vRaman Veeramraju, Sr. Staff Solutions Engineer at VMware
Raman Veeramraju is a passionate individual that has effectively transformed several fortune 100/500/government organizational business goals, allowing them to create new products, services, missions, markets and models. He has over twenty-five years of experience in planning, architecture design, implementation, support, training, and resource management on various Information Technologies and systems including Virtualization, Network, Security, Cloud Computing, and DevOps. He’s an author, collateral generator, singer,
14 years of tenure at VMware include several roles as vCloud Consulting Architect, PSE/PSO Staff Architect, Enterprise Architect, Sr. Staff Solution Engineer across multiple business units.
He is currently working as a Sr. Staff Solution Engineer at VMware supporting the US Army. In this role, he is responsible to lead the pre-sales opportunities by providing technical sales presentations, architectural design discussions, and development, POC engagements, RFP/RFI responses, solution building by engaging with decision-makers, architects, engineers, and admins. Develop current, in-depth artifacts and share knowledge across VMware’s fellow SE and PSO community.
In 2011-2012 he worked as Practice Executive at Dell, where he was responsible to lead the IP creation and field enablement of Dell, VMware, and other virtualization/cloud computing solutions, and he also helped fortune 10 companies choose, design and deploy world-class security and cloud solutions.
Prior to that he worked as Worldwide vCloud Consulting Architect at VMware where he worked mainly to provide technical thought leadership on VMware’s Cloud direction to the industry and deliver the technical direction in architecting and designing VMware vCloud Director and other cloud solutions for the Service Providers and Enterprise A-list customers. He was also responsible for developing IP and documenting the best practices in developing and deploying VMware cloud solutions and feed them into VMware’s Knowledgebase. In this role, he designed and implemented the first 2 VMware vCloud Director Public clouds in the world and also help develop VMware vCAT (vCloud Architecture Toolkit).
He is a co-author of the book “Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director” released in April, 2011 via USENIX and also available on Amazon.
Raman was a professional singer (Indian Music) and worked with several top-notch Musical Troops in Chennai, India, but currently singing to scare away the birds in his backyard.
