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I’m Sourabh, a Solution and Cloud Architect based in Singapore. I make complex technologies easier to understand using mental models, plain language, practical examples, and real architecture context.

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About Sourabh

A Solution and Cloud Architect with post-sales, engineering, and pre-sales perspective.

I’m Sourabh Shrivastav, a Solution and Cloud Architect based in Singapore, with experience across post-sales consulting, enterprise engineering, and pre-sales consulting.

My career spans BMC Software, VMware, Credit Suisse, and Broadcom, giving me a practical view of how platforms are positioned, implemented, operated, and modernized in real enterprise environments.

I write to make complex platform technologies easier to understand using mental models, diagrams, practical examples, and plain language. My focus is not only how a technology works, but where it fits, why it matters, and what architecture decisions it influences.

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Experience helping customers adopt and get value from complex infrastructure and automation platforms.

Engineering perspective

Hands-on enterprise platform experience from operating and modernizing infrastructure in end-user environments.

Architecture perspective

Practical focus on fit, trade-offs, operating model, lifecycle, and decision quality.

I work for Broadcom in the VMware Cloud Foundation division. Content here reflects my personal views and is not official Broadcom guidance.

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Design Harbor as part of the Kubernetes platform.

See how registry governance, access, scanning, image movement and day-two operations fit into a VKS architecture.

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