Platform leadership · DevSecOps · Multi-tenant systems

Hi, I’m Viswaroop — I design identity and platform systems that let organizations scale without slowing teams or breaking security.

I design identity-aware platforms using Kubernetes, GitOps, and open-source identity platforms so teams can move quickly without sacrificing security.

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☸️Cloud Platforms — AWS EKS, GKE, multi-cloud & multi-region footprints

🔐Security by Design — IAM boundaries, secrets, TLS, zero-trust patterns

🚀GitOps at Scale — ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm standardization

📊Operations — SLOs, incident learning, guardrails over gates

🔎Observability — OpenSearch, Elastic, Dynatrace, New Relic: metrics, traces & actionable alerts

🧩Identity Platform — ORY (Hydra/Kratos), OAuth2, multi-tenant auth

What I build

Secure, multi-tenant cloud platforms

Identity & authentication as shared infrastructure

Kubernetes platforms with GitOps & governance

Observability systems designed for operability and cost

Systems I lead

Platform engineering

GitOps-first multi-cloud platform

ArgoCD + Kustomize + Helm to normalize app delivery across EKS/GKE, with golden paths for networking, secrets, and observability.

Promotion pipelines that align blast radius with risk
Tenant-aware namespaces, quotas, and policy as code
Operational readiness baked into templates (logging/SLOs)

Reliability & operations

Guardrails that keep teams moving

SLOs, incident learnings, and paved-road patterns so platform changes ship fast without whiplash for security or compliance.

Runbooks and dashboards owned with product teams
Pre-flight checks for identity, policy, and secrets
Cost/reliability tradeoffs documented with decision records

Identity & tenancy

Replacing AWS Cognito with open-source IAM

ORY Hydra/Kratos/Keto, token flows tuned for tenant isolation, auditable governance, and predictable onboarding for every new app.

Auth boundaries that survive org growth and audits
Revocation, rotation, and SSO flows modeled up front
Cost/lock-in tradeoffs made explicit for stakeholders

Case studies I’m writing up

GitOps repo design beyond 5 teams

ArgoCD app-of-apps vs. tenant-per-repo, promotion lanes, and minimizing blast radius.

Highlights: standards, DRY without coupling, audit trails.

EKS/GKE platform hardening

Golden path for networking, secrets, TLS, and SSO across clouds—without slowing delivery.

Highlights: policy-as-code, SLOs, incident learnings.

Replacing Cognito with ORY

Context, constraints, and why open-source IAM beat managed services for multi-tenant growth.

Highlights: token flows, tenant isolation, migration playbook.

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Latest writing (9)

Ingress vs Gateway API on GKE: What Actually Changes in Production — Viswaroop Vadlamudi
Observability on AWS at Scale: Six Years of Lessons from OpenSearch, EKS, and Production Reality — Viswaroop Vadlamudi
Books I Plan to Read in 2026 — Viswaroop Vadlamudi
Books I Read in 2025 — Viswaroop Vadlamudi
Identity Platforms Fail at the Frontend Boundary (Part 2: When Identity Becomes a Platform Problem) — Viswaroop Vadlamudi
The AI Coding Stack Is Splitting: IDE-Native vs CLI-First — Viswaroop Vadlamudi
Argo CD vs Flux in Production: Insights from Running Both at Scale — Viswaroop Vadlamudi
Welcome — Blog is live — Viswaroop Vadlamudi

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Identity, GitOps, and cloud platform roadmaps that balance speed with governance.

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