Anjali Kapoor
Platform Architect
Pune, India | your.email@example.com | +91 98XXX XXXXX | linkedin.com/in/your-profile
Professional Summary
Platform Architect with 10 years designing large-scale Internal Developer Platforms and multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure. At Platformax India, leads a platform serving 300+ engineers across 15 product teams; eliminated 90% of infrastructure tickets by introducing Crossplane-based self-service provisioning, and reduced new developer onboarding from 2 weeks to 2 days. Defined company-wide supply chain security standards covering image signing, SBOM generation, and SLSA Level 2 provenance, enforced at cluster admission across 100% of production workloads. Presented multi-tenant EKS design at Platform Engineering Summit Europe 2024.
Skills and Expertise
Platform Architecture: Internal Developer Platform (IDP) design, Backstage, Crossplane, Multi-tenant Kubernetes, Golden path templates, Self-service infrastructure, Platform product strategy
Kubernetes and GitOps: EKS, on-prem Kubernetes, Cluster API, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, Karpenter, OPA / Gatekeeper, Kyverno
Security and Supply Chain: Policy as Code (OPA, Kyverno), RBAC, Pod Security Standards, SLSA framework, Cosign / Sigstore, SBOM generation, Vault, External Secrets Operator
Infrastructure and Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, ECR, Secrets Manager), Terraform, AWS CDK, Istio (service mesh)
Observability: Prometheus Operator, Grafana (dashboards as code), Loki, OpenTelemetry, SLO frameworks
Languages: Python, Go, Bash, Rego (OPA policies)
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - ProfessionalJun 2024 - Jun 2027
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Jan 2024 - Jan 2027
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)Jan 2024 - Jan 2027
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateMar 2023 - Mar 2026
Achievements
- Platform Team of the Year 2023 - Led a 5-person platform team recognised company-wide for reducing mean time to new developer onboarding from 2 weeks to 2 days.
- Platform Engineering Summit Europe 2024 - Lightning Talk - Presented "Multi-tenant EKS at Scale: What We Learned" covering namespace isolation patterns, Kyverno policy design, and Karpenter cost optimisation.
Work Experience
Platform Architect - Platformax India
Feb 2023 - Present- Architects and leads a company-wide IDP built on open-source Backstage (self-hosted, not a commercial vendor) serving 300+ engineers across 15 product teams; owns the platform product roadmap, quarterly OKRs, and a team of 5 engineers; developer onboarding time reduced from 2 weeks to 2 days.
- Designed a multi-tenant EKS architecture using Cluster API with hard namespace isolation, per-team resource quotas, Kyverno admission policies, and automated namespace provisioning; supports 15 isolated tenant namespaces with zero cross-tenant security incidents since launch.
- Introduced Crossplane as the infrastructure provisioning layer, enabling product teams to declare RDS databases, S3 buckets, and IAM roles as Kubernetes custom resources; infrastructure ticket volume fell from 50/week to under 5/week within 10 weeks of go-live (90% reduction).
- Defined supply chain security standards including Cosign image signing, SBOM generation, and SLSA Level 2 build provenance; admission webhook enforcement blocks unsigned images at cluster level, covering 100% of production workloads with zero developer workflow disruption after a 3-week migration window.
- Manages observability platform (Prometheus Operator, Grafana, Loki, OTel collector) as a managed service for 15 product teams; mean time to detect production anomalies reduced from 18 minutes to 4 minutes across onboarded teams.
- Mentors 5 platform engineers; 2 promoted to senior level in 18 months; runs an Architecture Review Board that has established GitOps as the mandatory deployment standard across all 15 product teams - enforced as an admission policy rather than a convention - and maintains a 5-working-day decision SLA across 38 reviews in the last year.
Senior Platform Engineer - Infrawise Systems
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023- Built the first iteration of an IDP on Backstage delivering self-service environment creation, secret management, and deployment pipelines to 120 engineers; reduced platform support load by 60% and increased developer satisfaction score from 5.8 to 8.4 out of 10 in the annual survey.
- Designed a 4-cluster EKS strategy (dev/staging/prod/shared-services) with ArgoCD GitOps and environment promotion automation; reduced time to promote a release from staging to production from 3 hours to 12 minutes.
- Implemented OPA/Gatekeeper policies across 6 clusters enforcing security baselines; 100% policy compliance achieved within 60 days and maintained through automated admission, replacing a quarterly manual audit that had an average 35% non-compliance rate.
- Migrated CI from a shared Jenkins master to distributed GitHub Actions runners with hermetic build environments; CI-related incident rate fell by 70% and average build time dropped from 18 minutes to 11 minutes.
DevOps Engineer - Netbridge Technologies
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020- Managed EKS and on-premises Kubernetes clusters for a payments platform serving 3M monthly users; owned 6 cluster version upgrades with zero unplanned customer impact.
- Built Terraform modules for EKS, RDS, VPC, and IAM with a private module registry; 4 teams adopted the modules within 3 months, standardising infrastructure patterns across the engineering organisation.
Junior DevOps Engineer - Pipelinex Corp
Jan 2014 - Mar 2017- Maintained Jenkins pipelines and EC2 environments for a 10-service PHP application; introduced Docker for the development environment, reducing environment-parity bugs reported by developers from 8/week to under 2/week.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Deccan University, Pune
2011 - 2014Bachelor of Computer Science - Deccan University, Pune
2008 - 2011Customise this template: Replace the name, contact details, company names, and bullet points with your own experience. The structure and phrasing are designed to read well to both recruiters and hiring managers in cloud and DevOps roles.