Senior Solutions Architect at GitLab, ex-AWS, based in Bangalore, India. I design secure, scalable platforms on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and help enterprise engineering teams adopt DevSecOps, platform engineering and agentic AI with measurable outcomes. AWS Golden Jacket holder; I've trained 1,000+ engineers across Fortune 500 companies.

• Duo Agent Platform in Action · GitLab APAC webcast, Jun 2026 · event
• GitOps in Action: Automating Kubernetes Workflows · GitLab APAC webcast, May 2026 · event
• AWS Community Day Ahmedabad 2026, DevOps edition · Jul 2026 · announcement
• Building Chatbots with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Agents · workshop, Kathmandu, Dec 2025 · event
• Building a Content Summarizer with Amazon Bedrock · AI for Bharat workshop, Nov 2025 · recording
• A Beginner's Guide to Amazon Bedrock, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails and Security · BeSA Cloud Academy, Jan 2025 · recording
• Enhancing Your Cloud Security Posture with Generative AI · AWS Community Day Mumbai, Apr 2024 · recording

Also: AWS Summits 2025 and 2026, AWS Community Days in Hyderabad, Vadodara and Nashik, AWS User Groups Mumbai and Bhopal, AWS Cloud Club CHARUSAT. Full list on my website.

• Build Secure and Responsible GenAI with Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock
• Automated Vulnerability Detection and Remediation with AWS Security Agent
• Instanote: From Scattered Notes to a Calm, AI-Planned Day
• How I Prepared for AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02)
• More on AWS Builder Center

Tutorials on Mr Cloud Architect: AWS AI Practitioner full course · Cloud Practitioner services explained · WordPress on AWS with Terraform · Security groups · VPC tutorial

• AWS cloud architecture – landing zones, Well-Architected reviews, EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, EFS, networking, cost optimisation
• Multi-cloud & hybrid – AWS, Google Cloud (Vertex AI, GCE) and Azure; self-managed and air-gapped platforms, Red Hat OpenShift
• Generative & agentic AI – Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents, Vertex AI; LLM gateways and AI observability with OpenTelemetry
• DevSecOps at enterprise scale – CI/CD, SAST, secret detection, dependency and container scanning, DAST, security policies and compliance
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GitOps with Argo CD

AWS Professional

AWS Specialty

AWS Associate & Foundational

Google Cloud, Cloud Security Alliance & AWS Well-Architected

Full, verifiable list on Credly.

Contributor to Strands Agents and GitLab.

• Merged into the Strands Agents SDK: locale-independent model output in the TypeScript SDK (Sep 2026)
• Merged into GitLab: Compliance Center 404 fix and onboarding docs (Apr 2026)
• In review for Strands: agent-harness fixes for trace attributes and interventions validation; TypeScript sample fixes (#315, #317); and a turn-by-turn calendar-assistant tutorial

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