Somu Rajarathinam

Somu Rajarathinam is a seasoned IT professional with a strong background in architecting solutions for mission-critical databases, log analytics, and data warehouse platforms.

His expertise includes providing Software as a Service (SaaS), Database Design, Development, and Administration, High Availability, Systems Architecture & Solutioning, Performance Analysis, Tuning & Diagnostics, Capacity Planning, and Infrastructure support & Vendor Management.

He has extensive experience with the AWS cloud platform, utilizing services like EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, IAM, R53, SNS, Cloudwatch, and ELB.

Somu has a proven track record in delivering technical solutions for Business application systems and is a recognized leader in performance analysis and tuning across databases, applications, and systems.

His specialties include Databases, Log Analytics, Data protection technologies, Database & Server Virtualization, All-Flash Storage technologies (FC, iSCSI, NFS, S3), SaaS, IaaS, AWS, End to end Performance Tuning, Benchmarks, Technical Implementations, Mission Critical Apps & Infrastructure Support, Oracle Database Administration & Tools, and Oracle Applications - System Administration.

He pursued his education in Computer Science at Madura College, India, completed the CIO Development Program at San Francisco State University, and obtained a Master's in Computer Applications from Madurai Kamaraj University.

Throughout his career, Somu held various key positions including Technical Director at Pure Storage, Solutions Architect at Pure Storage, Sr Manager, Enterprise Information Services at Autodesk, Practice Director at Inspirage, Sr. Manager, Applications & Engineering Services at Logitech, Lead Oracle DBA at Logitech, Principal Performance Engineer at Oracle Corporation, Senior Consulting Engineer at Oracle Corporation, Systems Analyst at Group IPEX, Assistant Systems Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, and Trainee at DaRT (Bangalore).