Gopalakrishnan Panneerselvam
@gopalakrishnanpannee
Cloud infrastructure architect specializing in GCP, AWS, Azure with 11 years delivering secure, production-grade cloud platforms.
What I'm looking for
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Bharathidasan University
Bachelor of Science, Science
Completed a Bachelor of Science from Bharathidasan University.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
AWS CLI
Splunk
Amazon EC2
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Google Compute Engine
GitHub
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Docker Swarm
Azure Kubernetes Service
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Pandas
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Sybase
Gmail
Django
Databricks
Terraform
Azure Resource Manager
Azure DevOps
Jira
JavaScript
Java
JSON
Perl
PowerShell
XML
AWS Elastic Load Balancing ...
Logstash
Kafka
MQTT
FastAPI
Istio
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
Nagios
Azure Monitor
OpenStack
Ubuntu
Debian
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
iOS
Windows
Azure Active Directory
Gemini
Firebase
Elasticsearch
Qualys
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Azure SQL Database
Google Cloud SQL
Keycloak
JBoss
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
SQL
Azure Blob Storage
Apigee
Stable Diffusion
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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