# Ritesh Nanda > Principal Cloud Architect Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/riteshnanda Leader & Architect for Cloud Center(s) of Excellence with current, hands - on Cloud experience in AWS, Google, as well as on-premises with OpenStack and other orchestration and Operations tools. I develop programs and projects and execute with specific focus on meeting business and technical challenges. ## Work Experience ### Platform and Cloud Architect @ Rubrik Jan 2026 – Present | Palo Alto, CA ### Principal Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2022 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ PayPal Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States Lead Cloud Centre of Excellence team (CCOE) within PayPal for AWS and GCP. As CCOE responsible for Governance, Security Policies and Posture. Develop tools, application and automation needed to apply Security Policies, IAM, RBAC mechanism, Self Service APIs, Networking, Project/Account lifecycle management. ### Lead Member Of Technical Staff @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States ### Member of Technical Staff @ PayPal Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | California Part of Cloud Iaas Group, running biggest openstack cloud in Production. ### Cloud Service Developer @ Kaiser Permanente Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Denver Colorado Design and implementation for a private cloud based on Vmware Vcloud , Vco , automation and Vmware app director  Integration of Puppet with vmware App director , vcloud automation. Leading automation of key Kaiser Permanente application using puppet. Involved in development of Puppet modules , facters , resource providers. Contributed to Design and Development of Overall solution Resposible for Design and Integration with Operational support system(OSS) and reporting ,monitoring. Implemented Continous Delivery environment for Kaiser Permanente Development team using Jenkins , vagrant , puppet , vmware app director, vco. ### Senior Solution Integrator @ Ericsson Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Integration of Openstack and Cloud foundry. Designed Architecture Based on openstack grizzly and Cloud foundry V2. Designed Architecture which allows multiple region support in openstack and Easy scaling of cloud foundry using Bosh. Developing chef based recipes to allow hassle free complete deployment from OS to cloud foundry environment. HA implementation of Openstack. Managing Bugs lifecycle from setting up and Reproducing Bug environement. Extensively involved in Test Case Planning, Design, Reviews, Developing Test Scripts, Log analysis Documentation and Tracking of defects. Customized Tempest scripts to Validate Openstack Production Deployments. Implemented openstack and cloud foundry integration using chef ,razor. Experience with chef setup and writing recipes to automate the cloud environments. ### Solution Integrator @ Ericsson Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Noida Designing and Deployment of Go-open Datacenter on a Virtualized platform using KVM/XEN. Implemented KVM as Virtualization technology to provide multiple virtual hardware platforms while keeping hardware costs and energy consumption down. Involved in setting up and configuration of large private cloud infrastructure based on KVM (Linux) and OpenStack. Driving Cloud competency, leading multiple Cloud initiatives and driving customer engagements for solution architectures, use case definition, PoC, Cloud strategy, solutions, and rollout. Also, providing technology consultancy to various external and internal teams and CTOs, CIOs, and other executive leadership teams. ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Information Technology Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/riteshnanda --- Source: https://flows.cv/riteshnanda JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/riteshnanda/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12