Abhishek Puppala

Global Technical Leader Senior Principal @IBM

Dallas, TX, US

Architected and delivered enterprise AI infrastructure platforms including MLOps pipelines, LLM serving layers, GPU-backed compute clusters, and AI gateway patterns on multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) enabling data and product teams to operationalize AI workloads at scale with embedded security, observability, and cost governance.Defined and governed enterprise cloud and platform architecture strategy, establishing reference architectures, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and engineering standards across globally distributed teams while leading delivery of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), self-service provisioning, and golden path templates that reduced environment lead times and enforced compliance guardrails.Drove platform reliability and cloud financial performance through embedded SRE practices (SLOs, observability, chaos engineering) and a FinOps governance model achieving significant cost reduction via rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, and charge back accountability while maintaining availability targets for mission-critical AI and enterprise workloads.