Akilesh Thuniki
Cloud Architect @Shadowrock
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WORK HISTORY
Cloud Architect @Shadowrock
Architected a cloud-native serverless platform on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions, reducing infrastructure overhead by 50% while improving scalability and fault tolerance. Established GitOps practices with Flux and GitLab CI/CD for infrastructure automation using Terraform, decreasing deployment time by 60% and enabling zero-downtime deployments. Designed and implemented a zero-trust security model with AWS Cognito, WAF, and Shield, achieving 100% compliance with industry security standards and enabling MFA enforcement across all applications.Engineered a resilient event-driven ecosystem leveraging SNS, SQS, and Kinesis for asynchronous processing, resulting in 40% improvement in system reliability and 65% reduction in API latency. Optimized AWS resource utilization through right-sizing, auto-scaling, and spot instance integration, delivering 35% cost reduction while implementing FinOps practices across development teams. Led adoption of AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across multiple workloads, ensuring 99.99% uptime through multi-AZ architecture, automated recovery, and comprehensive CloudWatch monitoring with proactive alerting.
EDUCATION
University of Utah
Master's degree, Information Science/Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH)
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
ABOUT AKILESH THUNIKI
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