Pranav Prakash

About Pranav Prakash

Senior Leader – DevOps, Cloud & Platform Engineering | SRE | Kubernetes | Multi-CloudI am a senior technology leader with 20+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale DevOps, cloud platform, and reliability transformations across global organizations.I specialize in building and governing highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms, modernizing legacy systems into Kubernetes-based, multi-cloud architectures, and establishing DevOps and SRE operating models that directly support business growth and digital transformation.Currently, I serve as Senior Architect – DevOps & Cloud at IBM Consulting, operating at Director / VP-equivalent scope, where I partner closely with CIOs, CTOs, and senior engineering leaders to define cloud strategy, platform governance, and reliability engineering programs across industries including banking, aviation, retail, telecom, and large-scale e-commerce.My leadership focus areas include:Enterprise DevOps & CI/CD modernizationKubernetes & OpenShift platform strategySRE, observability, and operational resilienceMulti-cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud)Engineering productivity, reliability, and cost efficiencyBuilding and mentoring high-performing DevOps & SRE teamsI have led platforms supporting millions of users, including e-commerce ecosystems handling 50M+ monthly visits, and have delivered measurable outcomes such as 2–3× improvements in deployment velocity, 30–40% reductions in MTTR, and improved platform stability across mission-critical systems.I am known for combining deep technical credibility with strong people leadership, and my work has been consistently recognized at IBM, including multiple Eminence & Excellence Awards and Manager’s Choice Awards for 11 consecutive years.

Experience

1. Senior Architect (Cloud & Devops)

   IBM

   Dec 2020 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Set up DevOps Pipeline for IBM Quality Engineering Product “Ignite Platform” on multiple cloud platforms including IBM OpenShift, GKE, AKS-Selected tools for Virtual Service development and deployment for microservice and API development-Developed frameworks and processes for resiliency testing using open-source toolchains like chaos- toolkit, chaos mesh, and Gremlin-Architected and set up observability toolchain using open-source products like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Zipkin, etc-Designed and implemented Service Mesh using Istio for microservices development and deployment on GKE and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster-Developed Ansible Playbook for migrating SAP workload from on-prem server to IBM Cloud Virtual Machine-Designed and set up Ingress Controller to manage SSL/TLS certificates and custom domains on IBM Public Cloud.

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology

  2001 — 2005