Welcome to Chandru D's AWS World!
You're in for an exciting journey into my world of AWS through the use of Terraform tool. With my regular updates & tips, you can transform your career and take it to a newer level in the world of IT!
If you haven’t come across my name (“Chandru D”) yet in LinkedIn, that’s perfectly fine and now you can know.
Let me introduce myself and you need some time and patience along the way!
Who Am I?
Chandra Mohan Dhanasekaran, aka Chandru D is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect at Philips in Bengaluru, Karnataka focused on designing world class resilient and cost-efficient solutions for the customers in the public cloud. My previous experience includes stints in banking giants like JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Danske Bank, largest bank in Denmark and popular in Nordic countries. I have close to 15 years of professional IT experience in different domains and various technology stacks ranging from mainframe, front-end and distributed and container technologies. I always have my profound love for mainframe systems and fascinated by the advantages of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and cloud services. You can find me almost in all the AWS events and meetups around Bengaluru and loves to connect with people.
I always look to explore new open-source technologies blossoming and is a fan of serverless technologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes.
Outside of work, I love cooking for the kids during weekends and enjoys jogging whenever I find some time. A die-hard Manchester United fan and watching “Rafa” (Rafael Nadal) around the tennis court is something he can't afford to miss!
Yes! I am done and thanks for your time and staying on till here.
What have I done?
Last year I got chance to collaborate with PACKT PUBLISHERS for working on a book titled "HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide". This exam guide can help the readers with no/little experience to master Terraform concepts and the core workflow to successfully gain HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) certification valued very high in the world of cloud computing and AWS. Thanks to my co-author Manjunath Gowda for his contributions and guidance.
This book got published worldwide in Amazon.com and country websites like Amazon.in, Amazon.uk and it’s already available in Kindle as well as Paperback editions and has only 5-star ratings and nothing less!
Links to buy book:
https://packt.link/VO1ET (PacktPub.com and has discounts most of the time)
https://packt.link/OZkwE (Amazon.com)
You can also find a copy of my book in O’Reilly platform in the below link if you have the membership as part of your organization.
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/hashicorp-terraform-associate/9781804618844/
What can I/We do?
I always had a very humble beginning coming from a small town with respect to computer knowledge, programming languages, career guidance and so on!
In India and in states like Tamil Nadu, today's scenario is very different I feel. Opportunities in the technology and cloud world might be enormous but everyone doesn't have from the same starting line especially the college students just finishing or about to finish their course and the exposure to cloud technology depends on the place they're coming from. Students or freshers from rural and semi urban places are already lagging behind when compared to students from bigger universities and cities. Everyone can't pay and attend specialized courses, masterclasses and bootcamps due to various reasons.
This definitely needs a change to provide equal opportunities, and please subscribe at the end of the post and share your thoughts to take this forward. I would love to have a discussion with you if you're a student or a professional with similar thoughts and we can do this together!!
I’m a working professional and I too want to help students. How can I?
Please subscribe and join the bandwagon and I am very keen to hear from you and your inputs can definitely help the student community to strive and outgrow their peers and contribute more!
Thanks for taking this step!
What’s Next if you’re a Subscriber?
Enough of my talk and let’s see something in action soon. I am listing some of the things I am planning to do from my end and working on the same currently and more updates to follow. . . Please do subscribe and watch this space.
Monthly Free Giveaways of my Terraform Book
100% Free HashiCorp Terraform and AWS Cloud Training Workshops @ Your College (need your help though)
1-1 Career Guidance and Coaching
Personalized Career & Learning Plans for College students based on their aspirations (i.e., Architect, DevOps, SRE, SDE and so on.)
Certifications and Courses Fee Sponsorships (from my own pocket :))
and so many. . .
Let me know if you have more suggestions or ideas and we can make it bigger and better for the community!
Ending it with one of my favorite quotes which is very relevant to what I am trying to achieve.
Very good initiative Chandru, appreciate your effort and time spent on this.