In conversation with an Infrastructure Automation Expert, Ram Iyer, where he shares experiences with Chitra From PM Power Consulting on

How he became an automation engineer

Early career in Infrastructure guided, mentored and learned with the help of great managers and lead engineers

What it takes to understand an enterprise solution, from building reports to writing automation code

How the operations view is missing when applications and products are built.

Thoughts on design for scale and scale-out v/s scale

Infrastructure as code, collaboration and the philosophy of “no silos”

A DayIntheLifeOf an infrastructure automation engineer

Cross-Cultural learning

Lessons learned as a service help desk engineer very early on in his career

Why he believes in volunteering 

A millennials’ message for building a career in tech and software

Ram is an automation expert by profession who has spent about a decade in IT, an author of Powershell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook (https://www.amazon.com/PowerShell-6-0-Linux-Administration-Cookbook/dp/1789137233#:~:text=Book%20Description&text=PowerShell%20Core%20enables%20automation%20on,to%20effectively%20administer%20your%20environment.) , a blogger, a typography enthusiast, a volunteer and an amateur podcaster. He likes to pick up issues that seem complex and break them down to digestible pieces—something he does at work, and tries to do on his blog.

He can be reached via RamIyer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theramiyer/)