Uday Kakkar

Cloud Architect at Intuitive Technology Partners

Uday Kakkar has a diverse and extensive work experience in the technology industry. Uday currently serves as the Director at Kubeshot Consulting Inc, where they built a team from scratch and provides cloud solution design services to various clients. Uday has helped clients transition from conventional data centers to the cloud and has worked with Google architects to increase sales for the company's service offering. Uday has also worked with the Government of Canada as a Senior Technical Consultant, leading the design and implementation of landing zones on GCP/AWS and migrating government workloads to the cloud. Uday has experience as a Cloud Architect at Intuitive.Cloud and TELUS, where they were responsible for cloud migration and architecture. Uday has also worked as a Cloud Architect at Nokia, a Member of Technical Staff at Wind River, a Senior Software Engineer at BlackBerry, a Software Engineer at Ciena, and a Software Engineer at SOFTAC Systems Ltd. Additionally, they have experience as a Graduate Student at the Alma Mater Society of UBC Vancouver. Throughout their career, Uday has demonstrated expertise in cloud technologies, infrastructure design, migration strategies, and leadership in software development projects.

Uday Kakkar has a diverse education history. In 2015, they attended The University of British Columbia, where they earned a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, which they completed in 2016. During the same year, Uday also studied at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, specializing in Advanced C# -.NET - N-Tier Application Development in the field of Computer Software Engineering.

In 2007, Uday enrolled at NIT Jalandhar, where they completed their Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2011.

Moving forward, Uday pursued further education in the field of Data Science. In 2017, they studied Data Science at IIIT Hyderabad and obtained a Diploma in Data Science in 2018.

Alongside their formal education, Uday has acquired various certifications to enhance their skill set. These certifications include Microsoft Azure Architect Design from Microsoft, obtained in November 2021; CCSK from CCSK, obtained in September 2021; Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect from Google, obtained in June 2021; AWS Certified Solutions Architect from Amazon Web Services (AWS), obtained in September 2020; AWS Certified Solutions Architect from Udemy, obtained in August 2020; Learn DevOps: The Complete Kubernetes Course from Udemy, obtained in May 2020; and Advanced C++ Programming from Udemy, obtained in March 2017. Additionally, Uday obtained certifications in Cypress Advanced BLE Training and EHS from Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and Alstom Power, respectively. The obtained month and year for these last two certifications are not specified.

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  • Cloud Architect

    January, 2022 - present