ANKIT SONI

Driving AI-assisted engineering initiatives using Kiro IDE and exploring MCP-enabled workflows and AI DevOps/security agents to improve automation, developer productivity, and infrastructure security.

• Led AI-assisted engineering initiatives using Kiro IDE to explore MCP workflows and improve project efficiency.
• Automated producer and consumer onboarding through Terraform-based infrastructure as code.
• Configure cross-account subscriptions using Lake Formation permissions, IAM roles, Glue.
• Implement fine-grained access control for project-level data product permissions.
• Integrated a bring your own role solution for secure migration of subscription permissions.
• Build an enterprise data marketplace using AWS SageMaker Unified Studio.

• Solution Architect & AWS Infra Developer (7 years):
• Designed and delivered scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS architectures supporting both containerized and serverless workloads.
• Acted as a core member of a central cloud platform team, enabling multiple engineering teams to migrate applications and services to AWS.
• Led a cross-functional team of cloud engineers and developers, mentoring junior members and ensuring alignment with architectural best practices and business objectives.
• Partnered with development teams to architect solutions, provision infrastructure, and maintain environments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Implemented multi-AZ deployments to ensure high availability and fault tolerance for mission-critical systems.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure provisioning, reducing manual errors and enhancing deployment speed.
• Championed cloud cost optimization initiatives, achieving measurable savings across multiple accounts.
• Conducted security reviews and enforced cloud security best practices, improving compliance and mitigating risks.
• Collaborated with stakeholders and leadership to define cloud strategy, roadmap, and governance standards, aligning technical decisions with business objectives.
• Facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions and technical workshops, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the team.
• Cloud & Compute: AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, EMR, Glue, Athena)
• Python and Shell scripting.
• Storage & Networking: S3, EBS, EFS, ALB, API Gateway
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
• Security: IAM, AWS Inspector, AWS WAF
• CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, TeamCity, Cloud-native CI/CD pipelines
• Containerization: Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS
• Other Practices: Agile methodologies, multi-AZ architecture, microservices design, cost optimization, monitoring & logging (CloudWatch).
• Site Reliability Engineer & DevOps (2 years):
• Established SRE practices for system availability and performance optimization. Led DevOps initiatives, automating infrastructure and application deployments using CI/CD best practices. Leveraged CloudWatch for proactive monitoring and alerting, ensuring reliability and fast issue resolution.
• Project: Athena on AWS:
• Data Warehousing (2 years):
• Project: CORT - Data Warehousing & Reporting Platform
• Developed data warehousing solutions for the CORT project using OWB, OBIEE, and Spotfire. Managed ETL processes with PL/SQL and Unix scripting to ensure accurate and timely reporting. Collaborated with stakeholders to deliver consistent and reliable business analytics.
• OBW, OBIEE, Spotfire, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting

• Led data engineering initiatives, developed and optimised data pipelines and systems to enhance data accessibility and reliability. Utilised Oracle databases to manage and process large data sets, ensuring high performance and reliability. Applied Java, C, and Unix Shell scripting to automate data processing tasks, streamlining operations and ensuring timely data delivery. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate various data sources and ensure data consistency across platforms. Implemented data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes to support analytics and reporting needs. Focused on performance tuning, debugging, and troubleshooting to optimise data workflows and minimise system downtime.
• Monitored system performance to identify weaknesses, bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and deploy IT solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Gathered and defined user requirements for system updates.