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title: "Karthik G. - Senior Business Development Associate in San Francisco Bay Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Karthik G., Principal Cloud Engineer & Architect | Ex Oracle, Goldman Sachs, E*TRADE | Published Author | Multi Cloud Expert - OCI, AWS | Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, Python | Gen AI based in San Francisco Bay Area. AI stack includes claude."
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# Karthik G\. on Tal

## Headline

Principal Cloud Engineer & Architect \| Ex Oracle, Goldman Sachs, E\*TRADE \| Published Author \| Multi Cloud Expert \- OCI, AWS \| Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, Python \| Gen AI

## About

I'm a Principal Cloud & DevOps Engineer with deep roots as a Java developer—I even authored a book, early in my career , on Apache Wicket, a Java web framework still used in enterprise and financial systems today\. Having spent my career at places like Oracle, Goldman Sachs, and E\*TRADE, I've ended up somewhere between software engineering and cloud infrastructure\. I don't just keep servers running; I actually understand the code that's running on them\. Over the years I have walked into messy, high\-volume systems and turned them into something stable, automated, and built to scale\. My dev background is what makes that possible—it's why I can build infrastructure tools from the ground up, automate migrations across hundreds of enterprise clients, and keep global cloud fleets running\. A few things I've done that I'm proud of: Scale: Managed global fleet operations and patching for over 25% of Oracle's integration cloud, and automated backend provisioning to close operational gaps that used to eat up everyone's time\. Development roots: Spent years working on high\-volume Java/ Java EE web frameworks, custom caching systems, and trade verification tools that had to meet Federal Reserve requirements\. Migrations at scale: Led the migration of 300\+ enterprise clients to newer cloud architectures, and built custom tooling to make the whole process less painful\. Multi\-Cloud Perspective: Beyond OCI, I've built personal AWS projects to translate my cloud architecture and automation experience across platforms—strengthening a vendor\-agnostic approach to infrastructure design Up to date with all Gen AI concepts with hands\-on knowledge on RAG, MCP, Agents, Eval, Security, Observability using AWS Strands and Agentcore Tools I work with: Apache Airflow , Oracle Cloud \(OCI\), AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Spring, Grafana, Java / Java EE , Oracle Analytics Cloud, AWS Bedrock, AWS Strands

## Location

San Francisco Bay Area

## AI stack

claude

## Work experience

Senior Business Development Associate at Bhanzu \(Exploring Infinities\), Jun 2026 \- Present · 3 mo, HSR Layout, Sector 1

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology \(VNIT\), Nagpur

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