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10 Kubernetes platforms experts
These ten platform, cloud and DevOps engineers have built and operated Kubernetes platforms such as Amazon EKS and OpenShift in their own work. A reader can learn from them how teams run Kubernetes clusters across clouds and automate delivery onto them with GitOps and CI/CD.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abhijith Reddy Laxmareddygari
LinkedInExperience: Senior Platform Engineer GenAI & Cloud · General Motors
Senior Platform Engineer GenAI & Cloud at General Motors since 2024 and former Cloud Infrastructure & MLOps Engineer there (2024). The profile headline lists Kubernetes & OpenShift and multi-cloud work on AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI, and it describes designing, building and operating cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes infrastructure and enterprise-grade GenAI systems. Former DevOps & Cloud Security Engineer at Citi (2020–2022).
Anshul Gupta
LinkedInExperience: Lead Devops Engineer · FIS
Lead Devops Engineer at FIS since 2025 and former Associate Lead Devops Engineer at TSYS (2021–2025); the profile says Anshul stayed with the same organization after its integration into FIS. It describes leading platform engineering for enterprise cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes and managing 30+ AWS accounts and 200+ EKS clusters.
Bala Seshu Maniswara Pavan Bandaru
LinkedInExperience: Lead Platform Engineer IV · Credit One Bank
Lead Platform Engineer IV at Credit One Bank since 2025 and former DevOps Engineer III there (2023–2025). The profile headline reads Platform Engineering Lead – Kubernetes & AI/ML Infrastructure and lists OpenShift certification, Amazon EKS, GKE and Anthos, OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation.
Bertrand M. Tukov
LinkedInExperience: DevOps Engineer · VOSKER
DevOps Engineer at VOSKER since 2021 and former Senior DevOps Platform Engineer (Consultant Part-Time 25h week) at 9526-7977 Quebec Inc (2024–2026). The profile describes running production infrastructure across AWS EKS, OpenShift and OCI, with a specialty in multi-cluster Kubernetes operations, event-driven architecture (Kafka/MSK) and GitOps.
Kartheek Ramakrishna
LinkedInExperience: Lead Cloud Engineer · PIMCO
Lead Cloud Engineer at PIMCO since 2024 and former Sr Platform Engineer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (2021–2024) and at Humana (2018–2021). The profile says Kartheek led the modernization of 700+ critical business applications by driving a Tanzu-to-Amazon EKS migration and designed a scalable, GitOps-based Platform as a Service.
Onkar Ingale
LinkedInExperience: Senior Devops Engineer · Lentra
Senior Devops Engineer at Lentra since 2026, where the profile says Onkar managed end-to-end application deployments across UAT, production, DR and colending environments on OpenShift (OCP) for multiple banking applications and administered Kubernetes. Former Cloud Engineer at Marquery (2022–2025) and Applied Cloud Computing (2025–2026).
Rajesh Pandey
LinkedInExperience: Principal Platform Engineer · GSK
Principal Platform Engineer at GSK since 2024 and former Senior Consultant Specialist at HSBC (2022–2024). The profile describes architecting and scaling cloud-native platforms, lists Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform and Ansible as areas of expertise, and says Rajesh drives end-to-end automation across Google Cloud, AWS and Azure DevOps.
Ramesh Reddy Boilla
LinkedInExperience: Technical Lead · Manhattan Associates
Technical Lead at Manhattan Associates since 2022. The profile headline reads Senior Platform Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer and lists GCP, GKE, Kubernetes (CKA), OpenShift, service mesh and Istio, and the summary describes 10+ years building and operating mission-critical cloud platforms. Former Sr. Cloud application engineer at OpenText (2022).
Shiva Kumar
LinkedInExperience: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer · Telstra
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Telstra since 2026 and former Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Tecnotree Corporation (2024–2026). The profile describes designing and operating scalable Kubernetes and cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, Rancher and OpenShift and lists CKA certification. Former Software Engineer lll (Cloud Platform) at Condé Nast Technology Lab (2022–2024).
Siddharth Patel
LinkedInExperience: Senior DevOps Engineer · Ericsson Global India Pvt Ltd
Senior DevOps Engineer at Ericsson Global India Pvt Ltd since 2025 and former DevOps Engineer at Ericsson (2018–2025). The profile says Siddharth designs CI/CD platforms, Kubernetes environments and AWS infrastructure at Ericsson, including an 18-stage DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline with canary deployments and auto-rollback.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's platform to yours first, since running OpenShift, EKS or a mix of clouds raises different questions. Then weigh role: hands-on engineers suit cluster operations and upgrade questions, while leads suit platform team structure, tooling choices and developer onboarding.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you decide between a managed service like EKS or AKS and a distribution like OpenShift, and what would change that decision?
- 02How did you structure the internal platform so product teams could deploy on their own, and what guardrails did you keep central?
- 03What did cluster upgrades, capacity planning and cost control look like once you ran many clusters in production?
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