Abhishek Akkupalli
Head of DevOps | Cloud & Security Architect | Cybersecurity
Bengaluru
Summary
Strategic DevOps and Cloud Leader with 12+ years of experience driving infrastructure modernization, production reliability, and security-first engineering across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven success in architecting and leading end-to-end cloud transformations—from monolithic to microservices—using Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Adept at building high-performing DevOps teams, establishing CI/CD governance, and enforcing security and compliance standards including IAM hardening, encryption policies, and vulnerability remediation. Trusted for delivering scalable, cost-optimized, and audit-ready cloud platforms that align engineering excellence with business goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Head of DevOps
Simplilearn Group
12.2020 - Current
- Key Achievements:
- Led a full DevOps and security transformation, introducing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt), automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), and monitoring/alerting systems (CloudWatch, NewRelic, Rapid7, Pingdom).
- Eliminated major attack vectors by implementing IAM hardening, KMS-based key management, and Secrets Manager integration, improving security posture by 70% within 6 months.
- Built a resilient microservices platform using Docker and AWS ECS, increasing deployment stability and reducing outage incidents by 95%.
- Instituted DevSecOps practices across SDLC, integrating security scans, policy enforcement, and role-based access controls for all cloud resources.
- Developed enterprise-grade tagging, cost tracking, and auto-scaling policies, driving both operational efficiency and 30% cost savings. - Managed and optimized production workloads across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring 99.99% availability and consistent high performance.
- Implemented proactive monitoring, alerting, and auto-healing strategies to minimize downtime and improve reliability, while empowering development teams with ownership of alerts for rapid response.
- Designed and enforced robust production security policies, including IAM hardening, encryption at rest and in transit, and secure key management using KMS and Secrets Manager.
- Led PCI DSS compliance and VAPT processes for business-critical applications, driving timely closure of high-risk vulnerabilities and maintaining continuous compliance.
- Collaborated with internal security teams and external auditors to strengthen security posture and align with regulatory frameworks.
- Transformed monolithic applications into containerized microservices, improving scalability, deployment velocity, and system maintainability.
- Designed and implemented container orchestration solutions using Docker, AWS ECS, and EKS, delivering resilient and highly available services.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Bitbucket, enabling rapid delivery, blue/green deployments, and rollback capabilities.
- Drove cloud cost optimization efforts, achieving 25–30% savings through rightsizing, reserved instances, storage lifecycle policies, and effective cost governance.
- Established cloud cost dashboards and tagging strategies to support chargeback models and enhance cost visibility across business units.
- Worked on MEAN and LAMP stack projects, delivering full-stack solutions and API-driven & Event-driven architectures for various business applications.
- Designed and implemented a scalable JupyterHub-based Python lab on AWS EKS, leveraging Helm charts for deployment automation.
Architect
NIIT Technologies
12.2019 - 12.2020
- Extensively worked on enhancing content player and content editors' services in open-source 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 Engineering Manager
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
Skills
Docker
undefinedHonor Awards
- Raising Star Award (2019) MaGEX
- Team Excellence Award (2018) MaGEX
- 9 Spot Awards (2016 - 2019)
- Exceptional Hire & Game Changer (2021)
Personal Information
Certification
CCNA Module-1
Timeline
Head of DevOps
Simplilearn Group
12.2020 - Current
Architect
NIIT Technologies
12.2019 - 12.2020
Software Engineer
Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd
12.2016 - 12.2019
Senior Software Engineering Manager
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
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