Bhaskar Ayyala

Bhaskar Ayyala has over 24 years of work experience, with a focus on technology and IT roles. Their most recent position was as a Senior Developer (Cloud Migration) at Populus, starting in April 2022. Prior to that, they worked as an AWS Consultant at VCS DIGITECH from June 2021 to November 2021.

From 2017 to 2020, Bhaskar worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, where they served as a Solutions Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, they were responsible for providing reliable solutions to incidents and ensuring data security compliance. Bhaskar also supported audit and compliance requests, participated in information classification and security programs, and provided technology solutions for information risk management.

Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank, Bhaskar worked at Nationwide Insurance as a Middleware Engineer for over 11 years. During their time there, they designed and developed patch management lifecycle processes, created Docker instances, performed vulnerability identification, and ensured PCI-DSS compliance. Bhaskar also received Operational Excellence awards for their contributions.

Prior to Nationwide, Bhaskar worked at BP as an Onshore Coordinator, where they acted as a liaison between business and IT partners and troubleshooted performance problems related to a customer-centric website. Bhaskar also worked at SAIC as an Analyst/Programmer/Oracle DBA from 1998 to 2003.

Overall, Bhaskar Ayyala has a diverse range of experience in technology roles, with a strong focus on cloud migration, AWS consultancy, site reliability engineering, middleware management, and coordination between business and IT teams.

Bhaskar Ayyala completed their Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University from 1989 to 1993. Bhaskar then pursued a Master's degree in Computer Information Sciences with a specialization in Computer Science from Cleveland State University between 1995 and 1998.

Additionally, Bhaskar obtained various certifications over the years. In November 2017, they achieved the CISSP certification from (ISC)². Bhaskar also obtained the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in July 2021. Most recently, in May 2022, Bhaskar obtained the [PCAP-31-03] PCAP - Certified Associate in Python Programming certification from the Python Institute. Bhaskar also holds an IBM Websphere Administration certification, although the exact timing of its acquisition is not specified.