Akhil Adarsh Suryapagula
Senior Platform Engineer · DevSecOps · AWS
Akhil Adarsh Suryapagula — Senior Platform Engineer specialising in regulated AWS infrastructure. 8 years building and operating AWS for HIPAA-regulated healthcare at Baxter International. Built Baxter's platform from scratch, led a 13-engineer SRE team at 99.99% uptime on connected medical devices in US hospitals, and drove EC2-to-EKS migrations at enterprise scale. Two-time Baxter Chairman's Award recipient. Pursuing AWS Security Specialty; open to Platform and Cloud Security roles, open to relocate.
Experience
- Baxter International — Cloud Platform & DevOps Manager (2022–2024): grew platform team 3 to 13, 99.99% uptime, HIPAA AWS for dialysis devices in US hospitals, led EC2 to EKS migration with Helm, org-wide IAM boundaries, Okta SSO, zero privilege-escalation incidents. Chairman's Award 2023.
- Baxter International — DevOps Engineer (2018–2022): built the AWS healthcare platform from scratch — CloudFormation IaC standard, CodePipeline CI/CD, hardened RHEL AMIs with Packer, Python/boto3 for FDA IQ/OQ validation. Chairman's Award 2019.
- Baxter International — DevOps Engineer, Contract (2017–2018): greenfield AWS build, converted to full-time.
Skills
AWS, EKS, ECS, Fargate, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, Route 53, Terraform, Aikido, Falco, OPA Gatekeeper, IAM permission boundaries, Okta SSO, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, Splunk, Kinesis, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Python, boto3, Bash, Chef, Packer, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, HIPAA Technical Safeguards, SOC2 Type II, FDA IQ/OQ, GDPR, NIS2.
Certifications
AWS Security Specialty (SCS-C02, in progress), HashiCorp Terraform Associate 004 (in progress), AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Amazon EKS Accreditation, Generative AI Fundamentals.
Education
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Gannon University (2015–2016). B.E. Electrical & Electronics, Mahaveer Institute (2011–2014).
Awards
Baxter Chairman's Award 2023 (Sharesource modernisation, EC2 to EKS) and 2019 (Homechoice Claria Sharesource).
Contact
Email akhil@akhiladarsh.com · linkedin.com/in/akhiladarsh · github.com/akhiladarsh