Nimi Sukumaran

About Nimi Sukumaran

As an Executive Cloud & DevOps Leader with 18+ years of experience, I drive enterprise-scale digital transformation by integrating AI/ML, enabling secure CI/CD pipelines, and architecting resilient, cloud-agnostic solutions. I specialize in modernizing infrastructure across highly regulated industries, ensuring compliance while accelerating innovation and delivery. I partner with cross-functional teams to align technology strategy with business goals, unlocking scalable growth and operational efficiency.

Experience

1. Engineer Lead Sr

   Elevance Health

   Dec 2022 — Present · US

   Direct enterprise-wide DevOps and cloud modernization strategy, overseeing hybrid migrations from AWS to Azure while maintaining cloud-agnostic support for AWS-based services (e.g, s3, EC2, Lambda, SageMaker, EventBridge, RDS, QuickSight, SNS,Pinpoint).• Coach, lead, and mentor cross-functional engineering teams of up to 20.• Integrate Amazon SageMaker ML models into production pipelines to enable predictive analytics and recommendation generation, automating insights delivery across critical business workflows.• Champion CI/CD pipeline modernization using Tekton, Jenkins, Bamboo, and uDeploy, maintaining secure DevSecOps practices by embedding SAST/DAST tools (Veracode, Prisma Cloud, Checkmarx, Snyk,Wiz) across delivery streams.• Oversee DR strategy implementation across multiple application tiers, introducing auto-healing patterns and performance alerting via Datadog and Splunk.• Directed the successful launch and lifecycle management of numerous enterprise web and mobile applications.• Developed a comprehensive observability framework using Datadog, Splunk, and Tableau.

Education

• Mahatma Gandhi University

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), electronics and telecommunications

  2002 — 2006