Rakesh Kumar Srivastava

Rakesh Kumar Srivastava

Head of Information Technology

A result oriented, skillful IT professional with hands-on experience in championing business process improvements; accomplished in identifying and deploying cost-effective, value-added IT solutions – all while delivering excellent services. Mr Srivastava is a creative and motivated Information and Communications Technology specialist and a team leader with more than 25 years of work experience. One of his major achievements is the new IT Infrastructure setup at NCAER, establishing a Data Centre in the newly built 1,00,000 Sq. feet office building and a conference building with a 150-person capacity. The setup offers a 10G Backbone connectivity, seamless wireless connectivity across the buildings, Unified Communications and Collaboration, CCTV surveillance amongst of other ultra-modern features. Another highlight of this endeavour led by him is ensuring redundancy at all levels of the network infrastructure and high-end servers to manage huge datasets to assist the large-scale research projects in the institution. The migration of on-premises email services to the cloud-based platform Office 365 in November 2021 was achieved under his leadership. The development and deployment of a New NCAER website project in October 2022 is one of his recent accomplishments.