Abhinav Verma

Cloud Platform Engineer 2

Abhinav
Verma

4 years at FICO building AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD automation at scale. 4× AWS certified. 1250+ DSA problems. Bengaluru, India.

Experience

Cloud Engineer 2

FICO · Bengaluru

January 2025 – Present
  • Led design and delivery of cloud-native Managed File Transfer (MFT) platform serving 50+ enterprise clients, achieving 80% cost reduction, featured in official AWS Blog.
  • Architected and deployed AWS CloudWAN network infrastructure connecting 15+ regions across 130+ AWS accounts with sub-50ms latency, enabling seamless multi-region workload and multi-account connectivity.
  • Own and operate a multi-region Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS, enabling secure workload isolation and standardized cluster provisioning across 130+ AWS accounts.
  • Spearheaded migration from Terraform to Kubernetes-native Crossplane with Argo CD GitOps, eliminating 100% infrastructure drift and reducing provisioning time from 2 weeks to under 10 minutes.
Crossplane EKS CloudWAN Identity Center GitHub Actions Transfer Family Lambda Step Functions Fargate

Cloud Engineer 1

FICO · Bengaluru

July 2023 – December 2024
  • Managed lifecycle operations of 30+ production Kubernetes clusters, supporting 500+ microservices with standardized deployment governance and environment promotion workflows.
  • Architected comprehensive observability framework integrating Splunk, CloudWatch metrics/traces, and custom alerting pipelines, enabling 99.9% platform uptime with proactive issue resolution.
  • Engineered secure cross-account AWS S3 file transfer pipelines using IAM roles, bucket policies, and KMS encryption, collaborating with enterprise financial services clients.
AWS Kafka Pulsar ArgoCD Helm DAPR DynamoDB

Cloud Engineer Associate

FICO · Bengaluru

July 2021 – June 2023
  • Migrated federation service to AWS IAM Identity Center with just-in-time access using Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and IAM orchestration, enforcing security compliance for 4000+ employees.
  • Developed Terraform modules and Jenkins jobs enforcing standardised service deployment, now used by 40+ services to deploy infrastructure consistently.
  • Developed Python automation scripts for Docker image pipelines, PGP key monitoring, and health checks, reducing manual overhead by 60% and eliminating configuration errors.
  • Implemented cloud cost optimisation strategies including reserved instances and right-sizing, reducing cloud spend by 30%.
Lambda Step Functions DynamoDB IAM Terraform Jenkins Python Docker

Education

Chitkara University, Baddi

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

CGPA: 9.8 / 10

July 2018 – May 2022

Ch. Balbir Singh Public School

Class 12 · Punjab

Percentage: 75%

2018

Triple M Public School

Class 10 · Punjab

Percentage: 97%

2016

Skills

Python
Java
JavaScript
AWS
Docker
Jenkins
GitHub
Git
Bitbucket
Node.js

Programming

JavaScript TypeScript Python Java Go Bash Terraform YAML

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Kubernetes EKS Docker Crossplane Lambda Step Functions Fargate EC2 S3 Route53 DynamoDB SQS SNS CloudWatch IAM CloudWAN Transit Gateway Transfer Family Identity Center

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions ArgoCD Helm Jenkins

Messaging & Streaming

Apache Kafka Apache Pulsar DAPR

Databases

DynamoDB PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB AWS RDS

Observability

Splunk CloudWatch Grafana OpsGenie

Tools

Git GitHub Bitbucket Jira Confluence Postman

Awards & Certifications

Achievements

  • 850+ coding questions solved on LeetCode
  • 500+ coding questions solved on GeeksForGeeks
  • Scored 9.8 CGPA — CSE, Chitkara University
  • Winner of HackWithHer coding hackathon at Chitkara University


Coffees I've Tried

Setup

AGARO Elite French Press

AGARO Elite French Press

Brewer

Borosilicate glass French press, 600ml. Full-bodied immersion brew — simple, no paper filters, no fuss.

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Clever Coffee Dripper

Clever Coffee Dripper

Brewer

Hybrid between a pour-over and full immersion. Steep like a French press, drain clean like a filter. Forgiving and consistent.

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Timemore Chestnut C5 ESP Pro

Timemore Chestnut C5 ESP Pro

Grinder

42mm stainless steel conical burrs. Grinds espresso-fine in under a minute by hand — quiet, precise, and miles ahead of blade grinders.

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HealthSense Coffee Scale

HealthSense Coffee Scale

Scale

0.1g precision, dual timer, USB rechargeable. Does everything a pour-over or French press needs.

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Coffee Cup

Coffee Cup

Cup

The cup.

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