Sunil Gupta
Pune
Summary
Enterprise AWS cloud and AI/ML architect with over 18 years of IT experience, including 12 years in leading cloud transformation, DevOps, and AI/ML initiatives on AWS and Azure. Specializes in enterprise-scale architecture design, cloud migration strategies, and governance frameworks. Demonstrated success in delivering highly available, cost-optimized, and compliant solutions that integrate AI/ML workloads for intelligent automation in regulated environments.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cloud Architect
Synechron
Pune
06.2024 - Current
- Owned end-to-end AWS/Azure/GCP platform architectures for production SaaS systems, acting as final technical authority for availability, security, cost, and delivery standards across multitenant environments processing millions of daily transactions.
- Architected enterprise-wide cloud migration strategies, establishing comprehensive frameworks for lift-and-shift, replatforming, and re-architecting workloads in hybrid and multicloud environments, reducing migration timelines by 40% through reusable toolkits and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates).
- Defined and implemented best practices for building, testing, and deploying scalable AI solutions, emphasizing machine learning, agentic AI, and generative AI models utilizing hyperscaler-provided models and open-source frameworks.
- Designed and implemented Agentic Architecture for scalable and production-ready AI solutions, establishing processes for model versioning, management, deployment automation, and ensuring traceability and reproducibility.
- Integrated AI/ML services and intelligent automation into cloud architectures to enable predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and self-healing capabilities, improving operational efficiency and minimizing manual intervention.
- Developed and implemented automation tools and frameworks using CI/CD pipelines specific to machine learning workflows, automating testing, integration, and deployment of ML and Agentic AI models into production environments.
- Established comprehensive quality assurance and observability frameworks incorporating monitoring, logging, tracing, pre/post-migration validation, performance benchmarking, and automated rollback strategies, ensuring operational resilience.
- Designed post-migration architectures leveraging GCP Cloud Kubernetes/OpenShift, serverless computing, and autoscaling capabilities optimized for performance and cost efficiency.
- Led AWS and Azure cost optimization initiatives involving SaaS services, monitoring, databases, and compute workloads, achieving significant cost reduction through AI-driven resource right-sizing and governance improvements.
Cloud Architect
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering
09.2021 - 06.2024
- Designed and delivered cloud solutions across AWS and GCP, ensuring alignment with business objectives, scalability, and security standards.
- Architected and optimized cloud networking components including VPCs, subnets, routing, and security policies to ensure secure and high-performing environments.
- Led end-to-end cloud migration programs, including assessment, planning, execution, validation, and cutover with minimal downtime.
- Executed large-scale data migration, transferring 20TB of on-premises data to AWS using Snowball and DMS while ensuring data integrity.
- Automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation, enhancing consistency and repeatability while minimizing operational overhead.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows, integrating containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Created architecture diagrams, solution blueprints, and documentation to communicate designs clearly across technical and non-technical teams.
- Developed cloud cost optimization strategies using AWS Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor to manage operational spending and enhance resource utilization.
Senior Cloud Engineer
VWR International
12.2019 - 09.2021
- Led complex end-to-end cloud migration programs using AWS CloudEndure and TSO Logic, ensuring seamless transition from on-premises environments to AWS with minimal disruption.
- Collaborated with application owners and business stakeholders to validate dependencies and workload readiness, facilitating smooth cutover and ensuring stable post-migration performance.
- Executed migration and modernization initiatives for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS workloads, enhancing capabilities of enterprise platforms including API Gateway, Tableau, and FedEx application servers.
- Optimized cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, RDS, and VPC, improving operational reliability and performance.
Technical Specialist
Cognizant
01.2015 - 12.2019
- Optimized cloud infrastructure using AWS services like EC2, RDS, VPC, ELB, Route53, Auto Scaling, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, S3, and CloudFormation to enhance performance and reliability.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling automated deployment, repeatability, and improved release efficiency.
- Collaborated with development and operations teams using Bitbucket and Git-based workflows, improving code quality, review processes, and overall delivery collaboration.
- Performed cloud cost analysis using AWS Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor, implementing optimization strategies that reduced operational cloud spending.
- Evaluated migration tools CloudEndure, DoubleTake, and RiverMeadow to select the most effective strategy for datacenter-to-cloud workload migration.
Technical Support Engineer
Acceltree Softwares
05.2013 - 01.2015
- Monitored application health using CloudWatch, Splunk, and other observability tools, identifying and resolving issues proactively before customer impact.
- Troubleshot infrastructure, networking, and application-layer issues, collaborating with DevOps, platform, and engineering teams to drive root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
- Maintained and supported CI/CD deployment pipelines, validating releases and resolving deployment failures to ensure seamless and zero-downtime releases.
- Provided operational support for cloud-hosted applications, ensuring high availability, optimal performance, and compliance with SLAs in production and non-production environments.
Senior Support Executive
IBEX Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
01.2011 - 04.2013
- Managed and maintained Active Directory environments to ensure secure user provisioning, effective group policies (GPO), and streamlined identity lifecycle management.
- Performed authentication troubleshooting and security hardening to enhance compliance with enterprise IAM policies, ensuring reliable domain joins and replication monitoring.
- Executed patching and upgrades for AD and VMware environments while facilitating disaster recovery and failover testing to maintain high-availability configurations.
- Monitored and managed virtualized infrastructure capacity, including CPU, memory, and storage utilization, ensuring system stability and efficient resource usage.
Customer Support Officer
Mphasis
10.2007 - 05.2010
- Provided technical support to U.S. customers, achieving timely issue resolution and fostering high customer satisfaction and professionalism.
- Communicated clearly with technical and non-technical users, delivering tailored solutions and guidance to meet their specific needs.
- Coordinated with engineering and support teams to escalate and resolve complex issues, ensuring follow-up and closure met U.S. client expectations and SLAs.
Education
BCA - Computer Engineering
Makhanlal Chaturvedi Rashtriya Patrakarita Vishwavidyalaya
Bhopal06.2007
Skills
- Cloud architecture
- Cloud security
- DevOps and cloud architecture
- Kubernetes and ECS management
- Microservices architecture
- Artificial intelligence strategies
- Project modernization
- Stakeholder collaboration
- AI integration
- Cloud migration
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD automation
- Cost optimization
- Scalability strategies
- Team leadership
- DevOps methodologies
- Cloud architecture design
- Multi-cloud management
- Cloud governance
- Network configuration
- Cloud migration strategies
- Monitoring and logging
- Compliance and regulations
Certification
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, 11/2027
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, 10/2026
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, 10/2027
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty, 10/2027
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 10/2028
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, 10/2028
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, 10/2026
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, 10/2027
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty, 10/2027
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 10/2028
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, 10/2028
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
Total Work Experience
18 Years 0 Month
Timeline
Senior Cloud Architect
Synechron
06.2024 - Current
Cloud Architect
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering
09.2021 - 06.2024
Senior Cloud Engineer
VWR International
12.2019 - 09.2021
Technical Specialist
Cognizant
01.2015 - 12.2019
Technical Support Engineer
Acceltree Softwares
05.2013 - 01.2015
Senior Support Executive
IBEX Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
01.2011 - 04.2013
Customer Support Officer
Mphasis
10.2007 - 05.2010
BCA - Computer Engineering
Makhanlal Chaturvedi Rashtriya Patrakarita Vishwavidyalaya