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Akhilesh Mishra, Senior Platform and Site Reliability Engineer and Expert Trainer
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Akhilesh Mishra

Senior Platform & Site Reliability Engineer
Expert Trainer, Neriya Tech Academy

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Professional biography

Reliable cloud platforms and practical AI operations.

Akhilesh Mishra is an Expert Trainer at Neriya Tech Academy with 13+ years of enterprise experience across systems administration, DevOps, platform engineering and site reliability. His background spans AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and secure cloud-native infrastructure.

His work includes platform architecture, on-call operations, incident response, infrastructure automation, self-service developer platforms and production observability. He also works with AI platforms, including RAG systems, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, AI observability and cost optimization.

Alongside engineering, Akhilesh mentors developers and junior engineers, supports technical writing and knowledge sharing, and publishes practical material on cloud, Kubernetes, platform engineering and SRE.

Enterprise experience

Senior AI Platform Engineer — Living DevopsFebruary 2026–present

Cloud-native AI and platform engineering using Amazon Bedrock, Kubernetes, FastAPI, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Python, OpenTelemetry and Langfuse, with attention to observability, security, cost and developer productivity.

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer — KPMGSeptember 2022–January 2026

Kubernetes platform reliability across banking and GCP initiatives; ECS-to-EKS migration; Terraform-based self-service infrastructure; observability and incident response; CI/CD security controls; cloud landing zones; and RAG systems using Vertex AI and Vector Search. Established a structured mentoring program and supported technical knowledge sharing.

Senior DevOps Engineer — KyndrylSeptember 2021–September 2022

Security automation, identity management, CI/CD optimization, Kubernetes disaster-recovery testing, and reliability engineering for a healthcare client.

DevOps Engineer — IBMFebruary 2017–August 2021

AWS cloud migration, multi-account networking, Kubernetes platforms, Terraform, Jenkins, centralized logging, release management, hardened machine images and security remediation.

System Administrator — WiproDecember 2012–February 2017

Enterprise infrastructure operations across VMware, Red Hat Linux and AIX; provisioning and patch automation; disaster recovery; business continuity; and cross-functional troubleshooting.

Technical focus

Cloud & platform engineeringAWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitOps and self-service infrastructure.
Site reliability engineeringSLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, on-call operations and blameless postmortems.
ObservabilityOpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and production troubleshooting.
DevSecOpsCI/CD security controls, SAST, DAST, CodeQL, secret scanning, Checkov, Trivy and SonarQube.
AI platformsAmazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, RAG, FastAPI, Python and Langfuse.
Operational efficiencyCloud cost management, automation, resilient delivery and recovery planning.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics EngineeringNational Institute of Technology Srinagar · 2008–2012

Selected certifications

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004)Issued June 2026 · Expires June 2028
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateIssued December 2025 · Expires December 2028
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