I'm a cloud & platform engineering leader operating at the intersection of infrastructure, security and AI-driven transformation. Over the last 10+ years I've built and evolved mission-critical systems in mobility, routing, telematics, fleet management and SaaS, and today I lead the Cloud Systems function at Quantum Inventions in Singapore. Outside of day-to-day leadership, I'm an AWS Community Builder, occasional speaker and writer, sharing practical lessons on modern IaC, platform engineering and AI-assisted development through talks, training and content, and using that community work to inform how I shape teams and technology in my own organisation.

▸ Experience

Quantum Inventions

A leading provider of transportation and mobility intelligence solutions, serves SMEs, enterprises, and governments with a focus on real-time traffic, fleet mobility solutions and intelligent transportation systems for smart cities.

2016 - Present

Lead DevOps Engineer

2016 - 2022

First DevOps hire in the company, responsible for introducing and scaling DevOps culture, cloud practices and tooling across multiple products and business verticals.

  • Established the initial AWS cloud platform and CI/CD foundations for core mobility and routing products, moving teams away from ad-hoc infrastructure
  • Designed and rolled out Infrastructure as Code, observability and deployment practices that became the organisation's standard for new services
  • Planned and executed the phased migration of all code repositories to GitHub with zero downtime, consolidating SCM and laying the groundwork for modern CI/CD
  • Centralised identities, logs, artefacts and infrastructure blueprints, improving security, compliance and consistency across engineering teams

Head of Cloud Systems

2022 - 2025

Responsible for cloud and platform strategy across a multi-account AWS estate, defining architecture, cost and reliability guardrails and the internal platforms product teams build on.

  • Standardised on a Pulumi-based AWS platform managing ~8,000 resources, moving from vendor-hosted IaaS to a self-hosted, code-driven model and reducing complexity and lock-in
  • Optimised AWS commitments and sizing, delivering ~36% baseline infrastructure savings over three years while supporting growth in fleet and smart-cities workloads
  • Drove observability adoption across business and R&D (shared metrics/traces/SLOs), improving APDEX and incident response for key customers
  • Scaled cloud adoption in R&D from ~5% to ~75% through Cloud 101 onboarding, sandbox accounts and self-service 'golden path' templates
  • Ran internal enablement (webinars, workshops, hackathons) and secured AWS APN Validated status to strengthen co-selling and technical alignment

Head of Cloud Systems

2025 - Present

Quantum Inventions was divested from Continental Automotive and acquired by Omegro (Constellation Software). My remit expanded to leading AI adoption and key parts of security and compliance integration at portfolio level.

  • AI Adoption Lead in Omegro's 'AI First' program: grew AI tool usage in Engineering from 0→60% in three months, built an AI dashboard correlating work tickets and GitHub PRs, and contributed to a portfolio AI event in Cape Town where our team placed 2nd
  • Closed OSS due-diligence items by rolling out FOSSA across repositories and delegating remediation to chapter leads, achieving 100% clearance
  • Designed and coordinated rollout of an enhanced security stack covering endpoint protection, mobile device management, vulnerability management, centralised logging/SIEM, advanced email protection and security awareness training, together with updated IT policies and end-of-life asset remediation aligned with parent-company standards.
  • Initiated BCP/DR improvements for business systems, including FTR101 and DR strategy work for a product line preparing for AWS APN listing
  • Introduced a secure Download Center for delivering artefacts to customers and facilitated a Developer Portal hackathon in the India office to prototype a unified developer experience

DevOps Engineer

BandLab Technologies

2014 - 2016

World's first browser-based Digital Audio Workstation with social media features, with over 10M MAU.

  • A part of founding team, worked amongst the first ten engineers during the inception phase, to build the foundational infrastructure that enabled SDLC processes and DevOps tools across the mobile, web, backend, and QA teams
  • Orchestrated Azure cloud infrastructure: Application Insights, Automation Runbooks, Redis, Storage, CDN, Load Balancers, AppService Environment, Cloud Services, Logic Apps, MS SQL geo-replication
  • Managed GitHub/BitBucket repositories with automated branching, tagging, and merge workflows
  • Automated routine operations using Azure Runbooks and Functions
  • Developed DevOps tooling in PowerShell, Python, Bash, and Node.js

Configuration Manager, Java Developer

Luxoft

2012 - 2014

Supported enterprise Java applications with CI/CD, environment automation, and deployment tooling for logistics platform.

  • Maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for Java applications
  • Automated environment provisioning with Vagrant
  • Supported development and QA automation activities

▸Community & Speaking

Community Involvement

2025

Presented on next-generation Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi and scaling IaC across teams

2025

Open-Space Facilitator, technical support, logistic management.

AWS Community Builder

AWS Community

2023

Member of AWS Community Builders program in Serverless cohort, contributing to AWS community through content creation and knowledge sharing

2023

Continental Lifelong Learning conference. Workshop on modern architectures.

Content & Publications

2022

Curated AWS news, updates, and community content

2022

Telegram channel for AWS community news and discussions

2018

Blog covering cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and platform engineering

▸ Skills

Cloud & Platforms

AWS (primary) Azure Multi-account architecture Landing zones AWS Organizations On-premises integration

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Pulumi Terraform CloudFormation Docker Kubernetes ECS/Fargate CI/CD pipelines GitHub Actions Jenkins

DevOps / SRE / FinOps

Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager Sentry CloudWatch Incident management SLOs Blameless postmortems Cost optimization Savings Plans Right-sizing DR planning

Languages & Tooling

Python TypeScript Bash PowerShell Node.js Git AWS CLI Serverless

Security & Compliance

CrowdStrike Rapid7 InsightVM Automox FOSSA OSS compliance Identity integration Security policies Vulnerability management KnowBe4

Practices & Working Style

Platform thinking Everything as Code You build it you run it Blameless culture Enablement & training Technical writing Public speaking AI adoption

▸ Education

Master’s in Computer Science (MCS)

Omsk State Technical University

Computers, complexes, systems and networks

2008 - 2013

Certifications & Courses:

  • Team Topologies
  • FinOps Foundation
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (2023-2026)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2018-2020)
  • Linux Foundation Certified Engineer Course (LFCE)
  • Design Patterns