Principal Cloud & Platform Architect

Architecting secure, reliable cloud platforms at enterprise scale.

I help engineering organizations turn complex cloud estates into standardized platforms that accelerate delivery, improve production reliability, strengthen security, and control cost.

Open to Principal and Staff Cloud & Platform Architecture opportunities

Suyog Dabhole, Principal Cloud and Platform Architect
Bengaluru, IndiaEnterprise architecture · Global scope
Architecture backed by implementationTerraform · GitHub Actions · policy-as-code · GitOps · observability
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Verified enterprise impact

Scale translated into measurable outcomes.

Microservices supported
120+
Platform availability
99.99%
Annualized cloud savings
$1M+
Lower mean time to recovery
40%
Recurring remediation automated
70%

Outcomes delivered across AWS and Azure platforms supporting 1–3 million requests and 500 GB–1 TB of telemetry per day.

Architecture with business purpose

Platform capability that changes how engineering operates.

The goal is not more tooling. It is a safer, faster, and more accountable engineering system—from cloud foundations to production operations.

01

Build scalable cloud platforms

Create standardized AWS and Azure foundations with reusable patterns for availability, networking, security, and disaster recovery.

02

Accelerate engineering teams

Turn platform standards into golden paths, GitOps workflows, reusable infrastructure, and governed self-service experiences.

03

Improve production reliability

Establish measurable SLOs, actionable telemetry, production-readiness practices, and incident response designed around fast recovery.

04

Embed security guardrails

Move identity, secrets, policy, scanning, and secure release controls into the platform and delivery lifecycle by default.

05

Control cloud economics

Connect architecture decisions to utilization, rightsizing, allocation, governance, and sustained FinOps accountability.

Core architecture capabilities

Breadth across the platform. Depth where decisions matter.

Expertise is organized around enterprise capabilities—not a logo wall—so technology choices remain connected to reliability, security, delivery, and cost.

CLOUD

Cloud Architecture

Secure, resilient cloud foundations designed for enterprise operating realities.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Cloud-native architecture
  • Multi-account architecture
  • Hybrid cloud

PLATFORM

Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Governed, reusable platforms that give teams autonomy without losing control.

  • Kubernetes
  • Amazon EKS
  • AKS
  • Helm
  • Istio & Envoy

AUTOMATE

Infrastructure Automation

Repeatable infrastructure and delivery workflows that reduce drift and manual risk.

  • Terraform
  • GitOps
  • Argo CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI

RELIABILITY

SRE & Reliability

Reliability engineered as a measurable product capability, not an afterthought.

  • Service Level Objectives
  • Service Level Indicators
  • Error budgets
  • Incident response
  • Production readiness

SIGNALS

Observability

Actionable signals that shorten diagnosis and connect service health to user impact.

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • Azure Monitor

SECURE

Security & DevSecOps

Zero Trust and policy guardrails embedded throughout platforms and pipelines.

  • Zero Trust
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Vault
  • OPA/Gatekeeper
  • Policy-as-code

Public GitHub architecture portfolio

Enterprise platform decisions, documented as reusable blueprints.

Six public repositories translate Principal-level architecture thinking into reference designs, operating models, trade-offs, controls, and phased implementation roadmaps.

GH / 01Public blueprint

Enterprise AWS Platform Blueprint

Architecture-first multi-account AWS platform covering landing-zone governance, networking, security, EKS, Terraform, observability, SRE, and FinOps.

  • AWS Organizations
  • Control Tower
  • EKS
  • Terraform
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GH / 02Public blueprint

Enterprise EKS Platform

Production-oriented EKS blueprint for secure multi-team tenancy, GitOps delivery, autoscaling, policy enforcement, observability, and reliability.

  • Amazon EKS
  • Argo CD
  • Karpenter
  • OpenTelemetry
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GH / 03Public blueprint

Self-Service Cloud Platform

Secure golden paths using portal workflows, isolated Terraform runners, policy-as-code, approvals, auditability, and accountable cloud cost.

  • Backstage
  • Terraform
  • Policy-as-code
  • AWS
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GH / 04Public blueprint

Terraform Enterprise Modules

Governed module-factory standards for secure defaults, semantic releases, automated policy tests, examples, and consumer-owned state.

  • Terraform
  • Terratest
  • OPA
  • Infracost
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GH / 05Public blueprint

Cloud-Native Observability Platform

Enterprise reference architecture for metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, multi-team tenancy, security, and telemetry cost governance.

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • SLOs
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GH / 06Public blueprint

AWS FinOps Governance

AWS FinOps operating model for allocation, budgets, anomaly detection, rightsizing, commitments, unit economics, and safe automation.

  • FinOps
  • AWS CUR
  • Athena
  • Cost Governance
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Selected architecture work

Complex platform problems, reduced to clear operating decisions.

Anonymized case studies show the challenge, architecture, trade-offs, implementation approach, and measurable outcome—without exposing proprietary details.

Engineering teams
Golden pathsGit repositoriesCI policy gates
TerraformHelmArgo CD
Amazon EKSAzure AKS
SecurityObservabilityGovernance
Simplified, anonymized view. Implementation details vary by workload and operating model.
01

EKS · AKS · Argo CD

Standardized EKS & AKS platform

Improved operational consistency, auditability, rollback readiness, drift control, and cross-team production support.
02

OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Grafana

Shared, actionable telemetry model

Reduced Mean Time to Recovery by 40% and improved production diagnosis quality.
03

FinOps · Rightsizing · Governance

Architecture-led cost governance

$1M+ in annualized cloud savings while preserving production reliability.
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Principal-level leadership

Architecture ownership from strategy to production.

My role is to connect executive priorities, engineering constraints, and production evidence—then turn them into standards teams can actually adopt.

Read the architecture philosophy
  • Architecture strategy and technical trade-off analysis
  • C-level and senior stakeholder communication
  • Cross-functional alignment and platform governance
  • Production-readiness reviews and troubleshooting
  • Engineering standards, mentoring, and decision enablement

Career progression

From software engineering to enterprise platform architecture.

Nearly two decades of increasing responsibility across application engineering, technical architecture, cloud modernization, and platform leadership.

Lead Cloud Platform Architect

Jeppesen ForeFlight

Owned AWS and Azure platform architecture for cloud modernization, Kubernetes adoption, reliability, security, and developer experience across 100+ microservices.

Senior Platform Architect

Boeing India

Standardized cloud-platform patterns, observability, DevSecOps controls, and FinOps governance for large-scale production systems.

Cloud Solutions Architect

Tata Consultancy Services

Led cloud architecture, DevOps modernization, infrastructure automation, and production reliability across large enterprise environments.

Advisory & consulting

Focused help for expensive platform problems.

Architecture assessments, modernization strategy, platform standards, and implementation guidance for organizations where reliability, security, delivery speed, or cloud cost is under pressure.

01

Cloud Architecture Advisory

Architecture reviews and modernization roadmaps grounded in resilience, security, operability, and cost.

  • AWS architecture
  • Cloud platform assessment
  • Modernization strategy
02

Kubernetes Platform Engineering

EKS and AKS platform standards that balance application-team autonomy with enterprise controls.

  • EKS / AKS architecture
  • Workload isolation
  • Scaling & reliability
03

Platform Engineering

Internal platforms, golden paths, and self-service patterns that reduce cognitive load and delivery friction.

  • Internal Developer Platforms
  • Golden paths
  • Self-service infrastructure

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