BMK Lakshminarayanan

BMK Lakshminarayanan has over 13 years of work experience. In 2022, they began working as a Transformation Architect at SECTION6. In 2021, they became a Board Advisor at Value Stream Management Consortium. In 2020, they were a Foundation Member at FinOps Foundation and a Continuous Delivery Foundation Ambassador, helping with CDF projects promotion by speaking and blogging. BMK was also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and a CNCF Ambassador, promoting Cloud Native Computing Foundation technology and projects. In 2016, they were a Core Organizing Committee Member at DevOpsDaysNZ. From 2010 to 2016, they worked at Bank of New Zealand as a Value Stream Architect, Solutions Architect, Senior Development Specialist, and Senior Analyst Programmer. From 2009 to 2010, they were a Senior Development Consultant at Xelocity. From 2007 to 2009, they worked at Jeevan Technologies NZ LTD as a Technical Project Manager and Project Manager.

BMK Lakshminarayanan's education history includes a Higher Secondary degree from K S C Higher Secondary School, Tirupur in Mathematics and Science from 1989 to 1993, a BSc from Annamalai University in Maths from 1996 to 1999, and an Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering from Aptech Computer Education from 1995 to 2000. BMK has also obtained a number of certifications, including Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in 2002, Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET in 2004, Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition in 2004, Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 2002, DevOps Foundation in 2016, Competent Communicator (CC) from Toastmasters International in 2017, Cloud Architecture: Core Concepts from LinkedIn in 2018, AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies from Microsoft in 2019, and DevOps Foundations: Accelerating Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise from LinkedIn in 2020. BMK is also a Program Committee Member for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 from The Linux Foundation.