024 - Vinod Kumar - Episode 24 - 20161124 AgileNEXT

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Vinod Kumar joins Daniel and Stephen and talks to us about Agile, India, tech and the community. Some topics include: Agile Teams The role of tools The Indian market The Agile Community AgileNEXT Bio: vinodk https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinodkumar6 Currently an Architect at Microsoft Technology Center, Bangalore. Have been Application Developer, Database Administrator, R&D, Release cycles and Project Manager in a wide variety of SDLC. I am interested in database technologies using Cloud, Big Data, MS-SQL Server, Oracle and others. Interesting in spreading the world of technology to the community and would like to talk the right usage of technology. Also an community oriented person running the local SQL and .NET Group in Bangalore. Speaker at major conferences like TechEd, Author of books, Blogger and much more. Specialties: Competitive analysis with DB, SQL Server, BI, Reporting, ETL, Relational database features, .NET, Sharepoint, Office client Tools (Word, Outlook, PPT, Excel) etc. Worked with various customers who come to MTC Lab for debugging, performance, security architecture, scalability, deployment, tuning and other performance issues. Extensive experience in SQL Server optimization and fine-tuning. Extensive experience in End-to-End architecture design and implementation. Specialized in Big SQL Implementation, HA, DR, managing VLDB's Extensive experience making methodology and helping customers to the latest OS, SQL Server, Big Data and Cloud based solutions. Some of the areas I help customers are discussions around Consolidation of infrastructure, Application Tuning, Databases, BI, Productivity, Application Platform and Azure based Architecture designs.