VASANTH KUMAR
Cloud Solutions And Devops Architect
Chennai
Summary
Cloud and Platform Architect with 13+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems using cloud-native, DevOps, and SRE practices. Delivered event-driven, microservices platforms aligned to business outcomes.
Professional Summary:
- Architecture Excellence: Designed and implemented modern software architecture patterns, including event-driven systems, microservices, domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS (decoupled read/write), and serverless-first workloads, enabling scalable, decoupled, and resilient cloud-native applications.
- Cloud Platform Leadership: Led the end-to-end delivery of EKS-backed multi-tenant platforms using EKS Blueprints, Helm, Kustomize, and GitOps ArgoCD. Integrated encryption, autoscaling, traffic shaping, and security by design using NFR Principles.
- Strategic Partnerships: Collaborated with AWS TAMs, Datadog, and Couchbase, contributing to fixes in ALB keepAlive feature and Aurora Global DB secondary autoscaling issues —amplifying platform reliability and performance.
- SRE & Operational Maturity: Directed a 24-member SRE and DevOps team across proactive engineering, platform observability, and infrastructure resilience—improving uptime, agility, and performance.
- Event Readiness at Scale: Engineered high-performance systems with DDoS mitigation and predictive auto-scaling for FIFA World Cup 2022 and Euro 2024, achieving 99.99% during global event spikes.
- DevOps Enablement: Championed CI/CD automation (Jenkins, GitOps), Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef), and containerization practices across teams and pipelines.
- Observability & Performance: Delivered platform-wide observability through Datadog, Splunk, and Grafana, enabling real-time insights and reducing time-to-detect and resolve.
- Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Served as a strategic partner to product, program, and engineering teams—bridging deep technical context with business impact via Agile/PI planning and leadership reviews.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Principal Solution Architect
COMCAST INDIA ENGINEERING
Chennai
09.2017 - Current
- Designed and implemented DevOps solutions for enterprise-level clients, resulting in increased productivity, faster time-to-market, and improved quality of software products.
- Managed use of various types of databases and configured, installed and upgraded new ones.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
Developer and Senior Devops Engineer
MSYS TECHNOLOGIES
10.2015 - 09.2017
- Configuration Tools : Chef, Docker
- CI Flow Setup : Gerrit, SVN, Gitolite, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus
- CD Flow Setup : Chef, Rundeck
- Build Tools : Maven, Gradle
- Automation Script : Python, Ruby, Shell and Groovy
- Devops Achievements:
- Setting up and Administration of Enterprise Chef Server on client Network (Creating Organization,
- Environments, Policy, Data bags, Bootstrapping Nodes)
- Jenkins Job DSL and Pipeline DSL scripts to nullify Efforts on Jenkins job creation
- Writing Self composed Cookbooks with the power of Ruby for the Deployment and Configuration of Tomcat and Split Tomcat, MongoDb, Solr, Piwik, Apache ActiveMQ, AppDynamics, Mule, Java
- Libraries, executing Flyway scripts
- Planning and Execution of Zero Downtime Deployment using Blue / Green deployments
- Introduced code review system and Lead a team of 3 to Migrate all projects to Gerrit and implement CI
- Automation scripts using Python to bootstrap Nodes using Chef api, Nexus clean using Nexus api,
- Rundeck Tag fetch from Chef server
- Datacenter Migration of Devops and SCM tools – Chef, Gerrit, Jenkins, GIT, SVN, JIRA, Crowd,
- Crucible Fisheye, Rundeck
- Development Responsibilities:
- Technologies : Java 8 , JSP, Spring MVC, Hibernate
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- The system “Core Platform” is an ecommerce application, where the any bank card holders can redeem rewards points against any products
- Core is a base platform application where the users can access and buy any products available in their market
- Platform application will internally communicate with number of services to get data
- Major four services are product service, pricing service, Epsilon services and order service
- Epsilon is the point bank which will maintain all user data and reward points details
- All other services are REST web services, either it will be accessed from platform application or by background jobs.
Java Developer
Tata Consultancy Services, AXA Equitable
11.2011 - 11.2015
- Core Java, JSP, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Rest Service, Spring Boot,
- Micro services and SQL
- Responsibilities:
- Developed new EPAC application, which streamline contribution processing framework so that manual back office intervention can be reduced thereby resulting in Cost savings
- Designed and developed new web pages required for the product to show various processes deployed in server to the UI
- Hands on application developer with extensive development experience in building and supporting J2EE based web services using both SOAP and REST
- Part of the Team Designing and Implementing Multiple Java Portlets which are pluggable components of AEP (Axa Equitable Portal) with different functionalities
- It provides functionality the Plan sponsors and other user groups can use to effectively manage and Administer the Plan
- Preparing Unit Test cases as part of Development
- Coordinate Testing with Interfacing systems
- Team Member Role delivering the assigned tasks On-Time with Less Rollback rates.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Rajalakshmi Engineering
College
Skills
Compute: EKS, EC2, Serverless (Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions), RDS, DynamoDB, MSK
undefinedCertification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – Linux Foundationtion)
Timeline
Generative AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng
07-2025
SAA-C03 – AWS Solutions Architect
04-2023
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – Linux Foundationtion)
10-2022
Principal Solution Architect
COMCAST INDIA ENGINEERING
09.2017 - Current
Developer and Senior Devops Engineer
MSYS TECHNOLOGIES
10.2015 - 09.2017
Java Developer
Tata Consultancy Services, AXA Equitable
11.2011 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Rajalakshmi Engineering
College
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