JAYAPRAKASH ALAWALA (JP)

Experience Summary

• Principal Containers Specialist Solution Architect (L7) — Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet Services Private Ltd, September 2019 – Present.
• DevOps Technical Leader II (Grade 11) — Cisco India Pvt Ltd, Jan 2013 – Oct 2018.
• Application Engineer Tech Lead — Texas Instruments India Pvt Ltd, July 2001 – Dec 2012.

Executive Summary

Technology leader operating at the intersection of the two transformations enterprises are funding today: cloud migration & modernization at scale, and becoming AI-first. Principal Solutions Architect (L7) at AWS with 20+ years' experience, trusted advisor to 500+ enterprise customers — India's largest private banks, OTT, fintech and global SI/ISV platforms.

As a business leader, I grew Application Modernization 582% over three years, landed 105% of revenue target (+34.2% YoY), and founded a partner-led delivery programme that compressed enterprise container migrations from 6–18 months to 6–10 weeks across 5 partners and 47 customers.

As a technologist, I architect GenAI inference on both NVIDIA GPU and AWS silicon (Trainium/Inferentia) — cutting GPU inference cost ~60% and time-to-first-token up to 5× — and have solved cross-region GPU scarcity as a reusable industry pattern.

As an industry voice, I shape the AWS container roadmap through 29 product feature requests and an upstream Kubernetes proposal, author 13 AWS blogs and workshops delivered 168 times across the field, speak at AWS re:Invent 2025, reach ~700 subscribers on my technical YouTube channel, and grew a technical community from 87 to 187 members while mentoring 12+ engineers to senior and principal level.

Technical Expertise

Certifications

• AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) — 2025
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) — 2024
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — 2020
• Kong AI Gateway Operations — Kong (Credly)
• Kong Gateway Operations — Kong (Credly)
• Kong Gateway Foundations — Kong (Credly)
• AWS AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) Ambassador — Foundational (L100) — AWS (Credly)
• AWS Knowledge: AI-Driven Development Lifecycle Foundations — AWS (Credly)

AWS Experience — Sept 2019 – Present

Role: Principal Container Specialist Solutions Architect (L7) · Focus: AI infrastructure, GenAI platforms, Kubernetes/EKS · Region: India / APJ

AI-First Enterprise Transformation — Flagship Wins

• Anchored the cloud-native, microservices-based container architecture on Amazon EKS for a top India private-sector bank's 3-year CRM modernization — 120M customers, 45K concurrent users, 9,400 branches, 100TB+ data, 350M+ records — a competitive win reclaiming the workload to AWS.
• Single-threaded containers authority on India's largest AWS account — a national OTT streaming platform — home of the 72M-viewer world-record streaming concurrency on Amazon EKS; authored the definitive account-consolidation strategy that proved AWS scalability at world-record concurrency.
• Lead EKS architect and single-threaded owner for a top India private bank's internet-banking (NetBanking) platform — owning end-to-end design, scale, networking, and security — and architected its disaster-recovery strategy at near-zero RPO and ~12-minute RTO, setting a new resiliency high-bar for mission-critical banking workloads on AWS.

AI Infrastructure — GPU & AWS-Silicon Inference at Scale

• Sole author of the KV-Cache Offloading section of the flagship, globally-used NVIDIA GPU GenAI-on-EKS workshop (vLLM + LMCache + Amazon ElastiCache) — delivering up to 5× faster time-to-first-token and ~60% GPU-cost reduction, with a companion AWS Containers blog.
• Designed and built a cross-region GPU-scarcity autoscaling pattern that solves the field's #1 GenAI-batch blocker — overflow activates only on a genuine GPU capacity signal, drains work cross-region and scales back to zero on recovery, with no job loss. Proven live, endorsed by AWS Principal GTM Compute leadership, region- and accelerator-agnostic, and extended to a national financial-markets platform for on-premises-to-AWS burst.
• Authored the complete Ray and Anyscale chapter for AWS's GenAI accelerator workshop — an end-to-end GPU path covering LLM serving and autoscaling, multi-model GPU packing, fault tolerance, batch inference, distributed fine-tuning and operations — plus the open-source KubeRay counterpart, so customers can adopt self-hosted or managed.
• Advised the Amazon EKS product-management team on GPU capacity fungibility and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) — static versus just-in-time GPU provisioning and reservation strategy to share one GPU pool across training and inference — guidance that shaped the recommended path for a large FSI customer. GPU capacity practice (Capacity Blocks, on-demand reservations, checkpointing, DRA, lazy image loading) is part of the best-practice content I teach.
• AWS silicon (Trainium/Inferentia/Neuron) depth: root-caused a severe GenAI model-loading bottleneck for a large India FSI bank — proving the delay was storage weight-loading rather than model compilation — driving AWS's move to high-throughput shared storage for LLM inference; authored the Llama-model storage price/performance benchmark on AWS Neuron; and surfaced a model-architecture coverage gap plus a performance regression to the Neuron service team.

Agentic AI Platforms & Scaled AI Enablement

• Co-owner of AWS's flagship agentic-AI platform workshop on Amazon EKS — authored the managed-SaaS track from scratch (Kubernetes-native AI gateway + LLM observability + agent SDK); delivered in Singapore and London, and the basis of a joint go-to-market with an AI-compute ISV.
• Built the entire Token Economics (AI cost-governance) workshop with partners Kong and Arize — per-tenant cost attribution, budget enforcement, cost-aware routing and semantic caching — delivered in Singapore and at a European tech summit.
• Authored 9 agent-ready guidance playbooks for AWS's internal specialist AI agent and engineered the first repeatable server-side A/B evaluation harness proving a playbook measurably improves agent guidance with no regressions — recognised by the Worldwide Tech Leader for Containers.
• Shipped 7 public agent-skills (3 EKS + 4 ECS, including GPU/ML on ECS) to AWS's open agent-skills library — customer-facing, opinionated golden-path guidance.
• Agentic migration-platform evaluation (Trianz Concierto): completed a hands-on technical review of the Concierto Agentic Assess / Migrate platform — running discovery, assessment and TCO to completion, working through the landing-zone and network-migration agents, building migration plans and move groups end to end, and benchmarking its cost model against AWS Transform on an identical 500-VM input — delivering 36 findings framed as product feature requests (cost defensibility, governance and workflow clarity, plus differentiation opportunities), which Trianz escalated to their product team.

Business Impact & Scale

• Created and executed a 3-phase Application Modernization Webinar Series (3,500+ participants across 700+ customers), driving major modernization pipeline and positioning AWS as category leader in containers.
• Led India Application Modernization to 105% of revenue target (+34.2% YoY) and +62.4% YoY pipeline growth in 2025; the 1:Many AppMod program reached 2,000+ customers across 40+ sessions.
• Drove sustained business growth 2022→2025 — a 582% overall increase — through YoY gains of 324% (2023), 22% (2024), and 34.2% (2025).
• Founded the Partner Packages program (5 SI/ISV partners, 47 customers), compressing container deployment from 6–18 months to 6–10 weeks (>100% efficiency gain); drove multi-city EKS design workshops (CSAT 4.77/5).

Containers/EKS Enablement & Field Leadership

• Created, own, and maintain the AWS EKS Security Immersion Day (since 2023) — delivered 168 times across the AWS field.
• As APJ Lead of the Container Ambassador Program, grew the Container Technical Field Community from 87 → 187 members (+69% YoY 2024, +28% YTD 2025), multiplying field capacity across APJ.
• Drove 4 published AWS case studies including India's first EMR/Spot (a major music-streaming platform, 60% cost cut) and first ECS/Spot (a leading fintech, 50–70% cost cut).
• Founded a 6-language localization cohort (8 native-speaker reviewers across APJ/EMEA/AMER) for the Platform Engineering on EKS workshop; French content shipped for AWS Summit Paris.
• Mentored 12+ engineers to senior/principal roles; promotion assessor; founder of a specialist community cohort; 16 hiring interviews.

Enterprise Platform Advisory — Migration, Modernization & Multi-Tenancy

• Trusted advisor with 500+ enterprise customer conversations across on-premises→AWS migration, multi-cloud re-architecture, hybrid cloud, DevOps/CI-CD, GenAI and security; single-threaded containers authority across 40+ enterprise accounts spanning banking, fintech, OTT, SaaS and digital-native leaders.
• Competitive multi-cloud wins: led the container architecture for enterprise SaaS and AI platforms migrating from other hyperscalers onto AWS, including a multi-tenant enterprise-AI SaaS platform that achieved 30–40% lower cost per tenant while displacing the incumbent.
• Multi-tenant SaaS at extreme fleet scale: designed and validated the network and isolation architecture for a data-platform ISV scaling to 1,000+ clusters per region — custom networking with reusable address space, interconnect topology, a capacity-ceiling density model and a tenant security-group design — selecting the option that was dramatically cheaper per month than the alternatives.
• Platform fleet operations: root-caused IP-address exhaustion for a global consulting firm's multi-tenant delivery platform, proving it was a provisioning-ordering race rather than a tuning problem, and delivered a validated reference configuration plus a live reproduce-and-fix proof of concept — opening a path to a 50-cluster-per-account estate with no platform refactor. For an XXL fintech, built the fleet-management, upgrade-at-scale and async-canary guidance for a custom-hardened-AMI estate.
• Unblocked FSI compliance and security gates for multiple banks and fintechs — establishing CIS-hardened, bank-grade EKS security baselines for regulated production workloads.

Technical Innovation

• Engineered a custom Kubernetes pod scheduler that lifted a major India insurtech's EC2 Spot adoption from 23% to 46% — winning the Invent & Simplify Award (APJ, Q1 2021); published as an AWS blog + upstream Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal.
• Re-architected a US healthcare-technology leader's event-processing platform (6B events/month) onto ECS + EC2 Spot, cutting cost 73% while supporting 10× load at 0.3× cost.
• Built a native-AWS EKS Spot↔On-Demand failover solution adopted in production by a global financial-software firm, and pioneered stateful workloads on EC2 Spot (60% savings) — together contributing to a +71% YoY rise in India EC2 Spot adoption.

Product & Thought Leadership

• Shaped the Amazon EKS/ECS/Fargate roadmap through 29 Product Feature Requests & upstream contributions — materially influencing container security benchmarks, native Kubernetes Network Policy, and a regional Amazon Managed Prometheus launch; co-submitted an upstream Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal.
• Authored 13 AWS Containers/Builder blogs and 4 published case studies; published 1 AWS Solutions Library guidance (EKS external SSO); co-created 2 EC2 Spot Game Days.
• Delivered 4 sessions at AWS re:Invent 2025 (CSAT up to 5/5); also KubeCon, AWS Summits, Tech Summits, Developer Days.
• Open-source: core contributor to AWS EKS security tooling and agentic-AI evaluation frameworks; author of published aws-samples reference solutions for EKS Spot resilience and access governance.

Honors & Recognition

• 15 AWS awards/recognitions (2020–2026): MVP (Q3 2020), Invent & Simplify (APJ, Q1 2021), APJ Compute Summit Award, WWSO India Excellence — Customer Obsession (5×), Unified Solutions, SA Champion, Trailblazer Deal, Outstanding Service Team, Silver TFC Member — Containers (H1 2026).

Cisco Experience — Jan 2013 – Oct 2018

Role: DevOps Technical Leader II (Grade 11), Cisco Systems India · Team Size: 5 · Clients: global telecom & pay-TV operators

• Led a 5-engineer DevOps team owning the Ejabberd (Erlang/XMPP) messaging cluster — CI/CD, Salt/Ansible/Python IaC, and upgrade/rollback automation that cut downtime from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
• Architected a production Prometheus observability stack (custom Python metrics aggregation across 50+ deployments) — cutting MTTR 40% for a 500K+ household streaming platform.
• Led multi-DRM implementation (Google Widevine, Microsoft PlayReady, Cisco VGDRM) and security-layer hardening — secure streaming to 500K+ households across STB/Android/iOS for a large-scale streaming business.
• Designed end-to-end DRM infrastructure (broadcast head-end system, security gateways, key-management) as resident DRM SME across APAC.
• Containerized streaming back-office microservices on Kubernetes/OpenShift (6 months → 8 weeks) and built a "One-Click" soak/load-test framework (500K-device simulation) for infra supporting 10M+ daily active users.
• Automated tenant lifecycle + cost optimization — 35% infra-cost reduction at 92% utilization.
• 9 Cisco awards (Make Innovation Happen, Win Together, Connect Everything, …).

Texas Instruments Experience — July 2001 – Dec 2012

Role: Application Engineer Tech Lead · Team Size: 3 · Clients: OEMs

• Led applications engineering for OMAP mobile application-processor SoCs across 6 major projects — embedded multimedia and computational photography for Motorola, LG, Google, Nokia, NEC, Dell and 50+ global partners; accelerator-based performance optimisation to 1080p30; demos at CES/MWC.
• Applications Lead (2009–2012): managed 3-engineer teams on flagship smartphone/tablet reference platforms; trained 200+ partners across Korea/India/China and established an APAC developer-network support framework for 20+ partners.

References

1. Rajesh Singh — Head of App Modernization Business, Microsoft / Azure India
2. Guru Balasubramaniam — Head of Customer Engineering (Digital Natives), Google Cloud India

(Contact details available on request.)

Education

• B.E. Computer Science & Engineering, 85% — Osmania University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Hyderabad, 1997–2001. EAMCET State Rank 153; State Rank 26 (Intermediate); State Rank 12 (X standard).

Personal

• Location: Bangalore, India · Languages: English, Telugu, Hindi