Abhishek Akkupalli
Architect
Bangalore
Summary
DevOps Engineer and Full Stack professional with expertise in Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Node JS, Restful APIs, Maven, ShellScript, PHP, and MySQL. Actively enhancing Cloud Architecting Skills, dedicated to continuous learning and staying abreast of emerging technologies. Committed to contributing as a valuable asset to a forward-thinking organization and striving towards achieving success in the dynamic IT industry.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Architect
Simplilearn Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - Current
- Managed and optimized production workloads across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring 99.99% availability and high performance.
- Implemented proactive monitoring, alerting, and auto-healing strategies to minimize downtime and improve service reliability.
- Designed and enforced production security and data protection policies, including IAM hardening, encryption at rest/in transit, and secure key management using KMS and Secrets Manager.
- Initiated and led PCI DSS compliance and VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing) processes for business-critical applications, driving closure of high-risk vulnerabilities.
- Collaborated with external auditors and internal security teams to achieve and maintain continuous compliance with PCI and security frameworks.
- Spearheaded the transformation of monolithic applications into containerized microservices, enhancing scalability, deployment speed, and maintainability.
- Designed and implemented container orchestration solutions using Docker, AWS ECS, and EKS, delivering highly available and resilient services.
- Automated container deployment pipelines with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI), enabling rapid delivery, rollbacks, and blue/green deployments.
- Led cloud cost optimization initiatives, achieving 25–30% cost savings through rightsizing, reserved instances, storage lifecycle management, and cost governance policies.
- Established and maintained cloud cost dashboards and tagging strategies to enable chargeback and cost visibility across business units.
Senior Software Engineer
NIIT technologies
12.2019 - 12.2020
- Extensively worked on enhancing content player and content editors' services in opensource platform.
- Implemented and maintained tools that helps support teams and stakeholder to monitor support related reports.
Software Engineer
Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd
12.2016 - 12.2019
- Extensively worked on developing an LMS platform for learners (Edu Nxt).
- Developed Restful APIs using Micro-service and Service Oriented Architecture components are developed using Node JS.
- Handled back-end databases (Mongo & MySQL) and ensured the security of data.
- Handled Java based controller for auto scaling AWS EC2 services.
- Implemented Telemetry services and messages are handled with SQS.
Senior Software Engineer
Sumeru Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 12.2016
Software Consultant
Caritor Solutions Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 06.2016
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Audi Sankara College of Engineering and Technology
08.2009 - 04.2013
Skills
Docker
AWS
Azure
GCP
Terraform
Shell Script
Jenkins
Cost Optimization
Honor Awards
- Raising Star Award (2019) MaGEX
- Team Excellence Award (2018) MaGEX
- 9 Spot Awards (2016 - 2019)
- Exceptional Hire & Game Changer (2021)
Certification
CCNA Module-1
Timeline
Architect
Simplilearn Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
NIIT technologies
12.2019 - 12.2020
Software Engineer
Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd
12.2016 - 12.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Sumeru Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 12.2016
Software Consultant
Caritor Solutions Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 06.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Audi Sankara College of Engineering and Technology
08.2009 - 04.2013