Payel is a seasoned, highly motivated, goal-oriented IT Professional with more than 9 years of total experience in the software technology industry. Currently, she is working as a Technology Consultant in Infrastructure and Security Center of Excellence in Microsoft India [Global Delivery]. She is experienced in leading Cloud Infrastructure, Security, DevOps Foundation and Solution architecture with strong analytical skills and has delivered for various global leading clients across industries like Healthcare, Retail, Apparel, Chemicals, Manufacturing, Transportation, Media and Telecommunications. Payel possesses great program management skills, currently driving 4 teams of Innovation programs within the Infra Community CoE, consisting of around 40 members. She is well-versed in working cross-functionally across engineering, architecture and various other stakeholders with rich communication and collaboration skills. Being an AI and Cybersecurity enthusiast, she took part into various Hackathon projects, hosted within company global-wide, where she contributed her growing skills and learnings in AI thus, enabling the project ideas with AI-driven roadmap creating huge impact excellence. A few of her key accomplishments are: • Delivered Platform Observability Solution, by prioritizing OKR strategy, for one of the customers within Microsoft Azure that increased ACR consumption to the factor 5x-10x until 2027 within Azure. • Led Cloud Infra for Data Platform delivery by contributing to end-to-end Infra solution by automation. • Implemented Site Reliability [SRE] concepts maintaining system reliability, introducing automation with alert mechanisms thus reducing toils and removing any risks within dedicated timelines. • Participated in strategic planning of the project along with other business stakeholders at client location, thus accomplishing customer success in strategic transformational deals. • Led cross-organizational technical readiness sessions, participated in technical hackathons & drove new hire onboarding procedures within the service lines. • Mentored grad-students as part of NGO collaboration in order to develop their professional skills to align them with the corporate world. List of certifications that I have achieved so far:  Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate  Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate  Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals  Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert  Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert  HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Certification