Hi, I’m Prabhakaran Ravichandran.

aka PBKN!

As a Software Engineer, Architect, and DevOps Lead based in Chennai, India, my journey has been one of continuous growth and exploration. From developing innovative games to authoring insightful books, and from writing over 1,000 technical blog posts to sharing my AWS expertise on LinkedIn, I have passionately pursued various avenues to achieve greatness.

My work in IT since 2016 has seen me evolve into a thought leader, creating impactful POCs and convincing peers to adopt cutting-edge technologies. My commitment to excellence and innovation drives me to stand out and make a positive impact in every project I undertake.

I invite you to delve deeper into my journey and discover the diverse projects I’ve been involved in, from book reviews to engaging LinkedIn posts, and from game development to strategic technical leadership.

Explore my world, connect with me, and let’s collaborate to transform our worlds together.

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional

Certification earners have the practical knowledge needed to implement GenAI solutions into production environments using AWS technologies. They demonstrated the ability to design and build solutions using various GenAI architectures, integrate FMs into applications and business workflows, and implement agentic AI solutions. They are able to apply prompt engineering techniques, optimize for cost and performance, and configure in line with security, governance, and Responsible AI practices.

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding of how to deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS. They demonstrated the ability to monitor, scale, and secure systems in the AWS Cloud. They can implement optimizations based on business requirements of performance and cost. Badge owners are able to provide guidance on implementing best practices for cloud operations.

AWS Certification SME – Associate

This digital badge recognizes Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs) who have made substantial contributions to the AWS Certification program. Recipients have demonstrated in-depth knowledge and professional expertise through participation in multiple AWS Certification associate-level exam development workshops. They wrote and reviewed technically accurate, relevant, and appropriately challenging exam questions.

K8SUG Certified awstronaut

This badge celebrates individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to continuous learning and skill development with AWS. Badge earners have achieved all 12 active AWS certifications, earning the prestigious title of “AWS Gold Jacket.” This recognition is part of a community-driven awstronaut program supported by K8SUG. While not an official AWS initiative, it is highly respected and widely acknowledged within the cloud community.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

Earners of this certification have the ability to design and maintain network architecture for all AWS services. They demonstrated the ability to leverage tools to automate AWS networking tasks based on business needs. Badge owners are able to design and implement AWS and hybrid IT network architectures at scale.

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

Earners of this certification have an in-depth understanding of AWS machine learning (ML) services. They demonstrated ability to build, train, tune, and deploy ML models using the AWS Cloud. Badge owners can derive insight from AWS ML services using either pretrained models or custom models built from open-source frameworks.

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

Earners of this badge have knowledge and skills in developing, deploying, maintaining, and monitoring ML solutions to meet AI/ML objectives. They know how to ingest, transform, validate, and prepare data for ML modeling. They have skills in implementing and operationalizing ML workloads in production. They can select modeling approaches and analyze model performance. They have the expertise to monitor ML solutions and to secure ML systems and resources.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Earners of this certification have a fundamental understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud. They demonstrated cloud fluency and foundational AWS knowledge. Badge owners are able to identify essential AWS services necessary to set up AWS-focused projects.

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Earners of this certification have an in-depth understanding of AWS security services and the shared responsibility model (between AWS and the customer). They demonstrated the ability to design, implement, and troubleshoot various security models in the AWS Cloud. Badge owners can leverage various security models for organizations of all sizes.

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Earners of this badge understand AI, ML, and generative AI concepts, methods, and strategies in general and on AWS. They can determine the correct types of AI/ML technologies to apply to specific use cases and know how to use AI, ML, and generative AI technologies responsibly. They are familiar with the AWS Global Infrastructure, core AWS services and use cases, AWS service pricing models, and the AWS shared responsibility model for security and compliance in the AWS Cloud.

SKF100: Understanding the OWASP® Top 10 Security Threats

Earners of the SKF100: Understanding the OWASP® Top 10 Security Threats badge understand key concepts and best practices in web application security. They are proficient in identifying/addressing common vulnerabilities. They can assess potential risks and implement appropriate security measures, have knowledge of secure coding practices, and are aware of the importance of confidentiality, integrity, and availability in web application security.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Earners of this certification have an extensive understanding of designing technical strategies to accomplish specific business goals. They demonstrated the ability to balance best practices and trade-offs based on business context. Badge owners are able to design solutions across multiple platforms and providers.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Earners of this certification have an extensive understanding of implementing continuous delivery systems and methodologies on the AWS Cloud. They demonstrated the ability to automate resilient applications and infrastructure deployments using AWS services. Badge owners are able to enforce policies, implement automated monitoring, and configure event management of an environment.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding on how to deploy, manage, and operate IT systems on the AWS Cloud. They demonstrated the ability to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS and monitor, scale, and secure systems on the AWS platform. Badge owners are able to provide guidance on implementing best practices for cloud operations.

Atlassian Badges

These badges complement my knowledge of JIRA and Confluence tools/software which I’ve been using for years. Now getting officially recognized by Atlassian.

AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

Earners of this certification have an in-depth understanding of how to use AWS services to implement data pipelines and to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cost and performance issues in accordance with best practices. Badge owners have technical expertise to understand the effects of volume, variety, and velocity on data ingestion. They are familiar with transformation, modeling, security, governance, privacy, schema design, and optimal data store design.

Liquibase Certified Practitioner Exam

The certification exam includes questions on how Liquibase connects to the database, creating database changes using XML and formatted SQL changelogs, authoring changesets, and best practices when using Liquibase. The exam also tests your knowledge of the update, diff, diff-changelog, status, history, and rollback commands.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 AI Certified Foundations Associate

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI Foundations Associate certification is designed for individuals who intend to demonstrate fundamental knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and related services provided by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding of application life-cycle management. They demonstrated proficiency in writing applications with AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs; using containers; and deploying with a CI/CD pipeline. Badge owners are able to develop, deploy, and debug cloud-based applications that follow AWS best practices.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Foundations Associate

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Foundations certification is for individuals who intend to demonstrate fundamental knowledge of public cloud services provided by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This certification is for candidates with non-technical backgrounds, such as those involved in selling or procuring cloud solutions, as well as those with a technical background who want to validate their foundational-level knowledge around core OCI services. This exam does not require any hands-on technical experience and is not a prerequisite for taking any other OCI certifications.

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open-source HashiCorp Terraform. They understand and can utilize Terraform according to the certification objectives. Additionally, they understand why enterprises choose to extend Terraform Open Source with Terraform Enterprise to solve business-critical objectives.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding of AWS services and technologies. They demonstrated the ability to build secure and robust solutions using architectural design principles based on customer requirements. Badge owners are able to strategically design well-architected distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, efficient, and fault-tolerant.

Getting Started with AWS Machine Learning

This course helps in understanding the Machine Learning Pipeline in Amazon Web Services (AWS). It expands with a demo of Amazon Sage Maker with real time business problem and the actual cost of the AWS Machine Learning services. The take away is that, AWS supports custom ML algorithms but contains a lot of pre-built ones which will fasten the deployment of ML models.

Teamwork Skills: Communicating Effectively in Groups by University of Colorado Boulder

This course redefined the term group communication and gave light to the following factors: make better decisions, be more creative and innovative, manage conflict and work with difficult group members, negotiate for preferred outcomes, improve group communication in virtual environments.

Private Equity and Venture Capital by Università Bocconi

This course enlightened me with the process, taxonomy and facts about private equity and how it is actively used around the globe to influence the economic market. It really transfigured my thought about private equity and venture-backed companies and their life cycle.

Psychological First Aid by Johns Hopkins University

I’ve taken this course offered by Johns Hopkins University in order to help myself and my family/friends in this COVID-19 pandemic. It teaches how the RAPID model can be used and assessed the contents via a quiz.

Machine Learning by Stanford Online

This is proof that I’ve undergone a machine learning course provided by Stanford University via Coursera and completed all their lectures and passed the quiz & programming assessments using Octave.

PSM by Scrum.org

This is to certify that I can handle the Scrum framework and its terminology with ease. It is provided by the international scrum organization scrum.org.

Agile & VCS by Atlassian

These are the course certificates which I’ve earned from Atlassian via Coursera for learning Agile Methodologies with JIRA & Version Control using GIT.

Hacker Rank Skill Assessments

These are the skill assessments which I’ve passed in HackerRank MOOC.

Google Digital Marketing

On a weekend I’ve decided to check out, what is Google Open University offering for learning Digital Marketing and gained this certificate after passing their test.