Akhil Gupta

Senior Platform Solutions Architect

Cloud Architecture | M&A Infrastructure | CI/CD Automation | FinOps | GenAI | Agentic AI

13+ years designing scalable, high-performance cloud infrastructure across 900+ AWS accounts. Specialising in GenAI, agentic AI platforms, cloud security, M&A cloud integrations, and enterprise platform engineering.

Akhil Gupta
900+ AWS Accounts Managed
71% Faster Account Provisioning
70% Deployment Efficiency Gain
20% Cost Reduction Achieved

About Me

Senior Platform Solutions Architect with 13+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, specialising in AWS-based enterprise platforms, GenAI, agentic AI, and regulated-industry cloud architectures. Designed and managed enterprise AWS platform offerings across 900+ accounts, including multi-account strategies spanning serverless, dedicated, and sandbox environments. Proven experience leading M&A cloud integration initiatives and cloud security programs.

Cloud Architecture

Architected multi-tenant cloud frameworks across 900+ AWS accounts with tight security guardrails. Led AWS infrastructure splits for major pharmaceutical M&A spin-offs.

Agentic AI Platforms

Building enterprise GenAI platforms using Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, Strands SDK, RAG architectures, and agent orchestration patterns for automated diagnosis and knowledge management.

GenAI Implementation

Deployed GenAI solutions using AWS Bedrock (Claude Sonnet 4.5), Knowledge Bases, Amazon Q Business, and Step Functions document ingestion pipelines for enterprise clients.

DevOps Excellence

Built CI/CD infrastructure with Jenkins on ECS (Docker) in a control-worker model, improving development efficiency by 70%. Stabilised complex pipelines with 100+ workflow steps.

Professional Experience

Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Platform

Hitachi Digital Services August 2025 - Present Dallas, Texas
  • Designed and built a full-stack GenAI solution reducing Design Specification authoring from weeks to hours, using Amazon Bedrock (Claude Sonnet 4.5), RAG with Bedrock Knowledge Bases, AgentCore Memory for institutional context, and a Step Functions document ingestion pipeline
  • Integrated Amazon Q Business chatbots with internal frontend applications for conversational access to enterprise knowledge, using S3 as the primary data source and IAM Identity Center for SSO
  • Deployed the AWS Innovation Sandbox solution: a fully automated self-service platform managing a pool of sandbox AWS accounts with provisioning, budget enforcement, and account recycling
  • Designing an Enterprise Agent Orchestration Platform based on use cases from multiple business units — consisting of a control plane, integration layer, and model catalog for centralised self-service management of AI agents
  • Designing and building an Intelligent SRE Agent Platform: a dependency-mapping agent that parses Jenkinsfiles to build a blast radius graph in DynamoDB, paired with a vector-database-backed pipeline failure diagnosis agent for root cause correlation
  • Stabilised a complex enterprise CI/CD pipeline with 100+ workflow steps across multiple CloudFormation stacks, AWS services, and third-party API integrations by implementing governance metrics, automated testing gates, and compliance checkpoints
  • Deployed self-service infrastructure platform enabling end users to provision resources on-demand through automated workflows using Terraform, Helm, Shell, and Python
  • Architected and maintained NVIDIA DGX Cloud environment on AWS including GB200 NVL72 infrastructure for enterprise AI/ML training workloads, managing GPU cluster operations, scaling, and performance optimisation for generative AI and LLM fine-tuning

Senior Platform Architect

HCL America January 2022 - July 2025 Dallas, Texas
  • Engineered CI/CD infrastructure using Jenkins on ECS (Docker) in a control-worker model, achieving a 70% improvement in development efficiency
  • Designed and managed AWS dedicated and serverless platform offerings across multiple accounts, integrating cloud services for scalable and secure enterprise solutions
  • Reduced AWS account provisioning time from 7 days to 2 days through multi-level automation using CI/CD and CloudFormation StackSets
  • Enabled AWS Bedrock-based Generative AI implementation with secure, compliant model access through robust guardrails and cross-region inference capabilities
  • Implemented scalable Data Mesh architecture across AWS, enabling decentralised data ownership, governance, and self-service analytics for multiple business units
  • Led AWS infrastructure migration and data separation for M&A pharmaceutical spin-off, including secure S3 bucket transfers, EC2 workload migrations, and RDS transfers for regulatory compliance
  • Designed and deployed fully serverless HIPAA-compliant patient enrolment platform using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3
  • Built secure, automated third-party data ingestion and virus-scanning pipelines using S3, SQS, and EC2 Spot Instances
  • Implemented comprehensive monitoring using SignalFx and CloudWatch, reducing SLA breaches by 30%
  • Deployed Wiz CNAPP for proactive threat detection, policy enforcement, and risk management across multi-cloud environments

Key Clients: Novartis, Sandoz

Platform Architect

HCL India February 2020 - January 2022 India
  • Spearheaded implementation of self-service EKS clusters for improved container orchestration and scalability
  • Developed automated AMI creation pipeline using Jenkins, Packer, and AWS SSM Parameter Store
  • Created self-service Route 53 system, reducing subdomain creation effort by 50%
  • Achieved 20% cost reduction through strategic migration to cost-optimised AWS services
  • Integrated AWS Macie with Service Catalog for enhanced data security and streamlined access management

Key Clients: Novartis, Sandoz

Linux Engineer & DevOps Professional

DXC Technology (formerly CSC) July 2012 - February 2020 Noida, India
  • Designed and maintained high-availability Linux infrastructure across AWS, VMware, and on-premises environments
  • Implemented comprehensive AWS security framework including IAM roles, policies, and Config rules
  • Led successful data centre migration for Linux server infrastructure ensuring seamless knowledge transfer
  • Automated configuration management and deployment using Ansible, maintaining 99.9% system uptime

Key Clients: GE Capital (ANZ), Latitude Financial Services (ANZ), SMFLC Japan, ANZ Bank

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms (AWS)

EC2 S3 EBS EFS RDS VPC Organizations StackSets Service Catalog Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB ECS EKS Route 53 Step Functions S3 Vectors

GenAI & Agentic AI

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime AgentCore Memory Knowledge Bases Bedrock Guardrails Strands Agents SDK RAG Architectures Amazon Q Business Claude Sonnet 4.5 SageMaker Unified Studio NVIDIA DGX Cloud GB200 NVL72

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform CloudFormation Packer Ansible

DevOps & CI/CD

Jenkins Kubernetes Docker Helm BitBucket Artifactory CodeCommit CodePipeline

Monitoring & Observability

CloudWatch CloudTrail AWS X-Ray SignalFx Splunk

Security & Compliance

IAM KMS CloudHSM AWS Config ACM Secrets Manager Wiz CNAPP AWS Macie

Programming & Systems

Python Bash Scripting Red Hat Linux

Networking

DNS TCP/IP Load Balancing VPC Design Squid Proxy

Education & Certifications

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

Jaypee University, India

2012

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Professional

Amazon Web Services

Issued Feb 2023
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

Issued Feb 2019

What Colleagues Say

I worked closely with Akhil for several years and collaborated with him on a near-daily basis. Throughout this time, Akhil consistently demonstrated strong technical depth and reliability. He has solid expertise in cloud platforms, AWS architecture, and platform engineering, and was a trusted point of contact for resolving complex technical issues.

Akhil brings a strong understanding of scalable and secure AWS designs, and his deep knowledge of the NVS Cloud Platform, combined with practical insight into GenAI workflows, enabled him to contribute to modern, forward-looking solutions leveraging advanced cloud-native architectures.

Elena Kaltakova Associate Director AWS DevSecOps / SME AWS Serverless

I had the privilege of working with Akhil on multiple customer accounts when we were both at CSC/DXC in the Linux/DevOps team. Akhil was great to work with! Aside from his stand out technical skills, he has a positive approach.

Always up for any challenge and happy to assist colleagues, he is a great team player. He put in the time and effort to deliver the best possible outcome for our customers. Akhil would be an asset to any team!

Gary Hood Unix Linux DevOps Automation Engineer

Get in Touch

I'm always open to discussing cloud architecture, agentic AI platforms, GenAI implementations, DevOps strategies, or new opportunities.