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About Hari Shanker

Thanks for visiting my site! My name is Hari Shanker, this is my weblog about various technical subjects. cloud computing and the occasional personal topics too.

PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
I’ve been in the Information Technology field for more than 16 years, starting out with desktop support. Along the way, I worked as a systems administrator, Active Directory Specialist, Azure Specialist.
Most recently, I was the Solution architect for Microsoft Azure at Rackspace. Currently, I work for Cognizant as a Principal Architect for Cloud Transformation & Solutioning.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
I live with my parents in the New Delhi area. Much of my time remains busy in my office and activities on various technical forums. During my leisure time, I love to spend time with Family & Friends and spend holidays on Hill stations.

DISCLAIMER
Any views or opinions expressed here are strictly my own. I am a blogger who works for an organization/company, I am not an organization’s/company’s blogger; therefore, I am solely responsible for all content published here. This is a personal blog, and does not belong to any organization /company that I work for. Content published here is not read, reviewed, or approved in advance by any organization /company and does not necessarily represent or reflect their views or opinions.

CONTACT ME

If you’d like to send me an e-mail, you can reach me at shankerhari@gmail.com.
You can find me on LinkedIn, & Twitter.

Comments

  1. Sahi GulatiJanuary 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM

    Great work Hari.. keep it up....

    Great site.. background is looking really good.....
    Cheers!

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  2. Vijay ReddyMarch 24, 2014 at 12:34 PM

    Hey Hari,

    This blog looks be a better place for knowledge sharing. I hope this will help many people out there who are facing issues. Let me know if I can share anything that I know and share it on this blog.

    On the other side saw your profile and you activities .. Very impressive... keep Rocking!!!

    Cheers,
    Vj

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