Abhinav Saraf

Abhinav Saraf started their career in 2004 as a Summer Intern at Comsat Max Limited, where they learned the basics of Networking. In 2005, they worked as a Summer Trainee at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2006, they joined Tata Consultancy Services as an Assistant Systems Engineer, working as a developer in a Data Warehouse project for G. E. Commercial Finance. In 2009, they were a Summer Intern at Britannia Industries Limited, where they studied the entire process of Excise Duty, reviewed the existing process of availing of Cenvat credit in Kolkata factory, and developed an integrated platform for maintaining separate set of books of accounts. In 2010, they joined Infosys as a Senior Associate Consultant, where they were involved in Responses to Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposal (RFP), responsible for finalizing the Statement of Work for the initiation of the projects, and preparing BI Apps fit-gap assessments and pre-sales deck for presentations to potential clients. In 2012, they joined TEKsystems as a Manager Presales. In 2018, they joined TEKsystems Global Services as a Senior Manager, leading a large team of 35 members as the Practice Manager for Data Analytics and Insights, and successfully established the adoption of AWS Cloud practice from planning through execution for the key accounts. Abhinav was also the Solution Architect and Delivery Manager for the migration of a Data Analytics and reporting platform from on-premise to AWS Cloud, achieving near-real time analytics on Tableau using Agile methodology. In 2018, Abhinav also joined KloudGin as Director, Presales, and later as Associate Director and Group Manager. As Practice Head of the DevOps / Cloud Operations team, they were accountable for “Availability” of KloudGin product across platforms and environments, and responsible for Security of the infrastructure and quality of the team managing the security and Cloud Operations (DevOps).

Abhinav Saraf graduated with a PGDBM in Finance from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad in 2010. Prior to that, they received a B Tech in Computer Science from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in 2006. Additionally, they have obtained certifications from LinkedIn, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Oracle. These include Succeeding in DevOps from LinkedIn in April 2020, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in October 2020, and Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation 10 Certified Implementation Specialist from Oracle.