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Kumar GK

@kumargk

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I build secure, scalable AI, data, and cloud platforms for financial services.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build secure, reliable, and scalable AI, GenAI, cloud, and data platforms, partnering with engineering, ML, data, QA, and security teams.

At CIBC, I enable secure AI and GenAI delivery by administering GitHub Copilot Enterprise and integrating LLM security tooling into CI/CD workflows.

I automate Azure Databricks and AKS infrastructure with Terraform, build reusable GitHub Actions workflows, and support GPU-enabled AI workloads on Kubernetes and OpenShift. My work helps data, ML, QA, and security teams run reliable, compliant platforms.

Across CIBC and Scotiabank, I've spent 16+ years modernizing cloud, DevOps, SRE, and data platforms—from Hadoop and Spark ingestion pipelines to cloud-native CI/CD and observability.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

SRE, Data Platform / DevOps (AI Infrastructure)

Current

CIBC

Oct 2023 - Present (3 years)

Own AI/GenAI infrastructure enablement, administer GitHub Copilot Enterprise, and integrate LLM security tooling into CI/CD. Automate Azure Databricks deployments with Terraform and design reusable GitHub Actions workflows.

Data Platform Engineer

Scotiabank

Jul 2018 - Jul 2023 (5 years)

Designed and administered container platforms supporting microservices and data science workloads. Built enterprise CI/CD pipelines and automated cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible.

Docker Kubernetes OpenShift AKS ACR Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Ansible Chef Puppet AWS Azure GCP Terraform CloudFormation Spark Kafka Hive Databricks Python Java Anaconda SonarQube Splunk Nagios Extrahop

Data Engineer

Scotiabank

Mar 2016 - Jun 2018 (2 years 3 months)

Built enterprise data ingestion pipelines feeding the Enterprise Data Lake. Developed PySpark/Spark SQL modules for data cleansing and transformation, and automated deployment workflows.

Hadoop Spark Kafka Hive Sqoop HBase AWS S3 EC2 Lambda Python Jenkins Ansible PySpark Spark SQL Avro Parquet ORC

Bigdata & Hadoop Developer

CIBC

May 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 7 months)

Delivered ETL/ingestion pipelines into the Enterprise Data Hub for the KYC/ECIF program. Built and managed Hive/HBase tables and scheduled workflows for production data availability.