Suraj D.

About Suraj D.

Principal Platform Engineer with 12+ years driving developer velocity and cost optimization at scale. Proven track record:$1.2M+ annual cloud savings through FinOps governance, 60% faster incident resolution via AIOps, and self-service platforms serving 100+ engineers. Expert in Kubernetes, platform-as-product thinking, and cloud-native architecture. Pioneered AI-assisted operations (MCP/Cline) and GitOps workflows for compliance. Skilled at building internal platforms that reduce operational toil while maintaining enterprise security standards.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Oracle

   Aug 2022 — Present · IN

   Platform Engineering- Operate and manage multi-tenant Kubernetes platform serving 100+ engineers, deploying applications, managing workloads, and optimizing resource utilization across isolated cloud accounts - Built automation for self-service environment provisioning - K8s namespace creation, IAM policy management, and developer entitlements - reducing infrastructure request time from days to minutes - Optimized Kubernetes resource utilization through pod right-sizing and horizontal pod autoscaling, contributing to overall platform efficiency and cost savings - Evaluated and integrated managed database services to accelerate developer velocity and reduce operational overhead, enabling teams to provision production-grade databases in minutes vs. days (Oracle ADB, ADW, GoldenGate)FinOps & Cost Optimization- Architected automated FinOps governance framework that dynamically optimizes infrastructure spend based on usage patterns, eliminating $1.2M in annual waste across dev and prod environmentsAIOps & Automated Operations- Pioneered AI-assisted operations by integrating Cline and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers into the team\'s workflow. Built custom.clinerules and memory banks to provide the LLM with deep architectural context, reducing incident triage time by 60%- Built an automated remediation system connecting Prometheus/Grafana alerts to recovery scripts, auto-resolving common L1 incidents and reducing overall MTTR by 40%- Established observability standards across new cloud regions with custom database exporters and saved searches, improving proactive issue detection.GitOps & Compliance- Built GitOps-driven infrastructure deployment pipelines using GitLab CI, Helm, and Terraform, ensuring 100% of changes are version-controlled with full audit trails- Acted as the technical bridge between Dev and Ops, establishing cross-functional operational readiness checklists and automated rollback guardrails.

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Clearcase
• Cisco Call Manager
• Cisco Systems Products
• Selinux
• Networking
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Requirements Analysis
• Operating Systems
• Shell Scripting
• Perl
• Sql
• Linux
• Unix
• Cisco Technologies
• Red Hat Linux
• Python
• Cisco Unified Presence
• Core Java
• Bash
• Eclipse
• Tcp/Ip
• Troubleshooting
• Centos
• Programming