Gajanan Balenthiran

Technical Architect - Enterprise Solutions at South Asian Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka, LK
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Tamil Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Sinhalese Professional working proficiency

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Credentials

  • IBM Certified Specialist - Storage Technical V2
    IBM Professional Certification
    May, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Spectrum Protect Plus V10.1.1
    IBM Professional Certification
    Feb, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Double VCP – Data Center Virtualization & Network Virtualization
    VMware
    Oct, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Power Systems with POWER8 Enterprise Technical Sales Skills V2
    IBM
    Aug, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Power Systems with POWER8 Enterprise Technical Sales Skills V1
    IBM
    Sep, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Enterprise Storage Sales V4
    IBM
    May, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Enterprise Storage Technical Support V4
    IBM
    May, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • Power Systems with POWER8 Scale-out Technical Sales Skills V1
    IBM
    Oct, 2015
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Certified Specialist - System x Server Family Technical Support V1
    IBM
    Dec, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • IBM Certified Specialist - Enterprise Storage Technical Support V3
    IBM
    Nov, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
    VMware
    Mar, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator
    -

Experience

    • Sri Lanka
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Architect - Enterprise Solutions
      • Jun 2022 - Present

    • Group Manager
      • Dec 2021 - May 2022

    • Team Lead
      • Jun 2018 - Nov 2021

      • Support the solution Design and Sizing total Enterprise IT infrastructure solutions based on Virtualization Platform solutions, Servers, Storage, Converged Systems, Backup Systems and Network infrastructure.• Strong knowledge and understanding in world class Technical Service delivery within IBM / Lenovo integrated accounts.• Managing and leading teams while providing technical leadership to meet client’s expectations.• Constant implementation and maintenance of enterprise level solutions.• Recognized for delivering leading edge solutions that consistent meet complex business requirements• Managing, leading a team and provide technical leadership to meet client’s expectations.• Dynamic IT professional with experience in implementing enterprise level IT projects, project management, and customer relationship management.• Expertise in high availability architecture, disaster recovery planning, and large scale IT infrastructure.• Excels in a range of systems and applications with a keen interest in product integration.• Possesses strong interpersonal, negotiation, and presentation skills• Architect and Design Virtualization Solutions with supporting technologies while maintaining customer’s budget and environment restrictions• Design and development of software defined datacenter technologies (VMware,VSAN,NSX), Micro segmentation, and cloud management• Ability to design highly scalable system architectures that accommodate future growth, minimizes risk, and optimizes long-term investment in IT infrastructure (DATA Centers).• Translate business needs into technology specifications. Show less

    • Senior Engineer
      • Sep 2017 - May 2018

      • Have in depth knowledge in installing, implementing and maintaining IBM SystemX, Lenovo / HP Intel based Servers, IBM Blade Centers (H,S,E), IBM XIV Storage, IBM Storewise (v7000/V5000/V3700), NetApp storage, Enterprise Tape (TS3100/TS3200/TS3310/TS3500) libraries & backup systems.• Proven ability in Server installation & configuration, BIOS/ Firmware upgrades, SAN zone configuration, NAS configuration.• Proven experience in VMware ESXi installation, HA, FT, RDM, DRS, SRM, NAS configuration, migration techniques, templates, snap shots, resource management, patch management and replication techniques in virtualized environments.• Worked closely with Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012, Linux, Vmware OS/Platforms.• Methodically optimizing, performance tuning systems to meet the dynamic requirements.• Periodically carrying out DR drills and system auditing.• Meets service level agreements with round the clock support.• Ability to design highly scalable system architectures that accommodate future growth, minimizes risk, and optimizes long-term investment in IT infrastructure.• Excellent customer service skills with oral and written communication skills.• Regularly supporting internal teams with business development. Show less

    • Customer Engineer
      • Sep 2014 - Aug 2017

      • Constant implementation and maintenance of enterprise level solutions.• Ability to design highly scalable system architectures that accommodate future growth, minimizes risk, and optimizes long-term investment in IT infrastructure (DATA Centers).• Have in depth knowledge in installing, implementing and maintaining APC UPSs.• Responsible for definition, development, rollout and enablement of virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management (CIM) solutions and services powered by VMware. • Troubleshooting Network level, Server level, Desktop level and Hardware level issues.• Have in depth knowledge in installing, implementing and maintaining IBM System x Servers, IBM FLEX System, IBM Blade Centers (H,S,E), IBM Storage, Enterprise Tape Libraries & backup systems.• Methodically optimizing, performance tuning systems to meet the dynamic requirements.• Ability to solve technical matters with less supervision.• Regularly supporting internal teams with business development Show less

    • Autonomation Engineer
      • May 2014 - Aug 2014

    • Sri Lanka
    • Telecommunications
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Electronic Engineering -Internship
      • Nov 2012 - Feb 2013

Education

  • University of Moratuwa
    MSc in Electronics and Automation
    2016 -
  • Sheffield Hallam University
    BEng (Hons), Electronic Engineering
    2011 - 2013

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