shamasundar krishnappa

Lead Technology Architect with over 15 Years of experience in designing and implementing solutions involving Cloud, Network, Application and Security domains.Demonstrated capability in building various solutions to meet business requirements for successful technology transformation initiatives.

AWS Certified Security - Specialty(SCS-C01)

AWS Certified Solution Architect-Associate(SAA-C02)

Zscaler Zero Trust Certified Associate(ZTCA)

• Delivered data centre exit and Cloud migration project for a Media client/ worth £8M.
  As a Technical Architect, instrumental in delivering landing zone design for on-prem and Azure environments and migration of 740 servers to 5 different platforms.
• Lead the CDN and WAF migration to Cloudflare for a UK based Public sector client/ worth £600k.
  As a Lead Technical Architect, lead this opportunity from the Sales pitch phase to the Migration phase.

Cloudflare are CDN/WAF solution design, deployment and CDN migration from Akamai
Duration: 09/2023 - Present
Short Summary: Lead Technical Architect/Technical PM responsible for delivering Cloudflare WAF solution.
Skills: RFP, PM, Cloudflare WAF, Azure, Application Security, Cloud Security, Technology Architecture.
Delivered platform in 3 months, enabled the customer to migrate from current CDN/WAF solution, worth £8M.

Network Security Audit, Assessment and Advisory - Financial Institution
Duration:11/2022 - 08/2023
Role: Technical Architect responsible for Audit and assessment of current state of security and provide advisory for improvements.
Skills: Cisco ISE, Cisco Security, Azure, Infra Security.
Improved Network login experience for 85% of users by leading configuration initiatives on Cisco ISE and Cisco ASA devices.

Datacenter Exit, Landing zone Design and Build, and Application Migration - Media Client
Duration: 11/2021 - 11/2022
Role: Senior Network Virtualization Architect responsible for Landing Zone Design and Deployment, Building migration strategy for Application migration to new platform.
Skills: Cisco, Azure, Azure VMware Services(AVS), VXRAIL, Oracle PCA, VMWare NSX, Palo Alto.
Designed and built Landing zones in 2 Azure regions with AVS platform,2 on-prem DCs with VXRAIL platform and Oracle PCA platform.
Built migration strategy for migration of 740 servers to these new 5 platforms using HCX, P2V and Lift and shift migration methodologies.

Zero Trust Microsegmentation Architecture Design and Deploy - Media Client
Duration: 11/2017 - 08/2018
Role: Network Security Architect
Skills: Multi-tenancyZero Trust, micro-segmentation, VMware NSX, SDDC, JSON
Successfully built a Zero trust Multi tenancy model using micro-segmentation and distributed Firewalling for n SDDC environment.
Automated NSX Firewall rules implementation using PowerNSX and JSON.

Deployment of Private Cloud - Technology Corporation
Duration: 01/2017 - 10/2017
Role: Network Specialist
Skills:Cisco ASA, Cisco Nexus, Cisco SAN, Cisco ASR, Azure Expressroute
Successfully implemented a private cloud using Cisco products for a multinational Technology Corporation.
Integrated this Private cloud region to the existing list of Data centres and onboarded their first customer onto this new platform.