Kumaran Rao, an accomplished Head of Infrastructure and Compliance with over 20 years of experience in planning, designing and implementing mission-critical enterprise infrastructure and applications across various business domains. His extensive experience in SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, and Multi-Cloud platforms has equipped him with a multitude of skill sets. Kumaran is technically-minded and capable of working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment with a keen sense of business priorities. He is a prolific troubleshooter who is comfortable with tackling problems right through from detection to resolution.

Kumaran has extensive experience in VMware vSphere, VMware Operations Manager, vCloud Director, Data Protection and Recovery, Replication and Site Recovery Manager, Cisco Switching and Routing, Cisco ASA, Cisco UCCX, and CUCM, Cisco Unity, Cisco UCS, Cisco VPN, Juniper Firewall Cloud Services, WAN Technology, WAN Optimization - RiverBed, Cisco WAE, MS Windows-2003-2016 Active Directory, Azure, Office 365, RedHat Linux/Unix, Squid, CUPS, Apache, LAMP, WordPress, Nginx, Pacemaker HA Proxy, Postfix, and Scripting using python, bash, and PowerShell.

Kumaran holds a Graduate Certificate in Management, a Master of Information System, and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. He has worked as Head of IT Operations, Head of Infrastructure and Compliance, DevOps, and Infrastructure Manager, Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Lead, Infrastructure and Service Team Leader, and Senior Systems Engineer in companies like Mint Payments Limited, IP Payments, Hollard Insurance Australia, San Remo, and That Computer Bloke, respectively.