Vamshi Akula

DevOps and Platform Engineering Leader

Build platforms. Ship faster. Sleep better.

Engineering leader with 15+ years scaling internal platforms, transforming DevOps culture, and elevating developer experience, SRE, and hybrid cloud operations.

Platform ThinkingDeveloper ExperienceAI First OperationsPragmatic DevOpsKubernetes (K8) Operations (Day 0, 1 and 2)GitOpsInfrastructure-as-CodeObservabilitySRESelf-service Cloud OperationsPCI and SOC2FinOps
Uptime
99.995%+
SLO based reliability engineering across complex hybrid infrastructure
Cycle Time
weeks to minutes
Golden paths and IaC templates
Deploy Frequency
Up by 10x
Golden paths, CI/CD adoption/standardization and DevOps Maturity
MTTR
hours to minutes
SRE, observability, operational excellence
Cloud Costs
Down 64% YoY
FinOps guardrails and well architected cloud infrastructure
AI-suggested Code Acceptance Rate
~40%
Developer efficiency through CursorIDE and GitHub Copilot adoption
First-touch resolution rate
50%
AI-based operations and introduction MCP servers in to operations
IaC Coverage
20%->90%
Infrastructure-as-Code first

Highlights

Monolith to Microservices Migration and Platform Engineering (IDP Launch)
Mosaic Financial - 2022-Present

Modernized a fragmented DevOps ecosystem: retired legacy DevOps tooling, unified on GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, migrated legacy Monolith to Microservices on EKS (250+ services in 9 months), and launched an Internal Developer Platform with 50 plus golden paths for self service.

  • Deploy frequency improved from monthly to daily or hourly via reusable pipelines
  • MTTR reduced from hours or days to minutes with SRE runbooks and automation
  • SOC2 and PCI controls embedded in CI/CD and platform guardrails
  • Cycle Time for new services/infrastructure reduced from weeks to minutes
AWSK8ArgoCDGitHub ActionsTerraform
Company Wide Observability with Datadog and maturing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
Mosaic Financial - 2023-2024

Consolidated bespoke monitoring into Datadog, integrated distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, and standardized SLOs and alert policies across 250 plus services.

  • Alert noise down about 80% using SLO based alerting
  • Observability spend down about 75% by consolidation
  • Established SLIs and SLOs and Incident Response processes
  • Blameless postmortems and reliability reviews institutionalized
  • Introduced software service catalog with scorecards
DatadogOpenTelemetrySyntheticsSLOs
Reduced cloud spend by 64% YoY and Cloud Operational Excellence
Mosaic Financial - 2022-2024

Reduced AWS cloud spend by 64% YoY through FinOps and modernization while accelerating our origination and servicing volume by 10x.

  • Savings of more than $2mm/yr
  • IaC coverage grew for low teens to more than 90%
  • Number of micro-services grew 25 times (more than 250 services)
  • Establishing AWS Well Architected frameworks
  • Grew AWS footprint to support traditional applications, 100's of microservices, modern data/analytics workloads
  • Introducing cloud governance and security posture management
AWSEKSFinOpsSystems Thinking
AI-driven Developer Efficiency and Operations
Mosaic Financial - 2024-Present

Accelerated developer productivity and operational efficiency through AI-based tools and processes, including code completion, AI-ops, and MCP servers.

  • AI-suggested Code Acceptance Rate ~40% through adoption of CursorIDE and GitHub Copilot
  • First-touch resolution rate at 50% using AI-based operations
  • Introduction of MCP servers into operations to enhance automated remediation and insights
CursorIDEGitHub CopilotAI OperationsMCP Servers
DevOps Maturity (Stage 1 to Stage 4), GitOps and IaC at Scale
Panzura - 2020-2022

Advanced organization from basic CI to robust GitOps on Kubernetes. Built reusable Terraform and Ansible modules. Embedded SAST, DAST, and container scanning into pipelines.

  • Provisioning time reduced from days to minutes
  • Shift left security and automated compliance in CI/CD
  • Improved MTTR with centralized telemetry and proactive alerting
GitLab CI/CDKubernetesTerraformAnsibleSnykPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry
Global DevSecOps and Developer Experience Enablement
Verint - 2018-2020

Supported 12 plus product lines and 1300 plus developers across 6 countries. Standardized CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, Global DevOps tooling consolidation, rolled out service catalogs and golden paths, and implemented observability across hybrid cloud. Introduced Terraform registry thus reducing infrastructure provisioning times.

  • Accelerated onboarding and delivery with golden paths and documentation portals
  • Secure by default pipelines with SCA, SAST, DAST, and vaulting
  • Terraform registry that spanned On-prem, AWS, GCP and Azure infrastructure
  • Leading PCI, SOC2 Type II and ISO 27001 security audits for the platform components
AWSGCPAzureJenkinsGitLabGitHub ActionsSplunkELKOpenTelemetry

Case Studies

Monolith to Microservices Migration and Platform Engineering (IDP Launch)
Mosaic Financial - 2022-Present

Modernized a fragmented DevOps ecosystem: retired legacy DevOps tooling, unified on GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, migrated legacy Monolith to Microservices on EKS (250+ services in 9 months), and launched an Internal Developer Platform with 50 plus golden paths for self service.

Impact

  • Deploy frequency improved from monthly to daily or hourly via reusable pipelines
  • MTTR reduced from hours or days to minutes with SRE runbooks and automation
  • SOC2 and PCI controls embedded in CI/CD and platform guardrails
  • Cycle Time for new services/infrastructure reduced from weeks to minutes

Tech

AWSK8ArgoCDGitHub ActionsTerraform

Expertise

Platform and DevEx
  • IDP and Service Catalog
  • Golden Paths
  • Backstage
  • Templates
  • Self Service APIs
Cloud and Infra
  • AWS and GCP and Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Networking
  • Postgres and Kafka
  • Vault
Delivery and Ops
  • GitOps and ArgoCD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Feature Flags
  • Progressive Delivery
  • DR and BCP
SRE and Observability
  • SLIs and SLOs
  • On call and Incident Ops
  • Datadog
  • OpenTelemetry
  • DORA Metrics

Contact

Lets talk Platform Engineering, DevEx, and Reliability Engineering

Open to Director and Senior Director roles in Platform, DevEx, SRE or Cloud Operations.