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Rahul Kumar Singh

Solution Architect
Dubai

Summary

With over 12 years of expertise in strategic account management and customer success, dedicated to building strong, mutually beneficial partnerships. Leveraging deep customer insights and data analysis, drive product adoption, customer satisfaction, and long-term value. Proven track record in reducing churn, negotiating renewals, and enhancing account value. Certified in PMP, ITIL, AWS Solution Architect, Azure, VMware, EMC, and NetApp, excel in aligning technology solutions with business needs for sustained growth.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Solution Architect

Brilyant MENA LLC
2024.08 - Current

Led IT Infrastructure initiatives across GCC region, managing and delivering customer-centric solutions focused on Cloud, Storage, Backup, and SIEM, resulting in customer satisfaction and retention.

  • Engaged with Banking, Government, Retail, and Enterprise customers to present Brilyant's IT solutions and services, contributing to a 12-13% growth in sales pipeline.
  • Successfully onboarded major clients, including Dubai Municipality and Fly Dubai, by designing and implementing customized solutions, achieving a 20% revenue growth in the public sector vertical.
  • Collaborated with partners such as Ingram and Logicom to engage with OEMs during the implementation phase, reducing project delivery time by 15%.
  • Developed and executed strategic sales initiatives that resulted in acquiring 10+ new enterprise customers, generating over $2 million in new revenue annually.
  • Facilitated technical training and workshops for clients, enhancing product adoption rates by 20-25% and reducing the sales cycle by 20%.
  • Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status, and documentation.

IT Consultant

NetApp
2022.09 - 2023.12

Pre- and Post-Sales Transition Lead for Global 1P Business Model.

Key member of the core team responsible for transitioning from a 3P to 1P business model in collaboration with Google leadership and customers. Successfully facilitated the seamless transformation by addressing customer technical and operational challenges and implementing processes between Google and NetApp. Managed critical operational activities, including migrations and upgrades, across 30+ global regions, ensuring minimal disruption. Spearheaded the development of people, process, and product roles, laying out clear deliverables that ensured smooth execution of the transition and continuous support for operational needs.

IT Technology Senior Consultant

SAP Labs
2018.06 - 2022.08

Lead a team of SAP BTP Customer Engineering group.

Onboard 150+ services from SAP BTP Portfolio, which include database, monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, etc.

Responsible for maintaining and consuming applications running on Hyperscalers (AWS, AZURE, and GCP).

Understanding and providing support to the persistence team on Mongo and PostgreSQL databases.

Provide support to Kafka and Redis DB Services.

Conducted continuous assessment of technical environment, addressing gaps, such as firmware, service packs, and backups.

Support Account Manager

NetApp
2016.05 - 2018.04

Assisted Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and News Corp by offering strategic planning, storage support, and upgrade advice. Implemented cloud-based solutions with NetApp on AWS, conducted POCs on cloud backup, and performed storage efficiency analyses. Facilitated regular service reviews, delivering tailored best practice recommendations.

Developed a segmentation strategy that tailored service delivery to customer needs, improving engagement for low-touch accounts by 25%.

Created comprehensive client success plans that led to a 10% year-over-year growth in account revenue.

Coordinated and led cross-functional teams to deliver complex implementations within timelines, achieving a 100% project success rate.

Senior Solutions Engineer

Dell EMC
2011.05 - 2016.03

Offering technical support and sales expertise in pre-sales and post-sales. Mapping customer issues to technical solutions, managing storage migrations, and executing remote/on-site implementations for EMC Connectrix and VNX arrays.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Rajasthan Technical University
Kota
2001.04 -

Skills

Customer Success

Virtualization Technologies

IT Infrastructure

DevOps Practices

ITIL Framework

IT Governance

Enterprise Architecture

Project Planning

Agile framework

Technology Integration

Effective Communication

Certification

Available Upon Request

Timeline

Senior Solution Architect

Brilyant MENA LLC
2024.08 - Current

IT Consultant

NetApp
2022.09 - 2023.12

IT Technology Senior Consultant

SAP Labs
2018.06 - 2022.08

Support Account Manager

NetApp
2016.05 - 2018.04

Senior Solutions Engineer

Dell EMC
2011.05 - 2016.03

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Rajasthan Technical University
2001.04 -

Available Upon Request

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