Rajendra Marlapati currently serves as a Senior Cloud Architect in the Cloud Center of Excellence at QatarEnergy since November 2023. Prior to this, Rajendra worked as a Senior Consultant at Ooredoo Qatar from March 2017 to August 2023, focusing on cloud solutions and data center services. Rajendra's experience includes a role as Senior Technical Lead at Happiest Minds Technologies, leading cloud implementations and team training, as well as positions at Wipro, Tulip Data Center Services, and Sasken Network Engineering, gaining expertise in virtualization, operations, and data center management. Rajendra holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, completed in 2006.