Vaibhav Gujral
Principal Cloud Architect at Charles Schwab | Microsoft Azure MVP | Leader at Omaha Azure User Group
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Vaibhav Gujral is a principal cloud architect at Charles Schwab, where he provides technical leadership to multiple engineering and operation teams, develops platform architecture blueprints, guides the development of junior engineers into individual-contributor leaders, and bridges the gaps between platform teams with application and central architecture teams. He also advises the platform organization in technology strategy, managing between the immediate demands of ensuring production reliability, the near-term goals of key firm-wide projects related to growth and modernization, and the need to align towards and deliver future technologies.
He specializes in cloud strategy and governance, cloud security, cloud architecture, application architecture, microservices architecture, Artificial Intelligence, FinOps, and DevOps practices. He helps enterprises adopt the cloud correctly by clearly understanding the motivations and developing a cost-effective solution utilizing suitable architectural patterns and design principles. His technical skills include Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Docker, .NET Core, Terraform, and PowerShell.
He has been a Microsoft Azure MVP since 2020, a prestigious award given to exceptional technical community leaders who share their expertise and passion for Azure. He is an active blogger and speaker. He has reviewed several Azure-related books and runs the Omaha Azure user group (https://omahaazure.org/). He also moderates a Twitter community for Microsoft Azure (https://twitter.com/i/communities/1472426162546745346), now over 4000 strong members.
He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and holds multiple cloud certifications.
Blog: https://vaibhavgujral.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VaibhavGujral
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Microsoft Identity Platform for Developers and Architects
Developers can use Microsoft Identity Platform to protect their applications and web APIs and access protected APIs like Microsoft Graph to work with users' and organizations' data. In addition, the Microsoft Identity Platform offers integration of modern innovations in the identity and security space, like passwordless authentication, step-up authentication, and Conditional Access, without writing any extra code. In this session, Vaibhav will discuss core concepts in Microsoft Identity Platform and some demos on how developers can utilize Microsoft Identity Platform in their applications and APIs.
Getting started with Azure OpenAI Service
In this demo-rich session, Vaibhav will showcase the capabilities of Azure Open AI service and how developers can take advantage of large-scale, generative AI models with deep understandings of language and code to enable new reasoning and comprehension capabilities for building cutting-edge applications.
Monitoring Azure resources using Azure Monitor
The session will be 101 session on Azure monitor introduction and how to monitor azure resources like VMs, app services etc.. It will cover log analytics, app insights, Kusto query language and Alerting based on telemety.
Getting started with Azure Static Web Apps
In this quick 20-minute session, Vaibhav will show how easy it is to get started with Azure static web apps. He will demonstrate how to build and run an Azure static web app.
Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service
In this session, Vaibhav will cover the basics of Kubernetes and talk about how the Azure Kubernetes Service makes it easier to run workloads in Kubernetes.
Getting started with Azure Container Apps
In this short session, Vaibhav will talk about what Azure Container Apps are and will cover a quick demo on how to get started with Azure Container apps.
Getting Started with Azure Cognitive Services
In this session, Vaibhav will discuss Azure Cognitive Services and their capabilities. By the end of the session, the audience will have enough understanding of cognitive services to get started with their AI journey.
Azure Networking for Developers
This session will talk about Azure networking fundamentals that a developer should be aware of. It will cover Virtual Networks, Load Balancer, Application Gateways and Traffic Manager.
Ask Me Anything - Azure Role-based certifications
Ask Me Anything about Azure Role-based certifications. It could be about how certifications work, or how to get started with preparation.
Ask Me Anything - Azure Governance
Ask me anything around Azure Blueprints, Azure Policies, Azure RBAC, or Azure Governance in general
Azure Functions - Deep Dive
Join this session to understand Azure Functions which is an event-driven serverless compute platform in Azure. In this demo-rich session, Vaibhav will cover different concepts including Triggers, Bindings, Security, CI/CD, and Durable Functions.
How being active in technical community can help you grow?
In this talk, Vaibhav will talk about why and how technologists (Developers/Administrators/Architects/Managers, etc.) can actively contribute to the technical community. Vaibhav will share some of the key benefits the technical community can bring to one's professional and personal growth.
10 Azure Services every developer needs to know
In this session, Vaibhav will walk through ten essential Azure services that every developer needs to know. He will cover a 5-minute overview of each service, leaving enough information in the hands of the audience to continue their learning journey.
Writing stateful functions in serverless environment using Azure Durable Functions
Azure Functions offer a serverless solution to run your code in the cloud without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. In this session, Vaibhav will show how you can extend your Azure Functions programming model to write stateful functions using Azure Durable Functions. In this demo-rich session, he will show how you can define your stateful workflows using Orchestrator functions and stateful entities using entity functions. He will also cover different application patterns that you can utilize in your applications to benefit from Durable functions. In conclusion, he will also share resources for additional learning.
Azure Logic Apps - Deep Dive
Want to learn about logic apps? Join in this deep dive session where Vaibhav will cover:
- What logic apps are?
- How to create and deploy logic apps?
- Different connectors types
- Different trigger and action types
- How to connect logic apps to on-premises systems
He will cover some demos as well as some best practices for using logic apps.
Demystifying Azure Networking
In this session, Vaibhav will cover the basics of Azure Networking services including Virtual Networks, VPN gateways, and different load balancing options in Azure. He will talk about what each service does and when should it be used?
Azure Governance 101
In this session, Vaibhav will talk about how to Govern your Azure environments effectively. He will talk about management groups, subscriptions, Blueprints, Policies, RBAC, Resource Graphs, and ARM.
An introduction to Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
Are your workloads well-architected to run effectively in the public cloud? Come join us in this session, where Vaibhav will introduce the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected framework and will go through the five pillars of architectural excellence.
Multi-stage YAML Pipelines with Azure DevOps
Azure Pipelines supports continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to constantly and consistently test and build code and ship it to any target. It can be accomplished by defining a pipeline using YAML syntax or through the user interface (Classic).In this talk, Vaibhav will talk about what YAML is and the benefits YAML brings in over the classic UI based pipelines. He will then talk about how to build multi-stage pipelines using YAML in Azure DevOps using stages, jobs, tasks, dependencies, and conditions.
Building and Deploying Containers using Docker and Azure
Want to learn about how to run docker containers in Azure? Join in this hour-long session in which Vaibhav will talk about docker and different Azure services where you can run your docker containers. He will cover docker basics, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, Azure Web Apps for Containers, and Azure Kubernetes Service.
Accelerate your IT Career with Azure Role-based Certifications
If you are an Azure professional and/or if you use Azure in your daily work, join us to find out how to accelerate your IT career with Azure role-based certifications. If you have given a certification exam before or if you are planning to take your first exam, you should attend this session to
- understand the different role-based certifications which are available
- Choose the right certification for you
- Benefits of taking an exam
- Identify the skill sets needed for the certifications
- Understand the Exam structure
- Get some Preparation tips
You will get enough information in this session to get started with your certification preparation.
Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
Join this session if you are just beginning your cloud journey and trying to understand how to get started with Microsoft Azure.
Serverless in Azure
Join this session to understand what serverless is and the different serverless offerings under Microsoft Azure. Vaibhav will also cover Azure functions and Azure logic apps.
Azure Cosmos DB - Overview
This session will be an overview of Azure Cosmos DB. Topics that will be discussed are:
- What Azure Cosmos DB is? What challenges does it solve?
-Resource Model,
- Different data models and APIs
- Partitioning
- Consistency models
- Pricing and Request Units (RUs)
- Some real-time use cases.
Getting started with Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. In this session, Vaibhav will cover the basics of Kubernetes including the different components that make up a Kubernetes cluster, and how to get started with running Kubernetes locally.
Running Kubernetes in Azure using Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service offered by Microsoft simplifying deployment of a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure by offloading the operational overhead to Azure. In this deep dive session, Vaibhav will cover how to manage your AKS environment in Azure and run Kubernetes workloads in Azure, including some quick demos.
Micro-services with Azure Kubernetes Service
In this session, Vaibhav will talk about deploying and managing micro-services-based architecture in Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS). He will describe a Microservices-based architecture and demonstrate to the audience how to package the micro-services as containers and publish them to the Azure Container registry. He will then show how to deploy containers to the AKS cluster and access services. He will also talk about automated deployments to AKS with Azure DevOps and GitHub.
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Azure Day Roma 2023 Sessionize Event
DeveloperWeek Europe 2023 Sessionize Event
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Azure Community Conference 2021 Sessionize Event
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Vaibhav Gujral
Principal Cloud Architect at Charles Schwab | Microsoft Azure MVP | Leader at Omaha Azure User Group
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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