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I’m a Senior Cloud Engineer passionate about designing and delivering scalable cloud solutions. I specialize in Azure, leveraging CAF, Terraform, and Azure DevOps to build redeployable platforms and streamline migrations to Azure Web Apps and AKS via lift-and-shift strategies. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive secure, automated, and well-architected cloud environments. In parallel, I partner with AI teams to deploy workloads on GCP and integrate Vertex AI capabilities, extending our cloud footprint beyond Azure when needed.…I’m a Senior Cloud Engineer passionate about designing and delivering scalable cloud solutions. I specialize in Azure, leveraging CAF, Terraform, and Azure DevOps to build redeployable platforms and streamline migrations to Azure Web Apps and AKS via lift-and-shift strategies. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive secure, automated, and well-architected cloud environments. In parallel, I partner with AI teams to deploy workloads on GCP and integrate Vertex AI capabilities, extending our cloud footprint beyond Azure when needed.

Gokul Chowdary Gondi

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I’m a Senior Cloud Engineer passionate about designing and delivering scalable cloud solutions. I specialize in Azure, leveraging CAF, Terraform, and Azure DevOps to build redeployable platforms and streamline migrations to Azure Web Apps and AKS via lift-and-shift strategies. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive secure, automated, and well-architected cloud environments. In parallel, I partner with AI teams to deploy workloads on GCP and integrate Vertex AI capabilities, extending our cloud footprint beyond Azure when needed.…I’m a Senior Cloud Engineer passionate about designing and delivering scalable cloud solutions. I specialize in Azure, leveraging CAF, Terraform, and Azure DevOps to build redeployable platforms and streamline migrations to Azure Web Apps and AKS via lift-and-shift strategies. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive secure, automated, and well-architected cloud environments. In parallel, I partner with AI teams to deploy workloads on GCP and integrate Vertex AI capabilities, extending our cloud footprint beyond Azure when needed.

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I’m a Senior Cloud Engineer passionate about designing and delivering scalable cloud solutions. I specialize in Azure, leveraging CAF, Terraform, and Azure DevOps to build redeployable platforms and streamline migrations to Azure Web Apps and AKS via lift-and-shift strategies. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive secure, automated, and well-architected cloud environments. In parallel, I partner with AI teams to deploy workloads on GCP and integrate Vertex AI capabilities, extending our cloud footprint beyond Azure when needed.

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Work Experience

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Freshfields

April 1, 2025 - Present

Spearheaded cross-functional collaboration to design and deploy complex IaC solutions; architected custom Azure Policies to enforce security and automate Defender/diagnostic deployments; migrated Nginx Ingress to AGIC on AKS; defined Git branching strategies; designed AKS-based container platforms, Helm-based deployments, and platform observability with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics; aligned platform architecture with Azure Well-Architected Framework and enterprise standards; automated platform delivery via IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Azure Platform Engineer at UOM

July 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025

Designed and deployed scalable Azure data platforms including Synapse, ADLS Gen2, and Microsoft Fabric (F128) to optimize enterprise analytics; secured data environments with Key Vault, Managed Identities, and Private Endpoints; automated delivery via Azure DevOps and GitLab CI/CD; modernized workloads on AKS with private clusters; implemented traffic management using Application Gateway and internal load balancing; established private endpoints and network isolation.

Azure DevOps Engineer at ANS

December 1, 2022 - July 1, 2024

Implemented Azure CAF using Terraform to automate provisioning of scalable environments; designed Hub-and-Spoke and Vwan topologies with Azure Firewall, Front Door, and Private Links for secure, high-availability hybrid connectivity; managed AKS and Docker deployments with Helm, enabling Blue-Green/Canary release strategies; integrated Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud for security governance; built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with IaC migrations and Prometheus/Grafana observability.

DevOps Engineer at PRODAPT

June 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022

Engineered highly available, fault-tolerant multi-region AWS environments using Terraform; managed core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Auto Scaling); deployed containerized microservices on Amazon EKS with Docker and Helm; designed secure network topologies (VPC, Transit Gateway, VPNs) and optimized traffic with ELB/ALB and Private Endpoints; developed end-to-end GitLab CI/CD pipelines with monitoring via CloudWatch.

DevOps Engineer at ANS

April 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022

Automated provisioning of Azure resources using Terraform and ARM Templates; designed and managed complex networks (Hub-and-Spoke, Vwan, P2S, Site-to-Site VPNs, ExpressRoute); implemented RBAC and AAD integration; established monitoring with Azure Monitor/Log Analytics and Application Insights; deployed containerized apps on AKS using Docker/Kubernetes, with private networking and secure endpoints.

DevOps Engineer at IBM

July 1, 2018 - March 1, 2020

Automated CI/CD pipelines to support regular and out-of-cycle releases; managed 400+ AWS instances with Terraform; deployed and maintained multi-region AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB/ALB); built Kubernetes clusters on AWS using KOPS and Terraform; implemented monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch for proactive operations.

DB2 System Programmer at IBM (Software Support Group)

November 1, 2010 - July 1, 2018

DB2 system administration and support; performance tuning, maintenance, and issue resolution for enterprise DB2 environments; contributed to reliability and uptime of critical data platforms.

DB2 System Programmer at Software Support Group

May 1, 2008 - October 1, 2010

DB2 system programming duties including installation, configuration, and operational support for DB2 environments within the service group; collaborated with engineering teams to resolve database-related issues.