences

  Master of Science (M.Sc.)

  2010 — 2012

• Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University

  Master of Science (M.Sc.)

  2000 — 2002

• Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

  1997 — 2000

Skills

• Vcloud
• Vvol
• Azure
• Vmware Vsphere
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Vsan
• Chef
• File Systems
• Virtualization
• Servers
• Employee Training
• Itil
• Iscsi
• Technical Support
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Training Delivery
• Troubleshooting
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Infrastructure
• Docker
• Vsphere
• Vmware Service Manager
• Vsphere Design
• Itil Intermediate Service Design
• Network
• Service Management
• Nsx
• Microsoft Azure
• Vmware
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Azure Stack
• Linux
• Microsoft Technologies
• San
• Networking
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Windows Server