About the Technical Reviewers
Kalyan Kumar is the Chief Technologist for HCL Technologies–ISD and leads all the Global Technology Practices.
In his current role Kalyan is responsible defining Architecture & Technology Strategy, New Solutions Development & Engineering across all Enterprise Infrastructure, Business Productivity, Unified Communication Collaboration & Enterprise Platform/DevOps Service Lines. Kalyan is also responsible for Business and Service Delivery for Cross Functional Services & SIAM for HCL across all service lines globally.
Kalyan is widely acknowledged as an expert and path-breaker on BSM/ITSM & IT Architecture and Cloud Platforms and has developed many IPs for the company in these domains. He is also credited with building HCL MTaaSTM Service from the scratch, which has a multi-million turnover today and a proprietary benchmark for Global IT Infrastructure Services Delivery. His team is also credited with developing the MyCloudSM platform for Cloud Service Management & MyDevOps, which is a pioneering breakthrough in the Utility Computing and Hybrid Agile Ops Model space. He has been presented with many internal and industry awards for his thought leadership in the IT Management space.
Kalyan also runs the HCL ISD IPDEV Incubator Group where he is responsible for incubating new services, platforms and IPs for the company. Additionally, he co-authored the Book Process Excellence for IT Operations: A practical guide to IT Service Management (http://tinyurl.com/k7u3wyf).
Kalyan has spoken at many prestigious industry platforms and is currently actively engaged in the Partner Advisory Board of CA Technologies, and IBM Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure BOA.
In his free time Kalyan likes to jam with his band Contraband as a drummer /percussionist and reviews Consumer Technology Gadgets and follows Cricket Games diligently. Kalyan lives in New Delhi, India with his family. He can be followed on Twitter @KKLIVE and at Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kalyankumar).
Piyush Pandey is currently working as Track Lead at HCL Comnet, where he oversees the DevOps, Service Automation and Cloud Lifecycle Management Practice for HCL’s UK office. He is responsible for designing automation solutions for enterprise IT infrastructure management. In the past four years, he has developed enterprise tools for the public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Compute); Automation tools (BMC, HP CA, Microsoft, Puppet, Chef, and Cobbler); orchestration tools (BMC AO, Microsoft System Center Orchestrator, and VMWare orchestrator); and monitoring tools (Nagios, Zenoss, and SCOM).
He has worked to provide Automation Solutions for Fortune 500 clients such as AstraZeneca, News International, Cummins, Ingram Micro, SGX, GulfStream and Xerox. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from NSIT Delhi.