Pardeep Kumar

Pardeep Kumar has a diverse work experience spanning multiple roles and companies. Pardeep started their career in 2015 as an IT Executive at Virtual Employee Pvt. Ltd., where they were responsible for implementing and supporting enterprise infrastructure. Pardeep also provided assistance to end users and global clients on IT-related issues.

In 2016, Pardeep joined Synapse LLC as a VMware Engineer, where they were involved in the implementation and operational support for Marriott International Data Centers. Pardeep later took on the role of Sr. VMware Engineer, leading a team of 14 employees and earning recognition as a top team player.

Starting in 2018, Pardeep worked at Cisco, initially as a Technical Consulting Engineer in the field of ACI Solutions, where they played a crucial role in configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Cisco ACI Solutions with N9K Switches. Pardeep also helped global customers resolve issues in their Data Center ACI Implementations. Later, they transitioned to the role of Technical Consulting Engineer in the area of Server Virtualization & Storage Networking, where they assisted in keeping customers' data center infrastructure up and running by troubleshooting and identifying breakpoints in the system.

Most recently, Pardeep joined Alkira, Inc. in 2022 as an Escalation Engineer in the DevOps domain. Pardeep then progressed to the role of Principal Engineer 1 - Escalation, Engineering in July 2023.

Pardeep Kumar completed a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Maharshi Dayanand University from 2011 to 2014. In addition to their degree, they have obtained several certifications, including the API Security Fundamentals - Certificate of Completion from APIsec University in April 2023, Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS) certification from KodeKloud in January 2023, Terraform Challenges certification from KodeKloud in January 2023, Open Source for Beginners certification from KodeKloud in December 2022, Terraform Basics Training Course certification from KodeKloud in August 2022, Lens - Kubernetes IDE certification from KodeKloud in July 2022, and Linode: Kubernetes Engine certification from KodeKloud in July 2022. Pardeep also holds the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification from Microsoft in December 2020, the DevNet Class of 2020 certification from Cisco in May 2020, the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations certification from Coursera in April 2020, the Cisco DevNet Associate Cert Prep 2: Understanding and Using APIs certification from LinkedIn in April 2020, and the Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure certification from Coursera in April 2020. Furthermore, they obtained the Double VCP - Data Center Virtualization & Network Virtualization certification from VMware in February 2018, the VMware Certified Professional 6 - Network Virtualization certification from VMware in February 2018, and the VMware Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization certification from VMware in January 2018. Pardeep also holds an ITIL Foundation certification from AXELOS Global Best Practice in March 2016. Recently, they earned the Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center ACI Advanced Implementation certification from Cisco in June 2022, and the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002) certification from HashiCorp in January 2023. Lastly, they obtained the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification from Cisco in May 2018 and the Cisco Certified DevNet Associate certification from Cisco in May 2020.