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Gopalakrishnan Panneerselvam

@gopalakrishnanpannee

Cloud infrastructure architect specializing in GCP, AWS, Azure with 11 years delivering secure, production-grade cloud platforms.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior cloud platform roles where I can architect secure, cost-effective multi-cloud infrastructure, lead IaC and CI/CD adoption, and drive observability and compliance in collaborative, growth-focused teams.

I am a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with 11 years of IT experience, specializing in Google Cloud Platform and AWS, with additional expertise in Azure and Databricks. I lead full-cycle cloud transformations for enterprise-scale environments, delivering secure multi-region infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and DR strategies.

I have architected active–active GCP infrastructures, modular Terraform codebases, Workload Identity Federation integrations, and production-grade GitHub Actions pipelines; I also designed Databricks deployments, automated cluster lifecycle management, and enforced security and compliance for regulated industries.

I hold certifications including Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, and Databricks Certified Data Engineer, and I focus on reusable IaC, cost-effective designs, and observability to ensure resilient, auditable cloud platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Birlasoft

Mar 2024 - Sep 2024 (6 months)

Architected and implemented active–active GCP infrastructure including Cloud Run, multi-region Cloud SQL (Postgres 17), global HTTPS load balancer and Terraform-based IaC, improving availability and operational security across production services.

GCP)Cloud SQL Terraform VPC Load Balancing GitHub Actions GCP

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant

Apr 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 11 months)

Designed and automated Databricks, AWS and Azure infrastructure with Terraform and GitHub Actions, implemented security, monitoring and cost-optimised architectures while enabling CI/CD and compliance for regulated workloads.

Databricks Terraform AWS Azure GitHub Actions)Spark Prometheus Grafana Security GitHub Actions

Cloud Infra Lead

HCL

Oct 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Led Databricks platform automation and governance using Terraform and Unity Catalog, implemented Delta Sharing, RBAC and monitoring to improve data lineage, auditability and secure external data sharing.

Databricks Terraform Azure AWS Unity Catalog Delta Monitoring RBAC Automation)Automation

Senior Cloud Platform Lead

Emphasys

Aug 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Designed and deployed multi-cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) using ARM, Terraform and CI/CD, managed AKS/EKS, networking, IAM and automation to improve scalability and security of enterprise applications.

Azure AWS Terraform Arm AKS EKS CI CD Ansible Docker Kubernetes

Cloud Operation Engineer

HCL

Jul 2015 - Aug 2017 (2 years 1 month)

Managed hybrid AWS/Azure environments, automated deployments and migrations, implemented monitoring and HA/DR solutions and led a team of 5 for cloud migrations to AWS-based architectures.

AWS Azure Ansible CloudEndure CloudFormation ELK Nagios VPC IAM

Cloud Engineer

Cisco

Aug 2014 - Mar 2015 (7 months)

Performed day-to-day builds and deployments across environments, implemented AWS high-availability patterns, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and centralized logging with ELK.