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I am Sai Ram, a Staff AI Platform Architect with 14 years of experience in infrastructure and AI platforms, currently focusing on AI platform engineering and cloud cost optimization. I specialize in running high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) with spot instances and GPU rightsizing to cut costs while maintaining uptime. I love turning complex architectures into reliable, scalable solutions—building self-service ML pipelines, hybrid multi-cloud setups, and observability-driven performance tuning that deliver measurable business impact.…I am Sai Ram, a Staff AI Platform Architect with 14 years of experience in infrastructure and AI platforms, currently focusing on AI platform engineering and cloud cost optimization. I specialize in running high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) with spot instances and GPU rightsizing to cut costs while maintaining uptime. I love turning complex architectures into reliable, scalable solutions—building self-service ML pipelines, hybrid multi-cloud setups, and observability-driven performance tuning that deliver measurable business impact.

Sai Ram

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I am Sai Ram, a Staff AI Platform Architect with 14 years of experience in infrastructure and AI platforms, currently focusing on AI platform engineering and cloud cost optimization. I specialize in running high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) with spot instances and GPU rightsizing to cut costs while maintaining uptime. I love turning complex architectures into reliable, scalable solutions—building self-service ML pipelines, hybrid multi-cloud setups, and observability-driven performance tuning that deliver measurable business impact.…I am Sai Ram, a Staff AI Platform Architect with 14 years of experience in infrastructure and AI platforms, currently focusing on AI platform engineering and cloud cost optimization. I specialize in running high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) with spot instances and GPU rightsizing to cut costs while maintaining uptime. I love turning complex architectures into reliable, scalable solutions—building self-service ML pipelines, hybrid multi-cloud setups, and observability-driven performance tuning that deliver measurable business impact.

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I am Sai Ram, a Staff AI Platform Architect with 14 years of experience in infrastructure and AI platforms, currently focusing on AI platform engineering and cloud cost optimization. I specialize in running high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) with spot instances and GPU rightsizing to cut costs while maintaining uptime.

I love turning complex architectures into reliable, scalable solutions—building self-service ML pipelines, hybrid multi-cloud setups, and observability-driven performance tuning that deliver measurable business impact.

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Work Experience

DevOps/Cloud Consultant at Independent Cloud/DevOps Consultant, India (Remote)

January 1, 2022 - Present

Remote DevOps/Cloud consulting focusing on AI platform modernization, high-scale Kubernetes workloads, and cost optimization. Architected infrastructure to run on AWS EKS/GKE/AKS, introduced multi-cloud governance, and implemented spot-instance strategies to reduce costs. Implemented eBPF-based observability to pinpoint network bottlenecks and GPU idle time, enabling precise ML throughput tuning and reliability improvements.

Lead DevOps Engineer at TokIGames, Singapore (Remote)

November 1, 2019 - December 31, 2021

Led migration from OpenShift to AWS EKS for 15+ game services, handling 1M+ concurrent connections while reducing monthly infra spend by 40% through rightsizing and Helm chart optimizations. Introduced Chaos Engineering in production pipelines and built a serverless data plane to reduce latency and improve throughput.

DevOps Engineer at Singtel, Singapore (On-site)

February 1, 2019 - October 31, 2019

Drove latency reduction from 8s to 2.8s by decomposing a monolithic stack into 20+ microservices. Built a self-service ML training pipeline using Kubeflow and ArgoCD, enabling automated model deployment and faster cross-service integration.

DevOps Consultant at Standard Chartered, Singapore (On-site)

June 1, 2017 - August 31, 2018

Bank-wide CI/CD governance across 25+ teams and 70+ apps. Standardized DevOps practices, accelerated feature delivery, and led migration to Google Cloud Platform with compliance to financial regulations; contributed to high service uptime.

Technical Lead at Purchasing Power LLC (USA/India) (Remote)

January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2017

Designed AWS CodePipeline workflows reducing deployment time by 70% and supported revenue growth to $50M. Modernized cloud infrastructure and implemented autoscaling and security controls to improve reliability and scalability.

Programmer Analyst at Lloyds Bank, India

January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012

Administered Linux production servers with focus on kernel tuning and system stability; contributed to improved reliability and performance of banking applications.

DevOps/ Cloud Consultant

January 1, 2022 - Present

Remote consulting on high-scale infrastructure and AI platform modernization. Key project includes AI cost optimization: architecting a cost-efficient inference platform using vLVM and Karpenter on AWS EKS; replacing on-demand GPU instances with a spot orchestration strategy to reduce inference costs by 40%. Implemented deep observability with eBPF/Cilium to visualize network bottlenecks and GPU idle time, enabling precise ML throughput tuning. Built an enterprise ML Ops platform with Kubeflow and ArgoCD, automating the model lifecycle from commit to deployment and reducing ship time from days to hours. Designed a multi-cloud FinOps strategy connecting AWS and OCI via FastConnect, routing batch workloads to cheaper OCI compute while keeping front-end services on AWS; reduced data egress and compute costs by 30%.

Lead DevOps Engineer at Tokigames

November 1, 2019 - December 1, 2021

Led migration of 15+ game services from OpenShift to AWS EKS; managed 1M+ concurrent connections and reduced monthly infra spend by 40% through aggressive rightsizing and Helm chart optimization. Improved latency by decomposing monoliths into 20+ microservices; cut game load times from 8s to 2.8s. Introduced Chaos Engineering in production pipelines, boosting overall reliability by 40%. Built a serverless data pipeline (Lambda, Kinesis) processing 5M+ daily player events for real-time dashboards. Replaced fragmented tooling with a unified ELK & Prometheus stack, reducing MTTR by 60%.

DevOps Consultant at Standard Chartered

February 1, 2019 - October 1, 2019

On-site engagement in Singapore focusing on cloud transformation and platform standardization. Created a library of reusable AWS/Azure/GCP modules to enable self-service provisioning, reducing provisioning time by 60%. Led the 'CloudFirst' migration for 50+ SME customers and modernized legacy applications to cloud-native architectures, achieving a 35% reduction in TCO.

DevOps Consultant at Standard Chartered Bank

June 1, 2017 - August 1, 2018

Bank-wide DevOps governance: standardized CI/CD practices across 25+ teams (70+ apps); enforced regulatory checks within pipelines, accelerating feature delivery by 40%. Executed a zero-downtime migration of critical banking systems to GCP, ensuring full adherence to MAS guidelines. Wrote custom Ansible automation for retail banking apps, contributing to 99.95% service uptime.

Technical Lead at Purchasing Power LLC

January 1, 2013 - December 1, 2017

Designed AWS CodePipeline workflows that reduced deployment time by 70% and supported revenue growth to $50M.

Programmer Analyst at Lloyds Bank

January 1, 2010 - December 1, 2012

Administered Linux production servers with focus on kernel tuning and system stability.

DevOps/ Cloud Consultant at Independent Contractor

January 1, 2022 - Present

Architected cost-efficient AI platform infra and modernized cloud pipelines for high-scale workloads; Led multi-cloud strategies, optimized GPU usage via spot instances, and implemented auto-scaling, monitoring, and security controls to reduce costs and improve reliability.

DevOps Consultant at Singtel

February 1, 2019 - October 1, 2019

Delivered bank-wide DevOps governance; standardized CI/CD across 25+ teams (70+ apps); enforced regulatory checks; accelerated feature delivery by 40%; migrated critical banking apps to GCP with zero downtime; improved system reliability.

DevOps Consultant at Standard Chartered

June 1, 2017 - August 1, 2018

Established bank-wide CI/CD practices across 25+ teams; migrated workflows from Jenkins to GitHub Actions; reduced deployment cycle from two weeks to three days; ensured regulatory compliance and improved reliability.