About

Sumit Asok is a Principal Engineer (Golang) and Cloud Architect with over 12 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware. Sumit has a customer-centric product thinking approach and emphasizes a Go-to-Market strategy. He has forward-thinking technical leadership skills that enable him to do things the "right way" from the get-go. Sumit has experience in Cloud Solution Architecture, Data Modelling, Backend Engineering, AWS, Azure, PaaS, Server-less, Containers, Docker, and Polyglot. He has worked as a Solutions Architect at Asteria Aerospace, where he designed and developed Skydeck, a Cartography cloud solution that democratizes drone data. The solution covers various verticals like agriculture, mining, construction, industrial inspections, and more. Sumit was responsible for product definition, strategy and roadmap planning, client and partner interactions, team management, recruitment, application and cloud architecture, development, and DevOps. Sumit has expertise in Microservices, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS - Fargate, EC2, Lambda, serverless.com, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, ECR, Message Bus architecture, AMQP, Data Access Layer pattern, GRPC, Protobuf, Azure (ACI, Functions, BlobStore, CosmosDB), Golang, Python, Postgres, CosmosDB(MongoDB API), and more. He has ensured all five pillars of Well-Architected Azure tenets and utilized PaaS solutions from Azure. Sumit has also automated large-scale ortho-rectification of images in real-time on the cloud for converting drone images to maps of country-size data. Sumit has worked on making architecture cloud vendor-agnostic using Cloud Native Compute Foundation offerings and automated GIS transformations involving high compute using Kubernetes KEDA + RabbitMQ architecture. He has expertise in Gdal, Rasterio, PostGIS, Orthomosaic, DSM, DTM (DEM), Vegetative Indexes, Map tiles, Image manipulations, Shapefiles, Annotation, 3D (Obj/Glb), and more. Sumit has completed his Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Calicut in 2009 and a Self-Driving Car Nano Degree from Udacity in 2017. He has a tech stack that includes Software Engineer, Golang, Senior Software Engineer, Azure, AWS, Docker, Backend, Microservices, RabbitMQ, MongoDB