I am part of the Infrastrucure as Code team under Windows Hosting. We built a solution based on Infrastrucure as Code principles to automate Windows Server builds and maintain immutable configuration on them.

• A green field solution that we built in-house, using PowerShell, Azure DevOps (including CI/CD), PowerShell DSC, MS SQL, Chocolatey, etc.
• The solution was built from scratch, finding the best possible solutions for the requirements, following best practices in the industry.
• I work as part of a fully self-managed Agile global team, spread across three countries; we won the CIO’s Excel award for efficienct automation using Infrastructure as Code.

I lead the offshore Infrastructure team for a renowned paper manufacturer in the US. I cut across the infrastructure fabric for the client, including VMware, Nutanix, Exchange, SCOM, SCCM and Citrix.

• I specialise in PowerShell; built modules, with tens of functions for backup, clean-up, auto-healing, auditing, and disaster recovery.
• I have led implementations of SCOM, SCCM, Citrix XenApp 7.15, DMARC, etc. Ask me about my experience with the projects.
• Recently, I accepted additional responsibility in Active Directory, File Services, VMware infrastructure, and Nutanix.
• I also trained fellow associates on PowerShell, helping them transition to automation teams across the organisation.

• Microsoft Specialist: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
• Enabling Office 365 Services
• ITIL® 2011 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

The offer to co-author a book on two things I love, excited me. After a fruitful journey of over six months, the book, PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook, was released in November 2018

A few of us friends started a site, Meraki Post. It has been a journey to better control, performance and UX, with Jekyll, GitLab CI, AWS S3, CloudFront and Slack. Ask me about what I built!

• I tinker with some of the world-favourite dev boards, such as the Raspberry Pi 3/4, Arduino Uno, Raspberry Pi Pico, micro:bit, etc.
• I run my own Internet ad black-hole, media server, home storage solution and Docker, HomeAssistant on a Raspberry Pi; I am working on setting up a raid-enabled nas on it.
• Building this résumé from scratch using Skeleton was a small fun activity I took up, from writing the Liquid-based pages, to setting up the build logic using Jekyll Collections. The project is available on GitHub.
• Writing is my passion, too. Links to my blogs, short stories and books are available on my homepage, https://ramiyer.me.

I dipped my feet into Cloud Computing and IaC here. 18 of our clients benefited from the GUI-based tool for Windows administration that I built using PowerShell, for my dissertation.

I served as the President of the Students’ Forum, as well as the Editor of our departmental journal. I graduated as the Best Outgoing Student of the batch, along with a University rank in my Majors.