Akshay Sinha
Akshay SinhaPlatform Engineering · DevOps · AI

Infrastructure that ships itself.

18+ years building DevOps, SRE, cloud and secure delivery platforms across financial services, media and enterprise tech. Now applying GenAI, RAG and developer tooling to engineering problems at scale.

  • 18+years in the field
  • 3countries: India, UK, US
  • ~60%less manual defect triage
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AI & GenAI

RAG assistants, defect intelligence and agentic developer tooling built on foundation models.

  • Azure OpenAI
  • RAG
  • Vector search
  • MCP

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms with policy-driven admission control and automated provisioning.

  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • AKS / EKS
  • Docker

Cloud & DevSecOps

Infrastructure and policy as code, with security controls that are validated automatically.

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • OPA

Automation & Data

Pipelines, orchestration and APIs behind critical, high-volume trading workflows.

  • Python
  • Airflow
  • Jenkins
  • Kafka
  • Neo4j
  • GraphQL
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Experience

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  1. Morgan Stanley Vice President, DevOps

    2020 – Present · India

    Leading DevOps, automation and production engineering for Equity Swaps platforms in Institutional Securities.

    • Built an AI engineering assistant on foundation models and RAG, grounded in Jira, incidents, change tickets and docs.
    • Cut manual defect analysis by ~60% with AI-based correlation of new defects against historical ones.
    • Built a data lineage and discovery tool on Sourcegraph MCP and GitHub Search to speed up impact analysis and onboarding.
    • Built DevSecOps platforms on Airflow, Neo4j, GraphQL and Open Policy Agent.
  2. Cognizant Senior Manager, DevOps

    2018 – 2020 · India

    Led DevOps teams for PepsiCo and Universal Studios. Built a global NGINX API platform and ran CDN operations on Akamai and Cloudflare.

  3. HCL Technologies Manager, DevOps

    2014 – 2018 · India & US

    Led DevOps for Comcast, NBC Universal and Universal Studios. Automated API publishing, microservice onboarding and large-scale data migration.

  4. Tata Consultancy Services IT Analyst, DevOps

    2008 – 2014 · India & UK

    Automated build, release and deployment for WebSphere, Java and .NET applications.

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Let's talk platforms, automation & AI.

Whether it's a delivery platform that needs rebuilding, security controls that should run themselves, or an AI assistant grounded in your own engineering data, I'd love to hear about it.