Lead Infrastructure Consultant · Cloud Architect

Aditya

Architecting high-scale, multi-cloud ecosystems. Expert in Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and IaC. Proven track record of cutting cloud costs by 40% and delivering Zero-Downtime infrastructure for global FinTech & Enterprise clients.

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About Me

Aditya

Aditya

Lead Infrastructure Consultant · Cloud Architect

I'm a Lead Infrastructure Consultant delivering cloud-native solutions for FinTech and Enterprise clients across the globe.

My work sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cost optimisation, and developer experience — from designing multi-cluster networking topologies to engineering Zero-Downtime traffic isolation strategies for high-stakes global launches. I believe great infrastructure is invisible to the teams building on top of it.

When I'm not provisioning clusters or reviewing Terraform plans, I share learnings here on learningwithaditya — deep dives, conference talks, and honest post-mortems from the trenches.

☁️ AWS · GCP ☸️ Kubernetes (CKA) 🔒 DevSecOps

Professional Journey

Nov 2020 — Present
Thoughtworks

Lead Infrastructure Consultant

  • ▹Architected multi-cloud cost strategies across GKE, EKS, and VMware Tanzu — cutting compute and AWS spend by up to 40%.
  • ▹Led platform engineering for global FinTech clients: Zero-Downtime migrations, Cilium ClusterMesh networking, and GitOps pipelines at scale.
GKE / EKS Terraform & Terragrunt Cilium ClusterMesh Cloudflare Workers ArgoCD
Jan 2019 — Nov 2020
Oracle

Senior Technical Consultant

  • ▹Automated operational runbooks for Oracle Social Cloud with Chef and Rundeck, reducing manual toil by 40%.
  • ▹Containerised legacy Ruby on Rails applications with Docker, standardising the full dev-to-production lifecycle.
Chef Rundeck Docker
Nov 2016 — Jan 2019
ADP

Senior Member Technical

  • ▹Drove a monolith-to-microservices migration, breaking legacy analytics tools into containerised, independently deployable services.
  • ▹Shrunk release cycles from 2 days to 4 hours with custom Python and Bash automation pipelines.
Python Docker Microservices
Jan 2011 — Nov 2016
Accenture

Senior Software Engineer

  • ▹Owned production support for business-critical applications, maintaining strict SLA compliance across 5+ years.
  • ▹Cut recurring incidents by 50% through systematic RCA and implementing permanent fixes at the root cause.
Production Support SLA Management RCA

Technical Stack

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Cloud & Platforms

AWS (EKS, RDS, VPC) · GCP (GKE, VPC-native, IAM, KMS) · VMware · Tanzu

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IaC & Automation

Terraform · Terragrunt · Packer · Ansible · Cloud-Init · Chef · Rundeck

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DevOps & GitOps

Kubernetes (CKA) · Helm · GitLab CI · ArgoCD · Azure DevOps · Jenkins · CircleCI

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Security & Networking

Cloudflare (Workers, WAF) · Cilium ClusterMesh · Istio · IAM · Trivy · TFsec

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Observability

Prometheus · Grafana · Thanos · ELK Stack · OpenTelemetry · Instana

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Languages & Data

Python · Bash · Go (Basic) · PostgreSQL (Stolon) · MongoDB · Kafka · MSK

Talks & Publications

XConf 2025 🕸️

Breaking Boundaries: Multi-cluster with Cilium ClusterMesh

Technical deep-dive on advanced Kubernetes networking — cross-cluster service discovery, identity-aware policies, and real-world topology patterns for production multi-cluster setups.

Kubernetes Networking Cilium
XConf 2023 🏗️

Organizing IaC: Patterns, Anti-patterns, and Tools

Strategies for scaling Terraform in enterprise environments — module design, state management, and the common pitfalls teams hit when IaC codebases grow beyond a single team.

Terraform IaC at Scale

Insights from the Trenches

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Optimizing CORS at the Edge

Reducing preflight latency from 500ms to 40ms using Cloudflare Workers — a practical walkthrough of edge-side request handling.

Read on Medium →
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SAN vs Object Storage

The architectural deep dive into block vs object persistence in Cloud Native apps — when to use each and the trade-offs that matter in production.

Read on Medium →

Certifications

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CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF

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Terraform Associate

HashiCorp Certified

HashiCorp

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Solutions Architect

AWS Certified

Amazon Web Services