Akhil Adarsh Suryapagula · Senior Platform Engineer

About

Akhil Adarsh Suryapagula · Senior Platform Engineer DevSecOps · Regulated AWS · Healthcare 8 years building & operating AWS for HIPAA-regulated healthcare. Built Baxter's platform from scratch, led a 13-engineer SRE team at 99.99% uptime on connected medical devices in US hospitals, and drove EC2→EKS migrations at enterprise scale. Now Platform Engineer at Foodsmart; pursuing AWS Security Specialty.

BasedHyderabad, India Work authEU work-visa eligible · H1B holder (US) Awards2× Baxter Chairman's Award (2019, 2023) Open toPlatform / Cloud Security · open to relocate

Experience

Foodsmart · Platform Engineer May 2026 – present DevSecOps & platform reliability on HIPAA-adjacent US healthtech. Works directly with US engineering leadership on AWS and security.

Baxter International · Cloud Platform & DevOps Manager ★ 2022 – 2024 · Chairman's Award '23 Grew the platform team 3→13. 99.99% uptime on HIPAA AWS for dialysis devices in US hospitals. Led EC2→EKS migration (Helm). Org-wide IAM permission boundaries, Okta SSO, zero privilege-escalation incidents.

Baxter International · DevOps Engineer ★ 2018 – 2022 · Chairman's Award '19 Built the AWS healthcare platform from scratch — CloudFormation IaC standard, CodePipeline CI/CD, hardened RHEL AMIs (Packer), Python/boto3 for FDA IQ/OQ validation.

Baxter International · DevOps Engineer · Contract 2017 – 2018 Greenfield AWS build · converted to a full-time role.

Skills

CloudAWS · EKS · ECS · Fargate · CodePipeline · CloudFormation · EC2 · VPC · S3 · IAM · CloudTrail · Route 53 SecurityAikido · Falco · OPA Gatekeeper · IAM Boundaries · Okta SSO · CSPM ContainersKubernetes · Docker · Helm · ArgoCD · Blue/Green · Rolling ObservabilitySplunk · Kinesis · Dynatrace · CloudWatch · Prometheus AutomationPython · boto3 · Bash · Chef · Packer · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · Terraform ComplianceHIPAA · SOC2 Type II · FDA IQ/OQ · GDPR · NIS2

Certifications

In progressAWS Security Specialty (SCS-C02) · 2026 In progressHashiCorp Terraform Associate (004) · 2026 VerifiedAWS Solutions Architect – Associate VerifiedAWS Amazon EKS Accreditation VerifiedGenerative AI Fundamentals (AWS Academy)

Education

M.S. Electrical Engineering Gannon University, Erie PA · 2015 – 2016 Firmware & embedded systems — the edge on hardware-software integrated medical-device infrastructure.

B.E. Electrical & Electronics Mahaveer Institute, Hyderabad · 2011 – 2014

Awards

★ Baxter Chairman's Award 2023 Sharesource Modernisation EC2→EKS migration of critical home-dialysis infrastructure. Led the 13-engineer SRE team through the cutover.

★ Baxter Chairman's Award 2019 Homechoice Claria Sharesource Connected peritoneal dialysis · remote patient monitoring at scale. Baxter's highest engineering recognition, twice.

Senior Platform Engineer · DevSecOps · AWS