Prasanna Govindarajan

About Prasanna Govindarajan

If you’re building a startup, scaling a platform, or modernizing infrastructure, I’d love to help.I’m a Cloud & Platform Engineering leader with 17+ years of experience building scalable, resilient infrastructure that enables engineering teams to move faster with confidence.My career has evolved from hands-on systems engineering to leading enterprise DevOps and platform modernization initiatives across cloud-native environments. I specialize in Kubernetes-based architectures (GKE), Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, disaster recovery strategy, and observability-driven reliability practices.I’ve led large-scale platform transformations — modernizing legacy systems, implementing GitOps and IaC standards, improving deployment velocity by 3x, and reducing MTTR by 40% across mission-critical environments. As part of the leadership team at Reflexis Systems, I helped scale platform maturity through its $575M acquisition by Zebra Technologies.What drives me is building infrastructure that becomes a strategic advantage — not just a support function. I focus on:• Cloud-Native Architecture (GCP, Kubernetes)• DevOps & SRE Practices (SLOs, incident management, reliability engineering)• Infrastructure as Code & Automation (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD)• Disaster Recovery & High Availability Design• Observability & Performance Optimization• Engineering Team Development & MentorshipI’m passionate about operational excellence, cost optimization, AI/ML workload efficiency, and creating engineering cultures rooted in ownership and continuous improvement.

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   Zebra Technologies

   Jul 2025 — Present

Education

• Case Western Reserve University

  Master's degree, Computer Engineering

  2007