Akhil Gupta

Senior Platform Solutions Architect

Cloud Architecture | M&A Infrastructure | CI/CD Automation | GenAI

13+ years designing scalable, high-performance cloud infrastructure. Proven track record delivering 71% efficiency gains and 20% cost reductions for enterprise organisations.

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AWS Solutions Architect - Professional

About Me

Senior Platform Solutions Architect with 13+ years of experience designing scalable, high-performance cloud infrastructure. Proven expertise in architecting solutions for mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure reliability, CI/CD automation, and cloud modernisation. Experienced in leading technical teams, driving GenAI initiatives, and ensuring compliance and security across enterprise cloud environments.

Cloud Architecture

Architected multi-tenant cloud frameworks enabling access to 100+ services with tight security guardrails. Led AWS infrastructure splits for major pharmaceutical spin-offs.

Process Optimisation

Reduced AWS account provisioning time by 71% using CI/CD and CloudFormation StackSets. Achieved 20% cost savings through workload migration to optimised services.

GenAI Implementation

Deployed GenAI use cases using AWS Bedrock, SageMaker Studio, and Knowledge Bases for enterprise pharmaceutical clients.

DevOps Excellence

Built CI/CD infrastructure with Jenkins on ECS (Docker) in a control-worker model, improving development efficiency by 70%.

Professional Experience

Senior Platform Architect

Novartis (HCL America) January 2022 - Present Dallas, Texas

Architected multi-tenant cloud frameworks combining serverless and dedicated resources, enabling access to 100+ services with tight security guardrails
Led AWS infrastructure split for a major pharmaceutical spin-off, enabling independent cloud operations
Reduced AWS account provisioning time by 71% using CI/CD and CloudFormation StackSets
Built CI/CD infrastructure with Jenkins on ECS (Docker) in a control-worker model, improving development efficiency by 70%
Integrated AWS Macie with Service Catalog for enhanced data security and streamlined access
Deployed GenAI use cases using AWS Bedrock, SageMaker Studio, and Knowledge Bases
Engineered a secure third-party data transfer system using S3, SQS, and virus scanning on spot instances
Improved system reliability through SignalFx, CloudWatch, and AWS X-Ray for full-stack observability
Deployed Wiz CNAPP for proactive threat detection and risk management in multi-cloud setups

Platform Architect

Novartis (HCL India) February 2020 - January 2022 India

Led self-service EKS cluster deployment to improve container orchestration and scalability
Automated custom AMI creation for EKS and ECS using Jenkins, Packer, and AWS SSM Parameter Store
Developed a self-service Route 53 system, cutting subdomain creation time by 50%
Built automation for EC2 and RDS management using AWS resource tagging
Achieved 20% cost savings by migrating workloads to optimised AWS services

Linux Engineer / DevSecOps Professional

GE Capital, Latitude Financial Services, SMFLC Japan (DXC) July 2012 - February 2020 India

Managed high-availability Linux infrastructure across AWS, VMware, and on-premises data centres
Enforced AWS security best practices including IAM roles, Config rules, and policies
Led data centre migrations with minimal disruption and seamless knowledge transfer
Used Ansible for efficient configuration management and automated application deployments
Maintained compliance with consistent patching and security updates

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms (AWS)

EC2 S3 EBS EFS RDS VPC Organizations CloudFormation CloudWatch CloudTrail ECS EKS Route 53 Workspaces Service Catalog Storage Gateway

DevOps & CI/CD

Jenkins BitBucket Artifactory Kubernetes Docker Packer

Security & Compliance

AWS IAM CloudHSM AWS Config AWS Organizations KMS Secrets Manager ACM Wiz CNAPP AWS Macie

GenAI & ML

AWS Bedrock SageMaker Studio SageMaker Unified Studio Knowledge Bases

Observability

SignalFx Splunk CloudWatch AWS X-Ray

Networking & Infrastructure

DNS TCP/IP Load Balancing Squid Proxy Linux (Red Hat) Python Bash