Girish Acharya
Technical Architect & Sr. Software Engineer
Pune, Maharashtra Email me on Indeed: indeed.con/r/Girish-Acharya/6757f94ee9f4ec2
I would like to describe myself as a hard-core software engineer and technical architect
passionate for technology and someone who loves to take challenges head-on I have been using
combined engineering principles wherein I was responsible for designing, developing, testing,
deploying and monitoring highly scalable distributed applications and services.
While I have always been working using Microsoft technologies, I got chance to work for Microsoft
in as a full-time employee last year. My focus as part of this role was as a Dev Ops/Site Reliability
Engineer. The main requirement of this role was to keep-lights-on in all data centers for Windows
Developer Center. While Service Engineering aspect was the main requirement, I used my
technical architect and software tools for inside-out and outside-in monitoring and telemetry.
As a technical architect, I have worked in Accenture for about 7+ years. My role @ Microsoft
account was to demonstrate technical leadership, design technical architecture, propose
and introduce standard design and architectural patterns and practices, incorporate new
requirements and feedbacks from client and execute multiple quick prototypes. As part of this
role I architected Microsoft IT's (MSIT) biggest Platform As A Service (Paas) solution back in
the days.
I have executed multiple client facing projects wherein I was responsible for designing,
architecting the compute, storage, application and deployment architecture. I have experience
in designing and architecting systems for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP/
DR strategies). I have designed and architected solutions for "Testing in production". I have
experience in designing and architecting for extremely high scale 3 billion requests/day). I
have designed and implemented auto healing, smooth traffic routing and eventual consistency
in multiple client facing projects.
I am in the Information Technology industry since 2001 working for various software organizations
in India for 4 years till I joined Accenture in 2006. I came to USA in 2010 and was working as
consultant for Microsoft. I joined Microsoft in May 2015 as a full-time employee. I earned my
Electronics Engineering degree in year 2000, Diploma in Advance Computing degree in year 2001
and completed Microsoft Certified Professional Developer and Enterprise Architect certification
(MCPDEA) in year 2007. I am also Microsoft Azure Certified Developer and Architect.
I am frequent community contributor. I blog at http://girishthegeek.wordpress.com/
I have worked and published an asset called Framework for Ops Team considering Windows Azure
and it was very well received by the clients and appreciated by the managers.
I wrote a white paper related to AppFabric Service Bus which got published in MSDN.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
WORK EXPERIENCE
Technical Architect
Accenture Services Pune, Maharashtra
Software Engineer 2
Microsoft Redmond
June 2016 to February 2017
Engagement and monetization (Microsoft Universal Store/Windows Developer Center)
June 2016- Recently
Technologies used:
Microsoft Azure, C#, SQL, PowerShell, App Insights, Azure Data Factory, Redis Cache, API
Management Gateway, Azure App Services, Akamai, Azure CDNS, Azure Traffic Manager,
Automated Unit Testing, Web Testing, Coded Unit Tests, Performance Testing etc. Tools
SpecFlow,
JMeter, Junit, NUNit, MoQ, Fluent Assertions, VSTS, GIT, Microsoft Test Manager, Continuous
Integration and deployment, maintaining build definitions
Roles Played:
O Technical architect
O
Designing and architecting for compute, storage, application, security and deployment
architecture
O Designing and architecting for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP DR)
O Designing and architecting for the Testing In Production (TIP)
O Designing and architecting for auto healing and auto scaling pattern
O Designing and developing for monitoring
Design and develop inside out and outside in monitoring and logging
Design and develop synthetic web tests
Design and develop watchdogs
Design and develop the global traffic management using Akamai
O Keeping lights on for the services in all data centers
O Firefighting drills and actual firefighting
O Live site issue tracking, management, coordination and resolving
O Capacity monitoring and management
O Code reviews
O Implemented the security architecture
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering in Microsoft
C-DAC
SKILLS
Azure (8 years), Asp.Ne (8 years), C# (9 years), Web API (6 years), Sql (6 years), Technical
Architect (5 years), Automation Testing (5 years)
LINKS
http://girishthegeek.wordpress.com/
tps://www.linkedin.com/in/girishazure
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
Microsoft Certified Enterprise Architect
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Technical Expertise
*Technical Architecture, Microsoft Azure Platform, Microsoft NET Platform, C#, ASP.NET*
Designing/architecting/building/testing/deploying apps/APIs using Windows Azure, SQL Azure,
Azure Storage, REST/WCF, AppFabric Cache, Service Bus, Topic and Subscription, Access Control
Services from last 7 years.
Azure Application Architecture: Web Role, Worker Role, VM Role, admin mode, start-up tasks
integrating with on premise services using App Fabric Service Bus
Azure Security Architecture: Web Role security using SSL, WCF Security using certificates,
Data Encryption using certificates, Authentication using ADFS/STS, Single sign on using ACS.
Participated in ACE reviews, and provisioned related documentation/code
Azure Operations Architecture: Logging and monitoring using Windows Azure Diagnostics,
integration with AVICode, SCOM, disaster recovering and business continuity planning and
implementation, automated builds and deployments.
Azure Data Architecture: Understands SQL Azure, Windows Azure Storage (Tables, Blobs,
Queues), Document DB, SQL Azure Data Sync, SQL Azure Federation etc.
Deployment Architecture: Continuous integration and deployment. Auto Build, Deployment
using Service Management APIs and Powershell cmdlets
Akamai design and implement traffic management, caching using Akamai
Azure traffic manager, CDNS, Azure Data Factory, Auto Scaling
Deployment automation and synthetic monitoring using application insights
Developing end to end APIs and applications using ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, Web API
Performance Testing: Performance, scalability testing using Visual Studio
Automated Testing: Automated Unit Testing, Web Testing, Coded Unit Tests, Performance Testing
etc. Tools SpecFlow, Jmeter, Junit, NUNit, MoQ, Fluent Assertions, VSTS, GIT
Big Data: Architected and developed a big solution using Windows Azure HD Insight, Hive
queries
http://girishthegeek.wordpress.com/
ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/girishazure