About Avinash Barnwal
Multi-Cloud ☁️☁️☁️ Solution Architect having Solution Architecture and Data Center Migrations / Cloud Migrations/ Cloud Adoption experience currently working on Azure & AWS Solution architecture and executing Cloud Application Modernization projects.
Experienced in diverse domains like Loyalty Rewards, Reinsurance, Capital leasing, Travel Backoffice Solutions, Petroleum marketing & Handheld Electricity billing.
My Primary skills include Azure Solutions Architecture, Kubernetes Administration, Terraform IAC, C#.NET (Windows, Web Services), ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Azure DevOps to name a few. I am well versed in Agile and waterfall methodologies.
Migration / App Modernization Experience 🏃
Disaster Recovery Planning, High Availability Planning and Setup, Load balancing setup for Web Applications with NGINX/ Apache, MySQL Cluster, Single Sign-On Implementation using SAML (Ping Federate and Azure AD), SSL, Client Certificate authentication, Kerberos Authentication, HSM setup (Luna), Digital E-Signatures, Multi-Factor Authentication Setup, Middleware MQ(IBM), WebSphere based Java app hosting, Azure Traffic Manager / 3DNS Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancers, Azure Web Application setup and Migration, WordPress Hosting and Support, Apache Reverse proxy setup, Docker and Kubernetes.
Pre-Sales/Post-Sales Work
- LOB wide Azure Cloud Adoption 👍
- LOB wide BCM Guidance for all Azure Services ☔⚡❄️🌀🌊
- Azure Cosmos DB 📡 Migration🏃
- Azure SQL Clustering using Ubuntu-based SQL 2019 & Pacemaker / Corosync
- Azure SQL Geo-Replication, SQL Auto-Failover Groups, Availability Groups Setup, Paxos, Raft Algorithm, Service Mesh, Linkerd,
- Azure DevOps with Terraform
- Camunda BPMN POC on AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services) and ACS (Container Services) with ACR (Container Registry)
- ServiceNow Integration for Alerting from Azure Monitor.
- Multi-tenant SaaS platform with Data partitioning
- Stream Processing based API Reprocessing / Replay Framework
- Event Driven System Design
- Design and Development of Rules Engine (Re-write)
- Layered Caching Implementation - <10ms Response Times and 2.5 Million hits per day
Certifications & Learnings 🌱
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist (Validate Credential)
- AI-102 – Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate - Didn't get a chance to renew
- AZ 104 – Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- AZ 204 – Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate - Didn't get a chance to renew
- AZ 220 – Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty
- AZ 305 – Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AZ 400 – Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- AZ 500 – Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
- CKA – CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- CKAD – CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Influences
Some of the great personalities that I have come across in my life (in order of Chronology of me getting inspired): –
- Jeremy Foster (for his work and demo on Tweet Monkey)
- Christopher Harrison (the way you say “Remember Model and Controller is just a class” and seemed so easy to understand ASP.NET MVC)
- Scott Hanselman (for your super-useful Demos and interesting Ideas)
- Jon Galloway (had an opportunity to meet him in person at Microsoft Build London 2015).
- Yujun Liang (as a Cloud evangelist and Enterprise Architecture guidance)
- Some of my Managers I can't name in public 😄
Contact
📫 If you want to consult me for any of the above skills, you can reach me through Twitter handle @vnextcoder or at gmail.com.