Sandeep Kandhway

About Sandeep Kandhway

Platform Solution Architect and Enterprise Database Engineer with 14+ years of experience delivering cloud infrastructure, database platforms, and AI-driven automation across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.My career is built on a strong DBA foundation — starting with Oracle E-Business Suite administration at Wipro and Accenture, deepening through complex Oracle and PostgreSQL engineering at Ericsson, and evolving into full cloud platform architecture. Over the last 5 years, I have operated at the intersection of infrastructure leadership, database expertise, and intelligent automation.At Tech Mahindra (IFS), I lead cloud and database platform architecture across global enterprise environments on Azure: Drove Oracle DB migration from 12c to 19c using fully automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines — reducing per-environment effort from 2 days to under 4 hours with zero unplanned downtime Led AKS platform standardization, security hardening (encryption-at-host, private endpoints, Key Vault), and FinOps initiatives delivering consistent monthly cloud cost reductions Implemented AI solutions using Microsoft Foundry and Claude AI — building agentic automation for IT infrastructure, Oracle DB health management, and infrastructure runbook execution Architected Oracle AI Vector Search and RAG pipelines on Oracle DB, enabling LLM-powered enterprise data intelligence without external vector storesAt GAP Inc, I led PostgreSQL platform modernisation — migrating databases from Azure VMs to a DBaaS architecture on AKS using Kubernetes operators and Azure PaaS, eliminating single points of failure and reducing operational overhead significantly.At Ericsson, my role was deeply focused on — managing Oracle and PostgreSQL at scale while deploying Ericsson\'s DxP Stack, Charging and OrderCare microservices on AWS EKS infrastructure, and building automated solution for Postgres HA Setup using Ansible to reduce deployment timeline from 3 days to ~4 hoursCore strengths: AKS & Kubernetes Platform Engineering | AWS & Azure Infrastructure | Oracle & PostgreSQL | AI & Agentic Automation | FinOps & Cloud Governance | CI/CD & IaC | Cloud Security & ComplianceOpen to senior architecture, platform engineering, and AI-infrastructure roles where technical depth meets business impact.

Experience

1. Cloud Solution Architect

   Tech Mahindra

   Jun 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Client: IFS — Global SaaS leader in ERP, EAM & FSM | Azure Cloud | enterprise environments Database & Migration Architected Oracle 12c→19c migration across 750+ environments via GitLab CI/CD — automated pre-checks, schema validation & health verification, reducing effort from 2 days to 4 hours with zero unplanned downtime Oracle performance tuning (AWR, ASH, ADDM) — optimised Crystal Report legacy queries for a key customer from 12+ hrs to 30 mins execution time Kubernetes Platform & Infrastructure Led end-to-end Kubernetes platform engineering — cluster topology, node pool lifecycle, HELM deployment pipelines, RBAC, Calico network policies, and capacity governance across 750+ production environments Automated SSL renewal, cluster upgrades, patching, and Nginx reverse proxy OS migration (Ubuntu 20.04→22.04) via GitLab CI/CD — reducing manual ops effort by ~70% FinOps & Security Led FinOps strategy — VM right-sizing, disk optimisation, idle resource elimination — delivering consistent monthly cost reductions across all customer environments Enforced security hardening — encryption-at-host, private endpoints, Key Vault integration, TLS enforcement — closing high-priority CSOC audit findings AI & Automation Led design and implementation of AI-driven agents and RAG pipelines using Microsoft Foundry and Claude AI — integrating IFS components with Azure AI services to autonomously orchestrate Kubernetes operations, DB health management, and workflow automation, driving measurable MTTR reduction

Education

• Asansol Engineering College

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Unix Shell Scripting
• Oracle Database Administration
• Oracle Asm
• Sql
• Shell Scripting
• Databases
• Pl/Sql
• Oracle
• Oracle Rac
• Data Guard
• Unix
• Oracle Applications
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle Database
• Rman