Sai K.

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer

   Truist

   Sep 2024 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   At Truist, I engineer and secure cloud platforms across 350+ AWS accounts, combining infrastructure automation, DevOps, and security integration at scale. I manage AWS foundations including EC2, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, RDS, and S3, embedding encryption, tagging, and IAM baselines to ensure compliance.I automated VPC builds and cross-account connectivity with Terraform, cutting onboarding time for new business units by 50%. I provision centralized logging pipelines with Kinesis Firehose and S3, integrating Splunk for real-time infra and security visibility. To boost performance, I optimized CloudFront and Route 53 with geo-routing and caching, reducing latency for customer-facing apps.On the container side, I deploy EKS clusters with Terraform and Helm, enforcing RBAC and network isolation. I containerize workloads with Docker and ECS, standardizing pipelines through JFrog/DockerHub and Prisma Cloud scanning. For reliability, I architect multi-region APIs and scale workloads with Auto Scaling Groups, ELB/ALB, and HAProxy, maintaining uptime during demand spikes.I drive DevOps adoption by building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, integrating SAST (SonarQube) and DAST (OWASP ZAP). I implemented GitOps with ArgoCD, enabling version-controlled, rollback-ready deployments.Security is embedded throughout. I deploy WAF v2, Shield Advanced, Bot Control, and GuardDuty via Terraform so workloads launch with baseline protections. IAM guardrails (SCPs, MFA, service-linked roles) enforce least privilege across 300+ accounts. I map controls to PCI, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 for audit readiness.I also scale knowledge by writing Terraform modules, playbooks, and leading workshops on Terraform, EKS, and Splunk. These efforts enabled secure onboarding of 100+ apps, reduced provisioning errors by 40%, and cut anomaly detection times by 35%

Education

• Westcliff University

  Doctor's Degree

  2024 — 2027

• University of Central Missouri

  Master's degree

  2019 — 2021

• Sharda University

  Bachelor's degree

  2014 — 2018