Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX) Directory

Employer: Atos Global IT Solutions & Service Private Ltd
LinkedIn: Rajendra Bhise
Bio: Rajendra is an experienced IT Infrastructure and Cloud Architect working in the IT industry for more than 20 years. During his career he has held various roles in different areas like System Administrator, Messaging and Unified Communication expert, Infrastructure Architect, and Solution Architect. He has an excellent understanding of how various components of IT infrastructure work together.  He has deep knowledge in data center technologies, security, cloud solution, architecture frameworks, architecture governance which enables him to help customers solve their problems. In his current role, Rajendra has designed, and supported enterprise solutions based on Hyper Converged infrastructure using Nutanix HCI. Rajendra helps customers to achieve their business goals and optimized business outcome. He is very passionate about technology, believes in continuous learning and keeping skills up to date. In addition to Nutanix Certified Expert, Rajendra holds other industry certifications like TOGAF 9.2 Certified Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate, Certified DevOps Practitioner and ITIL v3 Certification.

Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Christian Cadavid
Bio: Christian is a Staff Resident Architect with more than 15 years of IT experience in enterprise and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure. In his current role, Christian designs, implements, and supports enterprise solutions based on various Hybrid Cloud technologies to accelerate digital transformation and solve complex issues. In the past, Christian has worked for various customer environments including most recently automobile, retail, Oil & Gas, telecommunications and managed services. In addition to Nutanix NCX, Christian holds a M.Sc. in Information Security and several industry certifications from Nutanix, Microsoft, and Netapp.

Employer: Long View Systems 
LinkedIn: Alexey Davydov
Bio: Alexey is an experienced IT Architect with over 15 years working in IT industry and specializing in modern datacenter hybrid-cloud infrastructure. Alexey has proven successes spanning the operations, planning, and design of large-scale enterprise systems. These include virtualization, large scale data storage systems, application delivery and security, as well as disaster recovery and business continuity. Previously Alexey has worked as PS Engineer, Pre-Sales, Systems Engineer at IT companies in Russia & CIS and EMEA regions. Being adept at understanding the inter-relationships between systems and business processes and minimizing negative impacts of IT changes Alexey brings new efficiencies and effectiveness to his customers. Besides Nutanix certified, Alexey holds other industry certifications including VMware, Cohesity, Cisco, AWS.

Employer: Bahrain Business Machines B.S.C (C) 
LinkedIn: Hyson D’Souza
Bio: Hyson is an ace Technology Services Specialist with rich IT experience specializing in modern datacenter hybrid-cloud infrastructure. In a span of 15 years, he has worked in various categories of IT fields such as trainer, support, implementation, and solution design. He has a deep understanding of technologies from Microsoft, Veeam, VMware, Lenovo, IBM and Netapp. He loves exploring new fields and holds multiple industry certification. Currently Hyson is working with GBM Bahrain as a Technology Evangelist responsible for designing and implementing Hybrid Cloud solutions for customers.

Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Joe Garvey 
Bio: Joe has been on the System Engineering team at Nutanix since January 2018, working with various customers, from NY Healthcare to Financials. He is currently a Regional Architect based in the NY Metro area, supporting Global Financial and NY Enterprise accounts. Starting an IT career in the early 2000s, he spent the majority on the operations and engineering side. For the last decade he has been designing datacenters, planning migrations and building BCDR plans. Always trying to learn, he has achieved other industry certifications, including ITIL, VMware, AWS, and Azure.

Employer: Stratascale
LinkedIn: Nick Hartman
Bio: Nick is an Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of experience with various publishing, financial, healthcare, and pre-sales roles. In those roles, he has worked within data center, security, cloud, network, IT policy, enterprise architecture, and consulting teams to help find new and innovative solutions to the most challenging problems. In his architectural designs he puts emphasis on the art of possible and providing business value while enabling future growth for an IT organization. He equally enjoys learning new technologies and providing training sessions in order to help both individuals and companies achieve their goals as well as encourage lifelong learning. He has his MBA from Xavier University and holds several industry certifications including Nutanix, AWS, Microsoft, and VMware.

Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Abraham is a Senior Resident Consultant at Nutanix. In his role, he helps design and implement IT infrastructure solutions that solve business needs and requirements of SMB and Enterprise customers. Abraham’s primary areas of expertise are on Virtualization, Cloud, Networking, Storage, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering and worked as an Electrical engineer prior to transitioning into the IT industry. In addition to Nutanix certifications he also holds industry certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM.

Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Vishal Idge
Bio: Vishal has been working with Nutanix as a Senior Resident Consultant since 2021. He has 14+ years of experience in IT industry and worked on multiple converged and hyperconverged technologies like Nutanix, VMware and Cisco Hyperflex. He has extensive experience as a System admin managing various storage platforms, Virtual Desktops, RBAC, Backup, Mailing and collaboration technologies.  He has strong scripting skills and did 300+ automations using PowerShell. His current certifications include NCP, NCS-Core, NCM, NCX.

Employer: ETF-Flashtrade
LinkedIn: Igor Larionov
Bio: Igor is a Systems Engineer with 10 years of experience with various of IT technology solutions, including Storage and HCI products. Previously he has worked as Support Consultant, Pre-Sales, Systems Engineer, and Architect at IT companies in Russia. He has deep knowledge in data center products, cloud solutions, etc. that allow him to successfully resolve customers problems and needs. Today, he is designing and deploying solutions based on Nutanix that helping customers in their day-by-day operations. He equally enjoys learning new technologies, that's why he holds many industry certifications including Dell, Citrix, Nutanix, and VMware.

Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: @eric-meyer-0255631
Bio: I have been a Sr. Systems Engineer at Nutanix since August 2017 based out of the Pittsburgh, PA area.  I spent the early years of my career at Marconi as a Network Engineer for Optical Networks, ATM Switch, and Route / Switch. Over the next few years, I transitioned to a Security design consultant for mission-critical solutions such as Nuclear Power Plants and airports utilizing intelligent threat analysis systems.  Pryor coming to Nutanix I was a network Architect for UPMC 8 years achieving the highest level MPLS Certification for Nokia Service Service Routers. Over the last 3 ½ years at Nutanix I have been working in the commercial theater supporting customers across the Ohio Valley. Nutanix has been my favorite stops over the course of my career as I thoroughly enjoying working with customers, designing solutions, learning all of our amazing products, and more importantly the relationships I have built-in and out of Nutanix.  I also hold the Nokia SRA(#227) Service Router Certification.