About the Authors

Lekha Menon is an Enterprise Architect with more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry. She has played several roles ranging from strategy consulting, enterprise architecture, presales for large, transformational deals to leading centers of excellence for technologies. As an Enterprise Architect, Lekha has a deep focus on transforming complex IT landscapes through data center modernization, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and containerization. With a passion for IT sustainability, she drives consulting engagements that not only drive innovation but also reduce environmental impact. Committed to staying abreast of industry trends, Lekha keeps engaging with industry leading vendors, hands-on experimentation and exploring the latest advancements in enterprise technology.

Gopalakrishnan Ramamoorthy is a passionate technologist with more than 2 decades of IT industry experience, working with enterprises for simplifying business challenges through technology innovation in data center, edge and hybrid cloud. Responsible for driving faster business agility and competitiveness, enhancing business resiliency, reducing risk and optimizing product investments for global enterprises through strategic implementation of tailored technology solutions, and achieving sustainable growth. He is a Global Head of Infrastructure CoE in a leading IT company, building next gen offerings, assets/IP creations, competency building and growth driven transformation solutions.

Harikrishnan Nithyanandan is a pragmatic architect with rich expertise in cloud-native technologies. His focus is on technology leadership driving the digital transformation, modernizing IT infrastructure by enablement of cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, DevOps, edge computing, platform engineering and Site reliability engineering for customers adopting cloud, containers and edge datacenters. He leads the DevOps and containers centre of excellence in a leading IT company to accelerate the adotion, capabilities, empower the workforce by mentoring around the cloud-native technologies.