Professional Summary
Ten years designing and running Microsoft Azure estates for banks, insurers and a national retailer: enterprise-scale landing zones, AKS platforms, identity with Entra ID, and migrations of thousands of workloads with the governance to keep them tidy afterwards.
Work Experience
Azure Solutions Architect, Cloudline Consulting
Hyderabad · Jan 2021 – Present
Lead architect for the firm's largest Azure engagements; head of a practice of nine.
- Enterprise landing zone for a bank: 60 subscriptions, 3 regions, policy as code, adopted by three business units
- AKS platform used by 30 product teams with golden pipelines and zero-trust networking
- Migrated 400 VMs and 90 databases from two data centres in eleven months, on budget
Cloud Engineer, Insuretek
Pune · Aug 2017 – Dec 2020
Built the insurer's first Azure estate: networking, identity federation, CI/CD and monitoring.
- Cut monthly cloud spend 31 % with reservations, right-sizing and auto-shutdown policies
Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad · Jul 2015 – Jul 2017
Windows Server, Active Directory and the first Office 365 migrations for enterprise clients.
Education
B.E., Computer Science, Osmania University
Aug 2011 – May 2015
Skills
Azure landing zones, Hub-spoke networking, Entra ID and identity, Azure Policy and governance, AKS, App Service and Functions, Cosmos DB and Azure SQL, Front Door and Application Gateway, Bicep, Terraform, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, Azure Monitor and Defender, C#, PowerShell, Python
Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert — Microsoft, Jun 2024 (valid to Jun 2025)
- Azure DevOps Engineer Expert — Microsoft, Sep 2023
- Azure Security Engineer Associate — Microsoft, Feb 2023
- TOGAF 10 Practitioner — The Open Group, Nov 2022
Projects
Bank landing zone — Lead architect
2023 – 2024
Hub-spoke across three regions, 60 subscriptions, private endpoints everywhere, 140 policies as code, Defender and Sentinel wired in from day one.
AKS platform for 30 teams — Architect
2022 – 2023
Multi-tenant AKS with workload identity, Flux, golden pipelines and a self-service portal; 1,900 deployments a month.
Data-centre exit — Migration lead
2021 – 2022
400 VMs, 90 databases, two data centres closed, eleven months, zero unplanned downtime.
Achievements
- Microsoft MVP — Azure, 2025. For community work on landing zones and Bicep.
- Landing zone adopted as the bank's standard, 2024
- 31 % cloud cost reduction at Insuretek, 2019
Languages
English (Fluent), Hindi (Native), Telugu (Conversational)