Infra strategy and execution
Turn roadmap pressure into a practical infra plan with clear priorities, architecture decisions, and delivery cadence.
How I can help
I work with teams that want reliability and developer velocity without platform chaos.
Reliability and platform coaching
Raise uptime and reduce firefighting through observability, incident habits, and engineering leadership support.
Email mail@ashwinm.net to start a conversation.
Now
Lead Cloud Architect at VentureOne, Abu Dhabi, architecting the cloud infrastructure for an autonomous mobility orchestration platform that lets vendors plug and play autonomous vehicles — currently piloted in the UAE. AWS Community Builder (Containers) and leader of the Abu Dhabi AWS User Group.
Current Location: UAE · Operating since 2005.
What I focus on
Recent highlights
Lead Cloud Architect · VentureOne
Architecting and building the cloud infrastructure for an autonomous mobility orchestration platform that lets vendors plug and play their autonomous vehicles — currently piloted in the UAE. Owning end-to-end architecture decisions, embedding GenAI into the development workflow, and leading cloud-native orchestration for sensor data processing and real-time decision-making.
Senior Engineer, DevOps · Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Owned DevOps and infrastructure strategy for the Autonomous Robotics Research Center — a team of 200+ researchers. Inherited manually-provisioned GPU nodes and brought automated training pipelines to a hybrid setup of ~25 on-prem nodes and equivalent AWS capacity. Introduced Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, and Karpenter on EKS to bring the platform up to production-grade observability and reliability.
Director of Engineering · CoLearn
Grew the engineering team from 3 to 40 people while scaling Tanya, an AI-based homework assistant, to serve 4.5M students with sub-second video streaming. Eliminated daily outages and weekly deployment cycles — replacing them with 100% uptime for 1.5+ years and up to 100 deployments per day. Overhauled CI/CD, migrated infra from Terraform to CDK, re-architected for scale, and built an on-call culture that made reliability a team habit.
Associate Director of DevOps · Zoomcar
Migrated Zoomcar's entire fleet platform from on-prem data centers to AWS — connecting 10,000 cars to the cloud. Later spoke about this at AWS Community Day Kochi to one of the largest audiences of my career.
VP SysOps · Fybr
Built backend systems for city-scale IoT — smart parking infrastructure, smart agriculture platforms, and connected sensor networks operating at urban scale.
Release Manager · Freshdesk
Managed staging, releases, and database migrations for a leading SaaS platform through hyper-growth, automating processes with Jenkins and RSpec to cut deployment times and keep code quality high.
Signals
"Understanding computer networks, CPU architectures, operating systems, and databases at a non-trivial skill level is a superpower."
— on the pillars that make every system work"Multi-cloud is still a word, but you probably do not need multi-cloud Kubernetes."
— advocating pragmatic cloud choices"It's a CRUD app; write better queries and fix it."
— a reminder to keep things simple and solidContact
Best way to reach me is email: mail@ashwinm.net.
Typically responds within 48 hours.