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Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Priya Sharma

Designing resilient, scalable infrastructure for distributed systems.

10+ years engineering high-availability platforms used by millions. Passionate about reliability, automation, and clean architecture.

99.99%
System Uptime
200+
Microservices Migrated
35%
Cost Reduction
8
Cloud Regions
About

Background & Approach

I architect and build infrastructure that treats failure as inevitable and design as the antidote. With over a decade in distributed systems, I've led cloud migrations, built internal platforms, and shaped reliability practices for organizations ranging from early-stage startups to global enterprises.

My work sits at the intersection of systems engineering, platform thinking, and operational excellence. I believe infrastructure should be invisible, automated, and boringly predictable — and that the best systems are those that empower teams to move fast without breaking things.

I write Go and Rust for systems tooling, use Terraform and Kubernetes to codify infrastructure, and rely on observability to close the loop between deployment and understanding.

  • Led 200+ microservice migration to Kubernetes
  • Designed multi-region AWS architecture serving 10M+ users
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 35% through right-sizing and commitment planning
  • Built internal developer platform adopted by 15 engineering teams
  • Open-source contributor to service mesh and infrastructure tooling
Experience

Career History

2021 — Present
Senior Cloud Architect
Aurora Technologies · San Francisco, CA
Leading infrastructure strategy and platform architecture for a fintech company serving 10M+ users.
  • Designed and executed migration of 200+ microservices from self-managed Nomad to Kubernetes, reducing deployment time by 70% and improving resource utilization by 40%.
  • Architected multi-region active-active topology on AWS using Route53, DynamoDB Global Tables, and EKS, achieving 99.99% uptime across three US regions.
  • Built an internal developer platform with Backstage, reducing service creation time from weeks to hours.
  • Drove cloud cost optimization program, saving $2.1M annually through reserved instances, right-sizing, and spot usage.
2018 — 2021
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Meridian Systems · Remote
Core infrastructure team for a B2B analytics platform processing 5TB+ of daily data.
  • Designed and implemented a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS, supporting 50+ engineering teams with self-service namespace provisioning and RBAC.
  • Built observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) from 25 minutes to under 3 minutes.
  • Led incident response program and authored postmortem culture, achieving 30% reduction in P0 incidents quarter-over-quarter.
  • Migrated legacy Jenkins pipelines to GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, enabling continuous delivery with automated canary analysis.
2016 — 2018
DevOps Engineer
StackPath · Austin, TX
Infrastructure and release engineering for a CDN and edge computing platform.
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for 40+ services using Jenkins, Spinnaker, and HashiCorp tools, achieving 15+ deployments per day with 99.8% success rate.
  • Implemented infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and Packer, reducing environment provisioning time from days to under 2 hours.
  • Managed Linux-based production fleet of 500+ nodes, handling kernel tuning, security patching, and capacity planning.
  • Developed internal CLI tools in Go for incident triage and deployment management, adopted by the entire engineering organization.
2014 — 2016
Systems Engineer
DataStream Analytics · Boston, MA
Linux systems and data pipeline infrastructure for a real-time analytics startup.
  • Managed on-premise and cloud Linux infrastructure running Cassandra, Kafka, and Spark clusters.
  • Automated system provisioning with Ansible and custom Python tooling, achieving fully reproducible environments.
  • Wrote monitoring and alerting rules for 200+ node cluster, reducing false-positive alerts by 60%.
  • Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation and led root-cause analysis for production incidents.
Skills

Technical Competencies

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP Azure DigitalOcean

Infrastructure & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible Packer Nomad Helm

Programming Languages

Go Python Rust TypeScript Bash

Observability & Reliability

Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Datadog Envoy Linkerd

Systems & Networking

Linux (Debian/RHEL) TCP/IP DNS TLS eBPF systemd

CI/CD & Developer Tooling

GitHub Actions ArgoCD Jenkins Spinnaker Backstage
Education

Academic Background

Master of Science, Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2012 — 2014
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Mathematics
Stanford University
2008 — 2012

Research & Thesis

“Fault-tolerant consensus in geographically distributed systems” — Advised by Prof. Barbara Liskov. Proposed a novel quorum protocol reducing latency in wide-area consensus by 28% under asymmetric network partitions.

Credentials

Certifications

Projects

Open Source & Side Work

Kratos
Service Mesh Controller
An open-source Kubernetes controller for declarative service mesh configuration. Provides traffic split, fault injection, and observability integration for Linkerd and Istio. Adopted by 3 organizations in production.
Go Kubernetes Linkerd CRDs
InfraKit
Infrastructure Visualization Tool
A CLI and web-based tool that maps cloud infrastructure resources into interactive dependency graphs. Parses Terraform state and CloudFormation templates to generate real-time architecture diagrams.
Python Graphviz Terraform React
CloudCost
Cost Optimization Framework
A framework for analyzing cloud spending across AWS accounts, identifying savings opportunities, and automating commitment-based discounts. Saved 12–18% on compute costs in pilot deployments.
Go AWS Prometheus SQLite
Cascade
Incident Response Bot
A Slack-native incident response bot that automates severity triage, channel creation, stakeholder notification, and post-incident tracking. Integrates with PagerDuty and Opsgenie.
TypeScript Slack API Redis Serverless