Manoj Vardhineni

• Leading cloud architecture, DevOps, FinOps, and security initiatives across multiple client projects.
• Consultant Architect for Astuto.ai , Madconnect, Jdoodle and Outfront Media, delivering scalable and secure cloud platforms.

Key Achievements:

• Architected and Implemented Migration from Oracle and IBM on-premises infrastructure to AWS.
• Built Kubernetes FinOps platform from scratch, scaling to millions of users.
• Reduced cloud costs from £4M per month to £2M per month, saving £24M annually.
• Led security audit and remediation, improving security posture from 20% to 90%.

• Led and mentored a team of 18 DevOps engineers while strengthening collaboration across development, QA, and operations teams.
• Defined and designed a multi-cloud DevOps strategy across AWS and Azure, improving system scalability.
• Implemented cost optimisation strategies for Kubernetes and RDS, improving resource utilisation by 40% and reducing cloud infrastructure costs.

• Build the SRE, DevOps, IT, and Security teams from the ground up, overseeing both technical leadership and people management for a team of 15.
• As an Independent Contributor, I built the entire Kubernetes platform, CI/CD from scratch, cloud security, VPN setup, and IAC for cloud management.
• Led the Cloud Cost Charter and achieved AWS cost reduction of 70% (saved £3M per year).
• Defined and executed DevOps strategic roadmaps and OKRs, improving engineering delivery efficiency.
• Managed DevOps budgets, resources, and timelines for 20+ projects, ensuring 100% alignment with product roadmaps, and reducing infrastructure overspend by 30%.
• Designed HLD and LLD for scalable cloud-native systems, architecting platforms capable of handling 50M+ monthly requests, with 99.95% availability.
• Independently led 10+ client due diligence processes, ISO 27001 compliance, and security audits, achieving a 100% audit success rate and strengthening the enterprise security posture.

• Built and led a DevOps team of 5 engineers, defining OKRs and delivery processes, improving deployment efficiency by 60% and ensuring reliable production releases.
• Migrated monolithic applications to 150+ microservices on Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), improving scalability, enabling independent deployments, and reducing release risk by 70%.
• Designed and automated scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform,
• Implemented monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, and New Relic, reducing incident resolution time by 65% and improving system uptime to 99.95%.
• Led cost optimization, IaC, and security initiatives, achieving 30–50% cloud cost savings and automating scalable data pipelines using S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, and Redshift.

• IAC for AWS and Azure using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual effort by 80 per cent and improving deployment consistency across 50+ environments.
• Designed and implemented scalable CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and AWS CodePipeline, reducing deployment time by 90% and enabling daily automated releases for over 25 services.
• Architected and deployed applications with 99.9% uptime, supporting production workloads with millions of requests per month.
• Optimised infrastructure and database performance, reducing cloud operational costs by up to 40%, improving query performance by 35%, and ensuring zero downtime deployments and migrations.