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Platform Engineer & DevSecOps Specialist
Akhil AdarshSuryapagula
AWS  ·  DevSecOps  ·  HIPAA  ·  EU Ready

Eight years building and securing AWS infrastructure at scale. Led a 13-engineer platform team in regulated environments where a deployment failure was not a bug. It had real consequences. Built for reliability, compliance, and scale.

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Actively exploring roles in Europe and remote
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Years in AWS
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Engineers Led
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Uptime Maintained
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Chairman's Award
Experience

Career History

01
DevSecOps and Cloud Security Lead
Aug 2024 → Present
Independent  ·  Career Development

Pursuing a deliberate transition into Cloud Security engineering. Studying for AWS Security Specialty and CompTIA Security+. Building hands-on DevSecOps portfolio with Checkov, Trivy, Falco, and OPA Gatekeeper.

AWS Security SpecialtyCompTIA Security+CheckovTrivyFalcoOPA Gatekeeper
02
Cloud Platform and DevOps Manager
Aug 2022 → Aug 2024
Baxter International Inc.  ·  Bengaluru, India

Led platform engineering supporting connected medical devices in hospitals across the United States. Grew the DevOps and SRE team from 3 to 13 engineers. Maintained 99.99% production uptime. Led EC2 to EKS migration. Integrated Splunk with Kinesis for real-time security monitoring. Implemented IAM permission boundaries across AWS accounts. Integrated Okta SSO for all user types. HIPAA Compliant

★  Baxter Chairman's Award, Sharesource Modernisation
AWS EKSCloudFormationCodePipelineSplunkKinesisDynatraceChefHelmOktaHIPAASOC2IAM
03
DevOps Engineer
Nov 2017 → Aug 2022
Baxter International Inc.  ·  Deerfield, Illinois, USA

Built foundational AWS infrastructure from scratch for Baxter's connected healthcare platform. Established CloudFormation-based IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability using Splunk and Dynatrace. Created hardened golden AMIs using Packer on RHEL. Deployed ECS with Docker. Wrote Python boto3 scripts for IQOQ compliance validation. HIPAA Compliant

★  Baxter Chairman's Award, Homechoice Claria Sharesource
CloudFormationPackerRHELChefJenkinsECSDockerPythonboto3
04
DevOps Engineer
Aug 2016 → Nov 2017
Unigo Inc.  ·  Dallas, TX, USA

Managed AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Built and maintained CI/CD workflows, server configuration, and monitoring solutions.

AWSCI/CDLinuxBash
Technical Stack

Skills and Tools

Cloud and Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services, AWS EKS and Kubernetes, CloudFormation and CDK, EC2, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, ASGs, Elastic Load Balancing, CodePipeline and CodeBuild, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Packer and Golden AMIs.

Security and Compliance

DevSecOps Engineering, HIPAA Technical Safeguards, SOC2 Type II Controls, AWS IAM and Permission Boundaries, AWS Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, Checkov, Trivy, Falco, OPA Gatekeeper, Okta SSO and SAML.

Containers and Orchestration

Docker and Podman, Kubernetes via EKS, Helm Charts, AWS ECS and Fargate, Ingress Controllers, API Gateway, Blue/Green and Rolling Deployments.

Observability and Monitoring

Splunk with Kinesis integration, Dynatrace APM, AWS CloudWatch, log aggregation pipelines, incident response and SRE practices, blameless post-mortems.

Automation and Scripting

Python and boto3, Shell and Bash scripting, Chef cookbooks and recipes, Ansible playbooks, Jenkins and SonarQube, Bitbucket and GitHub Actions, AI-assisted IaC development.

Leadership and Process

Engineering team leadership, platform roadmap ownership, cross-functional collaboration, Agile and Sprint management, HP ALM change management, vendor management, on-call incident command.

Credentials

Certifications

In Progress 2026
AWS Security Specialty (SCS-C02)
Amazon Web Services
In Progress 2026
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701)
CompTIA
Completed
AWS Solutions Architect Associate Verified
Amazon Web Services
Completed
AWS Amazon EKS Accreditation Verified
Amazon Web Services
Completed
Generative AI Fundamentals Verified
AWS Academy
Completed
AI Fluency Framework and Foundations Verified
Certificate of Completion
Recognition

Awards

Baxter Chairman's Award, Sharesource Modernisation
Baxter International's highest engineering recognition. Awarded for leading the Sharesource platform modernisation, migrating critical home dialysis device infrastructure to AWS.
Baxter Chairman's Award, Homechoice Claria Sharesource
Infrastructure engineering on the Homechoice Claria connected peritoneal dialysis device, enabling remote patient monitoring at home.
Education

Academic Background

MS
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Gannon University, Erie PA, USA · Jan 2015 to May 2016. Firmware and embedded systems foundation that became a genuine differentiator on hardware-software integrated medical device infrastructure.
BE
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics
Mahaveer Institute of Science and Technology · May 2011 to May 2014.
Contact
Let's build
somethingSecure.

Actively exploring Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, and Platform Security roles. Target locations are Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, and Sweden. Open to fully remote as well.

Available for work  ·  Senior level  ·  8+ years AWS experience
Currently open to
Open to Roles
Cloud Security Engineer
DevSecOps Engineer
Platform Security Engineer
Senior Platform and SRE Engineer
Germany  ·  Netherlands  ·  Ireland  ·  Sweden
Fully Remote
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