Prabhu Raja

Lead platform architecture and technical direction for Kubernetes infrastructure and shared observability capabilities. Set priorities across CI/CD, GitOps deployment models, infrastructure automation, and developer workflows. Establish standards for monitoring, logging, alerting, deployment consistency, and operational readiness. Partner with engineering stakeholders to align platform improvements with reliability, software delivery, and developer experience needs. Strengthen incident response and on-call operations, drive post-incident corrective improvements, and convert learnings into reusable automation and platform standards. Own platform engineering priorities across reliability, developer experience, infrastructure automation, observability, and production operations, and lead and develop engineers through coaching, goal setting, and performance feedback.

Led infrastructure and platform engineering initiatives for Kubernetes-based production environments supporting distributed microservices. Directed CI/CD pipeline design for automated deployments across development, staging, and production. Established centralized monitoring and logging to improve production visibility and troubleshooting. Planned and drove migration from legacy deployment models to containerized microservices on Kubernetes. Standardized release workflows to improve consistency and operational control, improved production readiness by embedding operational practices into delivery, and guided architectural decisions balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability and maintainability. Promoted continuous improvement through incident reviews and retrospectives, and improved developer experience with reusable CI/CD and platform capabilities.

Modernized platforms by migrating monolithic systems to Kubernetes-based microservices. Implemented centralized logging and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack. Built infrastructure automation to improve provisioning, production operations, and scaling workflows. Implemented Kafka pipelines for event streaming and analytics, and standardized dashboards, alerting, and production monitoring practices. Provided technical leadership for architecture, deployment, and operational decisions, guided Kubernetes deployment patterns and production-readiness practices, and collaborated with application teams to identify bottlenecks and build reusable platform capabilities.