Professional Summary
Engineering leader with 18+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, and SRE. Recognized as an AWS Container Hero by Amazon Web Services for significant, sustained contributions to the cloud and developer community.
Currently leading Platform and R&D at Sedai — building multi-cloud platform infrastructure from the ground up across AWS, GCP, and Azure, driving research in Kubernetes and GPU workload optimization, and helping enterprise customers reduce cloud and AI infrastructure spend by 30–40%.
Experience
Director of Engineering – Platform & R&D
- Led R&D for Kubernetes optimization including GPU workload optimization, Karpenter tuning, and autonomous node pool optimization for EKS, GKE, and AKS
- Architected Sedai's multi-cloud platform infrastructure from the ground up across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Owned end-to-end BYOC on-premises installations for major US enterprise clients
- Researched autonomous optimization of dynamic node provisioning — translating R&D into product features for CPU and GPU fleet right-sizing
- Designed SaaS onboarding platform and Kubernetes self-integration workflows
- Led go-to-market availability on Spectro Cloud, AWS, and Azure Marketplaces
- Partnered with enterprises to deliver 30–40% reductions in cloud spend
- Contributed to SOC 2 certification preparation
- Served as internal SME for Kubernetes across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams
Cloud Native Consultant
- Led end-to-end infrastructure modernization — containerizing applications, implementing GitOps, migrating to Amazon EKS
- Designed isolated Dev, Stage, and Production environments on AWS
- Delivered highly available infrastructure achieving 100% uptime for production services
Associate Director – Cloud Services
- Led 30–40 member cloud operations team across India and the US
- Active role in pre-sales — solution engineering and translating business requirements into cloud proposals
- Owned end-to-end SRE and DevOps for high-profile clients
- Helped enterprise clients achieve PCI-DSS certification across AWS and private cloud
- Directed DevOps transformation — containerization, IaC, and automated deployments
Lead Operations Engineer – DevOps
- Founded and built Network Redux's Managed AWS Services practice from scratch — became the company's leading revenue source
- Led cloud migrations for multiple on-premises datacenter customers to AWS
- Architected highly available, scalable AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes orchestration
- Established monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows
Senior Operations Engineer / System Architect
- Planned and executed datacenter consolidation — Portland and Washington to Seattle with near-zero interruption
- Managed private cloud environments on Citrix XenServer
- Designed backup and disaster recovery for entire server estate
- Administered Juniper SRX firewalls and led network migration to Arista
System Administrator & Production Support Team Lead
- Built MST's in-house infrastructure from scratch — network design through HA production servers
- Managed production databases (MySQL, Oracle) and reporting platforms
- Led 3-member team delivering 24x7 platform availability
Internal System Administrator → Team Lead
- Managed 300+ Linux workstations across Kochi, Germany, and US offices
- Administered entire in-house server infrastructure — NIS, NFS, OpenAFS, OpenVPN, Zimbra, and more
- Progressed from Sysadmin to Team Lead; led 6-member internal systems team
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) – CNCF
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – CNCF
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Juniper JNCIS-SEC – Juniper Networks
JNCA-Junos – Juniper Networks
Education
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com with Computer Applications)
Languages
English
Malayalam
Hindi