Sonam Dhingra

Devops Architect @DemandScience

London, GB

Led the cloud maturity transformation for an organisation scaling from 23 to 70 AWS accounts, shifting the DevOps function from a reactive support model to an architecture-led capability🧱 Operational Excellence• Built a Terraform-based account vending framework, reducing provisioning time from 3 days to ~30 minutes and enforcing consistent standards• Automated GitHub repository provisioning and governance, improving developer onboarding and reducing manual overhead• Consolidated 90+ alerting channels into 8 actionable streams, significantly improving signal-to-noise ratio and incident response Security• Enforced standardised infrastructure provisioning, reducing misconfiguration risks across multi-account AWS environments• Strengthened governance through consistent account architecture and centralised platform controls• Implemented Boundary Permissions in the AWS IAM Identity Centre Reliability• Re-architected networking using Transit Gateway across 70+ accounts• Designed HA VPN architecture, removing single points of failure• Reduced OpenSearch restore time (2 days → ~90 mins)• Introduced RDS Serverless for resilient burst handling Performance Efficiency• Optimised Snowflake ingestion (Snowpipe → batch)• Applied LLM-based workload analysis to identify serverless candidates• Improved scalability through workload-driven architecture decisions Cost Optimization• Reduced AWS spend by 44%($1.5M → $840K ARR)• Cut S3 storage 240TB → 97TB (~60% reduction leading to $40K/year savings) • Eliminated 320TB redundant data (~$90K/year savings)• Removed $5K/month unnecessary support costs• Reduced Snowflake usage (1100+ credits/month) Sustainability• Implemented workload scheduling to eliminate idle compute• Increased adoption of serverless and right-sized architectures

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communication Engineering