Hyderabad, India Open to relocation · EU

Akhil Adarsh, Suryapagula

Senior Platform Engineer — Secure AWS Infrastructure
Seven years building and securing HIPAA-regulated cloud infrastructure for connected dialysis devices. IAM governance. Terraform. Multi-account AWS. Two Chairman's Awards.

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Years on AWS 07
Team built 3→13
Uptime SLA 99.99%
Chairman's Award 2×
Currently

What I'm focused on.

A live snapshot — updated as things move.

Deepening
Terraform & IaC patterns
Multi-account · HCL modules · state management
Studying
AWS Security Specialty
SCS-C02 · target Aug 2026
Exploring
NIS2 & DORA compliance
EU regulatory landscape for platform teams
Open to
Platform & DevSecOps roles
Full relocation · EU
02 — Experience

Seven years, one mission.

Click any role to expand. Most of my career has been at Baxter — each phase a different chapter of the same platform.

Aug 2024
Present
  • Stepped out of a managerial seat to sharpen the full modern platform engineering stack — translating seven years of production AWS patterns into Terraform, building multi-account IaC modules, and getting fluent with HCL state management and module composition at scale.
  • Deepened expertise in GitHub Actions — OIDC-to-IAM trust chains, multi-environment promotion gates, reusable workflow patterns, and embedding security scanning (Checkov, Trivy) as blocking gates in CI pipelines.
  • Studying for AWS Security Specialty (SCS-C02) — the certification maps directly onto IAM governance, CloudTrail monitoring, KMS key management, and multi-account security controls I operated in production at Baxter.
  • Reading into NIS2 and DORA regulatory frameworks — understanding how EU compliance requirements translate into concrete platform engineering controls for healthcare and financial sector clients.
TerraformGitHub ActionsCheckov TrivySCS-C02NIS2 · DORA
Aug 2022
Aug 2024
  • Grew the platform team from 3 to 13 engineers across SRE, security, and IaC specialties. Rebuilt the on-call rotation so no engineer was paged twice in the same week.
  • Maintained 99.99% uptime on HIPAA-regulated AWS infrastructure serving dialysis devices in 500+ US hospitals.
  • Led the EC2-to-EKS migration of the Sharesource dialysis platform on Helm — zero customer-facing downtime. Recognised with Baxter Chairman's Award 2023.
  • Established DevSecOps as an engineering standard: implemented Checkov CI/CD gates for IaC compliance, integrated Trivy for container image scanning, deployed Falco and OPA Gatekeeper for EKS runtime anomaly detection and admission control.
  • Architected and mandated IAM permission boundaries across all AWS accounts. Standardised access via Okta SSO, deprecating local production credentials. Zero privilege-escalation incidents for the entire tenure.
  • Stewarded the platform through SOC2 Type II and annual HIPAA audits — turned audit prep from a quarterly fire drill into a routine cadence with automated evidence collection.
EKSHelmArgoCD IAM Permission BoundariesOkta SSO CheckovTrivyFalco Splunk · KinesisHIPAASOC2
Nov 2018
Aug 2022
  • Built Baxter's AWS healthcare platform from day zero — CloudFormation IaC, CodePipeline CI/CD, CIS-hardened RHEL golden AMIs via Packer. Every subsequent platform initiative ran on this foundation.
  • Wrote the Python/boto3 automation that validates GxP / FDA IQ-OQ compliance on medical-device infrastructure — turning a multi-week paperwork exercise into a repeatable one-button job.
  • Stood up Splunk + Dynatrace observability, wiring CloudTrail into Kinesis for real-time security event streaming. Led the early phases of the EC2-to-EKS migration I later finished as manager.
  • Received the Baxter Chairman's Award 2019 for infrastructure on the Homechoice Claria peritoneal-dialysis device, enabling remote patient monitoring at scale.
CloudFormationCodePipelinePacker Python · boto3GxP · FDA IQ/OQ SplunkCloudTrail · KinesisChef
Aug 2017
Nov 2018
  • Joined a greenfield AWS engagement — no prior cloud or DevOps maturity at the client. Built the IaC, CI/CD, and monitoring foundations that became the base for every platform initiative over the next seven years.
  • Delivery quality led to direct conversion to a permanent Baxter role, bypassing the external hiring loop.
AWS EC2JenkinsLinux BashGreenfield
03 — Stack

Tools I actually reach for.

Filled pills are core, daily-driver tools. Outlined ones I'm fluent in and use situationally.

01Cloud platform (AWS)
EKS IAM Governance CloudTrail Secrets Manager CloudFormation CDK (TypeScript) CodePipeline · CodeBuild Step Functions Route 53 VPC EC2 · ASG S3 Lambda Aurora PostgreSQL DynamoDB Redshift
02Security & posture
IAM Permission Boundaries GitHub OIDC → IAM KMS CMKs Okta SSO pgaudit VPC Isolation Checkov Trivy OPA Gatekeeper Falco Prowler
03Containers & orchestration
Kubernetes (EKS) Docker Helm ECS Fargate ArgoCD ECR Blue / Green deployments
04Automation & IaC
Terraform GitHub Actions Python · boto3 Bash Packer Chef Jenkins
05Observability
Splunk Dynatrace AWS Kinesis OpenTelemetry CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana
06Compliance & regulation
HIPAA Technical Safeguards SOC2 Type II FDA IQ/OQ GDPR NIS2 DORA Audit-cycle management
04 — Credentials

Certifications, earned.

AWS Security Specialty is the primary focus for 2026 — maps directly onto production IAM, CloudTrail, and KMS work from Baxter.

Priority · 2026
AWS Security Specialty
Amazon Web Services · SCS-C02 · target Aug 2026
In progress
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
HashiCorp · 2026
Planned
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA · SY0-701 · 2026
Verified
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate
Amazon Web Services
Verified
AWS Amazon EKS Accreditation
Amazon Web Services
Verified
Generative AI Fundamentals
AWS Academy
Verified
AI Fluency — Framework & Foundations
Anthropic
05 — Recognition

Two Chairman's Awards.

Baxter's highest engineering recognition. Both for infrastructure that ended up in front of real patients.

'23
Sharesource Modernisation

Led the AWS migration of critical home-dialysis device infrastructure — EC2 to EKS on Helm, with zero customer-facing downtime. Managed a 13-engineer team through a technically complex cutover in a fully regulated environment.

★ Chairman's Award
'19
Homechoice Claria Sharesource

Infrastructure engineering on the Homechoice Claria peritoneal-dialysis device — enabling remote patient monitoring at scale. Built from greenfield in the first year of my Baxter tenure.

★ Chairman's Award
06 — Get in touch

Building something regulated?
I'd love to talk.

akhil@akhiladarsh.com
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