Binand Sethumadhavan

Current

Network and Security Architect at Ivy Comptech Pvt. Ltd.
Systems Architect at PartyGaming Plc.

Past

Manager - Networks and Servers at Bay Management Ltd.
IT Manager at Mohawk Internet Technologies
IT Operations Manager at Ivy Comptech Pvt Ltd

Member - Technical at Cysphere.com Pvt. Ltd.
Technical Yahoo at Yahoo India Pvt. Ltd.
Software Architect & Operations Manager at Retort Software Pvt. Ltd.

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Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
St. Joseph's College, Devagiri, Calicut

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Binand Sethumadhavan’s Summary

Experienced infrastructure and operations manager, well versed with various Unix and Windows servers and a variety of networking equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Foundry and others.

Binand Sethumadhavan’s Specialties:

Network design and redundancy catering for high-availability and resilience. Disaster recovery planning and implementation.

Binand Sethumadhavan’s Experience

Network and Security Architect

Ivy Comptech Pvt. Ltd.

(Internet industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Systems Architect

PartyGaming Plc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRTY.L; Internet industry)

September 2001 — Present (7 years 11 months)

Partygaming Plc. is the market leader in the online gaming industry running successful online casino, poker and betting websites under the "Party" brand - partypoker, partycasino, partybets, partygammon and partybingo.

I started off as a software developer, but soon found myself in the role of its main IT operations person. As the company grew, my responsibilities too grew - from a small server room in a corner of the office, we built four custom-made datacentres in various colocation providers in Europe and Canada. I eventually became the person responsible for complete datacentre operations - the facility, liaising with the provider and NSP, hiring competent engineers, internal networking, server and appliance setup and configuration, rapid deployment, redundancy and high availability, monitoring, management and trending for capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity, backups, project planning - just about everything.
Manager - Networks and Servers

Bay Management Ltd.

(Internet industry)

September 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 2 months)
IT Manager

Mohawk Internet Technologies

(Internet industry)

December 2004 — September 2005 (10 months)
IT Operations Manager

Ivy Comptech Pvt Ltd

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Member - Technical

Cysphere.com Pvt. Ltd.

(Internet industry)

September 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 4 months)
Technical Yahoo

Yahoo India Pvt. Ltd.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

April 2001 — September 2001 (6 months)

A short stint at Yahoo's Bangalore office as a developer in their Yahoo Messenger server-side team.
Software Architect & Operations Manager

Retort Software Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1998 — March 2001 (2 years 11 months)

Retort Software was then a startup company offering IT consulting, services and products to Industries which wanted to use computer networking technologies and the Internet to improve efficiency, communications and reduce paperwork. Its clients list was almost a who's-who of the industrial belt in and around Bombay (now Mumbai) and Pune.

As with any other startup, I had multiple roles - I was among the software architects of the company, and was also in-charge of operations - visiting clients for pre-sales technology demonstrations, post-sales feedback and third-level escalation position.