Akshay Kumar Singh — DevOps Engineer

I am a Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer with deep expertise in designing, modernizing, and maintaining large-scale data platforms across Azure SQL Managed Instances, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Cosmos DB. I thrive at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and governance, ensuring systems are not only available and performant, but also compliant and future-proof. With a strategic mindset, I enjoy bridging architecture decisions with hands-on engineering execution, enabling organizations to confidently scale their data platforms in the cloud. My core focus is ensuring performance, resilience, and security in mission-critical environments, with hands-on experience in: Cloud Infrastructure Engineering – Provisioning and managing fleets of databases across IaaS & PaaS in Azure, optimizing for scale, cost, and reliability. Performance & Reliability – Implementing performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions including Always On, Automatic Failover Groups, and cross-region resilience strategies. Security & Access Modernization – Leading initiative to eliminate legacy password-based authentication through Azure Active Directory (AAD) and Managed Identities - enhancing security posture. Snowflake Engineering – Designing and implementing Snowflake security, optimizing pipelines, integrating with Azure Data Lake, and enabling reliable analytics for reporting teams. Data Governance & Purview – Establishing end-to-end data source integrations and scans in Microsoft Purview, developing custom rule sets, and ensuring compliance-ready data classification and lineage. Innovation & Proof of Concepts – Developing POCs for new Azure services (e.g., Elastic Agents, Azure Data Sync, Managed Instance Link) and scaling them into enterprise-wide standards once approved.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing expert with a focus on data infrastructure and governance.

Experience: 10 yrs 5 mos