Sulakshan Mulpuri

About Sulakshan Mulpuri

Cloud & Data Infrastructure Team Lead with 8+ years of experience delivering secure…

Experience

1. Team Lead Data Infrastructure and Devops

   Exelixis

   Nov 2023 — Present · Alameda, CA, US

   Leading a team of 4 engineers to modernize and secure the company’s data infrastructure across Dev, UAT, and Prod environments using AWS, Terraform, and GitOps via Atlantis. • Migrated 250+ GB of Redshift data and 15+ schemas into a dedicated AWS account, improving performance by 30% and achieving full data isolation. • Implemented Lake Formation Tag-Based Access Control (LF-TBAC) across 10+ domains to enforce fine-grained security and support SOC 2 audit readiness. • Orchestrated 50+ real-time data pipelines by integrating MWAA with DBT Cloud, Glue, and S3, automating ingestion and transformation from partner sources. • Built Lambda-based Redshift access control automation for BigID scanning, eliminating manual permission errors and improving governance. • Deployed and scaled Atlan as an enterprise data catalog, linking 200+ assets with metadata tagging and business glossary definitions. • Reduced Terraform execution time by 60% with reusable modules, dynamic for_each loops, and parallelized state deployment. • Standardized VPC architecture, NAT gateways, route tables, and centralized logging via Terraform, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail. • Developed automated cost optimization workflows using EventBridge and Lambda to shut down non-prod resources, saving $30K+ annually. • Built robust monitoring dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch to proactively track DAGs, Redshift metrics, and Lambda health. • Led cross-functional alignment with security, compliance, and QA teams to enforce least-privilege IAM and backup strategies. • Delivered technical roadmap presentations to leadership, championing phased rollouts of infrastructure, metadata, and governance enhancements.