👋 Hi, I’m Palak Tiwari – a Staff DevSecOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience building secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud platforms at enterprise scale, including Mercedes-Benz R&D India and Stryker. I specialize in engineering cloud infrastructure that doesn’t just run—but is automated, governed, self-healing, and increasingly AI-driven. I specialize in: 🐧 Linux System Engineering & Automation ☸️ Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD (GitOps) ⚙️ GitLab CI/CD, Terraform/Terragrunt (IaC) 🏗 Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms ☁️ Multi-Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) 📡 Event Streaming & Data Platforms (Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud) 🔐 DevSecOps, Security Automation & Governance 💰 FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization 📊 Monitoring & Observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace 🤖 Agentic AI & AI-powered Engineering Workflows (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo) 🚀 From reducing cloud costs by 30% to cutting deployment times from hours to minutes—and building reliable multi-cloud and event-driven platforms—I’ve helped global enterprises improve agility, scalability, and operational efficiency at scale. 💡 Today, I work at the intersection of Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Event-Driven Architecture, and Agentic AI—helping teams modernize infrastructure, build resilient data platforms with Kafka/Confluent, improve developer experience, and adopt AI-assisted engineering practices that work in real production environments. 🔧 If you're struggling with complex infrastructure, multi-cloud adoption, Kubernetes scaling, CI/CD automation, Kafka/Confluent platform design, or AI-driven DevOps transformation—I can help you design systems that scale with confidence. 🔧 Book a session. Let’s turn your DevOps and platform challenges into your biggest advantage.