Sudhakar Shanmugam
Engineering Lead | SRE & Platform Engineering | Cloud & DevOps Transformation | Cloud Governance and FinOps | Mentor & Tech Leader
- Role
- Engineering Lead at Lowe's India
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sudhakar Shanmugam
I’m a Lead Software Engineer with over 21 years of experience transforming infrastructure, enhancing reliability, and driving DevOps culture in large-scale organizations like Lowe’s, Target, HP, and Infosys.At Lowe’s, I’ve led platform modernizations—migrating legacy ESB platforms to microservices, cutting costs by over $1M, and automating infrastructure deployments to improve speed by 60%. My work in Linux migration alone reduced the infra footprint by 180+ servers and saved $300K annually.Previously at Target, I architected scalable platforms like Cleo Harmony and managed Apache Solr for e-commerce and B2B systems, achieving $500K+ in savings through cloud optimization and architectural simplification.I’m passionate about mentoring teams, building resilient platforms, and making systems more efficient and intelligent through automation, observability, and well-engineered processes.
Experience
Engineering Lead
Mar 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Provide technical leadership for the Atlassian products platform, owning end-to-end platform strategy, product planning, and roadmap execution. Drive FinOps strategy across GCP and Azure by forecasting cloud spend, optimizing resource utilization, and enforcing cloud governance best practices. Designed and implemented approval workflows and guardrails to control costs while enabling engineering velocity. Partner closely with platform and application teams to identify and realize measurable cost-saving opportunities.Led the migration of Atlassian products from on-prem environments to Kubernetes, deploying stateful workloads using Helm, ArgoCD, persistent volumes, and vertical pod autoscaling to address external storage dependencies. Ensured high availability and seamless operations during Rancher upgrades, OS patching, and cluster lifecycle management with zero service disruption.Champion GenAI adoption enabling AI-assisted pull request reviews, chatbots for Teams support channels, and integrated code quality and security scans. Implemented MCP-based collaboration enhancements to improve developer productivity.Review and guide platform architecture, define system management, operational best practices, establish strong reliability and scalability standards. Built comprehensive observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and Apache Superset, tightly integrated with developer workflows to improve visibility, incident response, and decision-making.
Education
St. John's Vestry Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School
HSC, Computer Science
1987 — 1997
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
BE, Mechanical Engineering
1997 — 2001
Skills
- IT Infrastructure Operations
- Middleware
- Itil Certified
- Sterling Integrator
- Red Hat Linux
- Production Support
- Managed File Transfer
- Software Development
- Solution Architecture
- Oracle
- IT Infrastructure Management
- Websphere Mq
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Integration
- IT Operations
- Shell Scripting
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