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.
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.
Experience
Azure Solutions Architect
Cloudline Consulting · Hyderabad
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
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
Windows Server, Active Directory and the first Office 365 migrations for enterprise clients.
Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect ExpertJun 2024 · Microsoft
- Azure DevOps Engineer ExpertSep 2023 · Microsoft
- Azure Security Engineer AssociateFeb 2023 · Microsoft
- TOGAF 10 PractitionerNov 2022 · The Open Group
Skills
Architecture
- Azure landing zones
- Hub-spoke networking
- Entra ID and identity
- Azure Policy and governance
Platforms
- AKS
- App Service and Functions
- Cosmos DB and Azure SQL
- Front Door and Application Gateway
Tooling
- Bicep
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Azure Monitor and Defender
Languages
- C#
- PowerShell
- Python
Achievements
- Microsoft MVP — Azure2025
For community work on landing zones and Bicep.
- Landing zone adopted as the bank's standard2024
- 31 % cloud cost reduction at Insuretek2019
About
I lead the Azure practice at Cloudline — nine architects and engineers — and still write the Bicep myself. My work is the boring, load-bearing layer: subscriptions, networking, identity, policy, monitoring and cost, so that product teams never have to think about them.
Microsoft MVP for Azure since 2025; I speak at Azure community days in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
Publications
- Policy as code: the 40 policies every landing zone needsJan 2025 · Personal blog
- Azure Community Day Hyderabad — Private endpoints everywhereAug 2024 · Talk
Testimonials
Neha designed our landing zone so well that the auditors asked for the diagrams.
Rahul Desai — CTO, a private-sector bank
Education
B.E., Computer Science
Osmania University
Languages
- EnglishFluent
- HindiNative
- TeluguConversational
Interests
- Community speaking
- Badminton
- Hindustani vocal