Transformation Lead || Engineering Manager || Cloud Solution Architect || Linux Solution Architect
Results-driven Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience leading cross-functional cloud and platform engineering teams in enterprise environments. Combines deep technical expertise in AWS multi-account architectures, Kubernetes (EKS), and Infrastructure as Code with proven ability to build high-performing teams, define engineering culture, and align technical roadmaps with business objectives.
Proven track record of mentoring engineers from junior to senior level, driving cloud migrations (500TB+ data), reducing cloud spend by 20–35%, improving deployment velocity by 50%, and reducing MTTR by 30%. Experienced in translating complex business requirements into scalable architecture and advising C-level stakeholders on cloud strategy.
High Impact Projects
Architected a self-service landing zone for a Fortune 500 client. Automated account vending, compliance guardrails (SCPs), and networking, reducing provisioning time from weeks to minutes.
Built an event-driven analytics platform to ingest billing data from 50+ AWS accounts. identified and automated remediation for $2M+ in annual wasted cloud spend.
Career Journey
Engineering Manager / Senior Solutions Architect - Public Cloud
Jan 2022 — Present- >Led a cross-functional team of 6 engineers (cloud, DevOps, security) across Adidas Group and Nokia Optics engagements, coordinating sprint planning, technical reviews, and delivery milestones.
- >Mentored 3 junior-to-mid cloud engineers on Terraform module design and AWS best practices, reducing onboarding time by 40% and enabling independent delivery within 8 weeks.
- >Established architecture review rituals - weekly design syncs, ADR documentation - adopted by the full delivery team, improving solution consistency across client projects.
- >Acted as Cloud Transformation Advisor for executive stakeholders, aligning engineering roadmaps with AWS CAF and Well-Architected best practices.
- >Led cloud transformation programs for enterprise clients including Adidas Group and Nokia Optics.
- >Managed and mentored cross-functional engineering teams while driving measurable improvements in scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
Technology Architect (Observability & Cloud)
Aug 2015 — Dec 2021- >Led global observability modernization, SIEM integration, and cloud-driven analytics for business-critical applications across McKinsey's hybrid cloud environments.
- >Guided a team of 4–5 SRE/observability engineers in designing SLOs and error budgets, upskilling the team from reactive monitoring to proactive reliability engineering.
- >Mentored offshore Splunk engineers across 3 geographies, standardizing deployment practices and reducing configuration drift incidents by 35%.
- >Ran internal knowledge-sharing sessions on Kubernetes observability patterns, eliminating dependency on external consultants for container monitoring.
- >Partnered with global directors to define SLOs, error budgets, and ROI targets, enabling measurable improvements in monitoring strategy and cost allocation.
Linux - VMware Engineer
Jun 2014 — Aug 2015- >Supported global datacentre operations for 1,000+ servers, improving uptime and automation using shell scripting and Nagios.
Linux - Unix Engineer
Mar 2011 — Jun 2014- >Led performance tuning and VMware migrations for enterprise Linux/Unix estates, improving system stability and resource efficiency.
Student Developer
Mar 2009 — Jun 2009- >Built Firefox streaming extension for Xiph.org, contributing to open-source media streaming ecosystem
Writing
- 2025-11-18Contact Flows as Code: Terraform & CI/CD Pipeline for Amazon Connect
- 2025-11-12Amazon Connect at Scale: Architecture & Capacity Planning for 10,000 Concurrent Calls
- 2025-11-01SCPs, Guardrails & Day-2 Operations — Running AWS Organizations in Production
- 2025-10-22Setting Up AWS Control Tower, Organizations & SCPs with Terraform
- 2025-10-15Why Every Company Needs AWS Organizations — and How to Plan It Right