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Building Resilient, Scalable Platforms | Platform Architect @OakNorth India

About

I’m a Platform Architect and engineering leader with 9+ years of experience across cloud architecture, platform engineering, DevOps, security and developer enablement. Over the last few years, my focus has evolved from building and operating cloud infrastructure to designing reusable platforms and engineering capabilities that help teams move faster, securely and independently. At OakNorth, I work across platform architecture, cloud modernisation, security, resilience and developer experience, with a recent focus on AI Platform and Agentic Engineering. I’m particularly interested in building AI-powered engineering platforms and citizen-builder capabilities. This includes creating the foundations, golden paths and guardrails that allow engineers to build, deploy and operate their own agents safely. I’ve also worked on AI agents for platform support, Terraform assistance and observability, along with secure self-service capabilities such as Just-in-Time privileged access. My core technical background is in AWS, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, cloud security, CI/CD and operational resilience. What I enjoy most is using that technical depth to create broader engineering impact through platform standards, automation, reusable components, mentoring and cross-team collaboration. I enjoy solving problems where architecture, developer experience, security and automation come together, and I’m increasingly focused on how AI and agentic systems can improve the way engineering teams build and operate platforms. My next chapter is focused on Platform Architecture, AI Platform and Agentic Engineering, and Engineering Leadership, combining hands-on technical depth with platform strategy, engineering enablement and team growth.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Platform Lead / Platform Architect / DevOps Lead at OakNorth, Mar 2026 - Present · 8 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior DevOps Engineer at OakNorth, Nov 2022 - Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key Deliverables: • Played a vital role in wide gamut of tasks comprising – supervising/assessment of engineering performance to suggest appropriate enhancements, performing technical evaluations of engineering designs & test results; interfacing with other departments to facilitate successful project completion and so on • Successfully conducting research to recognise & classify innovative technologies and concepts • Meticuloulsy formulating, developing engineering procedures & processes; generating detailed reports on engineering activities and findings

Associate Solution Architect (Sr. DevOps Engineer) at Opt IT Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd, Oct 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key deliverables: • Instrumental in collaborating with numerous clients to design, discuss, and implement DevOps best practices on production-grade systems • Proficient in executing array of activities such as – spearheading/guiding a highly motivated team dedicated to delivering top-notch DevOps solutions to the clients; training/coaching diversified cluster teams to assess designs/recommend optimal practices for constructing secure, highly available, and dependable architectures for clients • Partnering with clients to ensure PCI, HIPAA, and SOC compliance is achieved • Significant role of being available for L3 support on an on-call basis to resolve issues on production systems; developing documentation for various DevOps tools & technologies processes; assisting multiple teams and clients with cost optimization and right sizing on AWS Cloud, utilizing tools such as nCloud and Cloudchckr • Participating in the hiring process to onboard new engineers for cluster DevOps teams

DevOps Engineer at Opt IT Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd, Nov 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key deliverables: As DevOps Engineer • Utilizing Iaac with Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure management and construction on AWS • Employing Ansible for configuration management of VMs and applications, also employing GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket (depending on customer needs) for code management and building pipelines • Efficiently utilizing Jenkins and GitHub Workflows for CI/CD across various environments • Prudent in developing Helm Charts for deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters; configuring Argocd to automate the deployment of Kubernetes manifests and Helm Charts to multiple environments • Competent in implementing ELK/EFK/Graylog for logging and visualizing application logs; configuring the Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stack for Kubernetes (operators) and standalone servers and applications (exporters) • Integral role in employing Keel, Kubewatch, and Monit to detect and restart/redeploy applications upon new version availability or failure • Configuring centralized monitoring using Thanos deployment to support multi-cluster and multi-region monitoring; effectively utilizing Nginx-ingress and Istio service mesh for application and API routing and management in Kubernetes clusters • Employing Apache Flink (on K8S) and Hadoop clusters (on VMs) with Kafka for multi-stage data processing for analytics • Key role involvement in using AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and GKE for application deployment and management on Kubernetes clusters. Configuring Redshifts, EMR, SageMaker, and AWS QuickSight for data analytics • Utilized AWS Inspector and KubeBench to detect vulnerabilities and implement mitigation strategies for CIS compliance. Additionally, conducted a proof-of-concept evaluation of various tools such as Falco, Sysdig, CloudStrike, and implemented Prisma Cloud (Twistlock Defender) for AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes nodes, and standalone VM forensic scans and detection

DevOps Engineer at Thomson Reuters, Mar 2017 - May 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore India, Key deliverables: Build Java based Applications using Maven, Gradle via Jenkins CI. TFS 2012 and GitLab for Code management. Administration of Tomcat Hosting Webservers. Creation and management of VIP with BIGIP of DNS management with Banana ( Internal Tool). Use of Service Now for incident management, change control. Documentation of processes as well as scripts on MediaWiki Page and Git README's

Web Content Specialist at Swiggy, Sep 2016 - Mar 2017 · 7 mos, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

10th Class, science, Nobel english High school

Public links

github: https://github.com/GangaramD