Laraib Kazi

Call me Kazi.


Virtualization Expert. Tech Enthusiast. Fixer of Problems. Computer Geek. Gamer.



Specialties: Virtualization, vSphere 5.x/6.x/7.x, Systems Administration, Networking, Red Hat Linux

Escalation Engineer, VMware Cloud Foundation

July 2022 - Present


Previous Titles at VMware:

  • Senior Technical Support Engineer - Premier Services / VCF - (Aug 2019 - July 2022)
  • Technical Support Engineer 2 - Premier Services (Aug 2018 - Aug 2019)
  • Technical Support Engineer 2 - Production Support (Aug 2017 - Aug 2018)
  • Technical Support Engineer 1 - Production Support (Jun 2016 - Aug 2017)

Graduate Assistant, College of Business - CSU

September 2015 - May 2016
Maintaining college IT infrastructure including managing HP server blades and managing configuration/updates of the Virtualized environment running vSphere

AppleCare At-Home Advisor, Apple

January 2015 - May 2015
Providing technical expertise and troubleshooting for all US and Canada Customers for all iOS and iCloud products

Certification

VCP-DCV 2022

VMware Certified Professional
Previous: VCP6-DCV

VCAP-DCV Deploy 2022

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Deploy
Previous: VCAP6-DCV - Deploy

VCAP-DCV Design 2022

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Design
Previous: VCAP6-DCV - Design

VCIX-DCV 2022

VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Datacenter
Previous: VCIX6-DCV

vSAN Specialist 2017

VMware Specialist - vSAN 2017 - Jan 2019

AWS Certified Solution Architect

AWS Certified Solution Architect - April 2021

Skillset

Languages

Python, Bash, SQL, C, Android, R

Operating Systems

Windows (Client and Server), Linux - Ubuntu, Kali, CentOS, RedHat, PhotonOS

Virtualization

vSphere (5.x, 6.x, 7.x), vSAN, VCF (3.x, 4.x), VxRail, NSX

Tools

SNORT, Metasploit, Wireshark, FreeNAS, pfSense, Git

Databases

Microsoft SQL Server, Cassandra, MongoDB, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Others

SSL Certificates, Single Sign-On

Colorado State University - College of Business

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Masters of Computer Information Systems - May 2016

Maharashtra Institue of Technology

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunication - June 2014

Get in touch

  • Phone

    (970) 889-9398