Nikunj Virani

Nikunj Virani is a Senior Architect / Manager with over 20 years of IT experience, showcasing strong leadership in software engineering management, architecture, integration, quality, and sustenance for enterprise software products.

He has extensive expertise in niche domains like Grid Computing, Cloud Computing (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, DaaS), Green Data Center Solutions, Big Data (Splunk, Spark, Hadoop), and Web Hosting.

Nikunj possesses in-depth knowledge of cloud platforms including Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Citrix Cloud Platform (CloudStack), OpenStack, and Heroku as well as technologies like Apache Mesos, Zookeeper, and Marathon.

His technical proficiency spans managing software architecture, requirements, and end-to-end product development for NodeJS, Java, and LAMP-based projects, coupled with significant Project and Program Management experience in various SDLC methodologies and Agile (SCRUM).

Additionally, he has hands-on experience in installing, configuring, and managing Hadoop Clusters.

Nikunj's specialties encompass IT Product Development (Java, LAMP), Cloud Computing (IAAS, SaaS, PaaS, DaaS), Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Opsworks, AutoScaling, Beanstalk, SQS, RDS), Big Data (Hadoop, Splunk, Cassandra, Memcached), Web Hosting, Resource Managers (Apache Mesos, SGE, Condor, PBS), High-Performance Computing (MPI), Grid Computing, Server Management on various platforms, Virtualization, Customer Relationship Management, and People Management.