Harish Kumar Gundu Nagarajan — DevOps Engineer

Principal Platform Engineer experienced in designing and building resilient, highly scalable systems; from distributed backend APIs and cloud infrastructure to AI/ML implementation work and edge computing platforms. I've spent my career at the intersection of platform engineering, AI/ML infrastructure, and customer impact. My foundation in machine learning and AI, built through formal study at the University of Texas at Austin, now directly shapes how I architect intelligent, production-grade systems to provide value to customers. Curious and continuous learner with a passion for technology and product development In my current role, I design API and distributed systems architecture and build developer platforms and tooling that accelerate engineering teams. I work hands-on; skilled in collaborating across product, sales, and engineering teams to translate business customer requirements into technological solutions. I led the architecture, design and built an AI-powered Bot using Strands SDK, LangChain, and Python that serves both internal engineering teams and customer-facing teams; automating toil, accelerating incident response, and unblocking customer workflows at scale. Programming Languages: Go, Python, Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, TypeScript AI/ML infrastructure: LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, Strands SDK, Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, Workers AI, Agent Evals Tech & Frameworks: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, JSON, HTTP/REST, GraphQL, ReactJS, Node.js, Kafka Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Vector DB, Influx TSDB, ElasticSearch Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS Services, AWS SDK for Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Buf, Splunk, Terraform, Vault, Helm, GitLab CI/CD Observability: Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Prometheus, Thanos, Kibana Engineering: API Design, Distributed Systems Architecture, Engineering Practices My personal website is https://harishnotes.com

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on cloud-native architecture and AI/ML solutions.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Experience: 14 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Cloud Computing
Api Development
Ai/ml
Java

Career Highlights

Expert in designing scalable cloud-native systems.
Led development of AI-driven products enhancing engineering excellence.
Strong foundation in AI/ML from a prestigious university.

Work Experience

ADP

Principal Application Developer (3 yrs 9 mos)

Zillow Group

Software Development Engineer P3 (2 yrs 11 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (Randstad) (1 yr 8 mos)

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Technology Analyst (Infosys) (2 yrs 11 mos)

Infosys

Senior Systems Engineer (5 yrs 1 mo)

Education

Postgraduate Degree at The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor’s Degree at Anna University Chennai

High School at Jaigopal Garodia Vivekananda Vidyalaya

Harish Kumar Gundu Nagarajan

DevOps Engineer

Atlanta, Georgia, United States14 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in designing scalable cloud-native systems.
Led development of AI-driven products enhancing engineering excellence.
Strong foundation in AI/ML from a prestigious university.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on cloud-native architecture and AI/ML solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingApi DevelopmentAi/mlJava

Other Skills

GoGitReactAWSSpring BootSQLStrandsAnthropic APICLIMCPLangChainTerraformArchitectureLlamaIndexFinetuning

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Experience

14 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Adp

Principal Application Developer

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Hybrid

Design and develop highly concurrent services in Go for NextGen Payroll HCM product in ADP.
Led architecture and development of core systems, libraries, infrastructure components in Platform Engineering team.
Implement secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-native systems in AWS.
Currently, leading the proposal, architecture, and developing AI-driven products for infrastructure, platform and development teams to improve Engineering Excellence and developer productivity.

API DevelopmentCloud Computing

Zillow group

2 roles

Software Development Engineer P3

Sep 2019 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

Designing and developing highly scalable distributed API services in Go and web development in React using AWS Cloud.

API DevelopmentGitCloud Computing

Senior Software Engineer (Randstad)

Jan 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

Worked as part of a development team building a suite of software products for Multiple Listing System (MLS) data management in Java, Springboot and deploy in AWS.
Responsible for developing new features, supporting existing admin dashboard, account-related issues, database migrations in production systems.
Scaled the production markets from 2 to 7 that include provisioning new ECR, R53 records, IAM entities, MySQL database setup and ECS task definitions.
Supported existing infrastructure to handle better monitoring and availability of applications by adding StatusCake rules, notifications and CloudWatch alarms.

API DevelopmentJava

Norfolk southern corporation

Technology Analyst (Infosys)

Jan 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Atlanta Area · On-site

Architected the redesign of the legacy customer portal to next-generation web and API-based to enrich customer experience.
Defined, designed, implemented, and rolled out customer persona dashboard application to view real-time train information using Java.
Wrote programs in Java to communicate with Adobe CQ5 servers to develop a monitoring and alerting system.
Improved the existing infrastructure services to use IDS auth token-based.
Introduced best practices on logging, monitoring, and alerting. Built Splunk dashboard which helped to identify the problems and reworked database indexing, error handling and reduce the turnaround time on production tickets.
Led teams of four to six programmers and worked across multiple engineering teams in the organization to coordinate changes and build new services.
Improved security guidelines in the project by static checks, analyzing Fortify reports, and put a new review checklist for build and delivery.
Improved testing workflow to ensure and develop cross-browser compatibility apps.
Appraised as “Most Valuable Player” award for the year 2017 by Infosys.

API DevelopmentSpring BootJava

Infosys

Senior Systems Engineer

Dec 2009 – Jan 2015 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Chennai Area, India · On-site

I was working with Infosys and client is BNSF Railways, located in Fort Worth, TX.
Design and implementation of software components for annual budgeting system primarily on Java in Windows and UNIX variants.
Developed web applications using HTML and jQuery and wrote SQL stored procedures for Oracle database.
Infrastructure planning and migration of projects across web application servers and monitoring agents.
Worked directly with clients to tailor software offerings to their specific requirements to achieve the business goals and documented them.
Mentored and trained two incoming engineers in the development team.

API DevelopmentJava