Santhosh K Sallakonda

Santhosh K Sallakonda has a diverse work experience spanning over 12 years. Santhosh K is currently working as a Lead Solutions Architect at Onica, a Rackspace Technology Company since November 2019. Prior to that, they worked as a Sr. Cloud Architect at GDT - General Datatech from April 2018 to November 2019. Santhosh K also served as a Sr. Cloud Consultant at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech from June 2017 to March 2018. Before entering the cloud domain, Santhosh worked at EMC for several years, where they held the positions of Sr Solutions Architect from September 2011 to June 2017 and Implementation Specialist from January 2008 to September 2011. Santhosh K'scareer started as a Storage Engineer at Washington Mutal in August 2007.

Santhosh K Sallakonda completed their Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the New York Institute of Technology from 2005 to 2007. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, where they studied from 2001 to 2005.

In addition to their formal education, Santhosh has earned various certifications. Santhosh K obtained the Implementation Engineer, VPLEX Specialist Version 1.0 certification from Dell EMC in December 2015, along with the Specialist - Systems Administrator, XtremIO Solutions Version 1.0 certification. In October 2011, they achieved the Implementation Engineer, VNX Solutions Specialist Version 7.0 certification from Dell EMC.

Santhosh has also acquired several certifications from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Santhosh K became an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional in October 2018, an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional in May 2018, and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate in March 2017. Santhosh K also holds the Amazon Certified Developer - Associate certification.

Additionally, Santhosh has obtained certifications such as Brocade Certified Fabric Professional, ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, Information Storage and Management v3 from EMC Corporation, Isilon Certified Storage Professional from EMC Corporation, and NETAPP Certified Data Management Administrator from NetApp. Santhosh K is also recognized as a Symmetrix Business Continuity Expert, Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist, and Symmetrix Solutions Expert by EMC. Furthermore, Santhosh holds certifications such as VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 5.5, VNX Solutions Specialist, VPLEX Solutions Specialist, and XtremIO Solutions Specialist.

It should be noted that the obtained month and year for some certifications are not available.