Description

Cloud & Platform Engineering Leader with 13+ years of experience designing scalable cloud platforms, AI-powered solutions, and enterprise infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

I specialize in Platform Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Kubernetes, DevOps, AIOps, Observability, and Generative AI. I have led large-scale transformation initiatives in banking and fintech, including building AI-driven self-healing platforms that reduced incident resolution times by up to 70%.

I help organizations improve reliability, accelerate delivery, optimize cloud costs, and adopt AI securely through practical, production-ready solutions.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Bengaluru (up to 20km)

Standard Chartered Global Business Services
AVP, WRB, Cloud Engineering
May 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Architected and led development of"Druid", an internal AI-driven AIOps platform enabling automated detection and self-remediation of production issues, reducing MTTR by 60–70% and significantly improving system uptime
• • Designed event-driven observability platform ingesting logs, metrics, and alerts at scale, enabling proactive failure detection before customer impact
• • Led end-to-end reliability engineering strategy, including incident response automation, monitoring, and self-healing workflows
• • Defined and implemented multi-cloud infrastructure standards (AWS + Azure) using Terraform, improving provisioning consistency and deployment speed across teams
• • Drove cloud migration initiatives (on-prem → cloud) for enterprise workloads, improving scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency
• • Spearheaded Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments for 30+ microservices, reducing manual provisioning errors by ~90% and accelerating release frequency by 3x
• • Established multi-cloud governance frameworks, including access controls, cost guardrails, and automated compliance checks, improving security posture and simplifying audits
• • Mentored engineers and influenced architecture decisions across teams, establishing best practices for cloud-native and DevOps adoption
Cloud computing Cloud architect AI Agent Terraform Python
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
Cloud Architect / Senior Cloud Engineer
December 2021 - May 2024 (2 years and 5 months)
• • Designed secure and scalable cloud architectures aligned with enterprise standards. Built reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure provisioning. Contributed to cloud adoption and modernization strategies
• • Integrated automated CI/CD pipelines leveraging industry-leading tools, minimizing deployment cycles and elevating system reliability for critical banking applications.
• • Strengthened cloud governance and compliance by integrating robust monitoring, security automation, and policy enforcement frameworks tailored to stringent banking regulations.
• • Consolidated multi-account cloud operations by deploying centralized logging and cost optimization solutions, enabling transparent resource utilization tracking and supporting financial controls essential for banking compliance.
Virtusa
Lead Consultant / Senior Cloud Engineer
June 2019 - December 2021 (2 years and 6 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• • Led Azure cloud architecture for enterprise applications, designing scalable and secure environments aligned with client requirements
• • Built Terraform-based infrastructure automation frameworks, reducing environment provisioning time by ~50–70% and improving deployment consistency
• • Implemented CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster and more reliable releases across multiple applications
• • Drove performance optimization and observability improvements, reducing production issues and improving system stability