I am a senior Cloud and Platform Engineering leader with 4.5+ years of experience designing, scaling, and governing cloud-native platforms across AWS and GCP. My work sits at the intersection of Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps, and FinOps, with a strong bias toward operational excellence, developer productivity, and business outcomes.

• Architect and lead large‑scale, multi‑region Cloud Platform and Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS, GKE, Rancher) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless).
• Drive DevSecOps and Policy‑as‑Code practices with Snyk, Wiz, OPA/Rego, Trivy and hardened CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, Buildkite).
• Lead Platform Engineering and SRE efforts: reliability, incident management, SLIs/SLOs, MTTR/MTTD reduction, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Own FinOps and cloud cost optimization using Kubecost and AWS Optimization Hub (rightsizing, autoscaling, Karpenter, capacity planning) for large Kubernetes clusters and multi‑account setups.
• Improve Developer Experience by building internal developer platforms, Backstage‑based software catalogs, Golang CLIs and Homebrew tooling that standardize golden paths and speed up onboarding.

• Designing opinionated, secure internal developer platforms for product teams using Kubernetes, GitOps and self‑service workflows.
• Standardizing platform architecture (networking, security, observability, CI/CD) across multi‑cloud and multi‑account environments.
• Scaling Kubernetes clusters with Karpenter, Keda and autoscaling strategies across thousands of pods while keeping costs optimized.
• Evolving observability stacks (ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, Opsgenie) to support proactive incident response and strong SLOs.
• Applying chaos engineering, reliability patterns and well‑architected principles to critical services.

• Languages: Go (Golang), Python, Bash, Groovy, SQL
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, MariaDB, Mysql

• Cloud: AWS, GCP, Serverless
• IaC & Config: Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, Chef, Atlantis, External Secrets
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite

• Kubernetes: EKS, GKE, Rancher
• Tooling: Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Karpenter, Keda, Spinnaker

• DevSecOps / Policy as Code: Wiz, Snyk, Veza, CrowdStrike, OPA/Rego, Trivy
• FinOps: Kubecost, AWS Cost Optimization Hub, rightsizing, capacity management

• Observability: ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, Opsgenie, Fluent Bit
• Data & ML: Kafka, PySpark, MLflow, Airflow, Delta Lake

I write about Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Security and FinOps on Medium and contribute to open‑source tooling around Terraform, Kubernetes and observability. I’ve also worked on blockchain (private Ethereum NFT platform) and ML projects in urban climate and spatial data.

• Medium: https://medium.com/@krishnaduttpanchagnula
• Portfolio: https://krishnaduttpanchagnula.github.io

• Email: krishnadutt123@gmail.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnadutt/
• GitHub: https://github.com/krishnaduttPanchagnula
• Medium: https://medium.com/@krishnaduttpanchagnula