girishraju

Progressed from Software Engineer (2021) to Technical Project Manager (2022) to CTO (2024). Hands-on DevOps, platform and security ownership across all client engagements and the internal product line, serving government, banking and enterprise clients across the US, Europe, UAE, Australia and Southeast Asia. - Built and maintained CI/CD across 12 client applications with automated test gating, artifact promotion and rollback, cutting median release cycle time 60%. - Automated environment provisioning and teardown with Terraform and Ansible, reducing new-environment setup from two days to under 30 minutes. - Reduced AWS spend 46% through instance rightsizing, storage tiering, reserved capacity planning and scheduled teardown of idle non-production environments. - Ran Kubernetes across EKS, AKS and GKE with Istio, Karpenter, ArgoCD and Helm, in multi-cloud and network-isolated environments. - Built and maintained the AWS platform for a US federal contractor under FedRAMP controls; supported SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR readiness across international clients. - Delivered a statewide citizen services platform integrated with a national digital identity system, clearing government security review on first submission with zero findings. - Architected the company's AI product platform: LangChain, retrieval-augmented generation over pgvector and Pinecone, vLLM, multi-tenant rate limiting and output guardrails. - Set technical direction across 15+ concurrent engagements spanning fintech, govtech, e-commerce, healthtech and logistics.