12+ years building, securing, and scaling cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Currently architecting Kore.ai's AI infrastructure — delivered ~$2M/year in FinOps savings. I integrate security into every layer of the platform: IaC policy enforcement, pipeline compliance gates, container hardening, and cloud governance. Previously led DevOps & DevSecOps for Fortune 500 engagements at Deloitte.
Platform Architect at the intersection of AI, Cloud & Security — I design, secure, and operate the cloud infrastructure that makes AI products possible.
| Metric | Detail |
|---|---|
| ~$2M | Annual cloud cost reduction at Kore.ai via EKS FinOps (2025) |
| 100+ | Engineers served by CI/CD platform built for Spirit AeroSystems in AWS GovCloud |
| 12+ | Years building and scaling cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP |
| 5 | Fortune 500 clients at Deloitte — Toyota, TransUnion, Novelis, Spirit, Caterpillar |
| 0 | Downtime during TransUnion's critical container infrastructure migration |
| 3 | Major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with certified expertise on all three |
Kore.ai (Sep 2025 – Present) — Architecting the SmartAssist AI Voice Agent Platform: real-time SIP/RTP voice workloads, EKS lifecycle strategy, FinOps optimisation, and observability practices for production AI at scale.
EKS ECS Lambda API Gateway RDS AWS GovCloud AWS Outpost Azure AKS Azure Functions Databricks GCP GKE
Terraform Terragrunt Helm Ansible CloudFormation SAM
Docker Kubernetes Istio EKS GKE AKS OCP (OpenShift)
Jenkins GitLab CI Azure DevOps ArgoCD Concourse GitOps
Policy-as-Code SonarQube AWS Config Container Hardening Pipeline Security Gates IaC Compliance SAST / DAST Secrets Management IAM / RBAC Shift-Left Security
Prometheus Grafana ELK / EFK AppDynamics
EKS Right-sizing Spot Instances Savings Plans Cost Allocation FinOps for AI (LF)
Python Bash / Shell Java JavaScript Node.js
| Badge | Certification | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| ☁️ | AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | Amazon Web Services |
| 🔷 | HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate | HashiCorp |
| 🌐 | Google Associate Cloud Engineer | Google Cloud |
| 🏗️ | AWS Well-Architected Proficient | Amazon Web Services |
| 💰 | FinOps for AI | The Linux Foundation |
| 🤖 | Introduction to Generative AI |
Kore.ai Sep 2025 – Present Architect, DevOps
Hyderabad · Enterprise AI / Voice Agent Platform
Lloyds Technology Centre Apr 2024 – Aug 2025 Senior Technology Manager
Hyderabad · Regulated UK Banking · OCP & GCP Migration
Deloitte Dec 2020 – Mar 2024 Senior DevOps Engineer
Hyderabad · Fortune 500 Cloud Consulting
(Toyota, TransUnion, Novelis, Spirit AeroSystems, Caterpillar)
Unify Technologies May 2020 – Oct 2020 DevOps Consultant (End client: Roche Holding AG)
Appdest Technologies Jul 2019 – Apr 2020 Technical Architect
Banyan / Accpre Software Sep 2013 – Jun 2019 Cloud & DevOps Engineer → Tech Lead
📍 Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Open to senior roles in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, or Remote
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