Dallas, Texas · Open to senior engineering conversations

Senior Software Engineer Cloud Platform Engineer

Engineering the invisible systems that make ambitious software dependable.

I design cloud-native applications and platform foundations that turn secure delivery, resilient operations, and infrastructure standards into repeatable engineering capabilities.

9+Years engineering
3Major cloud platforms
EnterpriseScale & governance
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AKSHAY DUBEY Senior Software Engineer Cloud Platform Engineering
Cloud platform engineering system A central Kubernetes platform connected to cloud, GitOps, security, observability, and artificial intelligence capabilities. K8sPLATFORM CLOUD GITOPS AI SRE ZERO
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01 · Engineering profile

Core expertise

Application engineering, platform work, observability, and agentic AI in one portfolio section.

01

Application Engineering

Java systems built for the real world.

Spring Boot microservices, secure REST and GraphQL APIs, Kafka ingestion, data consistency, resilience patterns, and test automation.

  • Java
  • Spring Cloud
  • Kafka
  • OAuth2/OIDC
02

Platform Engineering

Golden paths with guardrails.

Reusable Terraform, Helm promotion controls, Kubernetes policy, GitOps workflows, and cloud foundations that reduce drift.

03

SRE & Observability

Signals that shorten decisions.

RED/USE metrics, SLO dashboards, Kafka lag, traceable logs, automated runbooks, and incident-learning loops.

04

AI-Assisted Engineering

Release intelligence, not AI theater.

Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, MCP tools, knowledge-enhanced agents, risk summaries, API deprecation analysis, and RCA preparation.

20+engineer-hours saved per release cycle

02 · Measured impact

Key results

Quick evidence of scale, reliability, and delivery improvements.

010+

Environments governed

Helm compatibility and promotion guardrails supporting safer delivery across EKS and OpenShift estates.

020+

Pods operated

Enterprise workloads across highly available Kubernetes, Rancher, and EKS clusters.

030%

Faster pipelines

Parallel execution and dependency caching improved CI/CD throughput without weakening controls.

040%

Improved MTTR

Observability, correlation IDs, and AI-assisted runbook triage accelerated incident resolution.

03 · Selected work

Case studies

Three readable examples instead of a long landing-page narrative.

01
KubernetesHelmGitOps

Enterprise release governance

Promotion guardrails across 200+ environments.

Designed Helm compatibility and release controls for Kubernetes and OpenShift, including pre-release channels, upgrade checks, API deprecation awareness, and safer promotion practices.

35%pipeline acceleration
200+environments covered
GitOpsdesired-state delivery
02
SREGrafanaPrometheus

Production reliability

Resilience for a 1,500+ pod platform estate.

Implemented autoscaling, disruption budgets, production-readiness checks, resource optimization, observability, and incident triage patterns for enterprise container platforms.

18%compute cost reduction
27%MTTR improvement
40%fewer release failures
03
Azure OpenAIFoundryMCP

AI-assisted release engineering

Engineering copilots grounded in release evidence.

Applied knowledge-enhanced agents to release notes, risk summaries, API deprecation deltas, Helm diffs, and incident-response preparation—improving readiness without removing human control.

20+hours saved per cycle
Traceablesource-grounded outputs
Humanapproval retained

04 · Experience

Career timeline

Roles, companies, and what changed at each step.

2024 — Present

Turnberry Solutions Inc. · Dallas, TX

Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Platform Engineer

  • Spring Boot, secure APIs, Kafka ingestion, and cloud-native systems
  • Helm and Terraform guardrails across 200+ environments
  • AI-assisted release intelligence and engineering agents
CURRENT
2019 — 2024

CGI Inc. · Lafayette, LA

Software Engineer / Lead DevOps Engineer / SRE

  • Java EE modernization into Spring Boot microservices
  • 1,500+ pod Kubernetes, Rancher, and EKS operations
  • CI/CD, observability, canary delivery, and incident engineering
2019

Magtech · Vienna, VA

Cloud Engineer

  • Jenkins delivery automation and SonarQube quality gates
  • Vault Enterprise on GCP with least-privilege controls
2018 — 2019

Veridic Solutions · New York, NY

Cloud / DevOps Engineer

  • Cross-regional cloud routing and Terraform infrastructure
  • GKE observability and reliability controls
2014 — 2016

Intelnet · Hyderabad, India

Linux Administrator / IT Analyst

  • Led a 10-member data-quality and performance team
  • Built Java automation that reduced manual review effort by 40%

05 · Toolkit

Technology stack

A compact breakdown of application, platform, cloud, delivery, reliability, and AI tools.

01

Application

Java 7–21, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate/JPA, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Resilience4j, Feign

02

Platform

Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift, Rancher, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Argo CD, Vault, Ansible

03

Cloud & Data

AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis

04

Delivery

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, SAST/DAST, Testcontainers

05

Reliability

Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Kibana, SLO/SLI dashboards, RCA automation

06

Agentic AI

Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, MCP tools, grounded agents, model evaluation

06 · Operating philosophy

How I build

Security, observability, and automation with judgment.

06 · Operating philosophy

Secure by default.
Observable by design.
Automated with judgment.

The most valuable platform is not the one with the most tools. It is the one that makes the right path easy, the risky path visible, and every production change explainable.

deployment.yaml
securityContext:
  runAsNonRoot: true
  readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
  allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
  capabilities:
    drop: ["ALL"]
  seccompProfile:
    type: RuntimeDefault
Pod Security: restrictedNetwork: default denySupply chain: scanned

07 · Credentials

Education and certifications

Academic foundation plus verified engineering and AI learning.

Credentials

Computer science foundation. Continuous engineering growth.

2018

Master of Science in Computer Science

Troy University · Troy, Alabama

Verified

HackerRank Software Engineer

Problem Solving · Basic & Intermediate

AI

Microsoft Learn Agentic AI

Azure OpenAI · Foundry agents · MCP · model evaluation

08 · Testimonials

Professional recommendations

First-hand perspectives from people who have worked alongside me.

Recommendations in progress

Good engineering is a team effort.

I’m collecting thoughtful recommendations from engineering leaders, teammates, and delivery partners. Only genuine, first-hand feedback will appear here.

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