VINOD BALAKRISHNA
Senior Platform Engineer
AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | GitOps | Platform Engineering
Bangalore, India | vinodkarike@gmail.com | mevinod.com | LinkedIn
Professional Summary
Senior Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience building, automating, and operating cloud-native platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, and on-premise environments.
Experienced in designing scalable infrastructure, implementing GitOps workflows, automating cloud operations, and improving platform reliability for enterprise healthcare applications.
Proven track record managing 8 AWS EKS clusters across 4 environments, supporting 40–50 applications, enabling 20+ engineers, and driving approximately 30% cloud cost optimization through automation and FinOps initiatives.
Strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Infrastructure as Code, Platform Engineering, Observability, and Production Operations.
Core Competencies
Cloud Platforms
AWS, Tencent Cloud, VMware, AWS Outposts
Container Platforms
Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker, Docker Compose
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible
CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Jenkins, CircleCI
Monitoring & Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, New Relic
Programming & Automation
Bash, Python, Go
Platform Engineering
GitOps, SRE, FinOps, Incident Management, Cloud Migration, Infrastructure Automation
Career Highlights
- 10+ years of experience across Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure and Automation.
- Managed 8 AWS EKS clusters across 4 environments.
- Supported 40–50 applications and microservices.
- Operated production Kubernetes environments with approximately 100 workloads.
- Enabled platform operations for 20+ engineers.
- Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by approximately 30%.
- Led migration from Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes.
- Implemented GitOps deployment workflows using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
Experience
Philips, Bangalore — Senior Platform Engineer
Oct 2022 – Present
- Designed, built and operated cloud-native application platforms on AWS supporting enterprise healthcare applications.
- Managed 8 Amazon EKS clusters hosting 40+ applications across development, staging, validation and production environments.
- Led migration of applications and deployment pipelines from Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes.
- Established GitOps deployment practices using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
- Implemented observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and CloudWatch.
- Delivered approximately 30% infrastructure cost reduction through optimization and automation.
Qualitest — DevOps Engineer
Feb 2021 – Oct 2022
- Built infrastructure testing frameworks using Terraform and Terratest.
- Automated validation workflows and managed VMware/Linux environments.
Plank Labs — DevOps / QA Engineer
May 2019 – Feb 2021
- Managed AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, performance testing initiatives, and cost optimization efforts.
Accenture — Associate Software Engineer
Dec 2015 – May 2019
- Automated testing, CI/CD integration, operational automation, and production support activities.
Certifications
- ArgoCD Fundamentals
- Tricentis Certified Professional Level 1
- Tricentis Certified Professional Level 2
- Agile Certification
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Mangalore University (2015)
