Surendra Kumar Ponnaganti
Manchester
Summary
Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience building and managing developer platforms in AWS and Azure. Skilled in Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC, service mesh, self-service provisioning, and platform observability. Adept at enabling development teams to deliver faster and more securely through standardized tooling and automated infrastructure.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Platform Engineer
Barclays
Manchester, Lancashire
2025.05 - 2026.03
- Built and maintained multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS) with namespace isolation and network policies to support dozens of application teams.
- Developed reusable Terraform modules and ARM templates for standardized infrastructure patterns.
- Created self-service infrastructure provisioning workflows in Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps, enabling developers to spin up environments without platform team intervention.
- Integrated Vault and Azure Key Vault into platform services for centralized secrets management.
- Implemented Kubernetes admission controllers to enforce compliance policies at deployment time.
- Designed platform-wide observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, preconfigured for application onboarding.
Platform Engineer
HCL Technologies
Bangalore
2022.01 - 2023.08
- Migrated multiple teams to a GitOps workflow using ArgoCD and Helm, improving deployment reliability.
- Designed and deployed Istio service mesh for secure service-to-service communication and traffic management.
- Built CI/CD pipeline templates in Azure DevOps for consistent application delivery across teams.
- Standardized container image governance policies with automated vulnerability scanning in pipelines.
- Created centralized ingress controllers and DNS routing for platform workloads.
- Automated scaling, failover testing, and DR simulations for shared platform services.
Senior Software Engineer
Eidiko Systems Integrators pvt ltd
Hyderabad
2020.09 - 2021.12
- Developed internal CLI tools in Python for Kubernetes workload deployment and resource management.
- Built an internal Helm chart repository with standardized application templates.
- Automated provisioning of VPC/VNet, storage, and load balancers for new workloads.
- Integrated JFrog Artifactory for storing and distributing container images across teams.
- Designed and enforced RBAC models across Kubernetes namespaces.
- Implemented centralized logging and tracing tools for all workloads deployed on the platform.
Software Developer
Huawei Software India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
2017.02 - 2020.08
- Containerized applications using Docker and deployed to Kubernetes clusters with automated scaling policies.
- Wrote automation scripts for service mesh configuration, monitoring, and deployment validation.
- Built monitoring dashboards pre-integrated with platform services for immediate application visibility.
- Managed CI/CD pipelines for platform services to ensure reliability and compliance.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of East London
London 2023.09 - 2025.05
Skills
- Platform Management: Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, service mesh architectures
- IaC & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Ansible, Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
- Security & Compliance: RBAC, Vault, Azure Key Vault, policy enforcement, vulnerability scanning
- Developer Enablement: CI/CD pipeline templates, self-service infrastructure, onboarding automation
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Timeline
Platform Engineer
Barclays
2025.05 - 2026.03
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of East London
2023.09 - 2025.05
Platform Engineer
HCL Technologies
2022.01 - 2023.08
Senior Software Engineer
Eidiko Systems Integrators pvt ltd
2020.09 - 2021.12
Software Developer
Huawei Software India Pvt Ltd
2017.02 - 2020.08